# 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:** 347
**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:** [August 28, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6950 "2021-08-28T19:00:54Z")
The virus can pass from the mother to the fetus, who can be born with COVID. I rather suspect that being on a ventilator isn’t very good for it, either. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2021, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6951 "2021-08-28T22:12:28Z")
There’s an early movement to report fake abortions to overwhelm the phone number and the organization that has to process them. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6952 "2021-08-28T22:23:10Z")
I like that! 👍🏽 ---
**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:** [August 28, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6953 "2021-08-28T23:05:20Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > My only objection to that article is that its title romanticizes DeSantis (as “Angel of Death”). > > > > I’d suggest, instead, “Grubby Little Sub-Demon of Death.” - > > I’ll bet other “Grubby Little Sub-Demons of Death" want nothing to do with him. I bet you’re right. He has to sit all alone at lunch, eating his beloved shit sandwiches, while the other grubby sub-demons of death laugh at him. Poor, poor Ron DeStructive! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6954 "2021-08-28T23:13:32Z")
Yeah, that helps. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6955 "2021-08-29T00:11:40Z")
Another day, another anti-mask/Vax activist dying of covid and leaving a pregnant wife behind. > **[Anti-masker Caleb Wallace dies after organizing 'Freedom Defenders' against...](https://www.rawstory.com/anti-masker-caleb-wallace/)** > > One of the leaders of the anti-mask movement in Texas has reportedly died from COVID-19 complications.Jessica Wallace, the wife of anti-masker Caleb Wallace, announced the death of her husband on the Go Fund Me page she set up after he was... ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6956 "2021-08-29T00:36:17Z")
From article: “Wallace founded the “San Angelo Freedom Defenders” and organized a July “Freedom Rally” for those “sick of the government being in control of our lives.” Wallace, who was 30, leaves behind three children and a pregnant wife.” Bye, dead guy. Freedom isn’t free. It’s regretful that you probably took some others with you. Enjoy your dead freedom. (By the way, you look (looked) a little like Ricky from Trailer Park Boys. Too bad you weren’t as smart as him.) ---
**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:** [August 29, 2021, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6957 "2021-08-29T02:08:54Z")
And here’s another one for the “The Republican Party is a death cult” file; Governor. Tate Reeds (C19-MS), whose state has a higher per capity fatality rate than New York, says not to worry about covid because, unlike Democrats, Jesus will give them eternal life. > **[Immortality is why Mississippi's GOP governor isn't scared of surging...](https://www.rawstory.com/mississippi-2654826341/)** > > Mississippi GOP Gov. Tate Reeves is facing an explosion of coronavirus and few empty hospital beds as Hurricane Ida barrels towards the Gulf Coast."Mississippi has now surpassed the state of New York, the nation's original pandemic hotspot, in total... ---
**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:** [August 29, 2021, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6958 "2021-08-29T03:07:10Z")
Another right-wing anti-vaxxer news pundit has died from COVID. > **[After 3-week COVID-19 battle, Daytona Beach talk radio host Marc Bernier dies](https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2021/08/28/marc-bernier-30-year-daytona-beach-talk-host-dies-after-covid-battle/5639816001/)** > > Longtime Daytona Beach talk radio host Marc Bernier has died, his station, WNDB and Southern Stone Communications announced Saturday. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2021, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6959 "2021-08-29T08:24:59Z")
The other day, Loser Donald called into Hugh Hewitt’s show to ramble and back in the adulation of his echo chamber. Hewitt asked him about his meeting last year with Taliban leader (and now de facto president of Afghanistan) Abdul Ghani Baradar. He proceeded to spew forth about three and a half minutes worth of word salad; > [@Loser Donald](#): > > So I set up a conversation with him, and people said oh, you shouldn’t be talking. Well, I set up a conversation with Kim Jong Un of North Korea. We didn’t have a nuclear war. Had I not, then Obama would have been right. We would have had a nuclear war. President Obama said to me we’re going to have a nuclear war with North Korea. I said have you ever spoken to him. He said no. And I said don’t you think that might be a good idea. But anyway, I know he wanted to speak to him, but he never got to speak to him, and I think the other side didn’t want to talk to Obama. So what happened is I spoke to the head of the, the known head, because it’s… > > (at this point Hewitt interrupts to remind him he’s talking about Baradar) > > Yeah, but I spoke to, and sort of the known head, but nobody was sure, but now I’m sure, and I was sure then when I was speaking to him. And I knew as soon as I spoke to him. And even the introduction, I say hello, and he screamed something very tough. And I then started with him. I said, listen, before we start the longtime conversation and conversations that we’re going to have, I have to say one thing, and I’ll never have to say it again to you. And here’s what I say. If you do anything bad to the United States of America, if you do anything bad to any of our civilians, to any American citizen, or if you do anything out of the normal, you know, they’ve been fighting for a thousand years, but out of the normal, because you’ve had your wars, and if you do anything out of the normal, but anything bad to America or any American citizens, I will hit you harder than anybody has ever been hit in world history. You will be hit harder than any country and any person has ever been hit in world history. And we will start with the exact location and the exact town, and it’s right here. And I believe I repeated the name of his town. That will be the first place that we start. And I won’t be able to speak to you anymore after that, and isn’t that a very sad thing? But that is the story. And then he asked me one question, and I’d rather not repeat that question, because it’s a very scary question. But he asked me one question, and I gave him the answer yes. And then after it was all done, I said OK, now I’ve said what I’m going to say. Let’s have a conversation. And I said we’re going to be leaving after 21 years. And when we leave, you’re going to leave us alone, and we’re going to leave with great dignity and great honor. And