# Awesome dumbshit conservative bumper sticker **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 16, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318 "2010-12-16T01:36:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/1 "2010-12-16T01:36:07Z")
“THE SECOND AMENDMENT MAKES THE OTHER NINE AMENDMENTS POSSIBLE” (on the bumper sticker of a Plymouth Voyager, next to a McCain/Palin sticker). Sometimes newspapers make misprints in their haste, sometimes politicians slip when making spontaneous comments. But it in order to bring me this laugh, it had to be fucked up by an artist, a printer, a retailer, and a consumer, none of whom apparently found anything amiss. Now it’s semi-permanently stuck to the wingnut’s car. It’s so breathtakingly stupid that all I can really do is applaud. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/2 "2010-12-16T01:47:52Z")
It’s almost like Prohibition never happened, for some people. ---
**Author:** ![Keith\_Berry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/22d042/32.png) [@Keith\_Berry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith_Berry)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/3 "2010-12-16T01:50:36Z")
As a printer, I can honestly state that mistakes like this slip through the production phase quite often----but then again, it’s not really our job to check for mistakes. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2010, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/4 "2010-12-16T01:59:46Z")
Maybe he just thinks 11 through 27 are made possible some other way. Through the prohibition of forced quartering of soldiers, for example. Or perhaps he’s a total sandhead. People who would advertise their support of Sarah Palin are at the end of one bell curve or another. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/5 "2010-12-16T02:05:23Z")
Maybe he only LIKES the first 10. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/6 "2010-12-16T02:06:25Z")
Or perhaps they’re commandments to the constitution … ? “thou shalt have the right to bear arms” ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/7 "2010-12-16T02:09:16Z")
I’m embarrassed to admit that it took me several seconds to suss out what was wrong with that statement. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/8 "2010-12-16T02:19:54Z")
If I ever happen to see a car with this bumper sticker, I’m going to try to get a picture of the owner’s smiling face next to it, with a big thumbs up as well. Then I’m gonna post it to failblog. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/9 "2010-12-16T02:32:50Z")
> [@Cosmic Relief](#): > > “THE SECOND AMENDMENT MAKES THE OTHER NINE AMENDMENTS POSSIBLE” > > (on the bumper sticker of a Plymouth Voyager, next to a McCain/Palin sticker). > > Sometimes newspapers make misprints in their haste, sometimes politicians slip when making spontaneous comments. But it in order to bring me this laugh, it had to be fucked up by an artist, a printer, a retailer, and a consumer, none of whom apparently found anything amiss. Now it’s semi-permanently stuck to the wingnut’s car. It’s so breathtakingly stupid that all I can really do is applaud. In fairness if you were a printer somebody paid you to print “CHILD ABUSE: LET’S BEAT IT LIKE A STEPCHILD!” or “OBAMA: GO BACK TO KENYA” bumper stickers you’d probably do it, and with retailers if there was money to be made you’d probably sell it. (No idea how stores select their bumper stickers- anyone know if they pick them from a catalog or just have a selection sent over?) ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/10 "2010-12-16T02:38:58Z")
The other nine which, collectively, make up the rest of what everyone knows as the super-important Bill of Rights. What’s the big deal? ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/11 "2010-12-16T02:54:36Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > The other nine which, collectively, make up the rest of what everyone knows as the super-important Bill of Rights. > > What’s the big deal? For one thing, the bumper sticker, as written, implies that there are only ten amendments. I’m not speaking for the OP, of course, but that’s my take. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/12 "2010-12-16T03:07:23Z")
> [@LeeshaJoy](#): > > I’m embarrassed to admit that it took me several seconds to suss out what was wrong with that statement. :smack: There is a great deal wrong with the underlying thinking, if “thinking” is not too strong a word; the Second Amendment makes **nothing** else in the Constitution “possible.” Anyone who thinks an armed citizenry is a bulwark against tyranny however defined is an idiot. However, there is **nothing** wrong with it so far as numbers are concerned; it obviously refers only to the original BOR and not to subsequent amendments. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/13 "2010-12-16T03:20:41Z")
> [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > For one thing, the bumper sticker, as written, implies that there are only ten amendments … Thou shalt have no other amendments before me? Or covet the ass of thy neighbor’s amendment? Moses came down from the mountain with some similarly spelled bit of the constitution, didn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/14 "2010-12-16T03:44:22Z")
Meh. Surely there’s some more important issue that you can be a liberal douchebag about, although I suppose that would require understanding things and having independent thoughts, which you are probably incapable of. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/15 "2010-12-16T03:52:27Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Meh. Surely there’s some more important issue that you can be a liberal douchebag about, although I suppose that would require understanding things and having independent thoughts, which you are probably incapable of. As, once again, the pot calls the glass black. ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/16 "2010-12-16T03:54:17Z")
Maybe he’s had the bumper sticker since the 1790’s and he just hasn’t gotten around to replacing it? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/17 "2010-12-16T05:22:59Z")
The people who have that bumper sticker probably think the other 9 amendments include Freedom of Speech, Freedom from Fear, The Pledge of Allegiance, Right to one Phone Call, Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery, and Dopey. (I’ll grant they could probably get the First Amendment.) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/18 "2010-12-16T05:24:32Z")
Plymouth Voyager. What a piece of shit. Maybe the sticker was holding something in place. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/19 "2010-12-16T05:34:39Z")
Well after the first 10, Ohio was not legally a state so . . . ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/20 "2010-12-16T07:03:04Z")
If it were true, wouldn’t it need to be the First amendment? (I see\*\* Squink\*\* covered that with ‘Thou shalt have no other amendments before me’). I’ll add the ‘In God We Trust’ amendment to **Sampiro’s** list. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318.md?page=2)