# 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:** 2140
**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:** [November 13, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42789 "2019-11-13T14:48:10Z")
Gonna need a 7 second delay on the broadcasts now because Republicans are shitty fucking people. ---
**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 13, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42790 "2019-11-13T16:59:32Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Jim Jordan reportedly plans to [repeatedly scream the name of the person Breitbart claims is the whistleblower](https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/jim-jordan-plans-to-repeatedly-blurt-out-the-alleged-whistleblowers-name-to-disrupt-the-hearings-rick-wilson/) in order to disrupt impeachment hearings. > > We’ve literally reached the child-throwing-a-temper-tantrum point here. What powers does a House Chairman have? [Judge Julius Hoffman of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois had Bobby Seale bound and gagged in 1969](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pswvi3QN_tI); could Chairman Schiff order Jordan bound and gagged? Has the House leadership hired deputies for the Sergeant-at-Arms? I think we’re at the point where it would be derelict not to. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42791 "2019-11-13T17:14:47Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Has the House leadership hired deputies for the Sergeant-at-Arms? I think we’re at the point where it would be derelict not to. Representatives might start exercising their right to bear gutta-percha canes. ---
**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 14, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42792 "2019-11-14T19:10:06Z")
11/13/19 Lindsay Graham single handedly blocks a Congressional resolution calling Turkey’s murders of Armenians “genocide”. Right after he and several other Republicans (no Democrats) were invited by Individual 1 to a private meeting with Erdogan. > **[Graham blocks resolution recognizing Armenian genocide after Erdoğan meeting](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/470386-graham-blocks-resolution-recognizing-armenian-genocide-after-erdogan-meeting/)** > > Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) blocked a resolution on Wednesday that would have formally recognized the Ottoman Empire’s genocide against the Armenian people.  Sen. Robert Menendez (… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42793 "2019-11-14T19:12:43Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > 11/13/19 > Lindsay Graham single handedly blocks a Congressional resolution calling Turkey’s murders of Armenians “genocide”. Right after he and several other Republicans (no Democrats) were invited by Individual 1 to a private meeting with Erdogan. > [https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/470386-graham-blocks-resolution-recognizing-armenian-genocide-after-erdogan-meeting](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/470386-graham-blocks-resolution-recognizing-armenian-genocide-after-erdogan-meeting) To be fair, some of the people who deny genocide are very fine people. ---
**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 14, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42794 "2019-11-14T19:31:00Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > 11/13/19 > Lindsay Graham single handedly blocks a Congressional resolution calling Turkey’s murders of Armenians “genocide”. Right after he and several other Republicans (no Democrats) were invited by Individual 1 to a private meeting with Erdogan. > [https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/470386-graham-blocks-resolution-recognizing-armenian-genocide-after-erdogan-meeting](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/470386-graham-blocks-resolution-recognizing-armenian-genocide-after-erdogan-meeting) And he was absolutely correct in doing so. It is unhelpful to muddy the terms used in debate, when Turkey didn’t commit atrocities based on or out of any sort of genetic or racial theory, which is what the word “genocide” expicitly implies. At the very worst, it was simply a case of ethno-cultural cleansing in response to practical problems caused by multiculturalism. I think we can all see the distorsion and misdirection critics on the Left are applying to this issue, and we all have a pretty clear notion of why. (Yes, this is satire) ---
**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 14, 2019, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42795 "2019-11-14T19:32:29Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > 11/13/19 > Lindsay Graham single handedly blocks a Congressional resolution calling Turkey’s murders of Armenians “genocide”. Right after he and several other Republicans (no Democrats) were invited by Individual 1 to a private meeting with Erdogan. > [https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/470386-graham-blocks-resolution-recognizing-armenian-genocide-after-erdogan-meeting](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/470386-graham-blocks-resolution-recognizing-armenian-genocide-after-erdogan-meeting) To be fair, the Armenian Genocide is one of those politically fraught issues where stating the obvious conflicts with realpolitik (see also the refusal to recognize Taiwan as independent from the People republic of China). The refusal to acknowledge it has been the US policy for decades, so its not clear that that long