# 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:** 2002
**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:** [January 5, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40022 "2019-01-05T19:58:53Z")
Ed Rollins, bloviating on Fox News, called AOC “little girl”. > **[GOP strategist Ed Rollins refers to Ocasio-Cortez as ‘the little girl’](https://thehill.com/homenews/media/424016-lou-dobbs-guest-refers-to-ocasio-cortez-as-the-little-girl/)** > > Ed Rollins, chairman of the pro-Trump Great America PAC, went after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) during an appearance Friday on the Fox Business Network.Rollins, appearing … ---
**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:** [January 5, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40023 "2019-01-05T20:15:40Z")
Gavin McInnes, the founder of the Proud Boys, is upset that his neighbors are putting up signs saying “Hate Has No Place Here”. I wonder why he thinks they’re aimed at him? > **[Gavin McInnes Writes Letters to Neighbors to Take Down Anti-Hate Signs](https://www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-mcinnes-writes-letters-to-neighbors-to-take-down-anti-hate-signs?ref=scroll)** > > The Proud Boys founder wants neighbors to be nicer to him after quitting the group. ‘Hate certainly has no place here, and like you I am committed to keeping it that way!’ ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40024 "2019-01-05T21:34:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Gavin McInnes, the founder of the Proud Boys, is upset that his neighbors are putting up signs saying “Hate Has No Place Here”. I wonder why he thinks they’re aimed at him? > [Gavin McInnes Writes Letters to Neighbors to Take Down Anti-Hate Signs](https://www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-mcinnes-writes-letters-to-neighbors-to-take-down-anti-hate-signs?ref=scroll) Ha. And the chickens come home to roost. I hope the stupid fuck can’t find anywhere to live in the US and is forced to move to… Hmm. I don’t want his kind on the planet, so I wouldn’t place him anywhere or subject another country to his idiocy. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40025 "2019-01-05T21:52:44Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Ha. And the chickens come home to roost. I hope the stupid fuck can’t find anywhere to live in the US and is forced to move to… Hmm. I don’t want his kind on the planet, so I wouldn’t place him anywhere or subject another country to his idiocy. He could go back to the country he came from. He was born in England and has Canadian citizenship. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2019, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40026 "2019-01-05T21:58:04Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > I just heard the most perfect stupid response to the shutdown from a Trump fan in an interview on MSNBC. So perfect, I had to back it up and write it down: > > “If this did not affect my household directly, I would tell him to stand tall because something needs to be done. But since it does affect me and my wife, we are government employees, if this continues we will not have a paycheck. But I definitely understand where Trump is coming from.” > > So yeah, if it didn’t hurt _you_, you would cheer for it hurting other people. You evil, stupid fuckwit. I was amazed by that as well, and told my wife about it. “Sometimes I wonder if these people are actual human beings,” she said. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2019, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40027 "2019-01-05T22:04:09Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Gavin McInnes, the founder of the Proud Boys, is upset that his neighbors are putting up signs saying “Hate Has No Place Here”. I wonder why he thinks they’re aimed at him?.. Quotes from that Gavin idiot from that link: "…“I am writing on behalf of my family to ask you to reconsider whether the message of your lawn sign moves our world and our village in the direction of love at all, or whether it sends a very different message instead,” McInnes wrote in the letter, which was also [obtained by HuffPost](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/proud-boys-gavin-mcinnes-neighbors_us_5c2f843ae4b0e755f65c38bc?6mm).In the letter, McInnes claims that his neighbors won’t find anything “hateful, racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic or intolerant” in “any of my expressions of my worldview.” … (Then, on his podcast: ) “If you have that sign on your lawn, you’re a fucking retard,” McInnes said. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40028 "2019-01-08T09:56:45Z")
[An NYT article](“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”)on Florida towns hit by the twin whammies of hurricane damage and the shutdown offers this quote from a Trump supporter: > [@](#): > > “I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. **He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting**.” [bolding mine] She seems nice. Shame the leopards ate her face. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2019, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40029 "2019-01-08T11:48:50Z")
This presidency has been looking for an excuse to take leopards (and everything else) off the endangered species list, so let them eat face. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40030 "2019-01-08T11:56:00Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > [An NYT article](“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”)on Florida towns hit by the twin whammies of hurricane damage and the shutdown offers this quote from a Trump supporter:[bolding mine] > > She seems nice. Shame the leopards ate her face. Jesus fucking christ, how often do you see a quote so firmly display the core sociopathic tendencies of a movement? I wonder how many Trump supporters really think like that. Fucking scumbag. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40031 "2019-01-08T13:31:44Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > [An NYT article](“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”)on Florida towns hit by the twin whammies of hurricane damage and the shutdown offers this quote from a Trump supporter:[bolding mine] > > She seems nice. Shame the leopards ate her face. (Um… the NYTimes link isn’t working.) My question: whom is thump supposed to be hurting with this shutdown? ---
**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:** [January 8, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40032 "2019-01-08T13:41:59Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > (Um… the NYTimes link isn’t working.) > > My question: whom is thump supposed to be hurting with this shutdown? Non-sTrumpets. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40033 "2019-01-08T13:44:50Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > [An NYT article](“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”)on Florida towns hit by the twin whammies of hurricane damage and the shutdown offers this quote from a Trump supporter:[bolding mine] > > She seems nice. Shame the leopards ate her face. [This is a link.](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/florida-government-shutdown-marianna.html) It’s kind of like your link, except that this one works. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40034 "2019-01-08T13:49:22Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > (Um… the NYTimes link isn’t working.) > > My question: whom is thump supposed to be hurting with this shutdown? Them people what ain’t real Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40035 "2019-01-08T13:59:08Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [This is a link.](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/florida-government-shutdown-marianna.html) It’s kind of like your link, except that this one works. Bah humbug. (Thanks) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40036 "2019-01-08T14:05:35Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > My question: whom is thump supposed to be hurting with this shutdown? Method for discerning who “needs to be brought down a rung or two”: Step 1. Obtain a paper grocery bag… ---
**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:** [January 8, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40037 "2019-01-08T14:19:53Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > quote from a Trump supporter: > > > [@](#): > > > > “I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. **He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.** ” > > She seems nice. Shame the leopards ate her face. She gets the Trumpist philosophy perfectly. Life is a zero-sum game. Every dollar spent on a black or brown person is a dollar stolen from a white. Instead of inviting Mexicans to America to help our economy it’s just as fulfilling to detain and torture them. Instead of visiting a dentist to repair my own teeth, it’s just as useful for me to kick you in the face and knock some of _your_ teeth out. You see this even at SDMB. **Hurricane Ditkshit** and his ilk brag that “making libtards angry” is part of the justification for some Trumpist policies. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40038 "2019-01-08T14:41:06Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [This is a link.](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/florida-government-shutdown-marianna.html) It’s kind of like your link, except that this one works. You never pass up an opportunity to state even routine things in the most dickish way possible, do you? ---
**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:** [January 8, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40039 "2019-01-08T14:59:47Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > You never pass up an opportunity to state even routine things in the most dickish way possible, do you? Really, registering any faint trace of dickishness that may exist my comment about a story describing a Trumpist declaring “He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”, much less decarling it to be the Worst Possible Example[tm], ought to be like trying to spot fireflies after spending a full minute staring into the sun. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40040 "2019-01-08T16:08:21Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > You never pass up an opportunity to state even routine things in the most dickish way possible, do you? 😕 Can’t we try to get along? He posted a useful link with a tiny attempt at humor. If it was dickish at all, it was in the _least_ dickish way possible. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40041 "2019-01-08T16:19:58Z")
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