# 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:** 1764
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35262 "2017-10-10T21:50:12Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Just so we’re clear, Trump administration officials … despite the fact that real-world evidence points in the opposite direction on both counts. > > Completely unbelievable. No, that’s completely believable. The Trump Administration seems to completely ignore real-world evidence. (Unless it agrees with their pre-conceived ides.) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35263 "2017-10-10T21:57:26Z")
Well, as I said elsewhere today; Republicans are at war with Reality, and they think they are winning. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35264 "2017-10-11T04:04:13Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Fair enough, you have your fantasy religion to mess with the govt, I have my own. 🙂 It wasn’t actually my proposal, and ZPG isn’t so much a “fantasy religion” as a policy proposal in an attempt to evade disaster. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2017, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35265 "2017-10-11T10:49:27Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > The Trump Administration seems to completely ignore real-world evidence. (Unless it agrees with their pre-conceived ides.) Hey, ideas are people even _before_ conception! ---
**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:** [October 11, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35266 "2017-10-11T13:26:55Z")
Are there any Shakers left? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35267 "2017-10-11T18:45:51Z")
This [article from last January](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/03/508100617/one-of-the-last-shakers-dies) implies there were two Shakers left at that time. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35268 "2017-10-11T19:04:45Z")
Sandy Rios thinks leftists don’t want us to have air conditioning. > **[Sandy Rios: The Left Doesn’t Want You To Have Air Conditioning | Right Wing...](https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/sandy-rios-the-left-doesnt-want-you-to-have-air-conditioning/)** > > Religious Right radio host and American Family Association official Sandy Rios told listeners today that the “far left” environmentalists who supported ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35269 "2017-10-11T19:15:35Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Mighty\_Girl** : > > Has anyone told the Trump administration that hormonal birth control is not just for stopping sluts from having kids? I am on HBC, and the birth control part of it is just a freebie in my case (I need it to prevent my uterus from killing me). Someone tried explaining that to Bush and Congress a few years back. Guess what she got called? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35270 "2017-10-11T19:18:03Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Someone tried explaining that to Bush and Congress a few years back. Guess what she got called? I believe that Limbaugh called her an upstanding woman with a well thought out and articulate opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35271 "2017-10-11T19:53:45Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > This [article from last January](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/03/508100617/one-of-the-last-shakers-dies) implies there were two Shakers left at that time. Isn’t Michael J Fox a Shaker? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35272 "2017-10-11T20:24:46Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Someone tried explaining that to Bush and Congress a few years back. Guess what she got called? That was February of 2012, when Bush left office four years earlier. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35273 "2017-10-12T00:03:42Z")
I tried to say the name of the new FCC chairman, but it came out as 5 syllables. What wonderful improvements does Ajit Fucking Pai have in mind for the internets? He feels that ISP pricing needs to be deregulated if the providers [almost have competitors](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/fccs-claim-that-one-isp-counts-as-competition-faces-scrutiny-in-court/): if there is alternative service that is within half a mile of your home, then you can choose. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35274 "2017-10-12T00:07:09Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I believe that Limbaugh called her an upstanding woman with a well thought out and articulate opinion. Somehow I’m not finding that funny, considering what he actually called her, at length. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35275 "2017-10-12T00:22:06Z")
So this is some petty-ass bullshit, but it made me giggle, so I’m gonna share. Friend of a Friend posted this [stupid meme](https://www.facebook.com/nosnowflakeyoulose/photos/a.117210265615652.1073741829.112699806066698/120657615270917/?type=3&theater) from the prestigious news site “No Snowflake U Lose.” For those of you with the same brand of lazy cynicism that I suffer from, you’re not gonna click, so I’ll describe it. Two pictures: 1. Female lion leaping on the back of a zebra, labeled, “UNARMED VICITM [sic].” 2. Mountain lion staring at a porcupine, labeled, “ARMED [del]VICTIM[/del] ANY QUESTIONS?” A couple of weeks ago, I woulda scrolled past the dumb meme. But nature is awesome, and my kids love telling me about their National Geographic for kids. So I posted [this picture](https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/22365224_10211073294416894_9208227350304089882_n.jpg?oh=31a984daff13958d615573a878bc63ac&oe=5A8023CD). You see, it turns out that in all the world, porcupines have very few predators. One of the vanishingly few species that can kill and eat a porcupine? Yup. Mountain lions. It’s hard to imagine a worse-chosen metaphor to support the gun lobby :). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35276 "2017-10-12T00:49:26Z")
And zebras aren’t exactly unarmed, either. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35277 "2017-10-12T02:06:46Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Isn’t Michael J Fox a Shaker? 😛 Well, now. What do you suppose Hell’s gonna look like? ---
**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:** [October 12, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35278 "2017-10-12T02:12:26Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Well, now. What do you suppose Hell’s gonna look like? One big DopeFest. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2017, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35279 "2017-10-12T02:14:33Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > What do you suppose Hell’s gonna look like? We have a front row seat. All three hundred odd million of us. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2017, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35280 "2017-10-12T02:31:49Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And zebras aren’t exactly unarmed, either. Heraldically speaking, they’d be unguled rather than armed. /Herald-Pedant ---
**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:** [October 12, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/35281 "2017-10-12T03:03:41Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Heraldically speaking, they’d be unguled rather than armed. /Herald-Pedant I find your remark to be unpalletable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1763) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1765)