# 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:** 124
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2462 "2022-06-03T22:43:45Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Louie Gohmert says Republicans are being persecuted just for lying to the FBI. That has to be the dumbest thing said on the internet today. Well done! ---
**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:** [June 3, 2022, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2463 "2022-06-03T22:48:07Z")
How dare you question the integrity of his asparagus! ---
**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:** [June 3, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2464 "2022-06-03T23:05:40Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Louie Gohmert says Republicans are being persecuted just for lying to the FBI. > > [x.com](https://mobile.twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1532776813692342272) I mean, if you’re a Republican, you can’t even rob a bank without them coming after you! It’s a total double standard! ---
**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:** [June 3, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2465 "2022-06-03T23:44:44Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > It’s a total double standard! I’d settle for any standards from them at all. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2466 "2022-06-04T02:18:30Z")
[Here is Part 5 of the story on a blog that focused (or used to) on Korea](http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2005/07/dog-poop-girl-redux.html); the beginning of Part 5 has links to the other four parts. In short, the woman withdrew from university and posted an apology online. In her apology she threatened to commit suicide if the netizens continued to harass her. AFAIK, she’s still alive. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2022, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2467 "2022-06-04T21:26:29Z")
Rudy Giuliani: “The arrest of Peter Navarro and the failure to arrest Biden and his sons means we live in a Democrat police state.” I saw it on Reddit, quoted from Individual 1’s site, which I don’t have access to, nor do I want to have access to. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2468 "2022-06-04T21:39:03Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I’d settle for any standards from them at all. Most of them are so fat that you couldn’t even skewer them from standards. ( Not that I’ve tried… ) ---
**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:** [June 4, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2469 "2022-06-04T23:17:15Z")
> **[Lindsey Graham slammed over clueless idea to hire vets to protect schools...](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/3/2102125/-Lindsey-Graham-slammed-over-clueless-idea-to-hire-vets-to-protect-schools-from-mass-shootings?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main)** > > Sen. Lindsey Graham took time away from stuffing his face with free food at Mar-a-Lago to parrot the NRA, GOP, and Donald Trump’s position that the best way to protect schools from gun violence is to turn them into military prisons. Trump’s stance... > Sen. Lindsey Graham took time away from [stuffing his face with free food at Mar-a-Lago](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/7/2056740/-Tell-all-book-paints-Sen-Lindsey-Graham-as-a-freeloader-who-would-stuff-his-face-with-food) to parrot the NRA, GOP, and Donald Trump’s position that the best way to protect schools from gun violence is to turn them into military prisons. Trump’s stance after 17 students and teachers died at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida was to [propose arming 20% of schoolteachers as well as hiring veterans to be armed school guards.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/02/21/trumps-solution-for-school-shootings-arm-teachers/) > > On Friday, Sen. Lindsey Graham went to his Twitter account to [propose](https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1532754223062040578) reintroducing the idea of veterans who already have a brutal time not getting [mental health support from the GOP](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/10/23/1249904/-GOP-s-actual-track-record-on-supporting-veterans) becoming gun-carrying school security. “We have hundreds of thousands of well-trained former military members who could bring a lot to the table in terms of school security. [Reserve Officers Training Corps] ROTC instructors with firearms training should be allowed to possess weapons to enhance school security,” Graham wrote, in a four-post thread. This coming from one of the highest-ranking officials in the political party that has [consistently chipped away at, delayed, and fought against funding and expanding health care to our country’s veterans.](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/24/1735632/-Republicans-are-holding-the-healthcare-of-9-million-veterans-hostage) > … Damn-- Lindsay just can’t get anny respeck! And him with such good ideas, too! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2470 "2022-06-05T08:54:22Z")
Ron DeSantis has [bullied the Special Olympics](https://occupydemocrats.com/2022/06/04/special-bully-florida-gov-ron-desantis-threatens-the-special-olympics-into-submission/) into dropping their vax mandate by saying that they would face more than $27.5 million in fines for breaking state law. Ironically, he was named co-chair of the Special Olympics in 2021. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2022, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2471 "2022-06-05T20:18:28Z")
Herschel Walker’s staffers are giving away free gasoline to voters to vote for Walker. This is a violation of federal law. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2022, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2472 "2022-06-05T20:26:02Z")
North Carolina’s crazy Lieutenant Governor says he owns multiple AR15s in case he needs to overthrow the government. How crazy is he? The governor of North Carolina decided not to run for the Senate, because he didn’t want the crazy Lieutenant Governor to take over as Governor. > **[North Carolina’s Robinson faces pushback after AR-15 rhetoric](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/north-carolinas-robinson-faces-pushback-ar-15-rhetoric-rcna31411)** > > North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson said he owns AR-15s "in case the government gets too big for its britches." Gov. Roy Cooper was not pleased. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2473 "2022-06-05T21:36:43Z")
I read Robinson’s Wikipedia article. This guy is fucking NUTS. He’s perhaps the worst homophobe I’ve ever met. I’m not even going to justify his hatred by repeating it here. Look it up yourself if you don’t believe me. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2022, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2474 "2022-06-05T23:16:34Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > … [bullied the Special Olympics](https://occupydemocrats.com/2022/06/04/special-bully-florida-gov-ron-desantis-threatens-the-special-olympics-into-submission/) into dropping their vax mandate by saying that they would face more than $27.5 million in fines for breaking state law … [better still](https://deadspin.com/desantis-pulls-rays-funding-after-gun-control-tweets-d-1849019591) > [@](#): > > … (DeShithead) vetoed $35 million in state funding that would have gone to a youth sports complex in the Tampa area that the team would also use as a player development facility. This veto appears to have been directly in response to the Tampa Bay Rays’ gameday tweets last weekend about gun violence and the announcement of the club’s $50,000 donation to Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit organization dedicated to gun reform … I suspect there may be some left to scrape from the bottom of the barrel, but not much. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2475 "2022-06-05T23:25:12Z")
Someone needs to liberate Florida from this asshole. VOTE HIM OUT! And don’t vote him in for president. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2476 "2022-06-05T23:33:00Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Someone needs to liberate Florida from this asshole. VOTE HIM OUT! Won’t someone free us of this turbulent man of priests (“DeSantis”)? ---
**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:** [June 5, 2022, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2477 "2022-06-05T23:41:09Z")
The thought occurred to me to phrase it similar to that, but the person who actually said that in Shakespeare (or was it real life?) was asking for someone to take that priest out of this _world,_ and wishing death upon the bastard is inappropriate for the board. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2478 "2022-06-05T23:46:55Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > …the person who actually said that in Shakespeare (or was it real life?) I’m sure T. S. Eliot would be flattered by the comparison. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2479 "2022-06-05T23:57:15Z")
So basically DeSantis has adopted Putinist business development policy (please the party in power, and you can keep your corporate benefits, or else your business will be punished) as the official GOP policy? Good to see such an admission. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2480 "2022-06-06T00:00:49Z")
Red party indeed, and more red with each passing election cycle. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2022, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2481 "2022-06-06T01:47:28Z")
Clearly that is what he is doing but how is this not illegal? It seems the targets would have decent grounds for lawsuits that he is targetting them for pilitical purposes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=123) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=125)