# 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:** 214
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4262 "2022-08-28T14:56:20Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > … After leaving high school, Boebert took a job as an assistant manager at a McDonald’s… Assistant _to_ the manager at a McDonald’s. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4263 "2022-08-28T16:28:36Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Assistant _to_ the manager at a McDonald’s. I got that. Well done. ---
**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 28, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4264 "2022-08-28T18:17:52Z")
More than she had, apparently. ---
**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 28, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4265 "2022-08-28T23:18:52Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Given the kooks I’m aware of, I’m wondering exactly how Trump being friendly with a Rothschild is going to be spun. As long as she was pretending to be a Rothschild, I suppose she might also have pretended to be a “convert” to the Acceptable/Required Religion, too. ---
**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 28, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4266 "2022-08-28T23:23:02Z")
The Texas Supreme Court rejected an attempt by Republicans, including the Lieutenant Governor, to remove Libertarians from the ballot. > **[Republican effort to remove Libertarians from November ballot rejected by...](https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/26/republicans-libertarians-ballot-texas-november/)** > > On Aug. 8, a group of Republican candidates asked the Supreme Court to remove 23 Libertarian opponents from the ballot, saying they did not meet eligibility requirements. The Republicans included Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and others in congressional and... ---
**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 28, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4267 "2022-08-28T23:37:41Z")
The Republican nominee for Michigan Secretary of State: Satan is poisoning Americans because too many people are having pre-marital sex or practicing homosexuality. “And then when we start to say, ‘Oh well, if you want to have sex with somebody of the same sex, that’s okay too.’ And now, it has morphed into something worse.” That “something worse,” according to Karamo, includes “pedophilia being normalized” and “bestiality being normalized.” > **[MI GOP nominates Satan-obsessed homophobe for Secretary of State](https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/mi-gop-nominates-satan-obsessed-homophobe-kristina-karamo-for-secretary-of-state/)** > > Michigan Republicans nominated Kristina Karamo, who thinks LGBTQ-inclusive churches are “agents of Satan,” for Secretary of State. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2022, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4268 "2022-08-28T23:55:24Z")
Republicans seem to be really really pedophile-centric. If past evidence of Republican projection carry through, these are some sick people. ---
**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 28, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4269 "2022-08-28T23:59:54Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Republicans seem to be really really pedophile-centric. If past evidence of Republican projection carry through, these are some sick people. - They’re real good at not understanding the Bible and in the Bible, Jesus said " **Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God**" and they only got as far as the first part. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4270 "2022-08-29T00:10:57Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > That “something worse,” according to Karamo, includes “pedophilia being normalized” and “bestiality being normalized.” > [@bobot](#): > > Republicans seem to be really really pedophile-centric. Bestiality-centric, too. I haven’t seen a single news story in the media lately about an American being caught _in flagrante delecto_ with an animal. Where are they getting this stuff, the clear blue sky? Or are they admitting to semething? ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4271 "2022-08-29T00:12:30Z")
Many people are saying that Republicans have a ritual. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4272 "2022-08-29T00:12:43Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Republican nominee for Michigan Secretary of State: > Satan is poisoning Americans because too many people are having pre-marital sex or practicing homosexuality. > “And then when we start to say, ‘Oh well, if you want to have sex with somebody of the same sex, that’s okay too.’ And now, it has morphed into something worse.” > That “something worse,” according to Karamo, includes “pedophilia being normalized” and “bestiality being normalized.” > > [https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/mi-gop-nominates-satan-obsessed-homophobe-kristina-karamo-for-secretary-of-state/](https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/mi-gop-nominates-satan-obsessed-homophobe-kristina-karamo-for-secretary-of-state/) Her search history must be a doozy. ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4273 "2022-08-29T02:06:17Z")
Money covers a multitude of sins. Witness Gaetz, TFG, Cruz, and so many other weird and twisted people. ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4274 "2022-08-29T02:20:46Z")
Lady G is threatening violence if Dear Leader is held responsible for his actions. > ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4275 "2022-08-29T02:23:33Z")
This also emphasizes the point that a lot of black voters are religious and socially conservative, and more might be voting Republican if it weren’t for…some other factor that I can’t remember right now. ---
**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 29, 2022, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4276 "2022-08-29T03:44:29Z")
The last time his supporters rioted, people died. But i twas only one of the dead was his supporter. Maybe this time law enforcement won’t buy into their bullshit about “blue lives matter” given what happened the last time those morons rioted. They might want to rethink (hahahahaha) the idea of rioting on his behalf ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4277 "2022-08-29T06:19:44Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Republicans have a ritual. Is this the one that involves a live elephant trunk and some of that what you call your kentucky jelly? ---
**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 29, 2022, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4278 "2022-08-29T12:07:46Z")
> [@](#): > > [Fox News](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/fox-news) host [Brian Kilmeade](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/brian-kilmeade), after a segment on President [Joe Biden](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/joe-biden)’s [student loan debt decision](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-canceling-student-loan-debt_n_6305204fe4b052615d75a439), asked Rubio if a politician can be “successful” and “tell people to pull themselves up by the bootstraps.” > > Rubio said a successful politician can absolutely do that and suggested one student loan debt solution that worked for him: writing a book. > > “I owed over $100,000 in student loans, the day I got elected to the Senate I had over $100,000 still in student loans that I was able to pay off because I wrote a book and from that money I was able to pay it,” Rubio said. > > “If not, I’d still be paying it.” Hmmm… Just write a book and generate $100,000 to pull yourself out of debt. I’ve got five books out. Between them and all the other money I’ve made from writing I think I can eke out a couple of my old mortgage payments. > **[Marco Rubio Has An Odd Solution For Student Loan Debt, And Twitter Can't Bear It](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marco-rubio-student-loan-debt-solution_n_630b0b0ae4b088f74234f0e2)** > > The senator said he wiped his debt clean thanks to one effort he made, but social media users didn't think it would work the same for them. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4279 "2022-08-29T12:26:36Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Hmmm… Just write a book and generate $100,000 to pull yourself out of debt. Wait-- let me note that down in the _“Advice to Self on How to Fix My (and Your) Life”_ book that I’m writing. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4280 "2022-08-29T12:31:55Z")
The key is to do the research for _“How To Launder Political Payoffs As Bulk Book Purchases”_. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4281 "2022-08-29T13:18:24Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > That brings up a question of how much education a person needs to be a effective legislator, but that’s for another thread. My concern isn’t about her lack of education, it’s that it apparently took her a lot of tries to even get as far as she has. Like, she tried the GED exam four times, or something? There’s lots of people who lack significant education, for all sorts of reasons, like dropping out to support their family, or problems with the law, that kind of thing. Lots of those people, if they had the chance, probably could have learned a lot. But she just seems bone-stupid, to me. She took the time to try to show some educational advancement, but she was just really bad at it. It’s that level of stupidity that bothers me. A smart person with a grade 10 education might be a good leader, because they would at least have the potential to learn the ropes of leadership. But a stupid person? They’re stupid for life, no matter how many degrees they might eventually grind out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=213) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=215)