# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 23573
**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:** [August 11, 2015, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23573 "2015-08-11T07:43:49Z")
In another thread **Lemur866** does a good job of describing Republican mindset: > [@What's wrong with saying "All lives matter"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-saying-all-lives-matter/727366/202): > > The smirking right-wing pretense that they’ve discovered the perfect antidote to “black lives matter”, give up and go home because racism is over in America, is pretty sickening. You can’t riposte “All lives matter” without that smirk, because you all know perfectly well that it’s a bullshit response. The bullshit gives you a warm tingle inside. You know it’s bullshit, I know it’s bullshit, you know I know it’s bullshit, I know you know it’s bullshit. While the more intelligent right-wingers – Limbaugh, Huckabee, probably Beck and Walker – know it’s bullshit, I think **Lemur866** gives the right-wing far too much credit if he thinks most of them know. Remember these are people who let their thinking be driven by amygdala, not frontal cortex. Because they let fear and disgust override cognition, they honestly believe that semantic tripe like “All lives matter” has poked a hole in their opponents’ case. I’ve seen such cognitive disconnect many times, with conservatives showing manifest sincerity. You can see it in the GD thread, with **ITR champion** responding to teaching only with non sequiturs. (I started to comment on **Lemur866** ’s post in the GD thread; then worried that suggesting some Dopers may suffer cognitive disconnect was out of bounds.) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897)._