# 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:** 19
**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:** [February 20, 2022, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/361 "2022-02-20T07:42:19Z")
Candace Owens thinks the US should invade Canada. > ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2022, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/362 "2022-02-20T11:07:08Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Not so farfetched as one might think: I recall reading that something similar was routine (at least for a time) in Romania during the Ceaușescu regime. The rationale _(sic)_ was that the birthrate needed to be increased, so every potential conception had to be tracked. And 20-odd years later, all those children they forced into being were the ones who brought that regime down. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2022, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/363 "2022-02-20T11:57:49Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > And 20-odd years later, all those children they forced into being were the ones who brought that regime down. It’s been 33 years. > **[Nicolae Ceaușescu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu)** > > Nicolae Ceaușescu (/tʃaʊˈʃɛskuː/ chow-SHESK-oo, .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Romanian: \[nikoˈla.e tʃe̯a.uˈʃesku\] ⓘ; 5 February \[O.S. 23 January\] 1918 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician and statesman. He was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and the second and last commu... ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2022, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/364 "2022-02-20T12:22:38Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > It’s been 33 years. > > [Nicolae Ceaușescu - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu) 20-odd years after he imposed the policy. ---
**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 20, 2022, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/366 "2022-02-20T19:52:54Z")
AOC just lives in the crazy right wing’s heads. Fucker Carlson tried to claim that she’s lying about being a person of color. And Fox posted on their website that, horrors, she flew first class. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/367 "2022-02-20T20:40:02Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > AOC just lives in the crazy right wing’s heads. Fucker Carlson tried to claim that she’s lying about being a person of color. And Fox posted on their website that, horrors, she flew first class.   And she can _dance_! What evil decadence these lefty Dems wreak among us! ---
**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 20, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/368 "2022-02-20T20:56:20Z")
The GOP doesn’t understand that if drugs are being seized at the border, it means that border patrol is doing its job. "Illicit drugs are flowing into the country at an alarming rate because of Biden’s open border. 839 pounds of deadly fentanyl was seized at the southern border in January alone." > ---
**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:** [February 20, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/369 "2022-02-20T21:47:48Z")
Is there non-deadly fentanyl? ---
**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 20, 2022, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/370 "2022-02-20T22:33:30Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The GOP doesn’t understand that if drugs are being seized at the border, it means that border patrol is doing its job. Isn’t the implication something along the lines of “If they’re seizing 839 pounds, just imagine how much they’re _not_ seizing!”? (Doesn’t make it any less obnoxious, but it might not be completely stupid.) ---
**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 20, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/371 "2022-02-20T23:49:16Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > They are already the pro-rape party. No abortions, gift from Og, etc… Chad boys! Chad boys! Watcha gonna do? Watcha gonna do When they come for you…? ---
**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:** [February 21, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/372 "2022-02-21T00:13:30Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The GOP doesn’t understand that if drugs are being seized at the border, it means that border patrol is doing its job. > "Illicit drugs are flowing into the country at an alarming rate because of Biden’s open border. > > 839 pounds of deadly fentanyl was seized at the southern border in January alone." > [https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1495395062364184576](https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1495395062364184576) I guess the right got tired of being mocked for their “caravan” stories, so as a supplement we’re now getting “Mexican fentanyl” stories–as seen in this tweet from Putin shill and all-around Bad Republican Idea J. D. Vance: [https://twitter.com/JDVancePress/status/1495082561902678024](https://twitter.com/JDVancePress/status/1495082561902678024) Speaking of caravans, Ted Cruz, Mike Flynn, Facebook, and other opponents of the USA are trying to make “disrupt the supply chain and the US economy in general” happen: > [@](#): > > …The American convoy organizers have been careful to project a populist, grassroots