# 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:** 2125
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42489 "2019-10-19T18:21:24Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Yep, a total denial of responsibility for what they vote for and defend. When asked to defend their positions, they can’t. They go into a circular ‘logic’ that they think is a good argument. Rinse and repeat. > > They voted for a corrupt moron for President. They love the lies because that lottery ticket just might be the one. > > They believe their lot in life has nothing to do with the choices that they have made. And in the same breath deride programs that would help them (education, health care etc.) Don’t be so negative. Sometimes it’s the NEXT breath. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42490 "2019-10-19T18:24:17Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > How many guns does **Lumpy** own? Did he trade one in for a year’s supply of Viagra? In this quote one can almost hear the whining of a bitter impotent man hiding behind his surrogate penis. > [@enipla](#): > > And can I say that these types of put downs don’t help. Never will. I’ll never say it either. Wait, what? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42491 "2019-10-19T18:32:58Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Yep, a total denial of responsibility for what they vote for and defend. When asked to defend their positions, they can’t. They go into a circular ‘logic’ that they think is a good argument. Rinse and repeat. > > They voted for a corrupt moron for President. They love the lies because that lottery ticket just might be the one. > > They believe their lot in life has nothing to do with the choices that they have made. And in the same breath deride programs that would help them (education, health care etc.) Morons voting for morons is to be expected from morons. The perfect trifecta to create a shithole country. I very much hope the next USA election will help slow that country’s decline into a populist paradise. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42492 "2019-10-19T18:35:34Z")
It’ll either slow it or show 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 20, 2019, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42493 "2019-10-20T02:45:28Z")
Yesterday, Republican Congressman announced he would not rule out voting to impeachment. Today, he announced he will not seek re-election. > **[Florida GOP lawmaker who's undecided on impeaching Trump decides not to seek...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/19/gop-lawmaker-francis-rooney-open-impeachment-leaving-congress/4039396002/)** > > Francis Rooney who represents a red district in SW Florida has emerged as a sharp critic of the Trump administration's actions in Ukraine. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2019, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42494 "2019-10-20T06:17:33Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Yesterday, Republican Congressman announced he would not rule out voting to impeachment. Today, he announced he will not seek re-election. > [GOP lawmaker Francis Rooney open to impeachment is leaving Congress](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/19/gop-lawmaker-francis-rooney-open-impeachment-leaving-congress/4039396002/) Gee, I wonder if the decision to not run for re-election had anything to do with his constituents freaking out over his failure to announce his continued obeisance to Trump. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2019, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42495 "2019-10-21T03:23:05Z")
Not sure if this is the right spot for this, but here goes… [Video Shows Man in MAGA Hat Blasting Anti-Trump Protesters With Bear Repellent After ten minutes of the groups exchanging taunts and chants then “everything went to crap,” police said](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/video-maga-hat-wearing-man-blasting-anti-trump-protesters-with-bear-repellent-901523/) > [@](#): > > A video posted to YouTube shows a man wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat approaching the anti-Trump protesters and then dousing the crowd with a steady stream of what police say was bear repellent. > > While some anti-Trump protesters were screaming and others scattered in an attempt to avoid the spray, the man in the MAGA hat went towards an anti-Trump protester who was being held on the ground by Trump supporters and sprayed him. Could be a long 13 months before the 2020 election. ---
**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 21, 2019, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42496 "2019-10-21T11:35:06Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Not sure if this is the right spot for this, but here goes… > > [Video Shows Man in MAGA Hat Blasting Anti-Trump Protesters With Bear Repellent > After ten minutes of the groups exchanging taunts and chants then “everything went to crap,” police said](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/video-maga-hat-wearing-man-blasting-anti-trump-protesters-with-bear-repellent-901523/) > > Could be a long 13 months before the 2020 election. Fake news - it is well known that only Antifa is violent. Plus, undoubtedly a false-flag operation. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2019, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42497 "2019-10-21T11:44:57Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Not sure if this is the right spot for this, but here goes… > > [Video Shows Man in MAGA Hat Blasting Anti-Trump Protesters With Bear Repellent > After ten minutes of the groups exchanging taunts and chants then “everything went to crap,” police said](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/video-maga-hat-wearing-man-blasting-anti-trump-protesters-with-bear-repellent-901523/) > > Could be a long 13 months before the 2020 election. > [@Folacin](#): > > Fake news - it is well known that only Antifa is violent. Plus, undoubtedly a false-flag operation. That was clearly a pre-emptive [del]strike[/del] self-defense. ---
**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 21, 2019, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42498 "2019-10-21T13:06:13Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Fake news - it is well known that only Antifa is violent. Plus, undoubtedly a false-flag operation. Well they _did_ warn us apocalyptically that Antifa milkshaking and glitter-bombing Nazi shitheads was merely the prelude to more serious assaults. In retrospect we should really have asked “on whom ?”