# 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:** 2054
**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:** [May 9, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41065 "2019-05-09T21:51:41Z")
As long as it’s not Czechs! ---
**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:** [May 10, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41066 "2019-05-10T18:17:07Z")
So there’s a thing on the Internet where people are listing five jobs they’ve had. James Comey decided to get into it, so he listed five jobs he’s done: Grocery store clerk 2. Vocal soloist for church weddings 3. Chemist 4. Strike-replacement high school teacher 5. FBI Director, interrupted And the crazies decided to point out that the first initial of each line spells out GVCSF, which, obviously stands for Grass Valley Charter School Foundation, the foundation which runs a school in the small Northern California town of Grass Valley. And so that obviously means that Comey was making a coded terrorist threat against the school, and they started calling the Grass Valley police department and the school to warn them of an attack. The school had to cancel a fundraiser out of fear of right wing crazies showing up with guns to “protect” the school. > **[QAnon conspiracy sparked by Comey tweet forces cancellation of school fundraiser](https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/443034-qanon-conspiracy-sparked-by-comey-tweet-forces-cancellation-of-school/)** > > A school in California was forced to cancel plans for its annual fundraiser after conspiracy theorists flooded the school with emails warning of a potential terrorist attack they thought was predic… ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41067 "2019-05-10T18:28:22Z")
How did “JAMES COMEY, YES THE FBI GUY, IS COMING TO SHOOT UP THE SCHOOL!!!” even get play? Oh, stupid me. The cops are probably on the same Twitter and FB feeds as well. :smack: ---
**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:** [May 10, 2019, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41068 "2019-05-10T19:43:57Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > So there’s a thing on the Internet where people are listing five jobs they’ve had. James Comey decided to get into it, so he listed five jobs he’s done: > Grocery store clerk > 2. Vocal soloist for church weddings > 3. Chemist > 4. Strike-replacement high school teacher > 5. FBI Director, interrupted > > And the crazies decided to point out that the first initial of each line spells out GVCSF, which, obviously stands for Grass Valley Charter School Foundation, the foundation which runs a school in the small Northern California town of Grass Valley. And so that obviously means that Comey was making a coded terrorist threat against the school, and they started calling the Grass Valley police department and the school to warn them of an attack. The school had to cancel a fundraiser out of fear of right wing crazies showing up with guns to “protect” the school. > [https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/443034-qanon-conspiracy-sparked-by-comey-tweet-forces-cancellation-of-school](https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/443034-qanon-conspiracy-sparked-by-comey-tweet-forces-cancellation-of-school) :smack: You can’t make this shit up. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41069 "2019-05-10T20:29:54Z")
AOC commented on being freaked out by the garbage disposal in her new DC area apartment, and the right wing outrage business is trying to claim that she’s lying that she’s never had experience with a garbage disposal before, especially since she used to work as a bartender. Turns out, though, that garbage disposals were banned in New York City till 1997, and are still not very much of a thing, and are still banned in commercial establishments, such as bars. > **[Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's garbage disposal naivety is totally justified](https://theweek.com/speedreads/839963/why-alexandria-ocasiocortezs-garbage-disposal-naivety-totally-justified)** ---
**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:** [May 10, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41070 "2019-05-10T20:39:10Z")
AOC could claim the grass is green and the immediate reaction on right-wing Twitter would be “OMG, what an idiot she is! Where’s your messiah noooow, libtards?” ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41071 "2019-05-10T20:58:13Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > So there’s a thing on the Internet where people are listing five jobs they’ve had. James Comey decided to get into it, so he listed five jobs he’s done: > Grocery store clerk > 2. Vocal soloist for church weddings > 3. Chemist > 4. Strike-replacement high school teacher > 5. FBI Director, interrupted > > And the crazies decided to point out that the first initial of each line spells out GVCSF, which, obviously stands for Grass Valley Charter School Foundation, the foundation which runs a school in the small Northern California town of Grass Valley. And so that obviously means that Comey was making a coded terrorist threat against the school, and they started calling the Grass Valley police department and the school to warn them of an attack. The school had to cancel a fundraiser out of fear of right wing crazies showing up with guns to “protect” the school. > [https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/443034-qanon-conspiracy-sparked-by-comey-tweet-forces-cancellation-of-school](https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/443034-qanon-conspiracy-sparked-by-comey-tweet-forces-cancellation-of-school) Do none of these people ask themselves simple, basic questions about their assumptions? Like 1) Why would Comey want to terrorist attack a school? 2) If he did want to terrorist attack a school, why would he pick a remote place like Grass Valley, Ca? 3) If he did want to terrorist attack a remote, out-of-the-way little place like Grass Valley, why would he send a coded message about doing it??? ---
