# 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:** 133
**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 12, 2022, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2642 "2022-06-12T22:53:27Z")
Dr Oz said that he’s working to crack down on “illegal immigrants.” The company owned by his wife’s family, in which he is a partial owner, was fined $95 million by ICE in the largest “illegal immigrant” importing scheme it has ever encountered. > **[Family company of Dr. Oz had largest fine in ICE history](https://nypost.com/2022/02/12/family-company-of-dr-oz-had-largest-fine-in-ice-history/)** > > The fine against Asplundh Tree Experts Co. was the largest ever levied in ICE history according to a 2017 agency press release. ---
**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 12, 2022, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2643 "2022-06-12T22:59:15Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Lauren Boebert was cheered at a Christian center when she quoted Psalm 109:8, ‘May his days be few and another take his office.’ Hallelujah! Glory to God," referring to Biden. > [GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert Says She Prays That Biden's 'Days Be Few'](https://www.businessinsider.com/lauren-boebert-she-prays-psalm-1098-bidens-days-be-few-2022-6) There is no doubt she was calling for Biden’s death: the verses 8 and 9 of Psalm 109 go: > [@](#): > > 8: Let his days be few; and let another take his office. > 9: Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. We often joke about “IOKWARDI,”\* but the normalization of calls for violence is proceeding at a pace that seems to be accelerating. > .\* It’s OK When a Republican Does It. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2644 "2022-06-13T00:48:48Z")
Huh, I never knew Dr. Oz was connected to Asplundh. Also doesn’t surprise me in the least that that company was using undocumented immigrants to trim trees. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2645 "2022-06-13T00:58:34Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > “{…} _During an interview with local TV station WVVA, Porterfield, wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, gave an odd answer when asked what he would do if he had a son or daughter who was gay._ > _“Well, I will address my daughter first. I would take her for a pedicure, I’d take her to get her nails done, and see if she could swim,” Porterfield said while smiling. “If it was my son, I would probably take him hunting, I would take him fishing, then I’d see if he could swim.”_ > _“I just want to make sure they could swim,” he said when asked to clarify his comments._ {…}” And fuckers like him get elected? Jesus. ---
**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 13, 2022, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2646 "2022-06-13T09:08:37Z")
I believe I’ve mentioned it here over the hiatus of competency in the executive branch: today’s republicans get elected because they no longer have a quite part; they just say what their deplorable base wants to say out loud themselves. Those voters elect people like him because that’s exactly what they think they’d do in that situation. ---
**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 13, 2022, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2647 "2022-06-13T11:40:18Z")
As a rebuke to “Let’s Go Brandon”-here’s [a sweet story about how that stupid slogan actually helped someone.](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10809693/Autistic-boy-named-Brandon-came-shell-seeing-crowd-Lets-Brandon-flags.html) ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2648 "2022-06-13T16:28:15Z")
Apparently [Eliot didn’t write that](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_turbulent_priest%3F), so I don’t think he would be. Robert Dodsley would maybe be flattered by being confused with Eliot, though. ---
**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 13, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2649 "2022-06-13T16:34:08Z")
Peter Hedgseth of Fox was complaining about how the right wingers in Idaho got arrested by Black Lives Matter protestors weren’t arrested for “burning down cities” (apparently none of them, ever). > **[Peter Hegseth Makes Infuriating Comment On Hate Group's Arrest Near Pride Parade](https://www.yahoo.com/news/peter-hegseth-makes-infuriating-hate-131424859.html)** > > The Fox News host strayed off-topic on "Fox & Friends Weekend." ---
**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 13, 2022, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2650 "2022-06-13T23:03:20Z")
De Santis says “will not tolerate hatred towards the LGBTQ” community". Isn’t he the one leading the hatred? > **[Ron DeSantis “will not tolerate hatred towards LGBTQ” people after fomenting...](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/ron-desantis-will-not-tolerate-hatred-towards-lgbtq-people-fomenting-hatred-year/)** > > "This was as sincere as David Duke observing Holocaust Remembrance Day... ---
**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 13, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2651 "2022-06-13T23:15:10Z")
Hypocrite. ---
**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 13, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2652 "2022-06-13T23:26:46Z")
‘We don’t hate them, we just want to end their existence… in the nicest way possible of course.’ ---
**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 13, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2653 "2022-06-13T23:28:34Z")
Doug Mastroiano has hired Individual One lawyer Jenna Ellis on his campaign staff. > **[Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis joins legal team for Penn. GOP hopeful](https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-lawyer-jenna-ellis-joins-legal-team-penn-gop-hopeful-2022-06-13/)** > > Jenna Ellis, who was among the most high-profile attorneys involved in the Trump campaign’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, has joined Pennsylvania Republican Doug Mastriano’s gubernatorial campaign as a senior legal adviser, the... ---
**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 13, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2654 "2022-06-13T23:33:27Z")
Marge Greene says there is a shortage of tampons because trans women are using them. > **['Everything's true on the internet': Marjorie Taylor Greene boasts a totally...](https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/marjorie-taylor-greene-tampon-shortage)** > > United States Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) appeared on the Right Side Broadcasting Network on Monday and weighed in on the nationwide shortage of tampons. "Men have taken over everything. They're 'women of the year' in every... ---
**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:** [June 14, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2655 "2022-06-14T01:28:25Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > You left out the part where the Qargo Qult was expecting JFK to proclaim himself the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Hey, is there a follow up to how that JFK/Jesus/Maga/Second Coming bullshit worked out? I mean, it happened, right? Surely it happened as advertised. Only someone taking advantage of stupid people would have it any other way. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2656 "2022-06-14T09:49:57Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Marge Greene says there is a shortage of tampons because trans women are using them. I cannot even begin to parse the ways she is an idiot. Is she concerned about transmen using them? Because transmen may need them anyway depending on their state of transition and putting them in men’s bathrooms makes sense (and it just means fewer being used from women’s bathrooms if these transmen would otherwise have to get them from the women’s bathrooms). Is she concerned about transwomen using them? Because transwomen don’t need tampons and don’t use them so that’s just idiotic. Is she concerned that there is a huge volume of unused tampons just sitting around in men’s bathrooms while elsewhere there is a shortage? Somehow I doubt it but any men here can let me know if this is the case. I just can’t deal. My IQ drops 20 points every time I hear her. ---
**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 14, 2022, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2657 "2022-06-14T11:05:18Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > My IQ drops 20 points every time I hear her. That’s how it spreads. Like pod people. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2022, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2658 "2022-06-14T11:45:38Z")
> A quick search revealed that Greene was making it all up. Can I nominate this as the least necessary line ever written in a news article? ---
**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 14, 2022, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2659 "2022-06-14T12:02:08Z")
I think that the idea is that there are some small number of transwomen (i.e., anatomically male and psychologically female) who buy tampons and then find various nonstandard ways of using them (such as rectally), because doing so makes them feel “more feminine”. Which probably does happen occasionally, because there are a lot of people out there, with a lot of ideas that seem weird to most of us. But that’s only a very small fraction of transwomen, who are already a very small fraction of the population: It’d represent an increase in demand for tampons of much less than a percent. There’s no way, in anything remotely resembling a sane market, that such a minuscule increase in demand could cause shortages. ---
**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 14, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2660 "2022-06-14T13:11:24Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > …find various nonstandard ways of using them (such as rectally)… 1. 🤯 2. EWWWWW!! ---
**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:** [June 14, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2661 "2022-06-14T14:15:59Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > there is a huge volume of unused tampons just sitting around in men’s bathrooms while elsewhere there is a shortage Yep, right beside the pallets of baby formula. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=132) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=134)