# 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:** 1561
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31202 "2016-09-13T13:49:48Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > That is batshit crazy. What exactly do they think Mrs. Clinton would do? Jesus, that’s fucked up. The worst form of tyranny! Forcing people to pay for the use of Federal property, forcing them to have health insurance, forcing them to obey evil gubment regulations! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31203 "2016-09-13T14:45:38Z")
[“Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!”](http://addictinginfo.org/2016/09/13/scary-trump-just-declared-war-on-multiple-religions/) Nothing like declaring war on multiple religions to start off another week on the campaign trail. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31204 "2016-09-13T15:00:37Z")
And each and every American who isn’t a right wing Christian. Gosh, what was that bit about Hillary alienating people by calling racists racists? ---
**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:** [September 13, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31205 "2016-09-13T15:54:46Z")
> [@TheStake](#): > > How about me? I am a Republican. I am en-scoped in that bull shit. Does that make me a racist, sexist, homophobe, and all the other lib hot words? It is a bad generalization. No, it does not make you those things. It is an assertion that your party has been infected by factions of people who ARE one or more of those things. It’s close to an assertion that those factions have taken over your party. Do you wish to argue that such factions have not taken over your party? Feel free to do so; we’d all be happy to engage you on those terms. Do you wish to argue that such factions do not exist? Feel free to do so. We’d all be DELIGHTED to engage you on _those_ terms. Do you wish to argue that such people do not exist within your party in significant numbers? Once again, feel free to do so; we’d all be – what’s happier than “delighted?” well, that. However, it appears that you prefer to argue that because those traits have been called out in some of your fellow party members, you, personally, are being accused of sharing those traits. This is patently a losing argument, and it gets tiresome having to demolish it multiple times. You think you’re being unfairly tarred by a broad brush due to your associations? There’s a very simple solution. **Stop associating with the people who demonstrate those traits.** Either throw them out of your party, or admit that they _have_ taken it over, and get out yourself. THAT is the message Hillary would do well to convey, and truth to tell, she probably could have done a better job of conveying it. Maybe she needed to get the phraseology out there so she can build on it to convey that message to people who are feeling inclined to support Trump but don’t want to be deplorable. TL;DR > [@TheStake](#): > > How about me? I am a Republican. I am en-scoped in that bull shit. You could always stop being a Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31206 "2016-09-13T16:24:09Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > And each and every American who isn’t a right wing Christian. What makes you think the “One god” he referred to was Jesus. Given His ego I thought it most likely referred to Trump himself. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31207 "2016-09-13T16:57:40Z")
The Dollar Almighty. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31208 "2016-09-13T19:05:01Z")
Colorado state legislator: [Blacks and Mexicans are poor because of their diets.](http://www.politicususa.com/2013/08/22/colorado-state-senator-blames-poverty-black-people-eating-fried-chicken.html) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31209 "2016-09-13T19:09:29Z")
“the black race” ☹ People are shit. Especially her. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31210 "2016-09-13T19:34:57Z")
[The Republican Party of North Carolina has fired back a press release after the NCAA pulled seven championships out of the state due to HB2.](http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/09/13/north_carolina_gop_responds_to_ncaa_transgender_championship_decision.html) > [@](#): > > This is so absurd it’s almost comical. I genuinely look forward to the NCAA merging all men’s and women’s teams together as singular, unified, unisex teams. Under the NCAA’s logic, colleges should make cheerleaders and football players share bathrooms, showers and hotel rooms. This decision is an assault to female athletes across the nation. If you are unwilling to have women’s bathrooms and locker rooms, how do you have a women’s team? ---
**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:** [September 13, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31211 "2016-09-13T19:46:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [The Republican Party of North Carolina has fired back a press release after the NCAA pulled seven championships out of the state due to HB2.](http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/09/13/north_carolina_gop_responds_to_ncaa_transgender_championship_decision.html) Absolutely the most fucked up thing about this is that it makes the NCAA look not just like good guys, but fucking Dudley Do-Rights when you look at the NCAA policies on transgender people vs North Carolina’s law. And the NCAA are a bunch of gigantic assholes that continually advocate for taking advantage of children and young adults as a multi-billion dollar industry. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31212 "2016-09-14T02:52:56Z")
I don’t think older Republicans will ever stop equating transgender people with cross-dressing peeping toms. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31213 "2016-09-14T03:01:42Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Absolutely the most fucked up thing about this is that it makes the NCAA look not just like good guys, but fucking Dudley Do-Rights when you look at the NCAA policies on transgender people vs North Carolina’s law. Also, the NCAA has allowed transgender athletes to play on the team corresponding to their gender identity for _years_ now and it hasn’t lead to some sort of pantsless free-for-all of moral deviancy, which makes this breathless fear-mongering even more absurd. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31214 "2016-09-14T09:58:07Z")