standing policy would have changed were it not for the Erdoğan meeting. ---
**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 14, 2019, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42796 "2019-11-14T20:08:00Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > To be fair, the Armenian Genocide is one of those politically fraught issues where stating the obvious conflicts with realpolitik (see also the refusal to recognize Taiwan as independent from the People republic of China). The refusal to acknowledge it has been the US policy for decades, so its not clear that that long standing policy would have changed were it not for the Erdoğan meeting. Of course, but then issues like that also function as a moral shibboleth that (IMO) are ultimately counterproductive even when you accept realpolitik as valid. If you’re not willing to describe reality, or condemn the black/white morally condemnable ; then why on Earth would I give a token shit about your moral condemnation of my actions ? Or, flipped around, if you yourself are convinced of the moral underpinning of your own actions, their principled roots and their ultimately leading to a greater good ; why do you feel you have to lie at any point ? Just argue that “yes, it’s genocide, but it’s OK because…”. That does make you look like a monster, but… yes. As an obscure French punk says, “you cannot claim righteousness while advancing in meandering reptations and détours”. ---
**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 14, 2019, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42797 "2019-11-14T21:40:27Z")
Nov 13 The Ohio House has passed a bill and sent it to the Senate that would prevent schools from giving students failing grades if they turn in work that is based on their religious views instead of the information their teachers provided. > **[Ohio lawmakers clear bill critics say could expand religion in public schools](https://www.cleveland.com/open/2019/11/ohio-lawmakers-clear-bill-allowing-students-to-turn-in-inaccurate-work-in-name-of-religion-second-anti-science-bill-in-a-week.html)** > > If a student turns in homework saying the earth is only 10,000 years old, they cannot be penalized if it's their religious beliefs, under Ohio House Bill 164. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42798 "2019-11-14T21:59:56Z")
There is a little bit more to the bill than that. However, I don’t understand this part: > [@](#): > > Allows students to engage in religious expression before, during and after school hours to the same extent as a student in secular activities or expression I’m pretty sure my kids (in Maryland) can engage in religious expression all they want at any time. Ohio needs a law to say this? Stupid Ohio, glad I moved out of that craphole. ---
**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 14, 2019, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42799 "2019-11-14T23:39:11Z")
Personally, I’m all for religious people engaging in religious expression to the exact same extent as lay or atheist people. ---
**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 14, 2019, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42800 "2019-11-14T23:47:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Nov 13 > The Ohio House has passed a bill and sent it to the Senate that would prevent schools from giving students failing grades if they turn in work that is based on their religious views instead of the information their teachers provided. > [Ohio lawmakers clear bill critics say could expand religion in public schools - cleveland.com](https://www.cleveland.com/open/2019/11/ohio-lawmakers-clear-bill-allowing-students-to-turn-in-inaccurate-work-in-name-of-religion-second-anti-science-bill-in-a-week.html) That will come in handy for [math tests](https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2011/03/09). ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42801 "2019-11-15T00:08:13Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > That will come in handy for [math tests](https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2011/03/09). Perfect comic Steve. Next up, “The Earth is Flat” ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42802 "2019-11-15T00:37:59Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > 11/13/19 > Lindsay Graham single handedly blocks a Congressional resolution calling Turkey’s murders of Armenians “genocide”. Right after he and several other Republicans (no Democrats) were invited by Individual 1 to a private meeting with Erdogan. > [https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/470386-graham-blocks-resolution-recognizing-armenian-genocide-after-erdogan-meeting](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/470386-graham-blocks-resolution-recognizing-armenian-genocide-after-erdogan-meeting) It’s a tough choice for the President - does he want to cozy up to Erdogan or stay friends with Kanye & Kim? ---
**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 15, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42803 "2019-11-15T13:36:24Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > That will come in handy for [math tests](https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2011/03/09). Well, there is that bit in the Bible about Pi being equal to exactly 3. When it comes to them taking the SAT test will Ohio students be similarly excused? ---
**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 15, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42804 "2019-11-15T13:45:52Z")
