# 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:** 2139
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42769 "2019-11-11T05:29:37Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > I must have missed the actual thermonuclear exchange back in the 1980’s. > Gevalt. Remember that day you were in that one Burger King arguing with the counter person about where the beef was? That was when it happened. You were so caught up in the argument that you failed to notice it. And, that one Burger King is in a location where you never would have seen any of the bright flashes. We got most of it cleaned up before you got home. All you ever saw was what looked like major road construction. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42770 "2019-11-11T06:31:56Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > For those still on the fence as to whether or not controlling women’s bodies is the primary purpose of the pro life movement, I present the following > > [Missouri Official Admits to Tracking Women’s Periods](https://www.thecut.com/2019/10/missouri-official-tracked-womens-periods.html) > > Now I’m a guy but this sounds as creepy as hell, I can’t imagine how Missouri women feel about this. > > But it turns out this wasn’t even the [first time the GOP has done this](https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/22/politics/scott-lloyd-pregnant-minors/index.html). Must be Fake News from the Democrats. Everybody knows that preserving the freedoms of mankind is the highest priority of “conservatives.” Oh wait. Freedoms of mankind. Them womankind should just do as though they’re told and stop whining when they get themselves raped. _And what good was the Nineteenth Amendment if he womenfolk don’t vote the way they’re told to?_ ETA: [_Some_ women are good Republicans.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoqti0lzAw) This horrid (too-dumb-to-be-true?) video is 9 years old, but I stumbled on it and was astounded. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42771 "2019-11-11T17:32:07Z")
Some light relief: GOP Senator Marsha Blackburn reminds us that Jesus “[warned us about the lawyers](https://www.inquisitr.com/5737288/republican-senator-william-shakespeare/)”. Except that it wasn’t Jesus, it was Shakespeare, and the quote was about how lawyers obstruct autocratic rulers attempting to undermine the rule of law and seize more power. But apart from being wrong in every respect and undermining the point she was trying to make, she totally nailed it. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42772 "2019-11-11T17:43:43Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Some light relief: GOP Senator Marsha Blackburn reminds us that Jesus “[warned us about the lawyers](https://www.inquisitr.com/5737288/republican-senator-william-shakespeare/)”. Except that it wasn’t Jesus, it was Shakespeare, and the quote was about how lawyers obstruct autocratic rulers attempting to undermine the rule of law and seize more power. > > But apart from being wrong in every respect and undermining the point she was trying to make, she totally nailed it. Education is so overrated. (She really thought Jesus said that?? What an ignoramus.) ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42773 "2019-11-11T18:05:36Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > ETA: [_Some_ women are good Republicans.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoqti0lzAw) This horrid (too-dumb-to-be-true?) video is 9 years old, but I stumbled on it and was astounded. A 25-minute video from whom? Relevant to what? You watched that whole thing? ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42774 "2019-11-11T18:52:43Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Some light relief: GOP Senator Marsha Blackburn reminds us that Jesus “[warned us about the lawyers](https://www.inquisitr.com/5737288/republican-senator-william-shakespeare/)”. Except that it wasn’t Jesus, it was Shakespeare, and the quote was about how lawyers obstruct autocratic rulers attempting to undermine the rule of law and seize more power. > > But apart from being wrong in every respect and undermining the point she was trying to make, she totally nailed it. I can’t stand Blackburn, and her statement is wildly misleading, but people who assume she is mis-quoting Shakespeare are exposing their own Biblical illiteracy. In Luke chapter 11, Jesus really does condemn “lawyers”: “Woe also to you **lawyers**! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not lift a finger to ease them. Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed. So you are witnesses and approve of the deeds of your ancestors; for they killed them, and you build their tombs. Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’ so that this generation may be charged with the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation. Woe to you **lawyers**! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.” (Luke 11:46-52, NSRV) The New International Version uses"experts in the law" for “lawyers.” Of course, their real crime was hypocrisy ignoring the burdens of their constituents; something Senator Blackburn would do well to note. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42775 "2019-11-11T18:55:21Z")
Why was Jesus shouting numbers while Woeing the lawyers? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42776 "2019-11-11T19:31:09Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Why was Jesus shouting numbers while Woeing the lawyers? Because his real target was the accountants. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42777 "2019-11-11T20:39:00Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Why was Jesus shouting numbers while Woeing the lawyers? Oops, sorry, I edited the quote to take out the verse numbers before I saw your comment and ruined the joke. I like the idea though. “46! Woe also to you lawyers! 47! You load people with burdens hard to bear! … Don’t make me count to 50!” ---
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42778 "2019-11-11T20:49:43Z")
I appreciate your interest in maintaining the integrity of the joke! 😃 ---
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42779 "2019-11-11T23:53:49Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Oops, sorry, I edited the quote to take out the verse numbers before I saw your comment and ruined the joke. I like the idea though. “46! Woe also to you lawyers! 47! You load people with burdens hard to bear! … Don’t make me count to 50!” “47? I said that exact same thing and nobody at all laughed.” “You told it wrong.” ---
