# 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:** 24
**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 23, 2022, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/462 "2022-02-23T07:37:20Z")
And now, one with a happy ending; Last month, the mayor of Ridgefield, MS announced that he was withholding $110,000 from the county library system unless they purged all “homosexual materials” from their shelves. > **[Mayor Withholds Library Funding Until All LGBTQ Books are Removed](https://bookriot.com/ridgeland-library-censorship/)** > > Ridgeland Mayor Gene McGee is withholding $110,000 from the library system until all "homosexual materials" are removed. Subsequently, a GoFundMe organized by furries has raised $110,000 for the library. > **[That One Time Furries Saved a Library - Dhole Moments](https://soatok.blog/2022/02/09/that-one-time-furries-saved-a-library/)** > > The Furry Fandom proved vital to saving a library from the demands of a homophobic Mississippi politician. ---
**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 23, 2022, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/463 "2022-02-23T08:51:37Z")
Rick Scott has published a pamphlet containing his “Plan To Rescue America”, and it is _horrid_. [https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017f-1cf5-d281-a7ff-3ffd5f4a0000](https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017f-1cf5-d281-a7ff-3ffd5f4a0000) If you don’t have the stomach to read the whole thing (and I don’t blame you, I feel like throwing up after reading it), it contains such “brilliant” ideas as; - Tax hikes for the poor - Pay cuts and a salary cap for government employees - Mandatory recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance - More qualified immunity - Finish the border wall and name it after Loser Donald - Declare “socialism” an Enemy Combatant - Prohibit raising the debt ceiling - A five-year sunset on ALL federal laws - Military ballots which arrive after Election Day cannot be counted - Public shaming of single mothers - Ban pornography and cuss words - Ban transgender people - Give businesses the right to discriminate against anyone they want - Quit the UN Dwight D. Eisenhower would have personally kicked your ass if you gave him this pamphlet. Today it’s what passes for mainstream Republican policy. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/464 "2022-02-23T11:40:57Z")
How on earth someone this insane gets within a thousand miles of elected office is beyond me. ---
**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 23, 2022, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/465 "2022-02-23T11:47:20Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > How on earth someone this insane gets within a thousand miles of elected office is beyond me Forget it, Jake. It’s Florida. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/466 "2022-02-23T13:14:10Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > How on earth someone this insane gets within a thousand miles of elected office is beyond me. This is part of the problem with fighting this - it isn’t insanity, it is evil and knowing your voters. The people he needs to support him agree with almost all of that (they may disagree with one or two items, but support most of the list so “Go Ron! Win your next NASCAR race!” ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/467 "2022-02-23T13:33:54Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Ban transgender people I am 100% certain that there was an earlier draft of this that included the word “kill”. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/468 "2022-02-23T14:17:39Z")
I posted that very thing over in the [Evil Republicans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/981) thread. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/469 "2022-02-23T16:38:06Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > > [@CaptMurdock](#): > > > > and it’s too easy to bag on The Shrub > > I’ve always objected to calling W “Shrub” because, as best I can figure, it’s intended to mock him, but what’s so derogatory about a word like “Shrub” that it serves that purpose well? Why not call him “Weed” instead? What do y’all think the W stands for anyway? Walker. Actually, “Shrub” works well because it so easily morphs into “Shrubya.” All of which is moot to me because I always just called him Bush the Lesses (thanks, Unca Cece, for teaching me that obscure term for feces). ---
**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:** [February 23, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/470 "2022-02-23T16:47:26Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Meanwhile, whoever created that “DevinNunesCow” account got instabanned. Apropos of nothing in particular, I’m pretty sure a cattle baron such as Mr. Nunes has a LOT of cows, any one of whom might be eager to try their hand hoof at becoming a social media star. _Disclaimer: The above is not intended to be taken as a “call to action”; it is merely an implication that I would find it hilarious if somebody, or some somebodies, did it._ _Not Dopers, though. That would be bad_ ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/471 "2022-02-23T17:17:45Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > A bill in the Idaho legislature to allow the state to continue participating in the Powerball lottery when it expanded to the United Kingdom and Australia [ran into an objection](https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article258662423.html): Sometomes you just have to put a face on shit, and while I won’t post a pic, I’ll just do this rap sheet, from wiki, instead: > [@](#): > > Idaho House of Representatives[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heather_Scott&action=edit§ion=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro)] In 2015 Scott is reported to have cut wires which were part of the fire-suppression system in her office. Scott believed at the time that the wires were in fact listening devices planted to spy on her. The wire-cutting incident was witnessed by other Idaho House members.[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Scott#cite_note-2) In August 2017, Scott defended [white nationalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_nationalism) on her [Facebook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook) page. She reportedly said, “The way the media has set this up, the mention of white nationalist, which is no more than a Caucasian who (sic) for the Constitution and making America great again, and confusing it with term, ‘white supremacist’ which is extreme racism. Therefore, if one is ‘guilty’ of being white, one is clearly racist.”