# 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:** 2
**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, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/21 "2010-12-16T07:07:38Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > 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.) Don’t forget Mind Your Own Business, Keep Your Nose Clean, and Keep Your Hands to Yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/22 "2010-12-16T07:24:01Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > 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. Thomas Jefferson was an idiot? ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/23 "2010-12-16T07:28:07Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Thomas Jefferson was an idiot? Maybe a tense problem here? “was” = 18th century thinking, “thinks” = thinks right now? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/24 "2010-12-16T09:12:28Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Don’t forget Mind Your Own Business, Keep Your Nose Clean, and Keep Your Hands to Yourself. The Lord Loves a Workin’ Man, and Don’t Trust Whitey. How many is that so far? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/25 "2010-12-16T09:18:19Z")
Gob helps those who helps themself to yo’ stuff, but touch mine & hell’s-a-comin’. Early to bed & early to rise makes a man next to Gobliness. ---
**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, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/26 "2010-12-16T12:34:20Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > 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. Not that it’s really the printer’s job, but if I were the printer and noticed that the sticker had a typo, misspelling, or a grammatical error, I like to think I’d ask the customer if that’s really how they want it to go out. Either way my comment was on the number of people who had to have let this pass uncorrected from design to bumper-affixing. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/27 "2010-12-16T13:12:04Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > 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. In a pinch you could always substitute [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Buddy_christ.jpg). Just needs a bit of a haircut to be a decent-looking redneck. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/28 "2010-12-16T13:58:52Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Maybe he only LIKES the first 10. Republicans have already advocated for repealing the 14th. They probably don’t like the 19th all that much, either. Perhaps this bumper sticker is just anticipating some point in America’s future. ---
**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, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/29 "2010-12-16T14:05:29Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > Republicans have already advocated for repealing the 14th. Wrong (as per usual). ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/30 "2010-12-16T14:19:08Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > Republicans have already advocated for repealing the 14th. They probably don’t like the 19th all that much, either. Oddly, you make exactly the same kind of mistake with that statement as the bumper sticker in question. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/31 "2010-12-16T14:20:02Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Wrong (as per usual). Nope you’re wrong. > [@](#): > > Last week Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., **said he was considering introducing a Constitutional amendment to repeal a provision of the 14th Amendment** , which guarantees citizenship to anyone born within U.S. borders. Bolding mine. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/32 "2010-12-16T14:20:45Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Wrong (as per usual). Ignorance of current events is not an excuse. Doesn’t the rock you live under get cable t.v.? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/33 "2010-12-16T14:23:58Z")
> [@Acid\_Lamp](#): > > Nope you’re wrong. > > Bolding mine. A provision of the amendment is not the entire amendment. Just like the first 10 amendments are not the entirety of all the amendments. Got anything else you’d like to bold? ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/34 "2010-12-16T14:38:39Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > A provision of the amendment is not the entire amendment. Just like the first 10 amendments are not the entirety of all the amendments. > > Got anything else you’d like to bold? Got any more hairs you’d like to split? ---
**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, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/35 "2010-12-16T14:49:07Z")
Also, one republican senator does not equal “republicans.” ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/36 "2010-12-16T14:49:09Z")
> [@Acid\_Lamp](#): > > Got any more hairs you’d like to split? How is it that the OP excoriates the car’s owner for suggesting the first ten amendments constitute all the amendments, and he’s applauded for the post… and you suggest that one provision of the Fourteenth Amendment constitutes all of the amendment, and it’s splitting hairs? ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/37 "2010-12-16T14:49:11Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Got anything else you’d like to bold? Sure: [http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/08/whither-the-14th-amendment.html](http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/08/whither-the-14th-amendment.html) Chalk it up perhaps to election-year bizarreness, but suddenly the capital is debating whether the **14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution ought to be repealed, refined or left alone.** [http://www.southernstudies.org/2010/11/tea-party-leader-denying-vote-to-those-without-property-makes-sense.html](http://www.southernstudies.org/2010/11/tea-party-leader-denying-vote-to-those-without-property-makes-sense.html) David DeGerolamo: **“I want the 14th Amendment repealed.”** Website of Kevin Craig for Congress (conservative Libertarian, but not a Republican): [Repeal the 14th Amendment! -- KEVIN CRAIG - "Liberty Under God" Beginning in Missouri's 7th Congressional District](http://kevincraig.us/14thAmendment.htm) **Congress should • repeal the 14th Amendment** Should I assume that you agree with me about Republicans and the 19th amendment, since you raised no objection to that? ---
**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:** [December 16, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/38 "2010-12-16T14:51:20Z")
Yeah, but those don’t count because it disproves John’s and Rand’s arguments. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/39 "2010-12-16T14:51:23Z")
Although perhaps I shouldn’t be so hasty. Could the OP clarify if his gripe is with the implication that there are only ten amendments in total, or is his gripe with the underlying sentiment that the Second Amendment enjoys a place of primacy in a cause-and-effect analysis of the Constitution’s freedoms? ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318/40 "2010-12-16T14:53:57Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > How is it that the OP excoriates the car’s owner for suggesting the first ten amendments constitute all the amendments, and he’s applauded for the post… and you suggest that one provision of the Fourteenth Amendment constitutes all of the amendment, and it’s splitting hairs? Who gives a monkey turd about the OP? I was talking to **RandRover** , who was making a sweeping denial of any action against the 14th. So he’s allowed to be vague but I’m not? Please. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-dumbshit-conservative-bumper-sticker/564318.md?page=3)