# 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:** 1979
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39562 "2018-11-08T17:59:08Z")
May I point out Virginia had a +2 seat House Democratic pickup. So I cannot be too mad about Riggleman. And hey, Bigfoot erotica sure is a lot more tolerable than trolling malls for 14 year olds, texting dick pics, or cruising men’s rooms on the downlow. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39563 "2018-11-11T21:21:02Z")
The Arizona GOP has filed a Public Records [Request](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5063757-AZGOPRecordsRequest.html) with the Maricopa County Recorder. One of the requests is for any correspondence with George Soros :smack: With a **county** recorder! ETA - the request was filed on the 10th and they expect results starting on the 12th - in the middle of the ballot count. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39564 "2018-11-11T22:53:50Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > The Arizona GOP has filed a Public Records [Request](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5063757-AZGOPRecordsRequest.html) with the Maricopa County Recorder. > > One of the requests is for any correspondence with George Soros :smack: > > With a **county** recorder! > > ETA - the request was filed on the 10th and they expect results starting on the 12th - in the middle of the ballot count. I suspect the main reason for filing the request is to get “George Soros” and “Maricopa County Recorder” in the same legal document. Thereby confirming to The Base™ that a Democratic victory was fraudulent. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39565 "2018-11-11T23:22:27Z")
I like that the request was filed on a Saturday but they expect results ready for them Monday morning. :rolleyes: Good luck with that! ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39566 "2018-11-12T00:44:30Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > I suspect the main reason for filing the request is to get “George Soros” and “Maricopa County Recorder” in the same legal document. Thereby confirming to The Base™ that a Democratic victory was fraudulent. They sure did a crappy job of fraud. Most of the winners were Republicans… ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39567 "2018-11-12T05:12:43Z")
[Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Mississippi) defends racist remark](https://apnews.com/ee79cac2b75f4af9afe4b6ad44d1fa8d): > [@](#): > > A newly published video shows a white Republican U.S. senator in Mississippi praising someone by saying: “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.” > [@](#): > > The video was shot in Tupelo, in front of a statue of Elvis Presley, who was born in the city in northeastern Mississippi. It shows a small group of white people clapping politely for Hyde-Smith after a cattle rancher introduced her. > > “I referred to accepting an invitation to a speaking engagement,” said Hyde-Smith, who is also a cattle rancher, in a statement Sunday. “In referencing the one who invited me, I used an exaggerated expression of regard, and any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous.” An “exaggerated expression of regard”? :dubious::rolleyes: Okay, maybe it’s just me, but I don’t really need to _turn_ this into a negative connotation because it’s already _got_ a hugely negative connotation, and Sen. Hyde-Smith just deliberately invoked it. > [@](#): > > Mississippi has a history of racially motivated lynchings of black people. The NAACP website says that between 1882 and 1968, there were 4,743 lynchings in the United States, and nearly 73 percent of the victims were black. It says Mississippi had 581 during that time, the highest number of any state. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39568 "2018-11-12T18:25:38Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Okay, maybe it’s just me, but I don’t really need to _turn_ this into a negative connotation because it’s already _got_ a hugely negative connotation, and Sen. Hyde-Smith just deliberately invoked it. When I was younger, I used to think I wanted to visit all 50 states. Now, I see no reason at all to ever go to several of them. Mississippi is high on that list. She didn’t say it on accident. It wasn’t casual. She wanted to assure her supporters that she is pro-lynching - just like they are. ---
**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 12, 2018, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39569 "2018-11-12T20:27:52Z")
Now that Scott Walker has lost the Wisconsin governorship, the Republican led legislature wants to limit the new Democratic Governor’s powers. [Wisconsin Republicans look to limit governor's power after Scott Walker's defeat | Salon.com](https://www.salon.com/2018/11/12/wisconsin-republicans-look-to-limit-governors-power-after-scott-walkers-defeat/)? ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39570 "2018-11-12T21:08:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Now that Scott Walker has lost the Wisconsin governorship, the Republican led legislature wants to limit the new Democratic Governor’s powers. > [https://www.salon.com/2018/11/12/wisconsin-republicans-look-to-limit-governors-power-after-scott-walkers-defeat/](https://www.salon.com/2018/11/12/wisconsin-republicans-look-to-limit-governors-power-after-scott-walkers-defeat/)? I guess you had to put this here, but it’s not really a stupid idea. More like an asshole power grabbing motherfuckers idea of the day. Think we need a thread like that too? ---
