# 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:** 1992
**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:** [December 13, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39822 "2018-12-13T15:59:16Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Even us younger (by comparison) bucks share that dream. My first serious girlfriend looked just like a teenage Bernadette Peters. Yeah, _that’s_ what I meant. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39823 "2018-12-13T16:03:03Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Do not taunt wall! [correction applied] Do not not taunt Happy Fun Wall [/correction applied] ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39824 "2018-12-13T16:09:16Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > …Build wall high! Hulk smash! Trump tweet! ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39825 "2018-12-13T16:10:26Z")
Wow, they’re not even _pretending_ not to be taking dictation from Boris and Natasha any more, are they? ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39826 "2018-12-13T16:20:32Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [correction applied] Do not not taunt Happy Fun Wall [/correction applied] Do not correct manson1972! ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39827 "2018-12-13T16:37:16Z")
> [@Fretful\_Porpentine](#): > > Wow, they’re not even _pretending_ not to be taking dictation from Boris and Natasha any more, are they? In Soviet Russia, you do not build wall…wall build _you._ :dubious: Yeah, I think we’ve beat that meme into the ground. * * * OK, fun’s fun, now we gotta get back to the serious matters: [Asked about the allegations of criminal activity on behalf of Trump, Rep. Senator replies “I don’t care.”](http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/asked-about-allegations-against-trump-senator-says-i-dont-care?cid=sm_fb_maddow&fbclid=IwAR2T9h3YpjtDtNZomdUkEShHKx9fYEGJ70sZUj7sRXkVZMYBUUWbN9hCHwA) Yeah, none of this “Let’s see how the investigation plays out” for Orrin Hatch, nossir! > [@](#): > > Asked if he had any concerns that Trump was implicated, Hatch told CNN: “The Democrats will do anything to hurt this president.” Informed it was alleged by federal prosecutors in New York, Hatch said: “OK, but I don’t care, all I can say is he’s doing a good job as president.” […] > > “I don’t think he was involved in crimes but even then, you know, you can make anything a crime under the current laws if you want to, you can blow it way out of proportion, you can do a lot of things.” The Party of the Rule of Law, ladies and germs, fabled in song and story. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39828 "2018-12-13T16:38:41Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [In the future, we’ll all be Ernest Borgnines.](https://www.straight.com/files/v3/styles/gs_large/public/2012/10/borgnine.jpg?itok=6vIrXtPE) and in the far, far [future](https://m.imgur.com/gallery/FXNUV2X)… ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39829 "2018-12-13T17:22:00Z")
Climate change? Pshaw, liberals can make the extinction of most life on Earth into such a hyperventilating big whoop dee doo. $1T debts bankrupting the nation’s future to benefit corrupt oligarchs and our Russian rivals? There they go again, making a mountain out of a molehill. Tell me again Uncle Hatch about how the angel Gabriel inscribed scripture on golden plates, but verifying the physical evidence of that is just no big deal! ---
**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:** [December 13, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39830 "2018-12-13T17:24:57Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [In the future, we’ll all be Ernest Borgnines.](https://www.straight.com/files/v3/styles/gs_large/public/2012/10/borgnine.jpg?itok=6vIrXtPE) > [@jasg](#): > > and in the far, far [future](https://m.imgur.com/gallery/FXNUV2X)… Now that’s some awesome posting right there, that is. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39831 "2018-12-13T19:34:19Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Let your mind boggle at [this actual Homeland Security press release;](https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/12/12/walls-work) > > Build wall high! Do they mean the wall is high or they are high? ---
**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:** [December 13, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39832 "2018-12-13T21:21:53Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Let your mind boggle at [this actual Homeland Security press release;](https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/12/12/walls-work) > > Build wall high! Surely, that’s The Onion. :eek: (I know, don’t call you Shirley.) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39833 "2018-12-13T22:15:43Z")
I’m just glad we’ve finally crack the technology needed to start building things that are over 30 feet tall. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39834 "2018-12-13T22:22:47Z")
Do you know who is damn happy about this? All the stockholders of “35-Foot Ladders R Us”. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39835 "2018-12-13T23:41:51Z")
[this bit](https://www.npr.org/2018/12/12/676002237/trump-threatens-government-shutdown-over-border-wall-funding) is snertworthy David Inskeep: _Part of the government would shut down unless Congress passes spending measures by December 21. Our next guest is among those charged with that responsibility. Warren Davidson is a Republican from Ohio’s 8th Congressional District._ … [COLOR=“Black”]Davidson: \*I’ve offered a modest compromise called Buy a Brick, Build a Wall (ph) that we introduced, which lets the American people, or whomever should choose to donate - Mexicans or otherwise - to donate to the program. _Inskeep:_ You mean like this highway is adopted by a certain organization? You could buy a part of the wall? _Davidson:_ Sort of. You could do with this sort of, like, crowdfunding site. Or you could even do blockchain, and you could have wall coins. But you could raise the money. And frankly, if we get it right at the Treasury, you could even accept Mexican pesos.\*[/COLOR] ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39836 "2018-12-13T23:53:54Z")
[Please, please, please do this.](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-kushner/some-trump-advisers-tell-him-to-consider-kushner-as-chief-of-staff-sources-idUSKBN1OC33A) (Reuters) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump has been hearing appeals from some advisers to consider his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner for the position of White House chief of staff, two sources familiar with the situation said on Thursday. I can think of nothing more satisfying than Trump’s new CoS being arrested and indicted 2 days after he takes the reins. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39837 "2018-12-14T02:36:18Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > _Davidson:_ Sort of. You could do with this sort of, like, crowdfunding site. Or you could even do blockchain, and you could have wall coins. But you could raise the money. And frankly, if we get it right at the Treasury, you could even accept Mexican pesos.\*[/COLOR][/INDENT] What the hell does this even mean? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39838 "2018-12-14T02:39:11Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > What the hell does this even mean? “Forget it, Manson; it’s Trumpspeak” ---
**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:** [December 14, 2018, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39839 "2018-12-14T02:46:44Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > What the hell does this even mean? It means “_I am a total fucking moron_” (Republican). ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39840 "2018-12-14T02:52:29Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > “Forget it, Manson; it’s Trumpspeak” > [@eschereal](#): > > It means “_I am a total fucking moron_” (Republican). Oh yeah, right. Sorry, I forgot. Friggin’ “block chain” Moron. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39841 "2018-12-14T02:53:03Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > “Forget it, Manson; it’s Trumpspeak” Trumpspeak = spew out a bunch of word salad including a few ingredients you heard somewhere on teh innerwebs, make things up you think are clever as shit, use magical thinking to make pesos into American money just for All Your Wall Are Belong To Me (you see? Even I can do it. It’s that easy), and convince at least some portion of the population that blockchain is actually a material that can be used to build said wall, just like that song “Another block(chain) in the Wall.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1991) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1993)