# 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:** 2026
**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:** [March 1, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40503 "2019-03-01T20:04:49Z")
Speakers at the CPAC convention: Ollie North, convicted of lying to Congress, now President of the NRA: “They’re not going to be content to simply ignore the last four words of the Second Amendment, they want to repeal all 27 words and confiscate every firearm in the country.” Mike Lindell, the My Pillow guy: Donald Trump was ‘chosen by God’ to run for president Former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker: some people “take the baby home and kill the baby at home.” Sebastian Gorka: Liberals want to take away your hamburgers. “This is what Stalin dreamt about, but never achieved.” > **[CPAC Is Off to a Typically Horrifying Start](https://splinternews.com/cpac-is-off-to-a-typically-horrifying-start-1832960657)** > > It’s that time of the year again: The annual Conservative Political Action Conference is underway just outside of Washington DC, and with it comes the largest concentration of goons, grifters, and complete lunatics this side of an Infowars taping. Jacob Wohl recently banned from Twitter, was wandering around with a “bodyguard” who is wearing one earpod in his ear trying to look like he’s listening to security conversations. Wohl gave a press conference in the conference lobby (since he couldn’t speak at the conference itself) in which he was handing out “confidential” reports proving that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is married to her brother. > **[Twitter Mocks Jacob Wohl's Weird Press Conference Outside of CPAC](https://www.mediaite.com/online/twitter-mocks-jacob-wohls-weird-press-conference-outside-of-cpac-i-cant-stop-laughing-at-this/)** > > Fresh off of his ban from Twitter, Jacob Wohl, Jack Burkman, and Laura Loomer held a press conference in the lobby of the Gaylord National Resort. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40504 "2019-03-01T20:33:50Z")
Jose Oliva, the incoming Speaker of the Florida House, calls pregnant women a “host body”. > **[Incoming Florida state speaker of the House calls pregnant women 'host bodies'](https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/incoming-florida-state-speaker-of-the-house-calls-pregnant-women-host-bodies)** > > Florida state Rep. Jose Oliva, incoming speaker of the state House, describes himself as the kind of small-government conservative who thinks “people should be able to make the decisions that they would like to make for themselves” without... ---
**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:** [March 1, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40505 "2019-03-01T20:35:40Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Speakers at the CPAC convention: > Ollie North, convicted of lying to Congress, now President of the NRA: “They’re not going to be content to simply ignore the last four words of the Second Amendment, they want to repeal all 27 words and confiscate every firearm in the country.” > > Mike Lindell, the My Pillow guy: Donald Trump was ‘chosen by God’ to run for president > > Former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker: some people “take the baby home and kill the baby at home.” > > Sebastian Gorka: Liberals want to take away your hamburgers. “This is what Stalin dreamt about, but never achieved.” > > [https://splinternews.com/cpac-is-off-to-a-typically-horrifying-start-1832960657](https://splinternews.com/cpac-is-off-to-a-typically-horrifying-start-1832960657) > > Jacob Wohl recently banned from Twitter, was wandering around with a “bodyguard” who is wearing one earpod in his ear trying to look like he’s listening to security conversations. Wohl gave a press conference in the conference lobby (since he couldn’t speak at the conference itself) in which he was handing out “confidential” reports proving that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is married to her brother. > [Twitter Mocks Jacob Wohl's Weird Press Conference Outside of CPAC](https://www.mediaite.com/online/twitter-mocks-jacob-wohls-weird-press-conference-outside-of-cpac-i-cant-stop-laughing-at-this/) Michelle Malkin calls out “the ghost of John McCain”. [https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/432230-michelle-malkin-goes-after-the-ghost-of-john-mccain-at-cpac](https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/432230-michelle-malkin-goes-after-the-ghost-of-john-mccain-at-cpac) ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40506 "2019-03-01T20:48:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Sebastian Gorka: Liberals want to take away your hamburgers. “This is what Stalin dreamt about, but never achieved.” This is why I love the SDMB. All my life, I never knew Stalin didn’t like hamburgers. