# 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:** 178
**Author:** ![omenran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omenran/32/3318_2.png) [@omenran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omenran)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3542 "2022-08-01T08:24:40Z")
The only Blacksburg I know of is in Virginia, not Kentucky. Though a Google search reveals another in South Carolina. Not that changes your point. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3543 "2022-08-01T08:47:53Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > He’s prayin’ for them – does that count? What, no thoughts? ---
**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:** [August 1, 2022, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3544 "2022-08-01T10:21:34Z")
I think you misunderstood. I was making a joke about skin color based on the name of the town. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2022, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3545 "2022-08-01T11:16:15Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Steve Bannon went all “MAGA is diverse and inclusive” and Lara Loomer criticized him because diversity is bad. Yes, prioritizing national unity over the rights of individuals has always been a [central tenet](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/fascism-1) for many folks on the right… > [@Smapti](#): > > I assume Lara doesn’t consider her Jewishness to be “diverse”. …but being Jewish, not so much. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3546 "2022-08-01T17:51:35Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > but being Jewish, not so much. There are Christian Nationalists who don’t want Jews in their organization. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3547 "2022-08-01T17:53:05Z")
Marge Greene says people should laugh at monkeypox because it only afflicts “some people”. We know who those “some people” are. > **[MTG Says People Should 'Laugh At' Monkeypox Because It Only Affects 'Some...](https://www.comicsands.com/mtg-laugh-at-monkeypox-gay-2657738751.html)** > > Marjorie Taylor Greene was criticized after she said that people should "laugh" at an ongoing monkeypox outbreak in the United States because it only affects "some people," referring to gay men. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3548 "2022-08-01T18:17:59Z")
As noted on Twitter, once school starts and some kids start coming down with monkeypox, there’ll be renewed calls on the right to persecute gay/trans teachers. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2022, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3549 "2022-08-01T19:43:32Z")
West Virginia state legislators are considering ending child support, so that men won’t pressure women into having an abortion. > **[WV GOP lawmaker uses abortion to try and justify men not paying child support](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/31/2113751/-WV-GOP-lawmaker-uses-abortion-to-try-and-justify-men-not-paying-child-support)** > > His name is Chris Pritt of Pritt Law, which specializes in things such as divorce, custody and child support. I’m just going to submit this without comment. A 12-year-old girl, whose video went viral, begged the GOP lawmakers to not go through... ---
**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:** [August 1, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3550 "2022-08-01T19:56:52Z")
So instead, he’s saving other men the trouble, by pressuring women himself to have abortions. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3551 "2022-08-01T21:04:42Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > West Virginia state legislators are considering ending child support, so that men won’t pressure women into having an abortion. Translation: “Hey rich Republican donors! Are you nervous about your mistress being forced to carry your offspring? Afraid you’ll be on the hook for child support? We’ve got you covered buddy!” ---
**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:** [August 1, 2022, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3552 "2022-08-01T22:55:48Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > > West Virginia state legislators are considering ending child support, so that men won’t pressure women into having an abortion. > > Translation: > > “Hey rich Republican donors! Are you nervous about your mistress being forced to carry your offspring? Afraid you’ll be on the hook for child support? We’ve got you covered buddy!” - That might well prove to be the most successful messaging by the Republican Party in _decades._ > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Gym Jordan says it’s wrong for Republicans to work on bills endorsed by Biden. > [Jim Jordan: 'Wrong' for Senate GOP to Work With Dems on Biden-Backed Bills](https://www.businessinsider.com/jim-jordan-kevin-mccarthy-senate-republicans-biden-endorsed-legislation-2022-7) So the actual official-and-ethical job of a member of Congress, in any year in which a member of a party not their own is President, is to do _ **nothing** _ except collect their paychecks? I’m pretty sure that’s not in the Constitution. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3553 "2022-08-01T23:17:12Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > So the actual official-and-ethical job of a member of Congress, in any year in which a member of a party not their own is President, is to do _ **nothing** _ except collect their paychecks? > > I’m pretty sure that’s not in the Constitution. - “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” 😉 ---
**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:** [August 1, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3554 "2022-08-01T23:24:34Z")
Didn’t Klanswoman Perjury Traitor Greene tweet earlier that children have gotten monkeypox? So now she thinks children can be Gay? ---
**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:** [August 1, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3555 "2022-08-01T23:26:09Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” - > 😉 They could have saved 16 characters-and-spaces by substituting “cash” for “Blessings of Liberty”, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3556 "2022-08-02T00:28:37Z")
> [@SwissMan](#): > > As noted on Twitter, once school starts and some kids start coming down with monkeypox, there’ll be renewed calls on the right to persecute gay/trans teachers. And since [the current number of confirmed US cases is nearly 6000](https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/us-map.html), up from AFAICT less than 500 as of July 27, she’s kidding herself if she imagines that there aren’t going to be a lot of her supporters who get it. Especially given how anti-vax they tend to be. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3557 "2022-08-02T00:32:17Z")
I am praying that Majorly Traitor Greene gets monkeypox and becomes horribly disfigured, to the point where children who see her gasp with horror and start to cry. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3558 "2022-08-02T00:34:07Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I am praying that Majorly Traitor Greene gets monkeypox and becomes horribly disfigured, to the point where children who see her gasp with horror and start to cry. - [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wUJccK4lV74/maxresdefault.jpg "The Princess Bride (12/12) Movie CLIP - To the Pain! (1987) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUJccK4lV74) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3559 "2022-08-02T00:36:56Z")
THAT’S IT! (no discourse, this post is not unclear. Get a grip.) ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3560 "2022-08-02T00:40:49Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > to the point where children who see her gasp with horror and start to cry. They already do that. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3561 "2022-08-02T00:54:54Z")
Loser Donald has endorsed “Eric” in the Missouri Senate race. There are three candidates named Eric in the running - Eric Greitens, Eric Schmitt, and Eric McElroy. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZG6w-qWIAEwUR0?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZG6w-qWIAEwUR0?format=jpg&name=medium) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=177) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=179)