# 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:** 1691
**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:** [May 12, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33802 "2017-05-12T22:45:09Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > “_I caught this young man not speaking English. Check his citizenship_” > > “ **What is your mother-tongue, son?** ” > > “Cree” > > (there are a _lot_ of NAs in Oklahoma) [Aye; there are](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears). ---
**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 12, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33803 "2017-05-12T22:45:33Z")
Cull the edumacated. (this message sponsored by Brawndo) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33804 "2017-05-13T00:06:53Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Wisconsin legislators want to remove the requirement that children 16-17 get work permits and permission from their parents before they can work. > [https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/wisconsin/articles/2017-05-10/senate-to-vote-on-eliminating-child-labor-permits](https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/wisconsin/articles/2017-05-10/senate-to-vote-on-eliminating-child-labor-permits) “Republicans argue the bill would make it easier for children without parents to work.” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33805 "2017-05-13T00:47:29Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > “Republicans argue the bill would make it easier for children without parents to work.” > :smack: Wait, they have to get permission? I don’t recall having to get my parents permission in Minnesota in the 1970’s to get a job as a 16-17 year old. I had a couple of them in that time. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33806 "2017-05-13T00:51:56Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > This isn’t really all that bad. As the article notes, before 2008 the fee was attached. When I entered the military in '91, we had to sign up in Basic and pay $100 for 12 months. It’s not that bad really considering nowadays, it’s worth sometimes over $100,000 depending on where you live and what school you go to. Oh no no no. The slightest change in vet benefits was proof extraordinaire of Obama’s hatred of the military and violation of the government’s promises to their vets. At least according to the batshit insane “100% disabled vet” wife of a gaming buddy. Who despised Obama and all those worthless scumbags and welfare cheats sucking at the government teat. Except herself, of course. I long ago de-friended her, but I would imagine she’s perfectly fine with this, since it comes from the Republicans. :rolleyes: ---
**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 13, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33807 "2017-05-13T01:07:39Z")
There are really, really big turtles at the bottom, and we might not get to see them unless we strive to get there as fast as we can. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33808 "2017-05-13T02:44:50Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > “Republicans argue the bill would make it easier for children without parents to work.” > :smack: Gotta get those freeloading orphans off their butts somehow. ---
**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 13, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33809 "2017-05-13T02:59:27Z")
Oooh! Oooh! I read that book, though I’m having a dickens of a time remembering who wrote it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33810 "2017-05-13T03:07:10Z")
Barney Gogol ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33811 "2017-05-13T03:35:46Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Barney Gogol With the gulag-gulagy eyes. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33812 "2017-05-13T03:58:11Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Oooh! Oooh! I read that book, though I’m having a dickens of a time remembering who wrote it. I had some good expectations for that book (not great…), but I was still disappointed by the twist. Bleak. I don’t mean to be a pick, Wick, but I’m old and curious so when I shop for a mutual friend, I don’t want some chuzzlewit to ruin it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33813 "2017-05-13T04:01:38Z")
It was the best of Thames… ---
**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 13, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33814 "2017-05-13T04:06:48Z")
Oh, now that is just too Twisted. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33815 "2017-05-13T04:22:36Z")
Fifty Shades of Dorian Grey ---
**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 13, 2017, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33816 "2017-05-13T04:29:09Z")
Sorry, wrong author. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33817 "2017-05-13T04:36:08Z")
Well this is Wisconsin, and they are intent on rolling back the times. I suggest they wipe out some environmental regs, start up some child-staffed small mining outfits and start hitting those small deposits of ultra-pure copper again. The stuff with small amounts of silver and gold in it. Maybe call them Christian Rehabilitation Camps or something. All those orphans can get great occupational training while earning their keep. Win-Win! How is that a stupid idea? 😃 Hell, the [Flambeau Mine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flambeau_Mine) produced; 181,000 tons of copper, 334,000 ounces of gold, 3.3 million ounces of silver, 4.5 million tons of high sulfur waste rock, 4 million tons of low sulfur waste in only four years of operation on a mine site of only 181 acres! Just incredible wealth out there for the taking once they get rid of job-killing environmental regulations and anti-choice child labor laws. ---
**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 13, 2017, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33818 "2017-05-13T05:08:54Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Well this is Wisconsin, and they are intent on rolling back the times. If you have ever used industrial machinery, you probably have pressed one of those large buttons with the “AB” logo on it, or seen “Allen-Bradley” on some piece of equipment. Apparently, Wisconsin’s own Bradley family are [a bunch of fuckwipes](https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/05/11/weaponized-philanthropy-bradley-foundation/) intent upon playing the long game toward a rightward country. > [@](#): > > … the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is funding a national effort to “assess and expand right-wing ‘infrastructure’ to influence policies and politicians nationwide.” > … a key partner in Bradley’s effort is Berman and Co., … “an aggressive propagator of industry spin and disinformation, … a ‘hired gun’ for corporate America.” Berman has targeted “nonprofit environmental, worker rights, consumer, and animal welfare organizations” … > > Bradley also recently awarded $1.77 million to the newly formed Association of American Educators Foundation to silence “the organized voice of pubic school teachers” and to “advance taxpayer vouchers for private and religious schools.” > > All of this contributes to the evidence pointing to a powerful private foundation “weaponizing philanthropy for their own private political purposes” … Do you not just adore “weaponized philanthropy”? ---
**Author:** ![Beren\_Erchamion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90ced4/32.png) [@Beren\_Erchamion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beren_Erchamion)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33819 "2017-05-13T05:15:10Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > If you have ever used industrial machinery, you probably have pressed one of those large buttons with the “AB” logo on it, or seen “Allen-Bradley” on some piece of equipment. Apparently, Wisconsin’s own Bradley family are [a bunch of fuckwipes](https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/05/11/weaponized-philanthropy-bradley-foundation/) intent upon playing the long game toward a rightward country. > > Do you not just adore “weaponized philanthropy”? At this point, the greatest threat to freedom and democracy is the First Amendment in its current form. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33820 "2017-05-13T05:42:56Z")
> [@Beren\_Erchamion](#): > > At this point, the greatest threat to freedom and democracy is the First Amendment in its current form. Sorry, stupid liberal ideas is in a [different thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=605448). ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33821 "2017-05-13T07:09:09Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > …Do you not just adore “weaponized philanthropy”? Its not hypocrisy when you _totally_ don’t give a fuck. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1690) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1692)