# 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:** 454
**Author:** ![SingleMalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/singlemalt/32/3961_2.png) [@SingleMalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleMalt)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9098 "2021-12-23T01:22:43Z")
Something smarter. Pigs, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9099 "2021-12-23T01:23:11Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Does he not know that chlamydia is easily curable with antibiotics, or is he just assuming that his audience doesn’t know that? He knows that if his audience knew that, they wouldn’t be his audience in the first place. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2021, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9100 "2021-12-23T01:24:26Z")
Oh, I’m quite sure his audience is very familiar with the various sexually transmitted diseases out there. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2021, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9101 "2021-12-23T02:23:22Z")
Damn, if only we had a vacci… oh, wait, we do. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2021, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9102 "2021-12-23T03:13:13Z")
Did someone say ‘Madison CowHorn is getting divorced?’ Oh, wait - he did! > ---
**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:** [December 23, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9103 "2021-12-23T03:15:34Z")
So, he’s walking ou… rolling out on her? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9104 "2021-12-23T05:30:20Z")
There’s a “rolling a hot dog down a hallway” joke in there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9105 "2021-12-23T05:42:12Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > In addition to all the other wrong things with this, how does one have “doses” of a disease? You don’t just have cooties. You have double cooties! ---
**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:** [December 23, 2021, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9106 "2021-12-23T06:05:48Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > > Fucker Carlson says Congressman Eric Swallwell has multiple doses of chlamydia. > > In addition to all the other wrong things with this, how does one have “doses” of a disease? In slang talk about “social diseases,” one would often be said to have picked up “a dose of the clap.” Not sure if the idiom was commonly applied to other afflictions, but it doesn’t seem like something that would have been plural, unless sequentially ---
**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:** [December 23, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9107 "2021-12-23T13:25:27Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Democrats should come out STRONGLY in favor of cancer treatments, quick treatment of heart attacks, and medications for stroke. Make this a central message I don’t know that this would work. The message would be changed to Democrats being in favor of cancer, heart attacks and strokes. When Clinton advocated for funding programs to help displaced coal workers, she was accused of displacing coal workers. To acknowledge a problem is to condone it. The only proper way to address a problem is to ignore it and to denigrate those who worry about it. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2021, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9108 "2021-12-23T13:38:37Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > To acknowledge a problem is to condone it. The only proper way to address a problem is to ignore it and to denigrate those who worry about it. See also: racism. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9109 "2021-12-23T14:06:19Z")
I don’t see race. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9110 "2021-12-23T14:22:54Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > In slang talk about “social diseases,” one would often be said to have picked up “a dose of the clap.” Not sure if the idiom was commonly applied to other afflictions, but it doesn’t seem like something that would have been plural, unless sequentially The clapses? > [@k9bfriender](#): > > I don’t see race. What do you have against Mr. Bannon? (Of Johnny Quest fame, not the loathsome right-wing mandrake.) ---
**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:** [December 23, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9111 "2021-12-23T14:27:21Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > The clapses? That sounds like something Gollum would say! ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9112 "2021-12-23T14:29:07Z")
So then is Trump “The Precious”? He **IS** kinda gold-colored. And Stephen Miller does give off Nazgul vibes. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9113 "2021-12-23T14:42:04Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > And Stephen Miller does give off Nazgul vibes. I think you’re missing an “i” in that. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9114 "2021-12-23T14:48:27Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I think you’re missing an “i” in that “Miiller”?? ---
**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:** [December 23, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9115 "2021-12-23T14:50:15Z")
Someone remind me who Madison Cawthorn is, and why his marriage is relevant? I mean, I get that he’s a stupid republican, but beyond that. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9116 "2021-12-23T14:58:44Z")
Well, we’re trying to suss out what the “values” are in their claim to be the “Party of Family Values”. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9117 "2021-12-23T15:16:42Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > You don’t just have cooties. You have double cooties! Double _secret_ cooties! > [@k9bfriender](#): > > To acknowledge a problem is to condone it. This is quite profound. And applies in many situations – personal as well as political. > [@](#): > > The only proper way to address a problem is to ignore it … What problem?? There is no problem! Everything is fine! > [@](#): > > …and to denigrate those who worry about it. “Buncha sissies and wimps who want to take over my life and run it! None a their damn bidness! 'Cause there’s no problem, ya hear me?” \<_Where’s my gun?_\> [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=453) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=455)