# 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:** 2228
**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:** [June 7, 2020, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44551 "2020-06-07T12:17:42Z")
Wow. Once again, rural talk-tough Republicans show how pathetically _afraid_ they are. Family on a bus with a range of skin tones! _Help!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44552 "2020-06-07T12:53:16Z")
[Newspaper editor calls for the return of the Ku Klux Klan.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/editor-alabama-newspaper-calls-ku-klux-klan-night-ride-again-n973066?fbclid=IwAR03KCSr0pslu3M-zwQMb5QStOJ377GnUbh9qTS8dtoi803ltyYVvvl0Xpo) > [@](#): > > “If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we’d all been better off,” he told the Montgomery Advertiser. “We’ll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them.” ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44553 "2020-06-07T12:57:57Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > In Forks, Washington, a multi-racial family of four was harassed by armed locals, who believed they represented an antifa incursion. The family had arrived in town on a camping trip, traveling in a full-sized school bus. Local police say they were confronted by “seven or eight carloads” of people, who aggressively questioned them about their antifa connections. When the family attempted to drive off, locals felled trees across the roadway to prevent them from escaping. They were only able to leave after a group of students intervened. I think what’s perhaps most hilarious about this is the delusion of the people in Forks. If this family were antifa, and looking to start the revolution, why would they start, all by themselves, in some bumfuck town in the far north-western reaches of Washington state? “If we can take Forks, then we move on to Quillayute, Beaver, and Sappho, and pretty soon we’ll control all the territory between the Olympic Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Then it’s on to Seattle, and soon the whole state will fall. Not long after that, we’ll be marching into Washington, D.C.!!!” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44554 "2020-06-07T13:10:44Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [Newspaper editor calls for the return of the Ku Klux Klan.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/editor-alabama-newspaper-calls-ku-klux-klan-night-ride-again-n973066?fbclid=IwAR03KCSr0pslu3M-zwQMb5QStOJ377GnUbh9qTS8dtoi803ltyYVvvl0Xpo) Was that this year? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44555 "2020-06-07T13:26:17Z")
Dateline of 19 Feb 2019. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44556 "2020-06-07T13:33:06Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Wow…I would have thought it a lot harder to fell trees and drag them across the road to block access. They must have been moving very quickly. If you choose the right trees, and cut them the right way, they’ll fall on the road by themselves. If this road was rural enough for a good campsite, there were probably quite a few decent sized trees close enough to the road to make this easy. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44557 "2020-06-07T14:42:39Z")
The road through Forks is a 2-lane stretch of US 101 with plenty of trees alongside it that could easily be felled across the road. And everyone there (as well as their sister) has a chainsaw. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44558 "2020-06-07T15:09:05Z")
And of course, the Rapid Ewok Response Team. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44559 "2020-06-07T15:15:22Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [Newspaper editor calls for the return of the Ku Klux Klan.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/editor-alabama-newspaper-calls-ku-klux-klan-night-ride-again-n973066?fbclid=IwAR03KCSr0pslu3M-zwQMb5QStOJ377GnUbh9qTS8dtoi803ltyYVvvl0Xpo) > > > [@](#): > > > > “If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we’d all been better off,” he told the Montgomery Advertiser. “We’ll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them.” Sutton (the editor) sold the paper and retired last July. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44560 "2020-06-07T15:32:47Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > And of course, the Rapid Ewok Response Team. Funny as this is, it is obviously not true. It is clearly documented in “Return of the Jedi” that Ewoks are antifa. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44561 "2020-06-07T16:32:02Z")
> [@Steve\_McQwark](#): > > Funny as this is, it is obviously not true. It is clearly documented in “Return of the Jedi” that Ewoks are antifa. You know, if the protesters started cosplaying Luke, Han, Leia et al, I wonder if the “rebel alliance” association would raise their cachet. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44562 "2020-06-07T16:33:20Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Sutton (the editor) sold the paper and retired last July. Glad to hear of it. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44563 "2020-06-07T16:44:19Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > You know, if the protesters started cosplaying Luke, Han, Leia et al, I wonder if the “rebel alliance” association would raise their cachet. Why not? Team Trump has already compared themselves to the Empire. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44564 "2020-06-07T16:44:29Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > I think what’s perhaps most hilarious about this is the delusion of the people in Forks. If this family were antifa, and looking to start the revolution, why would they start, all by themselves, in some bumfuck town in the far north-western reaches of Washington state? > > “If we can take Forks, then we move on to Quillayute, Beaver, and Sappho, and pretty soon we’ll control all the territory between the Olympic Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Then it’s on to Seattle, and soon the whole state will fall. Not long after that, we’ll be marching into Washington, D.C.!!!” It’s because of all those vampires. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44565 "2020-06-07T17:55:05Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A gay porn actor says he’s about to out a senior Republican Senator, initials LG, who is known for hiring gay escorts. > [https://thegailygrind.com/2020/06/05/gay-porn-star-threatens-to-out-homophobic-gop-senator](https://thegailygrind.com/2020/06/05/gay-porn-star-threatens-to-out-homophobic-gop-senator) Wait, is that the guy who made my television? ---
**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:** [June 7, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44566 "2020-06-07T18:47:35Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > You know, if the protesters started cosplaying Luke, Han, Leia et al, I wonder if the “rebel alliance” association would raise their cachet. I’ve already seen one meme of Han’s “[What are you gonna do?](https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2488011/shrug-ben-solo-challenge-goes-viral-star-wars-rise-of-skywalker-fans-honor-han-solo-son-matching-moves)” shrug after the Ewok battle, with the label, “I guess I’m a terrorist now?” on it. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44567 "2020-06-07T20:23:25Z")
Matt Gaetz tweeted, “I don’t wanna live in a nation too woke for the amazing @IvankaTrump.”, and the response was what could have been expected. > ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44568 "2020-06-07T21:04:16Z")
I’m all for the Yellowstone supervolcano losing its cool, as long as it only takes out eastern Washington and Oregon, and Idaho. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44569 "2020-06-07T21:50:20Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I’m all for the Yellowstone supervolcano losing its cool, as long as it only takes out eastern Washington and Oregon, and Idaho. That is asinine. I myself was born in the upper right-hand corner of Oregon and, though I get up there rarely, I do not want my hometown leveled. It is more sensible to figure out how we can get along with each other than to go wiping out the people who annoy us. I get pissed off at some of the stuff that comes out of that area (I mean, look at Idaho: of course it is full of shit, what do you expect from a place that is shaped like a toilet) but getting rid of all of the people still eliminates a notable contingent of decent people, and even many of the apparent assholes are not utterly evil but just a bit slow or something. Getting rid of those people is the level of othering worthy of the topical dregs of this thread. Knock it off. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44570 "2020-06-07T22:20:05Z")
There IS no getting along with these people. Nothing they say or think should be acknowledged as possibly sensible. It’s the coddling of the right-wing that has led to our current situation. I don’t REALLY want them all to die, but something has to be done to discredit them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2227) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2229)