# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588 "2023-07-04T21:42:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 496
**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:** [February 12, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9901 "2025-02-12T13:39:21Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > My cousin is a Eugenic. Eugene, OR is a nice town. I’m a 1%-er. Don’t know what the big deal is; I drink lowfat milk all the time. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2025, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9902 "2025-02-12T15:17:22Z")
Yuge Ennix, with a name like that, it has to be great! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9903 "2025-02-12T16:11:24Z")
Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart make for great eugenics. ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9904 "2025-02-12T18:24:48Z")
No, ugly can be more than appearance. John Coffey from The Green Mile: “Mostly, I’m tired of people being ugly to each other.” ---
**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:** [February 12, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9905 "2025-02-12T18:25:21Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I dont truly think that anyone in this thread actually believes in eugenics. The thing is, if you “don’t believe in eugenics”, then you don’t really believe in evolution. You absolutely could breed humans to increase or decrease any given genetically-linked trait. We do it all the time with animals, and evolution does it all the time, albeit randomly. The problem with eugenics historically, as a philosophy, is that it was racists deciding which traits were desirable, and they thought things like “If they’re White and Blonde, they’re obviously going to be smarter!”, and acted accordingly. In the world of Idiocracy, it wasn’t a matter of choices being imposed on the breeding population by some evil or misguided authority. Their choices were individual, and it was social and economic pressures that drove the more intelligent to reduce their breeding, and the less intelligent to increase it. Unless you believe that intelligence has absolutely no genetic component, in such a world, the changes shown are entirely possible. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9906 "2025-02-12T19:21:18Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > In the world of Idiocracy, it wasn’t a matter of choices being imposed on the breeding population by some evil or misguided authority. Their choices were individual, and it was social and economic pressures that drove the more intelligent to reduce their breeding, and the less intelligent to increase it. Unless you believe that intelligence has absolutely no genetic component, in such a world, the changes shown are entirely possible. The difference between this and eugenics is that eugenics is INTENDED ACTIONS to get to a specific result; the world of Idiocracy was random events. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9907 "2025-02-12T19:42:38Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > The difference between this and eugenics is that eugenics is INTENDED ACTIONS to get to a specific result; the world of Idiocracy was random events Well, yes, which is why I don’t like the “If you think Idiocracy is possible, you’re a eugenicist!” argument. That was my point. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9908 "2025-02-12T19:44:46Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > the world of Idiocracy was random events Not actually random, though. Smarter people delayed their families for practical/personal reasons, while lower-intellect people just bred like rabbits, leading to an increase in less intelligent people. Education, in its way, made the country stupider.        The reality is almost certainly more complex. The evidence that smart is genetic is lacking, human intelligence is not on a linear scale, and the things that spur intellectual growth are at least partly, if not mostly, environmental (living in a den of idiots may supress ones mental growth or it may drive the child to seek a better place). And, of course, selective breeding trends into monoculture, which ultimately leads to a more vulnerable populace. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9909 "2025-02-12T23:14:47Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > And, of course, selective breeding trends into monoculture, which ultimately leads to a more vulnerable populace. I don’t think that’s true for humans. Many people find outgroup individuals more attractive. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9910 "2025-02-12T23:50:01Z")
Idiocracy, like all science fiction, wasn’t about the future. It was set in the future, but it was about the present. People are stupid right now. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9911 "2025-02-13T01:39:15Z")
Anna Luna wants Congress to subpoena the members of the Warren Commission and the doctors who performed JFK’s autopsy. Who are kinda, you know, all dead. > **[GOP Congresswoman wants to interview dead witnesses in new JFK assassination...](https://www.nj.com/news/2025/02/gop-congresswoman-wants-to-interview-dead-witnesses-in-new-jfk-assassination-probe.html)** > > There's a glaring problem with what the GOP lawmaker says she wants to do. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9912 "2025-02-13T03:16:40Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Who are kinda, you know, all dead. It’s part of the cover-up! That’s how deep the rabbit hole goes! I bet Hilary had something to do with these deaths. She married Bill Clinton. [Young Bill Clinton had met JFK](https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/five-decades-ago-bill-clinton-meets-jfk-flna6c10736784). JFK is later assassinated. That’s only one degree of separation from the assassination. Connect the dot! There must have been details in her emails. [We know the Clintons have had over 50 people killed.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_body_count_conspiracy_theory) ---
**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:** [February 13, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9913 "2025-02-13T03:33:10Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Who are kinda, you know, all dead Well, there is precedent. > **[Cadaver Synod](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod)** > > The Cadaver Synod (also called the Cadaver Trial; Latin: Synodus Horrenda) is the name commonly given to the ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, who had been dead for about seven months, in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome during January 897. The trial was conducted by Pope Stephen VI, the successor to Formosus' successor, Pope Boniface VI. Stephen had Formosus' corpse exhumed and brought to the papal court for judgment. He accused Formosus of perjury, of having acceded to the papac ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9914 "2025-02-13T03:46:02Z")
Unfortunately, the position of Necromancer of the House of Representatives has been vacant since the Carter administration. We tried calling the recruiting agency, but they keep demanding a blood sacrifice from Chip Roy, and you know how he is about needles… ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9915 "2025-02-13T03:52:49Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Trudeau is nothing special I think that he is a warm and fuzzy puppet of Gerald Butts and Katie Telford. Hopefully they’ll soon be unemployed. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9916 "2025-02-13T05:16:45Z")
‘If it wasn’t for woke Satanic libs, spectral evidence would be allowed!’ ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9917 "2025-02-13T13:41:02Z")
Know someone who worked in Capitol Hill who had to constantly clarify she was in no way related to THAT Luna. Because this is entirely in character for this congresswoman. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9918 "2025-02-13T14:08:08Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Unfortunately, the position of Necromancer of the House of Representatives has been vacant since the Carter administration. We tried calling the recruiting agency, but they keep demanding a blood sacrifice from Chip Roy, and you know how he is about needles… Some may call it necromancy. I call it raising a family. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9919 "2025-02-13T14:17:29Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > they keep demanding a blood sacrifice from Chip Roy, and you know how he is about needles… Don’t need a needle . . . ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9920 "2025-02-13T14:21:09Z")
> [@Maus\_Magill](#): > > I call it raising a family. Hey, they raise one, and I’ll gladly raze one [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=495) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=497)