[GOP campaigns for dead assemblyman, wins primary.](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/upstate-assemblyman-died-apparent-suicide-wins-gop-primary-article-1.2791629) > [@](#): > > An embattled upstate Assemblyman who took his own life in a Rochester cemetery won his Republican primary bid from the grave. > > Bill Nojay was facing an FBI investigation and fraud trial in Cambodia when he died of an apparent suicide Friday. Despite his death, he defeated GOP rival Richard Milne with an easy 60% to 39% win Tuesday night. > > Milne, who is mayor of Honeoye Falls, claims district Republicans urged constituents to vote for the 59-year-old incumbent with a barrage of robocalls in the days following his opponent’s shocking death. > > “They really did some things in the past few days that were in poor taste in my opinion to sway the vote,” Milne said. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2016, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31215 "2016-09-14T10:57:35Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Also, the NCAA has allowed transgender athletes to play on the team corresponding to their gender identity for _years_ now and it hasn’t lead to some sort of pantsless free-for-all of moral deviancy, Speak for yourself! ---
**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:** [September 14, 2016, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31216 "2016-09-14T11:28:52Z")
**Stuff that conservatives in the media think is the most important thing happening today:** Female model wears revealing outfit. > **[Emily Ratajkowski defends revealing gown after Tim Gunn calls it 'appallingly...](https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/emily-ratajkowski-defends-revealing-gown-after-tim-gunn-calls-it-appallingly-vulgar)** > > Emily Ratajkowski took to Twitter to defend her fashion choices after fashion critic Tim Gunn called her latest look "appallingly vulgar." Athlete who protests social injustice doesn’t stand for the anthem of nation which allows such. > **[Ted Cruz Ripping Athletes For Not Standing During The National Anthem Is...](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexreimer/2016/09/13/ted-cruz-ripping-athletes-for-not-standing-during-the-national-anthem-is-beyond-hypocritical/#2b6b46c946d3)** > > Cruz says Colin Kaepernick and other athletes who kneel during the anthem are being unpatriotic. Apparently, using your bully pulpit to criticize the United States is only appropriate if you're the junior Republican senator from Texas. Defending men accused of sexually harassing their workers by multiple women. Forgetting that they did that. [https://thinkprogress.org/bill-oreilly-gets-amnesia-forgets-he-defended-roger-ailes-and-smeared-his-accusers-c575d6799c0c#.7rmxq3yip](https://thinkprogress.org/bill-oreilly-gets-amnesia-forgets-he-defended-roger-ailes-and-smeared-his-accusers-c575d6799c0c#.7rmxq3yip) Man refuses to either follow instructions in the federal workplace or be a tolerant human being, thinks his belief in an invisible friend gives him special privileges the rest of us don’t have. > **[Federal Employee Would Rather Be Fired Than Watch LGBT Diversity Video](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/illinois-social-security-video_n_57d818f9e4b0aa4b722c7566)** > > David Hall believes that the Social Security Administration wants him to "certify sin." Navy Secretary names ships after civil rights icons in addition to medal of honor winners, instead of just medal of honor winners. > **[Navy secretary defends his unusual picks for ship names](https://www.foxnews.com/us/navy-secretary-defends-his-unusual-picks-for-ship-names)** > > Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has raised a few eyebrows with some of the names he has picked for naval ships. This is really important shit. Sitting around all day, finding things to be faux outraged and indignant about, claiming “morality”. Meanwhile, defending morally reprehensible men. I hear the pay is pretty good if you can get it. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2016, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31217 "2016-09-14T11:33:00Z")
All the above stuff was just from today. Yesterday was **PJ media** day on the yahoo home page, so it was even worse. What really bugs me is they hide the source under a title like “lifestyle”, instead of being consistent and labeling things with “fox news” or “business insider” or “forbes”. Yahoo: now fully \*half \*of it is composed of right-wing drivel, written especially for those easily distracted by the shiny red herrings and think being bigoted is the morally correct position. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2016, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31218 "2016-09-14T11:54:28Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [GOP campaigns for dead assemblyman, wins primary.](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/upstate-assemblyman-died-apparent-suicide-wins-gop-primary-article-1.2791629) Hey, look on the bright side there. A dead Republican will do much less harm than a live one, and only marginally less good :). This kind of thing should be encouraged worldwide, really. “Wanna show you’re a _real_ conservative ? Vote for someone who died when your ideas held sway !” ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31219 "2016-09-14T17:32:16Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Hey, look on the bright side there. A dead Republican will do much less harm than a live one, and only marginally less good :). This kind of thing should be encouraged worldwide, really. “Wanna show you’re a _real_ conservative ? Vote for someone who died when your ideas held sway !” Not the first time a corpse has won an election. Think of how bad it must suck to _lose_ an election a corpse. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31220 "2016-09-14T17:51:32Z")
[Minnesota Republican candidate for state legislature has a history of praising the Confederacy, calling Lincoln the worst President ever, and calling for Obama to be lynched.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/09/14/republican-candidate-gets-caught-calling-for-lynching-president-obama/) ---
**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:** [September 14, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31221 "2016-09-14T18:03:20Z")
More stuff conservatives think is important, from the conservative \*the federalist. \* > **[If You’re Not A Dad, Don’t Go To Dad Events At School](https://thefederalist.com/2016/09/14/youre-not-dad-dont-go-dad-events-school/)** > > If mothers can attend events meant only for dads, fathers-only gatherings become meetings for anyone, losing their entire purpose. After all, the really important thing to remember here, is that if you don’t have a dad in your life, you should be made to feel left out and different, and events designed for parent and child should exclude you. That’s what’s important. Not raising children in a loving environment. What matters is the set of genitals that your one parent has. Very important stuff. Honestly, conservatives, how do you take such positions and then say with a straight face that you’re the side with the “family values”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1560) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1562)