# 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:** 2175
**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:** [February 11, 2020, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43489 "2020-02-11T11:28:34Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Things Romney needs to watch out for: > > - Workmen setting up a pike outside RNC headquarters > - Any event where one of the guests flies in from Saudi Arabia and brings his own bone saw > - Seeing Trump approach him while they are both walking down Fifth Avenue > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > The gift of an umbrella. - An all-expenses-paid trip to see Salisbury Cathedral and a free lunch voucher for Itsu, Piccadilly. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43490 "2020-02-12T06:28:52Z")
It isn’t exactly a stupid Republican idea, more like stupid conservative media idea, but I couldn’t be bothered to start a new thread. Back in 2017, the right wing got all wound up when Antifa threatened a small group of Civil War reenactors in Virginia. The reenactment group received letters saying Antifa opposed them for celebrating slavery. At one point, a crude pipe bomb was found during a reenactment. Conservative media took all this as evidence that the left was anti-history and middle aged men couldn’t get their jollies running around in wool overcoats and shooting off muskets anymore. Only…probably not. The FBI now believes the letters and pipe bomb were the creation of a former member of the reenactment group who was pissed off at having been pushed out. They were all apparently an elaborate revenge plot. Antifa, shockingly, has little interest in how a dozen or so cosplayers spend their weekends. > **[Disgruntled Civil War reenactor allegedly framed Antifa by fabricating...](https://qz.com/1800988/antifa-falsely-accused-of-threatening-civil-war-group)** > > The accusations led to a public outcry and widespread denunciation of Antifa in the media in 2017. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43491 "2020-02-12T14:26:17Z")
I knew a woman who was a CW reenactor, being a horsewoman, some Virginia cavalry regiment. When _Glory_ premiered the group attended enmasse. They debated whether they should show up in costume or not, and decided it was a bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43492 "2020-02-12T23:46:35Z")
Republicans in Tennessee are [worried that women will abuse the privilege](https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2020/02/11/tampon-tax-break-faces-resistance-tennessee/4727662002/) of buying pads and tampons tax-free during the upcoming tax holiday. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2020, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43493 "2020-02-13T04:47:40Z")
Jim Bakker is selling something on his broadcasts called Silver Solution, which he claims will cure coronavirus. > **[Televangelist Sells $125 'Silver Solution' as Cure for Coronavirus](https://www.newsweek.com/televangelist-show-guest-promotes-silver-solution-cure-coronavirus-1487069)** > > The product contains chemicals known by the state of California to be dangerous, according to Bakker's website. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43494 "2020-02-13T05:08:02Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Things Romney needs to watch out for: > > - Workmen setting up a pike outside RNC headquarters > - Any event where one of the guests flies in from Saudi Arabia and brings his own bone saw > - Seeing Trump approach him while they are both walking down Fifth Avenue An invitation to tea in London. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2020, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43495 "2020-02-13T09:11:23Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Things Romney needs to watch out for: > > - Workmen setting up a pike outside RNC headquarters > - Any event where one of the guests flies in from Saudi Arabia and brings his own bone saw > - Seeing Trump approach him while they are both walking down Fifth Avenue - Trump coming up behind him. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2020, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43496 "2020-02-13T10:46:24Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Republicans in Tennessee are [worried that women will abuse the privilege](https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2020/02/11/tampon-tax-break-faces-resistance-tennessee/4727662002/) of buying pads and tampons tax-free during the upcoming tax holiday. “Why, I hear some women have got themselves two or three extra vaginas just so they could take advantage of the cheaper products!” > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Jim Bakker is selling something on his broadcasts called Silver Solution, which he claims will cure coronavirus. > [Televangelist Sells $125 'Silver Solution' as Cure for Coronavirus](https://www.newsweek.com/televangelist-show-guest-promotes-silver-solution-cure-coronavirus-1487069) I’d feel bad about this but the suckers who fall for this are the same suckers who support Trump. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43497 "2020-02-13T15:25:38Z")
Assuming it’s colloidal silver, the fact it [turns your skin blue](https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/argyria-overview#1) is overlooked. At least it’s not black. If my conscience ever let me sell snake oil, the first thing I’d get is a mailing list of Trump campaign donors. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2020, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43498 "2020-02-13T20:57:33Z")
Because of course Republicans love taxes, as long as they only fall on women. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43499 "2020-02-13T21:01:52Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Because of course Republicans love taxes, as long as they only fall on women. And poor people. ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43500 "2020-02-14T23:47:20Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Republicans in Tennessee are [worried that women will abuse the privilege](https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2020/02/11/tampon-tax-break-faces-resistance-tennessee/4727662002/) of buying pads and tampons tax-free during the upcoming tax holiday. Damn straight! ParTAY! We’re going to dip tampons in glitter and spin them around by the strings like a stripper whipping her bra off at a bachelor party. Oh, wait, that was a secret?? ---
