# 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:** 1499
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29962 "2016-07-12T10:24:31Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > More GOP platform goodies: > “[Republican delegates unanimously adopted an amendment to their draft platform Monday morning that called pornography “a public health crisis” and a “public menace” that is destroying live](https://www.yahoo.com/news/rnc-platform-draft-porn-000000329.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw)s.” They SAY they’re against porn, but if they really want to defeat it, why do they avoid calling it by its proper name? They won’t say “teabagging,” or “[del]radical Islamic [/del]santorum,” which must mean they secretly support it. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29963 "2016-07-12T10:39:44Z")
Didn’t the GOP committees also vote in favor of allowing parents to subject their children to conversion “therapy?” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29964 "2016-07-12T11:22:16Z")
Louie Gohmert (you’ve read about him in this thread before, haven’t you?)[is at it again](https://www.inverse.com/article/16263-texas-congressman-warns-against-gay-space-colonies-to-prevent-the-apocalypse?utm_content=inf_10_3448_2&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=jabra&utm_campaign=CMfacebook&tse_id=INF_cff615e0479111e6b82b0b827aa028d6). > [@](#): > > Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert took to the floor of the House of Representatives Wednesday morning to warn the American public about a very dire threat facing the continuation of the human race: gay space colonies. > > … > > “I really wonder how many people in this body who had the ultimate power to decide whether the human race 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… Ok 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? You’re wanting to save humankind for posterity, basically a modern day Noah, you have that ability to be a modern day Noah, you can preserve life, how many same sex couples would you take from the animal kingdom and from humans to put on a spacecraft to perpetuate humanity and the wildlife kingdom?” ---
**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:** [July 12, 2016, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29965 "2016-07-12T12:36:03Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Louie Gohmert (you’ve read about him in this thread before, haven’t you?)[is at it again](https://www.inverse.com/article/16263-texas-congressman-warns-against-gay-space-colonies-to-prevent-the-apocalypse?utm_content=inf_10_3448_2&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=jabra&utm_campaign=CMfacebook&tse_id=INF_cff615e0479111e6b82b0b827aa028d6). Already covered, back in those ancient times of post [#29326](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19363247&postcount=29326). With that said, I remain baffled as to what Mr. Gohmert’s point is. If we allow same-sex marriage, the straights have to give up some seats on the Space Ark? Why are we even talking about Space Arks, anyway? Does Congress know something about a giant asteroid headed our way that we don’t? ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29966 "2016-07-12T13:15:05Z")
You’d think that persons whose sexual impulses don’t necessarily lead to unintended offspring would be quite useful for maintaining population controls over the course of an interstellar voyage. The “ark” might even work \*better \*if it was populated entirely with lesbians and a ton of frozen sperm samples. Less people without wombs draining resources. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29967 "2016-07-12T13:27:12Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > You’d think that persons whose sexual impulses don’t necessarily lead to unintended offspring would be quite useful for maintaining population controls over the course of an interstellar voyage. > > The “ark” might even work \*better \*if it was populated entirely with lesbians and a ton of frozen sperm samples. Less people without wombs draining resources. Now I want to make Louie Gohmert watch my version of The Martian: Lesbian Version. Naah, needs a cheesier title. Say, Mr. Gohmert, here’s your popcorn. Time for your mandatory screening of “Womb With A View”… ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29968 "2016-07-12T14:43:51Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > You’d think that persons whose sexual impulses don’t necessarily lead to unintended offspring would be quite useful for maintaining population controls over the course of an interstellar voyage. > > The “ark” might even work \*better \*if it was populated entirely with lesbians and a ton of frozen sperm samples. Less people without wombs draining resources. That would work at first, but gays and lesbians don’t reliably beget gay & lesbian kids, so in a generation or so you’d be back to mostly straights anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29969 "2016-07-12T16:13:29Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > That would work at first, but gays and lesbians don’t reliably beget gay & lesbian kids, so in a generation or so you’d be back to mostly straights anyway. That’s the gay agenda? Some agenda that is. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29970 "2016-07-12T17:24:20Z")
