# 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:** 340
**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:** [January 6, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6786 "2023-01-06T17:32:50Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Yeah, the “Hillary would have been much worse” POV-- never understood how anyone could imagine her being worse. It all hinges on the _Freedom!_ con. Ms Clinton was going to amplify Democratic policies that chip away at our freedoms, ultimately leading to us all living under the big government bootheel pressed down hard on our necks. The walthiest R Party backers push hard on this narrative in an effort to convince the R peons that impositions on the upper class amount to impositions on the trailer class. This has proved very effective, as the balance of freedom continues to accrue toward the wealthiest. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6787 "2023-01-06T18:14:51Z")
I’ve always seen it as analogous to walking into a restaurant and I can choose between a bland, poorly done hamburger, or a plate of pureed feces and rotting meat with maggots on top and, because the burger is a blando-burger, I just have to order the fecal alternative. And though I am aware of the Hillary-is-evil thing, I never understood why people thought that. A few years ago I was watching an interview with a Republican strategist on CBC and he was adamant that Trump had to go because he was so damaging. The interviewer then asked if he would have, in retrospect, voted for Hillary. The Republican’s response was in the hell-freezing and flying-pigs vein; therefore IMHO he was complicit. I just don’t understand it. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6788 "2023-01-06T18:27:50Z")
Hillary hate had been cultivated ever since Bill became president in 1993, and had 24 years to grow and fester. She was portrayed as an opportunistic shrew from the get-go, and enough time had gone by for a new generation of voters to inherit the Hillary hate and spread it. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2023, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6789 "2023-01-06T18:55:31Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > If you believed (as my friend did) that the GOP would guardrail Trump into being a more or less normal GOP president, and you also believed Dem policies to be generally worse than GOP policies, then you would logically think Hillary would be worse than Trump. What bugs me about this thought process isn’t so much that it’s illogical, but that it excuses the GOP from their choice to make an unsuitable person their candidate. It seems to come up over and over again where a ridiculous person is granted the nomination, and gets a huge percentage of the vote because, what, I’m going to vote Democrat? ---
**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:** [January 6, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6790 "2023-01-06T19:06:13Z")
Bret Baier of Fox tried to make it look like Pete Buttigieg was doing something wrong by traveling to the Invictus games, as the US government’s official representative, with his husband on taxpayers’ dimes. Pete pointed out that all of the past representatives had traveled with their wives, so why was it any different? > **[Pete Buttigieg shuts down Fox News anchor's question on traveling overseas...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/pete-buttigieg-shuts-down-fox-news-anchors-question-on-traveling-overseas-with-husband-why-is-it-any-different-162030974.html)** > > Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg deftly shut down accusations raised by Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Thursday about bringing his husband on an international presidential delegation, asking why it should be “any different” from trips taken by... ---
**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:** [January 6, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6791 "2023-01-06T19:12:20Z")
A Herschel Walker staffer claims that Matt Schlapp groped him. > **[Herschel Walker Staffer: Matt Schlapp ‘Groped’ My Crotch](https://www.yahoo.com/news/herschel-walker-staffer-matt-schlapp-010722523.html)** > > American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp allegedly groped the crotch of a male staffer for Herschel Walker’s campaign in October. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6792 "2023-01-06T19:14:08Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > It seems to come up over and over again where a ridiculous person is granted the nomination, and gets a huge percentage of the vote because, what, I’m going to vote Democrat? Yeah, Trump’s win opened the door to all sorts of unfit GOP candidates. Best we can hope for is for GOP voters who can’t stomach voting for a Democrat under any circumstances to just stay home. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6793 "2023-01-06T22:20:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Bret Baier of Fox tried to make it look like Pete Buttigieg was doing something wrong by traveling to the Invictus games, as the US government’s official representative, with his husband on taxpayers’ dimes. Here’s a video of the exchange. Baier quickly drops the subject after Buttigieg points out the hypocrisy. > **[Pete Buttigieg Calls Out Fox News Host For Homophobic Hypocrisy](https://www.advocate.com/news/2023/1/06/pete-buttigieg-calls-out-fox-news-host-homophobic-hypocrisy)** > > His appearance on Fox News went viral instantly after he called out the host for treating his marriage as different. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2023, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6794 "2023-01-07T00:09:19Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Are we sure that the delay wasn’t just because she’d forgotten how to breathe? Can’t be ruled out. They don’t test breathing on the GED, so she might never have studied it on any of her tries at achieving that landmark. > > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Hillary hate had been cultivated ever since Bill became president in 1993, and had 24 years to grow and fester. She was portrayed as an opportunistic shrew from the get-go, and enough time had gone by for a new generation of voters to inherit the Hillary hate and spread it. She’s uppity. That’s all they needed to know. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6795 "2023-01-07T00:30:52Z")
