# 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:** 2137
**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 6, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42729 "2019-11-06T22:48:01Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > Hey! I oppose Donald Trump. When do I get to learn witchcraft and sorcery? For only $19.99, I can teach you powerful anti-Trump spells and curses that will rob him of his cognition, cogency, ability to tell right from wrong and force him to embarrass himself in public. Weekly results guaranteed, or triple your money back ! ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42730 "2019-11-07T01:41:55Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > For only $19.99, I can teach you powerful anti-Trump spells and curses that will rob him of his cognition, cogency, ability to tell right from wrong and force him to embarrass himself in public. Weekly results guaranteed, or triple your money back ! Can you make water wet, too? ---
**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 7, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42731 "2019-11-07T02:07:06Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > You need to sign up at your local public library. I’ve been getting lessons since early 2017. > > Hey, what’s that in your ear? Look, a nickel! Everyone, please. Do not burn the witch. I need these nickels. ---
**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 7, 2019, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42732 "2019-11-07T03:22:09Z")
Tom Cotton suggests that the US Army needs to invade Mexico to protect Americans. [Sen. Tom Cotton Threatens Invasion Of Mexico Over American Family's Massacre | Crooks and Liars](https://crooksandliars.com/2019/11/sen-tom-cotton-threatens-invasion-mexico)? ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42733 "2019-11-07T03:54:23Z")
This is the plan; use the DoJ as a weapon > **[Lindsey Graham expects 'stunning' FISA report after receiving update from...](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lindsey-graham-expects-stunning-fisa-report-after-receiving-update-from-attorney-general-william-barr)** > > After meeting with Attorney General William Barr, Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said he is certain the inspector general report on alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses will "prove that the system got off the rails." ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42734 "2019-11-07T03:56:19Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Tom Cotton suggests that the US Army needs to invade Mexico to protect Americans. > [Sen. Tom Cotton Threatens Invasion Of Mexico Over American Family's Massacre | Crooks and Liars](https://crooksandliars.com/2019/11/sen-tom-cotton-threatens-invasion-mexico)? This is why they must be sent to education camps when it’s over; no compromise, just education. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42735 "2019-11-07T03:58:43Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Tom Cotton suggests that the US Army needs to invade Mexico to protect Americans. > [Sen. Tom Cotton Threatens Invasion Of Mexico Over American Family's Massacre | Crooks and Liars](https://crooksandliars.com/2019/11/sen-tom-cotton-threatens-invasion-mexico)? What I said in the Failed State thread applies to Cotton… Will he welcome Mexican and German troops to fight our white nationalists since both countries had citizens murdered in El Paso last August? ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42736 "2019-11-07T04:28:50Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Tom Cotton suggests that the US Army needs to invade Mexico to protect Americans. > [Sen. Tom Cotton Threatens Invasion Of Mexico Over American Family's Massacre | Crooks and Liars](https://crooksandliars.com/2019/11/sen-tom-cotton-threatens-invasion-mexico)? Funny, I don’t recall Cotton having this sort of reaction to the luring of Jamal Khashoggi into a trap that lead to his assassination. Where was his outrage against Saudi Arabia? He was only troubled by that, and wanted an investigation to be run and completed before taking any action. But hey, that was a murder directed by the head of a foreign government who is best buds with the first son-in-law, not a random murder by a bunch of drug cartels. Obviously, we must stay friends with the head of government and invade the country that has been trying to destroy the cartels. I swear, we’ve all gone into the mirror universe. Can I go home now? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42737 "2019-11-07T14:05:12Z")
You _are_ home, which is the frightening part. ---
**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 7, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42738 "2019-11-07T18:34:10Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Can you make water wet, too? That’ll be an extra $5. > [@Morgyn](#): > > I swear, we’ve all gone into the mirror universe. Can I go home now? Well if \*someone \*hadn’t chased away that butterfly back in '95… ---
**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 7, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42739 "2019-11-07T18:59:23Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > What I said in the Failed State thread applies to Cotton… > > Will he welcome Mexican and German troops to fight our white nationalists since both countries had citizens murdered in El Paso last August? TBCF, Mexico did in fact invade the US, and the assault was so egregious that there is Pancho Villa State Park to commemorate the incident. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2019, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42740 "2019-11-08T01:28:37Z")
From Dotard Junior’s [DEL]vehicle to launder PAC funds to himself[/DEL] book: > [@Bonespur Junior](#): > > I rarely get emotional, if ever. I guess you’d call me hyper-rational, stoic. Yet as we drove past the rows of white [Arlington Cemetery] grave markers, in the gravity of the moment, I had a deep sense of the importance of the presidency and a love of our country… In that moment, I also thought of all the attacks we’d already suffered as a family, and about all the sacrifices we’d have to make to help my father succeed — voluntarily giving up a huge chunk of our business and all international deals to avoid the appearance that we were ‘profiting off of the office.’ ---
