# 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:** 2065
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41285 "2019-06-13T22:41:33Z")
As human beings, you and I need fresh, pure hamburger to replenish our precious bodily DNA. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure human-fetus hamburgers? CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41286 "2019-06-14T12:16:09Z")
These people don’t have the courage to do this in public at an announced location: [Lake County church hosting 3-day ‘Make America Straight Again’ event](https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-ne-lake-county-pastor-make-america-straight-again-20190613-q55c22mqxjf3djdmg6orqdwjru-story.html) During Pride Month, in the wake of the Pulse commemorations here in central Florida. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41287 "2019-06-14T12:26:21Z")
From the article: “We’re asking for a normal lifestyle of a husband and wife and kids, sitting around a dinner table [li]," he said. "But somehow, we’re the ones who are weird.”[/li][\* or else death] ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41288 "2019-06-14T12:29:22Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > I realize that the orangutan in charge Likes the lawbreakers. I just want this particular department to be a little less casual about the lawbreakers building a gate across government land. There have also been reports about these “we build the wall” people having armed militia chasing reporters and others away from the area. Someone may very well get shot but apparently all of this barely elicits a yawn from USIBWC. :smack: > > And the city apparently backed down also on the issue of a permit. Probably afraid of getting shot. Who says violence never solves anything? Violence solves plenty of things! ---
**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:** [June 14, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41289 "2019-06-14T14:12:09Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > These people don’t have the courage to do this in public at an announced location: > > [Lake County church hosting 3-day ‘Make America Straight Again’ event](https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-ne-lake-county-pastor-make-america-straight-again-20190613-q55c22mqxjf3djdmg6orqdwjru-story.html) > > During Pride Month, in the wake of the Pulse commemorations here in central Florida. > [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > From the article: “We’re asking for a normal lifestyle of a husband and wife and kids, sitting around a dinner table > [li]," he said. "But somehow, we’re the ones who are weird.”[/li] > [\* or else death] I’ve been following this on Jimmy Snow’s Mr. Atheist YouTube channel. In [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPzz2VPjU6Q) Snow takes exception to a local TV station’s fawning report that mentions the conference is “facing some protests” without mentioning why. The crew was even given a tour of the church’s office including an (unaired) shot of an animated poster showing flames and _LGBTQ / Let God Burn Them Quickly_ (11:50) so they can hardly plead ignorance of the church’s position. “But somehow we’re the ones who are weird.” No, ‘rev,’ you’re a murderous thug. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41290 "2019-06-14T15:49:38Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > June 13, 2019 > Rick Wiles says that Impossible Burgers and other meatless hamburger products are a Satanic plot to change humans’ DNA so they can’t be classified as human any more, and thus can’t be saved. > [Christian TV host: Vegetarian hamburgers are a ‘Luciferian’ plot to change human DNA – DeadState](https://deadstate.org/christian-tv-host-vegetarian-hamburgers-are-lucifarian-plot-to-change-human-dnafbrefreshforce/) Guess Pastor Wiles hasn’t read his [Mark 7:15](https://biblehub.com/mark/7-15.htm) very carefully (and that’s without even mentioning the Lamarckian pseudoscience of the claim). ---
**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:** [June 14, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41291 "2019-06-14T16:43:10Z")
I posted this over in the MPSIMS thread on Sanders but it belongs here too. Sarah Huckabee Sanders would like to be remembered as “[transparent and honest](https://boingboing.net/2019/06/14/sarah-sanders-hopes-shell-be.html)”: > [@SHS](#): > > I hope that [the way I am remembered] will be that I showed up every day and I did the very best job that I could to put forward the president’s message … to do the best job that I could to answer questions. To be transparent and honest throughout that process and do everything I could to make America a little better that day than it was the day before. Dear Sarah, It will not be that. It will not be anything like that. You didn’t even manage “showed up every day”. You were not even in the same solar system as “transparent and honest”. And America is worse off for your efforts. Regards, Reality ---
