# 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:** 2074
**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:** [July 7, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41465 "2019-07-07T17:51:51Z")
7/6/19 Right wing activists showed up at the police station of the town in New York where the Clintons live, armed with documents demanding the police arrest her. The person at the desk politely took to documents and said they would hand them over to the town prosecutor. [Right-Wing Activists File 'Formal Complaint' with Hillary Clinton's Local Police Department, Demanding Her Arrest](https://www.newsweek.com/right-wing-activists-file-formal-complaint-hillary-clintons-local-police-department-demanding-1447906)? ---
**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:** [July 7, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41466 "2019-07-07T19:16:53Z")
[It proved to be a stupid idea for Fox News to film a live segment in a bar filled with American patriots.](https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1147928668087443456?s=19) I’m pretty sure this wasn’t part of their conception for the segment. 😃 ---
**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:** [July 8, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41467 "2019-07-08T15:58:53Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > 7/6/19 > Right wing activists showed up at the police station of the town in New York where the Clintons live, armed with documents demanding the police arrest her. The person at the desk politely took to documents and said they would hand them over to the town prosecutor. > [Right-Wing Activists File 'Formal Complaint' with Hillary Clinton's Local Police Department, Demanding Her Arrest](https://www.newsweek.com/right-wing-activists-file-formal-complaint-hillary-clintons-local-police-department-demanding-1447906)? > [@](#): > > “Some of us are veterans and we swore to defend the Constitution from domestic enemies,” the activist told the officer… But Trump gets a pass. IOWARDI ---
**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:** [July 8, 2019, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41468 "2019-07-08T22:09:18Z")
[Racist Mitch McConnell lets world know he is racist & he doesn’t know what the American flag looks like](https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/mitch-mcconnell-nike-betsy-ross-flag/2019/07/04/id/923344/?gdpr_consent=&gdpr=false): > [@](#): > > Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Thursday tweeted a picture of the “Betsy Ross” American flag after Nike encountered controversy for using the design on a shoe earlier this week. > > McConnell tweeted a picture of the flag Thursday morning, with the caption “Happy Fourth of July!” > [@](#): > > McConnell criticized the move in comments to reporters while in Kentucky on Tuesday. > > “If we’re in a political environment where the American flag has become controversial to Americans, I think we’ve got a problem,” he said, according to the Lexington Herald Leader. That’s not the American flag, you racist piece of shit. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41469 "2019-07-08T22:12:52Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [Racist Mitch McConnell lets world know he is racist & he doesn’t know what the American flag looks like](https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/mitch-mcconnell-nike-betsy-ross-flag/2019/07/04/id/923344/?gdpr_consent=&gdpr=false): > > That’s not the American flag, you racist piece of shit. That was one of the flags that flew when Americans still owned other people as property. Fuck that flag. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41470 "2019-07-08T22:16:28Z")
Also, aspects of the American flag have been controversial to Americans lots of times in the past. Is it okay to burn the American flag? Are we being unpatriotic if we don’t wear an American flag lapel pin? Is it disrespectful to kneel when saluting the American flag during the national anthem? Trying to make out that such controversies are somehow impermissible or intolerable in American society is exactly the sort of scaremongering authoritarian bullshit that McConnell would pull. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41471 "2019-07-08T22:33:47Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > They did! And they all forgot about it as soon as they needed new sneakers. Which was right after they burned them in protest. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2019, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41472 "2019-07-08T22:37:53Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > That was one of the flags that flew when Americans still owned other people as property. Fuck that flag. I still don’t understand why Nike and GOPers don’t use our current flag. Get with the times, at least. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2019, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41473 "2019-07-08T22:42:07Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > I still don’t understand why Nike and GOPers don’t use our current flag. Get with the times, at least. “Make America 1777 again” This is the time they long for. No votes for women. Slavery. White men hold all the power. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41474 "2019-07-08T23:27:09Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > I still don’t understand why Nike and GOPers don’t use our current flag. Get with the times, at least. That’s the last thing they want to do. Everybody’s actually equal? Can’t have that! ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41475 "2019-07-08T23:33:47Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > I still don’t understand why Nike and GOPers don’t use our current flag. Get with the times, at least. Can’t speak for Nike, but as for the GOPers : because then it wouldn’t work as a dog whistle, nor would it troll people who grok why the Betsy Ross flag is problematic of course. Pissing off half of the country is a good thing for a politician and leader you see ; because a polarized, uncompromising country where one half hates the other and does everything it can to antagonize it is a healthy, strong country united and pulling together towards shared goals and prosperity. Or, possibly, because a strongly polarized country is too busy yelling at each other to notice you fucking them _all_ up the arse, nor united enough to do anything about it. \*Divide et impera \*(or in this particular case, _Divide et rapina_) One or the other. (as for Nike, my cynical view coincides with what others have said in the thread : the controversy gives them cred boost with the left while also selling “rare”, “protest” sneakers to the Tiki torch crowd at a hefty markup ; and the whole thing generates free publicity and interest. There is no principle or cause that can’t be prostituted and monetized under capitalism.) ---
