# 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:** 249
**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:** [October 3, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4962 "2022-10-03T23:01:04Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > - Marry someone that is your own gender or another race (when they finally get to that) ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4963 "2022-10-03T23:01:12Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > > The “nuns” that keep showing up at MAGAt rallies are not real nuns. > > I wonder how they got into the habit. Not with a scream, but with a wimple. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2022, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4964 "2022-10-03T23:12:55Z")
Let’s not forget that those Blacks who served during the so-called _greatest generation_ were denied the benefits they earned during their military service. This is one of the reasons I despise the term _greatest generation_. No, those white guys were not the greatest. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4965 "2022-10-03T23:14:20Z")
And apparently very republican. Somewhow, though, _their_ mail-in votes aren’t the ones under fire from the magats. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4966 "2022-10-03T23:26:26Z")
It’s nun of their business? ---
**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:** [October 4, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4967 "2022-10-04T00:00:13Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Elon Musk has decided to grace us all with his peace plan for Ukraine, which, unsurprisingly, is “give the Russians everything they want in exchange for nothing”. > > [x.com](https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1576969255031296000) > > It’s a very good thing that this clown can never run for president. Seriously. You’d think if that if there were ONE guy rich enough to forgo Putin’s rubles (and thus to feel free to stop kissing Putin’s ass) it would be Musk. But then again, ‘you can never be too rich–gimme those rubles!’ is more likely to be the “principle” at work here. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4968 "2022-10-04T00:07:35Z")
Interesting. They have to be chaste but they’re not vowed to celibacy? Did Wikipedia goof? ---
**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:** [October 4, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4969 "2022-10-04T00:08:06Z")
Tesla’s stock is apparently tanking. Musk ain’t as rich as he was. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4970 "2022-10-04T00:14:53Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Elon Musk has decided to grace us all with his peace plan for Ukraine, which, unsurprisingly, is “give the Russians everything they want in exchange for nothing”. [![](https://i.imgur.com/riq4ZSx.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/riq4ZSx.jpeg) ---
**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:** [October 4, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4971 "2022-10-04T00:16:31Z")
I love Ukrainians. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4972 "2022-10-04T00:37:12Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Interesting. They have to be chaste but they’re not vowed to celibacy? > > Did Wikipedia goof? In modern parlance, chastity and celibate are often used interchangeably, but there used to be a distinction. Chastity means abstaining from immoral sexual relations. Celibacy means abstaining from marriage. So a married person would not be celibate, but would be chaste if they honored their marriage vows. An unmarried person would be celibate, but would not be chaste if they engaged in sexual relations. I expect every order of nuns has their own version of vows; I don’t have great insight into variations. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4973 "2022-10-04T01:47:41Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Being Roman Catholic is part of the definition of being a nun. Other religions include female monastic traditions, but none of the members of those are called “nuns”. One of my aunts is a Greek Orthodox nun 🙂. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2022, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4974 "2022-10-04T02:42:31Z")
A rosary by any other name… ---
**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:** [October 4, 2022, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4975 "2022-10-04T02:59:41Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > It’s a very good thing that this clown can never run for president. Now that he’s espousing the GOB\* party’s nonsense, all of a sudden, they might not be so against the idea of amending that part of the constitution. \*Bigots ---
**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:** [October 4, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4976 "2022-10-04T04:11:27Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Now that he’s espousing the GOB\* party’s nonsense, all of a sudden, they might not be so against the idea of amending that part of the constitution. ISTR they were all in favor of changing it after Schwarzenegger got elected in CA, but they stopped talking about that for some reason around 2007 or so. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2022, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4977 "2022-10-04T06:37:24Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > ISTR they were all in favor of changing it after Schwarzenegger got elected in CA, but they stopped talking about that for some reason around 2007 or so. Because that would mean Obama would have legitimately been president. 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4978 "2022-10-04T10:47:39Z")
> I just can’t take these people. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2022, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4979 "2022-10-04T12:30:48Z")
Wow. Ya can’t say Caitlyn lacks balls. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2022, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4980 "2022-10-04T13:22:18Z")
[Trump caught a pen and the cult went nuts](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11271509/Trump-catches-hat-pen-leaves-Michigan-rally-stage-Biden-recently-struggled.html)! My favorite bit is this typo from a photo caption: “The 45th president catches both before waving at the fan and then autographing the hate, one of his famous ‘Make America Great Again’ caps.” ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4981 "2022-10-04T13:24:25Z")
I kinda want to know what bathroom she uses in public. > [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > My favorite bit is this typo from a photo caption: “The 45th president catches both before waving at the fan and then autographing the hate, one of his famous ‘Make America Great Again’ caps.” I don’t see the typo. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=248) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=250)