# 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:** 442
**Author:** ![Kepler1571](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/db5fbb/32.png) [@Kepler1571](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kepler1571)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8821 "2013-02-28T20:33:20Z")
Wikipedia will now be peppered with updates for the next week from conservatives correcting Orwell’s biography… (On Conservapedia the entry will already be correct, under Huxley.) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8822 "2013-02-28T20:36:43Z")
Crap. I’m one of the people at my school responsible for adapting curriculum to meet Common Core standards. What’s that stuff I’m supposed to include again? Anti-Christian? Check. Anti-Capitalism? Check. Pro-Homosexuality? Check. Pro-Union? Check. Pro-Social Justice? What? How did Social Justice make this list? Back to the drawing board. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8823 "2013-02-28T21:27:46Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Yeah, the GOP is _really_ diverse. Of course. They have thin straight Christian white guys, and _fat_ straight Christian white guys. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8824 "2013-02-28T21:49:36Z")
Closeted gay white Christian guys don’t count as straight, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8825 "2013-02-28T22:01:37Z")
Breaking news - Georgia Representative has [epiphany](http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2013/02/27/the-republicans-conservative-problem-in-one-quotation) after only 8 years in office: Sometimes Americans don’t agree with other Americans on various issues - even if they’re in the same party and everything! > [@](#): > > “It hit me that what he was hearing when he’s going home to a Republican district in a blue state is completely different than what I’m hearing when I go home to a Republican district in a red state,” he [Rep. Tom Price] said. “My folks are livid about this stuff. His folks clearly weren’t. And so we weren’t even starting from the same premise.” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8826 "2013-02-28T22:20:49Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Breaking news - Georgia Representative has [epiphany](http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2013/02/27/the-republicans-conservative-problem-in-one-quotation) after only 8 years in office: Sometimes Americans don’t agree with other Americans on various issues - even if they’re in the same party and everything! Tom Price is lying like a rug. He is my representative. I have let him know my opinion on various issues. He is not listening. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8827 "2013-02-28T22:21:16Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Oh, well, [being only ten years off isn’t bad for a wingnut](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-official-warns-obama-plans-indoctrinate-children): Fun fact. Wells came up with the title 1984 by reversing the date 1948, the year he wrote it. But 1984 wasn’t actually published until 1949 so a last minute change could indeed have made the title 1994. But it wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8828 "2013-03-02T03:26:41Z")
[Stella Tremblay, New Hampshire Legislator, Says Woodrow Wilson Agreed With Hitler](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/01/stella-tremblay_n_2791098.html?utm_hp_ref=politics) [QUOTE=Stella Tremblay] “Woodrow Wilson, because he was a sympathizer and he believed in the Aryan race, he believed that Hitler was correct in the races, where our Founding Fathers believed that all men were created equal," she said. "He went through all the educational material and wiped out all the – all anything that he could about the true history, about how the slaves were a really good integral part.” Wilson left office in 1921 and died in 1924. Hitler was largely unknown internationally during Wilson’s lifetime. [/QUOTE] Plus, there’s her adviser spouting some nicely wacky conspiracy theory stuff, which is the apparent source of what she’s been saying:: > [@](#): > > Johnson said a complete account of Tremblay’s testimony would illuminate Wilson’s connection to Hitler, along with what he said is proof that the United States is no longer a country, but rather a corporation chartered in the District of Columbia, as Tremblay’s proposed legislation notes. > > _\_ > > Johnson, who advises Tremblay on historical matters, cited many of the beliefs held by supporters of the alternative 13th Amendment. He said that the amendment was ratified and then removed from the Constitution by President Abraham Lincoln, adding that Lincoln’s actions dissolved the United States and that the president did not emancipate the slaves. Johnson also claimed that the United States is still subject to Lincoln’s declaration of martial law and is now under the control of Queen Elizabeth II. > > On Wilson, Johnson called the president’s decision to sign the legislation creating the Federal Reserve Bank “stupid and dumb.” Johnson claimed the Fed is not a U.S.-controlled entity, but rather a “foreign bank.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8829 "2013-03-02T03:36:00Z")
Wait, so titles of nobility aren’t un-Constitutional! Cool! I got dibs on The Duke of URL. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8830 "2013-03-02T03:37:09Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Wait, so titles of nobility aren’t un-Constitutional! Cool! I got dibs on The Duke of URL. Hah! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8831 "2013-03-02T04:25:41Z")
At least Stella is confined to New Hampshire, though I can’t believe she got people to vote for her in New Hampshire. What a total loon. I thought they were full of smarts and stuff over there. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8832 "2013-03-02T11:03:38Z")
> [@computergeek](#): > > I thought they were full of smarts and stuff over there. I guess that some people there just have less of the smarts, and more of the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8833 "2013-03-02T12:39:38Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Fun fact. Wells came up with the title 1984 by reversing the date 1948, the year he wrote it. Funner fact: Wells never wrote 1984 AT ALL! ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8834 "2013-03-02T12:50:15Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Wait, so titles of nobility aren’t un-Constitutional! Cool! I got dibs on The Duke of URL. Not until you make it with a red headed GURL. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8835 "2013-03-02T14:56:59Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Crap. I’m one of the people at my school responsible for adapting curriculum to meet Common Core standards. > > What’s that stuff I’m supposed to include again? > > Anti-Christian? Check. > Anti-Capitalism? Check. > Pro-Homosexuality? Check. > Pro-Union? Check. > Pro-Social Justice? What? How did Social Justice make this list? > > Back to the drawing board. I find this outrageous! Now I have to rewrite next week’s lessons. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Sinaptics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Sinaptics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinaptics)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8836 "2013-03-02T15:06:05Z")
> [@Cyros](#): > > Not until you make it with a red headed GURL. Please, no more SQLs. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8837 "2013-03-02T17:16:48Z")
178 posts? We really need to start a new one at least once a year, maybe once a month. Maybe the first post in the thread should have a synposis of the most notable ongoing acts of stupidity and we can work from there. ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8838 "2013-03-02T18:27:58Z")
Everything in this thread has been the kind of crap that has been turning me off the Republican Party for the last few years. I’ve been a lifelong Republican, but the nonsense this election season finally made me vote Democrat for the first time. I really would prefer the party concentrate on fiscal responsibility (which is why I would prefer to be a Republican if possible) but they keep dragging up social issues that should be settled, near settled, or on the back burner in favor of economic issues. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8839 "2013-03-02T19:58:51Z")
[Time to reset the Days Without A GOP Rape Falsehood counter:](http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/02/1662581/california-gop-leader-says-pregnancies-by-rape-are-rare-because-the-body-is-traumatized/) > [@](#): > > Celeste Greig, president of California Republican Assembly, the state’s oldest and largest GOP volunteer organization told The Daily Democrat this week that pregnancies resulting from rape are rare “because it’s an act of violence, because the body is traumatized.” ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8840 "2013-03-03T00:56:10Z")
Can someone explain to me why these right wingers keep trying to downplay rape or pregnancy from rape? Why can’t they just be against abortion period instead of trying to make excuses for not allowing any exceptions? It shouldn’t be that hard if it’s what you truly believe. As it is, it makes them look like they just want any reason to espouse Victorian attitudes about women.\* \*yes, I know that’s what it truly ends up being about [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=441) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=443)