(From Gyrate’s link…) > [@Gyrate](#): > > Last 24 hours: Rudy sued for sexual harassment, male staffer says he was groped by Matt Schlapp, Kilmeade called Freedom Caucus insurrectionists, Hannity attacked Boebert, Ali called MTG a whore, McCarthy fails again, Mace called Gaetz a fraud, Loomer called MTG Benedict Arnold. Oh, theres a term for that, I’ve seen it here on the boards. Republicans use the term when they’re afraid to be specific about their point. They instead use the term"conservative values". But there it is up above. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2023, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6796 "2023-01-07T01:20:49Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Hillary hate had been cultivated ever since Bill became president in 1993, and had 24 years to grow and fester. She was portrayed as an opportunistic shrew from the get-go, and enough time had gone by for a new generation of voters to inherit the Hillary hate and spread it. The Hillary hate started when he was Governor of Arkansas and she was going by her maiden name. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2023, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6797 "2023-01-07T01:24:41Z")
One of Alex Jones’s lawyers has had his right to practice law suspended because of his revealing of Sandy Hook parents’ medical records. But only for six months. > **[Alex Jones' attorney has law license suspended after Sandy Hook misconduct](https://www.rawstory.com/norm-pattissandy-hook/)** > > According to a report from NBC Connecticut, one of the attorneys for Infowars founder Alex Jones has his law license suspended for six months for what a judge called a lack of "fundamental fairness and decency," while defending his controversial... ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6798 "2023-01-07T16:53:09Z")
If Matt Schlapp’s gay lovers did not “mask up”, so to say, were they just exercising their rights if Matt gets HIV? Is this an argument he would be willing to accept? How about his wife? Gotta wonder about their dedication to the application of this principle, so loudly proclaimed re: COVID. > > > Sen. Marsha Blackburn @MarshaBlackburn ---
**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:** [January 7, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6799 "2023-01-07T17:41:31Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > If you believed (as my friend did) that the GOP would guardrail Trump into being a more or less normal GOP president, and you also believed Dem policies to be generally worse than GOP policies, then you would logically think Hillary would be worse than Trump Yeah, I’ve always said I can forgive voting for Trump in 2016. If you were a “party before person” issues voter or a single-issue voter (let’s say abortion or guns), I get it. I’d disagree vehemently on the wisdom of that choice, but I can understand. You may have considered Trump a clown, but better the devil-you-think-you-know. But I give no passes to anyone who voted for him in 2020. Because by then he had shown himself himself be to so disastrously toxic and incompetent that voting for him was a sign of a complete existential failure. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6800 "2023-01-07T17:48:17Z")
The Schlapps. What a strange, strange couple. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2023, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6801 "2023-01-07T22:32:55Z")
George Santos is also a white supremacist now. > ---
**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:** [January 7, 2023, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6802 "2023-01-07T23:21:37Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > George Santos is also a white supremacist now. Well, of course! He founded the KKK! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6803 "2023-01-07T23:44:11Z")
He looks like he’s belly dancing. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2023, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6804 "2023-01-08T00:17:33Z")
[Does having a fist fight (or nearly so) count as a SRIOTD?](https://us.yahoo.com/news/two-lawmakers-nearly-come-blows-081403480.html) [What about electing McCarthy as Speaker?](https://news.yahoo.com/republican-kevin-mccarthy-elected-us-080532812.html) ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6805 "2023-01-08T00:42:16Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > George Santos is also a white supremacist now. What is with these idiotic hand signals? Is that all it takes to make people think they’re in on secret information? To what extent is it a right-wing and / or racist thing? Strikes me as infantile, and more often than not associated with Proud Boys type morons. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=339) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=341)