# 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:** 701
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14001 "2014-04-10T20:10:22Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Epaulets: très chic or très weak? Do these metal studded lederhosen make my butt look too big? ---
**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:** [April 10, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14002 "2014-04-10T20:14:16Z")
Did somebody mention “camp”? ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14003 "2014-04-10T20:36:52Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Do these metal studded lederhosen make my butt look too big? No such thing as too big. ---
**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 10, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14004 "2014-04-10T20:44:00Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I’m redecorating like a Boss! Watch yourself. I have a stack of signed blank warrants right here and I’m not afraid to use them… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14005 "2014-04-10T21:17:11Z")
Rush Limbaugh (on the hiring of Stephen Colbert to replace David Letterman) [CBS has just declared war on the heartland of America](http://www.mediaite.com/online/limbaugh-blasts-colbert-pick-cbs-has-just-declared-war-on-the-heartland-of-america/) ---
**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:** [April 10, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14006 "2014-04-10T21:21:45Z")
So…that makes Colbert…Goebbels? ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14007 "2014-04-10T22:17:21Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Too good not to spread around: [Rick Wiles of TruNews](http://Gen45_30spokes_050thk_030wide)will be arrested at a gay cruising spot any night now. > I mean, I just … wow. Well, he’s got the beginning of a kernel of truth in there, in that the roots of the early Nazi party really did grow out of the gay subcultures of Vienna and Münich ; and the _SturmAbteilung_ (the brown shirts) was very gay-friendly. Their leader Ernst Röhm was openly gay, a novelty at the time, so were many of his top lieutenants and a few historians have reported that homosexuals had an easier time rising up in the organisation than straights. I expect there was some pseudo-Spartan warrior-brothers mystique going on. All of which was known, and spilled much ink, in the German society of the time. Ironically, the right wingers of the time were very concerned about these dangerously progressive and fetching young men and their dissolute mores wot were threatening the values and morals of the country. Oh, and they routinely beat up Jews and Communists in drunken street brawls, too. I GUESS. Of course, once Hitler became more established, more “mainstream” and firmly in power he no longer needed his troublesome gay friends, so he had them all murdered on the Night of Long Knives and from then on gays were sent to concentration camps. So much for the elite super gay soldiers. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14008 "2014-04-10T22:33:09Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Well, he’s got the beginning of a kernel of truth in there, in that the roots of the early Nazi party really did grow out of the gay subcultures of Vienna and Münich ; and the _SturmAbteilung_ (the brown shirts) was very gay-friendly. > Their leader Ernst Röhm was openly gay, a novelty at the time, so were many of his top lieutenants and a few historians have reported that homosexuals had an easier time rising up in the organisation than straights. I expect there was some pseudo-Spartan warrior-brothers mystique going on. > All of which was known, and spilled much ink, in the German society of the time. Ironically, the right wingers of the time were very concerned about these dangerously progressive and fetching young men and their dissolute mores wot were threatening the values and morals of the country. Oh, and they routinely beat up Jews and Communists in drunken street brawls, too. I GUESS. > > Of course, once Hitler became more established, more “mainstream” and firmly in power he no longer needed his troublesome gay friends, so he had them all murdered on the Night of Long Knives and from then on gays were sent to concentration camps. So much for the elite super gay soldiers. But check out Norman Spinrad’s [_The Iron Dream!_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Dream) [spoiler]1. There are no named female characters and only one or two unnamed ones, just part of the background. 1. At the end, the Dominators of Zind, facing defeat and final destruction, set off a big dirty nuke that spreads fallout throughout Earth’s atmosphere and assures that the unmutated humans of Heldon can henceforth only beget mutant children. The reproduction problem is solved by cloning – and they only bother to clone males; what use are women any more?[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14009 "2014-04-10T22:34:46Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > So…that makes Colbert…Goebbels? Not Hitler, at any rate. Colbert has **two** balls! ---
