# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018 "2022-02-07T00:52:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 101
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2002 "2022-05-14T11:51:05Z")
Tattoo it on them right away. Then just roll up your sleeve if you’re ever asked. And that guy challenging votes-it’s not a stupid idea. Just deeply shitty. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2003 "2022-05-14T12:57:03Z")
Sorry if it’s already been posted, but [Texas Republicans have passed an “exciting” new law aimed at social media](https://slate.com/technology/2022/05/texas-internet-censorship-social-media-first-amendment-fifth-circuit.html). I’m sure it will be fine. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2004 "2022-05-14T13:25:13Z")
I do wonder how long that lasts when Texas voters go to watch kitten videos and get a splash screen explaining that, due to this legislation, YouTube no longer operates in Texas, and their gmail account is completely unusable due to being flooded with spam. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2005 "2022-05-14T13:45:11Z")
Hey! I’m watching kitten videos RIGHT NOW! Fortunately, I don’t have a gmail account. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2006 "2022-05-14T14:55:38Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > YouTube no longer operates in Texas Nope! "The only way out of this mess, then, would be for social media companies to cease all operations in Texas. But H.B. 20 orders them to continue providing their services in Texas. " So the pro-business, less regulation GQP is actually FORCING companies to distribute their product. I assume the logical conclusion is you can’t even cease to make a product. You’re trapped forever, making buggy whips with no market, because Abbot says so. Hell exists, and its name is Texas. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2007 "2022-05-14T15:10:21Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > But H.B. 20 orders them to continue providing their services in Texas. Orders them to, or what? If a company refuses to comply, do they get banned from doing business in Texas? ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2008 "2022-05-14T15:14:37Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > White nationalist Nick Fuentes says so. It’s never surprising that when someone says the dumbest shit you’ve ever heard, they’re doing it before a Trump banner. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2009 "2022-05-14T15:27:14Z")
You can’t fault their consistency. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2010 "2022-05-14T15:30:10Z")
I don’t see how a state can enforce a law demanding that a company do business within its state. While I think (hope, anyway, with this current crop of SCOTUSes), that the law will be shot down on any number of grounds, even if the law holds on that front, there is no way that that part could be enforced. It’s a state law, which means that they can only sue in state court. Which would make it hard for them to sue a company that does not do business in that state. Though you aren’t wrong on that last part. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2011 "2022-05-14T15:47:49Z")
I mean, right now, the sensible move for online companies (by which I mean every company that does anything at all online, which is most of them nowadays) is probably to pretend that this law doesn’t exist, and assume that the first time the state tries to enforce it, it’ll be overturned again. But if that ever, even once, fails to happen, then the only sane response I can see for any such company is to cut off all business operations in Texas. Which would be so catastrophic to the state that even Trumpists would have to take notice. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2012 "2022-05-14T15:58:52Z")
It’s been said before and probably doesn’t need to be said again, but there needs to be a clear distinction between “Stupid Republican ideas” and the assumption that all Republicans are stupid. This is dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2013 "2022-05-14T15:58:56Z")
This is a fucking ridiculous ruling. Sites have Terms of Service for a _reason_. You can’t let everyone in Texas just do whatever the hell they want. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2014 "2022-05-14T16:00:05Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > You can’t let everyone in Texas just do whatever the hell they want. Like some kind of lawless frontier? A West that is Wild, one might say. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2015 "2022-05-14T16:03:16Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > It’s been said before and probably doesn’t need to be said again, but there needs to be a clear distinction between “Stupid Republican ideas” and the assumption that all Republicans are **stupid**. This is dangerous. Exactly. The bolded word should be replaced with “ **evil**.” ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2016 "2022-05-14T16:22:30Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The bolded word should be replaced with “ **evil**.” Disagree. Not replaced, amended to “stupid _and/or_ evil.” Being a Republican is not an inherent or immutable trait. Anyone still a Republican is either evil, wishing harm on their fellow citizens and humanity as a whole, or they are stupid and complicit to them. Or they are both. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2017 "2022-05-14T17:26:46Z")
Marge Greene says leftists are intentionally torching food processing plants because, reasons. > **[Marjorie Taylor Greene's Latest Conspiracy Theory Is That the Left Is...](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/marjorie-taylor-greene-latest-conspiracy-174659766.html)** > > There’s no “Jewish space laser,” but conspiracy theorists are circling around the idea that Democrats are trying to cause a food shortage by setting fire to processing plants ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2018 "2022-05-14T23:38:24Z")
There’s a bill before the Missouri legislature making it illegal for pharmacists to question the effectiveness of ivermectin > **[Missouri bill bars pharmacists from questioning ivermectin effectiveness](https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article261400142.html)** > > “This language, with a few buzzwords, is to keep some difficult, obstinate, conservative senators quiet,” said one Democratic representative. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2019 "2022-05-14T23:53:42Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > There’s a bill before the Missouri legislature making it illegal for pharmacists to question the effectiveness of ivermectin - I suppose the bill will have to wait in line behind the ones declaring Pi to be 3.14, and climate change to be unmentionable in Missouri schools…? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2022, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2020 "2022-05-15T00:04:07Z")
I assumed there’s some kind of multimillion dollar civil penalty. Or personal criminal liability for top executives. I wouldn’t have put either past Abbott. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2021 "2022-05-15T00:32:19Z")
Elise Stefanik is putting out a tweet condemning the shooting in Buffalo. Only weeks ago, she was pushing the racial replacement theory, the thing that the shooter was ranting about. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=100) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=102)