# 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:** 1866
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37302 "2018-04-11T22:17:38Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > They can’t be doing all that well: not a single one of them can afford a tie. Do you think they were all told exactly what to wear for the photo shoot? Well they don’t want to look like a bunch of narcs. “We’re cool. Really.” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37303 "2018-04-12T00:14:46Z")
[The Louisiana state Senate](http://www.krdo.com/news/10-louisiana-senators-vote-against-bestiality-ban/728320386) just passed a bill to outlaw bestiality, by a vote of 25-10. Yes, 10 of them voted against it. All of the same party. And you know which one. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37304 "2018-04-12T00:24:27Z")
So… 10 Republicans just voted for bestiality and against sex between two consenting adults? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37305 "2018-04-12T00:31:29Z")
Does the person actually have to _own_ the animal in question? Because sex with “property” is part of their heritage. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2018, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37306 "2018-04-12T00:54:03Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > But check out [all the diversity](https://www.acreageholdings.com/team) in their leadership! Truly diverse. They have both Caucasians AND white people. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37307 "2018-04-12T01:06:14Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > They can’t be doing all that well: not a single one of them can afford a tie. Do you think they were all told exactly what to wear for the photo shoot? It almost looks like they shared the same suit coat as well. > > Maybe suits and ties will come back in fashion now that Mark Zuckerberg was last seen wearing one… That’s disturbing. It looks like they all showed up looking liking real board members, and some one suggested ‘tie’ \<\> ‘weed’ (I suspect Finn, Genesan, or Simonian). If even one person had mentioned ‘cannabis sativa’, the whole embarrassing moment could have been avoided. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37308 "2018-04-12T01:09:04Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Does the person actually have to _own_ the animal in question? Because sex with “property” is part of their heritage. Ouch. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2018, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37309 "2018-04-12T04:10:36Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > They can’t be doing all that well: not a single one of them can afford a tie. Do you think they were all told exactly what to wear for the photo shoot? It almost looks like they shared the same suit coat as well. > > Maybe suits and ties will come back in fashion now that Mark Zuckerberg was last seen wearing one… Ties are evil and need to be outlawed. They are a big part of the problem in our culture. All these guys working with reduced bloodflow to the brain are fucking things up. Do scientists wear ties? Not so much. Get rid of the damn things. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37310 "2018-04-12T04:46:30Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Do scientists wear ties? Not so much. Well, there’s [this guy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nye). ---
**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:** [April 12, 2018, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37311 "2018-04-12T04:57:50Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Well, there’s [this guy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nye). That’s no scientist! That’s [Speed Walker!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Fa7B3a0Hs) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37312 "2018-04-12T05:09:14Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > That’s no scientist! That’s [Speed Walker!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Fa7B3a0Hs) I’ve always found his [theory on the Kennedy assassination](https://youtu.be/DXRslcMsGlQ) to be particularly compelling. And I didn’t know Uncle Fran was a police officer. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2018, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37313 "2018-04-12T09:30:07Z")
Presumed Republican, but: Anti-gay pastor Kenneth Adkins, who called the victims of the Orlando nightclub massacre “sinners”, has just been found… (Wow, so many plausible ways to finish that sentence. Is it “…in a seedy motel room surrounded by hookers and blow”? Is it “…to have been having an affair with three of his parishioners”? Is it “…with a rent-boy in Cancun”?) Ha ha! No, folks, he’s been found… …[guilty of child molestation](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/12/this-pastor-called-gays-sinners-after-pulse-shooting-now-hes-convicted-of-child-molestation/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.95b7ea5e5ca6). Which isn’t funny at all, except in the rueful recognition of the inevitability of this sort of thing coming to light every time some staunchly Christian clergyman or politician steps up to criticize LGBT people. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37314 "2018-04-12T12:59:11Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’ve always found his [theory on the Kennedy assassination](https://youtu.be/DXRslcMsGlQ) to be particularly compelling. > > And I didn’t know Uncle Fran was a police officer. Please don’t ask me to watch a video. Can you jump to the punch line? ---
**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:** [April 12, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37315 "2018-04-12T15:05:20Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Please don’t ask me to watch a video. Can you jump to the punch line? The Aristocrats! ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37316 "2018-04-12T15:22:51Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Please don’t ask me to watch a video. Can you jump to the punch line? Bill Nye believes that a tiger killed John Kennedy. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37317 "2018-04-12T15:51:53Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Please don’t ask me to watch a video. Can you jump to the punch line? It’s from a sketch comedy show he was on early in his career. The particular sketch was a spoof game show about Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorists. It’s pretty funny. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2018, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37318 "2018-04-12T16:25:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Presumed Republican, but: > > Anti-gay pastor Kenneth Adkins, who called the victims of the Orlando nightclub massacre “sinners”, has just been found… > > (Wow, so many plausible ways to finish that sentence. Is it “…in a seedy motel room surrounded by hookers and blow”? Is it “…to have been having an affair with three of his parishioners”? Is it “…with a rent-boy in Cancun”?) > > Ha ha! No, folks, he’s been found… > > …[guilty of child molestation](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/12/this-pastor-called-gays-sinners-after-pulse-shooting-now-hes-convicted-of-child-molestation/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.95b7ea5e5ca6). Which isn’t funny at all, except in the rueful recognition of the inevitability of this sort of thing coming to light every time some staunchly Christian clergyman or politician steps up to criticize LGBT people. [Oh Lordy, there’s another one…](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5604135/Alabama-evangelist-Fox-News-contributor-arrested-child-sex-charges-involving-young-boy.html) > [@](#): > > A prominent Alabama youth minister who falsely claimed to be a Fox News contributor has been charged with sexually abusing a young boy. > > Paul Edward Acton Bowen, 37, was taken into custody in Pelham on Tuesday and charged with second-degree sodomy, second-degree sexual abuse and enticing a child to enter a vehicle or house for immoral purposes. > > The Hoover Police Department has not revealed the child’s exact age, only saying he was older than 12 and younger than 16. > [@](#): > > Bowen also claimed in his online biography to have served as a Fox News correspondent covering faith and religion, but a spokesperson for the network said he never worked at the network, or appeared on air as a contributor or correspondent. So he’s still a vile child molester but at least he didn’t work for FoxNews. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37319 "2018-04-12T16:46:42Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > It’s from a sketch comedy show he was on early in his career. The particular sketch was a spoof game show about Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorists. It’s pretty funny. Prompted by you posting a link to Speed Walker, in which he plays a superhero who fights crime while racewalking. Joel McHale also got his start on that show. I remember them all well. Hell, I remember _Almost Live!_ when Ross Shafer used to host. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2018, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37320 "2018-04-12T20:28:15Z")
The Republican National Committee has created a new website called LyinComey dot com. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37321 "2018-04-12T20:34:35Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Republican National Committee has created a new website called LyinComey dot com. Shit. I thought this was a joke. Are there no adults left on that side of the fence? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1865) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1867)