# 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:** 2141
**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 19, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42809 "2019-11-19T08:01:59Z")
… > [@Michele Bachmann](#): > > “This [phony impeachment] is such a pathetic joke. They have no candidate on the Democrat side for 2020 that they can get excited about. … They have no message, they have no record of accomplishment, they’re doing nothing in Congress, so this [impeachment] is the only thing they have to run on… > > “Our President of the United States — he is like nobody else I have ever met in my life. And he doesn’t scare easy and he’s gonna stare these guys down. They have no idea who they’re dealing with… [Trump’s potential impeachment has] almost biblical implications… > > “[Trump] understands the difference between good and evil. We have not seen a president with greater moral clarity than this president.” ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42810 "2019-11-19T10:46:58Z")
I always wonder if someone like Bachmann can honestly believe what she’s saying. How can someone who’s capable of putting one foot in front of the other say stuff like that sincerely? ---
**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 19, 2019, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42811 "2019-11-19T10:59:57Z")
She might be right about this: “[Trump] understands the difference between good and evil. We have not seen a president with greater moral clarity than this president.” I mean, how could anyone so consistently choose “evil,” day in and day out, for years, if they weren’t able to clearly distinguish it from “good”? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42812 "2019-11-19T13:36:10Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I always wonder if someone like Bachmann can honestly believe what she’s saying. How can someone who’s capable of putting one foot in front of the other say stuff like that sincerely? I think almost all Trump supporters genuinely believe the (seemingly) stupid shit they say. If you put things into the context that Republicans believe that stopping the spread of global leftism is the current most important task, then it makes perfect sense. Now, their world view is beyond fucked up but if you’re one of those who buy it then you can also buy that Donald J. Trump is practically a gift from God. ---
**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 19, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42813 "2019-11-19T14:43:12Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > 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. (After a quick trip to Wiki) Holy shit! I had no idea it was _that_ Roy Cohn. The best men, indeed. > [@](#): > > (I mean, who deliberately chooses “KNUS” for call letters? How stupid can you get?) Back in the 1920s when newspapers were unabashedly for one party or the other, _The Arizona Republic_ bought up the first radio station in the state, KFAD, and requested the call sign be changed to KREP. That lasted about six months until the request came to change it to KTAR, the call sign it retains today despite having several changes of ownership and is no longer associated with the newspaper. ---
**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 20, 2019, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42814 "2019-11-20T04:25:39Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > (I mean, who deliberately chooses “KNUS” for call letters? How stupid can you get?) I don’t get what’s so bad. I’ve cogitated and googled and cogitated and… a bad attempt at “news” or “canoes” is the worst I’ve come up with. ---
**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 20, 2019, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42815 "2019-11-20T04:27:04Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I don’t get what’s so bad. I’ve cogitated and googled and cogitated and… a bad attempt at “news” or “canoes” is the worst I’ve come up with. You’re not the only one. I thought KNUS for a news station was a pretty good idea. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42816 "2019-11-20T12:32:43Z")
More Fun with Medicine by Medically Ignorant Republican Legislators: > [@](#): > > **Ohio’s proposed abortion ban would require doctors to reimplant ectopic pregnancies, but that’s not possible** > > In Ohio, anti-abortion-rights groups and 20 Republican lawmakers recently proposed an abortion ban that would, in most cases, consider doctors who perform abortions guilty of aggravated murder. > The new proposal would also require doctors to attempt to reimplant ectopic pregnancies in the uterus. Ectopic pregnancies occur when a fertilized egg attaches itself outside the uterus, where it can’t grow. > The Ohio proposal ignores the fact that reimplanting an ectopic pregnancy in the uterus is “physiologically impossible,” said Dr. Chris Zahn, the vice president of practice activities at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. > Attempting to reimplant an ectopic pregnancy can be extremely dangerous, but treating it correctly can save a pregnant person’s life. > … > > The new proposal would also require doctors to attempt to reimplant ectopic pregnancies in the uterus, where it’s supposed to grow. Ectopic pregnancies occur when a