# 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:** 2034
**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 13, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40664 "2019-03-13T20:40:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Well, the Smithsonian isn’t a private business, but otherwise … \ Keep your darn government hands off my Smithsonian! ---
**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 13, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40665 "2019-03-13T21:27:32Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Fake death threats are only newsworthy when a lefty does it. When it’s a right wing troglodyte, that’s not news. Just look away. Nothing to see here. Business as usual. IOW a nothingberder with fries. ---
**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 14, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40666 "2019-03-14T00:48:42Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > What the ever loving fuck is “chad nationalism”? White supremacy with penny loafers? The story [links to a RW glossary](https://qz.com/1092037/the-alt-right-is-creating-its-own-dialect-heres-a-complete-guide/) that is kind helpful; make of it what you will, **Chad** \* **Meaning** : Chad Thundercock—or just “chad”—is a derogatory name given to attractive men who are sexually successful with women. **Etymology** : The origin of the meaning of “chad” is murky, but it was probably popularized on 4chan, the imageboard also home to the Anonymous hacker collective. It rose out of the depths of the internet around 2013 but only reached alt-right consciousness in the last year or so. (You might have seen the “virgin walk” memes floating around, for example.) Today the place you’ll see “chad” most often is on the subreddit r/Incels, which is a depressing mix of self-loathing, self-pity, and misogyny. Chads are the ubiquitous successful object of envy for this community: attractive, smart, successful, and always lucky with women. The idea is used to reinforce the notion that celibacy is involuntary; incels think the only reason why women won’t sleep with them is because they don’t look like chads, as women are shallow and will always go for chads.\* gotta love 4chan ---
**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 14, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40667 "2019-03-14T01:07:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A pro-Trump “artist” (see the accompanying picture of his “art” in the link) is suing the Smithsonian because they refuse to hang his painting of Individual 1, a bald eagle, and the planet Earth. He says he will go to the Supreme Court to force the Smithsonian to allow him his First Amendment rights to hang whatever works he thinks he should be allowed to hang. > That’s great. Let’s find a first grader’s fingerpaints and go to court to force art museums to hang it on their walls. > [https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/maga-artist-sues-the-smithsonian-for-not-putting-up-his-pro-trump-painting-PLWoW8dJP0665TveIKiwgA/](https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/maga-artist-sues-the-smithsonian-for-not-putting-up-his-pro-trump-painting-PLWoW8dJP0665TveIKiwgA/) Representatives for the Smithsonian responded that they would have displayed Raven’s submission, but for the fact that “our refrigerator is in the shop right now.” ---
**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 14, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40668 "2019-03-14T18:10:48Z")
Brian Kilmeade isn’t impressed that Beto O’Rourke reads books. [‘Fox & Friends’ Host Brian Kilmeade: Who Cares That Beto O’Rourke Reads Books?](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-and-friends-host-brian-kilmeade-who-cares-that-beto-orourke-reads-books/)? ---
**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 14, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40669 "2019-03-14T18:13:33Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Brian Kilmeade isn’t impressed that Beto O’Rourke reads books. > [‘Fox & Friends’ Host Brian Kilmeade: Who Cares That Beto O’Rourke Reads Books?](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-and-friends-host-brian-kilmeade-who-cares-that-beto-orourke-reads-books/)? Ahhh. The triumph of the willfully ignorant. ---
**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 14, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40670 "2019-03-14T18:35:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Brian Kilmeade isn’t impressed that Beto O’Rourke reads books. > [‘Fox & Friends’ Host Brian Kilmeade: Who Cares That Beto O’Rourke Reads Books?](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-and-friends-host-brian-kilmeade-who-cares-that-beto-orourke-reads-books/)? > [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Ahhh. The triumph of the willfully ignorant. Readin’ and book larnin’ is for LOSERS! Do YOU want Albert Einstein flyin’ YOUR plane? I didn’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40671 "2019-03-14T19:12:13Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Readin’ and book larnin’ is for LOSERS! Do YOU want Albert Einstein flyin’ YOUR plane? I didn’t think so. And later on in the broadcast when he was asked to name pies for Pi Day, he stammers…then finally blurts out “Drakes Cakes”? _Priceless!_ ---
**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 14, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40672 "2019-03-14T19:12:38Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Brian Kilmeade isn’t impressed that Beto O’Rourke reads books. > [‘Fox & Friends’ Host Brian Kilmeade: Who Cares That Beto O’Rourke Reads Books?](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-and-friends-host-brian-kilmeade-who-cares-that-beto-orourke-reads-books/)? He also couldn’t name a favorite pie . . . just when you think SNL parodies are over the top, real life comes through. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40673 "2019-03-14T19:30:10Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > And later on in the broadcast when he was asked to name pies for Pi Day, he stammers…then finally blurts out “Drakes Cakes”? _Priceless!_ > [@Folacin](#): > > He also couldn’t name a favorite pie . . . just when you think SNL parodies are over the top, real life comes through. Even better. > [@](#): > > “That’s a cake,” Doocy shouted as co-host Ainsley Earhardt stared into the camera. ---
**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 14, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40674 "2019-03-14T19:49:21Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > He also couldn’t name a favorite pie . . . just when you think SNL parodies are over the top, real life comes through. How is this guy able to function in society? “Hey there buddy - what’s your favourite pie” “ummmm derp derp… CAKE!” I mean, it does not sound like he’s qualified to bag groceries at the Piggly Wiggly. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40675 "2019-03-14T20:46:01Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > The story [links to a RW glossary](https://qz.com/1092037/the-alt-right-is-creating-its-own-dialect-heres-a-complete-guide/) that is kind helpful; make of it what you will, > > **Chad** \* > **Meaning** : Chad Thundercock—or just “chad”—is a derogatory name given to attractive men who are sexually successful with women. > > **Etymology** : The origin of the meaning of “chad” is murky, but it was probably popularized on 4chan, the imageboard also home to the Anonymous hacker collective. It rose out of the depths of the internet around 2013 but only reached alt-right consciousness in the last year or so. (You might have seen the “virgin walk” memes floating around, for example.) > > Today the place you’ll see “chad” most often is on the subreddit r/Incels, which is a depressing mix of self-loathing, self-pity, and misogyny. Chads are the ubiquitous successful object of envy for this community: attractive, smart, successful, and always lucky with women. The idea is used to reinforce the notion that celibacy is involuntary; incels think the only reason why women won’t sleep with them is because they don’t look like chads, as women are shallow and will always go for chads.\* > > gotta love 4chan In Chicago, people have been calling preppy handsome-but-dumb twenty-somethings, who attended college but picked up more girls than learning and now live in the trendy areas of the city, [Chads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(slang))for a few decades, long before there were any incels inside. 🙂 The women of the same sort are [Trixies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trixie_(slang)). ---
**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:** [March 14, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40676 "2019-03-14T23:31:44Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > How is this guy able to function in society? > > “Hey there buddy - what’s your favourite pie” > > “ummmm derp derp… CAKE!” > > I mean, it does not sound like he’s qualified to bag groceries at the Piggly Wiggly. This is also the guy that drilled a toddler in the face with a basketball: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/UhEJjSJLf7c/hqdefault.jpg "Fox & Friends' Brian Kilmeade Hits Toddler Titus Ashby in Face With Basketball") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhEJjSJLf7c) ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40677 "2019-03-15T01:09:25Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Brian Kilmeade isn’t impressed that Beto O’Rourke reads books. > [‘Fox & Friends’ Host Brian Kilmeade: Who Cares That Beto O’Rourke Reads Books?](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-and-friends-host-brian-kilmeade-who-cares-that-beto-orourke-reads-books/)? > [@Folacin](#): > > He also couldn’t name a favorite pie . . . just when you think SNL parodies are over the top, real life comes through. Since Bobby Moynihan—who played Kilmeade as a sub-moronic cretin barely able to figure out how to sit on a couch—left, they don’t do the _Fox & Friends_ parodies anymore. It’s a shame, as the “lists of corrections” that used to take up most of the sketches always contained some laugh-out-loud gems. ---
**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 17, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40678 "2019-03-17T19:12:41Z")
The official GOP Twitter account posted a picture of Beto O’Rourke’s mug shot from his DUI arrest years ago, identifying him as Robert Francis O’Rourke (because they hate that his lifetime nickname is Beto), with a green Irish hat photoshopped (badly) on his head, to wish us a Happy St. Patrick’s Day. > ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40679 "2019-03-17T22:07:02Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The official GOP Twitter account posted a picture of Beto O’Rourke’s mug shot from his DUI arrest years ago, identifying him as Robert Francis O’Rourke (because they hate that his lifetime nickname is Beto), with a green Irish hat photoshopped (badly) on his head, to wish us a Happy St. Patrick’s Day. > [https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1107314663023353864](https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1107314663023353864) The image plays on anti-Irish bigotry, according to many: > [@](#): > > O’Rourke’s Republican opponents frequently invoke his Irish heritage to imply that he adopted his nickname, a common Spanish shortening of Roberto, in an effort to pander to Latino voters. … > Still, some on the right persist in referring to O’Rourke as “Robert Francis O’Rourke” on social media. But linking O’Rourke’s arrest for a drunk driving car crash to his Irish heritage appears to be a new and truly bigoted innovation. > **[The Official GOP Twitter Broke Out Some Anti-Irish Prejudice for St....](https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26848874/gop-twitter-st-patricks-day-beto-orourke/)** > > The account photoshopped a leprechaun hat on "noted Irishman" Beto O'Rourke's DUI arrest mugshot. Jeet Heer offered an interesting discussion of that element of the white-supremacist right that considers some groups—including Irish-Americans—to fail the ‘whiteness test’: > [@](#): > > You might think that the “whiteness” of Irish Catholics or Ashkenazi Jews was settled a long time ago in America, say 1945 at the latest. But in fact, there’s an element of the right that has never been fully comfortable with that expansion of whiteness. > > This can be most clearly seen in the writing of the late Samuel T. Francis, the paleo-conservative thinker whose writings of 1980s and 1990s anticipate Trumpism in many ways. Francis always made a distinction between White Anglo Protestant core America & rest. > > In his book Beautiful Losers (1994) Francis located the weakness of postwar Conservative intellectual movement in fact that white anglo-Protestant core was underrepresented and it was dominated by Catholics (Buckley) and Jews (Strauss). > > > GOP @GOP So, the official GOP account is, at the very least, trafficking in stereotypes—if not outright offering aid and comfort to the whitest of white supremacists. Nice work. ---
**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 18, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40680 "2019-03-18T08:01:47Z")
Are the GOP sure they want to start trading pictures of people arrested for criminal behavior? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40681 "2019-03-18T12:28:45Z")
Sigh … Dubya. Cheney **twice**. Not that it matters to them. ---
**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 18, 2019, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40682 "2019-03-18T13:00:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > identifying him as Robert Francis O’Rourke (because they hate that his lifetime nickname is Beto) I first learned that ‘Beto’ was nickname and a gimmick to get latino votes, from Rafael Cruz. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40683 "2019-03-18T14:01:59Z")
Just a sitting member of Congress [joking about having a civil war](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-king-civil-war-graphic_n_5c8ef5b9e4b03e83bdc25c86) in the United States and predicting who would win (and not noticing that his state is on the losing side). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2033) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2035)