# 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:** 1234
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24662 "2015-10-02T13:52:28Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > If you’re busted for fornication, try to plea bargain down to masturbation. “Just look at her, Your Honor. Do you really think she moved?!” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24663 "2015-10-03T01:51:29Z")
[Tennessee Republican’s deranged reaction to Oregon shooting: Christians must now arm themselves.](http://www.salon.com/2015/10/02/tennessee_republicans_dereanged_reaction_to_oregon_shooting_christians_must_now_arm_themselves/) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24664 "2015-10-03T07:20:25Z")
Ben Carson [joins the circus](http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ben-carson-asks-gravity-where-did-it-come): > [@](#): > > Carson, whose views on science are genuinely bizarre, especially for a retired physician, added, “Just the way the Earth rotates on its axis, how far away it is from the sun. These are all very complex things. Gravity, where did it come from?” ---
**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:** [October 3, 2015, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24665 "2015-10-03T08:10:33Z")
Fucking planets, how do they work ?!! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24666 "2015-10-03T15:00:14Z")
[Miracles.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs) ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24667 "2015-10-03T15:43:28Z")
“Tide comes in, tide goes out. Nobody knows why.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24668 "2015-10-03T15:52:48Z")
It goes in there to grab the dirt molecules, then when it goes to “rinse”, it takes them with it. Hope I’m not too sciencey with that “molecules” stuff… ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24669 "2015-10-03T17:03:07Z")
Are they fungible? ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24670 "2015-10-03T19:05:36Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > [Alabama also banned dildos and vibrators](https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/against-all-reason-alabama-outlaws-sex-toys/). What a shame. Now you can’t even tell people to go fuck themselves. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24671 "2015-10-03T20:11:06Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Tennessee Republican’s deranged reaction to Oregon shooting: Christians must now arm themselves.](http://www.salon.com/2015/10/02/tennessee_republicans_dereanged_reaction_to_oregon_shooting_christians_must_now_arm_themselves/) Obviously Matthew 5:38 wasn’t covered in his church. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24672 "2015-10-03T20:11:08Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > What a shame. Now you can’t even tell people to go fuck themselves. Well, strictly speaking you can still _tell_ them, but they no longer have the ways and means. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24673 "2015-10-03T20:13:36Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Well, strictly speaking you can still _tell_ them, but they no longer have the ways and means. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. They just lack motivation. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24674 "2015-10-03T20:56:25Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Ben Carson [joins the circus](http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ben-carson-asks-gravity-where-did-it-come): Gods, the comments on that. So many people defending him as ‘having asked a good question’. Don’t know if they (and ‘they’ in this case includes former-Dr Carson) are being disingenuous or if they really think that it’s a relevant question… (Obviously some will be one, some will be the other, but it’s really hard to tell where the bulk sit.) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24675 "2015-10-03T22:21:32Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > . . . it’s really hard to tell where the bulk sit.) “Bulk sit” is a really good term for the Republican anti-science agenda. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24676 "2015-10-04T00:37:13Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > :rolleyes: Half will nominate moot for everything, and half will nominate whoever is the current leader of national white supremacism. > > I think the word is “indignance.” Or more commonly “indignation.” > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Crap, I wanted to make that post. I guess things just moved too fast for me to keep up. > > So **foolsguinea** is Jean Valjean, I suppose. 😕 I don’t understand. Which part of the post were you hoping to make, the moot part, the indignation part, or both? And how does that make me a Victor Hugo character? ---
**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:** [October 4, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24677 "2015-10-04T01:38:52Z")
[Tennessee county plans to vote on a prayer to God not to destroy them when He destroys America because of gay marriage.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/tenn-county-to-consider-resolution-begging-god-to-spare-them-his-coming-wrath-over-same-sex-marriage/) They have to be Republican, right? ---
**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:** [October 4, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24678 "2015-10-04T02:06:56Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Tennessee county plans to vote on a prayer to God not to destroy them when He destroys America because of gay marriage.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/tenn-county-to-consider-resolution-begging-god-to-spare-them-his-coming-wrath-over-same-sex-marriage/) > > They have to be Republican, right? Cool! They’re actually admitting that they pray to a stupid God who needs to be reminded on whom to smite. What dipshits. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24679 "2015-10-04T06:06:53Z")
If you don’t think power makes you stupid, just look what it did to God. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2015, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24680 "2015-10-04T09:32:24Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Cool! They’re actually admitting that they pray to a stupid God who needs to be reminded on whom to smite. What dipshits. God is not so young any more. Eyesights start to go when you’re [del]4 billion[/del] six thousand years old. One day you can catch the fall of a sparrow, but before you know it even continents start getting blurry. ETA : BTW this is why we need background checks and aptitude tests for concealed carry of ultimate smiting power. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24681 "2015-10-04T10:39:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Tennessee county plans to vote on a prayer to God not to destroy them when He destroys America because of gay marriage.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/tenn-county-to-consider-resolution-begging-god-to-spare-them-his-coming-wrath-over-same-sex-marriage/) > > They have to be Republican, right? Well, no one else wants to be. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1233) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1235)