# 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:** 12
**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 14, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/221 "2022-02-14T18:50:37Z")
I saw what you did here. (Or “there”) ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/222 "2022-02-14T18:51:11Z")
Yeah, it’s a booby. I still don’t get why it’d be a perfect mascot for the “Washington Sexual Anarchists.” How do boobs represent sexual anarchy? #wayoverthinkingthis ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/223 "2022-02-14T18:52:51Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I saw what you did here. (Or “there”) I knew _that_! I didn’t get the joke that prompted it! ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/224 "2022-02-14T18:55:05Z")
> [@irae](#): > > Pretty sure Biden can identify a camel, and memorize a series of 5 words… > > [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-biden-mental-health-roger-marshall-1299500/](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-biden-mental-health-roger-marshall-1299500/) I’ve sat in on my mom doing that cognitive test a few times in the last few years. Watching Trump brag about passing it was just mind-boggling. For anyone who isn’t suffering from mental impairment, it’s a ridiculously easy test. That’s sort of the whole point. I’m convinced that part of the assessment is “When the person first sees the test, do they get offended at the suggestion that passing this test might be hard for them?” That Trump brags about “passing the test” with his usual, “Sir, how did you do that?” anecdotes about baffled doctors is just…wow. ---
**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 14, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/225 "2022-02-14T19:04:39Z")
One Twitter user used the n word to describe the Super Bowl halftime show. Twitter took his post down, but did not block his account. The guy is followed by Ted Cruz and John Cornyn. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/226 "2022-02-14T19:11:50Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Did she think of England? She was probably thinking of Greece while looking at Turkey… ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/227 "2022-02-14T19:49:53Z")
Like bragging about getting 100% on an STD screening. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/228 "2022-02-14T20:02:49Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > The one line I remember is, “I was fucking Canada…” Not “I was fucking Canadas” ? ---
**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 14, 2022, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/229 "2022-02-14T23:34:05Z")
Candidate for US Representative from Nevada says the seat of government should be moved from Washington DC to Kansas. [https://twitter.com/Noah4NV/status/1492242303666118663?t=egYrrq\_Lfg6uUAKIwLrWTA&s=19](https://twitter.com/Noah4NV/status/1492242303666118663?t=egYrrq_Lfg6uUAKIwLrWTA&s=19) ---
**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:** [February 15, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/230 "2022-02-15T02:17:25Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Candidate for US Representative from Nevada says the seat of government should be moved from Washington DC to Kansas. - > > [https://twitter.com/Noah4NV/status/1492242303666118663?t=egYrrq\_Lfg6uUAKIwLrWTA&s=19](https://twitter.com/Noah4NV/status/1492242303666118663?t=egYrrq_Lfg6uUAKIwLrWTA&s=19) All those tornadoes will keep new swamp from forming. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2022, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/231 "2022-02-15T03:40:34Z")
That is a pretty stupid idea. if you want to move the capital to the middle of the country, Warroad Minnesota would be more like it. Or maybe New Salem ND. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/232 "2022-02-15T04:18:41Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > All those tornadoes will keep new swamp from forming. Any chance that we could make it, “Lawrence Kansas”? That way we could withstand a partial nuclear strike, only lose a few of the stupider “Fly Over” ( Waste Of Time ) hick states like the cannon fodder that they are. Maybe next time we can repopulate those states with non-treasonous, educated in actual schools, human beings who will on occasion… eat fish ( brain food ). ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/233 "2022-02-15T04:22:13Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > Any chance that we could make it, “Lawrence Kansas”? I think it would be more fun to put it in Liberal, Kansas. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/234 "2022-02-15T12:34:31Z")
Come on, clearly the only way to protect the Capital from treasonous “Americans” is to put it in a completely different country, on a completely different continent. Do you think anyone is using Moscow right now? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/235 "2022-02-15T13:22:26Z")
Obviously it needs to be Lebanon KS, the geographic center of the (continental) US. Definitely not Lawrence - traffic is bad enough as it is. ETA: Also there is a large wetlands area south of town. You wouldn’t be draining the swamp, just relocating it. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2022, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/236 "2022-02-15T13:35:53Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > ETA: Also there is a large wetlands area south of town. You wouldn’t be draining the swamp, just relocating it. - Your proposal is…acceptable. [https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/state-lhp:3153/datastream/JPG/view](https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/state-lhp:3153/datastream/JPG/view) ---
**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 15, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/237 "2022-02-15T15:09:51Z")
How about an annual national lottery where cities buy chances to compete for the prize of being the nation’s capital _for one year_? That way we can eliminate taxes on the wealthy but still have a pretty much unending source of revenue for trivial, boring stuff like, oh, highways, nuclear weapons, holding elections, the Government Printing Office, and running the lottery itself (job creation!). Of course, we have to keep taxing the middle class and the poor, because… well, it would be un-American to give _them_ a free ride, amirite? I mean, they haven’t earned any privileges, and besides, if God liked them, he would have made them get born-ed into rich families. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/238 "2022-02-15T16:13:15Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > How about an annual national lottery where cities buy chances to compete for the prize of being the nation’s capital _for one year_ ? Won’t work; all the sensible cities would refuse to buy tickets. They’d be smart enough to know what a shit show being the capital would be. What you need is to buy tickets to _avoid_ being the capital. Whichever city buys the fewest tickets on a per capita basis gets stuck with it. ---
**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 15, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/239 "2022-02-15T16:29:08Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > …all the sensible cities would refuse to buy tickets… **That** , my friend is a _feature_, not a problem. Sensible cities are no fun, everybody knows that. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/240 "2022-02-15T16:37:56Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > How about an annual national lottery where cities buy chances to compete for the prize of being the nation’s capital _for one year_ ? I will go you one better: a lottery for Congressional seats. Divide the country into 13 districts from each of which 13 Representatives are chosen by lot. If’n you want a chance at being in Congress, you buy a $5 ticket and hope your number comes up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=13)