# 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:** 464
**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:** [January 4, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9298 "2022-01-04T13:25:22Z")
He should be banned just for incorrect apostrophe use. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9299 "2022-01-04T13:26:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [MTG hit with Facebook suspension after Twitter ban - POLITICO](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/03/marjorie-taylor-greene-facebook-suspension-526398) > > “Facebook has joined Twitter in censoring me,” Greene (R-Ga.) wrote on Gettr I don’t think that she knows what that word means. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9300 "2022-01-04T15:05:14Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I don’t think that she knows what that word means. Right. I’m still waiting for MTG and her ilk to claim straight faced that the government should take over facebook and twitter for “censorship” and deliberately find a euphemism for “nationalizing.” ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9301 "2022-01-04T15:15:17Z")
Why the fuck do they even care about these wussy snowflake platforms when they have such great bastions of freedumb like Frank and Gettr? Also, the great new Trump platform, headed by cow-lover Nunes, will be officially opened in two weeks. We already know it will become the bigliest media platform ever. Even bigger than his bigly inauguration. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9302 "2022-01-04T15:16:46Z")
I wonder. If I get on gettr, and start badmouthing Trump and co, start talking about the dangers of COVID and the benefit of vaccines, will I end up being banned? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9303 "2022-01-04T15:20:27Z")
…even worse, maybe even _censored!_ ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9304 "2022-01-04T15:49:07Z")
Well, it is obviously OK to tamp down that sort of propaganda. IOWARDI. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9305 "2022-01-04T16:43:35Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > When their only goal in life is to “pwn the libs” is this really a surprise? Claiming “Liberal Pwnshop” as my newest podcast name. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9306 "2022-01-04T18:58:36Z")
A former Orange County DA who refused to get vaccinated has died of covid. > **[California Deputy DA Who Fought Vaccine Mandate Dies Abruptly After Falling...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-deputy-da-fought-vaccine-131753710.html)** > > Kelly Ernby had reportedly spoken out against vaccine mandates at a Turning Point USA rally shortly before she became ill. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9307 "2022-01-04T19:21:57Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A former Orange County DA who refused to get vaccinated has died of covid. > [California Deputy DA Who Fought Vaccine Mandate Dies Abruptly After Falling Ill With COVID at Age 46](https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-deputy-da-fought-vaccine-131753710.html) How stupid and sad: > Kelly Ernby, a presumed candidate for the state Assembly in 2022, was only 46 years old. According to the _[Los Angeles Times](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-03/kelly-ernby-former-republican-assembly-candidate-and-deputy-d-a-dies-of-covid-19)_ , she fell ill shortly after speaking out against vaccine mandates at a rally organized by Turning Point USA on Dec. 4. > > “ **There’s nothing that matters more than our freedoms right now** ,” she was quoted telling the crowd during the rally at Irvine City Hall. Bolding mine. I wonder if she was cherishing her freedom in her final moments. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2022, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9308 "2022-01-04T19:27:26Z")
> It was not immediately clear where or how she contracted the virus. Well maybe that huge gathering of unvaccinated people she attended would be a good place to start looking, eh. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2022, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9309 "2022-01-04T19:29:43Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > Right. I’m still waiting for MTG and her ilk to claim straight faced that the government should take over facebook and twitter for “censorship” and deliberately find a euphemism for “nationalizing.” I think MTG wants the proletariat to seize the means of production, and usher in a brave new world of Marxist ideology. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9310 "2022-01-05T00:47:21Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > He should be banned just for incorrect apostrophe use. Most of us have slipped up at one time or another. But Biggs may well be a P.I.R. (proudly-illiterate Republican). They don’t need no fancy book-larnin’!!!1!! ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9311 "2022-01-05T02:01:12Z")
Why are Trump supporters so angry? I got piled on elsew I for a simple query, now I’m a Biden supporter who wants to abort babies. Oooh Kay. Just saw a car in the grocery parking lot today with words on the back saying F U Biden he’s a commie treasonous something or other. Can’t they calm down and let it go? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9312 "2022-01-05T02:02:38Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Well maybe that huge gathering of unvaccinated people she attended would be a good place to start looking, eh. No, that’s where they other folks contracted it. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9313 "2022-01-05T02:08:12Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Can’t they calm down and let it go? Calming down and letting it go is contrary to Trumpitista values. The Way of Trump is, he wins, or he makes you sorry you did not let him win. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9314 "2022-01-05T02:49:36Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > I got piled on elsew… Yeah it sounds like this elsew is probably descanting the insalubrious for you. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9315 "2022-01-05T03:00:31Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > I got piled on elsew I for a simple query, now I’m a Biden supporter who wants to abort babies. You Must Not Question Dear Leader! Absolute loyalty is the one thing they demand of you. You can do anything else, really, so long as you never, ever question Dear Leader. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2022, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9316 "2022-01-05T05:54:35Z")
It’s the Two Minutes Hate only it’s 24/7. > The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2022, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9317 "2022-01-05T07:29:08Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. Indeed. To wit; > [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=463) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=465)