# 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:** 842
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16821 "2014-09-18T09:48:45Z")
It is, until you realize that an awful lot of feminist women also do it. How many women actually get consent affirmatively before having sex? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16822 "2014-09-18T11:16:31Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > It is, until you realize that an awful lot of feminist women also do it. How many women actually get consent affirmatively before having sex? If they’re having sex with very drunk people who aren’t already intimate partners, then they’re wrong too. “Lots of people are doing it” is not a defense. For most of human history, huge numbers of people – perhaps even the majority – took part in very bad stuff. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16823 "2014-09-18T11:33:29Z")
It is not an excuse by itself, and I agreed that it’s immoral behavior. However, it’s not rape. If consent is given, even if it’s based on impaired judgment, then it is consensual sex, period. ---
**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 18, 2014, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16824 "2014-09-18T11:33:55Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I can’t quite remember when I first heard this litany of doom, but I think it was around 1960. Well, the immigrant stuff has been used since racism was invented. But give him credit! This is a fresh rant that he copied from the Koch’s cocktail napkin. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16825 "2014-09-18T11:37:59Z")
The Koch’s like more open immigration. So it didn’t come from 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 18, 2014, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16826 "2014-09-18T11:44:28Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > The Koch’s like more open immigration. So it didn’t come from there. Well, It must be the MSG talking for him then. ---
**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 18, 2014, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16827 "2014-09-18T12:12:43Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I can’t quite remember when I first heard this litany of doom, but I think it was around 1960. I don’t know what search-string led this moron to our door, but I’ll lay odds he’s banned in a week for being a jackass. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16828 "2014-09-18T12:17:25Z")
> [@albert75](#): > > Let’s elect Hillary or another Democrat in 2016 and have the federal government control what you see on TV, read in newspapers, eat, etc… Let the federal debt spiral out of control.as it is out if control now…we have $17.5 trillion in debt now and another $100 trillion in unpaid obligations in the future 10 years…not to mention all the trillions in state’s debt not accounted for… Let’s let millions of illegal aliens in and grant them citizenship and see what a third world country the USA will become… Enjoy your lifestyle now liberals… Because things have changed quickly in these past 6 years…and it will be your fault because you elected a community organizer who wants to be King This has got to be a whoosh. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16829 "2014-09-18T12:48:23Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I don’t know what search-string led this moron to our door, but I’ll lay odds he’s banned in a week for being a jackass. I’m betting he never shows up again. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16830 "2014-09-18T13:19:42Z")
Banned name! ---
**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:** [September 18, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16831 "2014-09-18T13:55:57Z")
> [@albert75](#): > > Let’s elect Hillary or another Democrat in 2016 and have the federal government control what you see on TV, read in newspapers, eat, etc… Let the federal debt spiral out of control.as it is out if control now…we have $17.5 trillion in debt now and another $100 trillion in unpaid obligations in the future 10 years…not to mention all the trillions in state’s debt not accounted for… Let’s let millions of illegal aliens in and grant them citizenship and see what a third world country the USA will become… Enjoy your lifestyle now liberals… Because things have changed quickly in these past 6 years…and it will be your fault because you elected a community organizer who wants to be King Welcome to the SDMB, **albert75**. Your post above doesn’t appear to reference anything from earlier in the thread, but just so you know, we DO usually ask that our newcomers start at [post #1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10975828&postcount=1), just so they can be sure they’re up to speed (it’s so embarrassing to insert something into a conversation, and then find out that it’s either completely off-topic, or simply a restatement of something that was stated quite eloquently earlier, don’t you find?). Off you go. ---
**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 18, 2014, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16832 "2014-09-18T14:50:39Z")
Should the Mods change the thread title to Republican stupidity as performance art? > [@albert75](#): > > Let’s elect Hillary or another Democrat in 2016 and have the federal government control what you see on TV, read in newspapers, eat, etc… Let the federal debt spiral out of control.as it is out if control now…we have $17.5 trillion in debt now and another $100 trillion in unpaid obligations in the future 10 years…not to mention all the trillions in state’s debt not accounted for… Let’s let millions of illegal aliens in and grant them citizenship and see what a third world country the USA will become… Enjoy your lifestyle now liberals… Because things have changed quickly in these past 6 years…and it will be your fault because you elected a community organizer who wants to be King Recall that Admiral Poindexter, a Republican of Iran-Contra fame led programs to intrude on American privacy. He was also hired by the Bush-Cheney Administration. Debt spiralling out of control _beginning in 2009_? One wonders how ignorant this Albert is. I don’t know what wet dream inspired “$100 trillion in unpaid obligations in the future 10 years.” But why didn’t he go for broke with “quintillions of $$ over the next several millenia”? One thing I’d bet money on: [the real reason he’s so upset with the Prez.](http://mannerofspeaking.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/black1.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16833 "2014-09-18T15:56:48Z")
> [@albert75](#): > > Let’s elect Hillary or another Democrat in 2016 and have the federal government control what you see on TV, read in newspapers, eat, etc… Let the federal debt spiral out of control.as it is out if control now…we have $17.5 trillion in debt now and another $100 trillion in unpaid obligations in the future 10 years…not to mention all the trillions in state’s debt not accounted for… Let’s let millions of illegal aliens in and grant them citizenship and see what a third world country the USA will become… Enjoy your lifestyle now liberals… Because things have changed quickly in these past 6 years…and it will be your fault because you elected a community organizer who wants to be King Didn’t all that happen 1980? No, wait - It was a Union President, not a community organizer. ---
**Author:** ![orangeapples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@orangeapples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orangeapples)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16834 "2014-09-18T16:15:55Z")
> [@albert75](#): > > Let’s elect Hillary or another Democrat in 2016 (Post significantly shortened) Hey, your mouth to the Big Guy’s ear, amirite? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16835 "2014-09-18T16:22:33Z")
Wasn’t \*Jesus \*a community organizer who said he’d be a King? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16836 "2014-09-18T16:24:13Z")
> [@orangeapples](#): > > (Post significantly shortened) > > Hey, your mouth to the Big Guy’s ear, amirite? You mean Bill? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16837 "2014-09-18T16:25:58Z")
RWs: [Obama is sending troops to Africa to deal with the Ebola virus only to distract attention from his not sending troops to Iraq.](http://www.salon.com/2014/09/18/wingnuts_crippling_ebola_fury_why_theyre_enraged_about_fighting_a_disease/) Or at least that’s what I **think** they’re saying . . . ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16838 "2014-09-18T16:49:45Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > This has got to be a whoosh. No, it’s a Stupid Republican Idea (or Ideas) of the Day! ---
**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 18, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16839 "2014-09-18T18:28:33Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Wasn’t \*Jesus \*a community organizer who said he’d be a King? Well, yeah, but \*he _wasn’t no pinko nigger. He did his thing out of pure principles, and for God. Who’s white. Also a fine capitalist and fiscal conservative_. - SHUT UP ABOUT CAMELNEEDLEGATE ! Liberal propaganda ! Out of context ! Benghazi\*\* ! \*\* (why the fuck not ?) ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16840 "2014-09-18T18:44:19Z")
This is what happens when Republicans actually enact their radical agenda > **[This is what happens when Republicans actually enact their radical agenda](https://theweek.com/articles/443741/what-happens-when-republicans-actually-enact-radical-agenda)** > > Compromise usually muddies the waters. Not this time... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=841) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=843)