# 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:** 671
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13401 "2014-03-13T15:29:42Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > I agree, but can we leave “retarded” out of the list of insults? Thanks. > > (More info: [r-word.org](http://r-word.org)) :dubious: No, we can’t, because then all “-tard” compounds would have to go with it. Please do not bring this up again. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13402 "2014-03-13T16:05:35Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > I agree, but can we leave “retarded” out of the list of insults? Thanks. > > (More info: [r-word.org](http://r-word.org)) No. I like “retarded”. Keep in mind that no matter how nicely you ask, we don’t _have_ to accede to your request. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13403 "2014-03-13T16:29:28Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > :dubious: No, we can’t, because then all “-tard” compounds would have to go with it. Please do not bring this up again. Can we go with dumbass and use all the -ass compounds instead? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13404 "2014-03-13T17:17:25Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > Can we go with dumbass and use all the -ass compounds instead? But where does that leave “asstard”? ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13405 "2014-03-13T17:25:52Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > No. I like “retarded”. Keep in mind that no matter how nicely you ask, we don’t _have_ to accede to your request. I didn’t say you have to, I asked you nicely, like you said. Which makes your refusal even more disappointing. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13406 "2014-03-13T17:27:17Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > :dubious: No, we can’t, because then all “-tard” compounds would have to go with it. Please do not bring this up again. Well, no, I’ll bring it up whenever I want to. Unless the mods disagree, if you can use this insulting term that degrades a specific group of people whenever you want, I can, you know, complain whenever I want. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13407 "2014-03-13T17:28:19Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > Can we go with dumbass and use all the -ass compounds instead? That would be a personal insult to BrainGlutton. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13408 "2014-03-13T17:36:51Z")
Watch an expert teach a smug U.S. senator about Canadian healthcare > **[Watch an expert teach a smug U.S. senator about Canadian healthcare](https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-watch-a-canadian-20140312-story.html)** > > A U.S. politician's I-don't-need-no-stinkin'-facts approach to health policy ran smack into some of those troublesome facts Tuesday at a Senate hearing on single-payer healthcare, as it's practiced in Canada and several other countries. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13409 "2014-03-13T18:05:24Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > I didn’t say you have to, I asked you nicely, like you said. Which makes your refusal even more disappointing. If he had asked you nicely to stop asking, would you stop? ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13410 "2014-03-13T18:12:26Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > If he had asked you nicely to stop asking, would you stop? Sure–if he had agreed to stop using the word too. If he stops, I’ll stop. He won’t even have to ask. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13411 "2014-03-13T18:13:19Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > From the cite: > > “Hey, Tasker! Could you stop playing with your gun for one goddamned minute and pay attention to what we’re doing?” He said he dropped it because he was woozy from having given blood that day. Was the gun loaded? Was the safety on? Why was he handling the gun? Did anyone else in the room know he had a gun on him? (Yes, I understand he is allowed to bring a gun into the building.) Was he too woozy to be driving to work? (Maybe he arrives in a limousine.) Does he still bring the gun to work with him? Would you feel safe around this chucklehead? Argghh! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13412 "2014-03-13T18:15:18Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Sure–if he had agreed to stop using the word too. If he stops, I’ll stop. He won’t even have to ask. So, just someone asking nicely isn’t enough for you? They have to do what you want in order to stop your annoying behavior? Interesting. (And before anyone has to ask nicely OR not-so-nicely, I’m dropping the subject.) ---
**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:** [March 13, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13413 "2014-03-13T18:17:29Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > Watch an expert teach a smug U.S. senator about Canadian healthcare > > [Watch an expert teach a smug U.S. senator about Canadian healthcare](http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-watch-a-canadian-20140312,0,2995139.story) Oh, that was sweet! I’m surprised they didn’t cut her microphone off. She very politely kicked that guy’s ass all over the place. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13414 "2014-03-13T18:21:02Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > So, just someone asking nicely isn’t enough for you? They have to do what you want in order to stop your annoying behavior? > > Interesting. Wow. Did you take a class in that bit of twisted rhetoric? I asked someone, nicely, to stop being rude, and you turned that around and tried to make ME the rude one, for asking. Nicely. And you say I’m the annoying one for sticking up for some of the most vulnerable and innocent people in our society who also happens to be one of my children and–nicely–asking that people not use insults that degrade them, just as they would be expected not to use insults that degrade people by race, for instance. You’re good at this stuff. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13415 "2014-03-13T18:25:58Z")
We spend alot of time here smugly bashing Republicans and their hateful, insulting rhetoric. Maybe we should live up to that standard here. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13416 "2014-03-13T18:43:02Z")
Goddamnit! Can we just take this shit elsewhere? Do we have to go though this every fucking time someone says retarded? I almost missed Richard Burr’s smug ass being spanked by the Canadian Physician. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13417 "2014-03-13T18:43:58Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Goddamnit! Can we just take this shit elsewhere? > > Do we have to go though this every fucking time someone says retarded? Yes. Or just don’t say it. Problem solved. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13418 "2014-03-13T18:55:46Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Yes. > > Or just don’t say it. Problem solved. Capitulation as Compromise? ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13419 "2014-03-13T18:59:54Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Capitulation as Compromise? I didn’t say I wanted a compromise. I asked nicely. I posted a link explaining why it’s upsetting. All I can do now is hope for the best from people and not the worst. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13420 "2014-03-13T19:05:51Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > I didn’t say I wanted a compromise. > > I asked nicely. I posted a link explaining why it’s upsetting. All I can do now is hope for the best from people and not the worst. But if you’re going to post a protest every time it is used as an insult, why not start a thread in ATMB calling for it’s banning? Either the word is allowable _officially_, or it isn’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=670) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=672)