**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:** [April 10, 2014, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14010 "2014-04-10T22:49:46Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Their leader Ernst Röhm was openly gay, a novelty at the time, so were many of his top lieutenants and a few historians have reported that homosexuals had an easier time rising up in the organisation than straights. It wasn’t his gayness that got him purged during the Night of the Long Knives, but that he was secretly Jewish. Why, when they arrested him, he was blowing the shofar! ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14011 "2014-04-10T22:58:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Limbaugh also trashed Colbert as a “partisan, so-called comedian” [snip] What? Oh, yeah, Limbaugh claims to be the Voice of God or something, not a partisan so-called comedian. So, the new Late Show host is _not_ going to be Chelsea Handler? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14012 "2014-04-10T23:04:37Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > It wasn’t his gayness that got him purged during the Night of the Long Knives, but that he was secretly Jewish. > > Why, when they arrested him, he was blowing the shofar! Boy, those people really know how to treat their help! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14013 "2014-04-10T23:18:39Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Rush Limbaugh (on the hiring of Stephen Colbert to replace David Letterman) > > [CBS has just declared war on the heartland of America](http://www.mediaite.com/online/limbaugh-blasts-colbert-pick-cbs-has-just-declared-war-on-the-heartland-of-america/) [While Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro calls Colbert’s act “vile political blackface.”](http://www.salon.com/2014/04/10/right_wing_pundit_ben_shapiro_says_colberts_act_is_vile_political_blackface/) Because pretending to be a conservative to make fun of them is just as bad as pretending to be a n\*\*\*\*r to make fun of them. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14014 "2014-04-10T23:30:36Z")
So, Colbert is a Nazi in blackface. For the trifecta of fun and offense, they need to start comparing him to a woman. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14015 "2014-04-10T23:55:46Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [While Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro calls Colbert’s act “vile political blackface.”](http://www.salon.com/2014/04/10/right_wing_pundit_ben_shapiro_says_colberts_act_is_vile_political_blackface/) Because pretending to be a conservative to make fun of them is just as bad as pretending to be a n\*\*\*\*r to make fun of them. I love the opening, bolded sub-title of his article : > [@](#): > > It is nearly impossible to watch an episode of The Colbert Report without coming away with a viscerally negative response to conservatives Which is absolutely true. Also true of Jon Stewart’s show. And most of this thread. And Fox News. And Drudge. And the minutes of Congressional debates. \*And \*Ben Shapiro’s op-eds. There’s only one possible explanation for this puzzling state of affairs. A global conspiracy is at work to make ultraconservatives look like a petty, whiney, looney, idiotic bunch of cunts. Wake up, sheeple. Colbert’s only the tip of the grassy knoll. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14016 "2014-04-11T00:02:40Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Wake up, sheeple. :eek: [No! Don’t!](https://xkcd.com/1013/) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14017 "2014-04-11T00:09:33Z")
One of my contributions to this [CS clerihew (look it up) thread from 2006](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=382837&highlight=clerihew): Steven Colbert Bill O’Reilly’s parodic bugbear Has great big balls But bears set him climbing the walls ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14018 "2014-04-11T00:26:33Z")
I’m assuming this is a Republican stupid idea, since it’s Miami-Dade County Elections Department’s decision. It seems that in an effort to treat everyone the same way, [all bathrooms at polling places will be closed](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/04/10/3425252/new-rule-prohibits-voters-in-miami-dade-county-from-using-the-restroom-no-matter-how-long-the-line/). ---
**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 11, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14019 "2014-04-11T00:35:54Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I’m assuming this is a Republican stupid idea, since it’s Miami-Dade County Elections Department’s decision. > > It seems that in an effort to treat everyone the same way, [all bathrooms at polling places will be closed](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/04/10/3425252/new-rule-prohibits-voters-in-miami-dade-county-from-using-the-restroom-no-matter-how-long-the-line/). Whereas the mayor of Miami, Tomás Pedro Regalado, is a Republican and whereas the supervisor of elections in Miami-Dade County is appointed by the mayor, and whereas this policy is stupid as hell, I think this one passes muster for inclusion in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14020 "2014-04-11T00:47:13Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Too good not to spread around: Rick Wiles of TruNewswill be arrested at a gay cruising spot any night now. But in a surprise twist, he’ll be arrested for not being gay _enough…_ > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > It’s not an exaggeration to say homofascist because the German Nazi Party was homosexual, Hitler was a homosexual, the top Nazi leadership, all of them were homosexuals, it was a radical homosexual movement that gained political power, military power, and they were creating a homosexual special race. That’s what it was all about. It wasn’t this thing about an Aryan race of white people, blue-eyed, blonde-haired, white people, Hitler was trying to create a race of super gay male soldiers. That’s what he was creating. When you understand what the real agenda of the homosexual movement was in the 30s and 40s and you see it is happening now here in the United States of America. I’m telling you, this is not an exaggeration. If it’s not stopped, it will end up in America just like it was in Germany but it won’t be the Jews that will be slaughtered, it will be the Christians. > > I mean, I just … wow. So. . . “SS” didn’t stand for [_Schutzstaffel_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel). . . it stood for “Same Sex”? Mind. Totally. Blown. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=700) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=702)