# 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:** 2170
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43389 "2020-01-30T00:19:22Z")
Brothers and Sisters, can we have a little Christian charity and tolerance for those we disagree with? > **[Right-Wing Pastor Says Jesus Would Have 'Beat The Crap' Out of John Bolton](https://www.newsweek.com/conservative-pastor-says-jesus-would-have-beat-crap-out-john-bolton-1484767)** > > Conservative preacher Rodney Howard-Browne insisted Jesus would have physically attacked former National Security Adviser John Bolton for his supposed betrayal of President Donald Trump. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43390 "2020-01-30T01:52:29Z")
Beating the crap out of John Bolton is a position that I can totally support. Just because he is fucking up Trump’s shit today doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten about his entire career. Beat the crap out of him, then hold him down and pluck that mustache out of his lip with needle-nosed pliers, hair by hair. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43391 "2020-01-30T14:50:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > House Republicans think an income of $450,000 a year is middle class. > [Republican House Members Think a $450K Salary Is Middle Class](https://www.newsweek.com/tax-cuts-republicans-middle-class-trump-701094) This article is from November 2017. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43392 "2020-01-30T15:04:16Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Brothers and Sisters, can we have a little Christian charity and tolerance for those we disagree with? > > [Conservative Pastor Says Jesus Would Have 'Beat The Crap' Out of John Bolton](https://www.newsweek.com/conservative-pastor-says-jesus-would-have-beat-crap-out-john-bolton-1484767) Wow. Amazing. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43393 "2020-01-30T15:15:57Z")
The latest exhibit in the [“Stay Classy, GOP”](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/wilbur-ross-touts-coronavirus-economic-benefits-u-s-after-saying-n1126366?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma) file: > [@](#): > > Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Thursday that the coronavirus outbreak in China could lead businesses to bring jobs back to the United States and Mexico… ---
**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:** [January 30, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43394 "2020-01-30T16:15:24Z")
**[Trump Administration Moves to Ease Rules Against Killing Birds](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/climate/trump-bird-deaths.html?emc=rss&partner=rss)** > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will move on Thursday to weaken a century-old law protecting migratory birds by dropping the threat of punishment to oil and gas companies, construction crews and other organizations that kill birds “incidentally” in the course of their operations. > > The proposed regulation, if finalized, would cement a legal opinion that the Department of Interior issued in 2017. The agency’s top lawyer argued that previous administrations had interpreted the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 too broadly, and that only actions explicitly intended to kill birds should be forbidden under the federal law. The death of a bird from an oil slick, the blade of a wind turbine or the spraying of illegal pesticides would no longer trigger penalties. > > That interpretation has already had significant consequences for thousands of migratory birds. According to internal agency documents recently obtained by The New York Times, the Trump administration has discouraged local governments and businesses from taking simple precautionary measures to protect birds, and federal wildlife officials have all but stopped investigating most bird deaths. > … Ya know… if trump really wants to lock up the next election, he should just issue an Executive [del]Odor[/del] Order that says anyone, any time, any place can kill any sentient being they choose with no penalty whatsoever. Birds, reptiles, human beings, dogs, fish, elephants-- if it breathes and has a heartbeat, it’s a target. Open season on everything all the time-- carte blanche for corporations, agencies, gun-toting, Bible-thumping fundamentalists-- everyone. No more regulations protecting, well, any person, place, or thing from destruction by anyone. There! That should make his base, both individual AND corporate, happy! Done and dusted. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43395 "2020-01-30T16:36:45Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > **[Trump Administration Moves to Ease Rules Against Killing Birds](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/climate/trump-bird-deaths.html?emc=rss&partner=rss)** > Ya know… if trump really wants to lock up the next election, he should just issue an Executive [del]Odor[/del] Order that says anyone, any time, any place can kill any sentient being they choose with no penalty whatsoever. Birds, reptiles, human beings, dogs, fish, elephants-- if it breathes and has a heartbeat, it’s a target. Open season on everything all the time-- carte blanche for corporations, agencies, gun-toting, Bible-thumping fundamentalists-- everyone. No more regulations protecting, well, any person, place, or thing from destruction by anyone. There! That should make his base, both individual AND corporate, happy! Done and dusted. Waitaminnit! Surely you mean “anyone except democrats an’ liberals”! 🙂 ---
**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:** [January 30, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43396 "2020-01-30T17:44:42Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > Waitaminnit! Surely you mean “anyone except democrats an’ liberals”! 🙂 Nah, all killers are created equal. Hell, give those libs a bunch of guns and they’ll enjoy killin’ just as much as all red-blooded 'Murricans should! The first few kills are hard, but it gets easier. Just like destroying wetlands, habitats, endangered species, and stuff like that. After a while, you don’t even notice anymore, amirite? ---
**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:** [January 30, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43397 "2020-01-30T17:49:29Z")
[Segment Of Trump’s Border Wall Falls Over Into Mexico Due To Wind](https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-border-wall-falls-wind-035158736.html) Trevor Noah’s response: This is the only thing with Trump’s name on it that couldn’t dodge a draft. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43398 "2020-01-30T18:54:28Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > This article is from November 2017. 😕 Dammit. And I’ve been so good at checking dates. I’m sorry. :smack: ---
