# 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:** 1108
**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:** [June 10, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22142 "2015-06-10T18:49:28Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > WTF is going on Idaho? They’re going to have to change the name to Idadumbass pretty soon. Or maybe just IDA-NO or Idunno. 😃 ---
**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:** [June 10, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22143 "2015-06-10T18:59:14Z")
This is from last week, so I’m not sure if we covered it already or not, but Fox News decided to let the panel on their 3 AM show talk about Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner’s transition. [It went about as well as you would expect from “Fox News at 3 AM”;](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/06/03/3665599/fox-news-red-eye-caitlyn-jenner/) > [@](#): > > Matt Welch, editor in chief of Reason Magazine, segued into the discussion by attacking “this weird like Twitter mob thing” that happens: “Bruce becomes Caitlyn Jenner, then there’s a thousand people saying whatever the mores are right now, which will be totally different a month from now, everyone has to follow it right now or else they’re all human monsters…" > > …Comedian Tom Shillue jumped in to say, “I keep calling him Bruce and people act like I’m trying to be politically incorrect.” After commentator Andy Levy tried to correct him, Shillue persisted: “Andy, if you changed your name, I would forget and I would keep calling you Andy, but it wouldn’t be politically incorrect.” He then added, “I dated a girl named Bruce; she was fantastic,” but comedian Mark Normand pointed out, “That was a guy. You were a top.” Normand, continuing the panel’s use of male pronouns, offered, “Bruce Jenner, look! He looks great now. You got to admit he looks good. She looks great, but is it worth the paycut?” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22144 "2015-06-10T18:59:30Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > The potatoes have achieved sentience (of a sort) and quietly replaced all the actual humans? Potatoes aren’t this stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22145 "2015-06-10T19:22:25Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > WTF is going on Idaho? They’re going to have to change the name to Idadumbass pretty soon. Only because the name _Tennessee_ is taken. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22146 "2015-06-10T19:53:07Z")
It was populated by some bovinesque folk from Brooklyn. When they needed to name it, their leader said, “Come up with an anagram for ‘a hoid’.” ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22147 "2015-06-10T20:14:19Z")
Damn **eschereal**. That… that was just… _Damn_. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22148 "2015-06-10T20:20:43Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Only because the name _Tennessee_ is taken. I’d go with Idabama. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22149 "2015-06-10T21:52:12Z")
[Glenn Beck: McKinney pool incident is a sign of American fascism.](http://www.salon.com/2015/06/10/glenn_beck_warns_mckinney_police_violence_video_shows_us_its_holocaust_time_again_in_america/) No, not because of the police conduct. Because the adults were too “afraid” to help the police round up the kids. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22150 "2015-06-10T21:57:21Z")
> [@Strassia](#): > > I don’t think the religious right really understands civil disobedience. Pastors don’t have to marry anyone. No one is going to force them to do anything. How do they plan to challenge these laws? Civil disobedience is when you break a law that you believe unjust. There is no way for them to break laws allowing SSM. Do they plan to show up at weddings and try to stop the proceedings? I’m thinking for a significant number of them… Yes. And what they are hoping is that those terrible, awful gay men will interfer, and the Pastors will be forced, FORCED mind you, to throw their bodies at the gay men in the ultimate sacrifice of hot sweaty man-bodies grinding away and then… But you get the picture. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22151 "2015-06-11T00:29:55Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Potatoes aren’t this stupid. With enough potatoes you can power a radio. With enough Bibles…I got nothing. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22152 "2015-06-11T01:29:03Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > With enough potatoes you can power a radio. > > With enough Bibles…I got nothing. Build an army? Kill lots of people? Think big, man! ---
**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:** [June 11, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22153 "2015-06-11T01:29:58Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > With enough potatoes you can power a radio. > > With enough Bibles…I got nothing. Keep your house warm through the winter? I mean, yeah, that is a lot of bibles, but you said “…with enough…” Oh, and keep one in the reading room, but make sure you read each page before you use it. It is a great notion. Sometimes. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2015, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22154 "2015-06-11T07:49:43Z")
Potential Republican candidate for Governor of Montana: [Noah lived 600 years and never retired, so why should you ever get retirement benefits?](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/09/greg-gianforte-montana_n_7536568.html) ---
**Author:** ![CGav8r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CGav8r](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CGav8r)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22155 "2015-06-11T10:18:38Z")
Of course a Republican is comparing the average worker to a yacht builder from the distant past, who sailed around with his family and pursue his avian hobby. Must be nice. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2015, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22156 "2015-06-11T10:28:21Z")
> [@CGav8r](#): > > Of course a Republican is comparing the average worker to a yacht builder from the distant past, who sailed around with his family and pursue his avian hobby. > Must be nice. You know what they say: “A rising tide lifts all boats”. Which is fine, as the story shows, unless you don’t own a boat. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2015, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22157 "2015-06-11T12:36:11Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > You know what they say: “A rising tide lifts all boats”. Oh, so close. “A rising tide lifts all arks.” ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22158 "2015-06-11T14:22:07Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Oh, so close. “A rising tide lifts all arks.” How about “A rising tide kills almost everything on the planet”? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22159 "2015-06-11T14:25:56Z")
> [@CGav8r](#): > > Of course a Republican is comparing the average worker to a yacht builder from the distant past, who sailed around with his family and pursue his avian hobby. > Must be nice. Not to mention the job market in Noah’s day. I mean, he was the only person left alive so he could pretty much name his salary. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22160 "2015-06-11T14:50:22Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Jeb Bush wanted to make unwed mothers publish their sexual history in a newspaper. His campaign doubled down on the stupidity, [accusing the media](http://www.businessinsider.com/jeb-bush-campaign-responds-to-shame-criticism-2015-6) of taking “cheap shots” by quoting Jeb’s words. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22161 "2015-06-11T14:58:09Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > His campaign doubled down on the stupidity, [accusing the media](http://www.businessinsider.com/jeb-bush-campaign-responds-to-shame-criticism-2015-6) of taking “cheap shots” by quoting Jeb’s words. I think “doubling down” would be a statement like “Governor Bush still stands behind that statement.” What they did was “hand waving”, with a solid dash of “attacking your critics” thrown in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1107) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1109)