# 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:** 768
**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:** [June 22, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15341 "2014-06-22T01:18:01Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > What I wonder is: Don’t they have children and grandchildren (and possibly great-grandchildren) who have to, you know, breathe? Are they so on autopilot about the global warming stuff that they can’t see their way to maybe trying not to kill the planet before their descendants grow up? You seem to be under the illusion that sociopaths give a shit about even their own. They don’t. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15342 "2014-06-22T02:01:31Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > What I wonder is: Don’t they have children and grandchildren (and possibly great-grandchildren) who have to, you know, breathe? Are they so on autopilot about the global warming stuff that they can’t see their way to maybe trying not to kill the planet before their descendants grow up? I see several possibilities: 1. As other have mentioned, they are psychos, or just evil enough to value profits over their own descendants. or 2. They really believe their bullshit about global warming not existing or not being caused by humans. People believe what they want to believe, especially if their wealth depends on it or 3. They figure that even if the world goes to shit, there will still be decently livable parts of it, and being wealthy via inheritance their descendants will be able to afford to live there. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2014, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15343 "2014-06-22T03:15:13Z")
[South Dakota GOP convention votes to impeach Obama](http://aattp.org/south-dakota-gop-moves-forward-calling-for-president-obamas-impeachment/). Because … stuff ---
**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:** [June 22, 2014, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15344 "2014-06-22T03:24:54Z")
This one kind of bothers me. [full video of Dick Cheney talking to Megyn Kelly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW6dWbbaylo) Some people focus on the part where she seems to call him to task for past fuck-ups. But if you watch the whole thing, the Cheneys chew up 4/5ths of the time just barfing their usual glurge all over the screen. If I heard correctly, at one point, she even refers to him as “Mr. President”. What is disturbing about this is that those people seem to have figured out some strategery, instead of just howling out their stupidity in the stupidest way they can. It is handy to have Reoublicans talking like idiots in an obvious way, but when they can make their bile seem palatable to ordinary folk, we ought to be concerned. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15345 "2014-06-22T04:41:47Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It is handy to have Reoublicans talking like idiots in an obvious way, but when they can make their bile seem palatable to ordinary folk, we ought to be concerned. It’s past time to be concerned, mate … ---
**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:** [June 22, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15346 "2014-06-22T13:40:23Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > What I wonder is: Don’t they have children and grandchildren (and possibly great-grandchildren) who have to, you know, breathe? Are they so on autopilot about the global warming stuff that they can’t see their way to maybe trying not to kill the planet before their descendants grow up? Oh, I’m sure they’ll find a way to survive with their pockets full of fracking money. If it takes an air-conditioned plexi dome over their new mountain-top suburbia, then that’s what it’s gonna be. Hmm, the poor ? Why, fuck them, dear boy, fuck them and eat them. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15347 "2014-06-22T18:24:23Z")
I wonder if anyone else thought [this](http://news.yahoo.com/diversity-enters-republican-race-u-senate-seat-oklahoma-173654045.html) was an incredibly poor choice of words. Tuesday’s Republican primary in Oklahoma has a rather unusual candidate: a hard right, half-black, half-Native American running as a Tea Party conservative named TW Shannon. However, in criticism directed towards Shannon, an Oklahoma Tea Party group rejects him because he gas “too many masters to serve”. I’m sure they misspoke though, they only want him to have one master because its hard to split whippings between two plantations owners ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15348 "2014-06-22T18:48:15Z")
It’s a Biblical reference. Matthew 6:24. The author probably expects his Tea Party audience to recognize that. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15349 "2014-06-22T18:53:31Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > … > > So we’ll be adding black _and_ not-black-enough to the list. And gay. And Arab half-breed. > > So, what can you expect from a black but not-black-enough, gay, atheist, Muslim, Christian Radical, anti-American, Kenyan, Arab half-breed, Communist, Socialist, Marxist, Nazi, pawn of the UN, dictator pussy? > Especially given that both Bill Clinton _and_ George W. Bush are left-handed! :eek: I just laughed so hard I almost coughed up my spleen! I’m late to B.O.'s business card but Anti-Christ and Satan have been bandied about in the past as 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:** [June 22, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15350 "2014-06-22T18:54:32Z")
Dick Cheney: “[I meant no disrespect when I accused Obama of treason](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/22/dick-cheney-doesnt-intend-any-disrespect-by-suggesting-obama-guilty-of-treason/).” ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15351 "2014-06-22T19:35:04Z")
Yeah I can totally see that. Everyone knows that sometimes when you accuse someone it’s out of respect, right? ---
**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:** [June 22, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15352 "2014-06-22T19:47:56Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Yeah I can totally see that. Everyone knows that sometimes when you accuse someone it’s out of respect, right? You traitor! I say this with love! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15353 "2014-06-22T20:02:36Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > It’s a Biblical reference. Matthew 6:24. The author probably expects his Tea Party audience to recognize that. Mark Twain, it is said, once had a lengthy argument with a Mormon over polygamy. Finally the Mormon asked, “But can you point to any Scripture that forbids polygamy?” “Certainly!” Twain replied. “No man can serve two masters!” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15354 "2014-06-22T20:36:56Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Dick Cheney: “[I meant no disrespect when I accused Obama of treason](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/22/dick-cheney-doesnt-intend-any-disrespect-by-suggesting-obama-guilty-of-treason/).” I saw this as well, and I’m a bit miffed. Seems to me, the \*interviewer \*was the one who introduced the word “treason” into the conversation, yet the “headline quote” makes it appear that it was Cheney’s. No fair. And wholly unnecessary, the facts about “Big Dick” Cheney are bad enough, they need not be embellished, that’s guilting the lily. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15355 "2014-06-22T21:54:41Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > …that’s guilting the lily. Hrrrr. And you do this sort of thing\* on purpose! \* ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15356 "2014-06-22T22:03:43Z")
Why, whatever do you mean? I am but an innocent lamb, frolicking and gambling amongst the daffodils… ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15357 "2014-06-22T22:13:07Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Why, whatever do you mean? I am but an innocent lamb, frolicking and gambling amongst the daffodils… Reported to **Hal**. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15358 "2014-06-23T00:55:18Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Yeah I can totally see that. Everyone knows that sometimes when you accuse someone it’s out of respect, right? And the warmth and affection with which I accuse Dick Cheney of being a war criminal should never be misunderestimated! ---
**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:** [June 23, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15359 "2014-06-23T01:18:10Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Why, whatever do you mean? I am but an innocent lamb, frolicking and gambling amongst the daffodils… I never do that anymore, the daffodils always win. They figured out long ago how to stack the odds in their favor. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15360 "2014-06-23T04:17:41Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Why, whatever do you mean? I am but an innocent lamb, frolicking and gambling amongst the daffodils… > [@eschereal](#): > > I never do that anymore, the daffodils always win. That’s because only they have the stamena. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=767) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=769)