# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 2)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018
**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
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4702 "2022-09-22T17:51:06Z")
> [@eschereal](#):
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> How does one one become captain of an interstellar spaceship without knowing the word “id”?
1. As Morbius said, " It’s a… It’s an obsolete term. I’m afraid once used to describe the elementary basis of the subconscious mind." Key word being “obsolete”. I think it’s obsolete now, 200 years before the film, or are there still serious freudians that believe in it?
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4703 "2022-09-22T18:26:30Z")
I must have missed something … I saw “Denzel” and jumped in.
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### Author:  [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4704 "2022-09-22T19:09:41Z")
No biggie. I thought of that role, too, but I was specifically thinking of historical people. In any case, I have no problems with cross-race casting at all.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4705 "2022-09-22T21:53:01Z")
Oh boy. Contract with America Redux. 🤢
> **[House GOP unveils its legislative roadmap if they win back the House in November](https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124486339/house-gop-unveils-its-legislative-roadmap-if-they-win-back-the-house-in-november)**
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> Big on ideas but short on policy specifics, the agenda keeps with a tradition established with 1994's "Contract with America" where the minority party releases their priorities ahead of Election Day.
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> The “[Commitment to America](https://www.republicanleader.gov/commitment/)” includes four broad pillars focusing on the economy, safety, individual freedom and government accountability. Big on ideas (“expand U.S. manufacturing”) but short on policy specifics, the agenda is in keeping with tradition established in 1994 with Rep. Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America,” where the minority party releases their agenda priorities ahead of Election Day.
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> Much of the agenda relies on traditional conservative orthodoxy — support for tax cuts and reductions in government spending — but also weighs in on some divisive cultural issues. For example, Republicans pledge to support legislation to ensure “that only women can compete in women’s sports” — which would seek to ban trans women from playing on women’s sports teams. Republicans also broadly pledge to advance federal legislation to restrict abortion access promising to “protect the lives of unborn children and their mothers.” The agenda also signals opposition to any legislation to restrict gun rights, pledging to “safeguard” the Second Amendment.
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> Republicans will “conduct rigorous oversight” and “require the White House to answer for its incompetence at home and abroad,” with plans to hold hearings on: the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. withdrawal of Afghanistan, the Justice Department’s investigation into former President Donald Trump and the alleged illegal possession of classified documents at his Florida estate.
> …
🥱
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### Author:  [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4706 "2022-09-22T22:35:01Z")
Contract _on_ America. Blech.
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4707 "2022-09-22T23:53:16Z")
Republican Congressional candidate has in the past advocated for women to lose the right to vote.
> **[GOP congressional candidate said US suffered from women's suffrage and...](https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/politics/john-gibbs-womens-suffrage-19th-amendment-kfile/index.html)**
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> A Michigan candidate for the US House backed by former President Donald Trump once railed against giving women the right to vote, arguing that America has "suffered" since women's suffrage.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4708 "2022-09-23T00:09:42Z")
Lady G has found… well, not his spine, but maybe one or two vertebrae, the tiny ones down by the tailbone, in regards to Loser Donald’s claims of telepathic declassification.
[https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/politics/republican-reaction-trump-secret-records/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/politics/republican-reaction-trump-secret-records/index.html)
> [@](#):
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> Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and top Trump ally, also dismissed the former President’s claims.
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> “The process is probably more complicated than that,” he said of Trump’s claim that he could declassify anything by thinking about it.
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### Author:  [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4709 "2022-09-23T00:12:52Z")
> [@wguy123](#):
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> Oh god, he’s trotting out “but her emails”.
Trump may be a mentally-ill idiot, but there’s one thing he DOES know: the moment he says the words “Hillary Clinton,” the brains of his fans stop working completely.
Before he said it, some of his fans might be thinking … ‘huh? he can declassify docs with his mind??’ or ‘he had all those docs even after he said he’d returned them??’ or even ‘is there any way our service-people could have been put in danger by the way those docs were handled??’