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40507 "2019-03-01T21:21:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Jacob Wohl recently banned from Twitter, was wandering around with a “bodyguard” who is wearing one earpod in his ear trying to look like he’s listening to security conversations. Wohl gave a press conference in the conference lobby (since he couldn’t speak at the conference itself) in which he was handing out “confidential” reports proving that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is married to her brother. > [Twitter Mocks Jacob Wohl's Weird Press Conference Outside of CPAC](https://www.mediaite.com/online/twitter-mocks-jacob-wohls-weird-press-conference-outside-of-cpac-i-cant-stop-laughing-at-this/) Prior to CPAC Wohl was ‘wandering’ around Minnesota hoping to get Omar to sign a document saying she did not marry her brother. Of course all he really did was hide in a armored car most of the time (seriously, he was so scared of the big bad city he went around in an armored car). He never found Omar and all he could do was declare that ‘Tens of thousands of Somalis’ illegally emigrate there every month. All he could do was impotently bad-mouth the city for being cold (in Feburay, go figure) and having a neighborhood with Somalis in it. I didn’t think O’Keefe could have a drooling dumber cousin but Wohl managed to be it. How does this dumbass get money to travel around in an armored car in a city? ---
**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:** [March 1, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40508 "2019-03-01T21:32:18Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Prior to CPAC Wohl was ‘wandering’ around Minnesota hoping to get Omar to sign a document saying she did not marry her brother. Of course all he really did was hide in a armored car most of the time (seriously, he was so scared of the big bad city he went around in an armored car). He never found Omar and all he could do was declare that ‘Tens of thousands of Somalis’ illegally emigrate there every month. All he could do was impotently bad-mouth the city for being cold (in Feburay, go figure) and having a neighborhood with Somalis in it. > > I didn’t think O’Keefe could have a drooling dumber cousin but Wohl managed to be it. How does this dumbass get money to travel around in an armored car in a city? He was with Laura Loomer in Minnesota, the loon who handcuffed herself to the doors of Twitter after she was banned, and then uncuffed herself when nobody cared. Loomer was arrested in Sacramento a few weeks ago for trespassing on the grounds of the Governor’s mansion wearing a sombrero, serape, and fake mustache. * * * Arizona state legislator claims forcing people to have vaccinations is communist. [GOP Arizona Lawmaker Claims Vaccinations Are 'Communist' | HuffPost Latest News](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-state-rep-claims-vaccinations-are-communist_n_5c794b85e4b087c2f2957d8e)? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40509 "2019-03-01T21:48:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > He was with Laura Loomer in Minnesota, the loon who handcuffed herself to the doors of Twitter after she was banned, and then uncuffed herself when nobody cared. Loomer was arrested in Sacramento a few weeks ago for trespassing on the grounds of the Governor’s mansion wearing a sombrero, serape, and fake mustache. My grandmother was a Loomer - I certainly hope Laura isn’t a relative. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40510 "2019-03-01T21:55:13Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ollie North, convicted of lying to Congress, now President of the NRA: “They’re not going to be content to simply ignore the last four words of the Second Amendment, they want to repeal all 27 words and confiscate every firearm in the country.” Wait… so it’s OK to ignore the entire first half of the Second Amendment, but it’s not OK to ignore the last four words? ---
**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:** [March 1, 2019, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40511 "2019-03-01T22:23:25Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > This is why I love the SDMB. All my life, I never knew Stalin didn’t like hamburgers. I thought everyone knew about Stalin’s love of Hamberders. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40512 "2019-03-01T22:25:11Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Wait… so it’s OK to ignore the entire first half of the Second Amendment, but it’s not OK to ignore the last four words? The first half is just a rhetorical flourish, you know, the sort that the founding fathers used in exactly zero other places in the documents that they wrote to form our nation. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2019, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40513 "2019-03-01T23:38:39Z")
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO[del]'Keefe[/del]) gave a rousing (I guess) speech at CPAC, stepped off the stage, [and was served](https://www.kansascity.com/latest-news/article226980264.html) a subpoena that he had been evading for weeks. The plaintiffs want to depose him on his activities as Missouri AG. Best of all, he is not a party in the action. How loathesome do you have to be to avoid service on something that you are not even being sued for? ---
**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:** [March 2, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40514 "2019-03-02T00:10:58Z")
Trump, Republican fucking idol, claims that if there was one single person on the planet that would not know about dead American Otto Warmbier that person is Kim Jong Un. Wooooooo! Party streamers and kazzoos! Maga, am I right Republicans! (Singsong breaks out!! And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free, and I’m proud to be an American, god bless the USA! _wipes tears away with stars n stripes_) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40515 "2019-03-02T15:12:25Z")
