# 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:** 2230
**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 9, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44591 "2020-06-09T03:54:42Z")
Tucker Carlson tells his white viewers that them black folks are coming for them. > ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44592 "2020-06-09T15:41:11Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Compromat or gutless weasel who wants to keep his position and power. > > Whatever. > > Right now, whatever can be done to destroy him utterly needs to be done. Well, for Compromat to work, you need a gutless weasel. Of all the Trump ass-kissers, Graham seems to have tarnished his reputation the most (since he started with a halfway decent one) Susan Collins might be a close second. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44593 "2020-06-09T16:00:35Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Tucker Carlson tells his white viewers that them black folks are coming for them. > [https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1270151261934030852](https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1270151261934030852) I was watching John Oliver just last night where he calls Carlson a [professional alarmist](https://youtu.be/Wf4cea5oObY?t=1555). ---
**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 9, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44594 "2020-06-09T18:24:08Z")
Fox news is now backpedaling on Carlson’s comment. They’re now saying “When he said they were coming for you, he meant they were coming for Democratic politicians.” ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44595 "2020-06-09T18:48:10Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Fox news is now backpedaling on Carlson’s comment. They’re now saying “When he said they were coming for you, he meant they were coming for Democratic politicians.” “Oh, was our dog whistle too loud? Never mind, we never said what we said” I guess they thought of the “It was only a joke” narrative, but that did not work. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44596 "2020-06-09T19:27:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Fox news is now backpedaling on Carlson’s comment. They’re now saying “When he said they were coming for you, he meant they were coming for Democratic politicians.” OK, so who’s “they” supposed to be, then? Makes pretty much no sense at all the way FOX seems to be spinning it. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44597 "2020-06-09T19:30:52Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > OK, so who’s “they” supposed to be, then? Makes pretty much no sense at all the way FOX seems to be spinning it. It does not have to make any sense. At all. Fox might as well say: “Well, obviously, the lefties did not understand Carlson’s comment because purple monkey dishwasher.” Gaslighting is de rigueur. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44598 "2020-06-09T23:06:29Z")
The shit didn’t fall far from the asshole. Don Jr.'s sheep-hunting trip cost taxpayers at least $75K in Secret Service protection alone. > **[Don Jr’s Mongolian hunting trip cost $60k more than Secret Service originally...](https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/don-jr-mongolian-hunting-trip-cost-75k/)** > > Donald Trump Jr.’s controversial trophy hunting trip to Mongolia cost taxpayers nearly $60k more than the government previously disclosed. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44599 "2020-06-09T23:10:43Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > OK, so who’s “they” supposed to be, then? Makes pretty much no sense at all the way FOX seems to be spinning it. “They” are bad boys, of course. As in “Whachu gonna do when they come for you?” ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44600 "2020-06-10T00:57:51Z")
Some woman Loreal (the cosmetics company) hired apparently said that racism was inherited. As Fox News commentators are wont to do, Tucker Carlson found a quote from a nobody, and represented it as mainstream liberal dogma. Nothing new about that. Except he got a little carried away in his monologue tonight, and at the 8 minute mark said, “Sin cannot be inherited. That’s insane.” Thereby saying Jesus died for nothing. The basic premise of Christianity is that all people have inherited Adam’s sin, and the only way to expunge it was for Jesus to die on the cross. I expect crickets from his evangelical followers, but I’m making some popcorn anyway. > ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44601 "2020-06-10T01:44:05Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > The shit didn’t fall far from the asshole. Don Jr.'s sheep-hunting trip cost taxpayers at least $75K in Secret Service protection alone. > > [Don Jr’s Mongolian hunting trip cost $60k more than Secret Service originally admitted - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington](https://www.citizensforethics.org/don-jr-mongolian-hunting-trip-cost-75k/) Why protection? Were the sheep armed? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44602 "2020-06-10T02:02:42Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > I expect crickets from his evangelical followers, but I’m making some popcorn anyway. You are labouring under the misapprehension that Trump’s evangelical base has one single scintilla of knowledge about the bible or theology. They don’t have a clue about original sin. Their bible says to kill the gays and that making money is terrific. ---
**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 10, 2020, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44603 "2020-06-10T02:36:43Z")
Their Bible also says that Catholics are evil because they only do what their priests say, instead of reading the Bible. They know that, because that’s what their preachers tell them. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44604 "2020-06-10T03:07:06Z")
Isn’t there also something about the Pope? ---
**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 10, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44605 "2020-06-10T03:16:41Z")
My evangelical grandmother told me that Catholics won’t go to heaven because they pray to idols. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2020, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44606 "2020-06-10T03:23:27Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Their Bible also says that Catholics are evil because they only do what their priests say, instead of reading the Bible. They know that, because that’s what their preachers tell them. > [@zoid](#): > > Isn’t there also something about the Pope? > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > My evangelical grandmother told me that Catholics won’t go to heaven because they pray to idols. Oh, and don’t get them started on us Lattrer-day Saints! ---
**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 10, 2020, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44607 "2020-06-10T03:30:23Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Isn’t there also something about the Pope? Revelation 27:9 _And lo, didst the Pontiff venture unto the sylvan wilderness, and did so wander thither and yon until, at once, with a great hue and cry, came to pinch a loaf upon the cruft and bracken_ ---
**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:** [June 10, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44608 "2020-06-10T03:32:09Z")
That should be Latter-day Saints in my post above. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44609 "2020-06-10T13:39:04Z")
My understanding is that the Pope and his personal clutch of bishops are…_trying to take over the world._ Also, I hope Junior _ate_ that sheep. That’s a lot of mighty tasty endangered sheep meat, there, shame to waste it. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44610 "2020-06-10T14:09:07Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > You are labouring under the misapprehension that Trump’s evangelical base has one single scintilla of knowledge about the bible or theology. They don’t have a clue about original sin. Their bible says to kill the gays and that making money is terrific. And that all [del]fetuses, fertilized eggs. embryos[/del] babies (same thing) have to be born, but once they’re born, they’re on their own. Food, medical care, child care, education-- HA! Shoulda thoughta that before that roll in the hay! What do you think we are, a bunch of commie socialists?? Your kid–your problem! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2229) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2231)