# 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:** 1039
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20762 "2015-04-03T14:07:47Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > [Is this actually for real](http://www.conservapedia.com/Mystery:Why_Do_Non-Conservatives_Exist%3F)? > > Because it reads like a comedy bit. Oh, believe me, that is by no means the funniest thing you will find on [Conservapedia.](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia) E.g., check out the page on [Poe’s Law](http://www.conservapedia.com/Poe%27s_law). ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20763 "2015-04-03T14:08:00Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > [Is this actually for real](http://www.conservapedia.com/Mystery:Why_Do_Non-Conservatives_Exist%3F)? > > Because it reads like a comedy bit. Poe’s Law. ETA: Ninjaed! ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20764 "2015-04-03T14:11:02Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > [Is this actually for real](http://www.conservapedia.com/Mystery:Why_Do_Non-Conservatives_Exist%3F)? > > Because it reads like a comedy bit. It’s widely believed that many of the editors of Conservapedia are actually trolls who are actively trying to make it look stupid. I have no idea if that’s true or not. Conservapedia is an archetypal example of Poe’s Law. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20765 "2015-04-03T14:12:37Z")
Thanks, I just now understood where Fox news does its background research. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20766 "2015-04-03T15:30:33Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > I can’t guarantee these guys are stupid Republicans, but their ideas absolutely fall under libertarian/Tea Party/general right-wing talking points. Check out their website if you want to go falling down their rabbit hole [http://www.iowalive.net](http://www.iowalive.net). Beware of mid-1990s website design and indiscriminate use of the term “EVIL!!!” Thanks for this link. The [page describing their derivation](http://www.iowalive.net/integrityderivation.htm) is one of the most amusing examples I’ve seen of trying to use technobabble to hide the fact that they are making the numbers up out of thin air. All I can tell you is that its on a log scale, and once they modify the algorithm to use mresitors they will be able to perfectly determine a persons integrity changing the world forever. > [@](#): > > Integrity awards for deserving newspapers, radio and TV stations will become routine!! The same applies to clerics, lawyers, businesses, schools, governments, judges, teachers, journalists, politicians and political parties etc. Are you ready for this? Will there be efforts to halt or drive memristor technology development, refinement and use out of the country–to avoid exposure of the truth? Who would fear the truth and want to do that–criminals, the Federal Government? Please keep a very watchful eye on development of this technology–or its sudden demise. > > The Integrity Index Levels derived by Iowalive net workers are infantile, compared to the levels obtainable from use of memristor technology. The numerical, Integrity Index Levels provided by Iowalive net workers merely introduce you to what is to come. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20767 "2015-04-03T15:43:45Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Well, at least all the percentages add up to 100%. That’s something. It says that reconsideration of liberal beliefs can be triggered when > [@](#): > > 10%: a loss of a loved one that resulted from accepting or promoting liberal values, as in losing a loved one to crime caused by pornography, drug addiction, gambling, etc. I don’t see “loved one becomes an SDMB mod” on there, but someone pass me some Marx, quick, before I’m triggered! ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20768 "2015-04-03T15:50:12Z")
Conservapedia is comparable to Uncyclopedia, but without the humor and factual basis. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20769 "2015-04-03T15:52:30Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > Conservapedia is comparable to Uncyclopedia, but without the humor and factual basis. I think it’s hilarious. It reminds me of Mr. Burns telling a story. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20770 "2015-04-03T16:06:46Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > It’s widely believed that many of the editors of Conservapedia are actually trolls who are actively trying to make it look stupid. I have no idea if that’s true or not. Conservapedia is an archetypal example of Poe’s Law. See [Deep-cover liberal](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Deep_cover_liberal). ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20771 "2015-04-03T16:08:19Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > …but someone pass me some Marx, quick, before I’m triggered! “One morning, I shot an elephant in my pajamas! How the elephant got into my pajamas, I have no idea!” - Marx ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20772 "2015-04-03T16:47:45Z")
Ted Cruz says for Christians, discriminating against gays is the same as [Jews keeping kosher](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-cruz-banning-anti-gay-discrimination-public-services-forcing-rabbi-eat-pork): > [@](#): > > “Nobody in their right mind would force a Catholic priest to perform a Protestant wedding. Likewise, nobody in their right mind would force a Jewish rabbi to perform a Christian wedding or, for that matter, to violate kosher and go consume pork,” he said. “We have long had a tradition from the beginning of this country of respecting religious liberty and accommodating and respecting the good-faith religious views of our citizens.” ---
