# 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:** 2134
**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:** [November 2, 2019, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42669 "2019-11-02T04:24:11Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > That is a scurrilous lie, and you should be ashamed to be promoting it. There are any number of innocent reasons Pompeo might have been seen carrying a goat into a hotel room. Well, last time I was in Portland, about a week ago, we stopped for a sour beer at Cascade Brewing and I swear I saw him loitering down there near the Goat Blocks. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2019, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42670 "2019-11-02T07:40:37Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > That is a scurrilous lie, and you should be ashamed to be promoting it. There are any number of innocent reasons Pompeo might have been seen carrying a goat into a hotel room. All I want to know is whether there any truth to what some people are saying, that Mike Pompeo and his goat lover watched while Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990 ? ---
**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:** [November 2, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42671 "2019-11-02T14:04:56Z")
Remember when Glenn and Rush were the worst things we had to fear? Ahhh, those were the days… ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42672 "2019-11-02T16:09:50Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > No, he’s not. He’s merely raising the question, like all good tabloid journalists do. > > Does Mike Pompeo still blow goats? You’ll have to ask him that, maybe I don’t have the full story. People want to know. Is he still raping newborn puppies? “Some people are saying” he is. He never actually denied it. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42673 "2019-11-02T16:17:09Z")
> [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#): > > The North Carolina state senate will not call a vote on a veto override on the long overdue state budget because they are waiting for there to be [strike]everyone present[/strike] enough Democrats missing so they can override their veto. > > A Republican Senator stands up and says, “We’ll call [a vote] at the right time. I hope you’ll miss it.” > Then all the Republican Senators erupt in laughter. > > [https://twitter.com/JeffJacksonNC/status/1190031074992230401](https://twitter.com/JeffJacksonNC/status/1190031074992230401) > > I guess this can be expected in a state where the House agreed not to hold a vote when Democrats were at a 9/11 memorial and then [did it anyway](http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/north-carolina-house-republicans-surprise-9-11-vote.html). it’s not [del]strike[/del], it’s “del”, yo. I only mention this because I was guessing wrong for years (it only came up occasionally) before I finally found out the right way to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42674 "2019-11-02T16:55:43Z")
[Smugglers are sawing through new sections of Trump’s border wall](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/smugglers-are-sawing-through-new-sections-of-trumps-border-wall/2019/11/01/25bf8ce0-fa72-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html) That beautiful design Trump approved is anchored at the top and bottom, but nowhere in between. It’s like forcing your way through a fiddle bow. ---
**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42675 "2019-11-02T17:11:15Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I liked “This goes to show you what a combination of diet pills, Red Bull, chardonnay and Marlboro Lights will do to a persons mental capacity”. Can’t find it, so I’m not sure who tweeted it, but I liked the one that was along the lines of, “Coulter knows the House. After all, one fell on her sister.” ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42676 "2019-11-02T17:15:58Z")
Can anyone [diagram Kevin McCarthy’s sentence?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qncrY2e5QU&t=362) Or translate it into an intelligible language? ---
**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:** [November 2, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42677 "2019-11-02T18:12:39Z")
At the Halloween party for children of staffers at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, there was a station where kids could build WALL. [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/468675-white-house-halloween-party-had-station-for-children-to-help-build](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/468675-white-house-halloween-party-had-station-for-children-to-help-build)? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42678 "2019-11-02T19:09:34Z")