. Live and learn. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42499 "2019-10-21T15:29:53Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Well they _did_ warn us apocalyptically that Antifa milkshaking and glitter-bombing Nazi shitheads was merely the prelude to more serious assaults. In retrospect we should really have asked “on whom ?”. Live and learn. You wanna know how to keep Trump in the White House? They pull a milkshake, you pull a can of mace. He sends one of yours to the dry cleaner’s, you send one of his to the ER. That’s the deplorable way! And that’s how you get Trump in the White House. Now, are you ready to do that? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42500 "2019-10-22T21:40:58Z")
Right wing mama’s boys get to go to prison and show everyone there about how superior white power mama’s boys are to everyone else! (tagline) Prison: It Ain’t Your Mama’s Basement “Two members of the far-right group the Proud Boys were each sentenced to four years in prison and five years post-release supervision on Tuesday for their involvement in a violent 2018 clash with anti-fascist protesters in New York City, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said. Maxwell Hare, 27, and John Kinsman, 40, [had been convicted](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-members-proud-boys-convicted-new-york-city-brawl-antifa-n1044021) of attempted gang assault, attempted assault and riot in August. The jury in State Supreme Court had rejected the defendants’ claims that they had acted in self-defense.” … “These defendants transformed a quiet, residential street into the site of a battle-royale, kicking and beating four individuals in a brutal act of political violence,” Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance [said](https://www.manhattanda.org/d-a-vance-announces-trial-conviction-of-two-proud-boys-for-upper-east-side-gang-assault/)." Oh, I bet your mama’s are proud, boys! > **[Proud Boys members sentenced to prison for violent clash with antifa](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/proud-boys-members-sentenced-four-years-prison-violent-clash-antifa-n1070166)** > > Maxwell Hare, 27, and John Kinsman, 40, had been convicted of attempted gang assault, attempted assault and riot in August. ---
**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 23, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42501 "2019-10-23T00:44:37Z")
At 40, surely John Kinsman has lost the right to be considered a “boy.” ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42502 "2019-10-23T01:13:34Z")
I’m sure he appreciates your defense. The fuck. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42503 "2019-10-23T03:22:43Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Oh, I bet your mama’s are proud, boys! > [Proud Boys members sentenced to four years in prison for violent clash with antifa](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/proud-boys-members-sentenced-four-years-prison-violent-clash-antifa-n1070166) While I know neither’s mother, I have met a few (and even one is too many) mothers who would be proud of such actions. > [@Sherrerd](#): > > At 40, surely John Kinsman has lost the right to be considered a “boy.” _Whooooooooosh_ ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42504 "2019-10-23T09:44:29Z")
The whole “Proud Boys” label makes me laugh. I’ve seen the _Aladdin_ stage musical with the song they’re referencing in it, and the song is a maudlin aside that really drags the pace of the show down without adding much of value (apart from a small bit of character development). The film was better off without it, but petulant whining about irrelevant trivialities does seem to be the Proud Boys’ shtick. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42505 "2019-10-23T15:24:31Z")
Tennessee’s Sevier County Commissioner, Warren Hurst, laments the fact that [“We got a queer running for president, if that ain’t about as ugly as you can get.”](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7601549/Shocking-moment-Tennessee-politician-slams-queer-running-president.html) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42506 "2019-10-23T15:38:39Z")
Apparently it _ain’t_ about as ugly as you can get, as Mr. Hurst himself demonstrates. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42507 "2019-10-23T15:42:34Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Tennessee’s Sevier County Commissioner, Warren Hurst, laments the fact that [“We got a queer running for president, if that ain’t about as ugly as you can get.”](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7601549/Shocking-moment-Tennessee-politician-slams-queer-running-president.html) He also said that white people’s rights were being took away every day! I wonder if he considers “calling a person a queer without repercussion” a white person right? ---
**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 23, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42508 "2019-10-23T15:44:48Z")
**[Republican congressmen stormed the hearing room where Pentagon official was testifying](https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/impeachment-inquiry-10-23-2019/index.html)** > [@](#): > > As Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper was sitting down to testify, the roughly couple dozen Republicans stormed through the three different doors, a source in the room said. > > Rep. Bradley Byrne yelled in committee Chair Adam Schiff’s face, but Schiff didn’t engage. Other Democrats, including Val Demings, screamed back at both Byrne and Rep. Louie Gohmert, who were yelling about the process. > > “It was closest thing I’ve seen around here to mass civil unrest as a member of Congress,” according to a source in the room." > > Cooper left the room while the Republicans refused to leave. > > The source says the Capitol Police and sergeant at arms have been consulted as members refuse to leave the room. ::grabs some PopSecret Movie Theater Butter:: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2124) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2126)