# 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:** 2087
**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:** [August 6, 2019, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41725 "2019-08-06T16:40:57Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > In addition to everything else SH doesn’t understand, he doesn’t understand volunteering. Not having to pay taxes = getting paid. Really, other than _saying vile shit_, does SH understand anything? Plus, you’re not really retired if you’re still doing the same sort of job for free. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41726 "2019-08-06T19:29:09Z")
08.06.19 A group of teenaged boys wearing Team Mitch t shirts posted a photo of themselves molesting and choking a cutout of AOC. Mitch’s campaign manager says, basically, “Boys will be boys.” > **[McConnell Campaign Responds to Viral Photo of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Cutout...](https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-campaign-manager-boys-will-be-boys-over-photo-of-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cutout-being-groped)** > > McConnell’s spox initially said the teens are being “demonized” for being involved in GOP politics but condemned the image. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41727 "2019-08-06T19:43:47Z")
> [@](#): > > …In addition to everything else SH doesn’t understand, he doesn’t understand volunteering. Not having to pay taxes = getting paid. Really, other than saying vile shit, does SH understand anything?.. Way I see it, Hannity is treading water furiously, trying to stay ahead of “Buttfucker” Carlson in the Trump adoration race. Bet he dreams of Rachel Maddow and wakes up screaming. Prolly not, but I’m just gonna go ahead and think it anyway. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2019, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41728 "2019-08-07T00:13:20Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > The thing that struck me about the speech yesterday is 1) he was obviously reading something someone else wrote, and 2) he sounded like he was reading in a hostage tape. Other than the word “monster,” he had no inflection whatsoever or any indication he understood the words he was reading. He understood that he had to make it clear to his fans that he didn’t mean one single word of it. (Mission accomplished, I’d say.) ---
**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:** [August 7, 2019, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41729 "2019-08-07T00:21:21Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Way I see it, Hannity is treading water furiously, trying to stay ahead of “Buttfucker” Carlson in the Trump adoration race. Bet he dreams of Rachel Maddow and wakes up screaming. Prolly not, but I’m just gonna go ahead and think it anyway. The one where he’s married to her is particularly frightening to him. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41730 "2019-08-07T00:35:31Z")
I for one can’t wait for the day his neck finishes swallowing his head. I hope it happens when he’s on the air. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41731 "2019-08-07T00:39:02Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > I for one can’t wait for the day his neck finishes swallowing his head. I hope it happens when he’s on the air. Something like [this](http://i25.tinypic.com/11vl20i.jpg)? ---
**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:** [August 7, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41732 "2019-08-07T01:33:30Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > The thing that struck me about the speech yesterday is 1) he was obviously reading something someone else wrote, and 2) he sounded like he was reading in a hostage tape. Other than the word “monster,” he had no inflection whatsoever or any indication he understood the words he was reading. Don’t most people emphasize their own name when reading a block of text[del]s[/del] out loud? > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Plus, you’re not really retired if you’re still doing the same sort of job for free. [Busman’s holiday](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/busman-s-holiday) should not be how the public is protected. Also, ISTR somone posting a thread about “civilians pretending to protect” someone. This latest “idea” would work no better than those morons’ so-called [del]presidenting[/del] thinking. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2019, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41733 "2019-08-07T02:01:04Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [url=[BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY Definition & Usage Examples | Dictionary.com](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/busman-s-holiday)]Busman’s holiday should not be how the public is protected. [/quote] Awesome; thanks for introducing me to the term! > [@Monty](#): > > Also, ISTR somone posting a thread about “civilians pretending to protect” someone. This latest “idea” would work no better than those morons’ so-called [del]presidenting[/del] thinking. You mean when those militia idiots thought they’d go stand guard outside the National Guard places a few years back? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41734 "2019-08-07T02:12:58Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [Busman’s holiday](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/busman-s-holiday) should not be how the public is protected. Also, how in the world would every floor of every school and mall and courthouse and “pretty much anywhere the public is” be staffed with “retired police and military” during the whole time the public is there? If there are about [2.2 military retirees](https://www.statista.com/statistics/217354/forecast-number-of-military-retirees-in-the-us/) in the US, and let’s say 1 million police retirees (based on the stat of [three-quarters of a million](https://www.quora.com/How-many-police-officers-are-in-the-US) sworn police officers in the US), that’s under 3.5 million people. Assume that as many as 2 million of them are sufficiently physically fit, competent, and willing to spend 15 hours per week guarding public places (which is probably a significant overestimate). Schools and shopping malls in the US add up to about 250,000 locations. Add in about 25,000 public parks and courthouses, a few thousand Walmarts, a few dozen thousand supermarkets, some hundred thousand fast food places, about the same number of libraries, a few thousand theaters and stadiums, all the public transit stations and vehicles, about 350,000 places of worship, and we get “pretty much anywhere the public is” amounting to at least one million separate places where you need at least one public guardian. If you’re going to guard all those places for a very conservatively estimated average of 60 hours per week, at 15 hours per week per individual you’re going to need 4 million individuals even to assign one to each location, and never mind “every floor of every school”. The entire police and military retiree population you’re looking at doesn’t even have 4 million individuals. And all these folks are supposedly going to do about one-third of a full-time job, a potentially very responsible and dangerous job, just in exchange for saving a few thousand bucks in taxes? (Which in the aggregate is still several billion dollars, not an inconsiderable sum in public revenue.) And so are all the people who schedule and supervise them? And finally, we’ve seen in the recent events that a mass shooter can still murder multiple people even if he’s neutralized in less than a minute. This whole scheme is insultingly unworkable and irresponsible fantasy from beginning to end. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41735 "2019-08-07T02:17:17Z")
So a typical Republican idea? ---
