# 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:** 2027
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40523 "2019-03-03T15:43:39Z")
> [@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) > [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#): > > She should handcuff herself to a conservative. > > Sent from my SM-G920P using Tapatalk They don’t have any Conservatives there; just radicals with reactionary leanings ---
**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 3, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40524 "2019-03-03T19:36:16Z")
The West Virginia GOP is backing down over the poster in the state Capitol (put up there during a “Republicans take over the Rotunda” day), claiming they didn’t know it was going to be there. The House of Delegates’ Sergeant at Arms has resigned. A doorkeeper was injured after a Democratic state Delegate kicked the door to the chamber open and hit her. > **[A poster that linked Rep. Ilhan Omar with 9/11 sparked pandemonium at the...](https://www.businessinsider.com/ilhan-omar-911-poster-west-virginia-statehouse-2019-3)** > > The West Virginia Republican Party distanced itself from the poster of Omar, saying the party was unaware of the poster before it was displayed. ---
**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 3, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40525 "2019-03-03T20:56:03Z")
Idaho Republicans have defeated a Democratic-sponsored bill to [prevent child marriages](https://www.newsweek.com/idaho-congress-blocks-bill-end-child-marriage-1348919). > [@](#): > > The bill, proposed, by Democratic Representative Melissa Wintrow, aimed to prevent children under 16 from getting married and would require consent of the child, parents and a court before a marriage. Current state law allows children younger than 16-years-old to get married with parental and judicial consent, and teens who are 16 and older to get married with only parental consent. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40526 "2019-03-03T22:02:48Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > 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. I hope know one takes this wrong, but I see a similarity between the ‘lock her up’ Trump supporters and the screaming Beatle fans of the 60’s. I love the Beatles and they did wonderful things for music. Trump supporters are of course just trying to break stuff. A hive mind, in both cases. The Beatles promoted love. Trump promotes hate. Bit of a different crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40527 "2019-03-04T02:19:34Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Idaho Republicans have defeated a Democratic-sponsored bill to [prevent child marriages](https://www.newsweek.com/idaho-congress-blocks-bill-end-child-marriage-1348919). Slight hijack in the Grudging Respect category, after reading [more about this](https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article226944034.html): > [@](#): > > A bi-partisan bill led by Rep. Melissa Wintrow, D-Boise, proposed setting the minimum age to marry at 16. Under the proposed law, for a 16- or 17-year-old to get married, consent of the child, parents and the court would be required. […] > > From 2000 to 2010, 4,080 children in Idaho were married, according to data compiled from 38 states by Unchained at Last, a national advocacy group working to end forced and child marriages in America. The youngest minor wed in Idaho was 13. > > In many states the legal age to marry is 18. Wintrow called her bill a compromise. “Instead of ending child marriage outright, this is a modest approach to bring it in conformity with our statutory rape laws.” > > “When it is legal for a 30-year-old to marry a 15-year-old that is not marriage because they are not equal partners. That is institutionalized child abuse. That is arranged rape,” [Dem Rep staffer Colin] Nash said. > > Several lawmakers who spoke against the bill cited government overreach. > > “I do not think courts should be involved in marriage at all,” said Bryan Zollinger, R-Idaho Falls. “I don’t believe there should be a license required to get married. I think two willing people should be able to go and get married.” I was all set to “gotcha” that Zollinger creep about his undoubted hypocrisy on the issue of same-sex marriage, but [whaddya know, folks](https://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/gay-conservative-at-gop-convention-backs-same-sex-marriage/article_eab8d22c-bfa8-55d8-9d07-d75b83ef2396.html): > [@](#): > > [June 2018] > > [Dom] Gelsomino, the first openly gay Republican candidate in Idaho, who has previously run on the Republican ticket for the state Legislature and for the city council of Meridian, made a passionate argument for the GOP to abandon its opposition to same-sex marriage, to become more inclusive and to stand up for civil rights. […] > > Gelsomino said he sees the foundations of the GOP as a commitment to individual liberty and limited government. And he said the Republican Party had strayed from those foundations by supporting the use of government authority to proscribe private relationships. […] > > Rep. Bryan Zollinger, R-Idaho Falls, a co-founder of the Idaho House Freedom Caucus and considered one of the most conservative members of the Legislature, tweeted a message of unqualified support after Gelsomino’s speech. > > “We as Republicans are and need to remain the party of inclusion,” Zollinger wrote. “Less intrusive government means government has no business in licensing families. […]" So, y’know, a child-marriage-supporting creep, but a **consistent** child-marriage-supporting creep. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40528 "2019-03-04T03:23:45Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > 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 capitol](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gop-s-anti-muslim-display-likening-rep-omar-terrorist-rocks-n978371) > > “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=“[(((Mike Pushkin))) on X: "This poster is in your Capitol on a booth sponsored by @WVGOP “When someone shows you who they are, believe them” https://t.co/4k566ztHWo" / X](https://twitter.com/pushkinforhouse/status/1101532563020148737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)”] I have a bad feeling that this is going to be a theme in the 2020 elections: “look at how these brown and yellow skin people want to change your country.” They won’t just go after Omar; they’ll go after Ocasio-Cortez and others as well. The Republicans don’t have much choice. It’s culture war time. ---
