# 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:** 1088
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21742 "2015-05-22T16:03:01Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > “What’s education ever done for us?” Not much, apparently. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21743 "2015-05-22T16:38:51Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > In Salem, NH yesterday: > > [Republican Jeb Bush criticizes 'arrogance' in climate change debate](http://news.yahoo.com/republican-jeb-bush-criticizes-arrogance-climate-change-debate-203413584.html) So much for being the smarter brother. > **[Jeb's climate nonsense: Believing climate science is "arrogance," says the...](https://www.salon.com/2015/05/21/jebs_climate_nonsense_believing_climate_science_is_arrogance_says_the_gop_moderate/)** > > Snooty liberals trust scientists, says Jeb Bush, when the real solution to climate change is free-market buzzwords! > [@](#): > > What Jeb is doing is what all self-described climate “skeptics” do: they demand equal consideration for their views, which are represented by a vanishingly small minority of scientists, and cry foul when they’re inevitably not given the respect they feel they deserve. It’s a commonly employed and useful trick for making the other side seem unreasonable while transforming yourself into a victim of intellectual persecution. Climate change deniers just want to have a “conversation,” much in the same way that tobacco company scientists just wanted to talk about the unsettled science linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer, or how lab-coat creationists want to simply “teach the controversy” about Darwinian evolution. > > The goal “climate skeptics” are pursuing by demanding this “conversation” is inaction, which, at this point, would be a criminally unwise policy. The debate over climate change is not whether we can avoid the negative consequences of warming the earth, but rather how much pain we’ll choose to inflict on ourselves. As Vox’s David Roberts writes, mitigating as much of the damage as possible “would require an utterly unprecedented level of global mobilization and coordination, sustained over decades.” > [@](#): > > If he’s going to lob charges of “arrogance” at people who are unnerved by the scientific consensus pointing at a looming global disaster, you’d think he’d have something more serious as an alternative than “eh, the free market will take care of it.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21744 "2015-05-22T16:56:52Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I’m thinking that the “intellectual arrogance” thing is the new talking point, since the “I’m not a scientist” thing was roundly met with derision. I suspect that this one will meet with a similar lack of success. > > Next up: “I have a secret plan for removing the carbon from the atmosphere.” (With apologies to Richard Nixon.) Oh, [it’s not so secret](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon). But it might lose Jeb the RR vote. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21745 "2015-05-22T16:52:36Z")
[Huckabee defends Josh Duggar.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/05/22/huckabee-backs-josh-duggar-slams-those-sensationalizing-molestation-allegations/) I mean, I get innocent until proven guilty, but can there really be political capital to be made out of touching this radioactive shitstorm? ---
**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:** [May 22, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21746 "2015-05-22T18:03:36Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Oh, [it’s not so secret](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon). But it might lose Jeb the RR vote. Nah, that won’t work due to the pesky second law of thermo dynamics which the activist liberals on the supreme court refuse to recognize as unconstitutional. We didn’t have it in 1776 so we don’t need it now! I blame Obama. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21747 "2015-05-22T18:04:35Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Oh, [it’s not so secret](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon). But it might lose Jeb the RR vote. If he could do that, _I’d_ probably vote for him. That would solve pretty much everything. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21748 "2015-05-22T18:06:32Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > [Huckabee defends Josh Duggar.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/05/22/huckabee-backs-josh-duggar-slams-those-sensationalizing-molestation-allegations/) I mean, I get innocent until proven guilty, but can there really be political capital to be made out of touching this radioactive shitstorm? There can if you’re still feeling uneasy about quashing an investigation into[your own son killing a dog for fun](http://www.snopes.com/politics/politicians/huckabeedog.asp) at Boy Scout camp. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21749 "2015-05-22T20:26:32Z")
FactCheck weighs in on Jeb Bush’s “Arrogance” comment: > **[Sorry Jeb Bush, It's Not 'Arrogant' To Say Climate Change Is Real. It's True.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-climate-change_n_7422280?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592)** > > Sorry Jeb Bush, It's Not 'Arrogant' To Say Climate Change Is Real. It's True. > [@](#): > > Jeb Bush claimed that the science is unclear as to how much humans contribute to global warming. The United Nations climate change research organization, however, has deemed it “extremely likely” that more than half of the observed temperature increase since 1950 is due to human activities. > … > “Extremely likely” means that the likelihood of an outcome is between 95 percent and 100 percent certain. The IPCC added that it is “virtually certain” — which means 99 percent to 100 percent probability — “that internal variability alone cannot account for the observed global warming since 1951.” In the IPCC’s Summary for Policymakers, the authors summarize clearly: “The best estimate of the human-induced contribution to warming is similar to the observed warming over this period.” In other words, the best guess is that humans have caused essentially all of the warming that has occurred. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21750 "2015-05-22T20:54:05Z")
Sure, but that’s the arrogant, commie, fascist, Muslim, socialist, Nazi, atheist, pinko, smelly, dirty, alcoholic, child-molesting, (add your own epithets here) UN. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21751 "2015-05-22T21:07:08Z")
Not to mention it’s [FactCheck.org](http://FactCheck.org), who everybody knows are a front for MoveOn. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21752 "2015-05-22T21:22:24Z")
Which is a front for ACORN. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21753 "2015-05-22T21:37:27Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Which is a front for ACORN. Which is a front for the Freemasons! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21754 "2015-05-23T01:03:50Z")
No love for the Rosicrucians, who could teach you to make your thoughts fly? Learned later on my own how to make my thoughts fly, but they didn’t come back. Maybe for the best. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21755 "2015-05-23T02:11:54Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Which is a front for the Freemasons! Who are a front for . . . the Rotarians. This New World Order thing is all rather boring and vanilla, actually. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21756 "2015-05-23T02:21:11Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > No love for the Rosicrucians, who could teach you to make your thoughts fly? Learned later on my own how to make my thoughts fly, but they didn’t come back. Maybe for the best. George Carlin bit, from memory: A reporter is interviewing a political candidate: REPORTER: Do you think your religion might be a problem? CANDIDATE: Yes, I do. I think bigotry is going to be a big thing in the future. Bigotry and prejudice and hatred. REPORTER: So what are you planning to do about it? CANDIDATE: The only thing I can do, Bob. I’ve renounced my religion. REPORTER: Really?! CANDIDATE: Really. I mean, let’s face it, the Rosicrucians ain’t gonna miss **me!** I never went to the meetings, I never ordered the candles . . . I found the application in a dirty magazine! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21757 "2015-05-23T02:49:26Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Who are a front for . . . the Rotarians. This New World Order thing is all rather boring and vanilla, actually. ☹ Actually, it’s the Illuminati at the bottom of it all. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2015, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21758 "2015-05-23T02:56:34Z")
… standing on the backs of larger illuminati, who are standing on … ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21759 "2015-05-23T03:01:50Z")
Turtles. It’s turtles all the way down. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21760 "2015-05-23T03:30:51Z")
Illuminati disguised as turtles. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2015, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21761 "2015-05-23T05:06:21Z")
I, for one, welcome our new Turtle Illuminati overlords. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1087) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1089)