**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:** [November 12, 2019, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42780 "2019-11-12T02:59:25Z")
**E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules** > **[E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules (Published 2019)](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/climate/epa-science-trump.html)** > > A new agency rule would restrict the science that can be used in drafting health regulations by requiring researchers to turn over confidential health data. > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine public health regulations, overriding protests from scientists and physicians who say the new rule would undermine the scientific underpinnings of government policymaking. > > A new draft ofthe Environmental Protection Agency proposal, titled Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science, would require that scientists disclose all of their raw data, **including confidential medical records,** before the agency could consider an academic study’s conclusions. E.P.A. officials called the plan a step toward transparency and said the disclosure of raw data would allow conclusions to be verified independently. > > “We are committed to the highest quality science,” Andrew Wheeler, the E.P.A. administrator, told a congressional committee in September. “Good science is science that can be replicated and independently validated, science that can hold up to scrutiny. That is why we’re moving forward to ensure that the science supporting agency decisions is transparent and **available for evaluation by the public and stakeholders.”** > > The measure would make it more difficult to enact new clean air and water rules because many studies detailing the links between pollution and disease rely on personal health information gathered under confidentiality agreements. And, unlike a version of the proposal that surfaced in early 2018, this one could apply retroactively to public health regulations already in place. > … My bold. Can’t trust scientists. After all, they’ve been to college, and nothing good comes from those liberal dung heaps. And by all means, let’s let the public evaluate the scientists’ work. That’s the ticket. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42781 "2019-11-12T03:40:57Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > **E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules** > [https://nyti.ms/2CxNwt0](https://nyti.ms/2CxNwt0) > > My bold. > > Can’t trust scientists. After all, they’ve been to college, and nothing good comes from those liberal dung heaps. > > And by all means, let’s let the public evaluate the scientists’ work. That’s the ticket. Egads! Stakeholders…meaning anyone who doesn’t like what the FACTS of the science are telling them. Lemme guess, stakeholders will be the ones with the money to make a big enough stink. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42782 "2019-11-12T13:04:42Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > A 25-minute video from whom? Relevant to what? You watched that whole thing? This is a BBQ Pit thread about Stupid Republicans. What’s your point? You think that woman is smarter than the average stupid Republican? Maybe you’re right. Watch the whole thing? Of course not. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42783 "2019-11-12T13:36:23Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > **E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules** > [https://nyti.ms/2CxNwt0](https://nyti.ms/2CxNwt0) > > My bold. > > Can’t trust scientists. After all, they’ve been to college, and nothing good comes from those liberal dung heaps. > > And by all means, let’s let the public evaluate the scientists’ work. That’s the ticket. As if they would even look at the raw data (not to mention this could be a very serious HIPA violation). ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42784 "2019-11-12T15:12:44Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Oops, sorry, I edited the quote to take out the verse numbers before I saw your comment and ruined the joke. I like the idea though. “46! Woe also to you lawyers! 47! You load people with burdens hard to bear! … Don’t make me count to 50!” It’s even better if you picture him ticking them off on his fingers…“_Jesus_, how many fingers do you have?!?” ---
**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:** [November 13, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42785 "2019-11-13T04:46:29Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > And by all means, let’s let the public evaluate the scientists’ work. That’s the ticket. Not the public. Business interests, especially the sugar daddies in the Koch Network. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42786 "2019-11-13T13:44:21Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > It’s even better if you picture him ticking them off on his fingers…“_Jesus_, how many fingers do you have?!?” The Miracle of Sprouting Fingers doesn’t get enough recognition. How’s that not as cool as water walking? ---
**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:** [November 13, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42787 "2019-11-13T14:25:18Z")
Jim Jordan reportedly plans to [repeatedly scream the name of the person Breitbart claims is the whistleblower](https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/jim-jordan-plans-to-repeatedly-blurt-out-the-alleged-whistleblowers-name-to-disrupt-the-hearings-rick-wilson/) in order to disrupt impeachment hearings. We’ve literally reached the child-throwing-a-temper-tantrum point here. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/42788 "2019-11-13T14:47:13Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Jim Jordan reportedly plans to [repeatedly scream the name of the person Breitbart claims is the whistleblower](https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/jim-jordan-plans-to-repeatedly-blurt-out-the-alleged-whistleblowers-name-to-disrupt-the-hearings-rick-wilson/) in order to disrupt impeachment hearings. > > We’ve literally reached the child-throwing-a-temper-tantrum point here. “Does the distinguished gentleman from Ohio need a nap?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2138) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2140)