**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:** [January 30, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43399 "2020-01-30T18:56:19Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > **[Trump Administration Moves to Ease Rules Against Killing Birds](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/climate/trump-bird-deaths.html?emc=rss&partner=rss)** > Ya know… if trump really wants to lock up the next election, he should just issue an Executive [del]Odor[/del] Order that says anyone, any time, any place can kill any sentient being they choose with no penalty whatsoever. Birds, reptiles, human beings, dogs, fish, elephants-- if it breathes and has a heartbeat, it’s a target. Open season on everything all the time-- carte blanche for corporations, agencies, gun-toting, Bible-thumping fundamentalists-- everyone. No more regulations protecting, well, any person, place, or thing from destruction by anyone. There! That should make his base, both individual AND corporate, happy! Done and dusted. Well, Alan Dershowitz did say that anything the President does if he thinks it’s in the interest of the country is good, so killing humans to prevent them from voting against him is a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43400 "2020-01-30T20:28:27Z")
[Tennessee Rep. Van Huss files bill to recognize CNN, Washington Post as ‘fake news’](https://wcyb.com/news/local/tennessee-rep-van-huss-files-bill-to-recognize-cnn-washington-post-as-fake-news?fbclid=IwAR3lrpTay6EOmXV106a6XfEmpaV_ansVWFZYalHVckDroa6oVvy1kXvfql0) > [@](#): > > State Rep. Micah Van Huss (R-Jonesborough) filed a bill in the Tennessee General Assembly that would recognize CNN and the Washington Post as “fake news.” > > The proposed resolution said it would recognize “CNN and the Washington Post as fake news and condemns them for denigrating our citizens.” ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43401 "2020-01-30T20:42:50Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > **[Trump Administration Moves to Ease Rules Against Killing Birds](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/climate/trump-bird-deaths.html?emc=rss&partner=rss)**. Wait, hasn’t he been railing against windmills for killing birds? Plus cancer, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43402 "2020-01-30T21:41:20Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Well, Alan Dershowitz did say that anything the President does if he thinks it’s in the interest of the country is good, so killing humans to prevent them from voting against him is a good thing. [Alan Dershowitz says that Alan Dershowitz didn’t say what we all heard Alan Dershowitz say:](https://apnews.com/12cbb6666003300732c9182fd9e636b0) > [@](#): > > In a day-after tweet, Trump attorney Alan Dershowitz, the defense attorney and former college professor, complained about the portrayal of his testimony Wednesday night that a president, if he believes his re-election is in the “national interest,” is essentially immune from impeachment for actions in support of that idea. > > That argument left even some of Trump’s top allies backing away. > > “They characterized my argument as if I had said that if a president believes that his re-election was in the national interest, he can do anything,” the retired professor said Thursday. “I said nothing like that, as anyone who actually heard what I said can attest.” Let’s see what he said: > [@](#): > > “Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest,” he said Wednesday night. “And if a president does something, which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.” :dubious::rolleyes: Keep talking, Alan Dershowitz; keep talking. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2020, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43403 "2020-01-30T22:31:33Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > [Tennessee Rep. Van Huss files bill to recognize CNN, Washington Post as ‘fake news’](https://wcyb.com/news/local/tennessee-rep-van-huss-files-bill-to-recognize-cnn-washington-post-as-fake-news?fbclid=IwAR3lrpTay6EOmXV106a6XfEmpaV_ansVWFZYalHVckDroa6oVvy1kXvfql0) I think that this Rep. should somehow be honored by using his (Assuming it’s a guy. Stupid fucking shitkicking guy, has to be.) name to represent the eternal redundancy with “stupid” and “Republican”. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2020, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43404 "2020-02-02T02:23:25Z")
A Republican state legislator in Montana claims that [the Constitution says to shoot anyone “found guilty of being a socialist member”](https://billingsgazette.com/news/local/billings-legislator-insists-constitution-says-it-s-ok-to-shoot/article_99c1947f-977d-501d-9396-b91db203fb8a.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_billingsgazette). ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2020, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43405 "2020-02-02T05:04:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > A Republican state legislator in Montana claims that [the Constitution says to shoot anyone “found guilty of being a socialist member”](https://billingsgazette.com/news/local/billings-legislator-insists-constitution-says-it-s-ok-to-shoot/article_99c1947f-977d-501d-9396-b91db203fb8a.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_billingsgazette). The article says he was given several chances to explain and/or clarify his views, and the only tiny walkback he made was saying imprisonment might be an alternative. As Admiral Ronald Reagan said, “Where do we find such men?” ---
**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:** [February 2, 2020, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43406 "2020-02-02T06:38:23Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > As Admiral Ronald Reagan said, “Where do we find such men?” In the manner of disconcert or of a request? (Given how I feel about saint ronnie, I am inclined to infer the latter.) ---
**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:** [February 2, 2020, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43407 "2020-02-02T06:44:05Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > The article says he was given several chances to explain and/or clarify his views, and the only tiny walkback he made was saying imprisonment might be an alternative. > > As Admiral Ronald Reagan said, “Where do we find such men?” The real gem of the article is this bit, though; > [@](#): > > He also proposed a bill during the 2019 session that would have had the state of Montana buy the Colstrip power plant. It was tabled in committee. I wonder if the gentleman knows what it’s called when the state owns the means of production. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2020, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43408 "2020-02-02T07:40:10Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > […] > > I wonder if the gentleman knows what it’s called when the state owns the means of production. It’s not the “s-word” when the state takes over the means of production in order to protect it from being shut down by libtards and ee-co-terrists. (Oddly, while Montana in general skews more rightward than the SoW, it has the same kind of geographic split: “East of the [Continental] Divide” tends to be more agricultural and conservative than the west side. So the location of this dingbat comes as no surprise to me.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2169) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2171)