**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:** [May 10, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41072 "2019-05-10T20:59:55Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > 1. If he did want to terrorist attack a remote, out-of-the-way little place like Grass Valley, why would he send a coded message about doing it??? They all think they’re Batman and their enemies (i.e., liberals) are campy-60s-Batman’s rogues gallery. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41073 "2019-05-10T22:12:33Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Do none of these people ask themselves simple, basic questions about their assumptions? > > Like 1) Why would Comey want to terrorist attack a school? > 2) If he did want to terrorist attack a school, why would he pick a remote place like Grass Valley, Ca? > 3) If he did want to terrorist attack a remote, out-of-the-way little place like Grass Valley, why would he send a coded message about doing it??? And none of that will stop them from coming up with OTHER entities with the initials GVCSF, and claims that Comey is coming to shoot them up, too. (There must be several hundred such entities in the USA alone.) ---
**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:** [May 10, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41074 "2019-05-10T22:21:40Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Do none of these people ask themselves simple, basic questions about their assumptions? > > Like 1) Why would Comey want to terrorist attack a school? > 2) If he did want to terrorist attack a school, why would he pick a remote place like Grass Valley, Ca? > 3) If he did want to terrorist attack a remote, out-of-the-way little place like Grass Valley, why would he send a coded message about doing it??? _BEEP_ Sorry. Disqualified for bringing logic, reason, and common sense to this discussion. We got no use for those. And to answer your first question: that would be a _no_. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41075 "2019-05-11T00:46:12Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > How did “JAMES COMEY, YES THE FBI GUY, IS COMING TO SHOOT UP THE SCHOOL!!!” even get play? > > Oh, stupid me. The cops are probably on the same Twitter and FB feeds as well. :smack: I think you missed this part (my bold): > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The school had to cancel a fundraiser out of\*\* fear of right wing crazies showing up with guns to “protect” the school\*\*. > [https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/443034-qanon-conspiracy-sparked-by-comey-tweet-forces-cancellation-of-school](https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/443034-qanon-conspiracy-sparked-by-comey-tweet-forces-cancellation-of-school) No one in authority thought there was going to be a terrorist attack, except perhaps from right-wing crazies. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41076 "2019-05-11T01:14:28Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > They all think they’re Batman and their enemies (i.e., liberals) are campy-60s-Batman’s rogues gallery. “Could be any one of them, but which one?” “Not one, Commissioner. This ‘grocery store clerk’ is clearly the prelude to an entire sininster shopping list.” _gasp!_ “It begins with the soloist, who sings _solos_, which as you can plainly see is but one letter removed from–” “_Soros!_ Holy Hungarian horror!” “Yes, old chum, and that is only the beginning. Next we have a chemist, who selects and mixes the contents of bottles much like a bartender.” “AOC!” _(shudder)_ “No doubt.” “But who is the strike-replacement teacher?” “Obviously, the strike-replacement teacher picks up where the regular teacher left off with the textbooks–” “Books? Cory Booker!” “Precisely. Now, we come to the most sinister foe of all, the ‘interrupted’ director left _biding_ his time.” _Several gasps._ "Joe Biden! “I’m afraid so. We’ve been given the plainest warning. They’re working together to take over…” “Take over the Congress?” “Any two of them would try that.” “The Congress and the states?” “If it were three of them, I would say yes, but four? Their minimum objective must be… the White House itself!” ---
**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:** [May 11, 2019, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41077 "2019-05-11T01:34:30Z")
Bravo! Please let me know at what Bat Time the saga will be continuing. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2019, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41078 "2019-05-11T05:14:27Z")
