# 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:** 322
**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:** [December 22, 2022, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6426 "2022-12-22T16:55:36Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > They’d sneak weapons in for one of their idiot supporters to do that. Do supporters get to hang out in the chamber during sessions? I would not be surprised if MTG herself shot a Dem during a session, live on C-SPAN, and claimed self-defense. ---
**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 22, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6427 "2022-12-22T17:17:00Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > I would not be surprised if MTG herself shot a Dem during a session, live on C-SPAN, and claimed self-defense. I would be. For all their bluster and braggadocio, this whole lot appears to me to be a bunch of cowards. They’ve been prattling on for years now about “second amendment solutions”, but the vast majority of them seem to be waiting around for _someone else_ to apply that solution. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6428 "2022-12-22T20:40:37Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > They’ve been prattling on for years now about “second amendment solutions”, but the vast majority of them seem to be waiting around for _someone else_ to apply that solution. Which, along with plausible deniability, is the essence of stochastic terrorism. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2022, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6429 "2022-12-22T21:27:33Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > That’s all well and good until one of them sneaks in a weapon and opens fire in the chamber. If they actually did manage to bypass security, I’d be surprised if Boebert didn’t have a gun on her. Hasn’t she been caught doing that in the past? ETA, yes, yes she had: > **[Boebert Clashes With Capitol Police After Setting Off Metal Detectors](https://www.cpr.org/2021/01/12/boebert-clashes-with-capitol-police-after-setting-off-metal-detectors/)** > > The metal detectors were set up after multiple Democrats reportedly expressed concerns about freshmen members insistent on carrying weapons. > refusing to let Capitol Police look through her purse after she set off metal detectors placed at entrances to the House floor. > [Boebert] has pledged to carry a gun in Congress . . > **[Newly elected Rep. Boebert asks about carrying a gun on Capitol grounds](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/newly-elected-rep-boebert-asks-about-carrying-gun-capitol-grounds-n1248771)** > > The Republican from western Colorado carries a Glock on her hip. . [https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/532567-boebert-appears-to-carry-glock-on-way-to-capitol-building-in-new-ad/](https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/532567-boebert-appears-to-carry-glock-on-way-to-capitol-building-in-new-ad/) > Let me tell you why I WILL carry my Glock to Congress. > Washington police Chief Robert Contee III said on Monday he wants to speak with Boebert about her intention to carry a firearm while in the district. > “That Congresswoman will be subjected to the same penalties as anyone else that’s caught on the D.C. streets carrying a firearm,” [Contee said](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/532558-dc-police-chief-wants-to-speak-to-new-representative-about-plans-to-carry-gun). ---
**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:** [December 22, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6430 "2022-12-22T21:39:59Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > They’ve been prattling on for years now about “second amendment solutions”, but the vast majority of them seem to be waiting around for _someone else_ to apply that solution. That sounds awfully close to incitement of violence. ---
**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 22, 2022, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6431 "2022-12-22T22:18:50Z")
Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain, whose wife is Loser Donald’s “spiritual advisor” Paula White, has been slapped with a C&D by guitarist Neil Schon for performing “Don’t Stop Believin’”, with Marjorie Taylor Greene on vocals, at Mar-a-Lago. > **[Journey bandmates in legal fight over performance for Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/22/journey-bandmates-in-legal-fight-over-performance-for-donald-trump)** > > Guitarist Neal Schon issues cease-and-desist order to keyboardist Jonathan Cain over performance of Don’t Stop Believin’ at Mar-a-Lago ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6432 "2022-12-22T23:31:52Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > with Marjorie Taylor Greene on vocals, at Mar-a-Lago. This also sounds like inciting violence. ---
**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 23, 2022, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6433 "2022-12-23T00:21:51Z")
New lies from George Santos. He campaigned as being openly gay, but he was still married to a woman two weeks before the election. Also, no, his mother did not work in the World Trade Center. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6434 "2022-12-23T00:27:27Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > This also sounds like inciting violence. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EY-PWxcWsAABzRq.jpg) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EY-PWxcWsAABzRq.jpg) ---
**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 23, 2022, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6435 "2022-12-23T00:29:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > New lies from George Santos. At this point, I’d like to know One. Single. Thing. He has said that is not a lie. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6436 "2022-12-23T04:50:04Z")
That sounds like torture. I don’t know if she can sing, but her speaking voice is pretty awful. I can just imagine her screeching that song like a prowling tom cat. Ugh! ---