[In a report from the Fair and Balanced News network](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy98Kkc9EZU): > [@Tucker Carlson](#): > > He [Chairman Schiff] has spent years obsessing over impeachment like it was a young Jodie Foster. Colleagues say he has pictures of impeachment taped to the walls of his bedroom he has believed to have written in steamy unhinged letters with his own body fluids. So, for Schiff, today’s vote was thrilling, in ways that only a court-appointed psychiatrist could fully appreciate. Meanwhile, Rand Paul and other evil-doers eagerly outed the Ukraine whistle-blower after learning that death threats awaited him. “He deserves whatever he gets — he’s a registered Democrat.” The First Amendment is what makes America Great. Right. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42679 "2019-11-02T22:38:20Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > [Smugglers are sawing through new sections of Trump’s border wall](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/smugglers-are-sawing-through-new-sections-of-trumps-border-wall/2019/11/01/25bf8ce0-fa72-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html) > > That beautiful design Trump approved is anchored at the top and bottom, but nowhere in between. It’s like forcing your way through a fiddle bow. Well, that is just being cost-conscious: at least when the bad guys breach it, they do not actually have to destroy it, or even make it look damaged, so it will be cheaper to fix. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42680 "2019-11-03T01:00:51Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Well, that is just being cost-conscious: at least when the bad guys breach it, they do not actually have to destroy it, or even make it look damaged, so it will be cheaper to fix. Job creation! Win-win! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42681 "2019-11-03T01:30:46Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Well, that is just being cost-conscious: at least when the bad guys breach it, they do not actually have to destroy it, or even make it look damaged, so it will be cheaper to fix. I’m sure they budgeted for duct tape and chicken wire. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42682 "2019-11-03T02:53:14Z")
[Students for Trump co-founder pleads guilty to $46,000 fraud scheme](https://www.foxnews.com/us/students-for-trump-co-founder-pleads-guilty-in-46000-fraud-scheme.amp?__twitter_impression=true) > [@](#): > > The co-founder of Students for Trump pleaded guilty Tuesday to scamming consumers and businesses out of $46,000 by posing as a lawyer online and dispensing legal advice, federal prosecutors said. > > … > > “Lambert’s de facto career was one of a grifter; he had never been to law school and certainly wasn’t an attorney. Today, Lambert admitted to his crimes and faces time in prison for his misdeeds,” Geoffrey S. Berman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement . ---
**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:** [November 3, 2019, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42683 "2019-11-03T06:48:45Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Well, that is just being cost-conscious: at least when the bad guys breach it, they do not actually have to destroy it, or even make it look damaged, so it will be cheaper to fix. “Hombres, be careful cutting into this wall. Sabe? Remember: we’re paying for it.” ---
**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:** [November 3, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42684 "2019-11-03T12:35:30Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > “Hombres, be careful cutting into this wall. Sabe? Remember: we’re paying for it.” _But it was only fantasy The wall was too high As you can see No matter how he tried He could not break free And the worms ate into his brain_ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42685 "2019-11-03T13:29:37Z")
Those worms are gonna go hungry. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42686 "2019-11-04T08:24:06Z")
[Trump defends border wall design after report smugglers are sawing through it](https://www.yahoo.com/now/trump-defends-border-wall-design-005629077.html) > [@](#): > > "We have a very powerful wall. But no matter how powerful, you can cut through anything, in all fairness. But we have a lot of people watching. You know cutting, cutting is one thing, but it’s easily fixed. One of the reasons we did it the way we did it, it’s very easily fixed. You put the chunk back in,” Trump said. I was kidding when I said they budgeted for duck tape and chicken wire, but apparently Trump is content to let his vanity project fall into ruin just like he did all his casinos. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42687 "2019-11-04T11:17:43Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > [Trump defends border wall design after report smugglers are sawing through it](https://www.yahoo.com/now/trump-defends-border-wall-design-005629077.html) > > I was kidding when I said they budgeted for duck tape and chicken wire, but apparently Trump is content to let his vanity project fall into ruin just like he did all his casinos. And the country. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2019, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42688 "2019-11-04T12:59:19Z")
Not strictly Republican but close enough given the present regime: Dapper Nazi is just a plain ol’ Nazi in released audio tape: > **[Internet-Savvy Nazi Says a Bunch of Old Fashioned Nazi Shit in Leaked Tape](https://gizmodo.com/internet-savvy-nazi-says-a-bunch-of-old-fashioned-nazi-1839598635?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&fbclid=IwAR3eGq-GY64CsaqVdvjJn7b8NLlg-b0LdJOkyQaLKW7qmeCq9iBmnP6ZUYo)** > > Richard Spencer, one of the most high profile neo-Nazis in America, has spent the past three years online trying to rebrand his extremist ideology with terms like “alt-right.” But a newly leaked audio tape makes it clear that this “dapper white... Summary: Milo, in yet another attempt to stay relevant, releases an audio of Nazi Richard Spencer made post-Charlottesville where he rants and raves with the expected racial slurs and other claims. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2133) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2135)