we are going to take care of this situation. We’re going to take our time. We had a date of May 1, but they missed a couple of conditions. We had some very strong conditions, Hugh. But they missed a couple of conditions. I wanted to be out by May 1. I had spoken to him quite a bit before May 1, but we had a condition of May 1. But they missed conditions, and so therefore, I bombed and we hit them very hard. And then we said we will agree to those conditions. I said no, you’ve already agreed to them. Don’t play games. We had them so good. They weren’t in Kabul. You take a look at when they started taking over Afghanistan. It’s when I left. When I left, that’s when it started, they started going wild, because they were dealing with another president. And I never realized, and of course I realized the importance and power of the presidency, but I never realized how important the office of the president is until this happened, because when I watched what happened over the last week and a half with some horrible, stupid decisions that were made, number one being allowing our military to leave before the civilians and before we get all of our equipment back, $83 billion dollars. And not, nobody can even comprehend that much equipment. Thousands of vehicles, thousands, you saw the list of vehicles. There’s a lot to unpack there, and I couldn’t write Trumpesque word salad of that quality if I tried. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6960 "2021-08-29T11:48:32Z")
It really was very special. I’d like to listen to it with my family and then ask them if they’re really sure this guy should be in charge of anything. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2021, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6961 "2021-08-29T12:28:39Z")
Irrelevant, because Republicans don’t believe the President is in charge of anything. The government never does anything, so therefore the President isn’t in charge of anything. He’s nothing but a symbol… but to Republicans, symbols are more important than the things they symbolize. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6962 "2021-08-29T16:43:31Z")
I know it’s been mentioned many times before, but reading the last dozen or so posts, I can’t help but notice the right-winger irony between how it’s not ok for the government to be in control of your body when it comes to COVID vaccination, but it’s _completely_ ok for the government to be in control of your body when it comes to abortion. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6963 "2021-08-29T17:57:11Z")
Megyn Kelly tried to criticize the US Open tennis tournament for setting aside “quiet rooms” and mental health providers for tennis players who are struggling. She said, “Good Lord please never let the snowflakes who need this sign up for our military.” She got excoriated on Twitter, with some people reminding us that she went ballistic on air over whether Santa Claus doesn’t have to be white, and other people replying that if the US military actually took better mental health care of their members and veterans, there wouldn’t be 22 veterans committing suicide every day. > **[Megyn Kelly Decided to Comment About Mental Health and "Snowflakes" and...](https://www.themarysue.com/megyn-kelly-mental-health-quiet-rooms/)** > > The US Open took steps for the mental health of their tennis players and although no one asked, Megyn Kelly felt the need to deliver a terrible hot take. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6964 "2021-08-29T23:11:19Z")
Imagine finding out one day that your father died because he was grandstanding against a global pandemic which had already killed millions. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6965 "2021-08-29T23:32:04Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I know it’s been mentioned many times before, but reading the last dozen or so posts, I can’t help but notice the right-winger irony between how it’s not ok for the government to be in control of your body when it comes to COVID vaccination, but it’s _completely_ ok for the government to be in control of your body when it comes to abortion. I think the way they reconcile those is that in abortion, the **only body that matters is that of the fetus.** The thing surrounding the body (the body being the fetus), which permits it to grow, is just a thing. An ‘incubator’ thing. That has no rights. Because it’s just a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Ziberian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/919ad9/32.png) [@Ziberian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ziberian)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6966 "2021-08-30T02:58:54Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > The virus can pass from the mother to the fetus, who can be born with COVID. I rather suspect that being on a ventilator isn’t very good for it, either. Saw an article a few days ago in which a pediatric nurse discussed delivering (usually premature) babies of unvaccinated women who were dying, on ventilators, but their partner had opted to try and save the baby. Delivery was delayed as long as possible, but eventually the mother deteriorated and the risk of losing the baby outweighed the benefits of more time in the womb. The nurse’s final question was: these women consider the dangers of the vaccine to their baby, but do they ever consider the dangers of not being vaccinated to their baby. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6967 "2021-08-30T03:02:13Z")
Or imagine your child and half her classmates got infected by some piece of shit ‘teacher’ who invoked ‘_muh freedumz_’ Honestly, if I had kids, and if that teacher had infected them, she would need to be placed in protective custody. > **[COVID: Unvaccinated Marin County Teacher Infected Students in May Delta...](https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/covid-unvaccinated-marin-county-teacher-infected-students-in-may-delta-variant-outbreak/)** > > An unvaccinated elementary school teacher in Marin County appears to have been at the center of a COVID delta variant outbreak last May, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2021, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6968 "2021-08-30T03:24:07Z")
Gubernatorial candidate Steve Lynch (NSDAP-PA) says “strong men” should forcibly overthrow school boards that attempt to protect children from covid. > ---
**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:** [August 30, 2021, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6969 "2021-08-30T04:46:57Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Because it’s just a thing. That couldn’t keep its knickers up. That’s why the majority of them say abortion is okay, because then it’s not the thing’s fault and does not deserve to be punished. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=346) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=348)