# 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:** 2138
**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 9, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42749 "2019-11-09T19:07:43Z")
Trump’s corps of deplorables think they know who the whistleblower is, and have outed a former Obama administration official, leading to death threats against him. The only problem is that the identified official left the White House with the rest of the Obama staffers in January of 2017. At least Dean Cain has retracted his tweet, but Kevin Sorbo still has it up. > **[Dean Cain Continues to be a Jerk; Tries and Fails to Out Whistleblower | The...](https://www.themarysue.com/dean-cain-continued-super-jerk-whistleblower/)** > > In a super jerk move, Dean Cain accused David Edelman of being the Ukraine Whistleblower. One problem: He's not. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42750 "2019-11-10T02:18:37Z")
I was in Manhattan earlier today and I successfully avoided Taliban Tower but I did not know there was a News Corp building to avoid as well. Their marquee headline was something like “Mexico no longer ‘safe haven’ for American Mormons”. So I guess Fox will soon be opposing the policy of “ask for asylum in Mexico first” for Central American refugees, because Mexico isn’t safe, right? ---
**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 10, 2019, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42751 "2019-11-10T03:07:35Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Trump’s corps of deplorables think they know who the whistleblower is, and have outed a former Obama administration official, leading to death threats against him. The only problem is that the identified official left the White House with the rest of the Obama staffers in January of 2017. At least Dean Cain has retracted his tweet, but Kevin Sorbo still has it up. > [https://www.themarysue.com/dean-cain-continued-super-jerk-whistleblower/](https://www.themarysue.com/dean-cain-continued-super-jerk-whistleblower/) They know who the whistle blower is, and it’s not the person that’s in your link. It’s (most likely) a CIA intel analyst. Now for the good part: people with above room temperature IQs aren’t going to work for CIA, Dept of State, the NSC, or Pentagon because they know it’s a sham. The damage that Trump has inflicted on our national security apparatus will not be reversed in the next 5-10 years. You all wonder why I am so pessimistic - it’s because I understand in a way that most cannot the damage that has been inflicted. It is real. It is severe. It will outlast this administration, and electing a Democrat may not be enough to salvage the situation. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42752 "2019-11-10T03:56:27Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > …people with above room temperature IQs aren’t going to work for CIA, Dept of State, the NSC, or Pentagon because they know it’s a sham. Could you try to be a little less full of shit? And by the way, every political observer with, as you say, an IQ above room temperature already knows the damage to the State Dept and most other Executive agencies will take more than the next presidential administration to repair. It’s just not a unique or particularly impressive observation to make. Get the fuck over yourself. Maybe it’s time to take another break for an attitude adjustment. You’re another political poster on the SDMB, not Cassandra. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42753 "2019-11-10T04:49:51Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > people with above room temperature IQs aren’t going to work for CIA, Dept of State, the NSC, or Pentagon because they know it’s a sham. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bphR-6Xi1_I/hqdefault.jpg "It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bphR-6Xi1_I) ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42754 "2019-11-10T15:21:00Z")
> [@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)? Give him a uniform and a gun, and send HIM. No one else, just him. Hopefully, they’ll turn him into Swiss cheese. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42755 "2019-11-10T15:27:24Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > From Dotard Junior’s [DEL]vehicle to launder PAC funds to himself[/DEL] book: > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by 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.’ Like I said in the other thread, fuck that whiney fucking punk ass bitch. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42756 "2019-11-10T15:30:28Z")
> [@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) BOTH sides hate that weasel??? **GOOD.** ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42757 "2019-11-10T17:07:51Z")
For those still on the fence as to whether or not controlling women’s bodies is the primary purpose of the pro life movement, I present the following [Missouri Official Admits to Tracking Women’s Periods](https://www.thecut.com/2019/10/missouri-official-tracked-womens-periods.html) > [@](#): > > During the second day of a weeklong state hearing that will decide whether Missouri’s last abortion clinic will be shut down, the state’s heath director, Dr. Randall Williams, admitted to keeping a spreadsheet that tracked the menstrual periods of its patients Now I’m a guy but this sounds as creepy as hell, I can’t imagine how Missouri women feel about this. But it turns out this wasn’t even the [first time the GOP has done this](https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/22/politics/scott-lloyd-pregnant-minors/index.html). > [@](#): > > “At that hearing, our Members expressed concern about your conduct as head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). They asked you specifically and repeatedly about reports that you had compiled spreadsheets to track the pregnancies and menstrual cycles of young women in your care,” writes Chairman Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, in a letter addressed to Lloyd dated Friday. ---
