# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1950
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38982 "2018-09-14T18:49:30Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Brett Kavanaugh just released a letter from 65 women he went to high school saying he never assaulted them. Like somebody on Twitter said, where is the letter from 65 people saying Charles Manson never murdered them? Reminds me of _Inception_. It always made me laugh that one of the film’s plot points is that DiCaprio’s character’s wife framed him for murder by committing suicide and he couldn’t beat the rap because before she did she had herself certified sane by a number of doctors. You know, like sane people often do :dubious:. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38983 "2018-09-14T18:56:16Z")
[The story behind the “65 Women” letter.](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/brett-kavanaugh-allegations-women-letter-chuck-grassley) > [@](#): > > McCaleb said the process of gathering the signatures was a quick one, and that women who had attended five different girls high schools in the area signed on to it. Kavanaugh attended an all-boys high school in Bethesda, Maryland. So there’s a damn good chance that these are for the most part Republican fans of his that never actually met him back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38984 "2018-09-14T18:59:59Z")
If he actually thinks that these in any way would be relevant to whether he assaulted the one victim, then I question his ability to be a judge. I mean, any criminal could get an affadavit of far more people they never hurt. Would he have used that to decide they weren’t guilty or liable or whatever? Even without the other worries, I would not want a man like this in charge of anything important. The only saving grace is if this was created without his knowledge or consent by people playing politics. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38985 "2018-09-14T19:01:44Z")
In the eternal words of XKCD: “Imagine you’re at a parent-teacher conference, and the teacher reassures you that he always wears a condom while teaching. Strictly speaking, it’s better than the alternative—Yet someone is clearly doing their job horribly wrong.” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38986 "2018-09-14T19:04:28Z")
Would a letter from ten different businesses that I never worked for attesting to the fact that I have no complaints filed against me impress you? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38987 "2018-09-14T19:16:05Z")
This morning at 2 AM Texas time, hundreds of Twitter accounts simultaneously tweeted the exact same wording of a tweet supporting Ted Cruz over Beto O’Rourke. Somebody on Twitter pointed out that 2 AM Texas time is 10 AM Moscow time > ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38988 "2018-09-14T19:20:31Z")
If you have to go around to different schools to find women who will say he didn’t assault them, doesn’t that make them think “Huh, what about the women who wouldn’t sign?” ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38989 "2018-09-14T20:16:02Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > So there’s a damn good chance that these are for the most part Republican fans of his that never actually met him back in the day. The signers of the letter hold a broad range of political views. It says so in the letter. > [@](#): > > The signers of this letter hold a broad range of political views. Both kinds… conservative and republican. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38990 "2018-09-14T20:35:38Z")
Chris McDaniel, candidate for the Senate from Mississippi, says African-Americans have spent the last 100 years begging for scraps from the federal government. [http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/406774-gop-senate-candidate-booed-after-saying-african-americans-beg-for-federal](http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/406774-gop-senate-candidate-booed-after-saying-african-americans-beg-for-federal)? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38991 "2018-09-14T20:43:09Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Brett Kavanaugh just released a letter from 65 women he went to high school saying he never assaulted them. > [@slumtrimpet](#): > > I thought he went to an all boys school. They weren’t students, they were part-time maids. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38992 "2018-09-14T21:10:54Z")
Related to an incident in Cincinnati where a police officer tased an 11 yr. old suspected of shoplifting. From the Lawmaker: "Let’s say I had an 11-year-old daughter who: 1) Was shoplifting; 2) Refused to stop when ordered by law enforcement; 3) Got tased as a result. My response would be to march the kid back into the store to pay for the pilfered items and apologize to the management. Next, the kid will apologize to the security guard for failing to comply and forcing him to use his taser. And then I’ll deal with the kid after we get home. “Look Becker, wouldn’t it bother you that your 11-year-old daughter got tased? It certainly would. I’d be ashamed and embarrassed that she did something stupid enough to get herself tased. Every time I hear shouts of, “Justice! We want justice!,” I want to shout back, “Parenting! We want parenting!” Later: "In an email exchange with The Appeal’s Melissa Gira Grant published on Friday, Becker wrote that tasing “obviously depends on the age of the ‘child’ and the circumstances involved,” and that in the case of the 11-year-old accused shoplifter, “She was simply tased for resisting arrest.” and more in the article. > **[Republican State Lawmaker Has a Truly Awful Take on Cops Tasing Kids](https://splinternews.com/republican-state-lawmaker-has-a-truly-awful-take-on-cop-1829068404)** > > It might seem like a nonstarter to think that cops should not send hundreds—if not thousands—of volts of electricity through the fragile bodies of still-growing children. But for one state lawmaker in Ohio, police officers using tasers on kids is... From the comments: “Some children” “parenting” “two parent intact families” Who’s got their dog whistle bingo card handy?" ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38993 "2018-09-14T21:11:00Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > The signers of the letter hold a broad range of political views. It says so in the letter. > > > [@](#): > > > > The signers of this letter hold a broad range of political views. > > Both kinds… conservative and republican. You know… morons. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38994 "2018-09-14T21:14:37Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > They weren’t students, they were part-time maids. He did grow up in a rough, under privileged area, then. The maids were only part time. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38995 "2018-09-14T21:41:20Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Later: > "In an email exchange with The Appeal’s Melissa Gira Grant published on Friday, Becker wrote that tasing “obviously depends on the age of the ‘child’ and the circumstances involved,” and that in the case of the 11-year-old accused shoplifter, “She was simply tased for resisting arrest.” [“Resisting arrest”?](https://www.theroot.com/a-cincinnati-police-officer-tased-an-11-year-old-girl-a-1828187736) > [@](#): > > The Enquirer notes that the off-duty officer was working security at the Spring Grove Village Kroger and looking into reports of several young girls stealing from the store. When the officer approached the young girl, she ignored the officer and continued to walk. That was when the officer deployed the Taser at the girl, striking her from the back. More gratuitous exaggerated pathologizing of the behavior of black people—black _children_—in order to excuse law-enforcement aggression toward them. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38996 "2018-09-14T21:55:44Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > This morning at 2 AM Texas time… Bar closing time, too, isn’t it? Everybody who left alone had nothing better to do. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38997 "2018-09-14T22:08:15Z")
> [@](#): > > McCaleb said the process of gathering the signatures was a quick one, and that women who had attended five different girls high schools in the area signed on to it. Kavanaugh attended an all-boys high school in Bethesda, Maryland. That’s a lot of quickies. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38998 "2018-09-14T22:53:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > This morning at 2 AM Texas time, hundreds of Twitter accounts simultaneously tweeted the exact same wording of a tweet supporting Ted Cruz over Beto O’Rourke. Somebody on Twitter pointed out that 2 AM Texas time is 10 AM Moscow time > [https://twitter.com/LamarWhiteJr/status/1040138113279045632/photo/1](https://twitter.com/LamarWhiteJr/status/1040138113279045632/photo/1) Man. They’re not even trying to be subtle. I guess you don’t have to be to fool the vast majority of Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38999 "2018-09-15T04:28:19Z")
Republican candidate for Congress says Medicare keeps people from finding God. > **[Nonreligious Questions](https://www.patheos.com/nonreligious-questions/)** > > Whether you’ve been turned off by religion in the past or have a question about one of the world’s religions, check out what Patheos has to offer. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39000 "2018-09-15T05:51:42Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Chris McDaniel, candidate for the Senate from Mississippi, says African-Americans have spent the last 100 years begging for scraps from the federal government. > [http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/406774-gop-senate-candidate-booed-after-saying-african-americans-beg-for-federal](http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/406774-gop-senate-candidate-booed-after-saying-african-americans-beg-for-federal)? I honestly have to wonder how Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson feel about this. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39001 "2018-09-15T07:03:14Z")
NRA as a Republican front organization so I stuck this here. "Dana Loesch, spokeswoman for the NRA, said on NRA-TV that “This could have been very different if Botham Jean had been, say, he was a law-abiding gun owner and he saw somebody coming into his apartment.” NRA-TV:confused: Another tidbit: “Try to follow along: @NRA’s Dana Loesch alleged that #BothamJean would be alive if he’d had a gun. Now she says it’s not germane that there was weed in his apartment. A year ago, she argued that weed in Philando Castile’s car made him culpable in his own shooting death by police,” tweeted Shannon Watts, the founder of Mom’s Demand Action. > **[NRA spokeswoman: Botham Jean might be alive if he were a gun owner](https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article218406390.html)** > > The spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association said that if Botham Shem Jean was a gun owner, he might still be alive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1949) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1951)