# 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:** 179
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3562 "2022-08-02T01:01:10Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity Do you think their copies of the Constitution have a typo? Maybe they think it says, > secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our **Prosperity** ---
**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:** [August 2, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3563 "2022-08-02T01:16:34Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > There are three candidates named Eric in the running So it’s sort of like betting the field in horse racing. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2022, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3564 "2022-08-02T01:24:20Z")
At least no half-bees. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3565 "2022-08-02T02:32:54Z")
I notice he didn’t actually endorse “Eric.” He endorsed “ERIC.” Perhaps he is recommending the [Education Resources Information Center](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Resources_Information_Center) for the office. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3566 "2022-08-02T02:36:56Z")
[Eric the half-a-bee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2maz36_q6Fk). ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3567 "2022-08-02T02:49:10Z")
I’m going with Greiten, seems like his kind of guy. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3568 "2022-08-02T03:33:06Z")
We have some doofus running for governor who is very _concerned_ about our childrens’ education. He doesn’t “Co-parent with the government” and is very upset about transpeople reading stories to children at school. There is more idiocy in the commercial, but I digress. His parting “shot” is that his pronouns are "conservative … and a few other words that are _ **NOT** _ pronouns. This joker has the balls to question people reading to kids. At least these folks might actually be able to read and understand the parts of speech. ---
**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 2, 2022, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3569 "2022-08-02T05:04:48Z")
Senator Tim Scott says he is not running for President, even though his own book is saying he is. > **[Tim Scott denies plotting presidential bid despite own book saying he is](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/01/republican-senator-tim-scott-presidential-bid-memoir-book)** > > Publisher of America: a Redemption Story accepts blame for text that says senator ‘preparing to make presidential bid in 2022’ ---
**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 2, 2022, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3570 "2022-08-02T08:47:40Z")
> [@SwissMan](#): > > there’ll be renewed calls on the right to persecute gay/trans teachers. You mean they’ve stopped calling for that? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3571 "2022-08-02T12:08:54Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > even though his own book is saying he is. “Oh, that’s just a typo.” ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3572 "2022-08-02T13:47:56Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I am praying that Majorly Traitor Greene gets monkeypox and becomes horribly disfigured How would we be able to tell? ---
**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:** [August 2, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3573 "2022-08-02T14:09:59Z")
Lauren Boebert argues against a ban on assault weapons because those guns were taken away from the citizens of Venezuela and now Venezuelans eat their dogs. You absolutely cannot make up this shit. > **[Lauren Boebert’s Conspiracy Theory About Guns, Dogs, And Venezuela](https://uproxx.com/viral/lauren-boebert-guns-dogs-venezuela/)** > > Rootin’ tootin’ Lauren Boebert is making zero sense while arguing that Americans need their assault weapons, gosh dang it. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3574 "2022-08-02T17:13:12Z")
Miss, step away from the crack pipe, please. ---
**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 2, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3575 "2022-08-02T18:02:13Z")
Georgia has declared that fetuses can be declared as dependents on their parents’ state taxes. > **[Embryos can be listed as dependents on tax returns, Georgia rules](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/02/georgia-embyros-tax-dependents-fetus)** > > Taxpayers in the state will be able to claim tax exemption for ‘any unborn child with a detectable human heartbeat’ ---
**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, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3576 "2022-08-02T18:23:25Z")
From your link: > [@](#): > > Anthony Michael Kreis, a Georgia State University law professor and political scientist, tweeted that some pregnancies detected within six weeks of gestation “result in natural miscarriages”, which could leave the Georgia’s treasury “handing out a lot of cash for pregnancies that would never come to term.” Good. [I am already on record](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-it-have-to-be-all-or-nothing-with-abortion/963939/176) as stating that the embryo-personhood position needs to entail automatic tax credits: > [@](#): > > At the very least, it should follow that everyone who could possibly get pregnant should automatically get a child tax credit every year. > > Under current regulations, a child who dies shortly after birth may still qualify for a child tax credit. And “undetected pregnancies”, which are terminated by an early miscarriage without anybody realizing that a pregnancy ever occurred, are not at all uncommon. > > If every fertilized ovum, no matter how short-lived, is now to be considered a fully human person, then anybody who conceived and carried one for even the briefest space of time is entitled to parental benefits. The requirement that the claimed “person” has to demonstrate “a detectable human heartbeat” in order to qualify for an exemption is blatant age-related discrimination against younger embryos, IMHO, and I think Georgia needs to be sued for it. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3577 "2022-08-02T18:27:23Z")
Won’t _somebody_ think of the blastulas? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3578 "2022-08-02T18:54:37Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > The requirement that the claimed “person” has to demonstrate “a detectable human heartbeat” in order to qualify for an exemption is blatant age-related discrimination against younger embryos, IMHO, and I think Georgia needs to be sued for it. For the first time in my life, I want to be an attorney so that I could participate in this lawsuit. It would be the bestest suit ever. ---
**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, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3579 "2022-08-02T18:54:43Z")
I may not have a neural tube yet, but dammit, my embryonic germ disc has started to elevate, so I want my tax credit! ---
**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:** [August 2, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3580 "2022-08-02T19:56:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Georgia has declared that fetuses can be declared as dependents on their parents’ state taxes. The next article will state that Georgia has removed tax exemptions for dependents. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/3581 "2022-08-02T19:56:57Z")
Let’s take it a step farther, shall we? Some tests can determine pregnancy as early as 10 days after conception. ISTM that a positive pregnancy test is proof of a ‘person’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=178) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=180)