**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 10, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42758 "2019-11-10T19:16:38Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > BOTH sides hate that weasel??? > > **GOOD.** Individual 1 sat with Sessions’s primary opponent at Alabama yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42759 "2019-11-10T19:40:18Z")
Convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza says [nuclear winter is a liberal hoax.](https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/conservative-pardoned-by-trump-has-released-the-dumbest-argument-yet-against-climate-change/) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42760 "2019-11-10T21:33:20Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza says [nuclear winter is a liberal hoax.](https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/conservative-pardoned-by-trump-has-released-the-dumbest-argument-yet-against-climate-change/) Grody to the max, like _fer sure_! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42761 "2019-11-10T22:04:57Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza says [nuclear winter is a liberal hoax.](https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/conservative-pardoned-by-trump-has-released-the-dumbest-argument-yet-against-climate-change/) > > > [@D'Souza](#): > > > > “Remember nuclear winter? Of course you don’t. That’s because it didn’t happen. Yet it was all the rage on the Left in the 1980s,” he argued. “All the rage” How. How do you even begin to talk to such an absolutely clueless person? The stupidity of the human race still surprises me. And it gets worse every day. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2019, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42762 "2019-11-10T23:03:38Z")
D’Souza and Ingraham are the primary reasons Dartmouth became what Tom Cruz would call a “minor Ivy.” ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42763 "2019-11-11T00:38:44Z")
I must have missed the actual thermonuclear exchange back in the 1980’s. Gevalt. Has higher education failed us, somehow, or are these clowns just determined to play Barnum? ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42764 "2019-11-11T02:17:19Z")
> [@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)? > [@SteveG1](#): > > Give him a uniform and a gun, and send HIM. No one else, just him. Hopefully, they’ll turn him into Swiss cheese. Tom Cotton may be many things, including not very bright, but at least he’s not a chickenhawk. He served and won a Bronze Star. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42765 "2019-11-11T02:40:49Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > I understand in a way that most cannot the damage that has been inflicted. Sucks ta be you brah ---
**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 11, 2019, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42766 "2019-11-11T02:55:16Z")
Senator John Kennedy says extortion may be impeachable, but only if you have a culpable frame of mine. [Sen. Kennedy Says Extortion 'Probably' Impeachable -- But Claims Trump Must Have 'Culpable State Of Mind' | Crooks and Liars](https://crooksandliars.com/2019/11/sen-kennedy-says-extortion-probably)? Congressman Mac Thornberry says Individual 1 can’t be impeached for extortion because he says the same thing in public. > **[GOP Rep. Claims Trump's Extortion Of Ukraine Isn't Impeachable Because He...](https://crooksandliars.com/2019/11/gop-rep-claims-trumps-extortion-ukraine)** > > Here's the latest in the revolving series of defenses coming from Trump's Republican enablers in Congress. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42767 "2019-11-11T03:15:55Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza says [nuclear winter is a liberal hoax.](https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/conservative-pardoned-by-trump-has-released-the-dumbest-argument-yet-against-climate-change/) A few weeks ago, D’Souza posted something stupid on Twitter and I called him a name. It was puerile, but all that he deserved. Anyway, I use the same handle on Twitter that I use here, and my avatar is a picture of a baseball. My profile says nothing about me. D’Souza’s oh-so-brilliant reply was “I have an Ivy League degree and you don’t.” I responded that he has no fucking clue who I am or what my credentials are ('cuz, you you, I’m an anonymous baseball picture). As it turns out, I do have a Master’s degree, a bunch of industry training, and am a university professor, but yes I did give the Ivy League a miss. The fact that D’Souza made it through (he has a Bachelor’s degree!! In English!!) tells me I made the right choice. Really, to be a grown ass man responding to a juvenile insult with “I have an Ivy League degree” is really pathetic. ---
**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 11, 2019, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42768 "2019-11-11T04:48:42Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Congressman Mac Thornberry says Individual 1 can’t be impeached for extortion because he says the same thing in public. > [GOP Rep. Claims Trump's Extortion Of Ukraine Isn't Impeachable Because He Says The Same Thing In Public | Crooks and Liars](https://crooksandliars.com/2019/11/gop-rep-claims-trumps-extortion-ukraine) And all this time the Gambinos thought they had to be clever with the “nice digs, would be a shame if they burned down” stuff - who knew all they had to do to be legit businessmen was to go into the stores during business hours and plainly demand money or they’ll start breaking kneecaps ? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2137) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2139)