# 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:** 118
**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 30, 2022, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2342 "2022-05-30T13:18:25Z")
Processed cheese. There is nothing bad about real cheese. ---
**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 30, 2022, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2343 "2022-05-30T18:20:11Z")
[vegetable garden hypocRisy](https://twitter.com/Road_Builder_TX/status/1530942361009790976) > [@Chuck MEloy (@Road\_Builder\_TX)](#): > > Ted Cruz lives in a 4100 SF, 5/3.5 in River Oaks valued at just over $2M and married to a senior partner at Goldman Sachs. If you think he isn’t an “elite”, you need to pull your head out of your ass. > > > [@Raphael (@SenTedCruz)](#): > > > > The elites in society have the loudest megaphone when it comes to gun control. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2344 "2022-05-30T21:06:26Z")
Also, I mean, how is that even an argument? Of course the elites in society have the loudest megaphone when it comes to every fucking issue in the world. This is true for Republican or Democratic or any other kind of elites. Part of what being “elite” means is that you have a disproportionate share of power and influence due to your wealth and privilege. But I agree it’s funny to see Ted Cruz posturing like some kind of ordinary Joe deploring the disproportionate influence of “elites”. ---
**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 30, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2345 "2022-05-30T21:24:23Z")
And, the whole underlying theme of the Democratic Party is that the playing field should be leveled, so the influence of the elites is decreased and the influence of everyone else increased. If you’re complaining about the elites having too much power, then you should be a Democrat. ---
**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 30, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2346 "2022-05-30T22:21:10Z")
It really is just another case of the Republicans accusing the not-Republicans of doing what the Republicans are guilty of. It is kind or specious to say that the Democrats are measurably working in opposition to Republican Sociopathism in any way other than saying that it is a bad thing. Egalitarianism may be a Democratic ethos, but in the American Plutocratically-driven system, an ethos only matters if it works in favor of the Plutocrats. Until the money-in-politics problem it solved, the Democrats will merely sound better than the Republicans without being practically different or able to fix any Republican bugfuckery. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2022, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2347 "2022-05-31T01:22:16Z")
A fine jib-cut. ---
**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 31, 2022, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2348 "2022-05-31T04:33:26Z")
Kandiss Taylor, who came in third with only 3.4% of the Georgia Republican primary vote for Governor, is refusing to concede and claims the election was rigged. David Perdue, who got 21.8% of the vote, conceded on election night. > **[Trump loyalist who lost Georgia governor primary with just 3.4% of the vote...](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-loyalist-kandiss-taylor-georgia-primary-vote-wont-concede-2022-5)** > > Kandiss Taylor came third in Georgia's GOP primary election, losing to Brian Kemp by more than 70 points. Despite this, she is refusing to concede. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2022, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2349 "2022-05-31T05:13:39Z")
From article on Taylor: > [@](#): > > Taylor ran her campaign on a “Jesus, Guns, Babies” platform, [Insider previously reported.](https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-kandiss-taylor-says-church-rules-the-state-of-georgia-2022-5?r=US&IR=T) During an anti-abortion speech last week she criticized the separation of church and state, a principle that has underpinned US democracy since the American Revolution. “We are the church! We run this state,” Taylor said. Well bless that theocratic little shitstain’s heart. That could almost be sung to “We are the World”. (I can see Chris Elliot histrionically clutching headphones, givin’er.) Bad enough Lauren Boebert has to remind me of a slightly more PCP-ish Sarah Palin, now this plonk comes along and has to remind me of 1921-Tulsa Gabbard. (going more on looks, there, considering I doubt Babs is as much of a Jesus louse as the other dipshit is.) ---
**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:** [May 31, 2022, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2350 "2022-05-31T08:50:00Z")
Her slogan always sets off a Warren Zevon earworm for me: “Send Jesus, guns and babies!” ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2351 "2022-05-31T09:36:52Z")
I read it as “Jesus guns babies”, which is an aspect of Christianity I was not aware of. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2022, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2352 "2022-05-31T10:13:50Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > God forbid that a police officer might have twisted an ankle running away. As if running with bone spurs weren’t bad enough already. ---
**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 31, 2022, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2353 "2022-05-31T12:24:47Z")
_Jesus_ said, “Let the little _children_ come to _me_ , and do not hinder them, for my aim’s not all that good." ---
**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 31, 2022, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2354 "2022-05-31T12:48:08Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > _Jesus_ said, “Let the little _children_ come to _me_ , and do not hinder them, for my aim’s not all that good."- The holes in the hands really interfere with getting a firm grip. ---
**Author:** ![HotDogWater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@HotDogWater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HotDogWater)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2355 "2022-05-31T13:24:46Z")
Jesus can’t play rugby 'cause the ball goes though his hands! ---
**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 31, 2022, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2356 "2022-05-31T13:46:52Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > The holes in the hands really interfere with getting a firm grip. I offer the cinematic masterpiece Guns Akimbo” as rebuttal depending on the combination of “Guns” and “Jesus.” ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2357 "2022-05-31T15:45:03Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > the problem and danger posed by feral pigs, so it is a thing. More people were killed in Uvalde than have been killed by feral pigs in 100 years. ---
**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 31, 2022, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2358 "2022-05-31T17:24:47Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Her slogan always sets off a Warren Zevon earworm for me: “Send Jesus, guns and babies!” The shit has hit the fan. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2022, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2359 "2022-05-31T18:11:15Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > as “Jesus guns babies”, which is an aspect of Christianity I was not aware of. Eh… it’s a sort of revival of the early “Jesus spears babies” and “Jesus slings babies” heresies that we mostly supressed way back… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2360 "2022-05-31T19:18:59Z")
This apparently got swallowed by the Uvalde shooting, but Representative Lauren Boebert apparently decided she wasn’t getting enough attention so: [https://thehill.com/homenews/house/590717-boebert-asked-jewish-visitors-to-capitol-if-they-were-doing-reconnaissance/](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/590717-boebert-asked-jewish-visitors-to-capitol-if-they-were-doing-reconnaissance/) > [@](#): > > Boebert is said to have seen the group of visitors on Thursday, looked at them “head to toe” and asked if they were visiting the Capitol to do “reconnaissance,” one person who saw the interaction told the outlet. > [@](#): > > Boebert told the outlet the question was in jest and that she made it as a dig against Democrats who accused her of conducting large tours for people days before the Capitol riot happened. …“was in jest.” Why am I not laughing? ---
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