# 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:** 704
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14061 "2014-04-14T23:04:00Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > 1. He thinks vaginas can be MILKED???!!! Well, kinda metaphorically, it is possible to get some fluid out of one by applying digital pressure . . . ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14062 "2014-04-14T23:06:04Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [OK, that one’s mainly evil, but stupid comes into it. Tsk. [url=[http://www.salon.com/2014/04/14/7\_worst\_right\_wing\_moments\_of\_the\_week\_— stephen\_colbert\_is\_destroying\_america\_apparently\_partner/](http://www.salon.com/2014/04/14/7_worst_right_wing_moments_of_the_week_%e2%80%94%c2%a0stephen_colbert_is_destroying_america_apparently_partner/)]Fixed link.](]Meanwhile, in Florida:[/url) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14063 "2014-04-14T23:16:34Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > What about that photo of people standing in the street holding signs that spell out “SECDEE”? Staged for this parody-story, or real from another story? Well, it looks like the two guys may have just been informed or about to discover their error, and it was just a fortunate capture. It is a rather odd thing, though, when one notices that the first two letters appear very much to be on a single placard. ---
**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 14, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14064 "2014-04-14T23:23:21Z")
At next month’s state Republican convention, [Wisconsin Republicans will vote on whether to secede from the Union](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/wisconsin-secession_n_5147443.html?utm_hp_ref=politics). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14065 "2014-04-15T00:04:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > At next month’s state Republican convention, [Wisconsin Republicans will vote on whether to secede from the Union](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/wisconsin-secession_n_5147443.html?utm_hp_ref=politics). . . . No, not parody . . . ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14066 "2014-04-15T00:46:43Z")
God bless those patriotic folks. To them, patriotism is wearing flag pins and being rich or unhealthy enough to avoid having to go fight in the very wars they advocate. To them, patriotism is mindlessly chanting how America is number one in everything, while simultaneously saying America is on the brink of collapse and subversion by the evil socialists. To them, patriotism is telling the other half of America that they aren’t really Americans. To them, patriotism is trying to secede from the very country that they claim to honor so much. There is no lower bunch of miserable craven cowardly trolls. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14067 "2014-04-15T00:54:57Z")
So, if they go, they take Green Bay with them? Just askin’… ---
**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:** [April 15, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14068 "2014-04-15T01:15:07Z")
Cheezhedistan? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14069 "2014-04-15T04:00:37Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > God bless those patriotic folks. > > To them, patriotism is wearing flag pins and being rich or unhealthy enough to avoid having to go fight in the very wars they advocate. Curse you twice, now I have two old John Prine songs battling it out in my head (_Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You into Heaven Anymore_ and _Spanish Pipe Dream_). The more things change … ---
**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 15, 2014, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14070 "2014-04-15T09:12:42Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > At next month’s state Republican convention, [Wisconsin Republicans will vote on whether to secede from the Union](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/wisconsin-secession_n_5147443.html?utm_hp_ref=politics). The sad part is their implicit belief that anybody outside the state itself would notice if Wisconsin got sucked into a black hole, much less seceded. ---
**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 15, 2014, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14071 "2014-04-15T15:19:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > At next month’s state Republican convention, [Wisconsin Republicans will vote on whether to secede from the Union](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/wisconsin-secession_n_5147443.html?utm_hp_ref=politics). “That’s phase one. In phase two, which you did not guess, my Mag-machine will melt the entire state of Wisconsin. Which I will then rebuild and rename… Drakkenville!” ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14072 "2014-04-15T15:20:43Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > At next month’s state Republican convention, [Wisconsin Republicans will vote on whether to secede from the Union](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/wisconsin-secession_n_5147443.html?utm_hp_ref=politics). Wow, they managed to stake out a position too nuts even for Scott Walker. That is pretty impressive. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14073 "2014-04-15T15:26:29Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > At next month’s state Republican convention, [Wisconsin Republicans will vote on whether to secede from the Union](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/wisconsin-secession_n_5147443.html?utm_hp_ref=politics). I hope they vote to secede. If there’s anything that will convince the general public here that the state Republican Party has gone insane, that would be it. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14074 "2014-04-15T15:37:31Z")
I find it funny how right-wing politicians can have votes for committing actual treason on their records, and their hyper patriotic voters don’t give a shit. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14075 "2014-04-15T15:42:40Z")
Iokiyar ---
