# 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:** 2015
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40282 "2019-02-04T04:22:31Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > I wonder how many of those kids were killed & dumped, or have been so abused that it would be terrifically embarrassing to reveal. I can safely say that exactly none of the kids that were adopted or fostered were killed. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40283 "2019-02-04T04:58:23Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I can safely say that exactly none of the kids that were adopted or fostered were killed. Impressive that you have this knowledge. Y ou should share with Trump officials, who have no idea where these children are even located. Whereas you not only know where they all are, but you also know the state of their health! Thousands of them, and you know all about them. Fantastic! Share your knowledge! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40284 "2019-02-04T05:01:59Z")
I misread **foolsguinea’s** post. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40285 "2019-02-04T05:53:24Z")
Nah, you just failed to imagine a different order of events. It’s all right. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2019, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40286 "2019-02-04T09:17:35Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Jesus. Wept. > [@eschereal](#): > > Yes, that _is_ an ICE [detention bus fitted entirely for young children](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/prison-bus-for-babies/). My God. This problem was pointed out months ago. I was aghast then but hoped “Surely this is just liberal hyperbole. The Administration acclaimed by Christians — anointed by God according to the Suckabee t\*\*t — can’t really be this Satanic.” Kudos to all who fight this tyranny. I tried to do my little bit, slathering my popular hobbyist website prior to the midterms with links to atrocities (and receiving hate-mail from Trumpist twits for my trouble). ---
**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:** [February 4, 2019, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40287 "2019-02-04T12:07:10Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Really? That does not sound like something they’re saying about kids adopted or fostered by responsible adults. I wonder how many of those kids were killed & dumped, or have been so abused that it would be terrifically embarrassing to reveal. This administration is incapable of being embarrassed. No more than the supporters are capable of being appalled. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40288 "2019-02-04T12:28:03Z")
Where’s that banging-head-against-brick-wall emoji? [**Trump Administration Argues It Could Be ‘Traumatic’ to Reunite Thousands of Migrant Children With Their Parents**](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-argues-it-could-be-traumatic-reunite-thousands-migrant-1316093) Warning: this link opens to a video of Der Trumpster talking. So have your sound OFF. > [@](#): > > Court filings by the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Department have argued that it could be “traumatic” to remove migrant children from sponsors homes and reunite them with their parents, suggesting that such action “would present grave child welfare concerns.” > > “It would destabilize the permanency of their existing home environment, and could be traumatic to the children,” Jonathan White, who is in charge of the the department’s efforts to reunite the separated children with their parents, said in the filings, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The agency also suggested that the reunification would take extraordinary effort, arguing that the administration should simply focus on reuniting children being held in custody, not those released to sponsors. > … So now they pretend to give a fuck about the children?? “Permanency of their existing home environment”?? Are you fucking kidding me?? It’s only been a few weeks! Do these jerks think the kids have FORGOTTEN their real parents?? They just don’t want to BOTHER. Taking time to right this profound WRONG would take time and MONEY away from, oh, you know… other stuff that’s more fun and profitable. The Dems need to move this issue front and center. Nothing illustrates the moral depravity of the Republican party like their indifference to the suffering they have caused. Oh, you say, the Republicans didn’t cause this?? Okay, let’s say they didn’t. But what are they saying and doing about fixing it? Words fail me… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40289 "2019-02-04T15:18:40Z")
Lord, if You decide to rain down fiery wrath and fury on America for our sins, I can hardly blame You. Humbly and meekly, I hope to suggest a more precise targeting than we have seen in the past. If Il Douche dissolves into a puddle of sores and boils while giving the SOTU speech, I think the point would be made. Just a thought, precision smiting. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40290 "2019-02-04T16:21:50Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Where’s that banging-head-against-brick-wall emoji? > > [**Trump Administration Argues It Could Be ‘Traumatic’ to Reunite Thousands of Migrant Children With Their Parents**](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-argues-it-could-be-traumatic-reunite-thousands-migrant-1316093) > Warning: this link opens to a video of Der Trumpster talking. So have your sound OFF. > > So now they pretend to give a fuck about the children?? “Permanency of their existing home environment”?? Are you fucking kidding me?? It’s only been a few weeks! Do these jerks think the kids have FORGOTTEN their real parents?? They just don’t want to BOTHER. Taking time to right this profound WRONG would take time and MONEY away from, oh, you know… other stuff that’s more fun and profitable. > > The Dems need to move this issue front and center. Nothing illustrates the moral depravity of the Republican party like their indifference to the suffering they have caused. Oh, you say, the Republicans didn’t cause this?? Okay, let’s say they didn’t. But what are they saying and doing about fixing it? > > Words fail me… Looking at the Trump administration it’s hard to decide which of this crew I’d trust the least to know anything at all about dealing with children. “Children? You mean \*human \*children?” would be the reaction of at least a couple of them. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40291 "2019-02-04T16:33:16Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Just a thought, precision smiting. [Amen](https://thebarkingfox.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/bfb150117-larson-god-at-his-computer.jpg). ---