fertilized egg attaches itself outside the uterus, where it can’t develop. > > But the Ohio proposal ignores the fact that reimplanting an ectopic pregnancy is “physiologically impossible,” said Dr. Chris Zahn, the vice president of practice activities at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. In fact, attempting that is extremely dangerous, and the technology needed to do it doesn’t even exist. > > … > > Once the fertilized egg, the damaged tissue, and the fallopian tube are removed from the pregnant person’s body, it’s impossible to reimplant the pregnancy in the uterus, because no procedure exists to do so, Zahn said. > > “It is not possible to move an ectopic pregnancy from a fallopian tube, or anywhere else it might have implanted, to the uterus,” he said. > > Even if there were such a procedure, it still probably wouldn’t be possible, because in many cases the fertilized egg is not intact after an ectopic pregnancy, Dr. Donnica Moore, the host of the podcast “In the Ladies’ Room with Dr. Donnica,” told Insider. > **[Ohio's proposed abortion ban would require doctors to reimplant ectopic...](https://www.businessinsider.com/ohio-abortion-ban-proposal-can-you-reimplant-ectopic-pregnancies-2019-11)** > > Ectopic pregnancies, where a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus, cannot be salvaged. Attempting to reimplant the tissue is dangerous. > **[Ohio's Gynoticians say: Let's Reimplant Ectopic Pregnancies!](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/19/1900618/-Ohio-s-Gynoticians-say-Let-s-Reimplant-Ectopic-Pregnancies?utm_campaign=trending)** > > Their so-called “heartbeat” bill wasn’t extreme enough. Ohio’s Republican lawmakers have been in the news again this week for proposing to make all abortions illegal and charge doctors who perform abortion with aggravated murder, subject to a life... ---
**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 20, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42817 "2019-11-20T14:59:11Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > More Fun with Medicine by Medically Ignorant Republican Legislators: > > [https://www.insider.com/ohio-abortion-ban-proposal-can-you-reimplant-ectopic-pregnancies-2019-11](https://www.insider.com/ohio-abortion-ban-proposal-can-you-reimplant-ectopic-pregnancies-2019-11) > > [Ohio's Gynoticians say: Let's Reimplant Ectopic Pregnancies!](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/19/1900618/-Ohio-s-Gynoticians-say-Let-s-Reimplant-Ectopic-Pregnancies?utm_campaign=trending) WTF?? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42818 "2019-11-20T16:29:08Z")
They call themselves “pro-life,” yet they’ll happily support legislation that endangers the life of the mother. On the other hand, I’m convinced that a small number of these legislators are so ignorant when it comes to science that they hear “ectopic pregnancy” and think that there’s a little bitty misplaced baby that must be put back in the right place. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42819 "2019-11-20T16:38:11Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I don’t get what’s so bad. I’ve cogitated and googled and cogitated and… a bad attempt at “news” or “canoes” is the worst I’ve come up with. I assume they’re assuming people will pronounce it to sound like ‘anus’ with a K sound at the start. The only case of doing that with a radio’s call letters I can think of is CHUM and CHUM-FM up here, though, so I’m not sure why… ---
**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 20, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42820 "2019-11-20T16:39:28Z")
> [@](#): > > On the other hand, I’m convinced that a small number of these legislators are so ignorant when it comes to science that they hear “ectopic pregnancy” and think that there’s a little bitty misplaced baby that must be put back in the right place. Kinda like putting a birdie back in the nest it’s fallen out of. ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42821 "2019-11-20T16:53:30Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > They call themselves “pro-life,” yet they’ll happily support legislation that endangers the life of the mother. > > On the other hand, I’m convinced that a small number of these legislators are so ignorant when it comes to science that they hear “ectopic pregnancy” and think that there’s a little bitty misplaced baby that must be put back in the right place. They hate women. They REALLY hate women who have sex. Abortion is idiotically easy to reduce in numbers: sex education; access to birth control; fighting sexism; education, period; helping abused women leave abusive men; support for actual mothers, like daycare and things like that that enable women to support themselves. Instead, the anti choicers still promote lies after forty years: rape never causes pregnancy, that there are NEVER health reasons to end a pregnancy, and that Planned Parenthood makes zillions of dollars on abortions. If they really think abortion is murder, then why aren’t they arresting men who impregnate women, then? A man can impregnate God knows how many women per month, but women can only have one pregnancy per YEAR. ---
