# 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:** 312
**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:** [December 12, 2022, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6226 "2022-12-12T12:50:14Z")
I wonder how long it would take the FBI or DOJ to pay me a visit if I tweeted such a thing? Not that I would ever do so because I value my reputation. It’s awful that she was just re-elected and now we are stuck with her. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6227 "2022-12-12T14:27:36Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > (Quoting MTG) > > > If Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Dare I ask what a “win” would have looked like to her? The Capitol grounds littered with dead bodies? Mike Pence swinging from a noose? Democrats bleeding out on the floor of the office building? The Speaker’s desk in flames? ---
**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:** [December 12, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6228 "2022-12-12T15:41:01Z")
MTG also had some interesting information that can be read as Christmas shopping advice (if this Daily Kos entry is to be believed) > [@](#): > > **GREENE:** “By the way, you can pick up a butt plug or a dildo at Target and CVS nowadays. I don’t really know how we got here. Sorry. You may still be finishing your dessert. I apologize. But this is the state we’re living in now, and it’s so weird.” To which the one reporting it replied: > [@](#): > > I have questions. > > 1. Which aisle? > 2. You mean these? No, these are Glade PlugIns. They don’t work as well as you might think. > 3. Seriously, though, I don’t see them anywhere. > 4. No, those are suppositories. > 5. Hey, should I pick up some Boone’s Farm as long as I’m here? > 6. I’ve also grabbed some lube. STP, right? > 7. Oh! I found a Mike Pence bobblehead. Will this do the trick? It would be like getting railed by an albino yeti, which is actually a lot higher on my bucket list than you might think. > 8. Wait, how exactly do you know this, anyway? > **[Marjorie Taylor Greene has a very important shopping tip for you this...](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/11/2141288/-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-has-a-very-important-shopping-tip-for-you-this-Christmas-season?utm_campaign=trending)** > > Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene attended an event hosted by the New York Young Republican Club on Saturday night, and she hit on all the usual themes: Nancy Pelosi is bad, trans youth should be denied basic health care, Donald Trump needs to... ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6229 "2022-12-12T15:47:54Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > MTG also had some interesting information that can be read as Christmas shopping advice (if this Daily Kos entry is to be believed) Per usual, MTG is repeating what she heard on Fox. > **[Fox News Reporter Informs Tucker Carlson CVS Is Now Selling Butt Plugs and...](https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-reporter-informs-tucker-carlson-cvs-is-now-selling-butt-plugs-and-anal-lube-at-a-relative-bargain/)** > > Trace Gallagher informed Tucker Carlson on Friday night that butt plugs and other sex toys are now available for purchase at select CVS stores in New York. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6230 "2022-12-12T15:48:55Z")
MTG’s “You can buy buttplugs at CVS” is right up there with Jordan Peterson’s “Now that Elon’s in charge of Twitter, it’s so much harder to find child porn”. They’re _really_ not sending the messages they think they are. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6231 "2022-12-12T15:59:52Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Dare I ask what a “win” would have looked like to her? The Capitol grounds littered with dead bodies? Mike Pence swinging from a noose? Democrats bleeding out on the floor of the office building? The Speaker’s desk in flames? All of the above, plus a permanent Theocratic Dictatorship, with her in a position of Chief Inquisitor and Torturer. I’m sure she dreams of that day. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6232 "2022-12-12T16:02:29Z")
While in between torture sessions, she’s in the other room wearing a butt plug and doing other things she accuses people of. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6233 "2022-12-12T16:12:34Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > > for purchase at select CVS stores Oh, look at those hoity-toity east coast liberals, with their _select_ CVS stores! Well la-didah!!! ---
**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:** [December 12, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6234 "2022-12-12T16:12:54Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > While in between torture sessions, she’s in the other room wearing a butt plug and doing other things she accuses people of. - Does a person actually wear a butt plug or does the butt plug wear them? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6235 "2022-12-12T17:18:19Z")
In Russia, butt plugs you! That guy was great. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6236 "2022-12-12T17:38:43Z")
I _have_ seen the shelf of sex toys at Target. So what? If people want to buy those things and Target wants to sell them, why not? Does it damage the children to carry those things? ---
**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:** [December 12, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6237 "2022-12-12T17:40:38Z")
Sir, that’s a pacifier. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6238 "2022-12-12T17:47:36Z")
Brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6239 "2022-12-12T18:18:31Z")
Butt plug for a tight ass? ---
**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:** [December 12, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6240 "2022-12-12T18:35:32Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Does it damage the children to carry those things? It depends on how the child carries it, I suppose. If it hurts you’re doin’ it wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Running\_with\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6241 "2022-12-12T19:28:41Z")
Target Manager: “As I told you last time, Rep Green, that’s an avocado, but whatever you choose to do with it: this time, no returns.” – Peter Sagal, via Twitter ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6242 "2022-12-12T19:31:14Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > MTG also had some interesting information that can be read as Christmas shopping advice (if this Daily Kos entry is to be believed) > > > [@](#): > > > > **GREENE:** “By the way, you can pick up a butt plug or a dildo at Target and CVS nowadays. I don’t really know how we got here. Sorry. You may still be finishing your dessert. I apologize. But this is the state we’re living in now, and it’s so weird.” Actually, she is right about this. I know, I was surprised too. I mentioned it to my wife, who was once in the sex toy industry. She says Target has been selling them for years. I went and searched their website, and lo and behold… > **[Sex Toy For Women : Target](https://www.target.com/s?searchTerm=sex%2Btoy%2Bfor%2Bwomen&tref=typeahead%257Cterm%257C0%257Csex%2520toy%2520for%2520women%257Csex%2520toy%2520for%2520women%257C%257C%257Cservice%257C10%257C%257C%257C&category=0%7CAll%7Cmatchallpartial%7Call%2Bcategories&searchTermRaw=)** > > Shop Target for sex toy for women you will love at great low prices. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup plus free shipping on orders $35+. ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6243 "2022-12-12T19:31:18Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > If it hurts you’re doin’ it wrong. Unless you’re into that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6244 "2022-12-12T21:53:17Z")
**On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood!** Said her lord and master rump. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2022, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6245 "2022-12-12T22:00:43Z")
Also, she doesn’t live in that state. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=311) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=313)