# 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:** 329
**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 29, 2022, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6566 "2022-12-29T05:46:30Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > _Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life._’ is not meant to be taken literally. She’ll burn that bridge when she gets to 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 29, 2022, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6567 "2022-12-29T05:49:01Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Alleged “alpha male” Andrew Tate tries to show off what a Big Manly Man he is by tweeting at Greta Thunberg about how much pollution he creates, gets to the “finding out” part in record time. Believe it or not, it got worse. > > > Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg ---
**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 29, 2022, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6568 "2022-12-29T06:04:02Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Believe it or not, it got worse. That’s pathetic. Right out of the fourth grade playbook. ---
**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 29, 2022, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6569 "2022-12-29T06:24:29Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > > [@Turek](#): > > > > “I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos told the Post. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’” > > Oh my god, that bit of stupid wordplay has got to be nominated for some kind of award. If only it was at least [original](https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/6174989-im-not-full-blooded-jew-im-jew-ish). ---
**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 29, 2022, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6570 "2022-12-29T06:31:07Z")
First I saw of him was a Youtuber mocking a video he made where he was playing himself up as a “pimp” because he manages a phone sex hotline or something. His whole persona reeks of insecure, performative masculinity - small dick energy, I guess. ---
**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 29, 2022, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6571 "2022-12-29T06:31:39Z")
I’m fairly certain most 10 year olds are already aware that females are not endowed with penes. ---
**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 29, 2022, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6572 "2022-12-29T06:50:16Z")
That’s the point, Tate is making a (poorly for some) veiled attempt at calling Thunberg trans. ---
**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 29, 2022, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6573 "2022-12-29T07:31:04Z")
I thought he was responding, kindergarten fashion, with something along the lines of “I’m not; you are!” ---
**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 29, 2022, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6574 "2022-12-29T07:49:44Z")
Or, as King Shit of Fuck Mountain put it today; > ---
**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 29, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6575 "2022-12-29T07:53:50Z")
Why 'Elon announces that he is trans!" isn’t trending on Twitter is a question that I already think I know the answer to. ---
**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 29, 2022, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6576 "2022-12-29T07:59:04Z")
The responses to that tweet are golden, though. ---
**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 29, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6577 "2022-12-29T13:20:01Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > If only it was at least [original](https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/6174989-im-not-full-blooded-jew-im-jew-ish). I still wish I could remember where I heard the “Jew-ish” thing first, years and years ago. I don’t remember if it was on a sitcom or in in a stand-up routine or maybe even an interview. In my head I keep hearing it said by either Jerry Seinfeld (or maybe someone on the show) or Sarah Silverman. Could have even been someone on The Big Bang Theory. But in the mean time, here’s a reference to it in an article in 2003. [https://www.chronicle.com/article/2-books-explore-curious-absence-of-jewish-characters-from-tv-series-in-the-1950s-and-60s/](https://www.chronicle.com/article/2-books-explore-curious-absence-of-jewish-characters-from-tv-series-in-the-1950s-and-60s/) ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6578 "2022-12-29T14:17:09Z")
No, no, no, she wasn’t body-shaming him. She was saying that his “dick energy” was small. The size of one’s dick energy is not correlated to the size of one’s actual physical dick. She was aura-shaming him. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6579 "2022-12-29T14:38:35Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Congressman voted in a different district three times ISTM the dumber part about it is that constitutionally you **do not** have to actually reside or be legally domiciled in the congressional district you represent, just in the state. So you can register and vote where you actually live and it does not (_legally_) affect your Congressional election (_politically_, that’s another story, of course: he wanted to be _seen_ voting where he always did for publicity reasons). His problem is that _ **as a voter** _, not as a Congressman, he is supposed to register in the county of his actual residence; never mind that then it looks silly to not be able to vote for yourself: that’s _your_ problem, not the elections board’s. ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6580 "2022-12-29T14:40:08Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > No, no, no, she wasn’t body-shaming him. She was saying that his “dick energy” was small. The size of one’s dick energy is not correlated to the size of one’s actual physical dick. She was aura-shaming him. - She left the interpretation to the imagination of the reader(and intended target). Notice how _he_ interpreted it. His whole image is wrapped up in his possessions and he thought he was dunking on a helpless little girl. First rule: Know you opponent. He never saw that roundhouse kick coming. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6581 "2022-12-29T15:57:29Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > he thought he was dunking on a helpless little girl. He sounds nice. ---
**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 29, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6582 "2022-12-29T16:17:10Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > No, no, no, she wasn’t body-shaming him. She was saying that his “dick energy” was small. The size of one’s dick energy is not correlated to the size of one’s actual physical dick. She was aura-shaming him. Plus, that was little more than “GTFO” directed at his attempt to get a 19 year old girl’s contact information. ---
**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 29, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6583 "2022-12-29T16:45:54Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > he thought he was dunking on a helpless little girl. I remember a joke from the dark times of the seventies. Dad, commenting on how his son lost a competition: “You lost to a mere girl??” Kid: “Dad, girls aren’t so mere anymore!” ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6584 "2022-12-29T17:23:49Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I don’t remember hearing this person’s name at all before today. Suddenly he’s all over the place, and multiple times in 3 of the most recent threads I read. I just wanted to say I had the same same reaction you did today. Never heard of this guy before and this is the second thread I’ve looked at that he popped up in. Apparently for unrelated things. I’ve chalked it up to our social media obsessed culture. Anyone can get their 15 minutes with just a few well placed tweets and get in the news cycle. It’s a lesser form of Trump dominating news coverage with his insane deliberately controversial tweets and other social media posts. Granted it’s usually in the form of “Look at what the stupid person said? Isn’t this stupid?” But it’s still giving real life trolls outsized influence and reach. 20 years these people would be limited to ranting at people at the local bar. Now all they have to do is whip out their phone and the whole world is graced with their nauseating thoughts. ---
**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 29, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6585 "2022-12-29T18:02:58Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > he thought he was dunking on a helpless little girl. A helpless little autistic girl. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=328) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=330)