image of “everyday patriots” uniting to protest government overreach. Yet behind the scenes, some of them have connections to powerful organizers on the far right. … > > …The People’s Convoy, whose official Telegram organizing page has more than 46,000 followers, is now rallying people to leave from Barstow, California, on February 23, with plans to travel to Washington, DC. … > > … some of the movement’s leaders have extensive backgrounds in right-wing organizing. A far less visible People’s Convoy organizer is Leigh Dundas, an activist and attorney who has worked closely with the anti-vaccine group Freedom Angels. Dundas, who describes herself as a human rights lawyer and is a member of the Church of Scientology, has used Nazi imagery in previous protests. … > **[All the US convoy extremists need now are some actual truckers](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/us-convoy-planners-truckers-american-copycat-ottawa-protests-donald-trump-vaccine-mandates/)** > > That, and a coherent plan. So, the usual Republican Idea: _Stop the US economy cold! Show voters that Biden must be removed!_ Etc. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/373 "2022-02-21T00:26:11Z")
Ottawa convoy organizer gets his day in Canadian court, tells Canadian judge that he thought his actions were protected by the First Amendment. > **[No bail decision yet for Tamara Lich, convoy protest organizer | CBC News](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/tamara-lich-bail-hearing-february-19-1.6358307)** > > A second major organizer of the so-called Freedom Convoy will have to wait a few more days before an Ontario Court of Justice judge decides whether to grant her bail. > [@](#): > > “Honestly? I thought it was a peaceful protest and based on my first amendment, I thought that was part of our rights,” he told the court. > > “What do you mean, first amendment? What’s that?” Judge Julie Bourgeois asked him. > > “I don’t know. I don’t know politics. I don’t know,” he said. “I wasn’t supportive of the blockade or the whatever, but I didn’t realize that it was criminal to do what they were doing. I thought it was part of our freedoms to be able to do stuff like that.” ---
**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:** [February 21, 2022, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/374 "2022-02-21T00:39:20Z")
Intelligence level checks out. Maybe some of them will try to plead the fifth. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2022, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/375 "2022-02-21T01:18:22Z")
They can all win their freedom when they create joinder with the Uniform Commercial Code. ---
**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 21, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/376 "2022-02-21T01:28:43Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Is there non-deadly fentanyl? It is just like most everything else: if you use it properly, it will let you live. Hell, we have heard enough stories of people dying of stupid – if you drink enough water, it will flush your electrolytes and you will be toes-up. Fentanyl is very dangerous, but not “deadly” if used right. ---
**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 21, 2022, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/377 "2022-02-21T01:34:14Z")
When I had cataract surgery the anesthesiologist said he was going to use some fentanyl for pain, in addition to anesthesia. I declined the fentanyl. My eyeball was a bit sore afterward, but I asked for an icepack and the pain went away in half an hour or so. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2022, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/378 "2022-02-21T02:00:24Z")
Franklin Graham has taken to Twitter to ask for Americans to pray for the president. By which I mean he asked them to pray for Vladimir Putin. > **['Get off your knees, charlatan': Franklin Graham's 'Pray for President Putin'...](https://www.rawstory.com/franklin-graham-putin/)** > > A tweet from Christian Evangelical leader Franklin Graham, calling for his followers to "Pray for President Putin today," and not the people of Ukraine who are living in fear they will be invaded by Russia has set off a wave of criticism on... ---
**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:** [February 21, 2022, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/379 "2022-02-21T02:09:30Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Maybe some of them will try to plead the fifth. I have personally witnessed an American defendant in a British court actually tell the magistrate he was exercising his rights under the Fifth Amendment. At least that particular loon had the excuse of being American; Ms Lich is now, and always has been, Canadian. ---
**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 21, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/380 "2022-02-21T02:17:38Z")
The Florida state legislator who introduced the “Don’t say gay” bill has added an amendment which would require the school to tell the student’s parents that they’re gay, even if the school knows that by telling the parents that, it would introduce the kid to abuse, neglect, or abandonment. > ---
**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:** [February 21, 2022, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/381 "2022-02-21T03:05:24Z")
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