# 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:** 2116
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42309 "2019-10-04T13:55:22Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > I just idly wonder if the guy really is a Marine; if not, I would think the Corps would issue a denial in ‘proper terms’. shortly. If he is, I suspect his command structure will be _very_ unhappy with him and he’ll be hearing about it from various Captains, Majors and Colonels in due course. If he is a Marine, I’m guessing it is in the sense of “once a Marine, always a Marine”. Surely he is no longer active duty - my understanding is that the Marines are the most selective service so that hopefully nobody quite that clueless got in and stayed in. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42310 "2019-10-04T14:16:17Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > my understanding is that the Marines are the most selective service so that hopefully nobody quite that clueless got in and stayed in. Oooh boy, have I got some bad news for you… ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42311 "2019-10-04T15:44:11Z")
More debunking of Wohl’s latest ridiculous stunt from, of all places, _Rolling Stone_: _**[Elizabeth Warren Accuser ‘Not Up to Caliber’ to Work For Gigolo Agency](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elizabeth-warren-accuser-not-up-to-caliber-to-work-for-gigolo-agency-894637/)**_ _According to the owner of Cowboys4Angels, the Jacob Wohl-fueled conspiracy is — as expected — all lies_ > [@](#): > > On Thursday afternoon, professional far-right trolls Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman held a “press conference” featuring what they promised to be explosive allegations regarding Sen. Elizabeth Warren. In reality, it was a sparsely attended melange of journalists looking for Twitter fodder congregated outside a garage, with a sign saying “Elizabeth Warren: Cougar?” The completely made-up claims were as follows: The improbably named Kelvin Whelly, a former Marine, claimed that last year, Warren had hired him via the male escort agency Cowboys4Angels and engaged in a steamy extramarital affair with him, involving, among other things, lite BDSM and threesomes with busty blondes. A printout distributed during the gathering detailed the allegations, which read like erotica written by a 13-year-old who had seen _Fifty Shades of Grey_ once, and didn’t really get it. > > Because Wohl is a felon who has openly admitted to lying to promote President Donald Trump, no one took the claims seriously, and people on Twitter immediately started taking them apart. There was, however, one correct fact contained therein: Cowboys4Angels is, in fact, a real “elite male companion” agency, which is best known for being featured on the Showtime series _Gigolos_. > > To be clear, the story was nonsense, likely culled from Skinemax plotlines and airport bookstore paperbacks bought by middle-aged health care company consultants traveling to Rochester on business. (The accuser also seemed to not quite buy the act, as he reportedly kept laughing while trying to read his statement.) But the Cowboys4Angels namedrop indicated that at the very least, in terms of their knowledge of softcore premium cable series, Wohl and Burkman had done their homework. > > But the question remained: Was Whelly actually employed at Cowboys4Angels, and did Wohl team up with the agency as part of an elaborate PR grab? Garren James, the owner and CEO of Cowboys4Angels, says no. > > “We went through and searched all of our employment requests and all our contacts because we save the names. The guy never even applied to be at our agency,” he tells _Rolling Stone_. > > But perhaps Whelly provided his services at Cowboys4Angels under another name? After seeing Whelly’s (again, bogus) Instagram, James stuck to his guns. “This guy never worked for me. I would never even hire that guy,” he says, adding that Whelly is “not up to caliber to work at our agency.” > > When asked if Warren, one of the frontrunners of the Democratic presidential primary had ever procured the services of his agency, James again said no. “I have many other high-profile clients that I would never reveal, but she’s not one of them,” he says. > > There you have it. Good thing the Elizabeth Warren campaign has a good sense of humor about it. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42312 "2019-10-04T18:13:44Z")
At an AOC Town Hall the other night, a woman in the audience stood up and started ranting about climate change, saying we need to bomb Russia to cut the global population, and we are going to need to start eating babies. AOC calmly tried to defuse her, but Republicans are trying to point to the woman as how crazy Democrats are. Turns out it was a staged stunt from the Lyndon LaRouche people. > **[Viral Video About Eating Babies at AOC Town Hall Was Staged by Pro-Trump Group](https://gizmodo.com/viral-video-about-eating-babies-at-aoc-town-hall-was-st-1838767680)** > > LaRouche PAC, a far-right group that supports Donald Trump, has taken credit for trolling Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during a town hall meeting yesterday. An operative with LaRouche made headlines overnight after standing up at... ---
**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:** [October 4, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42313 "2019-10-04T18:43:25Z")
LaRouchies are a boil on the buttocks of American Politics. trump is anal cancer. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42314 "2019-10-04T20:13:54Z")
“Why is it always BOTTOMS with you people…?” — Terry-Thomas, **It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World** (1963) ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42315 "2019-10-04T20:25:38Z")
I just watched the press conference on [Splinter](https://splinternews.com/worlds-biggest-dipshits-hilariously-mangle-hit-job-on-e-1838750767) and ohmygod that is some funny stuff. A reporter asked WHelly what unit he was in and he said “13, from Hawaii, you can look it up on Wikipedia.” I laughed so much at that line because if you asked me what unit I was in I would never say “528 in Turkey” or “112 in North Carolina,” it just sounds so stupid. Evidently, he was in the Marines though, but per the below link he didn’t deploy into combat: > **[Jacob Wohl’s Bogus Warren Accuser Exaggerated His Military Service Record](https://www.thedailybeast.com/jacob-wohls-bogus-warren-accuser-exaggerated-his-military-service-record)** > > Kelvin Whelly claimed to be a Marine combat vet who took fire in Afghanistan. The Marines say that never happened. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42316 "2019-10-04T20:41:00Z")
