# 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:** 82
**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:** [May 27, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1621 "2010-05-27T14:27:19Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’m not sure exactly what technology he’s referring to. I’d hold off on calling that stupid until I know what the hell he’s talking about (or thinks he’s talking about). What could he possibly be talking about that hasn’t been generally available for years? It’s like proposing that somebody ought to invent a machine to scan your groceries at the checkout so a computer can add up the prices. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1622 "2010-05-27T14:33:29Z")
[America Speaking Out Dot Com:](http://www.americaspeakingout.com/)[ol] [li]Select a Category[/li][li]Submit an Idea[/li][li]Vote on an Idea[/li][li]Post a Response[/li][li]Earn Badges[/li][/ol]I _would_ suggest that the badges be dipped in perfume, but am not certain of which category in which to submit that idea. Also, is six **Profit**? There should be **Profit** somewhere! ---
**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:** [May 27, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1623 "2010-05-27T14:35:43Z")
Have you read the suggestions there? It’s like 95 percent trolling, and some of it is pretty funny IMHO. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2010, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1624 "2010-05-27T14:43:24Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Have you read the suggestions there? It’s like 95 percent trolling, and some of it is pretty funny IMHO. Samples from the current [“Liberty and Freedom” topic](http://www.americaspeakingout.com/browse/questions/in/liberty-and-freedom): > [@](#): > > Cell Phone use can be prosecuted as witchcraft in some southern states. We should be able to do this in all states! > > You should kick all of those libertarian-leaning “intellectuals” out of the Republican party. Sure they like assault weapons, but that’s just so they can sneak in crazy ideas like legalizing marijuana and letting gays “marry” and replacing American economics with Australian economics. I don’t want to have our currency handed over to the Australians, and if they try it, it’ll be another civil war!!!11!! > > I should have the freedom to urinate on fire hydrants. If dogs can do it, I should too. Let’s end this discrimination. > > “Liberty” and “Freedom” should each be a separate category > > \_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ | || | ====E[(( ))]3====== | ,| |, | | /( )( )\ | | / | | > > Let us never forget that the founding fathers were a homogeneous group who never disagreed about anything, and that we should continually invoke them as such. > > Nowhere in the constitution does it say that zombies, vampires, gollums and misc. homunculi cannot vote. This needs to be addressed immediately before our nation is overrun by the legions of the undead. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1625 "2010-05-27T14:48:26Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > I _would_ suggest that the badges be dipped in perfume, but am not certain of which category in which to submit that idea. Badges dipped in perfume? We don’t need no stinking badges! ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1626 "2010-05-27T14:55:48Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I do sort of object to always calling it “Washington State”, though. Don’t you think it makes sense in Washington DC when you’re primarily talking to other people who live and work in DC? It seems like with any communication dealing with national politics one should be explicit when talking about that other Washington, the state, at least on first mention. > [@Revtim](#): > > I’m trying, but I’m failing to think of a reasonable scenario that isn’t the result of ignorance. My guess is they showed him some software that maps the moon, without making it clear to him that it has nothing to to do with the web technology they were selling/giving him (which was likely simply .NET ASP). Then he conflated the two. > > Plus, it’s pretty stupid to go Microsoft headquarters to get software. I didn’t fly to Redmond to pick up my copy of MS Word. It seems much more likely he doesn`t really care and thought that telling people it was the software they used to map the moon would sound cool. He wouldn't be wrong about that if he'd found a better way to explain it. You shouldn`t assume people are too stupid to understand technicalities if there’s ample reason to believe they just don’t care about them. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1627 "2010-05-27T14:56:45Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > We don’t need no stinking badges! Hence the need to dip them in perfume. It all hangs together. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1628 "2010-05-27T15:25:35Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > [America Speaking Out Dot Com:](http://www.americaspeakingout.com/)[ol] > [li]Select a Category[/li][li]Submit an Idea[/li][li]Vote on an Idea[/li][li]Post a Response[/li][li]Earn Badges[/li][/ol]I _would_ suggest that the badges be dipped in perfume, but am not certain of which category in which to submit that idea. > > Also, is six **Profit**? > There should be **Profit** somewhere! Why did you tell me about that website? I was _supposed_ to get work done today but I am giving myself cramps from trying to suppress the giggling and I’m going to have to go home sick, I think. Such a shame, it’s a nice day, too! ---
**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:** [May 27, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1629 "2010-05-27T15:28:03Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > [http://kevinmccarthy.house.gov/showarticle.asp?ID=335](http://kevinmccarthy.house.gov/showarticle.asp?ID=335) > > Bolding mine. I think this is pretty clever. Now they don’t have to listen to their idiot constituents in person, like they did in those “town hall meetings”. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1630 "2010-05-27T15:40:47Z")
> [@rockle](#): > > Why did you tell me about that website? I was _supposed_ to get work done today but I am giving myself cramps from trying to suppress the giggling and I’m going to have to go home sick, I think. Such a shame, it’s a nice day, too! First thread I opened, first posted commenfL > [@](#): > > We should pass a law making everyone in the world speak English. That way we can understand them. When I go to Europe it’s like they are speaking in tongues. Here’s another good one from ‘American Prosperity’: > [@](#): > > let’s make a video game staring Glen Beck on a journey to stop communism, but instead of riding on a horse, he rides on sarah palin and sarah palin eats grass to regain stamina Some more: > [@](#): > > I am a bit troubled. I believe my son has a girlfriend, because she left a dirty magazine with men in it under his bed. … > [@](#): > > To make this country safer, all members of the tea party should immediately go speak with King Leonidas over by the giant well. He will surely have something important to say. > [@](#): > > This website should be used to directly govern. Highest voted idea per day becomes federal law. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1631 "2010-05-27T15:47:35Z")
