# 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:** 1974
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39462 "2018-10-29T13:12:57Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > A couple of homers from this week’s World Series of Right-Wing Butthurt: > > –Kentucky governor and megadouche Matt Bevin [takes to video to ask what has happened to civility in America](https://twitter.com/GovMattBevin/status/1055573986468397058), because someone made a mean comment about him and the President on Facebook. He calls this person out by name, as well as everyone who liked the comment. Because in a week with the MAGAbomber and with the Kroger shooting in his own state, he wants us to be clear about who the real victim is. > > –A man in Owensboro posted on FB about how the “so-called ‘Tolerant Left’” harassed him and his kids about their Halloween costumes at a local event. [You’ll never guess what they were dressed as](https://www.kentucky.com/news/weird/article220702200.html?fbclid=IwAR2l9hC3x9S7U5UPvnRTCM0uT9jCMV9-SQ7PDRTLwvsD9AYXCHG_z6L7tC0). Among the people who commented on Matt Bevin’s tweet was Dan Canon, a friend of mine who unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for Indiana’s 9th district earlier this year. His response read, in its entirety, “you suck.” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39463 "2018-10-29T23:48:21Z")
Can any of them open their mouths without lying? No need to answer. :dubious: [**Sarah Huckabee Sanders Claims Donald Trump Won the Popular Vote by ‘Overwhelming Majority,’ When He Lost by Millions of Votes**](https://www.newsweek.com/sarah-huackabee-sanders-donald-trump-popular-vote-1192395) And the media is responsible for all the bad shit happening, not her beloved Donnie-Wonnie. > [@](#): > > …“You guys have a huge responsibility to play in the divisive nature of this country, when 90 percent of the coverage of everything this president does is negative despite the fact that the country is going extremely well, despite the fact that this president is delivering on exactly what he said he was going to do if elected. And he was elected by the overwhelming majority of 63 million Americans who came out and supported him and wanted to see his policies enacted,” Sanders said, incorrectly… ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39464 "2018-10-30T00:11:09Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Can any of them open their mouths without lying? No need to answer. :dubious: > [**Sarah Huckabee Sanders Claims Donald Trump Won the Popular Vote by ‘Overwhelming Majority,’ When He Lost by Millions of Votes**](https://www.newsweek.com/sarah-huackabee-sanders-donald-trump-popular-vote-1192395) > And the media is responsible for all the bad shit happening, not her beloved Donnie-Wonnie. She also lied freely about the response to the Pittsburgh shootings, saying > [@](#): > > Once again, I’ll remind you that the very first thing the president did was condemn the attacker. And the very first thing the media did was blame the president. [Huckabee Sanders to NBC Reporter: You Have Huge Role In Dividing Country, 90% Of News Is Anti-Trump | Video | RealClearPolitics](https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/10/29/huckabee_sanders_to_nbc_reporter_you_have_huge_role_in_dividing_country_90_of_news_is_anti-trump.html) Neither one of her claims is even remotely true. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39465 "2018-10-30T11:25:57Z")
I’m not sure what’s dumber here, the idea or the credulous headline from one of the dumbest media outlets in Washington: [“Exclusive: Trump to terminate birthright citizenship”](https://www.axios.com/trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order-0cf4285a-16c6-48f2-a933-bd71fd72ea82.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twsocialshare&utm_campaign=organic) ---
**Author:** ![Sinaptics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Sinaptics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinaptics)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39466 "2018-10-30T13:35:41Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > I’m not sure what’s dumber here, the idea or the credulous headline from one of the dumbest media outlets in Washington: [“Exclusive: Trump to terminate birthright citizenship”](https://www.axios.com/trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order-0cf4285a-16c6-48f2-a933-bd71fd72ea82.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twsocialshare&utm_campaign=organic) “Trump begins process of terminating American babies! Forced removal! News at 11.” ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39467 "2018-10-30T21:08:41Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Can any of them open their mouths without lying? No need to answer. :dubious: > > [**Sarah Huckabee Sanders Claims Donald Trump Won the Popular Vote by ‘Overwhelming Majority,’ When He Lost by Millions of Votes**](https://www.newsweek.com/sarah-huackabee-sanders-donald-trump-popular-vote-1192395) > > And the media is responsible for all the bad shit happening, not her beloved Donnie-Wonnie. “And he was elected by the overwhelming majority of 63 million Americans who came out and supported him” Makes perfect sense! Of all the people who came out to vote for him, the vast majority voted for him. Yes, actually, I am a professional nit-picker. No, really, spotting such vague wishy-washy phraseology is actually part of my job. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39468 "2018-10-30T21:14:51Z")
Save for Herbert F. Terwilliger, of Fever Swamp, Florida, fervently committed Trump supporter. He was entering the polling booth when struck from the sky with the meatball, and cried aloud “Jesus! What the _fuck_ am I doing?!?”. Pray for the meatball. It may be our only hope. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39469 "2018-10-30T21:16:12Z")
xxx ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39470 "2018-10-30T21:19:24Z")
No hippies. Sure, blame us for Peter Max, _Hair,_ and patchouli oil. But not Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39471 "2018-10-31T01:54:39Z")
Hey! _Hair_ had some great numbers in it! Don’t go dissin’ _Hair._ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pgRqqPH34zo/maxresdefault.jpg ""White Boys" / "Black Boys" - HAIR (West End Live 2010)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgRqqPH34zo) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39472 "2018-10-31T01:56:22Z")
