# 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:** 311
**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:** [July 12, 2021, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6223 "2021-07-12T03:56:49Z")
Prager U accidentally admits that America was founded on white supremacy. > ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6224 "2021-07-12T11:32:03Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Of _course_ the vast majority of them would consider it important to publicly and unmistakably reject someone like Jenner. Again, as much as I wanted to find that she was booed off the stage, Jenner’s confrontation appears to have been with one individual as she was leaving the facility. If you are willing to hew the party line in all aspects except one aspect of your identity (especially if it is one you have no control over), then: > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > meantime you get invited to all sorts of events where they point to as their one black/gay/transgender friend demonstrating that they can’t possibly be the party of intolerance. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2021, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6225 "2021-07-12T11:51:25Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Annnnnnd from the GQP circle jerk we have: Posted here, too. If you can stomach it. 🤮 > [@Post CF and on-going Trump outrages](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-cf-and-on-going-trump-outrages/933746/497): > > And the beat goes on… Former President Donald Trump swept into Dallas on Sunday spinning tall tales about the 2020 election and the crowd that mobbed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 hoping to keep him in the White House despite his defeat. … “The Biden administration is turning the border into the single biggest disaster in American history, and perhaps in world history,” Trump said with signature hyperbole, lamenting what he called an open door policy to welcome “savage MS-13 gang members,” dr… ---
**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:** [July 12, 2021, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6226 "2021-07-12T18:20:32Z")
MTG goes transphobe on Caitlin Jenner. > **[Marjorie Taylor Greene Unleashes Transphobic Attack on Caitlyn Jenner](https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-unleashes-transphobic-attack-caitlyn-jenner-1608869)** > > Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene urged California Republicans not to support Caitlyn Jenner's campaign to be the state's governor. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6227 "2021-07-12T19:32:26Z")
Newsmax host: vaccines are “against nature” because some diseases are just “supposed to wipe out a certain amount of people” since that’s just the “way evolution goes.” > **[Newsmax Host: Vaccines Are ‘Against Nature’—Because Some Diseases Should...](https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmax-host-rob-schmitt-says-vaccines-against-nature-because-some-diseases-are-meant-to-wipe-out-people)** > > Rob Schmitt said that while he’s not an “anti-vaxxer,” he feels vaccines “stand in the way” of nature and the “ebb and flow” of diseases killing swaths of people. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6228 "2021-07-12T19:36:48Z")
I hope someone tells his mom he believes in evolution. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6229 "2021-07-12T19:38:16Z")
🤣 Oh Mommy! ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6230 "2021-07-12T19:43:41Z")
Never thought I’d see someone that was pro Polio… ---
**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:** [July 12, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6231 "2021-07-12T19:45:54Z")
Well, it’s not that he’s pro-Polio but he’s not anti-Polio either; he’s just looking at this thing and trying to figure it out. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6232 "2021-07-12T20:14:39Z")
Diseases aren’t “supposed” to do anything. They just do them. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6233 "2021-07-12T20:43:12Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Well, it’s not that he’s pro-Polio but he’s not anti-Polio either; he’s just looking at this thing and trying to figure it out. There are very fine viruses on both sides. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6234 "2021-07-12T20:50:43Z")
#VirusLivesMatter! ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6235 "2021-07-12T20:52:57Z")
You could say the same thing about antibiotics and modern medicine in general. This is going to be the new party platform. Democrats like healthcare, therefore healthcare is bad. Please don’t remind them that dead people can’t vote. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6236 "2021-07-12T20:56:23Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Please don’t remind them that dead people can’t vote. - That depends on the voting precinct. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6237 "2021-07-12T21:22:10Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > If you are willing to hew the party line in all aspects except one aspect of your identity (especially if it is one you have no control over), then … Except which part? Jenner is anti-trans, too. Which, no, doesn’t make sense. Did you expect it to? ---
**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:** [July 12, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6238 "2021-07-12T21:44:29Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Yeah, it’s like none of their followers ever experienced the bully tactic of “Look what you made me do!” when they were growing up, and as such just can’t see it. Oh, they see it. The thing is, they _like_ the bully. As long as they can be one of the toadies who stands behind the bully and says threatening things from a safe place. They are cowards at heart, and generally pathetic excuses for human beings. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2021, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6239 "2021-07-12T21:50:26Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Except which part? Jenner is anti-trans, too. Which, no, doesn’t make sense. Well, it makes sense from a certain Republican logic. Things can be bad … for _others_, but not for them. Somehow, _they_ are entitled to do things like commit crimes, pay for mistress abortions, cheat on taxes, have affairs, lie, steal etc. I’m reminded of this article: [The only moral abortion is my abortion](https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/) > “I’ve had several cases over the years in which the anti-abortion patient had rationalized in one way or another that _her_ case was the only exception, but the one that really made an impression was the college senior who was the president of her campus Right-to-Life organization, meaning that she had worked very hard in that organization for several years. As I was completing her procedure, I asked what she planned to do about her high office in the RTL organization. Her response was a wide-eyed, ‘You’re not going to tell them, are you!?’ When assured that I was not, she breathed a sigh of relief, explaining how important that position was to her and how she wouldn’t want this to interfere with it.” _(Physician, Texas)_ ---
**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:** [July 12, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6240 "2021-07-12T21:55:54Z")
Oh dear. She’s going to go on the naughty list. > ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6241 "2021-07-12T22:02:10Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Oh, they see it. The thing is, they _like_ the bully. As long as they can be one of the toadies who stands behind the bully and says threatening things from a safe place. They’re all Crabb and Goyle standing behind Draco Malfoy. ETA: A very fat Draco Malfoy. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6242 "2021-07-12T22:34:28Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > Of _course_ the vast majority of them would consider it important to publicly and unmistakably reject someone like Jenner. > > Again, as much as I wanted to find that she was booed off the stage, Jenner’s confrontation appears to have been with one individual as she was leaving the facility. > > If you are willing to hew the party line in all aspects except one aspect of your identity (especially if it is one you have no control over), then: > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > meantime you get invited to all sorts of events where they point to as their one black/gay/transgender friend demonstrating that they can’t possibly be the party of intolerance. I was aware of the information you posted, and my statement wasn’t intended as a contradiction of it, or as being a description of the CPAC encounter at all. It was a general remark about the attitude of Trumpublicans toward those who make them feel nervous and insecure. As seen here: > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > MTG goes transphobe on Caitlin Jenner. > [Marjorie Taylor Greene Unleashes Transphobic Attack on Caitlyn Jenner](https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-unleashes-transphobic-attack-caitlyn-jenner-1608869) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=310) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=312)