# 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:** 1018
**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:** [March 25, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20342 "2015-03-25T23:43:07Z")
The PNW has been unusually dry these past few years. The mountain snowpacks are below 10% of normal. And people in the PNW have vanishingly little love for the californians. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20343 "2015-03-25T23:49:40Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Saraħ Palin is little more than a spokesmodel. She has no actual thought process. Palin is starting to look like [this guy.](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/DsYP0ql5mzM/maxresdefault.jpg) ---
**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:** [March 26, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20344 "2015-03-26T03:55:57Z")
David Vitter wants to make sure that the US doesn’t switch to dollar or two dollar coins because, he doesn’t want to make it easier “[for Washington elites to force Americans to give up their dollar bills and use dollar coins, like Europeans](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/25/david-vitter-sick-of-dollar-coins_n_6942482.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013)” ---
**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:** [March 26, 2015, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20345 "2015-03-26T04:06:03Z")
This is an idea I can get behind. FUCK COINS! ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20346 "2015-03-26T04:22:45Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Fish is a food for them bicoastal/bisexual elitist pervs. Finally! 20,000+ posts into the thread and we have a Republican idea I can support! Fuck all you non-coastal states! What Florida catches STAYS in Florida. I can live without salmon if you can live without dolphin (mahi-mahi for those of who’ve never fished). No oysters for you! 🙂 ---
**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:** [March 26, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20347 "2015-03-26T04:31:56Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > I can live without salmon if you can live without dolphin (mahi-mahi for those of who’ve never fished). Mahi-mahi is a fish, not a dolphin. The fish is sometimes called dolphinfish, but it has gills, not a blowhole. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2015, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20348 "2015-03-26T04:35:37Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > David Vitter wants to make sure that the US doesn’t switch to dollar or two dollar coins because, he doesn’t want to make it easier “[for Washington elites to force Americans to give up their dollar bills and use dollar coins, like Europeans](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/25/david-vitter-sick-of-dollar-coins_n_6942482.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013)” > [@silenus](#): > > This is an idea I can get behind. FUCK COINS! I’m surprised a Republican feels that way; it’s a known Democratic Party platform that they want to move us to an all-bill currency. 😉 Myself, I can’t wait to have a pocket full of 25 cent bills! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20349 "2015-03-26T04:58:08Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Mahi-mahi is a fish, not a dolphin. The fish is sometimes called **dolphinfish** , but it has gills, not a blowhole. Or just plain “dolphin”, for short. (Also “dorado”, AIUI) ---
**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:** [March 26, 2015, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20350 "2015-03-26T05:12:02Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I’m surprised a Republican feels that way; it’s a known Democratic Party platform that they want to move us to an all-bill currency. 😉 Myself, I can’t wait to have a pocket full of 25 cent bills! Cash is fading away. Nearly everybody uses cards for stuff anymore. Ten years from now, this will be a non-issue. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20351 "2015-03-26T05:31:08Z")
They need to get rid of pennies, and get rid of dimes. Nickels and quarters, as a good first step. Dimes are as ridiculous as the 2 dollar bill. Nickels exist and quarters exist, and there’s really no need for a coin piece in between them. Nickels essentially replace the function of pennies- 20 of them is a dollar, and dollars are still worth having. And you can reasonably break a dollar with quarters and nickels. 3 quarters and 5 nickels is a dollar. Quarters make half dollars and quarter dollar amounts simple. Anything below 25 cents can be approximated with one or a few nickels. Anything below 5 cents should be rounded up or down, in much the same way fractions of pennies are calculated and dropped today due to interest rates or tax rates. You can easily get by with 2 coins, if we’re so set on having amounts smaller than a quarter, which is the only coin I really feel like having. Anything else is worthless to have around in your pocket, and you only keep them so you can avoid getting MORE change back, and it wastes time to dig around for 89 cents so you can avoid getting 11 cents back. All that change really does is sit in a coffee can at home waiting to be cashed in for actual money, or it gets lost. If you want to have a workable system of coins, 25 cent and 5 cent pieces are plenty. Abolish the penny, and with it, the dime, and the 2 dollar bill, and the 10 dollar bill, and the fifty. What’s the friggen point of those denominations? This is all you need: Nickel Quarter dollar Dollar Five dollar 20 dollar 100 dollar 1000 dollar, etc. Tell me you can’t easily reach any dollar amount you regularly run into with these denominations, give or take 3 pennies. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20352 "2015-03-26T05:40:35Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > In the near future, Justice Moore will valiantly stop a gay couple from intercourse by diving between them as they are about to copulate, causing the penis to penetrate his eye and into his brain, instantly killing him. Horrified at their deed, the gay couple become Evangelical Christians, traveling around the country to speak out against the evils of gay marriage. Their rapid rise in influence forces a beaten Obama to reluctantly sign an Amendment banning gay marriage. Moore is declared a national hero and a statue is erected in his honor at the Capital Building, which is coincidentally where the first people were Raptured as they prayed beneath his stony gaze…as Roy Moore writes in his own fan fiction of How Roy Moore Saved the World I still fail to see how even were Roy Moore to die (and I do not wish death upon him, merely electoral loss) that even one gay marriage would be stopped. I better not mention how even if gay marriage were stopped, there would still be gay sex. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20353 "2015-03-26T05:55:54Z")
> [@lel](#): > > I better not mention how even if gay marriage were stopped, there would still be gay sex. Oh yes, but we can’t stop the sin, we can only hate the sinner and make their lives miserable. And that is how moral people win! ---
**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:** [March 26, 2015, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20354 "2015-03-26T10:52:41Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Well, barges would be a very wasteful solution, but perhaps propellers could be attached to rainclouds and… If only we’d installed more wind farms on the East Coast - all those big fans could have blown the clouds west. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20355 "2015-03-26T11:32:24Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > If only we’d installed more wind farms on the East Coast - all those big fans could have blown the clouds west. Ooh, I know! We could just blow the big fans directly into more wind farms. Just think of the power! UNLIMITED POWER!!! All we need to avoid is people who do this: > **[Undoing](https://xkcd.com/1119/)** > > I've been sneaking out at night and installing lamps on the underside of every photovoltaic panel I can find. Sure, there are upwards of 80% losses, but I prefer to think of them as nearly 20% gains. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20356 "2015-03-26T13:31:58Z")
Not to mention the gross profits to be made in speculation on whirlwind futures, from sowing all that wind ! ---
**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:** [March 26, 2015, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20357 "2015-03-26T14:33:17Z")
> [@gyrate](#): > > if only we’d installed more wind farms on the east coast - all those big fans could have blown the clouds west. WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOOD NIGHT! Won’t let me post in all caps if I don’t add this. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20358 "2015-03-26T15:09:06Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > …as a sociopath. > [http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/25/politics/ben-carson-obama-psychopath-gq/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/25/politics/ben-carson-obama-psychopath-gq/index.html) > > Ben Carson, MD is amongst the very stupidest sacks of shit the current GOP can offer. > [@](#): > > Williams had said Obama looked “elegant” that night. > > And Carson responded: “Like most psychopaths. That’s why they’re successful. That’s the way they look. They all look great.” He’s the POTUS, Dr. Carson. Most POTI look great for their public appearances and television appearances too. They have handlers to make them look great. It’s traditional. They can’t all be Jimmy Carter, wearing a cardigan or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20359 "2015-03-26T15:17:59Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOOD NIGHT! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20360 "2015-03-26T15:51:32Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOOD NIGHT! That’s just because you live in a reality based community. We in the faith based community know it’s just common sense that windmills work that way, and so this is a viable solution. particularly if this means my company can get a big federal subsidy to build them. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20361 "2015-03-26T16:05:20Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > 😃 **gyrate** deserves some of the credit; the setup was too perfect to resist. Frankly, I’m amazed I got to it first. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1017) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1019)