# 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:** 217
**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:** [April 7, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4333 "2021-04-07T14:16:17Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Or how, by sitting in the back of the bus, blacks _forced_ whites to sit in the front, which is really the dangerous part of the bus if there’s a head-on collision with, say, an 18-wheeler. I didn’t understand that very well when I was in grade school, as the back of the bus was where all the “cool kids” sat. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4334 "2021-04-07T14:18:31Z")
And as long as they give equal time to the Norse, Greek, Hindu and Jatravartids creation myths. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4335 "2021-04-07T15:15:24Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Jatravartids Dammit, where did you put my handkerchief? ---
**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:** [April 7, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4336 "2021-04-07T18:19:19Z")
OAN host says California needs to loosen up its gun laws so she can legally kill homeless people. > **[OAN Host Has One Sick Trick To Fight Homelessness](https://crooksandliars.com/2021/04/oan-host-upset-she-cant-shoot-homeless)** > > It's time for a homeless Hunger games? Stefanie Hamill thinks so. Andrew Giuliani plans to run for Governor of New York. > **[Andrew Giuliani: I Plan to Run Against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2022](https://www.thedailybeast.com/andrew-giuliani-says-he-plans-to-run-against-new-york-governor-andrew-cuomo-in-2022)** > > The 35-year-old son of Rudy Giuliani believes he is the “right candidate” for the job despite having no experience in elected office. Greg Gutfeld’s new “comedy” show on Fox is painfully unfunny. Even the laugh track doesn’t laugh. > **[Fox News’ ’Comedy’ Show Sparks Brutal Reactions From Viewers](https://uproxx.com/viral/fox-news-comedy-greg-gutfeld-reactions/)** > > Greg Gutfeld’s new ’comedy’ show is anything but funny, and everyone seems to be cringing their way through these clips. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4337 "2021-04-07T20:10:56Z")
Tom Cotton: The US, which is the the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world, hasn’t incarcerated enough people. > **[Sen Tom Cotton’s statement that US has ‘under-incarceration problem’ sparks...](https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/546912-sen-tom-cottons-statement-that-us-has-under-incarceration/)** > > The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4338 "2021-04-07T20:17:00Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Tom Cotton: The US, which is the the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world, hasn’t incarcerated enough people. For certain small subsets of the population (e.g., the former guy’s Presidential administration and other cronies), he’s probably right. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4339 "2021-04-07T21:19:46Z")
Right wing asshole Jordan Peterson is upset that Marvel comics villain Red Skull is modeled after his philosophy. The issue is written by black sociologist Ta-Nehisi Coates > **[Jordan Peterson ‘shocked’ by Captain America villain Red Skull espousing ‘10...](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/07/jordan-peterson-shocked-by-captain-america-villain-espousing-10-rules-for-life)** > > Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new comic sees Red Skull mobilising young men against ‘the feminist trap’ and other Petersonian targets ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4340 "2021-04-07T23:38:52Z")
Republicans ae right about one thing. - The wrong people are being put behind bars. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4341 "2021-04-08T02:31:18Z")
> **[G.O.P. Group Warns of ‘Defector’ List if Donors Uncheck Recurring Box...](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/us/politics/republicans-donations-trump-defector.html?smid=em-share)** > > The National Republican Congressional Committee says to donors who opt out of recurring monthly donations: “We will have to tell Trump you’re a DEFECTOR.” Is that worse than being on Double Secret Probation? ---
**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:** [April 8, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4342 "2021-04-08T14:45:35Z")
so they’ll “tell Trump” What, is he going to have them whacked? I expect next they’ll threaten to burn down some businesses if they don’t get their money on time. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4343 "2021-04-08T14:57:22Z")
I have two book. In the first is the names of all the people that donated to trump. In the second is the list of names that did NOT donate. I will give both books the ~~der furhrer~~ Mr Trump. The first book…is full. The second is empty. Would you like to be the first name in it? ---
**Author:** ![Drsunflower1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drsunflower1/32/12711_2.png) [@Drsunflower1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drsunflower1)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4344 "2021-04-08T15:15:30Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Right wing asshole Jordan Peterson Have you read his book by any chance? I have, and though I wasn’t overly impressed I’m always a bit surprised by all the haters he seems to have accumulated. Am I missing something? ---
**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:** [April 8, 2021, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4345 "2021-04-08T16:30:49Z")
> [@Drsunflower1](#): > > Have you read his book by any chance? I have, Which one? ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4346 "2021-04-08T16:36:40Z")
I just read a condensed version of his 12 Rules - can you say misogynist right winger? I knew you could. At first I thought it was parody, but nope. He really thinks this way. “Order is masculine. Chaos is feminine.” Eh - go fuck yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Drsunflower1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drsunflower1/32/12711_2.png) [@Drsunflower1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drsunflower1)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4347 "2021-04-08T16:51:21Z")
I’ve read 12 rules and I wasn’t particularly blown away by the misogynism. That order is masculine and chaos feminine is an opinion he shares with the Taoists, WRT Yin and Yang. In that sense it didn’t strike me as pejorative, just descriptive. But I could be wrong. Maybe I’m too drenched in psychology/ psychoanalysis to perceive this as an insult. I don’t think he gives a judgment in that sense. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2021, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4348 "2021-04-08T18:11:34Z")
He blames universities for “political correctness”, which is pretty much anything he disagrees with. He claims that popular culture is suffused with Marxism. He believes women’s studies should be defunded, and that students should avoid sociology, anthropology, English literature, ethnic studies, and racial studies, because they’re Marxist. He refuses to use students’ preferred pronouns. He says there is a cultural backlash against masculinity. He doesn’t believe the pay gap is due to sexism. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4349 "2021-04-08T18:30:41Z")
Wow! That is totally batshit-insane! Crazy, evil bastards… ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4350 "2021-04-08T19:32:22Z")
[While I do know already how skewy Peterson is](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson), I have to note that Peterson is Canadian, does he have some dual citizen thingie that allows him to be a US Republican? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4351 "2021-04-08T19:35:52Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > [While I do know already how skewy Peterson is](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson), I have to note that Peterson is Canadian, does he have some dual citizen thingie that allows him to be a US Republican? - Worked for Ted Cruz. He didn’t give up his Canadian citizenship until he was running for President. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4352 "2021-04-08T19:39:20Z")
Alabama Senate candidate vehemently denies that he had an affair even as the woman he is accused of having an affair with releases a 17 minute long recording of their sexy phone calls. > **[Alabama GOP Senate Candidate Is Extremely Outraged at Affair Allegations...](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/04/alabama-republican-john-merrill-extramarital-affair-senate-race.html)** > > Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill wants you to know he’s outraged ... \[checks notes\] ... sorry. Matt Gaetz releases a statement from “The Women of the Office of U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz” supporting him, even though the statement doesn’t name any women. > **[Matt Gaetz Releases Statement from Nameless ‘Women’ Defending His Honor](https://www.thedailybeast.com/matt-gaetz-releases-statement-from-nameless-women-defending-his-honor)** > > “The Women of the Office of U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz” issued a press release on Wednesday in support of the embattled congressman. Not a single, actual woman was named. With a recall election against Gavin Newsome looming, and Republicans piling up to run to replace him, Caitlin Jenner is working with Individual 1 former campaign manager Brad Parscale to help her campaign. > **[Caitlyn Jenner getting advice from ex-Trump campaign manager Parscale on...](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/04/07/politics/caitlyn-jenner-brad-parscale-california-governor-race/index.html)** > > Caitlyn Jenner is getting advice from former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale on how to set up a potential California gubernatorial bid, according to a source familiar with the discussions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=216) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=218)