> **[A protester who called for Americans to 'eat the babies' to fight climate...](https://www.businessinsider.com/pro-trump-group-behind-aoc-protester-calling-to-eat-babies-2019-10)** > > A far-right fringe group called the LaRouche movement announced on Twitter that it was behind the protester at Ocasio-Cortez's event. > [@](#): > > A protester who called for Americans to ‘eat the babies’ to fight climate change at AOC’s town hall was revealed as a member of a pro-Trump fringe group > … > President Donald Trump retweeted a video of the incident and called Ocasio-Cortez a “Wack Job.” The president’s eldest son tweeted that the woman “seems like a normal AOC supporter to me.” > … > Right-wing media outlets and online provocateurs, including Breitbart, The Daily Wire, and the activist Candace Owens, quickly jumped on the exchange, accusing Ocasio-Cortez of condoning the woman’s calls to “eat babies.” > > The Fox News host Tucker Carlson said it was “pretty revealing” that Ocasio-Cortez didn’t reject the woman’s comments. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42317 "2019-10-04T22:34:03Z")
[Steve Bannon](https://amp.businessinsider.com/steve-bannon-oprah-women-take-charge-of-society-2018-2?fbclid=IwAR0MpZ4kRKsl_KZlkHLs_dTYFQu1-C0kYiLD8XUiQXJuewxNca7carsQXcM) (remember him?) warns us that things are going to hell: > [@](#): > > “The anti-patriarchy movement is going to undo ten thousand years of recorded history,” Green quoted Bannon as saying. “You watch. The time has come. **Women are gonna take charge of society**. And they couldn’t juxtapose a better villain than Trump. He is the patriarch.” Bolding added. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42318 "2019-10-04T23:19:56Z")
He’s right, though. Trump _is_ the patriarch. That’s precisely why patriarchy is abhorrent. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42319 "2019-10-05T01:51:56Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Not giving a direct response is proof that something untoward is going on! As is _giving_ a direct response! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42320 "2019-10-05T02:40:19Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > “Why is it always BOTTOMS with you people…?” — Terry-Thomas, **It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World** (1963) You may have your wires ever so slightly crossed, here. In _Fawlty Towers_, after a rude American guest[sup]\*[/sup] has threatened to “bust his ass”, John Cleese says “everything’s bottoms, isn’t it?” In _It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World_, Terry-Thomas lectures Milton Berle about Americans’ infantile preoccupation with bosoms. - Played brilliantly by Bruce Boa. I looked him up on IMDb once and was surprised at the movies I’d seen him in without ever recognizing him. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42321 "2019-10-05T03:00:22Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > You may have your wires ever so slightly crossed, here. In _Fawlty Towers_, after a rude American guest[sup]\*[/sup] has threatened to “bust his ass”, John Cleese says “everything’s bottoms, isn’t it?” In _It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World_, Terry-Thomas lectures Milton Berle about Americans’ infantile preoccupation with bosoms. Oh my god, you’re absolutely correct. Not only did I confuse John Cleese with Terry-Thomas, but I mixed up tits and ass. Embarrassed throat clearing and apologies to everyone. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42322 "2019-10-05T03:12:03Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Oh my god, you’re absolutely correct. Not only did I confuse John Cleese with Terry-Thomas, but I mixed up tits and ass. Embarrassed throat clearing and apologies to everyone. That’s what we call and Ass over D kettle. I’ll be leaving now. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42323 "2019-10-05T04:00:06Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Oh my god, you’re absolutely correct. Not only did I confuse John Cleese with Terry-Thomas, but I mixed up tits and ass. Embarrassed throat clearing and apologies to everyone. Don’t worry about it; got your back, Jack. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42324 "2019-10-06T13:02:45Z")
Titty bum titty bum titty bum bum bum Titty bum titty bum titty bum bum bum Titty bum titty bum titty bum bum bum Titty BUM!,titty bumbumbum. \* William Tell Overbite\* ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42325 "2019-10-06T13:26:12Z")
“[Dollars are the real polls](https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1180833147963035649)” should be the slogan for the GOP. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42326 "2019-10-06T17:26:27Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Oh my god, you’re absolutely correct. Not only did I confuse John Cleese with Terry-Thomas, but I mixed up tits and ass. I did once, but I think I got away with it. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2019, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42327 "2019-10-06T17:53:16Z")
Ron Johnson goes on Meet the Press, and even Chuck Todd has had enough of Republican obfuscation. [https://www.channel3000.com/news/sen-ron-johnson-chuck-todd-have-heated-argument-on-meet-the-press-/1129416657](https://www.channel3000.com/news/sen-ron-johnson-chuck-todd-have-heated-argument-on-meet-the-press-/1129416657) ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42328 "2019-10-06T18:25:00Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [Steve Bannon](https://amp.businessinsider.com/steve-bannon-oprah-women-take-charge-of-society-2018-2?fbclid=IwAR0MpZ4kRKsl_KZlkHLs_dTYFQu1-C0kYiLD8XUiQXJuewxNca7carsQXcM) (remember him?) warns us that things are going to hell:Bolding added. Bannon just desperately says things that he thinks will make him seem relevant, which is isn’t. That article was a while ago, and I bet he’s saying something else by now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2115) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2117)