‘Stuck on stupid” is said of someone who makes the same mistakes. The term appears frequently in politics, used by someone critical of a politician, a political party or a government. “Stuck on stupid” has been cited in print since at least 1989.
   
“Stuck on stupid” is sometimes referred to by the initials “SOS”—also the letters of an international distress signal.
   
     
Urban Dictionary
stuck on stupid
adj., in a prolonged state of being completely clueless or too high to think straight.
This fool’s stuck on stupid.
by Kitteh May 8, 2005
 
Stuck on Stupid
a person who cannot learn, a fool who repeats there mistakes time and again, a person who constantly screws up.
cletus stuck his hand in the wood chipper three times,he,s in his 3rd year of 4th grade, he,s a frenchfry short of a happy meal.being stuck on stupid cliff put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger
by Rodger Cletcher Dec 14, 2006
     
17 April 1989, South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL), “Hastings pitied, but few agree case is racial” by William E. Gibson, pg. 1A:
Cathy Hughes, on her TV show, awarded Conyers one of her “Stuck on Stupid” awards for what she termed “insensitive, inhumane and unnecessary persecution of ...”
 
23 July 1992, St. Louis (MO) Post-Dispatch, “Praises Ring As Spectators Embrace Pair” by Tim O’neil, pg. 1A:
’‘This country has been SOS for 12 years, and by that I mean Stuck On Stupid,’’ said Knies, a computer programmer downtown, who lives in Ballwin.
 
23 July 1994, Milwaukee (WI) Journal Sentinel, “Defendant McGee wins again” by Michael R. Zahn:
McGee wore a sweat shirt to court that said “Milwaukee: Stuck on Stupid.” He explained: “The city’s stuck on doing stupid stuff.”
     
OCLC WorldCat record
When the compass of my life got stuck on stupid : the autobiography of a woman with seven children : her journey from welfare to the White House and the life lessons she learned along the way
Author: H Marie Brown
Publisher: [United States] : Xlibris, ©2003.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English
 
OCLC WorldCat record
Stuck on stupid and parked on dumb!
Author: Carla Lucius-Meeks
Publisher: Redford, MI : Second Time Media & Communications, ©2006.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English
   
Open Salon
OCTOBER 4, 2009 10:13AM
Stuck on Stupid
By David Glenn Cox
(...)
We are not a nation of idiots despite the media’s best efforts to make us into such. There’s a song written by George Jackson and performed by Shirley Brown with the lyrics, “I’d have to be stuck on stupid, in a super market, shopping for brain.” Exactly.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ht-KYm5ZI
 
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Stuck on stupid: Obama’s czar fetish
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