# 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:** 204
**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:** [August 20, 2022, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4062 "2022-08-20T19:47:25Z")
If rape babies are soo healing imagine how healing they’d be if rape wasn’t a crime. Also, I was assured that if there was a baby then it wasn’t real rape. ---
**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 20, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4063 "2022-08-20T23:23:41Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I’m no Bible expert, but that seems wrong. But I forgot about that Prosperity Gospel claptrap. Keep in mind, Shapiro is Jewish, so he probably doesn’t have much use for any kind of Gospels. Imagine my surprise when I first.noticed that he’s almost always wearing a yarmulke on TV because of how snoothly it blends into his hair color. Why he’s decided to throw in with a group of people who are convinced he’s going to Hell is anyone’s guess. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4064 "2022-08-20T23:28:23Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Shapiro is Jewish While this is technically true (the best kind of true) he does seem to spend a lot of time LARPing as a Evangelical Christian. ---
**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 20, 2022, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4065 "2022-08-20T23:38:40Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > This is retired general Russel Honore, who led the Army’s Hurricane Katrina rescue and commaned US forces in Korea: > " Its been reported that the new chief at CNNhas met privately with Republican Members of Congress recently to get their view(s) on how CNN might be more accommodating to Republican positions when airing the news on CNN. This report should not surprise both sides." > [https://twitter.com/ltgrusselhonore/status/1561036301322813441](https://twitter.com/ltgrusselhonore/status/1561036301322813441) One immediate consequence of the new right-ward movement of CNN (which appears to be quite real and not merely ‘reported’) is the cancellation of their media-criticism show Reliable Sources. The show (hosted by Brian Stelter, who is apparently leaving CNN–voluntarily or not, we don’t know) wasn’t perfect. A structural problem with criticizing media venues is that everyone who knows anything that could be of interest, wants to stay on the good side of those very media venues. So they aren’t going to say much beyond vague generalities (e.g. _'some say that Maggie Haberman of the New York Time is overly concerned with access_’ would be considered a VERY strong statement on R.S.). Put another way: people want CNN and MSNBC to hire them to do punditry, so they don’t want to voice any explicit criticism of CNN or MSBNC. Still, the show at least did examine Fox News fairly closely, which is of value; those people DO need to be held to account for the distortions they peddle. And now the show is over (last episode is tomorrow, 11am ET). And the new CNN brass thinks they can win over Fox News viewers. They can’t, unless they start pushing the same flattering lies with which Fox News comforts (and addicts) its viewers. > **[Brian Stelter to depart CNN as it cancels 'Reliable Sources' media show](https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118197553/brian-stelter-cnn-canceled-show)** > > CNN chief Chris Licht informed host Brian Stelter that Reliable Sources would be canceled after more than three decades on air amid a great level of cost-cutting at the network. ---
**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 21, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4066 "2022-08-21T01:16:53Z")
Marge Greene has introduced a bill to de-transition all trans kids, and to stop providing medical care to adult trans people. > **[Marjorie Taylor Greene's bigoted drive to detransition as many people as she...](https://boingboing.net/2022/08/19/marjorie-taylor-greenes-bigoted-drive-to-detransition-as-many-people-as-she-can.html)** > > Georgia’s pride, US Congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene, has shared proposed legislation attacking health care for people, teen and adult, seeking to transition. This terrible publicity stu… ---
**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 21, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4067 "2022-08-21T01:27:30Z")
When Rick Scott headed the Columbia/HCA healthcare company, it lost millions of federal dollars. And now he’s the head of the Republican Senate Reelection Committee, and they’re missing millions of dollars. > **[Republicans Demand To Know What Happened To Vanishing GOP Millions](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-fundraised-millions-nrsc_n_63007cf4e4b0e323a255cb3c)** > > “If they were a corporation, the CEO would be fired,” a GOP consultant said of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, The Washington Post reported. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4068 "2022-08-21T01:45:58Z")
E Each time, I swear she can’t get worse. Then she does. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4069 "2022-08-21T01:55:37Z")
It’s that can-do American spirit! ---
**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 21, 2022, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4070 "2022-08-21T02:39:31Z")
Florida Congressional candidate says that if FBI agents showed up at his house, they would leave in a body bag. > **['In a body bag': Sarasota candidate says he'd kill FBI agents if they tried...](https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/20/sarasota-vern-buchanan-opponent-martin-hyde-threatens-kill-fbi-agents/7854011001/)** > > Sarasota's Martin Hyde is running against U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan in the GOP primary. Hyde said if FBI agents tried searching his house they'd go home "in a body bag." ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4071 "2022-08-21T03:20:22Z")
And to think, Jesus threw the money-lenders out of the temple. He should have just charged them rent. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4072 "2022-08-21T04:13:26Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Florida Congressional candidate says that if FBI agents showed up at his house, they would leave in a body bag. In a gunfight, my money is on the Feebs. ---