But the minute he said that name, all mental functioning—no matter how rudimentary it might have been—ceased entirely.
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### Author:  [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4710 "2022-09-23T00:26:56Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#):
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> But the minute he said that name, all mental functioning—no matter how rudimentary it might have been—ceased entirely.
“Thief, thief, thief! Hillary! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever! Gollum! Gollum! \< cough \>"
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### Author:  [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4711 "2022-09-23T00:55:43Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#):
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> “Thief, thief, thief! Hillary! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever! Gollum! Gollum! \< cough \>" -
Now I have a brand-new mental picture of the average Trump fan, crouching in the corner of his double-wide and wiping the remains of a baby rabbit from his pointy teeth.
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### Author:  [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4712 "2022-09-23T01:06:59Z")
> The rock and pool,
> is nice and cool,
> so juicy sweet.
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> Our only wish,
> to catch a fish,
> so juicy sweet!
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> Give it to us raw and w-r-r-riggling; you keep nasty chips.
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4713 "2022-09-23T04:49:47Z")
The National Republican Congressional Committee has pulled their $1 million dollar ad buy for an Ohio Congressional candidate after it was revealed that he lied about his military service.
> **[GOP Yanks Ad Buy For Ohio Candidate Who Lied About Military Service](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jr-majewski-gop-ad-buy-afghanistan_n_632cc621e4b09d8701bdf250)**
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> J.R. Majewski represented himself as an Air Force combat veteran who deployed to Afghanistan. That wasn't the case.
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4714 "2022-09-23T07:45:24Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#):
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> Trump may be a mentally-ill idiot, but there’s one thing he DOES know: the moment he says the words “Hillary Clinton,” the brains of his fans stop working completely.
Well it’s only fair. Just today the two afternoon drive ~~assholes~~ talents on the “talk” radio station here were going on and on about, “Trump derangement syndrome.” They weren’t talking about Donnie himself, of course, but rather the lib’ruls.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4715 "2022-09-23T07:48:07Z")
2100 students from Baton Rouge-area high schools were told they were going on a field trip to a job fair.
Instead, they were taken to a church where they were divided by sex, with trans students being misgendered, and the boys invited to do push-ups for cash prizes while the girls listened to lectures about forgiving men who sexually assault them.
> **[Parents, students complain East Baton Rouge schools field trip was more like...](https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_97dc38c2-3a0d-11ed-a388-3f7b65892ceb.html)**
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> More than 2,100 students from Baton Rouge high schools were excused from classes Tuesday morning and hopped on school buses to attend what was billed as a “College & Career
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4716 "2022-09-23T10:39:09Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#):
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> Now I have a brand-new mental picture of the average Trump fan, crouching in the corner of his double-wide…
Double-wide? In their dreams.
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### Author:  [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4717 "2022-09-23T13:41:54Z")
The QAloons have a new special date. It was revealed by a German Govt. official along with an episode of the Simpsons. Beware the Ides of 24 Sept. (gaaaah, that’s tomorrow???).
“ **WARNING, MAY CAUSE LOSS OF BRAIN CELLS AND LOSS OF INTELLIGENCE** ”
> **[QAnon Thinks Something Big Is Coming... Because of a ‘Simpsons’ Episode](https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkzx7/qanon-simpsons-episode)**
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> According to QAnon, September 24 is going to get wild.
“The episode also features an electromagnetic pulse device, which QAnon followers believe will usher in “10 days of darkness” and ultimately the return of former President Donald Trump to the Oval Office.”
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4718 "2022-09-23T14:06:22Z")
Fuck, I don’t have time to get my nails done.
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4719 "2022-09-23T17:28:02Z")
The Ides are more or less the middle of the month, so if they expect it to be the 24th, they’re running late.
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4720 "2022-09-23T18:06:47Z")
the ides of September is the 13th.
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### Author:  [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4721 "2022-09-23T18:15:32Z")
I don’t know. “Ides” sounds pretty foreign. And too close to “Ideas.”
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