# 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:** 112
**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:** [May 24, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2222 "2022-05-24T16:12:09Z")
Republicans have more projection than a multiplex. Pretty much everything they accuse others of doing - they are doing it themselves, or will do it in future. ---
**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 24, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2223 "2022-05-24T16:38:57Z")
The Congressional Ethics Committee has issued a 54 page report detailing the numerous ethics violations of Congressman Alex Mooney, including an entire section on staffers having to take care of his dog. The report also notes that he doesn’t live in West Virginia, the state he represents. > **[MAGA Rep. Accused of Making Staff Drive Hundreds of Miles to Walk His Dog](https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-rep-alex-mooney-accused-of-making-staff-drive-hundreds-of-miles-to-walk-his-dog)** > > Rep. Alex Mooney, a top Trump ally, is accused of a number of serious ethical violations in an official congressional report released Monday. ---
**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 24, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2224 "2022-05-24T20:27:42Z")
The Supreme Court just ruled that innocence doesn’t mean you can’t be executed. > **[The Supreme Court Just Said That Evidence of Innocence Is Not Enough](https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-supreme-court-just-said-in-in-shinn-v-ramirez-that-evidence-of-innocence-is-not-enough)** > > The same court that appears poised to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to protect innocents before they are born seems to lose interest when it comes to innocents later in life. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2225 "2022-05-24T20:30:52Z")
…not quite. This is instead the frankly horrific GOP trope of “just leave it up to the States!” ---
**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:** [May 24, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2226 "2022-05-24T20:41:37Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > “just leave it up to the States!” Leading to the inexorable march of the poor red states into Shitholes of Theocracy, Ignorance, Poor Health, Intolerance and Hate. In future, I envision a group of these Shithole States threatening to leave the country, and the rest of the states calling their bluff, and saying “OK, bye, see ya, good luck with that.” ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2227 "2022-05-24T20:50:43Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > In future, I envision a group of these Shithole States threatening to leave the country, and the rest of the states calling their bluff, and saying “OK, bye, see ya, good luck with that.”   The argument is commonly made that these states are scattered around the nation, not all contiguous with one another, so having them secede to form their own nation will create a jigsaw puzzle. A possible solution is clear: Simply relocate all these far-flung peoples to be near one another. Probably would involve moving all the non-Southern folks to the South (meaning, South part of the country from Floridland to Texas). Forcibly, if necessary – hey, we have precedent for doing that! (A modern day Trail of Tears anyone?) Heck, we could simply buy out their properties, even giving them quite generous terms, and pay all their moving expenses for them. Worth it! ETA: And all the Southern people who don’t want to be part of the New Confederacy should be given good terms to move to the remaining United States of America. ---
**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 24, 2022, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2228 "2022-05-24T21:12:43Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Leading to the inexorable march of the poor red states into Shitholes of Theocracy, Ignorance, Poor Health, Intolerance and Hate. It isn’t a march if they’re already there. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2229 "2022-05-24T21:18:57Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > > Leading to the inexorable march of the poor red states into Shitholes of Theocracy, Ignorance, Poor Health, Intolerance and Hate. > > It isn’t a march if they’re already there. - Continuous downward spiral then. ---
**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 24, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2230 "2022-05-24T21:31:33Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > A possible solution is clear: Simply relocate all these far-flung peoples to be near one another. Can we put a wall around them, too? With barbed wire facing in? I’d agree to fund that. ---
**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 24, 2022, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2231 "2022-05-24T21:37:12Z")
Former Individual 1 staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin was a cohost on The View today, and they had Kellyanne Conway on to flog her book about life in the White House. They got into a fierce argument over which one turned on Individual 1 first. It got so bad, Whoopie Goldberg went to commercial and ordered Kellyanne to stop talking. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2232 "2022-05-24T21:58:34Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Simply relocate all these far-flung peoples to be near one another. Or do what the wingnuts in Oregon are currently trying to do: move the borders of the red states to annex the red areas of blue states. Only when all the “wrong” people have been excluded will they want to leave the country. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2233 "2022-05-24T22:13:47Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > A possible solution is clear: Simply relocate all these far-flung peoples to be near one another. Yeah, partition worked so well with India and Pakistan. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2234 "2022-05-24T23:04:42Z")
How about we relocated these inbred wastes of space with a long walk off a short pier? ---
**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:** [May 24, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2235 "2022-05-24T23:42:51Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > A possible solution is clear: Simply relocate all these far-flung peoples to be near one another. India tried to do that, and it didn’t work out very well for the Hindus who left the area that became Pakistan or the Muslims who moved to Pakistan. ETA: damnit, I knew I should have read the entire thread first! ---
**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 25, 2022, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2236 "2022-05-25T03:42:04Z")
Following the shooting in Uvalde Texas today, Paul Gosar tweeted “It’s a transsexual leftist illegal alien named Salvatore Ramos”, He at least had the good taste to delete it. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2237 "2022-05-25T13:17:50Z")
Hopefully not before it was screenshotted. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2238 "2022-05-25T14:34:03Z")
Here is a screenshot of said tweet. > **[GOP Rep. Paul Gosar spread a baseless transphobic rumor that the Uvalde...](https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-shooting-uvalde-paul-gosar-touts-false-claim-transgender-woman-2022-5)** > > The shooter was identified by authorities as an 18-year-old male who was a resident of the community and had also shot his grandmother. ---
**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 25, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2239 "2022-05-25T18:18:42Z")
Beto O’Rourke interrupted Greg Abbott’s press conference. I couldn’t hear what he was saying, but Abbott called him a sick son of a bitch. Yeah, who’s the sick son of a bitch? Abbott is going to the NRA conference in Houston in two days. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2240 "2022-05-25T18:41:57Z")
From [here](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/25/us/shooting-robb-elementary-uvalde): > “The ability of an 18-year-old to buy a long gun has been in place for more than 60 years,” Governor Abbott said when asked in a news conference whether an 18-year-old should have access to weapons like the one used in the shooting. “Anybody who shoots somebody else has a mental health challenge.” Yeah, but you seem to think it’s OK for someone with a “mental health challenge” to have a gun. Jackass. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2241 "2022-05-25T20:15:29Z")
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