# 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:** 2194
**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:** [March 28, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43869 "2020-03-28T20:53:31Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I’m pretty sure the only good things to ever come out of Kentucky are bourbon and my grandmother. At least she had the good sense to move to Oregon early on. Hey, I resemble that remark! I was born in Kentucky. I moved away when I was just 3 months old, but technically, I did come out of there. ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43870 "2020-03-28T22:20:37Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Actually it didn’t, but Trump issued a signing statement saying he would not comply with the Congressional oversight written into the bill. The law and order president. Ten dollars\* says he announces in a week or so that he’s using money from this bill on his Wall. \*Not really ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43871 "2020-03-29T01:20:53Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Actually it didn’t, but Trump issued a signing statement saying he would not comply with the Congressional oversight written into the bill. The law and order president. That’s right. He’s the law and order president. There’s the law, which he ignores, and then the order he issues. Two totally different critters. What’s not to understand? ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43872 "2020-03-29T07:18:04Z")
> [@tripthicket](#): > > Ten dollars\* says he announces in a week or so that he’s using money from this bill on his Wall. No, there probably won’t be anything left over after he uses it on his resorts. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43873 "2020-03-29T08:59:04Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > No, there probably won’t be anything left over after he uses it on his resorts. Those resorts are walled off, aren’t they? He can use the money to repair/maintain those walls and say they’re needed to protect the country’s best interests. (I.e., his.) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43874 "2020-03-29T11:10:49Z")
Gonna throw a big dance and costume party to celebrate. Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, the Beach Boy… ---
**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:** [March 30, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43875 "2020-03-30T17:27:54Z")
[ **The Conservative Campaign Against Safety** _How did we get to the point where ministers, the president, many Republican politicians, and a variety of media outlets are calling for people to risk death to save the economy?_](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/conservative-campaign-security/608986/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlantic+%28The+Atlantic+-+Master+Feed%29) > [@](#): > > …After barely a week of a partial lockdown in many parts of the country, Donald Trump and others are now complaining that overly risk-averse public-health officials are threatening to strangle the economy. Trump insists that excessive caution is counterproductive and dangerous: “THE CURE CANNOT BE WORSE (BY FAR) THAN THE PROBLEM,” he tweeted on March 22. During a briefing at the White House the next day he added: “Our country wasn’t built to be shut down. America will again, and soon, be open for business.” > > Conservatives have supported and extended Trump’s position. Writing in The Washington Post on March 25, the columnist Gary Abernathy claimed that both the stimulus plan passed by the Senate and the shelter-at-home proclamations had completed the nation’s march to socialism begun “incrementally decades ago.” “The delicate balance between freedom and risk was less than an afterthought as our economy was gutted in a matter of days,” … > > **Other conservatives have framed protective measures as a threat not only to America’s rugged individualism but to masculinity.** The Christian pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth referred to social distancers as “sissies” and “pansies” who have been “neutered,” and described Christians who use hand sanitizer as having “fake faith” and “no balls.” Another minister said he would never close his church, because his congregants were not “pansies.” > … My bold. Now that’s hitting below the belt! :rolleyes: Using hand sanitizer makes you a _pansy_ with _no balls_? Words fail me. ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43876 "2020-03-30T17:40:02Z")
These are the people who think that it’s your fault if something bad happens to you. You didn’t believe in god enough or you had some other character deficit that caused you to get sick. And the shitheads who say that god will protect you. Well he didn’t protect the infant who died from COVID that I heard about recently. I guess that baby just wasn’t godly enough, or god punished the baby for its parents not being devout enough. I wish hell existed so these assholes who think this way could go there someday and realize, belatedly, the error and unkindness in their thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Running\_with\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43877 "2020-03-30T18:28:48Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > [ **The Conservative Campaign Against Safety** > _How did we get to the point where ministers, the president, many Republican politicians, and a variety of media outlets are calling for people to risk death to save the economy?_](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/conservative-campaign-security/608986/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlantic+%28The+Atlantic+-+Master+Feed%29) Yes, folks, this is the “pro-life” party. Unless that life is actually outside the womb. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43878 "2020-03-30T19:31:20Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > That’s right. He’s the law and order president. There’s the law, which he ignores, and then the order he issues. Two totally different critters. What’s not to understand? You got it wrong. He has to make sure the greens and fairways are maintained: he is the lawn order president. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43879 "2020-03-30T19:44:46Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > You got it wrong. He has to make sure the greens and fairways are maintained: he is the lawn order president. _threatens **eschereal** with an [appropriately long golf club](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxwdhweBmv8)_ ---