**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:** [July 9, 2019, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41476 "2019-07-09T04:10:02Z")
July 8, 2019 Kris Kobach, former Governor of Kansas who headed Individual 1’s attempt to remove as many people as possible from the voting rolls, especially if their names didn’t match what was on the registration forms, misspelled his name on his candidacy for Senate documents. > **[Kris Kobach, who claimed misspelled names indicated voter fraud, misspells...](https://theweek.com/speedreads/851500/kris-kobach-who-claimed-misspelled-names-indicated-voter-fraud-misspells-name-senate-race-registration)** ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2019, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41477 "2019-07-09T11:54:15Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > July 8, 2019 > Kris Kobach, former Governor of Kansas who headed Individual 1’s attempt to remove as many people as possible from the voting rolls, especially if their names didn’t match what was on the registration forms, misspelled his name on his candidacy for Senate documents. > [Kris Kobach, who claimed misspelled names indicated voter fraud, misspells own name in Senate race registration | The Week](https://theweek.com/speedreads/851500/kris-kobach-who-claimed-misspelled-names-indicated-voter-fraud-misspells-name-senate-race-registration) I wonder what his favorite color is. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41478 "2019-07-10T19:56:15Z")
Pence, part two [Candidate: Woman reporter must be joined by male colleague](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/candidate-woman-reporter-must-be-joined-by-male-colleague/ar-AAE8BJJ) > [@](#): > > He said, however: “It’s unprofessional to be alone with a woman who’s not my wife.” Please God, let him be squashed in the Primary! ---
**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:** [July 10, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41479 "2019-07-10T20:40:47Z")
A Vox report on just one day in the life of Fox News. [One day encapsulated everything that’s wrong with Fox News - Vox](https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2019/7/10/20688767/fox-news-hannity-seth-rich-russia-tucker-carlson-ilhan-omar)? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41480 "2019-07-10T20:53:18Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Pence, part two > > [Candidate: Woman reporter must be joined by male colleague](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/candidate-woman-reporter-must-be-joined-by-male-colleague/ar-AAE8BJJ) > > Please God, let him be squashed in the Primary! This sounds illegal, but it’s Mississippi. Maybe discrimination on the basis of sex is just fine. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41481 "2019-07-10T21:04:11Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Pence, part two > > [Candidate: Woman reporter must be joined by male colleague](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/candidate-woman-reporter-must-be-joined-by-male-colleague/ar-AAE8BJJ) See, it’s the candidate’s unwillingness to take responsibility for his own chaperonage that really grinds my gears: > [@](#): > > A Republican candidate for Mississippi governor says he would not let a woman journalist follow him while campaigning unless she was accompanied by a male colleague. […] > > Foster said Wednesday that he won’t be alone with any woman other than his wife, even while working or campaigning, because of the possible public perception that he was doing something to hurt his marriage. He said being alone with a man is no problem. […] > > Foster, in response to a question from AP, said he could not ensure that one of his own male campaign staffers would always be with him if Campbell or another woman journalist were to ride along with him to ask questions for reporting. Dumbfuck, it’s not other people’s responsibility to devote extra resources to your personal supervision requirements. If you as a public servant want to ensure that you’re never alone with a woman, then it’s **your** responsibility to provide your own chaperone to keep you from ever being alone with a woman. (And said chaperone should be paid from your own money rather than taxpayer funds, too.) If your cheap ass wants to go through your professional life behaving like a normal unsupervised adult except when you might end up alone with a woman, and you impede said woman’s doing her job properly because you refuse to be alone with her, then you are being a sexist and discriminatory piece of shit. (Also, considering the revelations that have come out about a lot of supposedly heterosexual married Republican politicians, I think you’re kidding yourself when you imagine that you run no risk of being suspected of adulterous activities when you’re alone with a man.) Actually, I have no intrinsic personal objection to any public servant having religious scruples about being alone with a member of the opposite sex, in and of itself. But if they feel that way, it’s on them to arrange for their own chaperonage in a way that does not discriminate against members of the opposite sex whom they encounter in the course of their duties (and also does not burden the taxpayer with the cost of complying with their scruples). ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41482 "2019-07-10T21:21:12Z")
I don’t see how the male colleague changes the perception he’s afraid of. I’m just assuming he’s into MMF threesomes. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2019, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41483 "2019-07-10T21:21:53Z")
And here I thought the GOP was the party that kept saying “no Sharia law!” ---
**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:** [July 10, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41484 "2019-07-10T21:42:39Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > And here I thought the GOP was the party that kept saying “no Sharia law!” You must’ve misheard. “No Muslim Sharia law”. Evangelical fundied out Christian Sharia law on the other hand “is what this country was founded on”, don’t you know? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2073) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2075)