# 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:** 1354
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27062 "2016-01-28T22:55:21Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Tennessee State House Speaker warns interns not to give legislators their phone numbers, or to attend legislature events because the state legislators are creeps.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tennessee-jeremy-durham-interns) Hmmm. The speaker warned all the interns (male and female). This guy, Rep. Mike Stewart (D), chair of the state House Democratic Caucus, told TPM on Thursday Harwell’s directive to interns was not the appropriate approach. “Signaling out one group of women and asking them to change their behavior is a completely inadequate and inappropriate response to a problem with alleged behavior by a lawmaker,” he said. Why is this Stewart only concerned about the women changing their behavior? Wouldn’t the male interns change their behavior. You can’t be too careful around anti-gay legislators doing research. ---
**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 28, 2016, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27063 "2016-01-28T23:03:53Z")
“Signaling out”? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27064 "2016-01-28T23:23:27Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > “Signaling out”? You know, hankie sticking out of the left or right hip pocket, that sort of thing. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27065 "2016-01-29T03:49:20Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > I hope they actually do that. I would laugh at all the straight married couples going “what just happened?” And I’d laugh at the next Republican who said he/she was pro-marriage. > > Dicks. But doesn’t this absolutely prove right all the straight married couples who opposed gay marriage because it would destroy the institution of marriage? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27066 "2016-01-29T04:10:59Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > But doesn’t this absolutely prove right all the straight married couples who opposed gay marriage because it would destroy the institution of marriage? :eek: Prvoides even more proof straight people can destroy the institution all by themselves. I doubt any gay legislators are voting to ban marriage. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27067 "2016-01-29T04:14:27Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > But doesn’t this absolutely prove right all the straight married couples who opposed gay marriage because it would destroy the institution of marriage? :eek: Maybe it’ll happen within magellan01’s “gay marriage will destroy society within forty years” timeline. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2016, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27068 "2016-01-29T04:25:41Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > Prvoides even more proof straight people can destroy the institution all by themselves. I doubt any gay legislators are voting to ban marriage. But don’t you see? The mere PROSPECT of gay marriage is driving some straight married people into ORGIES of stupidity! Sure, gay legislators don’t vote to ban marriage, that’s part of their devious, twisted plan … they don’t NEED to, all they have to do is rely on the extreme stupidity of bigots! ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27069 "2016-01-29T06:16:04Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Maybe it’ll happen within magellan01’s “gay marriage will destroy society within forty years” timeline. It’s running late, then. Tuesday night I went to an event for the publication of a book\* about a gay couple who got married here in Minnesota 44 years ago. And society doesn’t seem to have been destroyed. - _[The Wedding Heard ‘Round the World: America’s First Gay Marriage](http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-wedding-heard-around-the-world)_. University of Minnesota Press. 2016. 200 p. HC. $22.95. ISBN 978-0-8166-9926-1. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2016, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27070 "2016-01-29T06:31:17Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > He does love the word “cuck” doesn’t he. Starting to wonder if he joined a fraternity out at Brandeis. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27071 "2016-01-29T09:36:02Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Maybe it’ll happen within magellan01’s “gay marriage will destroy society within forty years” timeline. You just wait forty years and see how different society is then. I guarantee you lots of things will have changed! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27072 "2016-01-29T15:34:42Z")
[LePage now instructing citizens to “load up and get rid of the drug dealers”](http://www.salon.com/2016/01/29/maines_gop_governor_now_instructing_citizens_to_load_up_and_get_rid_of_the_drug_dealers/) > [@](#): > > One day after calling for the return of public executions via guillotine, Maine’s controversial republican governor offered a better solution to fighting crime: Citizens take up arms and shoot drug dealers. > > “Everybody in Maine, we have Constitutional Carry. Load up and get rid of the drug dealers,” Gov. Paul LePage told Maine’s WGME on Wednesday. > > Although Maine long ago abolished the death penalty, LePage told CBS 13 Reporter Brad Rogers that he would “absolutely” love to see its return to punish convicted drug dealers. “They’re killing our kids,” LePage said of nonviolent drug offenders, arguing that death from drug overdose is homicide. “I know of a man and woman that died in the same night from the drugs they bought from one dealer. Two homicides, I consider those two homicides,” LePage said. At least he’s dropped the white-girl-knocky-uppy thing . . . ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27073 "2016-01-29T16:23:07Z")
I wonder if he bought those drugs from Shifty or Smoothie ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27074 "2016-01-29T16:34:03Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Out in my neck of the woods, a committee in the Republican-controlled state Senate has approved [a bill that would repeal anti-discrimination regulations for transgender people](http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/politics-government/article56901863.html#storylink=mainstage). > > Which is stupid enough on its own, but the stupid is compounded by the fact that the bill is unlikely to pass even in the Republican-controlled Senate, the relevant committee-chairman in the Democratic-controlled House has openly stated that she will not put the bill to a vote, which, the governor has already promised to veto it even if it were to pass, all for the sake of combatting a phantom menace (cisgender men claiming to be women in order to go peeping in the ladies’ room and getting away with it because of transgender rights laws) which nobody can demonstrate has ever actually happened anywhere. > > This is the state of the Republican party in 2016 - wasting the taxpayers’ time and money on no-chance-in-hell legislation in order to appease the handful of rural bigots who remain breathlessly terrified of Teh Ghey. I think there is a near 100% certainty that we’ll soon see some bigoted non-trans moron walking into opposite-sex toilets in an ass-backward attempt to prove . . . something. Like the people who commit voter fraud to prove that voter fraud exists. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27075 "2016-01-29T18:21:44Z")
Georgia state legislator; [the KKK “was not so much a racist thing”, it “made a lot of people straighten up”, Robert E Lee’s birthday should be a state holiday, and the state constitution should be amended to protect Confederate memorials, because taking them down is exactly like what ISIS is doing.](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/01/29/3744297/state-rep-defends-ku-klux-klan-says-it-was-not-so-much-a-racist-thing/) My brain hurts. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27076 "2016-01-29T18:30:58Z")
“First of all we have seen how in six years of Obamacare that it’s been a disaster. It is the biggest job killer in this country. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work, have lost their health insurance, have lost their doctors, have seen their premiums sky rocket.” Ted Cruz Unemployment down to 5%, fewer people without health insurance… Just keep lying about it, Republicans… ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27077 "2016-01-29T18:43:40Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Just keep lying about it, Republicans… They’re Republicans, it’s what they do. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27078 "2016-01-29T18:46:54Z")
> [@MacCat](#): > > They’re Republicans, it’s what they do. Are you selling insurance? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27079 "2016-01-29T18:47:52Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Georgia state legislator; [the KKK “was not so much a racist thing”, it “made a lot of people straighten up”, Robert E Lee’s birthday should be a state holiday, and the state constitution should be amended to protect Confederate memorials, because taking them down is exactly like what ISIS is doing.](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/01/29/3744297/state-rep-defends-ku-klux-klan-says-it-was-not-so-much-a-racist-thing/) > > My brain hurts. The KKK certainly made a lot of people straighten up at the neck. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27080 "2016-01-29T18:52:25Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > The KKK certainly made a lot of people straighten up at the neck. eh, it’s a stretch. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27081 "2016-01-29T18:54:11Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Are you selling insurance? No, but I have snowplowed their parking lot. Next time I see Warren, I’m going to suggest this one. Thanks for the idea & the lulz! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1353) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1355)