**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 23, 2022, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6437 "2022-12-23T06:50:11Z")
Dennis Prager thinks it’s downright tragic that bigoted Boomer parents who hate their children and whose hatred is reciprocated by them don’t get to spend Christmas with their grandkids, and says it’s clearly a sign of the moral failures of the left that those ungrateful little shits won’t do as they’re told. > **[Why Many Conservatives Won’t Be with Their Children or Grandchildren This...](https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/21/why-many-conservatives-wont-be-with-their-children-or-grandchildren-this-christmas/)** > > There are probably hundreds of thousands of men and women who, because of political differences, maintain minimal or no contact with their parents and, even more cruelly, do not allow their parents to… [![](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/645/713/888.jpg) ](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/645/713/888.jpg) The entire editorial is so absolutely goddamn hilarious that if it were anyone else writing it I’d think it was a parody. ---
**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 23, 2022, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6438 "2022-12-23T08:46:31Z")
His name? Maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6439 "2022-12-23T14:18:38Z")
[![](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/645/713/888.jpg) ](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/645/713/888.jpg) “The fact is that leftism often produces mean people.” I couldn’t read anymore. What a load of un-self-aware bullshit. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6440 "2022-12-23T15:42:30Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > More George Santos lies > **[George Santos breaks silence amid mounting allegations he misrepresented his...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-santos-breaks-silence-allegations-misrepresented-biography-resume-205645344.html)** > > The GOP congressman-elect broke his silence Thursday, three days after the New York Times published a bombshell investigation suggesting that he fabricated key parts of his résumé during the campaign. I’m assuming > “I have my story to tell and it will be told next week.” is code for “I’m going to kick this can down the road for a few weeks until I’m sworn in”. I’m assuming we’ll never hear his story, at least one that even sounds like it could be true. It just has sound plausible enough for the GOP to grab some talking points from it. ---
**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 23, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6441 "2022-12-23T16:00:16Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > is code for “I’m going to kick this can down the road for a few weeks until I’m sworn in”. Hey, come on, “Next Week” is at least twice as fast as Donald “Too Weak” Trump! What more could you ask for? ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6442 "2022-12-23T16:01:06Z")
Rand Paul. Hatred of women. Republican. Susan Collins is concerned, no I really mean it, concerned (not). > **[Rand Paul Blocks Bill That Would Ensure New Moms Are Allowed to Breastfeed at...](https://jezebel.com/rand-paul-blocks-bill-to-ensure-new-moms-are-allowed-to-1849922671)** > > Senators hoped to pass the bipartisan PUMP Act before the holidays, but Paul is more concerned about protecting businesses from new regulations. Other lowlights of GQP hatred and fear also included with no extra charge. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6443 "2022-12-23T16:43:41Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Hey, come on, “Next Week” is at least twice as fast as Donald “Too Weak” Trump! What more could you ask for? But twice as fast as never is probably more than a a few weeks. And, following in Trump’s footsteps > **[Kari Lake's bombshell goes pffft](https://www.yahoo.com/news/kari-lakes-bombshell-goes-pffft-023538592.html)** > > Something was proved without a shadow of doubt in Kari Lake's trial, all right. And it should be followed up with sanctions. Here’s some of the things Lake’s team presented: > A whistleblower from Runbeck Elections Services, the county’s election contractor, who didn’t testify but instead avowed to a Lake investigator that she saw fellow employees bring in 50 early ballots of family members and illegally add them to the vote total. Lake lost to Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs by 17,117 votes. . > A partisan pollster calling himself the “People’s Pundit” I don’t think anymore context is needed for that one. . > Sworn declarations from 200 voters who said they were impacted by Election Day problems. But only three of them, according to the county, didn’t vote . > a cyber security expert who testified that the county’s printers were set up to spit out 19-inch ballots on 20-inch paper – ballots that then couldn’t be counted. Except, he conceded that they would have been counted I’m surprised more judges aren’t going after these lawyers for continuously wasting the court’s time (and manipulating the public) with these frivolous cases. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6444 "2022-12-23T17:06:41Z")
So, margins are now somehow a liberal plot? I mean, 20 inch ballots on 19 inch paper, I can see the problem there, but… ---
**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:** [December 23, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6445 "2022-12-23T17:11:39Z")
I believe the context was that they couldn’t be read **by machines**. He conceded they would have been counted by hand, along with any other ballots the machines couldn’t read. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=321) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=323)