# 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:** 2091
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41805 "2019-08-12T12:56:54Z")
Ok, it’s not totally Republican as he’s not running for anything (at the moment) and his politicval affiliation isn’t mentioned, but wanna bet he’s not a Trump-voter? > **['Straight pride' parade organizer accidentally calls own coalition a...](https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/straight-pride-parade-organizer-accidentally-calls-own-coalition-a-peaceful-racist-group-145534399.html)** > > "We're a totally peaceful racist group," the National Straight Pride coalition head said, to laughter from the crowd. > [@](#): > > At a crowded city council meeting, where dozens gathered to protest a “straight pride” parade planned to take place in Modesto, Calif., the organizer of the event made an unfortunate gaffe while arguing his case. As he was met with jeers during his time at the podium, the head of the National Straight Pride Coalition said his organization was a “totally peaceful racist group.” > [@](#): > > “You attacked us as racists,” Grundmann said, pointing at Ah You. "You pulled the race card to justify attacks against us in that park. When they come, you’re going to turn right around and say we deserved it. > > “We haven’t done anything. We’re a totally peaceful racist group.” Ahem. ---
**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 12, 2019, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41806 "2019-08-12T20:38:09Z")
QAnon crank Liz Crokin: > [@](#): > > “Jeffrey Epstein did not commit suicide,” Crokin said in video clip flagged by Right Wing Watch. “I can guarantee you that 100 percent.” > > “If Jeffrey Epstein is dead, I believe that it possibly could have been an execution, and I believe he possibly could have already faced a military tribunal and been executed,” she said. > > Crokin added that she also thinks the same thing happened to John McCain and George H.W. Bush. > > “So, if he is dead, the good guys, the white hats, they already got all the evidence they needed, they already got all the testimony that they needed to prosecute others and if he is dead, I believe he did go through a military tribunal and was executed,” she continued. > > According to Crokin, another possibility is that Epstein’s death was a set up. > > “The theory is that the good guys knew that the Clinton mafia would try to take Jeffrey Epstein out. The theory is that the white hats allowed Jeffrey Epstein to be a sitting duck and allowed the Clinton mafia to knock him off in a sting operation so they could bust the Clintons in the act.” > **[Right-wing ‘journalist’: Jeffrey Epstein’s death was a ‘sting operation’ to...](https://deadstate.org/right-wing-journalist-jeffrey-epsteins-death-was-a-sting-operation-to-catch-clintons-in-the-act-of-killing-him/)** ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41807 "2019-08-12T20:58:01Z")
So, the guy who runs against Rep. Maxine Waters and loses badly every time has turned running into a form of wingnut welfare. But that is being threatened so he may have hired crazy liar Jacob Wohl to harass his ex in order to cover for his own crazy antics. It’s quite a mess: > **[Did a Far-Right Star Recruit Jacob Wohl to Terrorize Women?](https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-a-far-right-star-recruit-jacob-wohl-to-terrorize-women)** > > “I’ll make it my mission to torture you so much that you end up killing yourself,” reads a text message from a phone number belonging to notorious smear merchant Jacob Wohl. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2019, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41808 "2019-08-12T21:48:34Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > QAnon crank Liz Crokin: > > [Right-wing ‘journalist’: Jeffrey Epstein’s death was a ‘sting operation’ to catch Clintons in the act of killing him – DeadState](https://deadstate.org/right-wing-journalist-jeffrey-epsteins-death-was-a-sting-operation-to-catch-clintons-in-the-act-of-killing-him) From the “You Can’t Make This Shit Up” Department. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41809 "2019-08-12T22:51:56Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > From the “You Can’t Make This Shit Up” Department. :dubious: Of course you can make it up - she did. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41810 "2019-08-13T02:31:48Z")
[Better keep your day job, Sonny.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-s-secretary-of-agriculture-tells-joke-about-whining-farmers-to-room-full-of-farmers-gets-boo-d/ar-AAFHXEb?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580&fbclid=IwAR2AYtUa_3fKO11W6BLD7_rZ3RUwov_Fu26twcO9CY_rq9vbd_ZqTIkdYV8) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue cracked a joke that American farmers “whine” about Trump’s trade war with China and got laughs as he intended but also boo’s from audience members that seemingly found it insensitive. > > “I had a farmer tell me this in Pennsylvania,” Perdue said at a farm show in Minnesota last Wednesday, according to Agri-Pulse. “He said, ‘What do you call two farmers in a basement?’ I said ‘I don’t know, what do you call them?’” > > Perdue said the farmer said: “A whine cellar.” > > There was laughter but boo’s came as some members of the crowd did not find Perdue’s joke funny, just two days after China declared it would no longer buy any American agricultural products to hit back at Trump for imposing an additional 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41811 "2019-08-13T02:47:38Z")
Saying that playing violent video games leads to shooting people is like saying that watching porn leads to getting laid. ---