**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:** [February 15, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43501 "2020-02-15T01:16:37Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Assuming it’s colloidal silver, the fact it [turns your skin blue](https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/argyria-overview#1) is overlooked. From the above link, > [@](#): > > … It currently sells on Bakker’s website in a variety of packages with a 16-ounce bottle costing 40, but shoppers can purchase bundles of the product that cost up to $300. The label states that the solution contains deionized water, but no other ingredients.… Newsweek could not verify the claim that Silver Solution supports the immune system or kills the coronavirus, nor confirm that colloidal silver is used in Bakker’s solution. You can call a thing “Silver Solution”, but that is just a name, like a “Bronze Plan” health insurance policy, which has no actual bronze in it. Or it could be one of those homeopathic-like “treatments”, where the water once came briefly in contact with some silver. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2020, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43502 "2020-02-15T02:52:54Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > From the above link, > > You can call a thing “Silver Solution”, but that is just a name, like a “Bronze Plan” health insurance policy, which has no actual bronze in it. Or it could be one of those homeopathic-like “treatments”, where the water once came briefly in contact with some silver. _Silver Solution_ is the perfect name for that trash he’s selling. It’s his solution to get your silver. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43503 "2020-02-15T08:37:36Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > _Silver Solution_ is the perfect name for that trash he’s selling. It’s his solution to get your silver. Forty pieces of because, inflation. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43504 "2020-02-15T15:30:57Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Assuming it’s colloidal silver, the fact it [turns your skin blue](https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/argyria-overview#1) is overlooked. At least it’s not black. > > If my conscience ever let me sell snake oil, the first thing I’d get is a mailing list of Trump campaign donors. I always thought the Smurfs were evil. I hope this shit catches on so then we can see the bastards coming. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43505 "2020-02-15T18:38:17Z")
Stupid Republican asshole Nicholas Meriwether is a professor at a public university. Because he is a evangelical Christian and that fact (for reasons I still cannot fathom) requires him to be a complete asshole to people he thinks are sinners, he refused to treat a transgendered woman in his class with common respect. While using the requested form of gender identity (Mr., Mrs. or Ms.) for all his students, he singled out the transgendered one and just called her by her last name. After numerous back and forth between the “I have a religious right to be an asshole” teacher and school administration (which had a specific Nondiscrimination policy), he was issued a written warning for creating a hostile work environment for the student. He appealed to the school, lost, and then, of course, sued in federal court. He claimed he has a right to be a dick, both for free speech and for religious reasons. [He lost](http://www.nclrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2019.09.05.-Dkt-49.-RR-on-Defs-MTD.pdf), appealed again, and just a few days ago, [lost again](http://www.nclrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020.02.12.-Dkt-60.-Order-Adopting-Report-and-Recommendation.pdf). I hope, but do not necessarily expect, this is the end of it. And, putting aside the legal issues, a hearty fuck you to a guy who refuses to treat all people with respect and hides his assholishness behind religion. And a fuck you to all the people and corporations that think their religious beliefs requires them to be dicks to others. I like to think Jesus would be very, very sad at them. ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43506 "2020-02-15T19:03:02Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Stupid Republican asshole Nicholas Meriwether is a professor at a public university. Because he is a evangelical Christian and that fact (for reasons I still cannot fathom) requires him to be a complete asshole to people he thinks are sinners, he refused to treat a transgendered woman in his class with common respect. While using the requested form of gender identity (Mr., Mrs. or Ms.) for all his students, he singled out the transgendered one and just called her by her last name. > > After numerous back and forth between the “I have a religious right to be an asshole” teacher and school administration (which had a specific Nondiscrimination policy), he was issued a written warning for creating a hostile work environment for the student. He appealed to the school, lost, and then, of course, sued in federal court. He claimed he has a right to be a dick, both for free speech and for religious reasons. [He lost](http://www.nclrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2019.09.05.-Dkt-49.-RR-on-Defs-MTD.pdf), appealed again, and just a few days ago, [lost again](http://www.nclrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020.02.12.-Dkt-60.-Order-Adopting-Report-and-Recommendation.pdf). I hope, but do not necessarily expect, this is the end of it. And, putting aside the legal issues, a hearty fuck you to a guy who refuses to treat all people with respect and hides his assholishness behind religion. And a fuck you to all the people and corporations that think their religious beliefs requires them to be dicks to others. I like to think Jesus would be very, very sad at them. How come their religion requires them to be assholes? Jesus specifically _said_ not to be an asshole, but these guys always seem to dabble in Jesus’ works as a cover for really devoting themselves to sphincterhood. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43507 "2020-02-15T20:19:54Z")
Unless she was changing money in the classroom, in which case feel free to kick her desk over. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43508 "2020-02-15T20:32:20Z")
An afterthought occurs - what if a religious person considers certain words/phrases to be taboo, i.e. has an aversion to saying “yahweh” out loud, and has a student from a country where neither English nor Hebrew is spoken and happens to have a name that, when transliterated, _sounds_ like “yahweh” but has no connection to the religious concept in the student’s language? Could the professor mumble the name? Refer to that student (possibly _only_ that student) by an alternate name? Does the student have grounds to object? The professor’s beliefs aren’t being challenged - he’s free to believe whatever he wants about the meaning of the student’s name - but if he’s referring to all his students by their names and makes an exception for this student, is that unreasonable? I’d say “yes”, myself - leave that stuff at home, Prof. Do your job. If a student comes along later and insists their name is something deliberately offensive, i.e. “My name is John Franklin Jesus-Sucked, please respect the hyphen”, I think reasonable people can judge who is being the aggressor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2174) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2176)