# 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:** 2198
**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:** [April 5, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43949 "2020-04-05T22:54:53Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Oral Roberts, most likely. Best laugh of the day. 😃 Thanks!! ---
**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:** [April 5, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43950 "2020-04-05T23:57:01Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Momma always warned you about wild women and their untamed vaginas with their lady chemicals. Now you know exactly why. Was it worth it? I hate to say I told you so, but… But on the plus side, since we now know that penises can’t catch viruses, that means STIs are also a hoax. No More Rubbers! ---
**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 6, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43951 "2020-04-06T00:17:12Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > It’s widely known in sciencey circles that COVID-19 originated in women’s wild untamed vaginas before making the jump to humans. But based on the principle of vaccine development, doesn’t that mean that the cure for COVID is to be found in the very same lady chemicals being secreted in those wild untamed vaginas? Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Pat Robertson. Oh, wait-- you’re probably an anti-vaxxer, amirite? 😛 ---
**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:** [April 6, 2020, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43952 "2020-04-06T00:55:50Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Oral Roberts, most likely. You really have to watch out for his brother, Anal… ---
**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 6, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43953 "2020-04-06T03:08:32Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Are you implying that _other guys_ have been going down on Pat Robertson’s wife??? I’m not saying I didn’t but I’m also not not saying I didn’t ---
**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 6, 2020, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43954 "2020-04-06T05:19:02Z")
I owe everybody an apology. The Pat Robertson quote I used is from a satire site. Mea maxima culpa. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2020, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43955 "2020-04-06T07:14:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I owe everybody an apology. The Pat Robertson quote I used is from a satire site. > > Mea maxima culpa. Here’s the thing, whatever Pat actually does say about this will make less sense than anything the satire site could dream of. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43956 "2020-04-06T08:26:47Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Pat Robertson: The coronavirus is caused by oral sex and lady chemicals. > [https://thebiznews.org/2020/03/24/robertson-blames-coronavirus-on-oral-sex-lady-chemicals/](https://thebiznews.org/2020/03/24/robertson-blames-coronavirus-on-oral-sex-lady-chemicals/) > (Yeah, I know it was from two weeks ago.) WTF are “lady chemicals”??? And it’s the typical crap that when one of the opposition dies it’s a “judgement from God!!!” but if one of the faithful buys it then it’s either God testing people (because their god is apparently a sick fuck) or a victory of Satan. Nice catch-22 thinking. ---
**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 6, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43957 "2020-04-06T13:35:22Z")
Idaho state representative [Heather Scott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Scott)has gone on record as opposed to any stay at home orders as unconstitutional. County sheriff Darryl Wheeler wrote an open letter to the governor expressing the same thoughts. Here is an [amazing letter to the editor](https://bonnercountydailybee.com/news/2020/apr/05/officials-comments-threaten-others-health-7/) from a local physician. TLDR Hope you two don’t get sick cause we ain’t treating you. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43958 "2020-04-06T13:41:31Z")
Now THAT is sensible talk. ---
**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 6, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43959 "2020-04-06T13:46:48Z")
In case it wasn’t obvious those two are ardent Trump supporters and Heather Scott is a true POS white nationalist. ---
**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 6, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43960 "2020-04-06T13:48:06Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Now THAT is sensible talk. Fucking A. Shit is getting real. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43961 "2020-04-06T14:17:04Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > Idaho state representative [Heather Scott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Scott)has gone on record as opposed to any stay at home orders as unconstitutional. County sheriff Darryl Wheeler wrote an open letter to the governor expressing the same thoughts. > > Here is an [amazing letter to the editor](https://bonnercountydailybee.com/news/2020/apr/05/officials-comments-threaten-others-health-7/) from a local physician. > > TLDR Hope you two don’t get sick cause we ain’t treating you. Classic typo in the eighth paragraph of the letter: > [@](#): > > It is criminal that you would use your pubic office to threaten the health of your constituents and your local and regional health care workers. ---
**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 6, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43962 "2020-04-06T14:30:00Z")
From that letter: > [@](#): > > …I realize that the pandemic is not much of a concern to those uneducated people who believe this threat is a “hoax” or “overblown,” but I want you to know that in the unlikely but possible event that either you or Sheriff Wheeler contract the coronavirus, and in the less likely event that you will require hospitalization, and even less likely but possible event that you would require a ventilator, that I, and all of my co-workers take comfort in knowing that, because of your behavior, you have essentially relinquished your claim to any of these potentially scare resources. It’s probably for the better that a ventilator go to a health care provider anyway. > … YEAH, BABY! If that guy was in the trump administration, he’d be gone by the end of the day. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43963 "2020-04-06T14:51:31Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > In case it wasn’t obvious those two are ardent Trump supporters and Heather Scott is a true POS white nationalist. Same for that shithead located right across the border, Matt Shea. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43964 "2020-04-06T14:59:38Z")
Math Is Hard! > [@Peter Navarro](#): > > I understand how to read statistical studies whether it’s in medicine or the law. > [@Peter Navarro](#): > > I read this latest study from Wuhan where there’s a control group; and 80% do well and only 50% don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43965 "2020-04-06T15:03:51Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > You just have to laugh some times. The new Fox News talking point is that the Democrats were downplaying the dangers of the coronavirus in the early days. Ah, that was back when we were at war with Eastasia, according to the Ministry of Truth. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43966 "2020-04-06T15:32:44Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Classic typo in the eighth paragraph of the letter: And another interesting typo in the next paragraph: > [@](#): > > because of your behavior, you have essentially relinquished your claim to any of these potentially scare resources. Scare versus scarce - but it fits! (The good doctor is probably busy, and was most likely pissed when writing this.) ---
**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 6, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43967 "2020-04-06T15:37:09Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Math Is Hard! > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by Peter Navarro, later in the same appearance > > I read this latest study from Wuhan where there’s a control group; and 80% do well and only 50% don’t. Yeah, but what about the rest of them? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43968 "2020-04-06T15:37:20Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > > You just have to laugh some times. The new Fox News talking point is that the Democrats were downplaying the dangers of the coronavirus in the early days. > > Ah, that was back when we were at war with Eastasia, according to the Ministry of Truth. “How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.” "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once."According to some sources, at one time Trump was a Democrat (insofar as he had any political leanings beyond enriching himself). At any rate, he can be a Democrat again if it advances Rupert Murdoch’s agenda. Then a Republican. Then a Democrat. One prerequisite for being a FOX viewer is to be a plusgood (at least) doublethinker. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2197) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2199)