# 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:** 1467
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29322 "2016-05-27T04:59:56Z")
Just to clarify: The Wonkette article that **Rick Kitchen** linked to is mocking [this Daily Caller article](http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/26/obamas-fancy-new-mansion-is-located-1000-feet-from-the-islamic-center-of-washington-dc/). Frankly, what kind of bugs me the most about that Daily Caller article is that it specifies the mosque distance as 1096 feet, but its headline describes the distance as “1000 feet”. No, dipstick, you round to the nearest hundred to approximate a four-digit integer, not to the nearest thousand. Could you simply not bear to write “1100 feet”, knowing that would make it look as though Obama’s house had an additional and non-factual FOUR WHOLE FEET of sanitizing distance between it and that sinister mosque? Or were you afraid that it would make your headline look “too technical” for the comfort level of your intended audience? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29323 "2016-05-27T06:15:58Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > With a forklift? > [@running\_coach](#): > > Garbage truck. [With a Dustbuster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege) ---
**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:** [May 27, 2016, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29324 "2016-05-27T09:43:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Daily Caller is not a parody site. > > It was founded by Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel. > [@silenus](#): > > Wonkette isn’t parody. Carlson is a parody of a human being, however. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29325 "2016-05-27T10:46:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Daily Caller is not a parody site. > > It was founded by Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel. You are to be commended for honestly stating facts which tend to undermine your assertion. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29326 "2016-05-27T13:35:41Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > You are to be commended for honestly stating facts which tend to undermine your assertion. “Parody” means deliberate stupidity for the purpose of humor or satire. Tucker Carlson is innately stupid and only humorous because he thinks he thinks. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29327 "2016-05-27T13:37:38Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [The right is shocked, SHOCKED that Obama’s new out-of-the-White House home is _ **only 1096 feet** _ from a mosque!](http://wonkette.com/602295/secret-muslim-barack-obamas-new-house-is-near-a-mosque-and-the-daily-caller-is-on-it) Well, I do hope _The Daily Caller_ does a full investigation of everyone who lives even closer to the mosque, 'cause obviously, by such logic, they’re even more muslim-y than our soon-to-be former President (assuming he chickens out on declaring martial law at the last minute). Even worse: > [@](#): > > In addition to the Islamic Center of Washington, the embassy of Oman and the former embassy of Iran are very close to Obama’s new mansion. Great when you can get your marching orders within walking distance, eh? ---
**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:** [May 27, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29328 "2016-05-27T18:34:16Z")
[Arizona Sheriff (and shockingly, not Arpaio) warns that Mexican drug cartels are sending assassins across the border to murder innocent Americans this Memorial Day weekend.](http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/05/27/just-in-arizona-sheriff-says-mexican-hitmen-are-waiting-for-you-this-memorial-weekend-video/) And it’s Obama’s fault. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29329 "2016-05-27T18:41:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Arizona Sheriff (and shockingly, not Arpaio) warns that Mexican drug cartels are sending assassins across the border to murder innocent Americans this Memorial Day weekend.](http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/05/27/just-in-arizona-sheriff-says-mexican-hitmen-are-waiting-for-you-this-memorial-weekend-video/) > > And it’s Obama’s fault. . . . Why would they? It’s not good business to shoot your customers. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29330 "2016-05-27T19:51:02Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Well, I do hope _The Daily Caller_ does a full investigation of everyone who lives even closer to the mosque, 'cause obviously, by such logic, they’re even more muslim-y than our soon-to-be former President (assuming he chickens out on declaring martial law at the last minute). I was thinking “Yeah, it’d be fun to play that game. Let’s look up a bunch of former leaders and see how close they live to anything” (Google Maps) and then I kinda thought I really didn’t need a visit from the Secret Service and temporary seizure of my computer and god knows what else in my apartment. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29331 "2016-05-27T21:23:17Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > . . . Why would they? It’s not good business to shoot your customers. It’s just vaguely possible that they might imagine they could benefit by bringing a reign of terror to the U.S., similar to what happened in Mexico – finding newspaper editors who have railed against the drug trade and hanging their corpses from freeway overpasses. But this is pretty bad reasoning; the U.S. is sufficiently reactionary to respond to this kind of thing with a MAJOR law-enforcement push. Nothing could make Arpaio appear more justified than a large Mexican-Mafia crime wave. They’d be shooting themselves, not in the foot, but the femoral artery. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29332 "2016-05-27T21:41:01Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > It’s just vaguely possible that they might imagine they could benefit by bringing a reign of terror to the U.S., similar to what happened in Mexico – finding newspaper editors who have railed against the drug trade and hanging their corpses from freeway overpasses. > > But this is pretty bad reasoning; the U.S. is sufficiently reactionary to respond to this kind of thing with a MAJOR law-enforcement push. Nothing could make Arpaio appear more justified than a large Mexican-Mafia crime wave. They’d be shooting themselves, not in the foot, but the femoral artery. So, a Tet Offensive of sorts? 😉 ---
**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:** [May 27, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29333 "2016-05-27T22:50:47Z")
Gays In Sp-a-a-c-e. [Congressman says no.](http://www.cnet.com/news/texas-congressman-doesnt-want-gay-people-in-space/) Texas, of course. > [@](#): > > I really wonder how many people in [the House], who have the ultimate power to decide whether humanity would go forward or not – whether it was an asteroid coming, something that would end humanity on Earth as dinosaurs were ended at one time – we’ve got a spaceship that can go, as Matt Damon did in the movie, plant a colony somewhere. We can have humans survive this terrible disaster about to befall. If you could decide what 40 people you put on the spacecraft that would save humanity, how many of those would be same-sex couples? ---
**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:** [May 27, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29334 "2016-05-27T22:55:12Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > . . . Why would they? Same reason anybody goes huntin’ anything. Trophies, meat and tall tales :D. ---
**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:** [May 28, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29335 "2016-05-28T00:23:12Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Gays In Sp-a-a-c-e. > [Congressman says no.](http://www.cnet.com/news/texas-congressman-doesnt-want-gay-people-in-space/) Texas, of course. Louie Gohmert, of course. Why didn’t you say so in the first place? 🙂 > [@](#): > > I really wonder how many people in [the House], who have the ultimate power to decide whether humanity would go forward or not – whether it was an asteroid coming, something that would end humanity on Earth as dinosaurs were ended at one time – we’ve got a spaceship that can go, as Matt Damon did in the movie, plant a colony somewhere. We can have humans survive this terrible disaster about to befall. If you could decide what 40 people you put on the spacecraft that would save humanity, how many of those would be same-sex couples? OK, I’m lost. What point was he even trying to make here? It’s OK to oppress gay folk because (in Louie’s mind) they wouldn’t or couldn’t procreate if they were the last survivors of the human race? It’s not even coherent enough to call it bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29336 "2016-05-28T00:42:35Z")
Today’s Republicans are quite fond of spouting stuff that’s [Not Even Wrong.](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29337 "2016-05-28T02:24:38Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Louie Gohmert, of course. Louie has a seat reserved on Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B. ---
**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:** [May 28, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29338 "2016-05-28T02:31:19Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Louie has a seat reserved on Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B. I wouldn’t trust him to sanitize a phone. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29339 "2016-05-28T02:33:19Z")
The KKK is using the transgender bathroom issue as a “[recruiting tool](http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/05/27/kkk-officially-using-transgender-bathroom-bill-as-recruiting-tool/).” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29340 "2016-05-28T03:30:59Z")
But don’t those guys wear dresses? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29341 "2016-05-28T04:44:49Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Gays In Sp-a-a-c-e. > [Congressman says no.](http://www.cnet.com/news/texas-congressman-doesnt-want-gay-people-in-space/) Texas, of course. > > I really wonder how many people in [the House], who have the ultimate power to decide whether humanity would go forward or not – whether it was an asteroid coming, something that would end humanity on Earth as dinosaurs were ended at one time – we’ve got a spaceship that can go, as Matt Damon did in the movie, plant a colony somewhere. We can have humans survive this terrible disaster about to befall. If you could decide what 40 people you put on the spacecraft that would save humanity, how many of those would be same-sex couples? Well, in the unlikely event that we could only save 40 people who were responsible for repopulating the human race, the most efficient approach would be 40 women and a lot of frozen genetic material. So not your traditional family unit – more of a James Tiptree Jr. “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” sort of thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1466) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1468)