**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:** [November 13, 2018, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39571 "2018-11-13T00:31:33Z")
Rep. Steve King, caught in the act of being himself [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rep-steve-king-called-immigrants-‘dirt’-in-recorded-conversation/ar-BBPCEye](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rep-steve-king-called-immigrants-%E2%80%98dirt%E2%80%99-in-recorded-conversation/ar-BBPCEye) > [@](#): > > At the meeting with constituents last Monday, before the election, King was riffing with people about the jalapeños he would need to grow at his home garden for his “patented pheasant noodle soup” recipe. > > “I guess I’m going to have to go get some dirt from Mexico to grow the next batch,” King is heard saying in the audio. > > “Trust me, it’s already on its way,” a female constituent says in the tape as the gathering laughs. > [@](#): > > King appeared to catch himself, realizing that reporters were in the room, and tried to suggest that what he had just said was off the record. > > “This is actually not supposed to start for another six minutes, is it? But, so we’re just kind of chatting here informally here until things get rolling,” King said. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39572 "2018-11-13T01:58:58Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Now that Scott Walker has lost the Wisconsin governorship, the Republican led legislature wants to limit the new Democratic Governor’s powers. > [https://www.salon.com/2018/11/12/wisconsin-republicans-look-to-limit-governors-power-after-scott-walkers-defeat/](https://www.salon.com/2018/11/12/wisconsin-republicans-look-to-limit-governors-power-after-scott-walkers-defeat/)? A la North Carolina. This is why the next step will have to be taking state legislatures. Last Tuesday was a good start, but 25 years of republican misrule has to be completely reversed. We can’t just go back and forth, being a speedbump that merely slows down the republican assault on American democracy every 4 to 6 years. Taking the House was good, but it was even more important that Dems made gains in state races. The fight for America’s soul is in state and local elections, and congressional elections 2nd. The real advantage that Republicans have is that they’ve won power in this country not by taking top-down executive level action, but rather winning county by county, district by district, state by state. To use a baseball analogy, Republicans played small ball while Dems tried to hit grand slams. Small ball won. We have to do the same to them now. ---
**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 13, 2018, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39573 "2018-11-13T03:29:17Z")
It doesn’t help in places like New York, where in the precious legislature, the Democrats had a majority but enough of them defected to the Republicans to get a Republican majority. The Democrats took back the legislature again after this election, but will they hold it? ---
**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 13, 2018, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39574 "2018-11-13T20:46:41Z")
Urainian oligarch with ties to Putin is sprinkling millions of dollars to Republican Senators. [https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/mcconnell-received-3-5m-in-campaign-donations-from-russian-oligarch-linked-firm-93UjehU6aUCtejJRBFezCw/#utm\_source=Amplify&utm\_medium=Intellectualist&utm\_campaign=Twitter&utm\_term=Alessandra](https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/mcconnell-received-3-5m-in-campaign-donations-from-russian-oligarch-linked-firm-93UjehU6aUCtejJRBFezCw/#utm_source=Amplify&utm_medium=Intellectualist&utm_campaign=Twitter&utm_term=Alessandra) * * * Conservative toy seller is selling MAGA “Build the Wall” building blocks with a little Trump figure. [https://www.wthr.com/article/conservative-retailer-selling-build-wall-toy-kids](https://www.wthr.com/article/conservative-retailer-selling-build-wall-toy-kids) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39575 "2018-11-13T21:57:25Z")
Stop misusing “Conservative”. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39576 "2018-11-13T23:33:07Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Urainian oligarch with ties to Putin is sprinkling millions of dollars to Republican Senators. > [https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/mcconnell-received-3-5m-in-campaign-donations-from-russian-oligarch-linked-firm-93UjehU6aUCtejJRBFezCw/#utm\_source=Amplify&utm\_medium=Intellectualist&utm\_campaign=Twitter&utm\_term=Alessandra](https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/mcconnell-received-3-5m-in-campaign-donations-from-russian-oligarch-linked-firm-93UjehU6aUCtejJRBFezCw/#utm_source=Amplify&utm_medium=Intellectualist&utm_campaign=Twitter&utm_term=Alessandra) Shouldn’t he be directing his attentions to the Big Orange Cheese directly? I mean, unless he has information that some of the senators share his predilection for sprinkling… ---
**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 14, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39577 "2018-11-14T02:10:05Z")
Republican representative Mark Romanchuk of Ohio has introduced a bill to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. > **[Ohio House resolution seeks to nominate Pres. Trump for Nobel Peace Prize](https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/ohio-house-resolution-seeks-to-nominate-pres-trump-for-nobel-peace-prize/1594736065/)** > > A resolution introduced at the Ohio Statehouse Tuesday urges the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39578 "2018-11-14T02:35:22Z")
Wow, that’s stupid on multiple levels. Even aside from the idiocy in thinking that Trump deserves the award, there are enough people qualified to make Nobel nominations that Trump is pretty much guaranteed to be nominated, anyway. Heck, any member of Trump’s cabinet could do it. But for the cherry on top, national legislatures are _not_ valid nominators, so this bill couldn’t do anything even if it passed. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39579 "2018-11-14T03:10:33Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Republican representative Mark Romanchuk of Ohio has introduced a bill to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Will he be one-upped when someone nominates Trump for sainthood? Or is there some line beyond which even Trump will know sycophancy has turned to sarcasm? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39580 "2018-11-14T03:32:58Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Wow, that’s stupid on multiple levels. Doesn’t matter. Obama got one, so Trump supporters must strain every sinew to show how much they think Trump deserves one too. Everything Obama did must be either undone or surpassed by Trump. Even in cases where that’s clearly impossible, Trumpistas must be seen to exhibit their total dedication to this cause. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2018, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39581 "2018-11-14T03:33:35Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > … Or is there some line beyond which even Trump will know sycophancy has turned to sarcasm? As soon as you wrote that, you realized what a silly thing you said, amirite? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1978) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1980)