**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:** [February 5, 2019, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40292 "2019-02-05T05:07:45Z")
Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes is suing the SPLC for defamation, saying their labeling the Proud Boys a hate group has caused him to be fired from Blaze TV and banned from social media outlets. [Founder of Proud Boys sues over being labeled hate group | Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-proudboys-idUSKCN1PU032)? ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40293 "2019-02-05T05:23:42Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes is suing the SPLC for defamation, saying their labeling the Proud Boys a hate group has caused him to be fired from Blaze TV and banned from social media outlets. > [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-proudboys-idUSKCN1PU032](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-proudboys-idUSKCN1PU032)? I had to laugh when I saw that. Someone was finally too bug-fuck nuts for GLEN BECK? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40294 "2019-02-05T06:05:54Z")
Saw a pickup truck today bearing not one, not two, but three Infowars bumper stickers. Might as well just have painted “Hey, I’m a moron” on the tailgate. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40295 "2019-02-05T07:40:46Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Lord, if You decide to rain down fiery wrath and fury on America for our sins, I can hardly blame You. Humbly and meekly, I hope to suggest a more precise targeting than we have seen in the past. If Il Douche dissolves into a puddle of sores and boils while giving the SOTU speech, I think the point would be made. Just a thought, precision smiting. Amen. Call family separation policy what it is. This is a criminal conspiracy. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2019, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40296 "2019-02-05T09:01:02Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Lord, if You decide to rain down fiery wrath and fury on America for our sins, I can hardly blame You. Humbly and meekly, I hope to suggest a more precise targeting than we have seen in the past. If Il Douche dissolves into a puddle of sores and boils while giving the SOTU speech, I think the point would be made. Just a thought, precision smiting. Can we also spare a fireball for Vice President and love child of [Race Bannon](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ToQ-S1g8CJM/hqdefault.jpg) and [Cotton Hill](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS825US825&biw=1366&bih=626&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=209ZXLf-NaLajwShwbWQCg&q=cotton+hill&oq=cotton+hill&gs_l=img.3..0l10.71531.75604..75888...0.0..0.105.1035.7j4......1....1..gws-wiz-img.......35i39j0i67.SHNwuSbXivE#imgrc=O1aFyJ5xDMstJM:), Mike Pence? That would leave us with President Pelosi. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40297 "2019-02-05T14:22:49Z")
Most men pray to beseech and implore. I offer helpful suggestions. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40298 "2019-02-05T15:55:37Z")
No big surprise here… [**Republicans would back Trump on emergency to build wall, says GOP senator**](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/428486-republicans-would-back-trump-on-emergency-to-build-wall-says-gop-senator) > [@](#): > > Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) predicted on Tuesday that a number of GOP senators will back President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to build a wall on the Mexican border, despite their opposition to it. > > Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) met with Trump last week and warned that if he goes through with the declaration, as he has signaled, it could lead to passage in the House of a resolution blocking Trump’s plan. > > McConnell said he’d have no choice under Senate rules but to bring the resolution to the Senate floor for a vote, where he said it could get enough GOP votes to be approved. > > Kennedy, however, expressed doubt that Republicans would actually vote against Trump on the matter. > > “Some of my colleagues in the Senate on both sides of the aisle, particularly Republicans, are all atitter about the fact that he might do it, but I’ve learned in this place talk’s cheap," he said on CNN. > > "Let’s see how they vote,” Kennedy said. “If the president does it, I’m willing to bet you a lot of Republicans who are saying it’s a bad idea and he shouldn’t do it, they’ll vote to support him.” > … Yup. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40299 "2019-02-05T16:38:26Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Saw a pickup truck today bearing not one, not two, but three Infowars bumper stickers. Might as well just have painted “Hey, I’m a moron” on the tailgate. What you do to those vehicles is put a hastily scrawled note on the windshield that says “We’re watching you.” May as well give him a reason to be paranoid. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40300 "2019-02-05T17:21:01Z")
> [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#): > > What you do to those vehicles is put a hastily scrawled note on the windshield that says “We’re watching you.” May as well give him a reason to be paranoid. or just “We know…” ---
**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:** [February 5, 2019, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40301 "2019-02-05T17:34:28Z")
[**Trump: ‘We will build a human wall if necessary’**](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/428500-trump-we-will-build-a-human-wall-if-necessary) > [@](#): > > President Trump on Tuesday continued to push for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying his administration is prepared to “build a Human Wall if necessary.” > > “Tremendous numbers of people are coming up through Mexico in the hopes of flooding our Southern Border,” Trump tweeted. “We have sent additional military. We will build a Human Wall if necessary.” > > > [@](#): > > > > Tremendous numbers of people are coming up through Mexico in the hopes of flooding our Southern Border. We have sent additional military. We will build a Human Wall if necessary. If we had a real Wall, this would be a non-event! > > — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 5, 2019 Ooooo! Kind of like [Hands Across America](https://www.history.com/news/remembering-hands-across-america)? Only everyone will be facing Mexico and poised to knee immigrants in the groin as they attempt to pass. Kids, being short, will get the knee in the head, I guess. No matter, they’ll be with their parents so no one should complain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2014) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2016)