_applause_ You took my feeble joke and transformed it into a far superior scenario. Bravo! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41079 "2019-05-11T13:19:25Z")
[Jim Nabors Voice][Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/shocker-gofundme-campaign-build-wall-090921149.html)[/JNV] The GoFundMe for the mythical Mexican border wall is just the latest scam from the host/starter/whatever of the GFM page. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41080 "2019-05-11T15:48:43Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [Jim Nabors Voice][Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/shocker-gofundme-campaign-build-wall-090921149.html)[/JNV] > The GoFundMe for the mythical Mexican border wall is just the latest scam from the host/starter/whatever of the GFM page. Story says that, in order to avoid protesters and the ACLU, they are looking for a secure location to begin building. I will guess they will start putting up the first section just outside Peru Nebraska. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41081 "2019-05-11T16:05:53Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Story says that, in order to avoid protesters and the ACLU, they are looking for a secure location to begin building. I will guess they will start putting up the first section just outside Peru Nebraska. Shows what you know. Of course they will start by walling in Mexico, MO. [Mexico, Missouri - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico,_Missouri) ---
**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:** [May 11, 2019, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41082 "2019-05-11T16:50:45Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Story says that, in order to avoid protesters and the ACLU, they are looking for a secure location to begin building. I will guess they will start putting up the first section just outside Peru Nebraska. If it can double as a levee for the Missouri river, I might even throw in a couple of bucks. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41083 "2019-05-11T18:29:02Z")
More on the Comey conspiracy to attack the school. Included in his tweet was the hashtag FiveJobsIHad. The crazies are saying that the J, the I and the “Had” spell out JIHad, and it indicates he’s planning five attacks. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41084 "2019-05-12T14:47:22Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [Jim Nabors Voice][Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/shocker-gofundme-campaign-build-wall-090921149.html)[/JNV] > The GoFundMe for the mythical Mexican border wall is just the latest scam from the host/starter/whatever of the GFM page. [Here](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/webuildthewall-protecting-border-raising-campaign-funds-donald-trump-11255960) is a more direct link in the _Phoenix New Times_ article. > [@PNT](#): > > • There are only of 72.87 miles of collective “gaps” in the Roosevelt Reservation — either privately owned properties or lapses in easements due to terrain, according to the commission. > > • According to the commission, there are approximately 15.79 miles of collective “gaps” in the Roosevelt Reservation\* along Arizona’s roughly 370-mile border with Mexico. These are found in Pima, Santa Cruz, and Cochise counties. > > • Most of the border property that was once privately owned in these “gaps” has subsequently been purchased by the federal government, and not a single piece of private property exists as a part of Arizona’s border with Mexico where there is not already federal border wall. > > The Roosevelt Reservation also covers all but roughly 4.5 collective miles — in Luna and Dona Ana counties — of the international border with New Mexico. > > It is not clear how much of the land in these 4.5 miles is now owned by the federal government, but New Times spoke with Luna County farmer James Johnson, who, in January, offered the Trump administration an easement to build a wall on his property. Johnson, whose property is flanked by federally controlled border, said he had never been contacted by WeBuildtheWall, and that he didn’t see its plans as being effective. > […] > Along Arizona’s roughly 370-mile border with Mexico, [U.S. Customs and Border Protection Public Affairs Specialist Robert] Daniels said, are 124 miles of primary fencing. An additional 183 miles of Arizona’s international border are covered by vehicle barriers, much of which is “Normandy-style” fencing constructed of sections of steel railroad track. Primary border wall is further augmented, said [U.S. Customs and Border Protection Public Affairs Specialist Robert] Daniels, by 10 miles of “secondary fencing” and eight miles of “tertiary fencing,” primarily in the Yuma area (in the far southwestern corner of the state). > > All told, border wall and vehicle barriers cover 307 miles of the Arizona-Mexico border. The remaining 43 miles of Arizona’s border are largely composed of areas where walls and barriers either are not needed, or cannot feasibly be constructed, because of difficult terrain or other considerations. Most of that land is covered largely by barbed wire fence. \*The Roosevelt Reservation is a sixty-foot Federal easement along the border. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2053) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2055)