**Author:** ![Jane\_Elliot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jane_elliot/32/6166_2.png) [@Jane\_Elliot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jane_Elliot)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42822 "2019-11-20T19:00:53Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > You’re not the only one. I thought KNUS for a news station was a pretty good idea. I think what people objecting to this are seeing is K-Noose, and with the k silent, just plain old Noose. You know, that thing that people threaten to use to keep certain people in their place. ---
**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 20, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42823 "2019-11-20T19:19:34Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > They call themselves “pro-life,” yet they’ll happily support legislation that endangers the life of the mother. > > On the other hand, I’m convinced that a small number of these legislators are so ignorant when it comes to science that they hear “ectopic pregnancy” and think that there’s a little bitty misplaced baby that must be put back in the right place. The pro-life position is an intellectual fraud perpetrated by those who don’t give a drop of rat’s piss about anyone’s life; it’s a position that uses a fetus as a rhetorical battering ram against the wall that protects a woman’s personal liberty. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42824 "2019-11-20T19:22:02Z")
Justified by a belief in magic. ---
**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 21, 2019, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42825 "2019-11-21T11:02:02Z")
KNUS is also SUNK backwards, if that helps any. Otherwise, I got nothing. Also: fuck Ohio Republicans. ---
**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 21, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42826 "2019-11-21T14:30:11Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > I assume they’re assuming people will pronounce it to sound like ‘anus’ with a K sound at the start. > > The only case of doing that with a radio’s call letters I can think of is CHUM and CHUM-FM up here, though, so I’m not sure why… I don’t know if anyone is expecting anyone to say it out loud, but whenever I see KNUS, I read it as “Kay-nus.” And it doesn’t matter how old you are, butts are always funny. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42827 "2019-11-21T15:29:04Z")
That’s the way I was reading it. Didn’t know there was another way. ---
**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 21, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42828 "2019-11-21T17:41:58Z")
**[Top Trump health official spent $3 million on contractors who helped boost her visibility](https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/top-trump-health-official-spent-3-million-on-consultants-who-helped-boost-her-visibility/2019/11/20/67c342c2-0ae8-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.htmlhttp://)** > [@](#): > > Earlier this year, a top Republican communications operative delivered a plan to boost the profile of Seema Verma, President Trump’s appointee overseeing health insurance for the elderly and poor. The “Executive Visibility Proposal” was a month-by-month blueprint to have her grant interviews to Women’s Day and other magazines, speak at prominent conferences and appear at Washington’s most prestigious social events. > > Marked “privileged, pre-decisional, deliberative,” the eight-page proposal, emailed to Verma’s deputy chief of staff, was part of an unusual campaign carried out by high-paid contractors Verma brought on at a cost to taxpayers of more than $3 million. > > This work over 19 months that provided “strategic communication” services by a network of politically connected contractors and subcontractors, first reported by Politico, came as Verma spoke about the importance of fostering individual responsibility and self-reliance among the nation’s needy. > … :smack: Hell, I’d have done it for $1 million. But there’s more: > [@](#): > > …As chief of a $1 trillion Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services within the Department of Health and Human Services, Verma has forged a far more partisan and outspoken brand than almost any of her predecessors. Typically, CMS administrators are visible on Capitol Hill and elsewhere but focus on the wonkish details of public insurance programs. Verma, in contrast, has emerged as one of the administration’s champions of conservative health policies, decrying the single-payer models of health care advocated by liberal Democratic presidential candidates while embracing some of the right’s favorite ideas, including Medicaid work requirements and shifting more decision-making to states. > > Offstage but irksome to some CMS staffers, the strategic communications consultants— at least two dozen of them, documents show — formed an extragovernmental team that helped guide Verma where she wanted to go politically, oversaw some decisions by communication staff and attempted to **elevate her profile in ways that go beyond what federal consultants usually are hired to do — and possibly beyond what contracting law permits** , according to the documents, individuals familiar with the team’s role and an expert on government ethics. > … My bold. Ethics are for Losers! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2140) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2142)