# 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:** 1997
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39922 "2018-12-21T01:58:22Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > I don’t think I’ve ever seen an anatomically correct gingerbread cookie. Guess I shop at all the wrong bakeries. I have. And that’s why my father was no longer allowed to decorate Christmas cookies. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39923 "2018-12-21T02:10:38Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I have. And that’s why my father was no longer allowed to decorate Christmas cookies. Now that is funny. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39924 "2018-12-21T02:35:23Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Geraldo says, via Twitter, that it’s unconstitutional to not watch Tucker Carlson. > > Clearly the man left his intellect in Al Capone’s vault. More to the point: **The party of unrestricted private enterprise is shocked and horrifed when private enterprise begins to turn against them.** They tore down the Fairness Doctrine and now they’re utterly fucking gobsmacked when companies no longer want to play “fair” to the extent of just _giving_ them a platform, come Hell, high water, or boycotts. I’m not especially fond of the Fairness Doctrine myself in the modern media landscape, but you have to acknowledge the utter lack of self-awareness which is undergirding their thought processes here. You can’t gerrymander a boycott, dumbshits. If you’re too unpopular to convince a company to keep you, guess what: You don’t get kept! Expecting the media to support you against the gays, for example, only works when you’re worth more money to them than the gays and the allies are. The moment that balance tips, and it tipped years ago (but within my lifetime), you’re gone, relegated to third-tier media outlets and websites most normal advertisers won’t touch, so you can stew in your incestuous fucking circle-jerk you call the Moral Majority without a hint of fucking irony. You’re out there with the Mormons, living in a parallel universe most of your kids are desperate to escape. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39925 "2018-12-21T04:37:37Z")
Katrina Pierson wants to know [why John McCain won’t answer her questions about the Steele dossier.](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/trump-surrogate-katrina-pierson-demands-john-mccain-answer-questions-gets-buried-ridicule/) I can think of at least one reason. ---
**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 21, 2018, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39926 "2018-12-21T04:38:22Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Katrina Pierson wants to know [why John McCain won’t answer her questions about the Steele dossier.](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/trump-surrogate-katrina-pierson-demands-john-mccain-answer-questions-gets-buried-ridicule/) > > I can think of at least one reason. She’s brain dead? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39927 "2018-12-21T05:44:27Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > She’s brain dead? Alright, I can think of at least _two_ reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39928 "2018-12-21T15:18:26Z")
Remember Mr. Law and Order, who campaigned in the Georgia Goobernatorial primary in the deportation bus? Yeah… [https://www.ajc.com/news/local/former-candidate-for-governor-indicted/mFyt65azxuJhQPu5ANuRbJ/](https://www.ajc.com/news/local/former-candidate-for-governor-indicted/mFyt65azxuJhQPu5ANuRbJ/) ---
**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 21, 2018, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39929 "2018-12-21T15:45:32Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Katrina Pierson wants to know [why John McCain won’t answer her questions about the Steele dossier.](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/trump-surrogate-katrina-pierson-demands-john-mccain-answer-questions-gets-buried-ridicule/) > > I can think of at least one reason. Distracted by the holidays? ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39930 "2018-12-21T16:29:33Z")
Electoral College Trump: We’re going to build the most beautiful steel slats! MAGAbots: Build The Steel Slats, Build The Steel Slats! ECT: And who’s going to pay for them? MAGAbots: We Are! ECT: AND WHO’S GOING TO PAY FOR THEM? MAGAbots: WE ARE! WE ARE![SIZE=“4”] ECT: AND WHO’S GOING TO PAY FOR THEM? MAGAbots: WE ARE! WE ARE![/SIZE] ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39931 "2018-12-21T17:11:30Z")
[Michael Cohen says he arranged a $1.8 million payout to the pool boy Jerry Falwell Jr. “befriended” in 2012.](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/michael-cohen-brokered-mysterious-1-8-million-loan-pool-boy-jerry-falwell-jr-wife-befriended/) This is beyond parody. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39932 "2018-12-21T17:21:57Z")
[The man behind a GoFundMe campaign that has raised $11 million to build Trump’s wall also ran a conspiracy-theory page that got kicked off Facebook](https://www.businessinsider.com/brian-kolfage-behind-trump-wall-gofundme-ran-facebook-conspiracy-page-2018-12) > [@](#): > > The man behind a GoFundMe campaign that has raised $11 million in private money to build President Donald Trump’s proposed US-Mexico border wall also ran conspiracy-theory websites and a related Facebook page that was kicked off the platform in October. > > … > > NBC News reported on Thursday that Kolfage used to run a Facebook page called “Right Wing News” that was culled in October when Facebook deleted 559 pages for what it described as “inauthentic activity.” > > … > > MailOnline said some headlines from another of Kolfage’s sites, called FreedomDaily, included “Money-Grubbing Muslims Stole Over $16 MILLION From Needy Americans — Trump Has Perfect Punishment” and “Kaepernick Just Released His Own ‘Bill of Rights’ And Is Forcing Everyone In America To Follow It.” Why am I not surprised? ---
**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:** [December 21, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39933 "2018-12-21T17:39:29Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Michael Cohen says he arranged a $1.8 million payout to the pool boy Jerry Falwell Jr. “befriended” in 2012.](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/michael-cohen-brokered-mysterious-1-8-million-loan-pool-boy-jerry-falwell-jr-wife-befriended/) Is that what they’re calling it now? ---
**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:** [December 21, 2018, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39934 "2018-12-21T19:14:54Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Katrina Pierson wants to know [why John McCain won’t answer her questions about the Steele dossier.](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/trump-surrogate-katrina-pierson-demands-john-mccain-answer-questions-gets-buried-ridicule/) > > I can think of at least one reason. He’s an agent of the (Six Feet) Deep State? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39935 "2018-12-21T19:29:14Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > This is beyond parody. I haven’t visited ‘The Onion’ in months. Does it even still exist? ---
**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 21, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39936 "2018-12-21T19:33:25Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I haven’t visited ‘The Onion’ in months. Does it even still exist? Does it even need to? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39937 "2018-12-21T19:34:51Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I haven’t visited ‘The Onion’ in months. Does it even still exist? Yes, but they’re having more trouble every day finding a way to satirize an administration that is itself satire. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39938 "2018-12-21T20:37:56Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Yes, but they’re having more trouble every day finding a way to satirize an administration that is itself satire. New York Post headline: TRUMP TO ONION, “HOLD MY BEER” ---
**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:** [December 21, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39939 "2018-12-21T20:49:48Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I haven’t visited ‘The Onion’ in months. Does it even still exist? Sure. Can’t you hear the crying? ---
**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 21, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39940 "2018-12-21T21:28:02Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > New York Post headline: > > TRUMP TO ONION, “HOLD MY BEER” In Texas, that would be “Hold my beer and watch this.” ---
**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 21, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/39941 "2018-12-21T21:35:15Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I haven’t visited ‘The Onion’ in months. Does it even still exist? Indeed it does!: [Nation Not Sure How Many Ex-Trump Staffers It Can Safely Reabsorb](https://politics.theonion.com/nation-not-sure-how-many-ex-trump-staffers-it-can-safel-1823468346) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1996) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1998)