**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:** [March 31, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43880 "2020-03-31T02:24:21Z")
Meanwhile…while our attention is focused elsewhere. \*\*“U.S. to Announce Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules, a Key Effort to Fight Climate Change” \*\* > **[U.S. to Announce Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules, a Key Effort to Fight...](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/climate/trump-fuel-economy.html?smid=em-share)** > > The Trump administration has finalized new fuel efficiency standards, lowering expectations from 54 miles per gallon by 2025 to 40 miles a gallon by 2030. > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is expected on Tuesday to announce its final rule to rollbackObama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards, relaxing efforts to limit climate-warming tailpipe pollution and virtually undoing the government’s biggest effort to combat climate change. > > The new rule, written by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation, would allow cars on American roads to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the vehicles than they would have under the Obama standards and hundreds of millions of tons more than will be emitted under standards being implemented in Europe and Asia. > > Trump administration officials raced to complete the auto rule by this spring, even as the White House was consumed with responding to the coronavirus crisis. President Trump is expected to extol the rule, which will stand as one of the most consequential regulatory rollbacks of his administration, as a needed salve for an economy crippled by the pandemic. > > The lower fuel-efficiency standard “is the single most important thing that the administration can do to fulfill President Trump’s campaign promise of reforming the regulatory state, and to undo the impact that the previous administration has had on the economy,” said Thomas J. Pyle, the president of the Institute for Energy Research, an organization that supports the use of fossil fuels. > > … On a mission to erase every trace of that Kenyan Muslim president, what’s-his-name. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43881 "2020-03-31T02:31:26Z")
Federal judges in Onio and Texas have ruled that those states must immediately reinstate abortion procedures after their governors called abortions non-essential surgeries. > **[Judges block abortion bans in Ohio and Texas during coronavirus pandemic](https://theweek.com/speedreads/905806/judges-block-abortion-bans-ohio-texas-during-coronavirus-pandemic)** ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43882 "2020-03-31T03:08:56Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > On a mission to erase every trace of that Kenyan Muslim president, what’s-his-name. Nixon? ---
**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:** [March 31, 2020, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43883 "2020-03-31T05:54:34Z")
Senator Ron Johnson calls for Individual 1 to reopen parts of the economy because “death is an unavoidable part of life” > **[GOP senator calls on Trump to reopen parts of the coronavirus-stricken...](https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-open-economy-coronavirus-death-unavoidable-part-johnson-life-2020-3)** > > Sen. Ron Johnson suggested drawing up lists of "nonessential businesses" that pose health risks and keeping them closed. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43884 "2020-03-31T13:47:08Z")
Reminds me of the joke about a preacher who comes upon a group of boys who are up to no good. he lectures them a bit finishing up with, “You do want to go to heaven, don’t you?” and they all chorus yes, but for one kid who says, “Not me!” “What? You don’t want to go to heaven when you die?” “Oh! When I die, sure – I thought you were rounding up a bunch to go right now!” Can I wish Johnson is collected to right now? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43885 "2020-03-31T18:29:46Z")
Wasn’t sure if this belonged here or in the Trump Clusterfuck thread, but it looks like Moscow Mitch is trying to blame Trump’s mismanagement of the coronavirus outbreak on the impeachment. Yeah, like he would have been right on top of it otherwise. :rolleyes: [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mcconnell-blame-impeachment-trump-administration-slow-response-coronavirus](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mcconnell-blame-impeachment-trump-administration-slow-response-coronavirus) ---
**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:** [March 31, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43886 "2020-03-31T18:36:38Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Wasn’t sure if this belonged here or in the Trump Clusterfuck thread, but it looks like Moscow Mitch is trying to blame Trump’s mismanagement of the coronavirus outbreak on the impeachment. Yeah, like he would have been right on top of it otherwise. :rolleyes: > [McConnell Blames Impeachment For Trump Admin’s Slow Response To Coronavirus](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mcconnell-blame-impeachment-trump-administration-slow-response-coronavirus) I’m sure all of the political rallies he held in the early part of the year and the golf trips up until early March were not interfering with him dealing with the crisis. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43887 "2020-03-31T19:15:04Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Wasn’t sure if this belonged here or in the Trump Clusterfuck thread, but it looks like Moscow Mitch is trying to blame Trump’s mismanagement of the coronavirus outbreak on the impeachment. Yeah, like he would have been right on top of it otherwise. :rolleyes: > [McConnell Blames Impeachment For Trump Admin’s Slow Response To Coronavirus](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mcconnell-blame-impeachment-trump-administration-slow-response-coronavirus) To be fair, the CFSG can hardly concentrate on one thing at a time, so expecting him to handle impeachment and a pandemic is hardly fair. There is only so much tweeting one man can be expected to do. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2020, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43888 "2020-04-01T02:50:53Z")
Sebastian Gorka claims he had the coronavirus back in January. > **['I had the longest cough': Ex-Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka claims he had...](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/i-had-the-longest-cough-ex-trump-adviser-sebastian-gorka-claims-he-had-undiagnosed-coronavirus-in-january)** > > Sebastian Gorka, a former adviser to President Trump, claimed he had an undiagnosed case of coronavirus back in January. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2193) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2195)