**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:** [April 3, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20773 "2015-04-03T18:19:14Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > [Is this actually for real](http://www.conservapedia.com/Mystery:Why_Do_Non-Conservatives_Exist%3F)? > > Because it reads like a comedy bit. At least it’s honest - those are just “estimates” for all value of estimate = delusional guess. Welcome to a scary cult where the thinking is that everyone who holds a slightly different idea is the enemy, treasonous, and a threat to all things American. ☹ ---
**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:** [April 3, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20774 "2015-04-03T19:05:20Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > It’s widely believed that many of the editors of Conservapedia are actually trolls who are actively trying to make it look stupid. I have no idea if that’s true or not. Conservapedia is an archetypal example of Poe’s Law. One of the founders is the son of [a genuinely vile woman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly) who just about makes the [nastiest “female” RW hack I can think of](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter) look as sweet as Laura Ingalls Wilder. That said, one could note that [one of the sons of Madalyn Murray O’Hair](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Murray) became a religious nutcase, so the argument that Conservapedia could be a sly false-flag-ish operation is not wholly without merit. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20775 "2015-04-03T19:27:37Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Ted Cruz says for Christians, discriminating against gays is the same as [Jews keeping kosher](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-cruz-banning-anti-gay-discrimination-public-services-forcing-rabbi-eat-pork): Didn’t Father Mulcahey do all the denominations on MASH? I seem to recall he did a briss as well. That would be SOP for a unit in the field without a full complement of chaplains. I guess Ted thinks the U.S. military isn’t in its right mind. **Why do you hate America, Ted?** ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20776 "2015-04-03T19:32:28Z")
Indiana pastor defends the “religious freedom” law: [“Cake is speech.”](http://www.salon.com/2015/04/03/the_rights_cake_insanity_you_wont_believe_how_its_trying_to_deflect_the_indiana_backlash/) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20777 "2015-04-03T19:40:59Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Indiana pastor defends the “religious freedom” law: [“Cake is speech.”](http://www.salon.com/2015/04/03/the_rights_cake_insanity_you_wont_believe_how_its_trying_to_deflect_the_indiana_backlash/) So, since Money is Free Speech, too ([http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-j-samuelson-in-politics-money-is-speech/2014/04/04/075df4ec-bc18-11e3-9a05-c739f29ccb08\_story.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-j-samuelson-in-politics-money-is-speech/2014/04/04/075df4ec-bc18-11e3-9a05-c739f29ccb08_story.html) ), does this mean that Cake is now a Political Contribution? Will bakers, with their vast stores of cake at their disposal, lord it over the rest of us, pushing more and more flour- and oven-based legislation? I say make them eat those words. Let them eat Cake. And who is one of the most avaricious cake-eaters? Tom Cotton, who eats cake every day!\* > **[Sen. Tom Cotton eats birthday cake with ice cream every day. Yes, really.](https://www.vox.com/2015/4/3/8340443/tom-cotton-birthday-cake)** > > Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology,... \*True, apparently. Unless it’s a late April Fool’s gag. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20778 "2015-04-03T19:50:39Z")
> [@](#): > > I think most Americans would agree that a pastor like myself should not be compelled by the government to use my speech to support someone else’s perspective. I think that has parallels to the cake maker. The cake maker is using his or her artistic ability to make a cake and that cake communicates something. Pretty sure the only thing wedding cake communicates is “you’re going to regret eating that third slice later”. The cake cannot be trusted, anyway. The cake is a lie. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20779 "2015-04-03T20:20:43Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > And Pat Robertson says [the gays all just want to make us like sodomy and bestiality.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-gays-will-force-you-anal-sex-bestiality) Sing with me, brothers and sisters! “All they are saying/Is give beasts a chance!” ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20780 "2015-04-03T20:31:36Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Pretty sure the only thing wedding cake communicates is “you’re going to regret eating that third slice later”. > The cake cannot be trusted, anyway. The cake is a lie. You can get a very nice cake for 60 dollars. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20781 "2015-04-03T20:38:01Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > You can get a very nice cake for 60 dollars. You can get a loaf of white bread and a can of frosting, for a tenth of that, and have damn near as much fun! (Come to think of it, who needs the bread? A can of frosting and a spoon, and that’s entertainment!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1038) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1040)