The base needs some distraction from their growling realization about being fooled by Individual-1, apparently, so the Florida GOP is going back to one of their standbys, abortion. Now there’s a bill to outlaw it after fetal heartbeat, never mind that it’s something that’s been tried and shot down elsewhere and will only add to the taxpayers’ costs for legal fees. But the best part is FL House Speaker Jose Oliva referring to pregnant women as["host bodies".](https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/432242-florida-official-apologizes-for-referring-to-women-as-host-bodies-in) ---
**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:** [March 2, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40516 "2019-03-02T16:43:26Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The base needs some distraction from their growling realization about being fooled by Individual-1, apparently, so the Florida GOP is going back to one of their standbys, abortion. Now there’s a bill to outlaw it after fetal heartbeat, never mind that it’s something that’s been tried and shot down elsewhere and will only add to the taxpayers’ costs for legal fees. But the best part is FL House Speaker Jose Oliva referring to pregnant women as["host bodies".](https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/432242-florida-official-apologizes-for-referring-to-women-as-host-bodies-in) They’re not really supposed to say that last bit in their outside voices, even though that’s how most of them actually \*think \*of women. We’re not people. We’re incubators. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2019, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40517 "2019-03-02T17:18:24Z")
I place this here because there isn’t a Sickeningly Bigoted Republican Piece Of Shit thread. > **[GOP's anti-Muslim display likening Rep. Omar to a terrorist rocks W. Virginia...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gop-s-anti-muslim-display-likening-rep-omar-terrorist-rocks-n978371)** > > "We have allowed national level politics to become a cancer on our state," the House speaker said. “The display featured a picture of the World Trade Center in New York City as a fireball exploded from the one of the Twin Towers, set above a picture of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is Muslim. “‘Never forget’ - you said. . .” read a caption on the first picture. “I am the proof - you have forgotten,” read the caption under the picture of Omar, who is wearing a hijab. This poster is in your Capitol on a booth sponsored by [@WVGOP](https://twitter.com/WVGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) “When someone shows you who they are, believe them” [pic.twitter.com/4k566ztHWo](https://t.co/4k566ztHWo) — (((Mike Pushkin))) (@pushkinforhouse) [March 1, 2019](https://twitter.com/pushkinforhouse/status/1101532563020148737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) …” [URL=“[https://twitter.com/pushkinforhouse/status/1101532563020148737?ref\_src=twsrc^tfw](https://twitter.com/pushkinforhouse/status/1101532563020148737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)”] ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40518 "2019-03-02T20:36:11Z")
More Loomer Looniness: you must really be red trash when not even conservatives want you around. [Anti-Muslim Activist Laura Loomer Banned From CPAC After Harassing Reporters](https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-muslim-activist-laura-loomer-banned-from-cpac-after-harassing-reporters) ---
**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:** [March 2, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40519 "2019-03-02T20:37:34Z")
CPAC mob chants “Lock her up” during Individual 1’s appearance. > **[‘Lock her up’ chant erupts at CPAC after Trump jokes about Russia, Clinton’s...](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/432324-lock-her-up-chants-erupt-at-cpac-after-trump-jokes-about-asking/)** > > President Trump on Saturday suggested that he was speaking sarcastically when he said in the run-up to the 2016 election that he hoped Russia found Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails.… ---
**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:** [March 2, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40520 "2019-03-02T23:31:12Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > More Loomer Looniness: you must really be red trash when not even conservatives want you around. > > [Anti-Muslim Activist Laura Loomer Banned From CPAC After Harassing Reporters](https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-muslim-activist-laura-loomer-banned-from-cpac-after-harassing-reporters) She should handcuff herself to a conservative. Sent from my SM-G920P using Tapatalk ---
**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:** [March 3, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40521 "2019-03-03T02:04:20Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > CPAC mob chants “Lock her up” during Individual 1’s appearance. > [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/432324-lock-her-up-chants-erupt-at-cpac-after-trump-jokes-about-asking](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/432324-lock-her-up-chants-erupt-at-cpac-after-trump-jokes-about-asking) I think Orwell had it pegged: > [@](#): > > The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40522 "2019-03-03T12:11:44Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > This is why I love the SDMB. All my life, I never knew Stalin didn’t like hamburgers. Well, German origin and all that. Stands to reason [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2025) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2027)