# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140 "2020-06-22T07:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 149
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2969 "2021-01-25T20:26:59Z")
An old friend from highschool annoyed the hell out of me last week with this antifa–\>white house nonsense. He called it “very enlightening”, a bunch of his buddies replied “wow” “interesting” “makes sense” and “hmmm…” I called him out on it, pointed out that whatever numbnuts owns antifa . com can redirect it wherever he wants. He says he knows that, but he thought it was funny, and why am I making such a big deal about it? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2970 "2021-01-25T20:38:04Z")
I realize that TLDs are not meaningful, but I doubt “antifa”, if it really existed, would use a dot-com address. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2971 "2021-01-25T20:41:32Z")
> [@Manwich](#): > > It’s not a stupid idea for them to pretend to be upset it’s their job Yes, it is fucking stupid when they get upset that a painting depicting a metaphorical scene is “not real” OF course it’s not real, you stupid cow. It depicts Biden’s first days when he is dealing with a country in crisis that he inherited from his moron predecessor. She thinks it’s a photograph? She thinks it is supposed to represent the ACTUAL PHYSICAL state of affairs? She’s stupid, and eats stupid food for breakfast. And you’re not far behind. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2972 "2021-01-25T20:42:52Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Congressman Greg Steube of Florida has introduced a bill rescinding federal funding to any high school which refuses to visually examine any female athlete to make sure she’s really a female. Fucking pervert probably wants to have his official “genital inspection badge” so he can emulate his hero and grab pussy whenever he wants. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2973 "2021-01-25T20:43:31Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > She’s stupid, and eats stupid food for breakfast. > > And you’re not far behind. Does that mean that Manwich eats stupid food for lunch? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2974 "2021-01-25T20:44:01Z")
Of high schoolers… ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2975 "2021-01-25T20:46:18Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > She thinks it’s a photograph? She thinks it is supposed to represent the ACTUAL PHYSICAL state of affairs? She’s stupid, and eats stupid food for breakfast. I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers that post. It’s one of the few memes here that’s not been overused to the point of annoyance. ---
**Author:** ![Manwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Manwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manwich)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2976 "2021-01-25T20:47:22Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > She thinks it’s a photograph? She thinks it is supposed to represent the ACTUAL PHYSICAL state of affairs? She’s stupid, and eats stupid food for breakfast. No that’s her job she says what the audience wants. If she thinks that far. A lot of people don’t really consider what is true to be important, they use words for effect. ---
**Author:** ![Manwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Manwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manwich)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2977 "2021-01-25T20:48:30Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Yes, it is fucking stupid when they get upset It’s more evil because they are pretending for clout. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2021, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2978 "2021-01-25T20:49:54Z")
I remember it as Stupid Flakes. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2979 "2021-01-25T20:54:02Z")
No, it was “eats stupid food for breakfast”. See the first post here. > [@Stupid little crotchspawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-crotchspawn/331656): > > Really now. My parents have been, in the past few days, what is known as unusually social. This means lots of dinners with friends (okay, two dinners). Unfortunately, it also means I had to share those two dinners with the most pretentious, irritating little 11-year-old jerk I’ve ever met. I mean, I was pretty intolerable as a kid, but by the age of 11 even I’d grown out of my precocious assclown stage. Let’s list the things that irk me about him, shall we? He’s intelligent. He’s incredib… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2980 "2021-01-25T20:56:14Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Does that mean that Manwich eats stupid food for lunch? In Soviet America, stupid food eat Manwich for lunch! ---
**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:** [January 25, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2981 "2021-01-25T21:37:06Z")
When he was 15, Josh Hawley wrote a column defending the Oklahoma City bomber. > **[GOP Sen. Josh Hawley wrote a column in defense of militia members in the wake...](https://www.businessinsider.com/josh-hawley-defended-oklahoma-city-bomber-1995-2021-1)** > > Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the men who carried out the bombing that killed 168 people in 1995, had ties to the Michigan Militia. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2982 "2021-01-25T21:58:31Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > An old friend from highschool annoyed the hell out of me last week with this antifa–\>white house nonsense. Did a whois lookup on that address > [@Key bits of antifa . com info record](#): > > Domain name: [antifa.com](http://antifa.com) > … > Registrar URL: [http://www.namecheap.com](http://www.namecheap.com) > … > Creation Date: 2002-04-24T12:35:11.00Z > Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2025-04-24T12:35:10.00Z > … > Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited > … > Registry Registrant ID: > Registrant Name: WhoisGuard Protected > Registrant Organization: WhoisGuard, Inc. > Registrant Street: P.O. Box 0823-03411 > Registrant City: Panama > Registrant State/Province: Panama > … > Registrant Phone: +507.8365503 > Registrant Phone Ext: > Registrant Fax: +51.17057182 > Registrant Fax Ext: > … > Name Server: [dns1.registrar-servers.com](http://dns1.registrar-servers.com) > Name Server: [dns2.registrar-servers.com](http://dns2.registrar-servers.com) > DNSSEC: unsigned Registered almost two decades ago, long, long before “antifa” would have had any meaning in public consciousness. Undiscoverable owner at a Panama City PO Box, using a phone with Minnesota area code, with a fax machine that appears to be in Peru. So, yeah, quite fake. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2983 "2021-01-25T22:00:40Z")
Oh, please. We’re gonna hold people accountable for things they said when they were 15 now? That’s when you’re trying to figure out how the world works. One minute you’re a communist and the next you’re a Randian objectivist. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2984 "2021-01-25T22:09:03Z")
> [@mikecurtis](#): > > Oh, please. We’re gonna hold people accountable for things they said when they were 15 now? If they have the same views when they’re 41, I don’t see why not. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2985 "2021-01-25T22:33:18Z")
> [@Key bits of antifa . com info record](#): > > Registrant State/Province: Panama Panama??? @Colibri??? 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2986 "2021-01-25T22:39:48Z")
> [@mikecurtis](#): > > Oh, please. We’re gonna hold people accountable for things they said when they were 15 now? That’s when you’re trying to figure out how the world works. This isn’t about “canceling” a decent adult for a bit of youthful folly in his teen years a quarter-century ago. This is about pointing out that this particular adult with shitty views today had similarly shitty views a quarter-century ago. In fact, I’d say that 15-year-old Hawley comes across as slightly more rational and mature than present-day Hawley. At least back then he knew that antigovernment militias were prone to bullshit conspiracy theories. Now he’s just pouring gasoline on the flames of bullshit conspiracy theories to induce their promoters to vote for him. (Moreover, I think that something a 15-year-old voluntarily publishes in their hometown newspaper as a public comment on political issues is fair game to consider as part of their adult politician persona. We’re not stealing and data-dumping the kid’s high school diaries or yearbook inscriptions here; we’re merely reading something he deliberately wrote for the public press, like a grown-up, for all the world to see.) ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2987 "2021-01-26T00:40:27Z")
Speaking of “stupid shit you wrote as a teenager”, I authored that “stupid food” post when I was 16 and am pretty appalled that people somehow still remember it. Just know I am fondly anticipating the day the SDMB goes offline and everything I wrote from ages 15-19 can finally be swallowed back into the earth, where it belongs. Regards, FlyingRamenMonster, awakened from her slumber by an email notification ---
**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:** [January 26, 2021, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2988 "2021-01-26T00:44:42Z")
And if you read further in, the bill does not say _anything_ about examining potentially transmen/boys to see if they actually have a dangly. It’s only the women they’re worried about. Frankly, this smells like an attempt to make sexual assault of a minor legal. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=148) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=150)