**Boyo Jim** , I know. _I know_. I really think some of those comments were left by Dopers, or at least the Doper-adjacent. I mean, _come on_: > [@](#): > > _The US military should adopt the mullet as the official haircut of the armed forces. Symbolically, this style tells Al Kaida that we’re protected from the back. Practically, it offers sun protection and less time on barbershop chairs at military bases and more time kickin’ butt._ That’s all [sic], of course, but I think it’s intentional anyway. Now I have a cramp _and_ I’m starting to get blurred vision from the lack of oxygen to my brain. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1632 "2010-05-27T15:53:02Z")
> [@](#): > > I am a bit troubled. I believe my son has a girlfriend, because she left a dirty magazine with men in it under his bed. .. I think I want to kiss whichever agent provocateur posted that one. It’s beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1633 "2010-05-27T15:57:25Z")
Oh my god that is the funniest Web site I’ve seen in a long time. Clearly they can’t let the open forum continue, clearly this will be lambasted as a lib’ plot of unAmerican proportions (said with a straight face by the same people who advocated disrupting town hall meetings). Clearly someone needs to be capturing all the responses … _won’t someone think of the comedy?!_ (Anyone notice how hard it is to tell some of the serious replies from the vandalism?) [ul] [li]America needs a crack team of genetically engineered velociraptors who constantly patrol the skies in robot spyplanes. Terrorism threat? BAM! Robot controlled spyplane drops raptors from the sky. THESE COLORS NEVER RUN![/li] [li]We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody’s civil rights to say whatever he pleases. [/li] [li]we should invade mexico and convert them all to christianity!!! JESUS FOREVER I LOVE YOU JESUS![/li] [li]To make this country safer, all members of the tea party should immediately go speak with King Leonidas over by the giant well. He will surely have something important to say.[/li] [li]Arrest all people whose name ends with a ‘z’. Decapitate them and display their headless bodys on the border. And then bombard Mexico city with severed heads from a B-2. It’ll solve illegal immigration problem once and for all.[/li] [li]Unfriend Islam on Facebook, NOW!!! [/li] [li]America needs more weapons to fight its enemies. I recommend adding fear, surprise, and a fanatical devotion to the pope. [/li] [li]We should flood the entire American Southwest with polluted water from the Gulf. Mutant alligators could inhabit the murky waterways and eat illegals that try to tube across.[/li][/ul] ETA: > [@rockle](#): > > **Boyo Jim** , I know. _I know_. I really think some of those comments were left by Dopers, or at least the Doper-adjacent. Note the reference to velociraptors. Methinks there’s a few XKCD fans out there. On a side note, wouldn’t it be great if a political party could solicit ideas in an open forum and _not_ have the place trashed. Sure, there are a host of hysterical posts there, but they are vandalism after all. The idea of the Internet as a great communicative device and open forum belongs on failblog. The “stupid Republican idea of the day” is not recognizing that. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1634 "2010-05-27T16:02:53Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1635 "2010-05-27T16:03:05Z")
Poe’s Law is working overtime there. > [@](#): > > Allow harlots to practice their quim craft. God will judge. _'Cause it’s quimcraft, wicked quimcraft And although, I know, it’s strictly taboo When you arouse the need in me My heart says yes indeed in me Proceed with what you’re leading me to…_ ---
**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:** [May 27, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1636 "2010-05-27T16:11:20Z")
[quote=“Rhythmdvl, post:1633, topic:490897”] [li]To make this country safer, all members of the tea party should immediately go speak with King Leonidas over by the giant well. He will surely have something important to say.[/li][/QUOTE] What is this reference? ---
**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:** [May 27, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1637 "2010-05-27T16:12:04Z")
When you build a forum using software designed to map the moon, is it really surprising that you end up with a forum full of loonies? The site seems to be overloading; now nobody will ever know about my plan to ban pocket protectors, seize the computer companies under civil forfeiture laws, and use the assets to pay off the national debt… ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1638 "2010-05-27T16:14:18Z")
[quote=“jsgoddess, post:1636, topic:490897”] > [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > [ul] > [li]To make this country safer, all members of the tea party should immediately go speak with King Leonidas over by the giant well. He will surely have something important to say.[/li][/QUOTE] > > [/ul]What is this reference? It’s a reference to the movie 300 or It’s-okay-to-watch-oily-men-wrestle-your-heteosexuality-is-protected-by-our-special-effects. I think the scene was parodied in Epic Movie. I’ll see if I can find it… ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1639 "2010-05-27T16:20:35Z")
[Youtube link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKPF7jApmxQ). Check out the others for fun remixes! ---
**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:** [May 27, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1640 "2010-05-27T16:20:42Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > What is this reference? In _300_, and in _Meet the Spartans_, there is a bottomless pit that Leonidas pushes annoying people into. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=81) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=83)