# 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:** 223
**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:** [September 9, 2022, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4442 "2022-09-09T00:59:56Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Factual answer: Same side as the U.S. is. - You’re no fun anymore.😉 ---
**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:** [September 9, 2022, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4443 "2022-09-09T01:03:11Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > You’re no fun anymore.😉 Maybe it’s fun for me to spoil fun. Ever thought of that? Huh? huh? ---
**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:** [September 9, 2022, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4444 "2022-09-09T01:03:36Z")
I thought the new conspiracy theory about the Queen’s death is Meghan Markle caused it because of the stress. What stress? Take a wild guess what the bigots would say caused all that stress. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4445 "2022-09-09T01:08:03Z")
I didn’t know Balmoral _had_ a woodpile! ---
**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:** [September 9, 2022, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4446 "2022-09-09T01:12:40Z")
> [@SwissMan](#): > > In other news, water is wet. I’ve long suspected that the hydroxychloroquine push was being motivated by Republicans owning stock in companies that make it. Same for Ivermectin. Gotta keep those rubes shelling out their folding money. (Yes, I realize the Lincoln Project itself is probably just a Republican grift. But they do sometimes make a point…) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BJ0vPIo9eyY/maxresdefault.jpg "Sucker") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ0vPIo9eyY) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4447 "2022-09-09T01:21:41Z")
Trash RepubliQuans tried to quash the petition to allow abortion in Michigan. Piss poor arguments were trashed by the Mich. Supreme Court with some major shade. It’s on the ballot. > **[Michigan Will Put Abortion Rights Vote to the People in November](https://jezebel.com/michigan-will-put-abortion-rights-vote-to-the-people-in-1849470588)** > > “What a sad marker of the times," said one state Supreme Court justice. "State Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack said the initiative’s challengers had failed to produce anyone who was actually confused by the ballot’s wording, as the challengers claimed. Not allowing the initiative to be voted on would “disenfranchise millions” in the state, she said, ending her concurring opinion like a disappointed teacher: “What a sad marker of the times.” “The decision brought some spicy takes to the bench. Using the most lawyer move ever, Bernstein called out his dissenting colleague Justice Brian K. Zahra, who was sympathetic to the challengers’ arguments about spacing and font size on the ballot. “Justice Zahra noted that, as a wordsmith, he finds it ‘an unremarkable proposition that spaces between words matter.’ As a blind person who is also a wordsmith and a member of this Court, I find it unremarkable to note that the lack of visual spacing has never mattered much to me,” Bernstein wrote in a footnote.” ---
**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:** [September 9, 2022, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4448 "2022-09-09T04:05:55Z")
> …he had to do his utmost to prevent his child from being corrupted by it. I guess his TV doesn’t come with either an off switch or channel selector. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4449 "2022-09-09T04:38:05Z")
From the second link > When some participants said they feared being sanctioned for such rule-breaking, Costantino said: “That’s why you got to do it secretly.” Note to Costantino: You also need to tell them to do this secretly, secretly. In particular don’t tell them on a recorded zoom call. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4450 "2022-09-09T06:37:41Z")
Should be noted that the body that deadlocked 2-2 on accepting the abortion rights petitions (the Michigan Board of State Canvassers) is the same body where one Republican member abstained from certifying the 2020 election (though the other Republican on the board sided with the Democrats to certify). It should also be noted that the two Republican appointees on the board now were anti-Big Lie in 2020, so this is not a move by a Trump-backing section of the Michigan GOP. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4451 "2022-09-09T10:49:44Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > ) > > Sorry, it was bugging me. Dammit - I’m just anal enough that I count my parentheses to make sure I get them closed - apparently I can’t count any more. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2022, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4452 "2022-09-09T21:18:51Z")
Candace Owens says that the kidnapping and murder of Eliza Fletcher in Memphis somehow has something to do with transgenderism. > **[Candace Owens Links Memphis Kidnapping to Trans People](https://www.thedailybeast.com/candace-owens-links-memphis-kidnapping-and-murder-of-eliza-fletcher-to-trans-people)** > > The right-wing troll not long ago contributed to a baseless theory that the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter was transgender. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2022, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4453 "2022-09-10T03:58:08Z")
Sorry, Mitch, but there are _some_ rules the Orange One obeys, such as the First Rule of Acquisition… > **[Republicans to Trump: Pony up more cash in battle for Senate](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/09/republicans-trump-cash-senate-00055874)** > > The former president is sitting on $99 million — money Mitch McConnell wants spent on Trump-backed GOP hopefuls who are lagging in the money chase. > Mitch McConnell is indirectly nudging Donald Trump to help Republicans try to flip the Senate, part of a broader GOP campaign to get the former president to open up his well-stocked coffers for the rest of the party… ---
**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:** [September 10, 2022, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4454 "2022-09-10T04:46:17Z")
Loser Donald has had another lawsuit tossed - this one a rambling 118-page diatribe accusing Hillary Clinton and a host of other people of conspiring against him. > **[Judge Tosses Trump’s Lawsuit ‘Manifesto’ Against Hillary Clinton in...](https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/judge-tosses-trumps-lawsuit-manifesto-against-hillary-clinton-in-gloriously-brutal-thrashing-no-merit-and-inadequate-in-nearly-every-aspect/)** > > Former President Donald Trump has quite the reputation for legal troubles, but a ruling from a federal judge in Florida might just be the cherry on the sundae of awkward Trump attorney anecdotes -- and create new problems for a member of his legal... ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4455 "2022-09-10T13:20:52Z")
Just as Big Brother intended. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4456 "2022-09-10T13:55:45Z")
It’s a pretty harsh ruling, this song was running through my head as I read it. _Your problems are all inside your head it seems to me Nothing in this suit makes sense logically I’m not going to help you lock up Hillary There must be 50 ways to kill this lawsuit_ _50 ways to kill this lawsuit_ _There wasn’t a crime, slime Your theories are wrong, mushroom dong It was too late to file, shitpile You must listen to me_ _Your lies were too crass, ass Your lawyers all suck, dumbfuck It’s legal to hate you, doo do And you shouldn’t be free_ ---
**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:** [September 10, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4457 "2022-09-10T14:22:03Z")
Brava! ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2022, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4458 "2022-09-10T15:06:46Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Sorry, Mitch, but there are _some_ rules the Orange One obeys, such as the First Rule of Acquisition… I’ve asked the moderators to move this comment to the, “More Jokes” thread. That Mitch, such a card! (Not necessarily a factual statement) ---
**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:** [September 10, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4459 "2022-09-10T15:09:49Z")
Brilliant!! ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4460 "2022-09-10T15:14:04Z")
Well done! ---
**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:** [September 10, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4461 "2022-09-10T15:21:44Z")
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