# 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:** 495
**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:** [February 1, 2022, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9918 "2022-02-01T09:44:27Z")
How strange. I have been repeatedly assured on this very board that liberals are the _real_ Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9919 "2022-02-01T10:30:37Z")
It used to be that history is written by the victors. I thought the guys with the grey uniforms lost? ---
**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:** [February 1, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9920 "2022-02-01T14:10:49Z")
Temporary setback is all. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9921 "2022-02-01T17:18:04Z")
I guess he didn’t see the documentary, [_Iron Sky._](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Sky) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9922 "2022-02-01T18:41:13Z")
I loved that. My friends are still giving me shit for how much I raved about it. An unapologetic crap movie! ---
**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:** [February 1, 2022, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9923 "2022-02-01T19:01:41Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > What, in the good name of Jerry Korab Wow. There’s someone I haven’t thought about in decades. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9924 "2022-02-01T22:20:35Z")
Garrett Soldano, GOP candidate for governor of Michigan, told an interviewer that rape victims who become pregnant should be told they’re “heroic” and that “God put them in this moment” to carry their rapist’s child. > **[Mich. GOP governor candidate said rape victims shouldn’t have abortions:...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/01/garrett-soldano-abortion-michigan-republican-governor/)** > > Garrett Soldano, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Michigan, said he hoped to dissuade rape victims from getting abortions, adding: "God put them in this moment." ---
**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:** [February 1, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9925 "2022-02-01T23:13:48Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Garrett Soldano, GOP candidate for governor of Michigan, told an interviewer that rape victims who become pregnant should be told they’re “heroic” and that “God put them in this moment” to carry their rapist’s child. - There have been many stories, over the years, of women long past menopause (into their 60s) getting implanted with an embryo and given massive doses of hormones, which let them carry a pregnancy to term and give birth. All that would be needed to permit Garrett Soldano to be a hero, himself—and surely he wants to be?!!—would be to undergo the exact same procedure but with the addition of an artificial (or transplant?) uterus, so that he can carry the child of one of those rapists. _Surely_ he wants to be a part of God’s plan in this way? And to further God’s plan in an even _more_ obvious way: why shouldn’t the rapists themselves carry their children to term? It’s just a matter of the transplant and a course of hormones… ---
**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:** [February 1, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9926 "2022-02-01T23:24:40Z")
“Michigan Republican Governor candidate claims that God wants women to be raped. We’ll be back with more after this short break.” ---
**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:** [February 1, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9927 "2022-02-01T23:28:28Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > “Michigan Republican Governor candidate claims that God wants women to be raped. We’ll be back with more after this short break.” - Sadly, there is unlikely to be even one newscaster willing to speak the truth that plainly. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9928 "2022-02-02T02:18:48Z")
Or rather, “God put women on this earth for the purpose of being raped.” ---
**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:** [February 2, 2022, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9929 "2022-02-02T02:51:30Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Garrett Soldano, GOP candidate for governor of Michigan, told an interviewer that rape victims who become pregnant should be told they’re “heroic” and that “God put them in this moment” to carry their rapist’s child. Damn! Are you sure that guy isn’t originally from Texas? ---
**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:** [February 2, 2022, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9930 "2022-02-02T03:19:02Z")
A group of North Carolinians have filed a lawsuit to keep Madison Cawthorn off the ballot because of the provision of the 14th amendment which says, “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”. Cawthorn is suing to force the state to put him on the ballot, without addressing whether he was involved in an insurrection or not > **[Madison Cawthorn sues NC to stop inquiry into his role in Jan. 6 attack on...](https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article257917708.html)** > > Cawthorn should not have to prove that he never participated in an insurrection against the government, he argues in a new lawsuit. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9931 "2022-02-02T03:33:54Z")
From the linked article: > …his lawsuit says the N.C. State Board of Elections has no authority to keep him off the ballot in the first place, and so the challenge against him should be dropped and the state law allowing for such challenges should be ruled unconstitutional… Cawthorn is hanging his lawsuit on the theory that the Constitution is unconstitutional. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2022, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9932 "2022-02-02T03:44:30Z")
To be fair, I would think that someone would need to be convicted of such first. Not that I don’t think he should be. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2022, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9933 "2022-02-02T03:47:36Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > To be fair, I would think that someone would need to be convicted of such first. Yeah, you’d think that wouldn’t you? Interesting, though, that the clause in the amendment’s text doesn’t actually _say_ it… ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9934 "2022-02-02T03:52:04Z")
Then couldn’t Republicans wield it the same way, by saying that (for example) passing laws that protect Muslims or homosexuals is giving “aid and comfort to the enemy”? They’d absolutely try. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2022, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9935 "2022-02-02T04:21:23Z")
This morning, Peter Hotez was nominated for a Nobel Prize for his covid research. This evening, Fucker Carlson attacked him as “that nutcase from Baylor”. The only link I can find for Fucker’s comments are from Fox, so I won’t link them here, ---
**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:** [February 2, 2022, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9936 "2022-02-02T04:28:59Z")
I think [this](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/right-wing-pastor-greg-locke-organizes-massive-book-burning/ar-AATmY5e?ocid=msedgntp) qualifies: > A controversial pastor is planning a “massive burning” of _Harry Potter_ and _Twilight_ books, as well as other items, in Tennessee. > > Global Vision Bible Church pastor Greg Locke was met with cries of approval on Sunday, when he declared there would be a “burning service” this week. > > Locke, who operates out of Mt. Juliet near Nashville, told them to bring Ouija boards, which he called a “portal to hell,” and other items he said were associated with witchcraft." > "He then doubled down on his comments in a Monday Facebook post, where he declared the burning would be part of a “continued series on deliverance from demons.” > > The post read: “We have stuff coming in from all over that we will be burning. We’re not playing games. Witchcraft and accursed things must go.” > > Locke then justified the event by referring to Acts 19, a Biblical chapter that deals with recent converts to Christianity renouncing their past, including by burning scrolls relating to sorcery." And the money quote: > “If you think we’re crazy, then scroll on. We’re exposing the Kingdom of Darkness for what it is. It’s time for people to be delivered.” > > The statement concluded: “We will not tolerate witchcraft and we will not be compromising with devil worshippers.” ---
**Author:** ![SailorHG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SailorHG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SailorHG)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9937 "2022-02-02T07:59:09Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > The post read: “We have stuff coming in from all over that we will be burning. We’re not playing games. Witchcraft and accursed things must go.” What would be really cool is for a bunch of atheists / non-Christians to show up with bibles and crucifixes to be burned… though the results could get ugly really quickly, it would still be fun to watch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=494) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=496)