# 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:** 315
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6286 "2022-12-16T04:41:03Z")
Annnd place your bets on how many terabytes of what kind of pr0n are on Mike Lee`s hard drive(s)! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6287 "2022-12-16T04:51:25Z")
I don’t know. It doesn’t sound like he understands the Internet all that well. Rid it of porn? Sure. While we’re at it, why don’t we rid Hawaii of sand particles. He’s probably got a stack of nudie mags this high. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6288 "2022-12-16T05:19:26Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee Introduces Bill to Outlaw All Porn Nationwide - XBIZ.com](https://www.xbiz.com/news/270761/utah-republican-senator-mike-lee-introduces-bill-to-outlaw-all-porn-nationwide) Somebody go wake up Potter Stewart; he might want to read this. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2022, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6289 "2022-12-16T05:34:05Z")
Introducing a bill two weeks befire the end of the session? This isn’t a serious attempt at governing, this is just trolling. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6290 "2022-12-16T07:35:37Z")
Boy, I would have never suspected that the author of this bill was from Utah. /s ---
**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:** [December 16, 2022, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6291 "2022-12-16T08:04:42Z")
Isn’t that the state with the porn czar? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6292 "2022-12-16T08:10:51Z")
Yeah, but they wanted to eliminate the position as early as 2018. ---
**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 16, 2022, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6293 "2022-12-16T10:48:45Z")
Sounds like they want to get rid of all the positions. ---
**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 16, 2022, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6294 "2022-12-16T11:00:36Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Sounds like they want to get rid of all the positions. - I’m sure they’ll leave missionary. ---
**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 16, 2022, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6295 "2022-12-16T11:09:18Z")
The Mormons do love a good missionary. ---
**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 16, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6296 "2022-12-16T13:39:49Z")
> A Republican lawmaker and Texas House speaker candidate has hired a self-described Christian nationalist who called for the public execution of people who take children to drag events. > **[Texas GOP lawmaker hires Christian nationalist who called for drag show...](https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/16/texas-tony-tinderholt-jake-neidert-drag-legislature/)** > > State Rep. Tony Tinderholt, R-Arlington, hired Jake Neidert, 22, last month as his office’s legislative director amid a wave of anti-LGBTQ violence and rhetoric and ahead of an impending legislative session that is expected to focus heavily on... ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6297 "2022-12-16T14:40:27Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > A Republican lawmaker and Texas House speaker candidate has hired a self-described Christian nationalist who called for the public execution of people who take children to drag events What?!? I thought that type loved drag events! [![](https://traxion.gg/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/NHRA-Speed-for-All-is-an-official-drag-racing-game-launches-August.jpg) ](https://traxion.gg/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/NHRA-Speed-for-All-is-an-official-drag-racing-game-launches-August.jpg) ---
**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 16, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6298 "2022-12-16T14:44:12Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > What?!? I thought that type loved drag events! Please, a bunch of guys who want you to be impressed with their driving, but they can’t even steer? For Shame! ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6299 "2022-12-16T14:45:44Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Please, a bunch of guys who want you to be impressed with their driving, but they can’t even steer? For Shame! Steering is for those effeminate Europeans. ---
**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 16, 2022, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6300 "2022-12-16T14:47:08Z")
Right, I forgot, Real Men™ make the rest of the world get out of _their_ way. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6301 "2022-12-16T16:07:08Z")
So at least the Germans are real men. I guess that’s on brand. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6302 "2022-12-16T19:41:14Z")
A Republican candidate in a close race in NJ wants his daughter’s ballot thrown out because she voted against him. > **[Republican wants to have his own daughter’s ballot disqualified after she...](https://www.rawstory.com/tom-baio-morris-county/)** > > A New Jersey Republican is challenging an absentee ballot cast by his daughter after losing his re-election bid by three votes.Morris County Republicans intend to file a lawsuit contesting the results of the Nov. 8 election after Mendham Township... ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6303 "2022-12-16T19:47:07Z")
If they throw out his daughter’s vote, they should throw his fuck ass in jail for voter fraud. He knowingly sent voter forms to his daughter, who was not eligible to vote. Seems pretty cut and dried to me. ---
**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 16, 2022, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6304 "2022-12-16T20:18:27Z")
So…she lived out of state and he was trying to get her to commit fraud on his behalf, but she screwed him and committed fraud on the other guy’s behalf? Is that it? ---
**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:** [December 16, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6305 "2022-12-16T23:24:53Z")
Newly elected Georgia state legislator is arrested for stealing prescription drugs from the nursing home he works at. > **[Newly-elected State House member Daniel Rampey of Statham arrested on drug...](https://www.onlineathens.com/story/news/local/2022/12/15/newly-elected-state-house-member-daniel-rampey-from-statham-jailed-on-drug-charge-burglary-winder/69732482007/)** > > Barrow County sheriff's deputies arrested on Thursday a man who was elected to a state House seat. He is accused of burglary and drug-related crimes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=314) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=316)