# 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:** 1183
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23642 "2015-08-14T23:02:57Z")
I doubt American presidents are too keen on going near any depositories in Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23643 "2015-08-14T23:19:31Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > So of course it’s okay for Democrats to lose to ISIS, because it’s Bush’s fault. Got it. You’re a dishonest piece of filth, you know? ---
**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:** [August 14, 2015, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23644 "2015-08-14T23:22:22Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > I doubt American presidents are too keen on going near any depositories in Texas. _rimshot_ ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23645 "2015-08-14T23:26:05Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > _rimshot_ [_Heh_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq3N46ciKJw)\<–youtube ---
**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:** [August 15, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23646 "2015-08-15T00:27:24Z")
Ben Carson thinks we should scrap the tax code and [tithe to the government](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/08/14/someone-once-tried-ben-carsons-biblical-tax-plan/): > [@](#): > > “We need a significantly changed taxation system,” Carson said in the prime-time GOP debate last week. "And the one that I’ve advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. And he said, you know, if you give me a tithe, it doesn’t matter how much you make. If you’ve had a bumper crop, you don’t owe me triple tithes. And if you’ve had no crops at all, you don’t owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about that. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23647 "2015-08-15T00:42:23Z")
If there actually were a God, I expect s/he would be smart enough and compassionate enough not to require that poor people give the same percentage of their income as rich people. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23648 "2015-08-15T00:44:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Which, since Jade Helm was publicly announced by DOD months before Texas started talking about a gold depository, leads us firmly to one conclusion; > > Obama is from the future. The future where Kenyan Marxists rule the world! Aiiiieeeeeeeeeee!!! ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23649 "2015-08-15T00:47:21Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > The future where Kenyan Marxists rule the world! Aiiiieeeeeeeeeee!!! Of course! This explains how he was able to plant the birth announcement in Hawaii! ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23650 "2015-08-15T00:54:49Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > If there actually were a God, I expect s/he would be smart enough and compassionate enough not to require that poor people give the same percentage of their income as rich people. Still, it would be an improvement over the current Republican-created crapola system we have now. As Warren Buffet (among many others) has noted, the sad fact is that most wage earners pay a \*higher \*percentage of their income than rich people. The Republicans, who say they hate Hate HATE it when people don’t want to work, consistently support reducing or eliminating taxes for people who get money from inheritance, or trading stocks, while the people who mine coal or fight fires have to pay higher rates. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23651 "2015-08-15T01:30:55Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > You’re a dishonest piece of filth, you know? Dishonesty takes a certain amount of intelligence. This guy has about the overall intelligence of a ganglion node. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23652 "2015-08-15T01:52:32Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > You’re a dishonest piece of filth, you know? Is this your first encounter with **adaher**? It’s kinda his raison d’etre. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23653 "2015-08-15T04:12:29Z")
Bobby Jindal wants to use a law to prevent Confederate statues from being taken. Thing is, [there is no such law in Louisiana](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bobby-jindal-heritage-act-confederate). ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23654 "2015-08-15T05:07:51Z")
> [@](#): > > …as well as the Liberty Monument, which memorializes attacks by white New Orleanians on the state’s biracial government during Reconstruction. They’re shltting me, right? Somebody tell me these people are kidding… ---
**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:** [August 15, 2015, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23655 "2015-08-15T05:41:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Bobby Jindal wants to use a law to prevent Confederate statues from being taken. Thing is, [there is no such law in Louisiana](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bobby-jindal-heritage-act-confederate). Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there that’s priceless! Good job, voters of Louisiana! How’s that working out for y’all? ---
**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:** [August 15, 2015, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23656 "2015-08-15T06:25:41Z")
Despite his campaign’s claims to the contrary, [Jeb! neither met with #BlackLivesMatter representatives, nor was his meeting disrupted by BLM activists.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-black-lives-matter_55cdfee6e4b0ab468d9d02ab) ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23657 "2015-08-15T07:57:02Z")
Jim Bakker is still alive? And someone gave him a show? OK, that’s it, there _are_ too many channels. ETA: Wait, is this like a YouTube channel or something? ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23658 "2015-08-15T08:22:29Z")
Or should that be “Texas Republican”? (Or would that just be redundant?) The _Texas Observer_, observing weirdness for lo, these many years, lets us know [what Steve Hotze is up to.](http://www.texasobserver.org/conservative-texas-steve-hotze-gay-nazis/) Head of the Conservative Republicans of Texas, the Supremes’ decision on gay marriage seems to have driven him even more around the bend. In fact, he’s paddling in a circle… > [@](#): > > On Thursday, he launched a multi-city tour of Texas, “The Faith Family Freedom Tour,” at a nearly half-empty event at a hotel ballroom in Houston. Sponsored by Christian conservative notables such as Cathie Adams and Jonathan Saenz, speakers included former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who explained why he thought the judiciary could be effectively overruled by the people, a radio host named Terry Lowry who told the crowd that “Satan and his demons are seducing the people of Houston,” and a reparative therapist who warned the audience that the science of making kids un-gay could someday be banned. > > But it was Hotze who stole the show. He began his time on stage by showing his audience a video that warned of the audacious plans of the gay rights movement. “Just like there was a communist manifesto, there’s a homosexual manifesto,” Hotze said. “The hackles will stand up on the back of your neck when you see what they have planned.” > > Copies of the manifesto were sitting on every seat in the audience, although the copies Hotze distributed omitted the first line of the original, which establishes the text as a “cruel fantasy.” The “manifesto” is a satirical essay, originally written in 1987, a strange and hilarious imagining of a world in which gay men reign as oppressors over lowly straights. Even more at the link… ---
**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:** [August 15, 2015, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23659 "2015-08-15T08:29:03Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Jim Bakker is still alive? He is actually quite a bit younger than his former cellmate, one L.H.LaRouche (also still “alive”). Yeah, we are both going to have nightmares imagining that. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2015, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23660 "2015-08-15T08:31:20Z")
Ben Carson: > [@](#): > > "And the one that I’ve advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. A “fair guy”, huh? I imagine she’s pretty pissed at that remark. Why can’t these idiots be shut up at the point where anyone with half an amygdala knows they’re mixing faith with politics which isn’t allow-- oh, never mind. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2015, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23661 "2015-08-15T08:40:40Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Or should that be “Texas Republican”? (Or would that just be redundant?) > > The _Texas Observer_, observing weirdness for lo, these many years, lets us know [what Steve Hotze is up to.](http://www.texasobserver.org/conservative-texas-steve-hotze-gay-nazis/) Head of the Conservative Republicans of Texas, the Supremes’ decision on gay marriage seems to have driven him even more around the bend. In fact, he’s paddling in a circle… > > Even more at the link… Wow… you weren’t kidding about that link. [Scroll down just a bit to hear his auto-tuned anti-Obamacare song.](http://www.texastribune.org/2013/05/15/republican-donor-releases-songs-opposing-obamacare/) That is fucking priceless! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1182) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1184)