[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Scott#cite_note-3)[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Scott#cite_note-4) At the start of the 2017 legislative session, Scott reportedly made a remark to fellow state representative [Judy Boyle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Boyle), upon learning of her appointment to the state legislature’s agriculture committee. The reported comment was that female lawmakers obtain ranking committee appointments and other leadership positions only if they “spread their legs.” The alleged comment received widespread rebuke from other state lawmakers.[[5]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Scott#cite_note-5) In the 2019 legislative session, Scott sponsored a bill that would have required Idaho’s [Child Protective Services](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Protective_Services) to [mirandize](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirandize) parents before assessing them or their children. After passing the House, the bill was held in committee in the Senate.[[6]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Scott#cite_note-Brown-6) In 2019, it was reported that Scott was a member of the Coalition of Western States (COWS), a group founded by Washington state representative [Matt Shea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Shea) that has been accused of involvement in domestic terrorism.[[7]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Scott#cite_note-7) In 2020, she dismissed the severity of the [COVID-19 pandemic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic), claiming the virus was trying to kill the [U.S. Constitution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Constitution)[[8]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Scott#cite_note-8) and “The lying, Trump-hating media who continues to push global and socialist agendas has told us that there is an emergency.”[[9]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Scott#cite_note-9) By then, the pandemic had killed at least 118,000 people worldwide and at least 23,000 people in the United States.[[10]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Scott#cite_note-10) In February 2021 Scott had a [Zoom meeting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_meeting) with constituents about gun rights, the [2021 United States Capitol attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_States_Capitol_attack), and [free speech](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech).[[11]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Scott#cite_note-11). In April 2021 it was reported that Scott claimed the book _[To Kill a Mockingbird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird)_ was an example of [critical race theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory) in schools.[[12]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Scott#cite_note-12) In 2021, Scott sought a copy of the police report accusing fellow state republican [Aaron von Ehlinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_von_Ehlinger) of rape and asked the victim’s legal representative how a person who files a false police report alleging sexual assault could be charged with a crime.[[13]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Scott#cite_note-13) Seems like a responsible public servant. ---
**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 23, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/472 "2022-02-23T17:33:10Z")
I see all the necessary qualifications to run for president. 👍🏼 ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/473 "2022-02-23T17:55:45Z")
Not enough grifting. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/474 "2022-02-23T17:57:23Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Sometomes you just have to put a face on shit, and while I won’t post a pic, I’ll just do this rap sheet, from wiki, instead: Why do people vote in candidates who are obviously, clearly, unequivocally mentally ill? I mean she is exhibiting classical paranoid schizophrenic symptoms. She’s not normal. She’s a danger to herself and others. She should be under medical supervision. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/475 "2022-02-23T18:05:40Z")
Sounds like a normal Idaho Republican to me. ---
**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 23, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/476 "2022-02-23T18:23:20Z")
This is all the result of liberal tolerance. Remember Randall Patrick McMurphy and the days when it was ok, even encouraged, to mock and belittle people with mental illness? Then along came the bleeding heart types who told us we have to treat them with decency and respect. Now, it seems, the full 180 has taken hold, such that we are expected to honor and revere derangement and psychosis and hold it above reason and sanity. I mean, just because Hunter S. Thompson was able to turn crazy into high art does not mean that just anybody can try this at home. ---
**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 23, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/477 "2022-02-23T18:50:26Z")
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has ordered the state Department of Family and Protective Services to begin the process to name the parents of trans kids as child abusers. His order will also require all law protection, medical professionals, and others responsible for reporting child abuse, to report to the state the parents of trans kids as child abusers. > **[Texas governor directs state agencies to investigate gender-affirming care...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/23/greg-abbott-gender-affirming-care-child-abuse-directive/)** > > The directive is the state’s latest attempt to limit gender-affirming care for transgender youths. ---
**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 23, 2022, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/478 "2022-02-23T18:53:14Z")
Nitpick: Asshole Abbott is the governor. But the Attorney General is also an asshole. As is the Lt Governor. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/479 "2022-02-23T19:04:38Z")
Gotta agree, you’ve got the Trifecta of Dipshit going on right there. ---
**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 23, 2022, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/480 "2022-02-23T19:24:16Z")
Sigh. We do tend to go overboard. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/481 "2022-02-23T19:36:42Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Asshole Abbott is the governor. But the Attorney General is also an asshole. As is the Lt Governor. So the government of Texas is like the command center of Spaceball One, then… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=25)