**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:** [November 8, 2019, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42741 "2019-11-08T02:34:19Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > From Dotard Junior’s [DEL]vehicle to launder PAC funds to himself[/DEL] book: > > > [@Bonespur Junior](#): > > > > I rarely get emotional, if ever. I guess you’d call me hyper-rational, stoic. Yet as we drove past the rows of white [Arlington Cemetery] grave markers, in the gravity of the moment, I had a deep sense of the importance of the presidency and a love of our country… In that moment, I also thought of all the attacks we’d already suffered as a family, and about all the sacrifices we’d have to make to help my father succeed — voluntarily giving up a huge chunk of our business and all international deals to avoid the appearance that we were ‘profiting off of the office.’ Move over Stephen R. Donaldson, it looks like there’s a new entrant in the “disturbing fantasy” marketplace. ---
**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 8, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42742 "2019-11-08T03:40:56Z")
Ahead of Jeff Sessions announcement that he is running for the Senate from Alabama, something called Grit PAC is running an ad calling him “traitor Jeff” for recusing himself before the Russia investigatiion. > **[Campaign ad casts Sessions as a ‘traitor’ ahead of expected Senate run](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/469510-republican-pac-hits-sessions-in-ad-as-a-traitor-ahead-of-expected-senate/)** > > A Republican PAC is out with a new ad Thursday slamming former Attorney General Jeff Sessions as a “traitor” as he prepares to announce that he’s running for his old Alabama Senate seat.… ---
**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:** [November 8, 2019, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42743 "2019-11-08T10:18:58Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ahead of Jeff Sessions announcement that he is running for the Senate from Alabama, something called Grit PAC is running an ad calling him “traitor Jeff” for recusing himself before the Russia investigatiion. > [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/469510-republican-pac-hits-sessions-in-ad-as-a-traitor-ahead-of-expected-senate](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/469510-republican-pac-hits-sessions-in-ad-as-a-traitor-ahead-of-expected-senate) The thought of Sessions taking flak from both left and right does warm the cockles of my heart. You’re 72 years old and rich, Jefferson Beauregard. Just retire and spend some time with the few tattered shreds of your soul you still have. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2019, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42744 "2019-11-08T11:16:46Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > The thought of Sessions taking flak from both left and right does warm the cockles of my heart. > > You’re 72 years old and rich, Jefferson Beauregard. Just retire and spend some time with the few tattered shreds of your soul you still have. At first glance, I read bits of that last phrase as “the few tattered sheets… you still have”. ---
**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 8, 2019, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42745 "2019-11-08T12:08:28Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > From Dotard Junior’s [DEL]vehicle to launder PAC funds to himself[/DEL] book: Truly, the thought of leaving a dollar on the table stings as much as a bullet to the guts in the mud of Viet-Nam. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. This is a place of healing for my wallet. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42746 "2019-11-08T13:54:53Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > > [@Gyrate](#): > > > > The thought of Sessions taking flak from both left and right does warm the cockles of my heart. > > > > You’re 72 years old and rich, Jefferson Beauregard. Just retire and spend some time with the few tattered shreds of your soul you still have. > > At first glance, I read bits of that last phrase as “the few tattered sheets… you still have”. He has to sew the hood out of _something_. ---
**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 9, 2019, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42747 "2019-11-09T02:27:53Z")
The Texas Lege is considering [ending local judicial elections](https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/11/texas-considers-ending-judicial-elections-democrats-gain-ground), instead relying on appointments by the governor. I mean, I can see their point. When I go to vote, there are all these judicial races on the ballot, with entirely unfamiliar names, and really, what qualifies _me_ to decide who would be a good judge? - However, the bill would have ended elections only in counties with more than 500,000 people, targeting urban areas like Houston. That would mean the governor would choose judges in the state’s larger, more diverse counties, while rural, conservative counties could keep choosing their own judges.\* Oh. Fuck that. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42748 "2019-11-09T16:06:03Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > The Texas Lege is considering [ending local judicial elections](https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/11/texas-considers-ending-judicial-elections-democrats-gain-ground), instead relying on appointments by the governor. > > I mean, I can see their point. When I go to vote, there are all these judicial races on the ballot, with entirely unfamiliar names, and really, what qualifies _me_ to decide who would be a good judge? > > - However, the bill would have ended elections only in counties with more than 500,000 people, targeting urban areas like Houston. That would mean the governor would choose judges in the state’s larger, more diverse counties, while rural, conservative counties could keep choosing their own judges.\* > > Oh. > > Fuck that. Guess we can dispense with the idea of playing fair with these cats. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2136) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2138)