**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:** [August 7, 2019, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41736 "2019-08-07T03:04:13Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > [Busman’s holiday](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/busman-s-holiday) should not be how the public is protected. > > Awesome; thanks for introducing me to the term! No problem; it’s one of my favorite terms. > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > Also, ISTR somone posting a thread about “civilians pretending to protect” someone. This latest “idea” would work no better than those morons’ so-called [del]presidenting[/del] thinking. > > You mean when those militia idiots thought they’d go stand guard outside the National Guard places a few years back? [Yep! 😃](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=763085) ---
**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:** [August 7, 2019, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41737 "2019-08-07T03:16:44Z")
Has anyone posted about this: [Prosecutor: Man body-slammed boy after national anthem snub](https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-man-assaulted-boy-kept-174532337.html)? Click on “view reactions” and you will see a “reaction” from your humble Monty, aka Chip, at the top of the top reactions (last count: 171 replies, 1590 up-votes, and 162 down-votes). And, yes, I’m absolutely sure the moron who assaulted the kid is a republican. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2019, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41738 "2019-08-07T03:51:58Z")
Can somebody explain what all of this means? Cyber security expert Chris Vickery says that an internet provider, advertising itself as subpoena-resistant email, is physically located in Russia. And that Mitch McConnell, Newt Gingrich, Ben Carson, and other Republicans, are using their services. > ---
**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:** [August 7, 2019, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41739 "2019-08-07T04:15:08Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Can somebody explain what all of this means? Cyber security expert Chris Vickery says that an internet provider, advertising itself as subpoena-resistant email, is physically located in Russia. And that Mitch McConnell, Newt Gingrich, Ben Carson, and other Republicans, are using their services. > [https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1158455886509035520](https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1158455886509035520) So, I’m not entirely sure, but one concern, as you point out, is that the Russian hosting company would be under no obligation to obey a US subpoena. So if McConnell, et al., are up to no good, this limits the ability of US investigators to get evidence. Second, the fact that it’s in Russia means that it’s easy for _Russian_ officials to get their hands on the contents. So, whatever the Republicans are writing about with those email accounts, they are more concerned about Americans seeing it than they are about Russians. There aren’t many innocent explanations for that. Also, hypocrisy and all, but no one cares about that. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41740 "2019-08-07T06:35:19Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Can somebody explain what all of this means? Cyber security expert Chris Vickery says that an internet provider, advertising itself as subpoena-resistant email, is physically located in Russia. And that Mitch McConnell, Newt Gingrich, Ben Carson, and other Republicans, are using their services. > [https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1158455886509035520](https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1158455886509035520) I’m having trouble believing this. Not that I would put it past them, just seems too obvious. I can’t think of any way this isn’t treasonous and therefore too obvious. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2019, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41741 "2019-08-07T09:19:02Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > I’m having trouble believing this. > Not that I would put it past them, just seems too obvious. > I can’t think of any way this isn’t treasonous and therefore too obvious. Who’s going to do anything about it? ---
**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:** [August 7, 2019, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41742 "2019-08-07T10:01:24Z")
Don’t even try to tell me that [today’s republican party is _not_ nazis](https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/nebraska-republican-party-john-mccollister-213137432.html): > [@](#): > > Nebraska GOP Tells State Senator To Quit Party After He Condemns White Supremacy How long before they trot out [this](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKeTMHoU8AAH5JV.jpg) as their emblem? ---
**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:** [August 7, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41743 "2019-08-07T12:29:58Z")
Nebraska ?! That’s not even vaguely Southern, is it ? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41744 "2019-08-07T13:40:26Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Has anyone posted about this: [Prosecutor: Man body-slammed boy after national anthem snub](https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-man-assaulted-boy-kept-174532337.html)? I find this aspect amusing: > [@](#): > > Brockway is a registered violent offender after being convicted of a 2010 charge of assault with a weapon. District Judge John Larson gave him a 10-year suspended sentence. If only he’d waited another year, he could have slammed the punk and gotten a slap on the wrist. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2086) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2088)