# 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:** 1326
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26502 "2016-01-04T23:04:00Z")
I can’t believe _Crooks and Liars_ were dumb enough to print that. C’mon, guys, you’re letting down the team! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26503 "2016-01-05T00:12:31Z")
[Trump’s first ad shows illegal aliens swarming the border.](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jan/04/donald-trump/donald-trumps-first-tv-ad-shows-migrants-southern-/) Only the border is between Morocco and Spain. And it is a closed, walled border. So, not only does this ad not show Mexicans crossing the border into the US, it also shows how ineffectual a wall would be even if we could get Mexico to pay for it. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26504 "2016-01-05T01:05:28Z")
Wait, some of you think that stuff about oral sex is for real?!? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26505 "2016-01-05T01:26:13Z")
No, no. Oral sex is real. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26506 "2016-01-05T01:39:56Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > No, no. Oral sex is real. Oh good. I was starting to doubt my memories from long, long ago. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26507 "2016-01-05T04:01:40Z")
Ammon Bundy’s business, Valet Fleet Services, took out a $530,000 loan from the Small Business Administration. The same Small Business Administration which is run by the federal government that Ammon Bundy is fighting against. [https://www.usaspending.gov/transparency/Pages/TransactionDetails.aspx?RecordID=286CEDE8-41F8-205F-902D-3046F93E2AD6&AwardID=40084141&AwardType=L](https://www.usaspending.gov/transparency/Pages/TransactionDetails.aspx?RecordID=286CEDE8-41F8-205F-902D-3046F93E2AD6&AwardID=40084141&AwardType=L) ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26508 "2016-01-05T04:46:46Z")
We should ban yokels from entering the country until the authorities can figure out what is going on. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26509 "2016-01-06T05:21:01Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > We should ban yokels from entering the country until the authorities can figure out what is going on. \<\\> ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26510 "2016-01-06T05:58:41Z")
Just be sure to build that wall to keep them in. With thanks (and condolences ) from your northern neighbours. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2016, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26511 "2016-01-06T06:39:01Z")
Since Sleepy is fading from public view, I thought this would be more amusing here than in one of the threads about his campaign. It is not exactly stupid, _per se_, or an idea, but it is pretty ridiculous. Apparently, the man’s wife is [as bold a bullshitter as her husband](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/ben-carsons-wife-has-even-weirder-stories-about-him-than-he-does/), \*Candy Carson said in her newly-released autobiography that not only was the couple’s youngest son a surprise birth inside their home, but that the former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon reached her just before the boy was born and caught him in one hand while catching the afterbirth in the other. After delivering the child, she wrote, she “ran up and down stairs” searching around the home for something he could use to clip the placenta off.\* A woman running around the house, up and down the stairs, right after delivering? Yeah, I am believing that. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2016, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26512 "2016-01-06T06:42:23Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Since Sleepy is fading from public view, I thought this would be more amusing here than in one of the threads about his campaign. It is not exactly stupid, _per se_, or an idea, but it is pretty ridiculous. Apparently, the man’s wife is [as bold a bullshitter as her husband](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/ben-carsons-wife-has-even-weirder-stories-about-him-than-he-does/), > > \*Candy Carson said in her newly-released autobiography that not only was the couple’s youngest son a surprise birth inside their home, but that the former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon reached her just before the boy was born and **caught him in one hand while catching the afterbirth in the other**. > > After delivering the child, she wrote, she “ran up and down stairs” searching around the home for\*\* something he could use to clip the placenta off\*\*.\* > > A woman running around the house, up and down the stairs, right after delivering? Yeah, I am believing that. Which meant he was running around with her as he had the fruits of her labor in his hands. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2016, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26513 "2016-01-06T07:48:35Z")
Is there a rational reason to lie about stuff like this? Is this, as it sounds, a dream misremembered as truth, and somehow let pass by whatever passed for the book’s editor? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26514 "2016-01-06T13:50:39Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Since Sleepy is fading from public view, I thought this would be more amusing here than in one of the threads about his campaign. It is not exactly stupid, _per se_, or an idea, but it is pretty ridiculous. Apparently, the man’s wife is [as bold a bullshitter as her husband](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/ben-carsons-wife-has-even-weirder-stories-about-him-than-he-does/), > > \*Candy Carson said in her newly-released autobiography that not only was the couple’s youngest son a surprise birth inside their home, but that the former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon reached her just before the boy was born and caught him in one hand while catching the afterbirth in the other. > > After delivering the child, she wrote, she “ran up and down stairs” searching around the home for something he could use to clip the placenta off.