**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 13, 2019, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41812 "2019-08-13T03:10:09Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Saying that playing violent video games leads to shooting people is like saying that watching porn leads to getting laid. Wait, what? it _doesn’t_? ---
**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:** [August 13, 2019, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41813 "2019-08-13T03:22:33Z")
I only ever end up with pizza. ---
**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 13, 2019, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41814 "2019-08-13T05:02:52Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > [Better keep your day job, Sonny.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-s-secretary-of-agriculture-tells-joke-about-whining-farmers-to-room-full-of-farmers-gets-boo-d/ar-AAFHXEb?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580&fbclid=IwAR2AYtUa_3fKO11W6BLD7_rZ3RUwov_Fu26twcO9CY_rq9vbd_ZqTIkdYV8) I thoroughly enjoyed reading that link. First off, it said Trump’s petulance-driven tariffs (the trade war he crafted out of thin air) has “led to farmers filing bankruptcy at never-before-seen rates”. That means they’re going bankrupt fast than during the Great Depression. Oh, and where was the whining farmer in that story from? He’s from North Dakota where 63% of the voters voted for Trump in 2016. Well, maybe you morons shouldn’t’ve voted that way, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41815 "2019-08-13T05:56:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Crokin added that she also thinks the same thing happened to John McCain and George H.W. Bush. Sure, because it’s so implausible for 81-year-olds with brain cancer and 94-year-olds with other health problems to die without somebody assassinating or executing them. ---
**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 13, 2019, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41816 "2019-08-13T06:02:51Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Sure, because it’s so implausible for 81-year-olds with brain cancer and 94-year-olds with other health problems to die without somebody assassinating or executing them. I hope that my life is so full and interesting that, at the age of 94, I will die at the hands of either an assassin or a jealous lover. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2019, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41817 "2019-08-13T06:14:08Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > I hope that my life is so full and interesting that, at the age of 94, I will die at the hands of either an assassin or a jealous lover. I’m going for an assassin HIRED BY a jealous lover. But the assassin falls in love with me,and we run away together. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41818 "2019-08-13T15:28:05Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Sure, because it’s so implausible for 81-year-olds with brain cancer and 94-year-olds with other health problems to die without somebody assassinating or executing them. Well, obviously. I mean, look at Jimmy Carter. He allegedly had some kind of brain cancer, but he continues to build houses with his own hands, and he is just about six weeks from turning 95. So, those other guys clearly were offed. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41819 "2019-08-13T15:46:07Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I’m going for an assassin HIRED BY a jealous lover. But the assassin falls in love with me,and we run away together. I’m intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your youtube channel. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41820 "2019-08-13T16:11:19Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Oh, and where was the whining farmer in that story from? He’s from North Dakota where 63% of the voters voted for Trump in 2016. Well, maybe you morons shouldn’t’ve voted that way, huh? It’s Obama’s fault. And anyway, things would have been worse under Hillary, because she would have stolen their guns, and forced all of their cows to have abortions. ---
**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 13, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41821 "2019-08-13T18:10:06Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > Oh, and where was the whining farmer in that story from? He’s from North Dakota where 63% of the voters voted for Trump in 2016. Well, maybe you morons shouldn’t’ve voted that way, huh? > > It’s Obama’s fault. And anyway, things would have been worse under Hillary, because she would have stolen their guns, and forced all of their cows to have abortions. I laughed so hard, a huge booger shot halfway across my living room. Oddly enough, that’s quite fitting given the subject of this thread. ---
**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 13, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41822 "2019-08-13T20:04:42Z")
Fox host mocks climate change believers because they want to fight the weather. [https://theguardiansofdemocracy.com/fox-host-mocks-young-americans-who-believe-climate-change-is-a-real-threat-they-want-to-fight-the-weather](https://theguardiansofdemocracy.com/fox-host-mocks-young-americans-who-believe-climate-change-is-a-real-threat-they-want-to-fight-the-weather) ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41823 "2019-08-13T20:52:05Z")
I suspect these shills know very well they’re pedaling lies and don’t give one single fuck what the consequences are as long as they get paid ---
**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:** [August 14, 2019, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41824 "2019-08-14T03:16:20Z")
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