# 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:** 2082
**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:** [July 26, 2019, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41625 "2019-07-26T03:37:55Z")
PTSD. Sounds good. Congress is desperately deficient in unstable people. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41626 "2019-07-26T05:27:55Z")
Stole 279 items in one day, valued at $2,000? I don’t even…I mean, da fuq? ---
**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 26, 2019, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41627 "2019-07-26T08:41:24Z")
peanuts counted individually ? I got nothin’ ---
**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:** [July 26, 2019, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41628 "2019-07-26T13:11:57Z")
The link says “Stella was accused of stealing 279 items from Target totaling over $2,000 on Jan. 8 this year.” I’m not sure if they meant she stole everything on Jan. 8, or she was accused on Jan. 8, meaning she could have stolen all those items on an extended time period. Or maybe she went in with an extra large purse, scraped all the knickknacks off a shelf into it, and walked out. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41629 "2019-07-26T13:15:46Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Stole 279 items in one day, valued at $2,000? I don’t even…I mean, da fuq? In the business, we call that a “cart push”. The thief fills up a shopping cart, waits for an opportune moment, and nonchalantly walks out the door with it hoping that staff and/or security don’t notice them. We caught one at the store I work at that was worth $1,000 a few years back. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41630 "2019-07-26T13:28:31Z")
Ah! So, stealth, then? ---
**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:** [July 26, 2019, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41631 "2019-07-26T13:30:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > In the business, we call that a “cart push”. The thief fills up a shopping cart, waits for an opportune moment, and nonchalantly walks out the door with it hoping that staff and/or security don’t notice them. > > We caught one at the store I work at that was worth $1,000 a few years back. > [@elucidator](#): > > Ah! So, stealth, then? Sounds more like sport. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41632 "2019-07-26T13:35:18Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Ah! So, stealth, then? There’s stealing, and then there’s stealthing. The best stealthers can do both at once. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41633 "2019-07-26T13:49:21Z")
I can do neither. Too lazy to work, too chicken to steal. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41634 "2019-07-26T13:55:22Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I can do neither. Too lazy to work, too chicken to steal. Too noisy to stealth? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41635 "2019-07-26T14:34:41Z")
Here we go. Trump’s a crook so I may as well steal too. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41636 "2019-07-26T16:59:52Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > PTSD. Sounds good. Congress is desperately deficient in unstable people. The White House, on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41637 "2019-07-26T17:33:20Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > 07/25/2019 > Family values Republican Tennessee state legislator found on gay dating app Grindr, resigns. > [https://thegailygrind.com/2019/07/25/anti-lgbtq-republican-lawmaker-abruptly-resigns-amid-grindr-hookup-scandal/](https://thegailygrind.com/2019/07/25/anti-lgbtq-republican-lawmaker-abruptly-resigns-amid-grindr-hookup-scandal/) > [@Kobal2](#): > > Whaddaya mean, “found” ? Isn’t the whole point of Grindr to be “found” ? As I understand it, the man went on Grindr with the pseudonym “Mr. Felix Horsecock” but it was “discovered” that his real name is Senator Walter Horsecock. ---
**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 26, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41638 "2019-07-26T18:59:51Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > As I understand it, the man went on Grindr with the pseudonym “Mr. Felix Horsecock” but it was “discovered” that his real name is Senator Walter Horsecock. Of the Ipswich Horsecocks, one presumes ? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41639 "2019-07-26T20:31:57Z")
> [@xenophon41](#): > > Too noisy to stealth? This reminds me of an incident at a Target-ish store where a friend worked: someone tried to steal a basketball by dribbling it out the door, the idea apparently being that it was so obvious he must have paid for it. > [@Ravenman](#): > > As I understand it, the man went on Grindr with the pseudonym “Mr. Felix Horsecock” but it was “discovered” that his real name is Senator Walter Horsecock. Pronounced, of course, “Throatwarbler Mangrove.” ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41640 "2019-07-26T20:50:34Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > As I understand it, the man went on Grindr with the pseudonym “Mr. Felix Horsecock” but it was “discovered” that his real name is Senator Walter Horsecock. Just adding another piece of evidence to the mountain. Evidence that **all** Republicans who are anti-gay family values types are, in fact, self-hating gays. Of course, you can blame them, and/or you can blame the culture that creates them, by teaching them that what they are is an abomination and that they can choose not to be gay. ---
**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 26, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41641 "2019-07-26T20:57:22Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Just adding another piece of evidence to the mountain. > > Evidence that **all** Republicans who are anti-gay family values types are, in fact, self-hating gays. > > Of course, you can blame them, and/or you can blame the culture that creates them, by teaching them that what they are is an abomination and that they can choose not to be gay. As a self-hating bourgeois, I can absolutely blame them. You can’t change who you are or where you were born ; but you can sure as shit choose not to be \*that \*guy. ---
**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 30, 2019, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41642 "2019-07-30T04:22:03Z")
07/29/19 Senator Steve Daines of Montana has introduced a resolution to condemn Socialism. > **[GOP senator introduces resolution to formally condemn socialism](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/455247-gop-senator-introduces-resolution-to-formally-condemn-socialism/)** > > Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) on Monday introduced a resolution condemning socialism, taking to the Senate floor to blast Democratic policies he said would lead to “complete government control.”… ---
**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 30, 2019, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41643 "2019-07-30T09:53:55Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > 07/29/19 > Senator Steve Daines of Montana has introduced a resolution to condemn Socialism. > [https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/455247-gop-senator-introduces-resolution-to-formally-condemn-socialism](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/455247-gop-senator-introduces-resolution-to-formally-condemn-socialism) By which, no doubt, he means anyone who is (a) Democrat, (b) minority, (c) Muslim, or (d) any of the foregoing. Oh, I wonder how he feels about: (e) social security, (g) medicare, or (g) the United States military’s socialist programs (health care, housing, etc.). I see he’s taken a cue card from the lying bastard in the White House: > [@from Rick Kitchen's link](#): > > The resolution claims without evidence that the proposals would “eliminate the private property rights of all people of the United States.” No evidence for the basis of the resolution. I thought these 'pubbies were all about following Christ (yeah, right). Didn’t Christ tell them not to build on a foundation of sand? ---
**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 30, 2019, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41644 "2019-07-30T10:00:14Z")
p.s. This bit is hilarious. > [@from Rick Kitchen's link](#): > > The resolution further calls capitalism “the greatest engine for human advancement in the history of the world, bringing more people out of poverty and into prosperity than any economic model in the history of mankind.” I thought it was the Black Death that did that for Europe, not the economic system. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2081) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2083)