Also, I see what you did with that meatball, there. Did you know Bertrand Russell got hit? Keep the faith, and wait for meatball. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39473 "2018-10-31T02:16:31Z")
"On Monday night, Vice President Mike Pence appeared at a campaign rally for Lena Epstein, the Republican nominee for Michigan’s 11th Congressional district seat… Pence succeeded in making an awful situation much, much worse when he invited “Messianic Rabbi” Loren Jacobs onstage to offer a blessing during the event… …He and his congregation are self-described “messianic Jews,” but they’re more commonly known as “Jews for Jesus.” Article goes on to state, “There are zero major denominations of Judaism—Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, or Ultra-Orthodox—which consider Messianic Judaism Jewish. It is one of the astonishingly few issues on which just about every Jew on Earth can agree. Speak Hebrew? Wear a yarmulke? Keep kosher? None of that matters if you’ve accepted Jesus as your personal messiah. What is the sin qua non for Christianity is absolutely disqualifying for Judaism. Period. The end. Full stop.” [Mike Pence](https://splinternews.com/mike-pences-appearance-with-a-messianic-rabbi-was-fucki-1830095242) Is this last statement true? Way out of my knowledge sphere. And is Pence that evangelical, tone-deaf, mendacious, just plain stupid? Don’t answer the second question, I know. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39474 "2018-10-31T03:04:58Z")
I wanted to post this here yesterday, when it happened, but I was afraid that it wasn’t quite as bad as I had pictured it, and I would get called out as a crazy leftist always willing to think the the worst of the Trump Administration. Nah…it’s always worse. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39475 "2018-10-31T03:17:49Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > "On Monday night, Vice President Mike Pence appeared at a campaign rally for Lena Epstein, the Republican nominee for Michigan’s 11th Congressional district seat… > Pence succeeded in making an awful situation much, much worse when he invited “Messianic Rabbi” Loren Jacobs onstage to offer a blessing during the event… > > …He and his congregation are self-described “messianic Jews,” but they’re more commonly known as “Jews for Jesus.” > > Article goes on to state, “There are zero major denominations of Judaism—Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, or Ultra-Orthodox—which consider Messianic Judaism Jewish. It is one of the astonishingly few issues on which just about every Jew on Earth can agree. Speak Hebrew? Wear a yarmulke? Keep kosher? None of that matters if you’ve accepted Jesus as your personal messiah. What is the sin qua non for Christianity is absolutely disqualifying for Judaism. Period. The end. Full stop.” > > [Mike Pence](https://splinternews.com/mike-pences-appearance-with-a-messianic-rabbi-was-fucki-1830095242) > > Is this last statement true? Way out of my knowledge sphere. > > And is Pence that evangelical, tone-deaf, mendacious, just plain stupid? Don’t answer the second question, I know. So, you are telling us that Pence is fighting Fake News with Fake Jews? ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39476 "2018-10-31T03:23:53Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > So, you are telling us that Pence is fighting Fake News with Fake Jews? Oy. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39477 "2018-11-01T03:49:22Z")
Trump supporter in Florida decorates her front yard with skeletons with Jewish concentration camp numbers tattooed on their arms and stars of David on their chests, doing a Nazi salute with a sign that reads “Arbeit macht frei”. [https://theguardiansofdemocracy.com/jewish-neighbors-horrified-by-pro-trump-florida-realtors-nazi-concentration-camp-halloween-display/?fbclid=IwAR3wYKIaz4YdNPh37xHZEqQVKpXervzV0a8qV6DZoM2xA0HjjrAtfBn4VbA](https://theguardiansofdemocracy.com/jewish-neighbors-horrified-by-pro-trump-florida-realtors-nazi-concentration-camp-halloween-display/?fbclid=IwAR3wYKIaz4YdNPh37xHZEqQVKpXervzV0a8qV6DZoM2xA0HjjrAtfBn4VbA) ---
**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:** [November 1, 2018, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39478 "2018-11-01T05:41:32Z")
Karen Housley, the Minnesota state Senate candidate who recently compared Michelle Obama to a chimp, says people with pre-existing conditions are generally older and wealthier. > **[Minnesota GOP Senate Candidate Says People With Pre-Existing Conditions Are...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/karin-housley-pre-existing-conditions_n_5bd8e577e4b01abe6a192135?section=politics&utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&utm_source=main_fb&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1LmjLEMJIx5MsYyGZP63-bafaa23eI1aXNQHfld2b69IVQq7jco46l4Gk%2CIwAR1YkUAq3XhY-3YYfDZPIFvdSbXUIGdcnmCVCrwqLtMEc4kPTzWymqanPfk)** > > Karin Housley's website and a new ad claim she supports coverage for pre-existing conditions, but her own statements suggest otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39479 "2018-11-01T05:42:00Z")
NM ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39480 "2018-11-01T05:47:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump supporter in Florida decorates her front yard with skeletons with Jewish concentration camp numbers tattooed on their arms and stars of David on their chests, doing a Nazi salute with a sign that reads “Arbeit macht frei”. > [The Guardians of Democracy - Transpartisan organization of citizen journalists](https://theguardiansofdemocracy.com/jewish-neighbors-horrified-by-pro-trump-florida-realtors-nazi-concentration-camp-halloween-display/?fbclid=IwAR3wYKIaz4YdNPh37xHZEqQVKpXervzV0a8qV6DZoM2xA0HjjrAtfBn4VbA) Guess she’s already sold all the houses she plans to, then… ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39481 "2018-11-01T07:03:34Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Guess she’s already sold all the houses she plans to, then… You kidding? Any other state you’d be right. That’s Florida. She’ll be the mayor of Tallahassee by the end of the week. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1973) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1975)