# 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:** 678
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13541 "2014-03-18T15:52:59Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Well, I guess this “free market” shit is better than rape comments. But yo’ linky no worky. > **[GOP Lawmaker Says Businesses Should Be Allowed To Deny Services To Black People](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/south-dakota-phil-jensen_n_4980492)** > > GOP Lawmaker Says Businesses Should Be Allowed To Deny Services To Black People ---
**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 18, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13542 "2014-03-18T15:53:15Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Texas GOP top official (female): Gender pay gap persists because men are “better negotiators.”](http://www.salon.com/2014/03/18/texas_gop_top_official_gender_pay_gap_persists_because_men_are_better_negotiators/) > > Never been married, have you, ma’am? The article gets all huffy about how that’s an insult to women, but then quotes a Wash Post article admitting that it’s true, and proven, and even acknowledged by women authors who urge women to negotiate better: > [@](#): > > It’s true that women often don’t bargain hard enough for higher pay, as shown by a number of studies and a terrific book called “Women Don’t Ask” by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever. The word is out, and solutions (hatched mostly by women) are already in the works, like coaching young women on how to get negotiate better before they enter the workforce. It goes on to say that this is clearly not the ONLY reason for the pay gap though. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13543 "2014-03-18T16:12:26Z")
[This](http://www.salon.com/2014/03/18/gop_releases_ads_targeting_voters_who_wear_leather_jackets_and_hate_unemployment_benefits/) is how the GOP is addressing its “party of old white men” image problem. ---
**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 18, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13544 "2014-03-18T16:14:30Z")
> [@MacCat](#): > > On a stretch-the-legs Greyhound bus stop in Greenville SC a century later, I was happy to see the **White Only** sign in the laundromat window was really only about the color of the _laundry_ allowed there. Which brings us directly to: > **[Whites Only Laundry](https://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/whites-only-laundry/83028475/)** > > A clueless owner gives his laundromat a series of unfortunate names... ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13545 "2014-03-18T16:29:21Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Which brings us directly to: > > [Whites Only Laundry - Video | eBaum's World](http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/83028475/) That was good. Mine unfortunately stands out to me almost fifty years later. The good ones I never seem to remember that well. ☹ ---
**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:** [March 18, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13546 "2014-03-18T18:53:09Z")
Ralph Reed: Make it harder to get a divorce, and women won’t need food stamps. [http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/18/ralph-reed-making-divorce-harder-for-women-is-a-better-solution-than-food-stamps/](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/18/ralph-reed-making-divorce-harder-for-women-is-a-better-solution-than-food-stamps/) ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13547 "2014-03-18T19:54:44Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [GOP Lawmaker Says Businesses Should Be Allowed To Deny Services To Black People](http://huff.to/1fDCI7m%22) > > Because free market: All are welcome to this establishment. Dresscode: No baggy jeans. No throwback jerseys. No Timbalands. No baseball caps. No grills. No Jordans. No hoodies and/or doo-rags. ---
**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 18, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13548 "2014-03-18T21:18:45Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Well, I guess this “free market” shit is better than rape comments. But yo’ linky no worky. Well “better than rape comments” is setting the bar kinda low … but I guess it’s the new Republican standard. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13549 "2014-03-18T23:54:29Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > If you asked me what I thought of Teh Gheys 10 years ago I’d probably say all kinds of stupid and offensive stuff. You did. Um, probably. I don’t have any specific or even vague memories, but we all say stupid shit. > [@elucidator](#): > > The only one that will matter will be the one the cockroaches write. > [@archy the cockroach](#): > > i look back on my life > and it seems to me to be > just one damned kitten > after another ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13550 "2014-03-19T00:55:59Z")
> [@MacCat](#): > > On a stretch-the-legs Greyhound bus stop in Greenville SC a century later, I was happy to see the **White Only** sign in the laundromat window was really only about the color of the _laundry_ allowed there. In the late 1970s (which, though some of you might not realize this, was very far removed from the Jim Crow era), I had to figure out how to label a paper recycle bins in the Dark Ages when they wanted to separate white and colored paper. It took three people, over an hour, and a damned HR consult, because we were all so … uncomfortable with the concept of requiring the separation of white and colored, even though none of us had ever even used the term “colored” for racial construct. I swear, this is why recycling companies agreed to accept mi … mixed paper. ---
