# 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:** 2174
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43469 "2020-02-09T19:05:51Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > While we’re on this Qanon thing… > Was never sure if it was pronounced “can-on”, “qua-non”, or what the hey, but then this [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN8z8KIEofo) distinctly says it like “can-in-non”, no? > What? Is it not Cue-Anon? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43470 "2020-02-09T20:27:15Z")
A “Q” level clearance isn’t such a big thing anyway, if it’s the same as the “Q” clearance I once had. I worked at a secure government facility in the 1970’s, with a thousand-or-so employees and we all had to have a security clearance to work there. The “Q” clearance seemed to be the standard basic level of clearance for the masses, that everyone there had. I think there were higher levels of clearance for some of the really sensitive stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43471 "2020-02-09T20:56:08Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > A “Q” level clearance isn’t such a big thing anyway, if it’s the same as the “Q” clearance I once had. I worked at a secure government facility in the 1970’s, with a thousand-or-so employees and we all had to have a security clearance to work there. The “Q” clearance seemed to be the standard basic level of clearance for the masses, that everyone there had. I think there were higher levels of clearance for some of the really sensitive stuff. …which again, not surprising that the Qanon idiots think it’s better than it is. This has been explained to them before, but I’m sure most people here know how well explaining things to idiots usually goes. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43472 "2020-02-09T22:46:39Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Is it not Cue-Anon? That’s how I’ve always pronounced it. Rumor is that Q is Dan Scavino, Trump’s former golf caddy turned White House social media director. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43473 "2020-02-09T23:33:35Z")
How [DARE](https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/right-wing-pundits-demand-pelosis-arrest-after-she-tears-trumps-speech) Nancy tears up that patriotic SOTU speech! > [@](#): > > Right-wing media figures have begun freaking out over a moment during Tuesday night’s State of the Union when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) tore up what Trump assistant Dan Scavino called a signed copy of President Donald Trump’s remarks soon after he finished his speech — and some are demanding her arrest. > > A majority of the complaints — which came from people like conservative radio host and QAnon conspiracy theorist Bill Mitchell, Carl Higbie, and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, among others— focus on an alleged violation of federal criminal law regarding the destruction of specific government documents. Scroll about ten tweets down to Susan Hennessy’s tweet - I like the politico article she linked about the delegated “tearer-uppers” trying to cover for President What Rex Called Me. ---
**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 9, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43474 "2020-02-09T23:35:04Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > While we’re on this Qanon thing… > Was never sure if it was pronounced “can-on”, “qua-non”, or what the hey, but then this [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN8z8KIEofo) distinctly says it like “can-in-non”, no? > What? It is pronounced “前嫌” (typically romanized as “_qian xian_”), which means something like resentment/grudge. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43475 "2020-02-09T23:40:09Z")
I stand corrected. They’re “tapers”. ETA: Not tearer-uppers. 🙂 ---
**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:** [February 10, 2020, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43476 "2020-02-10T00:22:59Z")
'Tapers" are deadheads with recording equipment. They can also be angles on machine shop stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43477 "2020-02-10T00:46:01Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > 'Tapers" are deadheads with recording equipment. They can also be angles on machine shop stuff. Or a type of candle. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2020, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43478 "2020-02-10T01:24:54Z")
Also **tapirs,** a tropical mammal resembling a hog. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43479 "2020-02-10T02:24:26Z")
…and probably shouldn’t ignore the [Rupert Pupkin-y type of taping](https://youtu.be/rmqKnrsXz88?t=546) as well the [other kind of taping](https://youtu.be/rmqKnrsXz88?t=517), which then of course gets [really steamy](https://youtu.be/RdZA4FrgOi4?t=124). ---
**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:** [February 10, 2020, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43480 "2020-02-10T02:54:37Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Is it not Cue-Anon? It’s “Blithering Idiot”. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43481 "2020-02-10T14:27:34Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > A “Q” level clearance isn’t such a big thing anyway, if it’s the same as the “Q” clearance I once had. I worked at a secure government facility in the 1970’s, with a thousand-or-so employees and we all had to have a security clearance to work there. The “Q” clearance seemed to be the standard basic level of clearance for the masses, that everyone there had. I think there were higher levels of clearance for some of the really sensitive stuff. Not even that. [Q clearance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_clearance) is issued by the DOE and deals with atomic stuff, both the kind that goes bang and the kind that generates electricity. While a person with Q clearance also has also Top Secret Compartmented information clearance – the level I had in the Navy – he or she would have no more access to the stuff I knew than I would to the innards of the latest hydrogen bomb. Clearance does not confer access carte blanche to everything. As always that is on a need to know basis. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43482 "2020-02-10T18:35:11Z")
Saying the quiet part out loud: > [@](#): > > [CPAC chairman says he would fear for Mitt Romney’s ‘physical safety’ at conference](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/10/cpac-chair-mitt-romney-impeachment/) > > …On Sunday, one influential conservative went so far as to say he could not be sure of Romney’s safety at a major right-wing gathering, alarming some of the Utah senator’s defenders and – in some critics’ eyes – crossing a line from outrage to threat. > > Matt Schlapp, chairman of the Conservative Political Action Conference, made the controversial comments Sunday as he explained why Romney would be excluded from this year’s four-day event… ---
**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:** [February 10, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43483 "2020-02-10T20:32:30Z")
Brit Hume from Fox News: The idea that rich people are running the country is a conspiracy theory. [Fox News’ Brit Hume Says It’s a ‘Conspiracy Theory’ to Think Billionaires Are ‘Running the Country’](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-brit-hume-says-its-a-conspiracy-theory-to-think-billionaires-are-running-the-country)? ---
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43484 "2020-02-11T00:51:03Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > It’s “Blithering Idiot”. Yeah, I’m with this. Don’t even bother to pronounce it correctly. Screw ‘em. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43485 "2020-02-11T01:37:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Brit Hume from Fox News: The idea that rich people are running the country is a conspiracy theory. > [Fox News’ Brit Hume Says It’s a ‘Conspiracy Theory’ to Think Billionaires Are ‘Running the Country’](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-brit-hume-says-its-a-conspiracy-theory-to-think-billionaires-are-running-the-country)? Yeaaaah, it’s the gardeners and dishwashers who are running the country? ---
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43486 "2020-02-11T01:48:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Brit Hume from Fox News: The idea that rich people are running the country is a conspiracy theory. > [Fox News’ Brit Hume Says It’s a ‘Conspiracy Theory’ to Think Billionaires Are ‘Running the Country’](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-brit-hume-says-its-a-conspiracy-theory-to-think-billionaires-are-running-the-country)? Well of course. Rich people are leaders and innovators and job creators and are therefore responsible when things go well, but not when things go wrong. That’s just common sense. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43487 "2020-02-11T10:01:23Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Saying the quiet part out loud: Things Romney needs to watch out for: - Workmen setting up a pike outside RNC headquarters - Any event where one of the guests flies in from Saudi Arabia and brings his own bone saw - Seeing Trump approach him while they are both walking down Fifth Avenue ---
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43488 "2020-02-11T10:56:24Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Things Romney needs to watch out for: > > - Workmen setting up a pike outside RNC headquarters > - Any event where one of the guests flies in from Saudi Arabia and brings his own bone saw > - Seeing Trump approach him while they are both walking down Fifth Avenue The gift of an umbrella. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2173) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2175)