**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:** [April 15, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14076 "2014-04-15T15:47:24Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I hope they vote to secede. If there’s anything that will convince the general public here that the state Republican Party has gone insane, that would be it. Depends on whether they are crazier than their electorate … you know, the people that voted them into office. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14077 "2014-04-15T15:52:57Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Well, I’ve confirmed this one ain’t parody, believe it or not: _Detroit News_ columnist Nolan Finley: [Dem Lt. Gov. candidate Lisa Brown is “milking the vagina business.”](http://m.dailykos.com/stories/1291024) > > There’s such thing?! I’m gonna **kill** my guidance counselor! :mad: Alas, it’s not actually as [glamorous as you think](http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly060503a.htm) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14078 "2014-04-15T16:39:42Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I find it funny how right-wing politicians can have votes for committing actual treason on their records, and their hyper patriotic voters don’t give a shit. [See this article](http://www.salon.com/2013/11/17/americas_angriest_white_men_up_close_with_racism_rage_and_southern_supremacy/), mainly about white supremacists but I think somewhat more broadly applicable: > [@](#): > > Second, the extreme Right is extremely patriotic. They love their country, their flag, and everything it stands for. These are the guys who get teary at the playing of the national anthem, who choke up when they hear the word America. They have bumper stickers on their pick ups that show the flag with the slogan “These colors don’t run.” > > The problem is that the America they love doesn’t happen to be the America in which they live. They love America—but they hate its government. They believe that the government has become so un-American that it has joined in global institutions that undermine and threaten the American way of life. Many fuse critiques of international organizations such as the United Nations with protectionism and neoisolationism, arguing that all internationalisms are part of a larger Zionist conspiracy. Some embrace a grand imperial vision of American (and other Aryan) domination and the final subjugation of “inferior races.” > > As he traveled through the rural West, journalist Joel Dyer constantly heard these refrains: “Environmentalists wouldn’t let me run my cows cause some damn little sparrow they said was endangered lived on my place,” “They took my farm,” “The IRS took everything I owned.” “These people believe the government is responsible for where they are, because they are finding themselves ignored, basically, by the economic system. People are losing their homes, their farms, their jobs, their sources of income. Corporations have been allowed to move wherever they want, and to take away jobs by the truckload. People are becoming economically dispossessed.” > > NAFTA took away American jobs; what they see as the “Burger King” economy leaves no room at the top, so “many youngsters see themselves as being forced to compete with nonwhites for the available minimum wage, service economy jobs that have replaced their parents’ unionized industry opportunities.” > > That such ardent patriots are so passionately antigovernment might strike the observer as contradictory. After all, are these not the same men who served their country in Vietnam or in the Gulf War? Are these not the same men who believe so passionately in the American Dream? Are they not the backbone of the Reagan Revolution? Indeed, they are. The extreme Right faces the difficult cognitive task of maintaining their faith in America and in capitalism and simultaneously providing an analysis of an indifferent state, at best, or an actively interventionist one, at worst, and a way to embrace capitalism, despite a cynical corporate logic that leaves them, often literally, out in the cold—homeless, jobless, hopeless. > > Finally, they believe themselves to be the true heirs of the real America. They are the ones who are entitled to inherit the bounty of the American system. It’s their birthright—as native-born, white American men. As sociologist Lillian Rubin puts it, “It’s this confluence of forces—the racial and cultural diversity of our new immigrant population; the claims on the resources of the nation now being made by those minorities who, for generations, have called America their home; the failure of some of our basic institutions to serve the needs of our people; the contracting economy, which threatens the mobility aspirations of working class families—all these have come together to leave white workers feeling as if everyone else is getting a piece of the action while they get nothing. ---
**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 15, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14079 "2014-04-15T19:00:02Z")
[State legislature of Oklahoma passes and Governor signs a law making it illegal for any jurisdiction in the state to raise the minimum wage or to allow workers to have sick or vacation leave.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/15/oklahoma-minimum-wage_n_5152496.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013) I’m not sure if he’s a Republican, but probably. [Former Arizona County Sheriff planned to put the woman, including his wife and daughters, in the front lines in the confrontation against the feds.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/15/former-sheriff-women-need-to-be-the-first-ones-shot-by-feds-in-bundy-ranch-standoff/#.U00-G7VsO7Q.facebook) So they can be the first ones shot. [Republican Congressman isn’t sure if the Civil Rights Act is constitutional.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/ted-yoho-civil-rights-act-constitutional) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14080 "2014-04-15T19:12:38Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [State legislature of Oklahoma passes and Governor signs a law making it illegal for any jurisdiction in the state to raise the minimum wage or to allow workers to have sick or vacation leave.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/15/oklahoma-minimum-wage_n_5152496.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013) If she’a Republican, why’s she getting her Big Government hands in the local government’s bidness? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=703) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=705)