**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 19, 2014, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13551 "2014-03-19T00:59:11Z")
> [@j666](#): > > I swear, this is why recycling companies agreed to accept mi … mixed paper. They desegregated the paper, you mean? ---
**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:** [March 19, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13552 "2014-03-19T01:02:56Z")
> [@j666](#): > > In the late 1970s (which, though some of you might not realize this, was very far removed from the Jim Crow era), I had to figure out how to label a paper recycle bins in the Dark Ages when they wanted to separate white and colored paper. > > It took three people, over an hour, and a damned HR consult, because we were all so … uncomfortable with the concept of requiring the separation of white and colored, even though none of us had ever even used the term “colored” for racial construct. > > I swear, this is why recycling companies agreed to accept mi … mixed paper. “Bleached” “Dyed” ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13553 "2014-03-19T01:33:44Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > “Bleached” “Dyed” We went with “Copier Paper” and “Colors Only”. Within two weeks, we switched to open bins and no labels; no one ever complained to HR, they just started when walking past. No one could stand walking past a color-based segregation. Of paper. In the Northeast. In the 1970s. For recycling. So, maybe we might refuse to patronize a segregationalist establishment a quarter of a century later. (I doubt it, but maybe) ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13554 "2014-03-19T02:13:26Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [SWOONS] > > I also know the whole routine (plus Drunk Guy and Jiffy Jeff)! I watched the 9th Annual Young Comedians Special like 12,000 times to memorize his routines (and Bob Saget and Louie Anderson and Sam Kinnison and… man that was a fucking great comedy special) and then I used to perform them for friends at parties and such. OMG - I did the same thing! Rita Rudner was another one from that special I could (and often did) recite. “I just had a birthday. [applause] Thank you. I hate my birthday. I don’t plan to grow old gracefully; I plan to have face lifts 'til my ears meet.” Bwah! > [@elucidator](#): > > **Shayna** , about your testicles? Factory originals, or did they once belong to somebody else? They were on loan. I was single then; am married now. And as the late great Sam Kinison opined, “The one good thing about marriage is that THESE (grabs crotch) are connected.” 😃 I leave you now to go meet **commasense** and his wife for dinner. **Spiny** and I are in Vegas for some leisure ahead of a conference for copy editors that commasense and I are going to word-geek out at later this week. Enjoy the rest of the week’s Stupid Republican Ideas! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13555 "2014-03-19T03:40:18Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > They were on loan. I was single then; am married now. And as the late great Sam Kinison opined, “The one good thing about marriage is that THESE (grabs crotch) are connected.” > > 😃 "Well, I’ll ask her . . . Honey, can I bring mine? Since the rest of the guys are bringing theirs, I thought, you know, I’d bring mine . . . "She says no. "She says no fuckin’ way. "Yeah, she found the spare, too. “But, look, do me a favor, wouldja? If you see me outside mowing the lawn or something, please **KILL ME!** I live in Hell!” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13556 "2014-03-19T08:32:40Z")
_“A man isn’t complete until he is married, once he gets married, then he’s finished.”_ - Zsa Zsa Gabor ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13557 "2014-03-19T14:55:41Z")
[Republican state rep (female): Pay equity and family leave laws make women look like “whiners”.](http://www.salon.com/2014/03/18/republican_state_rep_pay_equity_and_family_leave_laws_make_women_look_like_whiners/) ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13558 "2014-03-19T15:37:16Z")
I think they’ll probably reach the 20th century in 90 years or so… [McConnell fundraiser: Wives have ‘obligation’ to sleep with husbands](http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/201102-mcconnell-fundraiser-co-host-wives-have-obligation-to-sleep-with-husbands) :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13559 "2014-03-19T15:44:29Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > I think they’ll probably reach the 20th century in 90 years or so… > [McConnell fundraiser: Wives have ‘obligation’ to sleep with husbands](http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/201102-mcconnell-fundraiser-co-host-wives-have-obligation-to-sleep-with-husbands) > :smack: I have to admit to some curiosity about this guy’s views on divorce. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13560 "2014-03-19T15:46:35Z")
[Wives should submit to sex whenever their husbands want it.](http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/201102-mcconnell-fundraiser-co-host-wives-have-obligation-to-sleep-with-husbands) So says the radio guy McConnell uses to host his fundraisers. And, btw: > [@](#): > > In a piece posted on National Review’s website in November of 2011, Prager outlines what he characterizes as a number of negative impacts of feminism over the past half-century, including “the belief among women that they could and should postpone marriage until they developed their careers.” > > He says that, because of that belief, “the decade or more during which women have the best chance to attract men is spent being preoccupied with developing a career.” > > “But most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family,” Prager adds. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=677) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=679)