# 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:** 2231
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44611 "2020-06-10T14:49:35Z")
> [@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/) Sheep-hunting? I thought this might be some sort of joke, so I clicked the link: > [@](#): > > The eight day trip was already controversial for many reasons: **Don Jr. was retroactively awarded a permit to hunt an endangered argali sheep after he already killed it** , he had a private meeting with Mongolia’s president that we still don’t know much about, and hunted alongside a major Republican donor, as originally reported in ProPublica. These Secret Service payments show how much taxpayer money directly funded Don Jr.’s trip, and show that the cost was much steeper than the agency originally admitted. Was the sheep hobbled or castrated before the “hunt”? Or did Donnie and his Secret Guards bravely face the unhobbled sheep? (In the latter case, shouldn’t Donnie be decorated for valor?) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44612 "2020-06-10T15:19:31Z")
Secret Service Agent - “Honey, I have an assignment to go to Mongolia to protect a man that is going to hunt endangered sheep” Wife - “WHAT?” Wife wakes up next morning “I have to lay off the LSD. Honey, honey? Where did you go?” ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44613 "2020-06-10T16:37:42Z")
[Fox News host talks race by calling out the real enemy: Sesame Street’s Elmo](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/10/fox-news-sesame-street-elmo-tucker-carlson) ---
**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:** [June 10, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44614 "2020-06-10T16:49:31Z")
> [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#): > > [Fox News host talks race by calling out the real enemy: Sesame Street’s Elmo](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/10/fox-news-sesame-street-elmo-tucker-carlson) “No, you’re the puppet!” “Really, Tucker? And who’s hand is jammed up _your_ ass and making you speak?” ---
**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 10, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44615 "2020-06-10T17:35:34Z")
> [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#): > > [Fox News host talks race by calling out the real enemy: Sesame Street’s Elmo](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/10/fox-news-sesame-street-elmo-tucker-carlson) Hey, conservatives, you’re _already_ beyond parody; you don’t need to keep pushing the envelope! ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44616 "2020-06-10T17:40:44Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > “No, you’re the puppet!” > > “Really, Tucker? And **who’s** hand is jammed up _your_ ass and making you speak?” Whose. That is all. 😉 ---
**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, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44617 "2020-06-10T17:45:40Z")
> [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#): > > [Fox News host talks race by calling out the real enemy: Sesame Street’s Elmo](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/10/fox-news-sesame-street-elmo-tucker-carlson) “Honey? Apparently we have to hate Elmo now.” “What?” “Fox News is telling us that Elmo is Antifa, and we hate him.” “OK then, I’ll add Elmo to the list of things and people we hate. This is getting exhausting!” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44618 "2020-06-10T18:15:05Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Hey, conservatives, you’re _already_ beyond parody; you don’t need to keep pushing the envelope! Not only pushing the envelope, but licking and cutting themselves on it! (Thanks to Red Green.) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44619 "2020-06-10T20:53:07Z")
I’ve stopped posting most of the Oklahoma crap that goes on, there’s just too much, but this is a real winner: > **[Right Wing Cowboy Sheriff Is Forming A Posse - The Lost Ogle](https://thelostogle.com/2020/06/10/right-wing-cowboy-sheriff-is-forming-a-posse)** > > Howdy partners! Are you a law and order tough guy? Have you ever wanted to pretend to be a cop? Do you want to help preserve and reinforce racist institutions that target people of color? Then we have some good news for you! Canadian County Sheriff... "…Canadian County Sheriff Chris West announced Tuesday his office is accepting applications for a group of local volunteer residents to assist deputies in “safeguarding lives and property.” Dubbed the “Sheriff’s Posse,” West said in a news release that the group would “serve as a rapid response force of citizens who could be called upon ‘in a minute’s notice’ to answer the call to aid in safeguarding lives and property, as well as the constitutional rights of innocent law abiding citizens of Canadian County.” The goal is to recruit a diverse set of individuals with varying skills, from prior law enforcement officers to doctors or veterinarians, West said…" What could go wrong? He also mentions that this is not in response to current BLM protests - wink, wink. Note that all OK counties went for Trump last election. This guy also has a history. ---
**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, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44620 "2020-06-10T21:40:45Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > I’ve stopped posting most of the Oklahoma crap that goes on, there’s just too much, but this is a real winner: > > [Right Wing Cowboy Sheriff Is Forming A Posse - The Lost Ogle](https://www.thelostogle.com/2020/06/10/right-wing-cowboy-sheriff-is-forming-a-posse/) > > "…Canadian County Sheriff Chris West announced Tuesday his office is accepting applications for a group of local volunteer residents to assist deputies in “safeguarding lives and property.” > > Dubbed the “Sheriff’s Posse,” West said in a news release that the group would “serve as a rapid response force of citizens who could be called upon ‘in a minute’s notice’ to answer the call to aid in safeguarding lives and property, as well as the constitutional rights of innocent law abiding citizens of Canadian County.” > > The goal is to recruit a diverse set of individuals with varying skills, from prior law enforcement officers to doctors or veterinarians, West said…" > > What could go wrong? He also mentions that this is not in response to current BLM protests - wink, wink. > > Note that all OK counties went for Trump last election. This guy also has a history. I guess they’ll be ordering lots of rope, amirite? ---
**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, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44621 "2020-06-10T21:42:58Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > The goal is to recruit a diverse set of individuals with varying skills, from prior law enforcement officers to doctors or veterinarians, West said…" “Sure we’re a diverse group. We have a guy with red hair. We even have a guy that lived in Chicago for a year.” ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44622 "2020-06-10T22:30:52Z")
Shoot, more Oklahoma - and not from the Onion. "…Tulsa Police Department Maj. Travis Yates, who is white, spoke to podcast host Pat Campbell on Monday about the ongoing national protests against police brutality and racial injustice following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a white Minneapolis officer was seen kneeling on his neck. “You get this meme of, ‘Blacks are shot two times, two and a half times more,’ and everybody just goes, ‘Oh, yeah,’” Yates said on the podcast. "They’re not making sense here. You have to come into contact with law enforcement for that to occur.”… “…Yates also specifically cites a Washington Post database on police shootings and encourages listeners to review the data. However, that analysis found that although half of the people shot and killed by police are white, black Americans are shot at a disproportionate rate…” Except looking at the data - "…They account for less than 13 percent of the U.S. population, but are killed by police at more than twice the rate of white Americans. Hispanic Americans are also killed by police at a disproportionate rate,” the database states. U.S. police officers are almost four times more likely to use force on black people than white people, according to a 2016 study published in the American Journal of Health. Black men are nearly three times more likely than white men to be killed by police intervention, according to the study." I lived in Oklahoma (job related) for a while and still follow local news - an accident scene, you just can’t look away.:o ---
**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 11, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44623 "2020-06-11T02:46:03Z")
Ohio legislator asks if the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting black people worse because the “colored population” doesn’t wash their hands. [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lawmaker-asks-if-e2-80-98colored-population-e2-80-99-not-washing-their-hands-as-well-as-others-behind-covid-rates/ar-BB15jy9b](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lawmaker-asks-if-e2-80-98colored-population-e2-80-99-not-washing-their-hands-as-well-as-others-behind-covid-rates/ar-BB15jy9b) ---
**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 11, 2020, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44624 "2020-06-11T05:09:59Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Whose. That is all. 😉 And, no doubt, it’s a tongue, not a hand, crammed up there. ---
**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 11, 2020, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44625 "2020-06-11T05:21:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ohio legislator asks if the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting black people worse because the “colored population” doesn’t wash their hands. > [MSN](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lawmaker-asks-if-e2-80-98colored-population-e2-80-99-not-washing-their-hands-as-well-as-others-behind-covid-rates/ar-BB15jy9b) Yet again I feel the need to mention the one and only one positive aspect of the current administration in the United States: the racist fucks have no compunction against showing who they are and exactly how racist they are. (Hint: there’s no degree to it–you’re either racist or you’re not.) ETA: Oh, and “the _colored_ population”? WTF? Did he forget there’s a particular word in the language starting with N that “his kind of people” use? ---
**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 11, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44626 "2020-06-11T13:00:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ohio legislator asks if the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting black people worse because the “colored population” doesn’t wash their hands. > [MSN](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lawmaker-asks-if-e2-80-98colored-population-e2-80-99-not-washing-their-hands-as-well-as-others-behind-covid-rates/ar-BB15jy9b) No, that they don’t KNOW HOW to wash their hands. He’s claiming that the “colored population” is just stupid, not inherently dirty. ---
**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 11, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44627 "2020-06-11T17:16:08Z")
Not Republicans per se but Trump supporters and I don’t want to start _another_ thread. Anger over anti-Fascist _Resistance Radio_ broadcast. Problem is that it was a [companion piece](https://io9.gizmodo.com/trump-supporters-get-mad-because-they-think-the-man-in-1793159888) for Amazon’s _Man in a High Castle_ series. Somewhere, Orson Welles is smiling. ---
**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 11, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44628 "2020-06-11T18:01:25Z")
NASCAR driver (who has never won a race) is quitting because NASCAR has banned Confederate flags. He has also in the past said that Democrats are trying to steal the election, and that “illegals” got stimulus checks that he couldn’t get. > **[NASCAR driver who quit over Confederate flag ban slammed Dems over checks to...](https://www.alternet.org/amp/nascar-driver-who-quit-over-confederate-flag-ban-slammed-dems-over-checks-to-illegals-2647814707)** > > It took stock-car racing driver Ray Ciccarelli just a few hours to respond to the news Wednesday that NASCAR is banning the Confederate flag from all its events and properties. He quit.In an angry Facebook post Ciccarelli insisted he doesn’t... ---
**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 11, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44629 "2020-06-11T18:06:38Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > NASCAR driver (who has never won a race) is quitting because NASCAR has banned Confederate flags. He has also in the past said that Democrats are trying to steal the election, and that “illegals” got stimulus checks that he couldn’t get. > [NASCAR driver who quit over Confederate flag ban slammed Dems over checks to ‘illegals’ - Alternet.org](https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/nascar-driver-who-quit-over-confederate-flag-ban-slammed-dems-over-checks-to-illegals/amp/) Good. Maybe his state will give him a check for banging his sister or something. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44630 "2020-06-11T18:39:08Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > NASCAR driver (who has never won a race) is quitting because NASCAR has banned Confederate flags. He has also in the past said that Democrats are trying to steal the election, and that “illegals” got stimulus checks that he couldn’t get. > [NASCAR driver who quit over Confederate flag ban slammed Dems over checks to ‘illegals’ - Alternet.org](https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/nascar-driver-who-quit-over-confederate-flag-ban-slammed-dems-over-checks-to-illegals/amp/) So he’s a loser and a quitter? No wonder he likes the Confederate Flag so much. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2230) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2232)