\* > > A woman running around the house, up and down the stairs, right after delivering? Yeah, I am believing that. I don’t know - you hear stories about peasant woman giving birth in the fields and going right back to work, so I guess it is possible if she had an easy, quick labor (which it sounds like she must have). What I don’t understand is why \*she \*was running around while Ben held the baby. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26515 "2016-01-06T14:33:19Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Tennessee state legislator Andy Holt [wants to know how he can lend his support to the militiamen in Oregon.](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/01/04/3735731/tennessee-andy-holt-oregon-terrorism/) > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Easy – resign, pick up a gun, and go there. And don’t forget to bring a case of Funyuns. They need all the snacks they can get! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26516 "2016-01-06T14:33:50Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > A woman running around the house, up and down the stairs, right after delivering? Yeah, I am believing that. You forget that this women gave birth without drugs. She didn’t have to lie around recovering afterward. An epidural or other meds are why so many women are out of it after birth, not the birth itself. This being a surprise birth, she also probably didn’t forego all food and drink for hours before birth, like mothers are asked to do in hospitals just in case surgery is required. That doesn’t exactly help with the exertion of childbirth, with or without an epidural. My wife gave birth twice with no drugs. She was exhausted for sure and in a bit of residual pain, but if she had to get up and move like that, she could have. Especially after the second child. The first one is the hardest. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26517 "2016-01-06T14:37:49Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > I don’t know - you hear stories about peasant woman giving birth in the fields and going right back to work, so I guess it is possible if she had an easy, quick labor (which it sounds like she must have). What I don’t understand is why \*she \*was running around while Ben held the baby. Yeah, that’s the weird thing. Perhaps that’s simply a mistake in the narrative and she was holding her baby while he ran around. Or perhaps he was busy doing his doctor stuff taking care of and examining the baby. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26518 "2016-01-06T15:37:50Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > After delivering the child, she wrote, she “ran up and down stairs” searching around the home for something he could use to clip the placenta off.\*[/COLOR][/INDENT] > > A woman running around the house, up and down the stairs, right after delivering? Yeah, I am believing that. My wife never did that, but she did eat a rather huge meal about 30 minutes after delivering our second child. She was hungry (7:30PM) and if the staff had allowed her to, I’m sure she could have been up and walking around. I suspect a fast and relatively easy delivery might not preclude a woman from moving around soon after a delivery. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26519 "2016-01-06T16:23:17Z")
Not your typical GOP elected scumbag but some Fox News monkey [suggested](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-news-host-obama-used-%E2%80%98raw-onion%E2%80%99-to-cry/ar-AAgpy9L?li=BBnb7Kz)Obama’s tearing up at his speech on guns were caused by raw onions. I’m not sure what narrative this is supposed to fit, that Sandy Hook was a hoax or Obama couldn’t possibly care about dead kids. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26520 "2016-01-06T16:31:49Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Since Sleepy is fading from public view, I thought this would be more amusing here than in one of the threads about his campaign. It is not exactly stupid, _per se_, or an idea, but it is pretty ridiculous. Apparently, the man’s wife is [as bold a bullshitter as her husband](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/ben-carsons-wife-has-even-weirder-stories-about-him-than-he-does/), > > \*Candy Carson said in her newly-released autobiography that not only was the couple’s youngest son a surprise birth inside their home, but that the former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon reached her just before the boy was born and caught him in one hand while catching the afterbirth in the other. > > After delivering the child, she wrote, she “ran up and down stairs” searching around the home for something he could use to clip the placenta off.\* > > A woman running around the house, up and down the stairs, right after delivering? Yeah, I am believing that. Was Ben running behind her, baby in one hand, placenta in the other and a mop in his gripping hand, cleaning up all the blood she was splattering up and down the stairs? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26521 "2016-01-06T16:36:16Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Not your typical GOP elected scumbag but some Fox News monkey [suggested](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-news-host-obama-used-%E2%80%98raw-onion%E2%80%99-to-cry/ar-AAgpy9L?li=BBnb7Kz)Obama’s tearing up at his speech on guns were caused by raw onions. I’m not sure what narrative this is supposed to fit, that Sandy Hook was a hoax or Obama couldn’t possibly care about dead kids. That’s pretty much the consensus among those who post online comments on news articles. The phrases “alligator tears” and “oscar performance” were widely used (although usually misspelled.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1325) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1327)