Here is an evil man. **[Stephen Miller’s Sinister Syllabus](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/opinion/stephen-miller-emails.html?emc=rss&partner=rss)** > [@](#): > > Somewhat lost in the frenzy over impeachment this week was a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center on Stephen Miller, a White House speechwriter and close adviser to the president. > > An analysis of more than 900 emails from Miller to editors at Breitbart News, the report shows Miller’s single-minded focus on nonwhite immigration and his immersion in an online ecosystem of virulent, unapologetic racism. The Miller of these emails isn’t just an immigration restrictionist, he’s an ideological white nationalist. > … > > The first travel ban, rolled out within days of President Trump’s inauguration? That was Miller. Family separation at the border? That was Miller too. The relentless effort to limit asylum, deport protected migrants and block refugees from entering the country? Also Miller. The president’s January address from the Oval Office, in which he spun gruesome tales of immigrant crime and violence (“In California, an Air Force veteran was raped, murdered and beaten to death with a hammer by an illegal alien with a long criminal history”)? Stephen Miller. > > But suspecting Miller’s ideological allegiances is quite different than knowing them. In the absence of proof, there was room for plausible deniability. That’s how a conservative magazine editor could praise Miller as a “wunderkind” for his command of the “details” of immigration policy while dismissing evidence that Miller was once close to Richard Spencer, a prominent neo-Nazi. > > With the emails — supplied by Katie McHugh, a former editor at Breitbart — we now know what Miller was reading and thinking about in the year before he joined the Trump campaign. And there’s no denying the nature of the material. > … > > Breitbart fired Katie McHugh in 2017 for anti-Muslim remarks on Twitter. Since then, she says, she has left the “alt-right” and renounced her white nationalist views. > > Miller, on the other hand, is still writing speeches and making policy. And while Democrats have called for his removal in the wake of this report (“Stephen Miller must resign. Now,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Twitter), Republicans have been silent. Perhaps they’re occupied with impeachment, struggling to defend the president’s behavior against clear evidence of his guilt. Perhaps they don’t want to confront the fact that white nationalist ideas have a privileged place in this administration. Or perhaps they just don’t care enough to be alarmed. > … > > Now we have proof that one of the president’s key advisers is awash in white nationalism. But to a Republican Party that has stuck with that president, what difference would this actually make? Zip, that’s what. ---
**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 16, 2019, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42805 "2019-11-16T19:41:21Z")
Tedra Cobb, Eiise Stefanik’s Democratic opponent, has gotten more than $100,000 in contributions since Stefanik’s antics at the impeachment hearings yesterday. > **[Cobb claims campaign donations of over $100K | News, Sports, Jobs -...](https://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/news/local-news/2019/11/cobb-claims-campaign-donations-of-over-100k/)** > > Democratic Congressional candidate Tedra Cobb of Canton took to social media Friday evening to tout donations to her campaign in excess of $100,000 in the hour ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42806 "2019-11-16T19:54:46Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > There is a little bit more to the bill than that. However, I don’t understand this part: > > I’m pretty sure my kids (in Maryland) can engage in religious expression all they want at any time. Ohio needs a law to say this? Stupid Ohio, glad I moved out of that craphole. It’s just part of their damn “We are the persectued ones” line of bullshit. ---
**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 19, 2019, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42807 "2019-11-19T03:34:21Z")
A Colorado radio host was discussing Individual-ONE’s former [del]liar[/del]lawyer Roy Cohn [when a canned newscast started stepping on his broadcast](https://www.denverpost.com/2019/11/16/craig-silverman-radio-show-donald-trump/amp/) and the station manager stepped into the booth to let him know that his nose was inadequately Orange, and it was time for him to be looking for a job elsewhere. (I mean, who deliberately chooses “KNUS” for call letters? How stupid can you get?) ---
**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 19, 2019, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42808 "2019-11-19T04:15:23Z")
November 18, 2019 Kanye West went on stage with evangelist Joel Osteen tonight, and snapped at his congregation to be quiet while he talked. > **[Kanye West snaps at Joel Osteen’s congregation: ‘Be completely silent as God...](https://deadstate.org/kanye-west-snaps-at-joel-osteens-congregation-be-completely-silent-as-god-flows-through-me-while-i-speak)** > > This Sunday, Kanye West‘s highly anticipated service at Joel Osteen‘s Houston megachurch went down just as many expected: as a perfect mix of celebrity narcissism, privilege, and fundamentalist Christian certainty. During a conversation with Osteen,... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2139) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2141)