# 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:** 322
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6443 "2021-07-25T23:26:41Z")
Only if once your last kid reaches adulthood you lose the right to vote. After all, it’s their future now, right? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6444 "2021-07-25T23:32:12Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Fox News panel sez childless adults (read: Teh Gheyz) shouldn’t be allowed to vote, but people with kids should get an extra vote for each of their children. How many provisions within the Constitution would that violate? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6445 "2021-07-25T23:52:55Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > people with kids should get an extra vote for each of their children They do. But, to make sure the votes are proper, they have to wait 18 years, and the kids have to cast the vote themselves. ---
**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 26, 2021, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6446 "2021-07-26T00:05:04Z")
Nah, just let the kids vote. From birth on. What the hell. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6447 "2021-07-26T00:12:05Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > ### [House Freedom Caucus pushes McCarthy to force vote to oust Pelosi as speaker](https://www.businessinsider.com/house-freedom-caucus-asks-mccarthy-force-vote-oust-pelosi-2021-7) > > So did the Freedom Caucus replace the Tea Party? Don’t the Democrats have a majority in the House right now? Do we need to explain to this idiot how democracy works, or is it so bad, we have to explain how numbers work? > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Nah, just let the kids vote. From birth on. What the hell. I, for one, welcome the rule of the Ice Cream For Dinner And Everyone Gets A Kitten Party. ---
**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 26, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6448 "2021-07-26T00:32:29Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > I, for one, welcome the rule of the Ice Cream For Dinner And Everyone Gets A Kitten Party. Until they get it backwards, anyway. As for McCarthy’s attempt to assert himself as _Really The Majority (Though Actually the Minority) Leader:_ he may be counting on the votes of some Democrats who hanker after power of their own. After all, it would take a relatively small number of such, to give McCarthy his victory. ---
**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 26, 2021, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6449 "2021-07-26T00:34:14Z")
Let me guess. The cost for viewing this “cyber symposium “ will Be a low low $29.95. (Monthly recurring payment if you forget to uncheck the tiny box) ---
**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 26, 2021, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6450 "2021-07-26T00:34:36Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Don’t the Democrats have a majority in the House right now? Do we need to explain to this idiot how democracy works, or is it so bad, we have to explain how numbers work? You forgot the point in the plan where the Congressional Black Caucus spontaneously all become Republicans because of Reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6451 "2021-07-26T01:42:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > You forgot the point in the plan where the Congressional Black Caucus spontaneously all become Republicans because of Reasons. Damn, I always forget [Reason](http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1746). ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6452 "2021-07-26T02:12:41Z")
At least then the governing style of one of the parties will make more sense… [![](https://i2.wp.com/sleepingshouldbeeasy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/empty-threats-2.jpg) ](https://i2.wp.com/sleepingshouldbeeasy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/empty-threats-2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6453 "2021-07-26T02:47:25Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > I, for one, welcome the rule of the Ice Cream For Dinner And Everyone Gets A Kitten Party. “I always hoped a kitten would lick my face”, says girl who voted for Kittens Licking People’s Faces party. ---
**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 26, 2021, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6454 "2021-07-26T03:16:17Z")
Tucker Carlson encounters an angry man who calls him “the worst human being”. > **[Tucker Carlson confronted at Montana fishing shop, called the 'worst human...](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tucker-carlson-confronted-montana-fishing-shop-called-worst-human-being-n1274968)** > > A Montana man accused the Fox News host of killing people with vaccine misinformation and supporting "extreme racism." And Jack Posobiec says it was planned ahead of time by the White House, and he knows this because an unnamed White House employee told him. > And Dinesh D’Souza says the guy should be arrested. > ---
**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 26, 2021, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6455 "2021-07-26T04:11:24Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Tucker Carlson encounters an angry man who calls him “the worst human being”. Considering that I was on the quiz bowl team in high school and his alma mater were our rivals, I’d probably have had some much harsher language for him. 😃 ---
**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 26, 2021, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6456 "2021-07-26T04:36:44Z")
> “No public figure should be accosted regardless of their political persuasion or beliefs simply due to the intolerance of another point of view,” the [Fox News] spokesperson said. Isn’t that Tucker Carlson’s whole schtick? 🤨 But now we’re supposed to think it’s okay for Tucker Carlson to go on international TV and publicly berate people he doesn’t know and has never met but (thinks he) disagrees with, but it’s wrong for anyone to berate him to his face in public? Oh… that’s right… how silly of me: > [@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. ---
**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 26, 2021, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6457 "2021-07-26T13:34:40Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > > “No public figure should be accosted regardless of their political persuasion or beliefs simply due to the intolerance of another point of view,” the [Fox News] spokesperson said. Um… does storming the Capitol building, sending members of Congress to hide in fear of their lives, and threatening to hang the vice-president count? No? Oh, okay. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6458 "2021-07-26T16:33:17Z")
Ted hates dildos! He probably found one in his wife’s nightstand. [https://twitter.com/BryanDawsonUSA/status/1418621208338251778?s=20](https://twitter.com/BryanDawsonUSA/status/1418621208338251778?s=20) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6459 "2021-07-26T16:35:37Z")
It’s just self-loathing. ---
**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 26, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6460 "2021-07-26T16:50:36Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Considering that I was on the quiz bowl team in high school and his alma mater were our rivals, I’d probably have had some much harsher language for him. Quiz Bowl 4EVAH! ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6461 "2021-07-26T17:04:39Z")
I hope that Fucker gets it at least this bad every time he leaves his fuckin’ house. ---
**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 26, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6462 "2021-07-26T21:21:02Z")
Anti-mask Congresscreature Clay Higgins announced he has covid for the second time. [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-26/second-house-member-in-week-says-he-s-tested-positive-for-covid](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-26/second-house-member-in-week-says-he-s-tested-positive-for-covid) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=321) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=323)