# 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:** 816
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16301 "2014-08-23T02:05:34Z")
> [@xenophon41](#): > > If only we had a poster called **Red Chief** … Hah!! - so I’m _not_ the only one here! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16302 "2014-08-23T02:42:57Z")
Only _what_ here? Narcoleptic psychopath? Transgendered nematode? ---
**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:** [August 23, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16303 "2014-08-23T02:45:37Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Only _what_ here? Narcoleptic psychopath? Transgendered nematode? williamsyndeyporterite ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16304 "2014-08-23T04:18:34Z")
^ This. Funny thing was, I’d just been contemplating making a nearly identical post, but then thought …"nah, too obscure. Nobody’d get it… ---
**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:** [August 23, 2014, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16305 "2014-08-23T04:28:14Z")
> [@SeldomSeen](#): > > …nah, too obscure. Nobody’d get it… This is the SDMB. _Somebody_ is going to get any reference you could make if it involves popular culture, literature, science, history, film & tv, anime, tiddlywinks or Ganymedean trivia. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2014, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16306 "2014-08-23T04:40:23Z")
There are people on this board who _wouldn’t_ recognize a reference to _The Ransom of Red Chief_? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16307 "2014-08-23T04:41:14Z")
Oh, yeah, that’s the one where the guy sells his hair to buy his wife a totally obnoxious twat of a child. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2014, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16308 "2014-08-23T04:47:09Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Oh, yeah, that’s the one where the guy sells his hair to buy his wife a totally obnoxious twat of a child. Yeah, then they all get locked in a closet and miss the only day of sunshine in seven years. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2014, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16309 "2014-08-23T04:53:25Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Yeah, then they all get locked in a closet and miss the only day of sunshine in seven years. Wait… that’s that Asimov story that became Star Trek V, right? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16310 "2014-08-23T05:53:30Z")
No, _Twilight Zone_. You can tell from the Trek ending. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2014, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16311 "2014-08-23T10:03:14Z")
Minnesota Republican congressional candidate Jim Hagedorn on alleged voting improprieties on [Indian reservations:](http://huff.to/1AE8G0l) > [@](#): > > “Remarkably, many of the voters registered for absentee ballots were found to be chiefs and squaws who had returned to the spirit world many moons ago.” Alleging that fake votes from Indians would provide the margin of victory, he echoed “John Wayne’s wisdom of the only good Indian being a dead Indian.” ---
**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:** [August 23, 2014, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16312 "2014-08-23T12:39:14Z")
1. Yikes. :eek: 2. Why, are they more likely to vote Republican? ---
**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:** [August 23, 2014, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16313 "2014-08-23T16:18:21Z")
A Republican is a person whose brain is MOSTLY dead … not far from being a zombie … ---
**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:** [August 23, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16314 "2014-08-23T16:54:42Z")
Zombies do not waste their time with Republican “brains”. There is not much food value. It is almost cannibalistic. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16315 "2014-08-23T17:39:53Z")
Louisiana Teabaggers are calling David Vitter a turncoat because he supports the evil Communistic Common Core standards. On their page, they posted a story from the Broken World site declaring that Common Core turns kids gay. Of course Broken World is a rap-scallion site, their about page says you must be a TFM to believe their content. So, now, the Teabaggers are saying that [they _knew_ it was satire, the linked to it anyway, to bring attention to this important issue](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/19/tea-party-of-louisisana-common-core-turns-kids-gay-and-this-parody-website-proves-it/). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16316 "2014-08-23T18:16:01Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > 1. Yikes. :eek: > > 2. Why, are they more likely to vote Republican? Actually, according to investigative reporter Greg Palast, the vote on reservations tends to be more heavily Democratic. In consequence, he claims that reservations are victims of “vote spoilage”, receiving defective voting machines and other such tactics. This site barely mentions it, but he goes into detail in his books: [http://www.ejfi.org/Voting/Voting-101.htm](http://www.ejfi.org/Voting/Voting-101.htm) Here’s some more: > [@](#): > > “If the vote is stolen here, it will be stolen in Rio Arriba County,” a New Mexico politician told me. That’s a reasoned surmise: in 2000, one in 10 votes simply weren’t counted—chucked out, erased, discarded. In the voting biz, the technical term for these vanishing votes is “spoilage.” Citizens cast ballots, but the machines don’t notice. In one Rio Arriba precinct in the last go-'round, not one single vote was cast for president—or, at least, none showed up on the machines. Not everyone’s vote spoils equally. Rio Arriba is 73 percent Hispanic. I asked nationally recognized vote statistician Dr. Philip Klinkner of Hamilton College to run a “regression” analysis of the Hispanic ballot spoilage in the Enchanted State. He calculated that a brown voter is 500 percent more likely to have their vote spoiled than a white voter. And It’s worse for Native Americans. Vote spoilage is epidemic near Indian reservations. > > Votes don’t spoil because they’re left out of the fridge. It comes down to the machines. Just as poor people get the crap schools and crap hospitals, they get the crap voting machines. \ There’s a lot of politicians in both parties that like it that way; suppression of the minority is the way they get elected. \ The total number of votes siphoned out of America’s voting booths is so large, you won’t find the issue reported in our self-glorifying news media. The one million missing black, brown and red votes spoiled, plus the hundreds of thousands flushed from voter registries, is our nation’s dark secret: an apartheid democracy in which wealthy white votes almost always count, but minorities are often purged or challenged or simply not recorded. In effect, Kerry is down by a million votes before one lever is pulled, card punched or touch-screen touched. > **[Greg Palast: An Election Spoiled Rotten (Bu$hCo steals 1 million+ votes -...](https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x82172)** > > Greg Palast: An Election Spoiled Rotten (Bu$hCo steals 1 million+ votes ---
**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:** [August 23, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16317 "2014-08-23T20:53:33Z")
Now I’m confused. What you’re saying is that Red Chief can’t vote, but isn’t he like seven or eight? ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16318 "2014-08-24T06:11:02Z")
Minority votes get suppressed? Next, you’re going to claim the Pope is Catholic, and bears shit in the woods. C’mon. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16319 "2014-08-24T19:21:22Z")
[Dinesh D’Souza Compares “What’s Going On In Ferguson” To ISIS.](http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/conservative-filmmaker-dinesh-dsouza-compares-whats-going-on#2et0b4d) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16320 "2014-08-25T13:43:05Z")
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