# 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:** 848
**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 24, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16941 "2014-09-24T14:01:01Z")
**Pro** birth control for the poor, indigent and differently-hued. **Anti** birth control for single women in general. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16942 "2014-09-24T14:04:17Z")
Conservative school boards keep trying to rewrite history… > [@](#): > > School board member Julie Williams, who sponsored the proposal, said people have misinterpreted what she’s trying to do. She said she’s not trying to eliminate the facts of U.S. history but shares the concerns conservatives nationally have outlined – that AP History casts some parts of history in a negative light, such as the bombing of Hiroshima and slavery. Heaven forbid we cast slavery in a negative light. [http://www.cpr.org/news/story/jeffco-teachers-students-protest-proposal-promote-patriotism-history-classes](http://www.cpr.org/news/story/jeffco-teachers-students-protest-proposal-promote-patriotism-history-classes) ---
**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:** [September 24, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16943 "2014-09-24T14:04:48Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I thought the GOP was **against** birth control these days. It’s so hard to keep up . . . Not after they were told the Norplant was named after Grover Norquist. Now it’s ok! ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16944 "2014-09-24T14:21:07Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I thought the GOP was **against** birth control these days. It’s so hard to keep up . . . Only when it’s voluntary. It’s okay as long as it’s forced on poor people. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16945 "2014-09-24T14:37:50Z")
I just can barely take it any more… > **[Traitor Barack Obama Murders America Again, With A Cup](https://www.wonkette.com/traitor-barack-obama-murders-america-again-with-a-cup)** > > America is finally dead. Completely dead. Oh sure, you thought maybe it was dead before when the Kenyan socialist Muslim Naziindoctrinated innocent schoolchildren by urging them to study hard, or when the feckless tyrant wimp dictator made Marines... When does ‘Wingnut Season’ open? It’s gotta be time to thin the herd… ---
**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 24, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16946 "2014-09-24T14:40:45Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > I just can barely take it any more… > > [Traitor Barack Obama Murders America Again, With A Cup](http://wonkette.com/561390/traitor-barack-obama-murders-america-again-with-a-cup) > > When does ‘Wingnut Season’ open? It’s gotta be time to thin the herd… With this one, I think Obama is just trolling the wingnuts. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16947 "2014-09-24T15:24:07Z")
Oh, the final pic on that article just makes the whole thing complete. Beautiful. Now, let’s all re-cast the Hiroshima bombings in a positive light! ---
**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:** [September 24, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16948 "2014-09-24T15:40:09Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I find the prat where he advocates nuking city centers even more disturbing than his advocacy of interment camps. Great, and fitting, typo. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16949 "2014-09-24T15:41:04Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > Conservative school boards keep trying to rewrite history… > > Heaven forbid we cast slavery in a negative light. > > [http://www.cpr.org/news/story/jeffco-teachers-students-protest-proposal-promote-patriotism-history-classes](http://www.cpr.org/news/story/jeffco-teachers-students-protest-proposal-promote-patriotism-history-classes) The time of slavery was a great time, especially for African-Americans! Employment was at an all-time high, kids had families to take care of them, no one was in jail! Sure there were beatings and rape, but at least they had jobs! ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16950 "2014-09-24T15:48:58Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Oh, the final pic on that article just makes the whole thing complete. Beautiful. > > Now, let’s all re-cast the Hiroshima bombings in a positive light! Hmm well it made a very bright light, and bright is good, must be something in the bible about that. Plus Jobs! 130,000 jobs created in the US , coupled with about 90,000 (or more) job losses in the Hiroshima area , so really it moved a lot of manufacturing jobs back to the US. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16951 "2014-09-24T16:35:19Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > Hmm well it made a very bright light, and bright is good, must be something in the bible about that. Plus Jobs! 130,000 jobs created in the US , coupled with about 90,000 (or more) job losses in the Hiroshima area , so really it moved a lot of manufacturing jobs back to the US. And free tans for everyone in the city! Think of how much they saved on bronzer and tanning bed sessions; that stuff can get expensive. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16952 "2014-09-24T17:06:37Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > And free tans for everyone in the city! Think of how much they saved on bronzer and tanning bed sessions; that stuff can get expensive. When I think about it, the Hiroshima bombing is EXACTLY like 250,000 tanning beds going berzerk at once, stuck in the on position with people unable to squirm out of them. Too bad it didn’t happen in the US, where lawyers could have made the survivors huge fortunes in class-action product liability cases. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16953 "2014-09-24T17:35:19Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Nevermind, [hoax indeed](https://www.facebook.com/justiceforwisconsin). Oh my good Lord, I could feel the brains leaking out of my ears just visiting that page. Such visceral angry stupidity there. Not to mention, when you put something fake out on the internet, and that fake thing is picked up and reported by others, it’s not the _reporters_ who are trolling. It’s you, numb nuts. Yes, the reporters were lazy and gullible (and looking for easy page clicks, of course), but not actually trollish. Besides, shouldn’t it say something about the Tea Party/gun rights crowd that this even sounded a little plausible? Still … check your sources, “liberal media.” You’re making us look bad. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16954 "2014-09-24T17:42:54Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Well, you did use “…strap on…” and “…I am the queen…” very close together in one post, what are we _supposed_ to think? I can already imagine **elucidator’s** coronation speech: “Under my rein, we will usher in a new era of depravity and degradation in Bathoria. Especially depravity!” ---
**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 24, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16955 "2014-09-24T17:51:34Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > The time of slavery was a great time, especially for African-Americans! Employment was at an all-time high, kids had families to take care of them, no one was in jail! Sure there were beatings and rape, but at least they had jobs! Nonsense ! Poppycock ! Balderdash ! Slavery was a dark time, maybe the darkest time in the history of America. Free transportation ! Free community housing ! Food stamps for everyone of colour, not matter how deserving ! Negro women spermjacking their masters ! All of this paid with my constituents’ wealth, the sweat of their brow stolen from them along with their jobs. And by whom ? Immigrants, of course. And not just any immigrants, but negroes exclusively - a known Democrat voting block. Racist much ? ---
**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:** [September 24, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16956 "2014-09-24T17:54:03Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > The time of slavery was a great time, especially for African-Americans! Employment was at an all-time high, kids had families to take care of them, no one was in jail! Sure there were beatings and rape, but at least they had jobs! You and your fascist libtard commiesymp undestanding of history! In THOSE days, beatings and rape were considered PERKS … and they still would be, if we were made from the same stern moral fiber as our forebears! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16957 "2014-09-24T18:31:17Z")
Well, say what you will about nuking Japanese cities, it creates a lot of jobs when it comes time to rebuild. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16958 "2014-09-24T21:37:44Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > Only when it’s voluntary. It’s okay as long as it’s forced on poor people. Reading too fast, I thought that this quote applied to Republicans’ view of slavery, rather than birth control. Which of course it does. ---
**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 24, 2014, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16959 "2014-09-24T22:17:08Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > Well, say what you will about nuking Japanese cities, it creates a lot of jobs when it comes time to rebuild. Not to mention all the job vacancies created in and around Nagasaki & Hiroshima. Breaking windows AND glaziers ? Genius ! ---
**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:** [September 24, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16960 "2014-09-24T23:59:14Z")
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