**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 21, 2022, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4073 "2022-08-21T05:36:58Z")
Not really much more than a stupid tweet, but MTG [tweeted:](https://twitter.com/repmtg/status/1561021058735538180?s=21&t=I3WsqpWtOZU23J379bssuA) “The FBI’s political targeting of President Trump is the same type of thing they did to MLK. They always abuse their power to take down their political enemies.” Which prompted former University of Kentucky player and current UK broadcaster [Rex Chapman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Chapman?wprov=sfti1) to [respond](https://twitter.com/rexchapman/status/1561131949686722562?s=21&t=I3WsqpWtOZU23J379bssuA): “I don’t normally do this. But will you go out with me? You’re amazing.😌“ The rest of the responses to both Green and Chapman are hilarity personified. ---
**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 21, 2022, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4074 "2022-08-21T14:35:50Z")
[Florida school district rejects donation of dictionaries](https://boingboing.net/2022/08/19/florida-school-district-rejects-kid-friendly-dictionaries-because-they-might-be-harmful.html#:~:text=Florida%20school%20district%20rejects%20kid-friendly%20dictionaries%20because%20they,until%20January%202023%20%E2%80%94%20and%20this%20includes%20dictionaries.) because, of course, > This is thanks to the Gov. DeSantis-signed “[un]education bill” that requires every book that enters a school to be vetted by “media specialists,” all of which haven’t even been hired yet, according to the [Herald-Tribune](https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2022/08/19/sarasota-county-schools-denies-donated-venice-rotary-clubs-dictionaries/10357859002/). So, that’s the trick. Make it look like there’s a way around the restriction, but never actually implement that way. Come to think of it, what exactly are the qualifications for the job of “media specialist” in this context? I’d bet real money that’s not even addressed in the 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:** [August 21, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4075 "2022-08-21T17:32:25Z")
Marge Greene also said that it’s a shame that those Sandy Hook parents are being so mean to Alex Jones. > **[MTG Says Sandy Hook Families 'Ruining' Alex Jones Is Unfair Since InfoWars Is...](https://www.comicsands.com/greene-sandy-hook-ruining-jones-2657834978.html)** > > Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that the families of children killed during the Sandy Hook shooting are "ruining" Alex Jones. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4076 "2022-08-21T17:57:15Z")
Lauren Boebert\* says if assault weapons ban is passed, we’ll have to start eating dogs like the people in Venezuela. > **[Lauren Boebert Says Venezuelans Eat Dogs Because They Have No Guns](https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-venezuela-guns-assault-rifles-eating-dogs-banned-newsmax-1729932)** > > Boebert's comments come after the House passed a ban on assault weapons by a narrow margin. \* Autocomplete suggested “boner” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4077 "2022-08-21T20:11:27Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Which prompted former University of Kentucky player and current UK broadcaster [Rex Chapman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Chapman?wprov=sfti1) to [respond](https://twitter.com/rexchapman/status/1561131949686722562?s=21&t=I3WsqpWtOZU23J379bssuA): I read this too quickly and wondered why a broadcaster from the UK would be interested in MTG. ---
**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 21, 2022, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4078 "2022-08-21T20:54:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen quoting Comic Sands](#): > > Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that the families of children killed during the Sandy Hook shooting are “ruining” Alex Jones. She’s making that sound like it’s a _bad_ thing. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2022, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4079 "2022-08-21T22:13:19Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [https://www.comicsands.com/greene-sandy-hook-ruining-jones-2657834978.html](https://www.comicsands.com/greene-sandy-hook-ruining-jones-2657834978.html) Wow! I never knew that having “been right pretty much most of the time” was a defense for defamation! Umm MTG? Having been _right pretty much_ and _most of the time_, by definition, includes having been wrong some of the time. ---
**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 21, 2022, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4080 "2022-08-21T23:27:55Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Marge Greene has introduced a bill to de-transition all trans kids, and to stop providing medical care to adult trans people. > [Marjorie Taylor Greene's bigoted drive to detransition as many people as she can - Boing Boing](https://boingboing.net/2022/08/19/marjorie-taylor-greenes-bigoted-drive-to-detransition-as-many-people-as-she-can.html) Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to spend an _unusually_ large amount of time thinking about transgender people. Someone should encourage her to…try to find out what that’s all about. Imagine the benefit to the world if she found a way to deal with what looks, from the evidence, like massive and crippling inner conflicts! ---
**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 21, 2022, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4081 "2022-08-21T23:45:13Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to spend an _unusually_ large amount of time thinking about transgender people. Right-wingers in general seen to spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about other people’s genitals, as seen in this case in my backyard where the YMCA had to ban an 80-year-old woman after she started yelling at an 18-year-old volunteer and demanding to know if she had a penis. > **[After Transphobic Bullying at Port Townsend YMCA, Residents Rally in Support...](https://www.thestranger.com/queer/2022/08/11/77677771/transphobic-bullying-incident-prompts-port-townsend-ymca-to-ban-member)** > > Conservative media picked up the story, YMCA employees began receiving threats, and now the entire facility has had to temporarily close due to threatening messages. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=203) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=205)