# 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:** 210
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4191 "2021-03-31T02:10:28Z")
Matt Gaetz’s response to the allegations; the deep state is blackmailing me for $25 million and my father is wearing a wire to expose them, so they planted this accusation to stop me from thwarting their plan and as soon as the FBI releases the tapes you’ll all see how innocent I am. > ---
**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:** [March 31, 2021, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4192 "2021-03-31T03:46:49Z")
He accused decorated senior DOJ investigator David McGee of blackmailing him for $25 million. He then went on Fucker Carlson’s show and tried to rope him into it, saying “Remember when you and I went to dinner with the 17 year old _woman_ I was seeing and nothing happened?” ---
**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:** [March 31, 2021, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4193 "2021-03-31T05:14:22Z")
Fox News has no idea how to spin this story yet. So they are avoiding it completely on their website. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4194 "2021-03-31T07:08:46Z")
Margarine Taylor Greene says that vaccine passports are “corporate communism”, which I can only get a “What the hell are you talking about?” out of Marx. > ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4195 "2021-03-31T13:10:01Z")
Whereas someone on my Facebook feed compared them to the numbers tattooed on Holocaust victims! ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4196 "2021-03-31T14:15:43Z")
What does “corporate communism” even mean? Oftentimes, I hear a new phrase and I can tease it out based on the juxtaposition of the two ideas. But this? It’s alliterative, I guess? but? ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4197 "2021-03-31T14:28:54Z")
I think she’s just dumb, dumb, dumb. Actually that may not be alliterative, just repetitive. But she’s still just dumb. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4198 "2021-03-31T14:30:17Z")
I think it’s part of that ignominious list of RW buzz words that’s meant to be an albatross around the neck of whatever they associate it with. In the immortal words of “Blazing Saddles:” > Are you crazy? They’ll never go for it. And then again they might. If the RW called labradoodles “the favorite dog of the Marxist,” the breed would all but disappear in the red states. #Murica ---
**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:** [March 31, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4199 "2021-03-31T14:46:34Z")
Maybe you can’t give them water, but can you give the people waiting in line free guns? ---
**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:** [March 31, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4200 "2021-03-31T14:48:22Z")
I’m not sure that it’s appropriate, but if I were a lawyer in that judge’s court, I’d be pretty tempted to misgender him whenever he is addressed. Could he hold you in contempt for something that he declares is permissible? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4201 "2021-03-31T14:51:09Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Margarine Taylor Greene says that vaccine passports are “corporate communism”, Oh oh - she might get some pushback from all the “Russians are Better Than the Democrats” tee-wearers. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4202 "2021-03-31T15:58:40Z")
This is a really, really awful decision in my totally-not-a-lawyer opinion. > [@](#): > > Thapar then went further: Meriwether, he wrote, had “plausibly alleged” a case of religious discrimination in violation of free exercise. This conclusion rests on a handful of comments made by various university officials that, according to Thapar, reflect “religious hostility.” One department chair told him that religion “oppresses students”; **a provost laughed “at some point” during a meeting with Meriweather, which he took as mockery of his beliefs**. And the school’s director of labor relations compared Meriweather’s views to “religiously motivated racism or sexism.” In Thapar’s view, these statements lead to an “inference of religious hostility.” If that is true, then the Supreme Court was also guilty of “religious hostility” when it [compared](https://twitter.com/JoshABlock/status/1376286460102512644) anti-gay discrimination to race discrimination [three years ago](https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-111_j4el.pdf). He says he doesn’t “believe in transgenderism”. If transgenderism is a belief, why isn’t it accorded the same respect as his belief? Why is he able to mock others’ beliefs but no one is able to mock his? 🤨 Oh yeah… > [@Frank Wilhoit](#): > > Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. The author of that article calls him out on some things too: > [@](#): > > What is especially bizarre about Thapar’s opinion is that it values anti-trans speech over other speech in the academic context: Meriwether’s defiance of the school’s nondiscrimination policy warrants utmost constitutional protections; meanwhile, university officials’ rebuttal of Meriwether’s views is not. Why? Because this expression allegedly reflects hostility toward religion (which is unacceptable even in its mildest form) rather than hostility toward transgender people (which is perfectly acceptable even when used to demean a specific student in class). Thapar’s First Amendment protects all anti-trans speech as a matter of public concern while condemning the slightest anti-religious speech as an impermissible assault on the Constitution itself. > > This irony is starkest in Thapar’s many rhetorical flourishes. In the same breath that he condemns university officials for comparing anti-trans discrimination to race discrimination, Thapar [blithely equates](https://twitter.com/JoshABlock/status/1376275424959926272) LGBTQ nondiscrimination policies with totalitarianism. “Public universities do not have a license to act as classroom thought police,” he wrote. In fairness, he did not limit his analysis to this particular type of civil rights law; rather, he proclaimed the application of _any_ nondiscrimination policy “could force a person to endorse views incompatible with his religious convictions.” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4203 "2021-03-31T16:07:12Z")
Even a _religious_ nondiscrimination policy? ---
**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:** [March 31, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4204 "2021-03-31T16:32:31Z")
Only if evangelical Christianity. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4205 "2021-03-31T16:33:16Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I’m not sure that it’s appropriate, but if I were a lawyer in that judge’s court, I’d be pretty tempted to misgender him whenever he is addressed. Tempting but I’m not sure how this would be achieved. “Yes, your honorette.” ---
**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:** [March 31, 2021, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4206 "2021-03-31T16:37:39Z")
Are judges never referred to using pronouns? His/her ruling. His/her courtroom. Or is always genderless Judge Smith’s ruling, The Honorable Judge Jones’s Courtroom? ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4207 "2021-03-31T17:28:03Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > What does “corporate communism” even mean? Oftentimes, I hear a new phrase and I can tease it out based on the juxtaposition of the two ideas. But this? It’s alliterative, I guess? but? It’s Mad Libs to get Libs Mad (and to make morons on the right feel edjumacated, talking about real philosophy stuff): [adjective] [proper noun related to Communism] Corporate Communism!!! Cultural Marxism!!! Try making up some of your own: Agricultural Leninism!!! ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4208 "2021-03-31T17:35:05Z")
Sounds like the biggest oxymoron since “Christian science” ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4209 "2021-03-31T22:47:16Z")
Cosplay Bolshevism! …no, wait… Low-fat Stalinism! …dang…I’ll keep working on it… ---
**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:** [March 31, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4210 "2021-03-31T23:19:56Z")
Keto Stalinism! Bulletproof Stalinism! (Cf. Bulletproof Coffee) High Intensity Interval Communism! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=209) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=211)