**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 4, 2019, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40529 "2019-03-04T03:38:55Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > So, y’know, a child-marriage-supporting creep, but a **consistent** child-marriage-supporting creep. I’m not sure if being consistently creepy is a good life goal, but to each their own, I guess. (Him, not you, **Kimstu**.) ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40530 "2019-03-04T03:41:34Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Yes. And it made some of us long to boot those “purists” right in the chops. > > Self-righteous morons that they are. And here he is running again in 2020. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2019, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40531 "2019-03-04T12:10:25Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > They won’t just go after Omar; they’ll go after Ocasio-Cortez and others as well. I’m confused by your use of future tense instead of past or present tense, either of which would have been more applicable here. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2019, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40532 "2019-03-04T12:55:22Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I’m confused by your use of future tense instead of past or present tense, either of which would have been more applicable here. He was referring to the UPCOMING presidential election, to wit: > [@asahi](#): > > I have a bad feeling that this is going to be a theme in the 2020 elections: “look at how these brown and yellow skin people want to change your country.” They won’t just go after Omar; they’ll go after Ocasio-Cortez and others as well. > > The Republicans don’t have much choice. It’s culture war time. That’s not to say it hasn’t happened in the past and isn’t happening in the present, but the subject was 2020. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2019, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40533 "2019-03-04T13:01:50Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > He was referring to the UPCOMING presidential election, to wit:That’s not to say it hasn’t happened in the past and isn’t happening in the present, but the subject was 2020. They’re already doing it \*because of \* 2020. It’s never too early to start smearing the opposition, and the implications of the rising popularity of the progressive wing of the Democrats frighten the troglodyte wing of the Republicans. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40534 "2019-03-04T14:07:34Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > [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) Another gem from this link: > [@](#): > > Another Republican delegate, Eric Porterfield, was hit with calls to resign last month after he called LGBTQ groups “the closest thing to political terrorism in America” and “a modern day version of the Ku Klux Klan.” > > **“Let me (be) very clear with my statement,” Porterfield told NBC News then. “The LGBTQ — not homosexuals — are the modern day version of the Ku Klux Klan.”** Really, modern day KKK? What are they burning, and on whose front lawns? ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40535 "2019-03-04T14:38:36Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > I have a bad feeling that this is going to be a theme in the 2020 elections: “look at how these brown and yellow skin people want to change your country.” They won’t just go after Omar; they’ll go after Ocasio-Cortez and others as well. > > The Republicans don’t have much choice. It’s culture war time. I’ve noticed that the organized Republican hate focuses almost exclusively on women, minorities, Jews, and Muslims. AOC checks two boxes, Omar checks three boxes. Rarely do you see much hate for white, Christian men. Some minor digs at Schumer, which pale along side the lunatic frothing about Pelosi. This has been the approach for the Republicans for quite some time. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2019, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40536 "2019-03-04T14:41:44Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > What are they burning, and on whose front lawns? So many punchlines, so few I’m willing to actually write down… ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40537 "2019-03-04T15:29:26Z")
[quote=“Ike\_Witt, post:40534, topic:490897”] Another gem from this link: > [@](#): > > Another Republican delegate, Eric Porterfield, was hit with calls to resign last month after he called LGBTQ groups “the closest thing to political terrorism in America” and “a modern day version of the Ku Klux Klan.” > > “Let me (be) very clear with my statement,” Porterfield told NBC News then. “_ **The LGBTQ — not homosexuals** _ — are the modern day version of the Ku Klux Klan.” :dubious: ---
**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:** [March 4, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40538 "2019-03-04T16:42:00Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > 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 capitol](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gop-s-anti-muslim-display-likening-rep-omar-terrorist-rocks-n978371) > > “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=“[(((Mike Pushkin))) on X: "This poster is in your Capitol on a booth sponsored by @WVGOP “When someone shows you who they are, believe them” https://t.co/4k566ztHWo" / X](https://twitter.com/pushkinforhouse/status/1101532563020148737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)”] Ya gotta love the paragraphs at the end regarding Eric Porterfield’s little comments: > [@](#): > > “Let me (be) very clear with my statement,” Porterfield told NBC News then. “The LGBTQ — not homosexuals — are the modern day version of the Ku Klux Klan.” 😕 What, dude? ---
**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 4, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40539 "2019-03-04T17:13:05Z")
He’s saying you can be gay, you just have to keep it to yourself – you know, go back into the closet so he can pretend you don’t exist. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40540 "2019-03-04T17:16:11Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Really, modern day KKK? What are they burning, and on whose front lawns? Perhaps he heard “flaming” and got confused. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40541 "2019-03-04T18:33:24Z")
It sounds like he thinks LGBTQ is the name of a street gang. _begins to snap fingers ominously_ ---
**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 4, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40542 "2019-03-04T20:20:56Z")
Snopes moves into investigative reporting. They’ve just released a report on political action committees and political operatives creating bogus “local news” outlets to tout the people they’re supporting. > **[Hiding in Plain Sight: PAC-Connected Activists Set Up ‘Local News’ Outlets](https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/03/04/activists-setup-local-news-sites/)** > > Star News Digital Media, Inc. may look like a media company that produces local news, but a Snopes investigation reveals deep, undisclosed connections to political activism. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2026) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2028)