# 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:** 1377
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27522 "2016-02-19T17:25:37Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Oh no! A grammar nazi. If I only cared about your approval. That said, critical thinking and writing are two different skills. Thus my point; you just justified my assumption that you’d have no idea why people would mock you for sentences like that. It had nothing to do with grammar and everything to do with your exposed lack of thinking skills. I’m sorry if you’re just a pathetic troll pretending to be that slow. I’m equally sorry if indeed you are that slow. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27523 "2016-02-19T17:29:17Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Thus my point; you just justified my assumption that you’d have no idea why people would mock you for sentences like that. It had nothing to do with grammar and everything to do with your exposed lack of thinking skills. > > I’m sorry if you’re just a pathetic troll pretending to be that slow. I’m equally sorry if indeed you are that slow. The sentences I wrote were simple to comprehend. Not my fault you are too retarded to see the irony in complaining about state power while continuously advocating for more state power. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27524 "2016-02-19T17:44:53Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Government is not an entity . . . Of course it is. Every organization is an entity. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27525 "2016-02-20T00:24:27Z")
[Donald Trump used his Apple iPhone to tweet a call for a boycott of Apple.](http://uproxx.com/news/donald-trump-apple-boycott-hypocrite/) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27526 "2016-02-20T00:33:38Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Who am I to doubt your expertise delving into rectums. Infected or otherwise. . . . What’s charming about this attempt at a zinger is that it acknowledges that you are as nasty as one. Brave concession, old man. Courageous admission in the anus of defeat. Sturdy moral character. Could you stand just a little bit farther away? ---
**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:** [February 20, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27527 "2016-02-20T00:36:46Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > The sentences I wrote were simple to comprehend. Not my fault you are too retarded to see the irony in complaining about state power while continuously advocating for more state power. They were inded simple to comprehend. And what we comprehended was that you appear to believe that some ludicrous strawman built by the Right actually represents the position of liberals. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2016, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27528 "2016-02-20T00:53:18Z")
In \*\*octopus’s \*\* defense, strawman liberal is an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27529 "2016-02-20T00:55:49Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > In \*\*octopus’s \*\* defense, strawman liberal is an idiot. He is! As a group, we decided to get together and hate that guy. At least, I think that’s what the group decided. I was too busy getting an abortion and collecting welfare to go to the meeting. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27530 "2016-02-20T01:45:59Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > He is! As a group, we decided to get together and hate that guy. At least, I think that’s what the group decided. I was too busy getting an abortion and collecting welfare to go to the meeting. Riiiight, like we actually would have told you the correct location. You’re a woman and we liberals all hate women. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2016, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27531 "2016-02-20T03:47:55Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Riiiight, like we actually would have told you the correct location. You’re a woman and we liberals all hate women. Now, wait just a minute. If they’re Hispanic Atheist Science Teachers and disabled and gay (and kissing in a Protestant-White-CEOs-Only country club)… then they’re stickin’ it to The Man, and we think they rock. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2016, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27532 "2016-02-20T04:29:35Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Government is not an entity . . . > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Of course it is. Every organization is an entity. But, as he pointed out, _government_ is not an organization. _ **A** _ government would be an organization. Without that indefinite (or a definite) article, the word “government” simply denotes a process for seeing to the needs of (usually large numbers of) people. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27533 "2016-02-20T04:52:20Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > The sentences I wrote were simple to comprehend. Not my fault you are too retarded to see the irony in complaining about state power while continuously advocating for more state power. Mother of all that’s holy and bright you’re a complete and total moron. Ignored. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27534 "2016-02-20T05:05:47Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > Mother of all that’s holy and bright you’re a complete and total moron. Ignored. Doing it wrong. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27535 "2016-02-20T05:07:55Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Doing it wrong. \*trying \* to get it right. Not necessarily succeeding, but trying. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27536 "2016-02-21T21:55:56Z")
Technically, maybe not a Republiopath idea, _per se_, but this guy is [clearly a piece of work](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/wtf-arizona-lawyer-says-scalia-can-vote-from-the-grave-to-keep-supreme-court-conservative/), \*Anti-government attorney Kory Langhofer argued over the weekend that the Supreme Court could continue to decide cases 5-4 in favor of conservatives after the death of Antonin Scalia because the deceased justice could effectively cast votes from the grave. “There’s no Ouija board required to figure out how Justice Scalia would vote on these things, he’s already voted… We’re at the second-to-last step in how these cases unfold when Justice Scalia died. We know exactly what he thought… And it’s not unprincipled to say we should give affect to that.”\* ---
**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:** [February 21, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27537 "2016-02-21T22:11:04Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Technically, maybe not a Republiopath idea, _per se_, but this guy is [clearly a piece of work](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/wtf-arizona-lawyer-says-scalia-can-vote-from-the-grave-to-keep-supreme-court-conservative/), > \*Anti-government attorney Kory Langhofer argued over the weekend that the Supreme Court could continue to decide cases 5-4 in favor of conservatives after the death of Antonin Scalia because the deceased justice could effectively cast votes from the grave. > > “There’s no Ouija board required to figure out how Justice Scalia would vote on these things, he’s already voted… We’re at the second-to-last step in how these cases unfold when Justice Scalia died. We know exactly what he thought… And it’s not unprincipled to say we should give affect to that.”\* Not so stupid after all; as long as we don’t have to continue paying Scalia. Heck, we could do that with all the Supremes as they die off. Save a bundle.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27538 "2016-02-21T22:19:54Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Not so stupid after all; as long as we don’t have to continue paying Scalia. Heck, we could do that with all the Supremes as they die off. Save a bundle.😃 It will save even more if we don’t have to buy separate Ouija boards for each one, as long as their ghosts are willing to share. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27539 "2016-02-21T22:23:34Z")
> [@](#): > > “There’s no Ouija board required to figure out how Justice Scalia would vote on these things, he’s already voted… We’re at the second-to-last step in how these cases unfold when Justice Scalia died. We know exactly what he thought… And it’s not unprincipled to say we should give affect to that.” I’m sure that Scalia had a Lee Atwater style deathbed conversion and all his future decisions would have been opposite. I think we can continue on and safely put him as the fifth liberal vote. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27540 "2016-02-21T22:41:32Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Not so stupid after all; as long as we don’t have to continue paying Scalia. Heck, we could do that with all the Supremes as they die off. Save a bundle.😃 > [@Frank](#): > > It will save even more if we don’t have to buy separate Ouija boards for each one, as long as their ghosts are willing to share. What kind of a commie suggestion is that? Sheesh. :dubious: ---
**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:** [February 22, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27541 "2016-02-22T01:38:09Z")
> [@nealla](#): > > As a lurker who likes (masochistically) reading about dumb things republicans do… could perhaps a thread regarding bathrooms and genders be created instead? Just throwin’ it out there. I think this whole bathroom thing is no big deal for young adults these days. My kids went to college and all three lived in mixed sex dorms with both sexes on the same floor. The youngest’s dorm had just one bathroom per floor shared by both (all three or four?) genders. It was kind of a brother-sister deal. No one made a big thing of it. Seems more civilized to me than my college days. God we were troglodytes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1376) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1378)