# 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:** 1283
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25642 "2015-11-19T19:17:47Z")
If they’re neo-pagans, they’re probably not Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25643 "2015-11-19T19:23:50Z")
They’re into the Norse thing, where fat women wear armor and scream. Mostly, the gods are a pretty violent and belligerent bunch, though one is low-key. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25644 "2015-11-19T19:26:15Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > The ideas of humanism, democracies and freedom came from the philosophers of the Enlightenment, who themselves drew from the Antiquity. They didn’t come by way of the Church, they were conquered \*against \*the Church. I’m guessing Erasmus would be a bit surprised that his humanism was conquered against his Church which he loved so much ;). Early humanism may have looked to antiquity, but did it through the lens of the church (the movement includes 3 Popes). I’d also argue that the Enlightenment came directly from the principles laid down in the Reformation, as Bertrand Russell argued. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25645 "2015-11-19T19:26:52Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > They’re into the Norse thing, where fat women wear armor and scream. Mostly, the gods are a pretty violent and belligerent bunch, though one is low-key. _gives **luci** the stink-eye_ ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25646 "2015-11-19T19:28:35Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > It was likely a stock art “vector graphic” map of the states. Typically each state in a stock art graphic will be a distinct shape, because of the nature of vector graphics. The designer might have tried to select all the states, but missed the few in the upper right. > > Here is an example I just mocked up: > [http://imgur.com/D7zNbjN](http://imgur.com/D7zNbjN) > > Carson’s a fucking twat, but I don’t think we need to see nefarious chicanery where just plain ineptitude will do. Looks like what happened, maybe, is they were clicking on the various states to select them, to set their colors, with no intention to move any states around. But when somebody clicked on those states, somebody accidentally bumped the mouse and dragged the states around, and didn’t notice. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25647 "2015-11-19T19:31:08Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Looks like what happened, maybe, is they were clicking on the various states to select them, to set their colors, with no intention to move any states around. But when somebody clicked on those states, somebody accidentally bumped the mouse and dragged the states around, **and didn’t notice.** The displaced states are fitted together too well. I think it _was_ noticed and no one knew where they went. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25648 "2015-11-19T19:36:11Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > The displaced states are fitted together too well. I think it _was_ noticed and no one knew where they went. The source of the map was the same source who told Carson that China was in Syria. They meant it literally. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25649 "2015-11-19T19:58:46Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > I’m guessing Erasmus would be a bit surprised that his humanism was conquered against his Church which he loved so much ;). And I expect Voltaire would have given you the stink-eye if you’d called his values “Judeo-Christian” to his face 😉 (for one thing he was a bit of an antisemite, so there’s that). ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25650 "2015-11-19T20:01:50Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > The displaced states are fitted together too well. I think it _was_ noticed and no one knew where they went. It’s like putting together a jigsaw puzzle and having a few piece left over. Or, it’s the new Republican strategy for winning elections. Just drag the Blue states out of the Union and drop them in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25651 "2015-11-19T20:17:13Z")
[Trump](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-muslims-database-ids): > [@](#): > > Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview with Yahoo! News published Thursday that he’d consider registering Muslims living in the United States in a database or giving them special identification cards. Maybe the special identification cards should be yellow crescents that they must wear pinned to their clothes. I can’t decide whether the level of support from Republicans he’s garnered and maintained is sad or horrifying. I think ‘sorrifying’ is apropos. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25652 "2015-11-19T20:40:20Z")
[The Republican Party of Louisiana and their gubernatorial standardbearer, David Vitter, are hysterical that “a Syrian man is running around loose without any monitoring.”](http://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2015/11/18/vitter-gop-resort-to-hysterical-lies-about-syrian-refugees-in-louisiana) They are also outraged that Catholic Charities of Louisiana is helping refugees to settle in Louisiana. Vitter’s wife is general counsel for Catholic Charities of Louisiana. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25653 "2015-11-19T20:44:38Z")
He’s still married? She puts up with his shit? Seriously? ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25654 "2015-11-19T20:57:42Z")
She’s a good Republican wife. She stands by her pervert. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25655 "2015-11-19T21:12:20Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > [Trump](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-muslims-database-ids): > > Maybe the special identification cards should be yellow crescents that they must wear pinned to their clothes. > > I can’t decide whether the level of support from Republicans he’s garnered and maintained is sad or horrifying. I think ‘sorrifying’ is apropos. Designating the GOP candidate’s cabal as a “Hate Group” would merit dissent from most folks, but at least you’ve got a reference point–you can tell whether they are getting increasingly more/less hateful. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25656 "2015-11-19T22:02:37Z")
Maybe all self-identified Republicans should wear a big “R” (red, of course) pinned on their clothes, or tatooed onto their foreheads. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25657 "2015-11-19T22:20:15Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Maybe all self-identified Republicans should wear a big “R” (red, of course) pinned on their clothes, or tattooed onto their foreheads. Branding. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25658 "2015-11-19T22:22:53Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > _gives **luci** the stink-eye_ Don’t get thor. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25659 "2015-11-19T23:27:50Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Don’t get thor. Or be a Borr by making this thread Fulla puns ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25660 "2015-11-19T23:32:33Z")
I just want to say, if the pun police comes for ya and puts ya in jail, don’t expect us to free ya… ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25661 "2015-11-19T23:38:34Z")
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