Stupid Republican idea of the day

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DigitalC said:
I think you got wooshed.
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Yeah, I was entertining the possibility that this was sarcasm, but I also wasn't ruling out the possiblity that this was completely truthful.

"Never underestimate the stupidity of the American public" is my motto. I will bet you $100 there are people out there who are genuinely proud to be called a "bigot" "because, dang it, whats I believed back when I was a young 'un just isn't proper nowadays. And if that makes me a bigot, suh, then I'm a bigot."
 
Technically, this is more of a "stupid things Republicans do every day instead of something dumb they did just today, but I figure, what the hell:

Teen pregnancy and disease rates rose sharply during Bush years, agency finds
In a report that will surprise few of Bush's critics on the issue, the Centres for Disease Control says years of falling rates of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted disease infections under previous administrations were reversed or stalled in the Bush years. According to the CDC, birth rates among teenagers aged 15 or older had been in decline since 1991 but are up sharply in more than half of American states since 2005. The study also revealed that the number of teenage females with syphilis has risen by nearly half after a significant decrease while a two-decade fall in the gonorrhea infection rate is being reversed. The number of Aids cases in adolescent boys has nearly doubled.
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I'm sure the pubs new "just say no to sickness" healthcare campaign will work every bit as swimmingly as their abstinence program.
 
Fish said:
"WHEREAS, we the Republican Party are against large government spending, although not so you'd notice,

and WHEREAS the Democratic Party are poopyheads,

be it RESOLVED, lower taxes. Terrorism. America and baby Jesus. Amen."

Makes about as much sense as their budget, really.
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QFFuckingT
 
Robot Arm said:
Yeah, I'd more or less got that far. So the picture is saying, in essence, "the funny thing about black people is, their skin is darker! Get it? Get it?"

Which doesn't strike me as inherently racist, just utterly stupid. I don't see the insult there. I don't see anything there.

If someone posted a picture of eyes on a white background, meant to be Clinton, Bush, or even me in a snowstorm, my response would be "yeah, and...?"
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You aren't getting the history behind the image. It's not like this woman just made this up out of thin air. There is a history of that image of African-Americans that makes it offensive beyond its surface visual.

It's the same reason that someone calling you or me "Whitey" or "Honkey" doesn't even come close to conveying the same emotional response to us as someone calling a black person "Nigger" does to that black person. There's a history behind it, and it's a history that we do not share, because we've never gone through it.
 
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/02/muzak-fox/

Fox Pushes Bogus Conspiracy Theory That Nancy
 
Or we could change the title to "Cowardly Republican of the Day"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/18/john-shadegg-apologizes-t_n_362091.html

"A terrorist trial in NYC? Oh, noooooooooooooooooo."
 
Here is Glenn Beck doing another of his "web of bubbles" white board diagrams where he takes a bunch of random almost- facts and connects them together into a giant left wing conspiracy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/31/glenn-beck-uncovers-van-j_n_249044.html

He would be an interesting case study in mental illness.
 
Fish said:
"WHEREAS, we the Republican Party are against large government spending, although not so you'd notice,

and WHEREAS the Democratic Party are poopyheads,

be it RESOLVED, lower taxes. Terrorism. America and baby Jesus. Amen."

Makes about as much sense as their budget, really.
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Dagnabbit - now I'm hearing this in my head as said by Ricky Bobby.

Boyo Jim said:
I would amend that to "march towards irrelevancy with the occsional side trips to public restrooms for secretive gay sex by public gay bashers".
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The GOP: a small tent but a wide stance.
 
does DeMint really think the most distinctive or objectionable characteristic of Nazi Germany was its overly generous social programs?

No, but he probably believes that they led more or less directly to the death camps and gas chambers. :rolleyes:
 
I'm so glad this thread is back! It's been so much fun, and I haven't been keeping enough up to date with stupid Republican ideas to refresh the thread myself.
 
Frostillicus said:
This is just the break the McCain campaign was waiting for.
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Isn't Dijom from, like, France or something?

Cool. Slam the Democrats, the liberals AND the French. I'm not a joke writer, but there has to be something we can work with there. :D
 
Algher said:
The continuation of that train of thought is that if she is not elected, not on the Federal payroll, and has not been confirmed by the Senate, she should not be in charge of anything.
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She's not in charge of anything.
 
Look, man, every accidental pregnancy is another warrior in the battle against commu.... Islamic extremism.

If you want to surrender, go to Russi... Iran.

-Joe
 
Starving Artist said:
So why is it so outlandish to believe that a government that would tell a 50% paralyzed woman that she could still do some kind of work would also tell an elderly or infirm person that they weren't worth the cost of saving? (I should probably be clear here that I don't necessarily believe this would happen right away. It might even take decades. But eventually the coffers will begin to run low, and when that happens people needing costly care - and in my opinion, elderly ones with less life left ahead in the first place and the hopelessly infirm - are gonna be told they don't qualify.

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Gads, what a bunch of Chicken Littles.
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The irony, it burns!
 
In any case though, I am very surprised and happy to hear that you're supportive of the concept of Social Security. That's rare among right-wingers, and credit where credit's due. Kudos.
 
I do not think I said what you think that I said. ;)

I'm not supportive of Social Security and I never have been. I thought it was ridiculous and a ripoff even when I was in my teens.

If the government was going to take the position that people wouldn't set anything aside for their retirement years (a position that clearly is so for many if not most people) would have much preferred to see a system by which funds taken from our earnings were put into interest-bearing savings accounts or something along that line. Then we'd have had enough to live on, and in the even we died either prematurely or before our savings ran out, they could be passed on to our spouses and children. That would have been a concept I could support.

But no, the government couldn't juke around with it and use if for political gain if it did that. Nor could it take take money from the program and put it into the general fund instead - something that was never intended when the program was initiated and which had the effect of making us pay Social Security taxes that were never used for Social Security.

These are yet more reasons I'm distrustful of and opposed to government social programs. If government was truly so concerned about us and our old age well-being, any number of private alternatives would have given us more. But that way the government would have had no control over our money and polititians couldn't use it to manipulate voters, so of course they devised a plan whereby they are in charge of everything, and the result is that many people get back only a fraction of what they paid in, and if they die prematurely or before they realize a realtime return of what might laughingly be referred to as their investment in their old age, the difference between what they paid into the program and what they got back out of it stays with the government.

It's a huge ripoff and one that would land people in jail if they tried to operate a similar program privately. But it's so thoroughly ingrained by now, and so many people have become so heavily invested in it for so many decades, that there's no way to get rid of it. Hopefully the time will arrive that it will become privatized, but it won't happen anytime soon.
 
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