**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:** [June 14, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41292 "2019-06-14T16:48:02Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I posted this over in the MPSIMS thread on Sanders but it belongs here too. > > Sarah Huckabee Sanders would like to be remembered as “[transparent and honest](https://boingboing.net/2019/06/14/sarah-sanders-hopes-shell-be.html)”: > > Dear Sarah, > > It will not be that. It will not be anything like that. You didn’t even manage “showed up every day”. You were not even in the same solar system as “transparent and honest”. And America is worse off for your efforts. > > Regards, > > Reality “Transparent” only applies if it means \*you can see right through her and there’s nothing there. \*:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41293 "2019-06-14T17:42:06Z")
“Transparent” only can describe the lies. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41294 "2019-06-14T17:57:20Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I posted this over in the MPSIMS thread on Sanders but it belongs here too. > > Sarah Huckabee Sanders would like to be remembered as “[transparent and honest](https://boingboing.net/2019/06/14/sarah-sanders-hopes-shell-be.html)”: Also as a svelte blonde with preternaturally symmetrical features and the enchanting, mellifluous voice of a Siren. Best of luck, Sarah! ---
**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:** [June 14, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41295 "2019-06-14T18:21:32Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > June 13, 2019 > Rick Wiles says that Impossible Burgers and other meatless hamburger products are a Satanic plot to change humans’ DNA so they can’t be classified as human any more, and thus can’t be saved. > [Christian TV host: Vegetarian hamburgers are a ‘Luciferian’ plot to change human DNA – DeadState](https://deadstate.org/christian-tv-host-vegetarian-hamburgers-are-lucifarian-plot-to-change-human-dnafbrefreshforce/) At least he believes there’s such a thing as DNA. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41296 "2019-06-14T19:38:54Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > From the article: “We’re asking for a normal lifestyle of a husband and wife and kids, sitting around a dinner table > [li]," he said. "But somehow, we’re the ones who are weird.”[/li][\* or else death] No one has yet poked the obvious hole here … you want a normal lifestyle, with a husband and a wife and kids around a dinner table? Yeah, so? Go ahead. Who’s stopping you? Have a normal lifestyle with a husband, a wife, 2.5 kids, a dog, a cat and a gold fish and go ahead and put a white picket fence around your dinner table while you’re at it for anybody gives a shit. But don’t tell me who I have to sit around a dinner table with. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41297 "2019-06-14T19:56:32Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > you want a normal lifestyle, with a husband and a wife and kids around a dinner table? Yeah, so? Go ahead. Who’s stopping you? Have a normal lifestyle with a husband, a wife, 2.5 kids, a dog, a cat and a gold fish and go ahead and put a white picket fence around your dinner table while you’re at it for anybody gives a shit. But don’t tell me who I have to sit around a dinner table with. Stealing for Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41298 "2019-06-14T20:01:47Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > No one has yet poked the obvious hole here … you want a normal lifestyle, with a husband and a wife and kids around a dinner table? Yeah, so? Go ahead. Who’s stopping you? Have a normal lifestyle with a husband, a wife, 2.5 kids, a dog, a cat and a gold fish and go ahead and put a white picket fence around your dinner table while you’re at it for anybody gives a shit. But don’t tell me who I have to sit around a dinner table with. Exactly. Sounds like they want to influence everyone into thinking that families don’t have two dads or transgender kids. What would they do if they get their husband/wife/kids dinner table and years go by and one kid discovers they’re gay. Can they no longer be at the table? Can they marry the same sex and adopt children? Will those who oppose come and sit at the gay son’s/daughter’s table with THEIR family when they get older? It’s bullshit wishful thinking for them. If they teach that gay is wrong then, magically (or with the help of Jeebus), their kids who might turn out gay will simply go straight, 'cause you know, it’s a “choice”, right? I can’t even debate these idiots directly. Not unless they say what they mean: “Homosexuality is wrong and stupid and we won’t accept it.” If that were their motto, at least there’s a point for honesty instead of lying with that fucking book as evidence. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2019, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41299 "2019-06-14T21:29:06Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Sarah Huckabee Sanders would like to be remembered as “[transparent and honest](https://boingboing.net/2019/06/14/sarah-sanders-hopes-shell-be.html)” > [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Also as a svelte blonde with preternaturally symmetrical features and the enchanting, mellifluous voice of a Siren. An air raid siren, maybe… ---
**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:** [June 15, 2019, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41300 "2019-06-15T00:03:03Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I posted this over in the MPSIMS thread on Sanders but it belongs here too. > Sarah Huckabee Sanders would like to be remembered as “[transparent and honest](https://boingboing.net/2019/06/14/sarah-sanders-hopes-shell-be.html)”: > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by SHS > > I hope that [the way I am remembered] will be that I showed up every day and I did the very best job that I could to put forward the president’s message … to do the best job that I could to answer questions. To be transparent and honest throughout that process and do everything I could to make America a little better that day than it was the day before. Look out! Run! The White House Delusional Derangement is catching…and it’s _gone airborne!_ ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41301 "2019-06-15T03:56:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn and other top Republicans urged a “no” vote, saying a union could cause economic harm. Blackburn said attempts to unionize will harm workers, adding, “We don’t need union bosses in Detroit telling Tennessee what’s best for our workers.” [Yeah… that’s not how unions work](https://apnews.com/69fe70c9471048fe8da74076f715fec4). Not surprised that a Republican would lie; just noting and refuting it. ETA: I can’t believe they got 57 people to vote against their own interests. [shakes head in exasperation] ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41302 "2019-06-15T12:11:05Z")
[More from Florida](https://www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne-brevard-republican-jokes-orlando-protesters-20190614-ijetn36d6jedzed3zoim3r7ft4-story.html) (sorry, the place still astonishes me - maybe I just haven’t lived here long enough yet). The guy can’t deny posting it, so he claims it was a joke. > [@](#): > > A Republican Brevard County commissioner jokingly responded to Facebook comments about running over protesters outside President Donald Trump’s rally in Orlando, writing he “wouldn’t recommend using a snow plow.” > > Bryan Lober, who represents District 2 on the Brevard County Commission and has an office in Merritt Island, added he’d “look the other way” if Brevard Democratic Chair Stacey Patel had an abortion because “her litter” would have no work ethic. > … > > Below, Bob Shafer commented, “Word of wisdom to the protesters, Beware of Dodge Chargers!” > > A counter-protester at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in August 2017, Heather Heyer, was struck and killed by a Dodge Challenger driven by right wing rally goer James Alex Fields, who was later convicted of first-degree murder, hit and run and eight counts of malicious wounding. > > Colby Karen responded to Shafer’s comment, “If you hit one back up and go again. (just kidding)” For a little context, in the wake of Charlottesville, > [@](#): > > There have been several attempts to shield drivers who hit protesters “unintentionally,” including in North Dakota, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. > > Two Republican legislators in Florida, state Sen. George Gainer and Rep. Jayer Williamson, had filed a bill in 2017 that sought to protect any driver "who unintentionally causes injury or death to a person who obstructs or interferes with the regular flow of vehicular traffic.” That bill failed to pass. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41303 "2019-06-15T18:05:43Z")
Updated 06.15.19 Alex Jones is trying to imply that the Sandy Hook families who are suing him planted child porn on his servers. > **[Alex Jones Offers $1M Reward After Alleged ‘Malware’ Attack That He Says...](https://www.thedailybeast.com/alex-jones-offers-dollar1m-reward-after-alleged-malware-attack-that-he-says-planted-child-porn-on-his-servers?fbclid=IwAR0TVACKtJyiaNSDIv28HZlEaByWZU2rzP-ukjQySATiCfsoV80OmGo-FvQ)** > > The conspiracy theorist appeared to suggest someone tied to the Sandy Hook families framed him. “I am so sick of their filth and living off the dead kids of Sandy Hook,” he said. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41304 "2019-06-15T18:21:36Z")
Is that a confession that there is, in fact, child porn on his servers? Enough probable cause for a search? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2064) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2066)