# 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:** 1041
**Author:** ![DeptfordX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DeptfordX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeptfordX)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20802 "2015-04-05T15:24:34Z")
> [@bup](#): > > And your eternal soul. Well we can hardly bring about the reign of eternal darkness under the dark dominion of the Pain-Squids without $10 _and_ your soul can we? Kids these days, expect everything to be handed to them on a plate. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20803 "2015-04-05T15:55:30Z")
One of my religions guarantees your salvation or triple your money back; beat that deal! ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20804 "2015-04-05T17:11:26Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Nevada is one of the 37 states that use debits cards for various benefits, including unemployment compensation. The thing is, you can only get money out in $20 increments. AFAIK, any money left in an account becomes the bank’s money. Even if it reverts to the state, it’s certainly not helping the intended recipient. > > Banks being the middleman between governments and citizens is a bad idea, IMO. You, my friend, are clearly not a bank. ---
**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 5, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20805 "2015-04-05T17:47:49Z")
Do they not take those cards at the grocery store, and the gas station, and the Reel-&-Retch, etc, _ad infinitum_? Young people these days most avoid cash anyway, so the remainder in the account will get spent. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20806 "2015-04-05T20:15:50Z")
Varies state to state. Here in the People’s Republic of Minnesota, you encounter few if any real obstacles, one card for all. Your money is yours just as if you put it there yourself. Other places, they don’t think being poor is adequate penance for not having money. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20807 "2015-04-05T20:49:08Z")
[Joni Ernst thinks that the poor should be sent to Hell.](https://www.facebook.com/FairandBalanced2.0/photos/a.451113035043113.1073741828.237190653102020/469295519891531/?type=1) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20808 "2015-04-05T21:06:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Joni Ernst thinks that the poor should be sent to Hell.](https://www.facebook.com/FairandBalanced2.0/photos/a.451113035043113.1073741828.237190653102020/469295519891531/?type=1) Uh, while I would think it is something she could say, there is no evidence about it elsewhere, we need a better cite than satire or Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20809 "2015-04-05T21:14:36Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Joni Ernst thinks that the poor should be sent to Hell.](https://www.facebook.com/FairandBalanced2.0/photos/a.451113035043113.1073741828.237190653102020/469295519891531/?type=1) I’mma call bullshit on this one. Unless someone can turn up a primary source (and their search-fu at the Des Moines Register site is better than mine.) ---
**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 5, 2015, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20810 "2015-04-05T21:23:22Z")
Yeah, The Des Moines Register ran a recent story about that Facebook page,[it is satire](http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2015/02/20/hoax-news-reports-continue-target-iowas-joni-ernst/23730131/): > [@](#): > > A Facebook account designed to look like an official Fox News Channel page pushes faux quotes. One, on climate change, says that Ernst said: “Do we really want to deprive trees of life-giving carbon dioxide?” and attributes the quote to “Joni Ernst, Fox TV Interview, 1/27/15.” Another is on the minimum wage and another is on Ash Wednesday. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20811 "2015-04-05T21:40:57Z")
Somebody asked that page if she actually said it and they said yes, she did, so I’ve asked them for a link to the Des Moines Register article. ---
**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 5, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20812 "2015-04-05T21:42:17Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Other places, they don’t think being poor is adequate penance for not having money. Take it from me : banks are one of those places. They’ll charge you money for not having enough money. Which seems like a paradox until you meet the guys with the baseball bats and the big van. ---
**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 5, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20813 "2015-04-05T21:53:20Z")
Rick Santorum quotes ‘God Hates Fags’ slogan on national TV to defend ‘religious freedom’ laws > [@](#): > > “If you’re a print shop and you are a gay man, should you be forced to print ‘God Hates Fags’ for the Westboro Baptist Church because they hold those signs up?” he asked. “Should the government — and this is really the case here — should the government force you to do that?” [http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/rick-santorum-quotes-god-hates-fags-slogan-on-national-tv-to-defend-religious-freedom-laws/](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/rick-santorum-quotes-god-hates-fags-slogan-on-national-tv-to-defend-religious-freedom-laws/) ---
**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:** [April 5, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20814 "2015-04-05T22:17:40Z")
[Georgia elementary school teacher tells her students that Obama isn’t a Christian and if their parents voted for him, they aren’t Christian either.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/georgia-teacher-tells-students-their-parents-arent-christians-if-they-voted-for-obama/) ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20815 "2015-04-05T22:19:36Z")
“Liberals want you to believe Jesus loved the poor.” WTF, Iowa? ---
**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 5, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20816 "2015-04-05T22:44:23Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Rick Santorum quotes ‘God Hates Fags’ slogan on national TV to defend ‘religious freedom’ lawshttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/rick-santorum-quotes-god-hates-fags-slogan-on-national-tv-to-defend-religious-freedom-laws/ Aside from being highly offensive, it doesn’t even make sense. Who is the victim of government overreach here? If a gay man discriminates against Westboro Baptist, couldn’t they use the RFRA as a basis of a lawsuit? ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20817 "2015-04-05T23:23:11Z")
nm… ---
**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 6, 2015, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20818 "2015-04-06T01:24:26Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > “Liberals want you to believe Jesus loved the poor.” > > WTF, Iowa? Actually, that bit of scripture is kind of evil. Matt 25:30 is preceded by a parable about a guy who entrusts 4 of his servants, in order, with 10, 5, 2 and 1 talents; the first three invest their funds and get a 100% return, while the servant with 1 talent squirrels it away, which pisses of the master (there is some odd phrasing about how the master reaps where he does not sow, which sounds a little sleazy to me). So then the text reads, [QUOTE=Matthew 25 (Youngs Literal Translation)] **28** `_Take therefore from him the talent, and give to him having the ten talents,_ **29** _for to every one having shall be given, and he shall have overabundance, and from him who is not having, even that which he hath shall be taken from him;_ **30** _and the unprofitable servant cast ye forth to the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth._ [/QUOTE] So, in fact, it is right there in the bible itself: money should be taken from the poor and given to the rich. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20819 "2015-04-06T03:58:14Z")
Read in the right perspective, the Sermon on the Mount was really a motivational lecture, out at the Holiday Inn on Rte. 9, the kind that the Sales Manager sends his staff to. And remember when He said “Put away the coffee, and touch it not, for the coffee is for closers.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20820 "2015-04-06T04:20:18Z")
Do you have the tendency to feel faint in the presence of colossal stupid? Better sit down… [http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/kentucky-argues-gay-marriage-ban-biased-30030410](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/kentucky-argues-gay-marriage-ban-biased-30030410) \*\*Kentucky Argues Gay Marriage Ban Not Biased \*\* Why? Because heterosexuals cannot get gay married either! I swear, I am _not_ making this up! ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20821 "2015-04-06T04:44:37Z")
I’m impressed. Why didn’t Virginia try this in Loving vs. Virginia? There’s no discrimination: we’re denying both blacks and whites the right to marry each other. Everyone treated exactly the same across the board. It takes a really special kind of stupid to be a conservative Republican today. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1040) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1042)