# 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:** 115
**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 27, 2022, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2282 "2022-05-27T19:54:11Z")
That’s what Nancy Reagan taught me. Just say neigh. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2283 "2022-05-27T20:32:54Z")
No problem, since we have a very stable genius available. ---
**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 27, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2284 "2022-05-27T22:12:00Z")
You guys will laugh and laugh at all of your horse jokes, then Josh Hawley will show up. We’ll see who’s laughing then! ---
**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:** [May 27, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2285 "2022-05-27T22:20:28Z")
Both the stallions and the mares. ---
**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 28, 2022, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2286 "2022-05-28T00:04:44Z")
Ted Cruz at the NRA convention: Shootings are because of absent fathers, video games, declining church attendance, and social media. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2287 "2022-05-28T00:30:50Z")
I still want to get my hands on the video games that Bonnie and Clyde must been playing. ---
**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 28, 2022, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2288 "2022-05-28T00:31:33Z")
Oklahoma Senate candidate: Congress isn’t supposed to prevent shootings, it’s supposed to uphold the 2nd Amendment and Biblical values. > **[GOP Senate candidate: Congress isn’t there to stop school shootings — they’re...](https://deadstate.org/gop-senate-candidate-congress-isnt-there-to-stop-school-shootings-theyre-supposed-to-promote-biblical-values/)** > > During a recent livestream, Oklahoma GOP Senate candidate Jarrin Jackson declared that Congress is “not there to prevent school shootings.” “You’re there to defend the Constitution,” he declared. “And the Constitution includes the Second Amendment,... ---
**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 28, 2022, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2289 "2022-05-28T00:33:57Z")
“…And the 2nd ammendment specifically references a well regulated militia. Oh, fuck. Nevermind that part.” ---
**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:** [May 28, 2022, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2290 "2022-05-28T00:35:10Z")
Hey Jarrin Jackson? Repeat after me ‘Congress is not there to prevent child porn. They’re there to defend the Constitution, and the Constitution includes the First Amendment’. Or is that suddenly going to be very different? ---
**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 28, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2291 "2022-05-28T00:36:37Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ted Cruz at the NRA convention: Shootings are because of absent fathers, video games, declining church attendance, and social media. And HER EMAILS! ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2292 "2022-05-28T01:00:09Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ted Cruz at the NRA convention: Shootings are because of absent fathers, video games, declining church attendance, and social media. Of which they apparently have none in Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Because otherwise, I don’t see how Cruz can explain why those places have so much less gun murder than the US. ---
**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 28, 2022, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2293 "2022-05-28T01:03:34Z")
“American exceptionalism”. ---
**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 28, 2022, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2294 "2022-05-28T10:05:22Z")
Or Charles Whitman. Big Pong guy, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2295 "2022-05-28T12:46:15Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ted Cruz at the NRA convention: Shootings are because of absent fathers, video games, declining church attendance, and social media. Shootings are up because one party espouses violence against other politicians and party members and ordinary citizens who might want to assemble and protest. Accuses them of treason.This party celebrates a murderer. This party is racist in all manner including education, policing, housing, and incarceration. This evil party promotes anti-gun/pro dealer/manufacturer legislation. This party attempted the overthrow of the United States. This evil party blocks sensible control measures at all levels of government. Today’s GQP. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2296 "2022-05-28T19:33:48Z")
I remember years (decades?) ago it was pointed out that violent video games were much more popular in Japan than in the US, which refuted the idea that violent video games caused a violent society. ---
**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 28, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2297 "2022-05-28T20:40:44Z")
Senator Bill Cassidy says that people need AR15s to defend themselves from feral pigs. > **[Sen. Bill Cassidy claims people need AR-15s to defend themselves from 'feral...](https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-cassidy-says-people-need-ar-15s-kill-feral-pigs-2022-5)** > > "If you talk to the people that own it, killing feral pigs in ... Louisiana. They'll wonder: 'Why would you take it away from me?'" said Cassidy. ---
**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 28, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2298 "2022-05-28T20:41:58Z")
Greg Abbott says that school shootings are a mental health issue. He cut the budget for mental health treatment. > **[Abbott calls Texas school shooting a mental health issue but cut state...](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/abbott-calls-texas-school-shooting-mental-health-issue-cut-state-spend-rcna30557)** > > While such programs require more funding, they wouldn't eliminate the need for gun control, experts said. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2299 "2022-05-28T22:28:54Z")
“Feral hogs” is a euphemism for … what? ---
**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:** [May 28, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2300 "2022-05-28T22:34:07Z")
Not the first time I’ve heard that lame ass excuse. And now that I look at that article, I see where I first saw it: When that dude replied to Jason Isbell. > [@Pit thread for Martin\_Hyde {He has been BANNED}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-thread-for-martin-hyde-he-has-been-banned/965045/459): > > How do they protect their families when a herd of wild boars run through the yard while the children are out playing? All this makes me think of a great song by Modest Mouse. > [@](#): > > A wild pack of family dogs came runnin’ through the yard one day > My father got his gun, shot it up, they ran away ok ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2301 "2022-05-28T22:43:41Z")
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