# 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:** 1186
**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:** [August 19, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23702 "2015-08-19T03:35:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ask Macbeth. > > [Republican consultant asks Ann Coulter how much Donald Trump pays her for anal sex.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/republican-consultant-asks-ann-coulter-if-trump-pays-more-for-backdoor-sex/) It’s worth it if it means not looking at her face. ---
**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 19, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23703 "2015-08-19T03:43:49Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > It’s worth it if it means not looking at her face. A blow job from Coulter might count as anal. ---
**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 19, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23704 "2015-08-19T03:49:32Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > It’s worth it if it means not looking at her face. Unless she goes to the same tattoo artist as Steve-O… then not so much. ---
**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 19, 2015, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23705 "2015-08-19T04:10:06Z")
I just want to know if her skinny little fist is big enough for him. Wait. On second thought, no, I _do not_ want to know that. Or anything like it. No one find out, please. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23706 "2015-08-19T04:27:52Z")
Someone by now has almost certainly photoshopped it… We can say, “Pictures, and it didn’t happen.” ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23707 "2015-08-19T05:06:18Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Missouri state legislature apparently has a problem with their members sexually harrassing interns. The solution is obvious: [Issue a dress code for the interns so they won’t be so irresistible.](http://wonkette.com/593047/missouri-republicans-demand-interns-stop-being-too-sexy-to-resist) Hey, it works for the Duggars! ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23708 "2015-08-19T10:23:51Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ask Macbeth. > > [Republican consultant asks Ann Coulter how much Donald Trump pays her for anal sex.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/republican-consultant-asks-ann-coulter-if-trump-pays-more-for-backdoor-sex/) Wow, blast from the past - I remember reading a fictional essay years ago called “I Hate-Fucked Ann Coulter” or something like that. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23709 "2015-08-19T15:25:06Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Republican consultant asks Ann Coulter how much Donald Trump pays her for anal sex.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/republican-consultant-asks-ann-coulter-if-trump-pays-more-for-backdoor-sex/) Answer: He provides a fresh gold-plated strap-on each time, and she gets to keep it. And a new bit of stupidity as [¡Jebya! steps deeper into his brother’s shadow](http://news.yahoo.com/jeb-bush-nsa-needs-broader-powers-combat-evildoers-182520933--election.html): > [@](#): > > Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush said Tuesday that the government should have broad surveillance powers of Americans and private technology firms should cooperate better with intelligence agencies to help combat “evildoers.”… > > The former Florida governor said Congress should revisit its changes to the Patriot Act, and he dismissed concerns from civil libertarians who say the program violated citizens’ constitutionally protected privacy rights… > > Bush also said the U.S. should send more troops — he didn’t say how many — and equipment to eastern European nations in response to Russia’s increasingly aggressive posture in the region… ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23710 "2015-08-19T15:46:18Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > \ > > Bush also said the U.S. should send more troops — he didn’t say how many — **and equipment** to eastern European nations in response to Russia’s increasingly aggressive posture in the region… (Emphasis added.) As so frequently happens, Eric Blair hits the nail pretty much on the head. From “The Book” by Emmanuel Goldstein (that compendium of all heresies): > [@](#): > > The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed. He left off “enriching those who produce the weapons of war,” but since the Military-Industrial Complex was in its relative infancy I suppose he can be forgiven. Funny thing, someone I knew when Jimmy Carter was elected predicted that we’d be at war within six months “because the Democrats never met a war they didn’t like.” Shoe, meet other foot. ---
**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 19, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23711 "2015-08-19T19:06:08Z")
[John Kasich wants to ban teachers’ lounges so they can’t sit around and complain.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/john-kasich-abolish-teacher-lounges) ---
**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:** [August 19, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23712 "2015-08-19T19:16:19Z")
Iowa radio host describes his plan to deal with illegal immigration; [declare all undocumented persons to be slaves owned by the state.](http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/08/19/ia-radio-host-jan-mickelson-enslave-undocumente/205020) > [@](#): > > I said, "Well I’d would put them on the end of the highway, on western part of the interstate system, and I’d put them on the eastern side of the state, right there on the interstate system, and in the north on the Minnesota border, and on the south Kansas and Missouri border and I would just say this: ‘As of this date’ – whenever we decide to do this – ‘as of this date, 30–’ this is a totally arbitrary number, ‘30 to 60 days from now anyone who is in the state of Iowa that who is not here legally and who cannot demonstrate their legal status to the satisfaction of the local and state authorities here in the State of Iowa, become property of the State of Iowa.’ So if you are here without our permission, and we have given you two months to leave, and you’re still here, and we find that you’re still here after we we’ve given you the deadline to leave, then you become property of the State of Iowa. And we have a job for you. And we start using compelled labor, the people who are here illegally would therefore be owned by the state and become an asset of the state rather than a liability and we start inventing jobs for them to do. ---
**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 19, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23713 "2015-08-19T19:29:40Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Iowa radio host describes his plan to deal with illegal immigration; [declare all undocumented persons to be slaves owned by the state.](http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/08/19/ia-radio-host-jan-mickelson-enslave-undocumente/205020) That is THE LONGEST definition of slavery I’ve ever heard! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23714 "2015-08-19T19:41:47Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [John Kasich wants to ban teachers’ lounges so they can’t sit around and complain.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/john-kasich-abolish-teacher-lounges) [Yeah, that’ll work…](http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3803) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23715 "2015-08-19T19:44:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Iowa radio host describes his plan to deal with illegal immigration; [declare all undocumented persons to be slaves owned by the state.](http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/08/19/ia-radio-host-jan-mickelson-enslave-undocumente/205020) Fella appears to have an overly simplistic notion of what the term “due process of law” means. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23716 "2015-08-19T21:27:29Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Iowa radio host describes his plan to deal with illegal immigration; [declare all undocumented persons to be slaves owned by the state.](http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/08/19/ia-radio-host-jan-mickelson-enslave-undocumente/205020) They sure do love that Constitution. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23717 "2015-08-19T21:34:51Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > They sure do love that Constitution. It is their first choice when it comes to toilet paper. ---
**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 19, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23718 "2015-08-19T22:04:26Z")
“Hell, boy! We don’t recognize a California Drivers License as proof of anything. Off to the plantation with you!” On the up side, it would prompt most every other state to invade Iowa and give them a taste of what Sherman taught South Carolina. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23719 "2015-08-19T22:08:01Z")
“Inventing jobs”? ---
**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 19, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23720 "2015-08-19T23:31:29Z")
Ben Carson says he would [use military drone strikes](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ben-carson-says-hes-open-drone-strikes-american-soil-fight-immigration) against undocumented immigrants as they cross the boarder. They have finally realized if they don’t out-crazy Trump, they will never be seen on TV again. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23721 "2015-08-20T00:13:53Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Iowa radio host describes his plan to deal with illegal immigration; [declare all undocumented persons to be slaves owned by the state.](http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/08/19/ia-radio-host-jan-mickelson-enslave-undocumente/205020) As an Iowan myself, I knew before I clicked the link it would be Jan Mickelson. He’s a repulsive far-far-far right winger who somehow has a plumb spot on radio powerhouse WHO. He and Steve King are best buds. He had a rant a few years back about how libraries should be abolished, since they were just "welfare bookstores. " What a jerk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1185) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1187)