# 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:** 2105
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42089 "2019-09-13T06:11:11Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > It’s already been deleted from the thread in your link. Anybody got a screenshot? There’s a screenshot in the comments ---
**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:** [September 13, 2019, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42090 "2019-09-13T06:19:06Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > It’s already been deleted from the thread in your link. Anybody got a screenshot? How about [this one](https://crooksandliars.com/2019/09/texas-lawmaker-warns-beto-orourke-his-ar)? ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42091 "2019-09-13T15:33:18Z")
Just what I was coming to post about if no one else had. This article has a screenshot too. > **[Twitter removes Texas State Rep's tweet threatening Beto O'Rourke with AR |...](https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/13/politics/beto-orourke-guns-texas-representative-death-threat/index.html)** > > Twitter has removed a Texas state lawmaker's post that was seen as a threat to presidential candidate Beto Rourke for his comments about his plan for a mandatory gun buyback program during Thursday's Democratic debate. Someone who posts a threat like that should be removed from any office they hold but obviously that won’t happen. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42092 "2019-09-13T17:25:08Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > How about [this one](https://crooksandliars.com/2019/09/texas-lawmaker-warns-beto-orourke-his-ar)? Oh, well, he says he has asperrgers syndrome, so that excuses him. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42093 "2019-09-13T18:30:57Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Oh, well, he says he has asperrgers syndrome, so that excuses him. More like he has Asshole Syndrome. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42094 "2019-09-13T18:40:04Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > More like he has Asshole Syndrome. Well, he \*is \*a Republican. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42095 "2019-09-14T02:18:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Individual 1’s spiritual adviser, Paula White, says she has consecrated the White House as holy ground with the superior blood of Jesus. > [Trump Faith Adviser Paula White Dedicates White House as 'Holy Ground' Sanctified by 'The Superior Blood of Jesus' | Right Wing Watch](https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-faith-adviser-paula-white-dedicates-white-house-as-holy-ground-sanctified-by-the-superior-blood-of-jesus/) So there is also _inferior_ blood of Jesus? And perhaps okay-but-no-big-deal blood of Jesus, too? The things I’ve learned since the rise of Trump! > [@Running\_with\_Scissors](#): > > I have never heard of that usage of \*parameter \*until this post. … It was brand-new to me, too. Which leads me to wonder what other weird usage I’ve never heard of that may now be considered to be standard. (On second thought, I don’t want to know.) ---
**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:** [September 14, 2019, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42096 "2019-09-14T02:56:17Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > So there is also _inferior_ blood of Jesus? And perhaps okay-but-no-big-deal blood of Jesus, too? You see, the Catholics get the superior stuff (well, that’s what the local bishop says; _claims_ he flies it in fresh from the Vatican). Baptists get the Purely Metaphorical Grape Juice. Me, I went to a Non-Denominational church until I found out they were getting budget blood by the tanker truckload. > [@](#): > > (On second thought, I don’t want to know.) Best advice I’ve heard all week. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42097 "2019-09-14T02:58:51Z")
Tomi Lahren has to apologize for suggesting that Americans shoot immigrants as they come across the border. > **[Tomi Lahren apologizes for ‘way remarks came out’ on border, Second Amendment](https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/461342-tomi-lahren-apologizes-way-remarks-came-out-border/)** > > Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren apologized Friday after Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro blasted the conservative commenta… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42098 "2019-09-14T03:09:09Z")
> [@Skypist](#): > > Just what I was coming to post about if no one else had. This article has a screenshot too. > > [Twitter removes Texas State Rep's tweet threatening Beto O'Rourke with AR - CNNPolitics](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/09/13/politics/beto-orourke-guns-texas-representative-death-threat/index.html) > > Someone who posts a threat like that should be removed from any office they hold but obviously that won’t happen. Thank you, Rep. Cain, for singlehandedly confirming everyones’ most egregious stereotype about yahoo Texans. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42099 "2019-09-14T03:13:16Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Thank you, Rep. Cain, for singlehandedly confirming everyones’ most egregious stereotype about yahoo Texans. He’s just trying to live up to his name. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42100 "2019-09-14T14:01:58Z")
> [@digs](#): > > You see, the Catholics get the superior stuff (well, that’s what the local bishop says; _claims_ he flies it in fresh from the Vatican). Baptists get the Purely Metaphorical Grape Juice. Me, I went to a Non-Denominational church until I found out they were getting budget blood by the tanker truckload. This probably belongs in the “What I Owe to the Dope” thread instead of here, but things like this are why I love the SDMB. I had never known there were different grades of Jesus blood until I heard about the superior Jesus blood, and now here’s a simple to understand explanation of all the types of Jesus blood. Where else but the Dope can I find such esoteric and ersatz knowledge? ---
**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:** [September 14, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42101 "2019-09-14T14:39:42Z")
Jesus Blood Lite: Transubstantiates Great - Less Filling ---
**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:** [September 14, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42102 "2019-09-14T18:53:12Z")
Does that go well with the gluten-free wafers? ---
**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:** [September 14, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42103 "2019-09-14T20:52:38Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Does that go well with the gluten-free wafers? Ah,but [cannot use gluten-free wafers for the Eucharist](https://cruxnow.com/ap/2017/07/23/catholic-church-bans-gluten-free-communion-wafers/). Guess it’s not really bread if it doesn’t have gluten, huh? The blood, now, as long as it’s red and booze made from grapes, it’s okay. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2019, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42104 "2019-09-14T21:48:03Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Ah,but [cannot use gluten-free wafers for the Eucharist](https://cruxnow.com/ap/2017/07/23/catholic-church-bans-gluten-free-communion-wafers/). Guess it’s not really bread if it doesn’t have gluten, huh? The blood, now, as long as it’s red and booze made from grapes, it’s okay. As a semi-practicing Catholic this kind of stuff shouldn’t surprise me but when the ruling was made I thought it was incredibly stupid ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42105 "2019-09-14T22:39:11Z")
> [@digs](#): > > You see, the Catholics get the superior stuff (well, that’s what the local bishop says; _claims_ he flies it in fresh from the Vatican). Baptists get the Purely Metaphorical Grape Juice. Me, I went to a Non-Denominational church until I found out they were getting budget blood by the tanker truckload. But is it as good as Manischewitz? ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42106 "2019-09-14T23:29:16Z")
If Paula White truly sanctified the White House then Trump would spontaneously combust every time he entered. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42107 "2019-09-14T23:33:26Z")
Lindsay Graham calls for attacks on Iran. > **[Graham: US should consider strike on Iranian oil refineries after attack on...](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/461419-graham-us-should-consider-strike-on-iranian-oil-refineries-after-attack-on/)** > > Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a prominent foreign policy hawk, said the U.S. should consider striking Iranian oil refineries in response to new attacks on Saudi oil refineries by Iranian-backed Hou… ---
**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:** [September 15, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42108 "2019-09-15T00:48:16Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > If Paula White truly sanctified the White House then Trump would spontaneously combust every time he entered. I think we may have to consider the possibility that Paula White’s efforts are not sponsored by Heaven, but by the other place. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2104) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2106)