AG Loretta Lynch is before the House Judiciary Committee today and I loved this bit:[ > [@](#): > > Lynch last week announced that no charges would be brought, saying she was accepting a recommendation by FBI Director James Comey. > > After Goodlatte spoke, Lynch faced aggressive questioning from Republican Jim Jordan of Ohio, who said Lynch “made a bad situation worse” by saying that she would accept the FBI’s recommendations without even knowing that they would be. > > He said “you showed this case was different,” creating a double standard. ]([http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US\_ATTORNEY\_GENERAL\_CONGRESS\_THE\_LATEST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-07-12-13-08-31](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ATTORNEY_GENERAL_CONGRESS_THE_LATEST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-07-12-13-08-31))😕 ---
**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:** [July 12, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29971 "2016-07-12T17:34:31Z")
GOP platform. 1816 or 2016? [The Bible is US History and should be taught in schools as such](http://fusion.net/story/323943/the-gop-is-debating-its-official-2016-platform-and-things-are-getting-totally-insane/) [Let’s give the national parks to the states](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-platform-committee-wants-feds-to-turn-fed-lands-over-to-the-states) (or better yet??) sell them off. With all these great ideas, the next ten thousand posts in this thread are pretty much assured. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29972 "2016-07-12T18:19:26Z")
Scott Jones is the Sheriff of Sacramento County. He is also the Republican candidate for Congress from the district we live in. He is one of the biggest givers-away of gun permits in the entire state, giving guns away at a much greater rate than the largest county, Los Angeles. His department is also handing out, free, at its offices, a brochure reprinted from the Wall Street Journal called “The Myths of Black Lives Matter”. > **[A dumb, dangerous dismissal of Black Lives Matter](https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/erika-d-smith/article89004882.html)** > > Opinion piece criticizing movement is offered with brochures at Sheriff’s Department ---
**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:** [July 12, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29973 "2016-07-12T18:42:44Z")
[And coal is clean energy](http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/07/12/3797378/gop-clean-coal/) ---
**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:** [July 12, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29974 "2016-07-12T19:55:41Z")
So the answer to the thread title “Who reads the party’s platform?” is “The other side, so we can laugh our asses off.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29975 "2016-07-12T20:51:21Z")
For years and years, we of the DFH community looked forward with glee to the next installment of the Texas Republican Party platform. They never disappointed us by veering into the sensible and reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29976 "2016-07-13T00:18:41Z")
If there’s one pundit/political figure whose death in the last decade makes me the saddest, it’s Molly Ivins. The fact that she died just before the GOP went huggy-jacket-insane is a tragedy. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29977 "2016-07-13T00:29:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > More GOP platform goodies: > “[Republican delegates unanimously adopted an amendment to their draft platform Monday morning that called pornography “a public health crisis” and a “public menace” that is destroying live](https://www.yahoo.com/news/rnc-platform-draft-porn-000000329.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw)s.” This old chestnut is more relevant than ever: Conservatives think women are private property. Liberals think women are public property. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29978 "2016-07-13T00:34:56Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > This old chestnut is more relevant than ever: > > Conservatives think women are private property. > Liberals think women are public property. Huh? Which is it, please, that is trying to make abortion illegal? You’ve got it backwards, goofus. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29979 "2016-07-13T00:41:05Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > This old chestnut is more relevant than ever: > > Conservatives think women are private property. > Liberals think women are public property. Wrongo: Liberals think women own themselves. The above quote is one of the stupidest I’ve ever seen. I have never seen nor heard the “old chestnut” before. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29980 "2016-07-13T00:48:18Z")
Democrats don’t think women are property. Period. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29981 "2016-07-13T00:50:00Z")
If a woman wants to sleep with another woman – or marry another woman – who steps in to try and stop her: the liberal, or the conservative? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1498) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1500)