# 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:** 828
**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:** [September 8, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16541 "2014-09-08T23:56:03Z")
But…but…but…wouldn’t that mean letting the, you know, _black_ people have guns? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16542 "2014-09-09T00:06:01Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > But…but…but…wouldn’t that mean letting the, you know, _black_ people have guns? :eek: Well, maybe one of them DemoncRAT would have a problem with that, but a good Reagan Republican would . . . [oh](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act), nevermind. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16543 "2014-09-09T00:15:35Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Well, **Smapti** appears to be gleefully bragging about the police shutting down a peaceful protest in Ferguson, so fuck him. [Moderating] That’s a violation of the Pit’s language rules. Please avoid it in the future. No warning issued. [/Moderating] ---
**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:** [September 9, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16544 "2014-09-09T00:27:39Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > But…but…but…wouldn’t that mean letting the, you know, _black_ people have guns? :eek: The Constitution was wrote by and for white people. We let black people vote, the rest is, ehh, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16545 "2014-09-09T00:31:40Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > But the former is safer, therefore preferred, as it should be. The prudent should not be involved in either one, but retaliating against a lawless gang of armed men for murder of a friend is unarguably of higher morals than destroying the property of an innocent person. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16546 "2014-09-09T00:38:04Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Well, maybe one of them DemoncRAT would have a problem with that, but a good Reagan Republican would . . . [oh](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act), nevermind. > > CMC fnord! Black people are subject to oppression from police across the country due to forced disarmament by progressive neo-eugenecists with racial tics in their brains. They don’t even realize they have laid waste to a once proud culture through their societal engineering schemes. The best you can come up with is “Reagan did it!”. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16547 "2014-09-09T00:51:21Z")
Kill Whitey. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16548 "2014-09-09T00:55:53Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Black people are subject to oppression from police across the country due to forced disarmament by progressive neo-eugenecists with racial tics in their brains. They don’t even realize they have laid waste to a once proud culture through their societal engineering schemes. The best you can come up with is “Reagan did it!”. I’m not sure if that post’s a perfect exemplar for this thread or if it crosses the line from “so stupid it sounds crazy” into “so crazy it doesn’t fit as a ‘stupid’” idea. (A third possibility is that you’re not a Republican with a stupid idea, but just a random ‘I’m an _Independent_!’ anti-progressive nutjob with a stupid idea…) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16549 "2014-09-09T01:18:28Z")
> [@xenophon41](#): > > {…} or if it crosses the line from “so stupid it sounds crazy” into “so crazy it doesn’t fit as a ‘stupid’” idea. {…} A matryoshka doll of stupid/crazy and crazy/stupid, and I fear what’s in the center! CMC fnord! BTW I don’t _think_ Reagan was a progressive neo-eugenecist with societal engineering schemes, but it was the 60s and the 80s . . . everyone was a little crazy! ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16550 "2014-09-09T01:19:44Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Kill Whitey. Ah, anybody got a bottle of walnut oil I can borrow? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16551 "2014-09-09T04:14:33Z")
There’s a thread in GD (“Is Fox News really all that bad?”) that I’ve never clicked on. The answer is too obvious; it would raise my blood pressure to hear from anyone who doesn’t know the answer. I get more than enough Fox News just from this thread. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [I don’t know whether FOX news is saying that it’s Obama fault that Ray Rice beat his wife unconscious, or it’s Obama’s fault that the NFL basically tried to sweep it under the rug](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/andrea-tantaros-ray-rice-obama)… Now, now. FoxNews did connect the dots between Ray Rice and Saddam Obama but you slander them to suggest it had anything to do with politics. They specifically denied that: [QUOTE=Andrea Tantaros, Fox News host] My question is, not to bring it back to politics, but this is a White House that seems to bring up a ‘war on women’ every other week. A White House that is very concerned about the NFL, concussions, et cetera, prescription drugs in locker rooms. I want to know: where is the president on this one? [/QUOTE] What connection are Fox viewers supposed to derive? I’m guessing you’d find the answer if you look at photos of these two aggressive males side-by-side. Zoom in and study skin tone. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16552 "2014-09-09T05:04:43Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Black people are subject to oppression from police across the country due to forced disarmament by progressive neo-eugenecists with racial tics in their brains. They don’t even realize they have laid waste to a once proud culture through their societal engineering schemes. The best you can come up with is “Reagan did it!”. [Poe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_Law)? Is that you there? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16553 "2014-09-09T11:42:03Z")
Grover Norquist tried to claim that the Hippie-laden ‘Burning Man’ festival is a perfect example of no-tax, take responsibility no-government GOP ideals. [Others explain why he couldn’t be more wrong.](http://www.vice.com/read/heres-why-republicans-should-not-be-getting-into-burning-man-804?utm_source=vicefbus) ---
**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:** [September 9, 2014, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16554 "2014-09-09T11:59:03Z")
No tax ? Don’t they sell tickets to Burning Man ? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16555 "2014-09-09T12:16:27Z")
Tickets are for squares, man. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16556 "2014-09-09T13:24:18Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Black people are subject to oppression from police across the country due to forced disarmament . . . Seems to me a great many are, in fact, armed. > [@WillFarnaby](#): > > . . . by progressive neo-eugenecists with racial tics in their brains. 😕 Where do eugenics come into it? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16557 "2014-09-09T13:43:10Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Black people are subject to oppression from police across the country due to forced disarmament. Gee willikers, think of all the upheaval we would have been able to avoid if people like Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown had been armed. Darned disarmamenters. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16558 "2014-09-09T15:14:14Z")
[A Missouri lawmaker wants to opt out of the birth control coverage in his health plan](http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/missouri-lawmaker-wife-ask-court-for-contraception-insurance-exclusion/article_9be010f0-bc90-5eec-8614-9b00cef56dd0.html). > [@St Louis Post-Dispatch](#): > > A family should have the same right as a small business to opt out of birth control coverage in its health care plan, the lawyer for a Missouri legislator argued Monday before a federal appeals court. > > Rep. Paul Wieland, R-Imperial, and his wife, Teresa, say the contraceptive benefit required by the Affordable Care Act violates their religious beliefs as Catholics and parents of three daughters. Citing the could-never-have-imagined-this Hobby Lobby decision, Wieland argues that he should not be forced to pay for things that violate his conscience. > [@StL PD](#): > > “If the corporations don’t have to do this for their employees, certainly Mom and Dad don’t have to do it for their daughters,” Timothy Belz, a Clayton attorney serving as special counsel with the Thomas More Society, said after court Monday Man, when we can all opt out of paying for things we find immoral, that’s gonna be awesome. I can stop paying my state to execute people! Woo-hoo! I’m not sure how the mechanics of it will work, but I am totally opting out of paying for the debt we incurred while invading Iraq. Most of that will be paid for by my kids, of course, so I need to start teaching them now that they need to make sure they don’t retroactively pay for such a terrible sin as invading a country for no good reason. Anyway, I’m drawing up my list now. This is [great](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmlnltVzksg)! ETA: Oh, wait. I’m an atheist. So I can’t claim religious objections. I guess I’m out of luck. Damn! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16559 "2014-09-09T16:06:58Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > ETA: Oh, wait. I’m an atheist. So I can’t claim religious objections. I guess I’m out of luck. Damn! Science H. Logic, that sux! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16560 "2014-09-09T16:10:32Z")
I am not an atheist, I am a religious person who doesn’t believe in God. But by my lights, freedom of religion includes the right to be free _from_ religion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=827) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=829)