# 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:** 2129
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42569 "2019-10-25T04:48:07Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > [Justice Department review of Russia probe turns into criminal investigation](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/justice-department-review-origins-russia-probe-turns-criminal-investigation-n1071731) > > I’ve tried to explain to you, my lambs, my children, what is at stake. You apparently do not understand that it is the very essence of the republic, the nation, the freedoms that you inherit, and dare I say, take for granted as though it were your birthright. > > Go on and enjoy your Friday, and remain convinced that I am insane. > > I am not. I am the only sane one among us all, who knows and perceives the reality of the situation, which is that the ‘great experiment’ is about to die. > > What is freedom? How does freedom continue to exist? > > Freedom…is not free. You are now confronted with the moment. Got any suggestions on how to stop it? ---
**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 25, 2019, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42570 "2019-10-25T11:22:48Z")
Perhaps we should institute a monarchy instead. We’ve already got a Drama Queen. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42571 "2019-10-25T11:30:08Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42572 "2019-10-25T11:32:25Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > I’m simply saying I don’t give a fuck about them. Period. Indifference to their fate. If something happens, it happens. If something doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen. > > I’ll save my care or worry for other people, who I see as being more worthy of my interest and concern. Yet you were suggesting they should be chucked into genpop to be taken care of by imprisoned felons. That strikes me as being somewhat interested in them. And not in a good way. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42573 "2019-10-25T12:30:12Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Yet you were suggesting they should be chucked into genpop to be taken care of by imprisoned felons. That strikes me as being somewhat interested in them. And not in a good way. Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42574 "2019-10-25T19:01:40Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Yet you were suggesting they should be chucked into genpop to be taken care of by imprisoned felons. That strikes me as being somewhat interested in them. And not in a good way. Let them take showers…and drop the soap. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42575 "2019-10-25T19:25:36Z")
I won’t make prison rape jokes, or hope for it. But in terms of merely ending up in the general population, well, that’s where they go. A tough guy who fancies himself an ass kicker should welcome the chance to bring his game to the big leagues. If this is a philosophical question of whether or not it’s ok for anyone to end up there, that’s different. But I don’t hear anyone here expressing sympathy those already in gen pop. Is it just these proud guys that shouldn’t be there? Enjoy, proud boys, you have earned what you worked so hard to achieve. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42576 "2019-10-25T21:30:16Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Let them take showers…and drop the soap. Rape is a crime whether the victim is in prison or not. We sentence offenders to incarceration, not to sex slavery. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42577 "2019-10-25T22:38:06Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Rape is a crime whether the victim is in prison or not. We sentence offenders to incarceration, not to sex slavery. Yes. This kind of remark has one in the indefensible position of rooting for rapists. Asashi, not Smapti ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42578 "2019-10-25T23:31:06Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Yes. This kind of remark has one in the indefensible position of rooting for rapists. “Gimme an R! Gimme an A!” ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42579 "2019-10-25T23:44:13Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Let them take showers…and drop the soap. Dude, you might want to take a break from the boards. You’re really losing it. > [@bobot](#): > > I won’t make prison rape jokes, or hope for it. > But in terms of merely ending up in the general population, well, that’s where they go. A tough guy who fancies himself an ass kicker should welcome the chance to bring his game to the big leagues. If this is a philosophical question of whether or not it’s ok for anyone to end up there, that’s different. But I don’t hear anyone here expressing sympathy those already in gen pop. Is it just these proud guys that shouldn’t be there? > Enjoy, proud boys, you have earned what you worked so hard to achieve. Try to look at your post without emotion, you know, impartially. Do you really think that’s the intent and design of the American judicial system? And just for fun, look at my posting history regarding “rape in prison”. > [@Smapti](#): > > Rape is a crime whether the victim is in prison or not. We sentence offenders to incarceration, not to sex slavery. That’s exactly right. And, as I have posted umpteen times, the idea is for us as a society to not be criminals ourselves, for us to be better than those we condemn to prison. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42580 "2019-10-25T23:58:41Z")
The intent and design of the american PRISON system is to keep people in a dangerous environment, and nobody gives a shit until it happens to white people. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42581 "2019-10-26T00:23:27Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Exactly what are you asking for? Be specific. Bring WHAT? Well since we already know they don’t have the guts to actually start a war, I’m hoping against hope for them to shut up. Or just get froggy and jump already. Shit or get off the pot. That’s how sick I am of their “do what we want or we’ll kill you” crap. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42582 "2019-10-26T01:05:23Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Were you deliberately doing a riff on Dame Edna Everage? If yes, good job, if no, sorry… I think if so, there’d have been more mention of Possums. (asahi posts in that hitting-the-hooch way only at certain hours; perhaps those posts are best ignored.) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42583 "2019-10-26T01:59:28Z")
Only the best people! [Giuliani accidentally calls reporter, leaves voicemail about needing ‘a few hundred thousand’ dollars](https://thehill.com/policy/international/467507-giuliani-accidentally-leaves-voice-message-about-money-for-reporter) ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42584 "2019-10-26T02:36:35Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Well since we already know they don’t have the guts to actually start a war, I’m hoping against hope for them to shut up. > > Or just get froggy and jump already. > > Shit or get off the pot. That’s how sick I am of their “do what we want or we’ll kill you” crap. You’re right, Steve; don’t apologize. It’s the republican clowns who keep agitating, threatening violence. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42585 "2019-10-26T02:38:17Z")
We need progressive scientists in control of CRISPR; then eliminat the republican gene. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42586 "2019-10-26T03:42:41Z")
Look, **asahi** , we all yell at the TV when Trump’s on camera. And many of us let loose with some unhinged screeds. But we don’t seek our friends out, walk into their homes and yell in their faces. Please, do as much Primal Scream Therapy as you want. In your own house. Don’t subject everyone here to it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42587 "2019-10-26T05:35:54Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > I think if so, there’d have been more mention of Possums. > > (asahi posts in that hitting-the-hooch way only at certain hours; perhaps those posts are best ignored.) “I am actually a very modest and shy person. My own husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he ever expressed the least desire to do so!” - Dame Edna ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42588 "2019-10-26T21:25:46Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Funny how the people who accuse us of wanting to turn the country into Venezuela are the people who want to turn it into Yugoslavia. THAT guy is “The Base”. THAT guy is the type I am so fucking sick and tired of hearing from. Fuck him and all his kind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2128) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2130)