# 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:** 348
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6946 "2023-01-12T22:40:17Z")
I am not a psychiatrist but his lying seems pathological. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6947 "2023-01-12T22:56:36Z")
Yeah, I’m thinking you don’t need to be a psychiatrist to get that. ---
**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 13, 2023, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6948 "2023-01-13T01:10:43Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > Hadn’t seen that before. > > I seem to have coined it, and been excoriated for using it (actually on a SRIotD thread, IIRC, as well as one or two other places). Some people draw the impression that the term applies to _all_ Rs, rather than a specific subset. They shouldn’t. After all, all humans have a psyche…but only some humans are psychopaths. (Analogy might not hold up to strict etymological scrutiny.) ---
**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:** [January 13, 2023, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6949 "2023-01-13T01:24:31Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Another George Santos lie - he claimed to be one of the first Americans to test positive for covid. - That doesn’t seem like a normal thing to brag about. Even worse, he bragging about having an imaginary disease. /s ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6950 "2023-01-13T01:40:31Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > The Supreme Court succeeded. I read that as “The Supreme Court seceded” Hmmm… OK. Perhaps we can have law and order again. ---
**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 13, 2023, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6951 "2023-01-13T01:59:19Z")
Voter fraud in Iowa. By a Pub, of course. > **[Iowa county supervisor's wife charged with voter fraud scheme to aid her husband](https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2023/01/12/iowa-official-wife-charged-voter-fraud-woodbury-county-kim-phuong-taylor/69803579007/)** > > Prosecutors say Kim Phuong Taylor filed fraudulent ballots and documents on behalf of her husband, a county supervisor and former U.S. House candidate ETA: Just noticed this was also posted in the Schadenfreunde thread. Sorry, guys, I just can’t keep up sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6952 "2023-01-13T02:06:40Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > ETA: Just noticed this was also posted in the Schadenfreunde thread. Sorry, guys, I just can’t keep up sometimes. It’s OK, the GOP can’t keep up either. ---
**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 13, 2023, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6953 "2023-01-13T03:06:05Z")
House Republicans want to expunge Individual 1’s impeachments. > **[McCarthy Is Open to Expunging Trump’s Impeachments](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/mccarthy-is-open-to-expunging-trumps-impeachments.html)** > > Elise Stefanik and other House Republicans want to take back the insult to Trump and his “patriots” after January 6. Maybe they can do Nixon next. ---
**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 13, 2023, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6954 "2023-01-13T04:08:58Z")
The House has reinstated smoking in the halls. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2023, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6955 "2023-01-13T05:01:40Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > House Republicans want to expunge Individual 1’s impeachments. Just how does one do that? There are no actual memory holes that I know of. ---
**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 13, 2023, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6956 "2023-01-13T05:11:05Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Saying the quiet part out loud again Still, not again. Well, except for the fact that for today’s 'pubbies there is no “quiet part”. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > House Republicans want to expunge Individual 1’s impeachments. And then they’ll move onto repealing the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th amendments to the constitution. Hell, why go for that? They’ll just chuck out Article 5 and replace it with their tan hero’s telepathic prowess. ---
**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 13, 2023, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6957 "2023-01-13T05:29:43Z")
The wife of a Republican candidate for Congress has been arrested for casting 23 ballots for her husband. > **[Republican candidate's wife arrested, charged with casting 23 fraudulent...](https://www.businessinsider.com/wife-of-iowa-republican-accused-of-casting-23-fraudulent-votes-2023-1)** > > Prosecutors allege she engaged in 26 counts of providing false information and voting, three counts of fraudulent registration, and 23 counts of fraudulent voting. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2023, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6958 "2023-01-13T05:40:09Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The wife of a Republican candidate for Congress has been arrested for casting 23 ballots for her husband. > [Wife of Iowa Republican Accused of Casting 23 Fraudulent Votes](https://www.businessinsider.com/wife-of-iowa-republican-accused-of-casting-23-fraudulent-votes-2023-1) Just shows how lazy Democrats are. She had to work hard to create the phony ballots they couldn’t be bothered to. /s ---
**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:** [January 13, 2023, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6959 "2023-01-13T10:44:09Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Why keep it on the state level when you can go big? So much for the whole “states rights” argument. ---
**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 13, 2023, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6960 "2023-01-13T18:45:49Z")
Alex Jones says that calculators were designed to enslave humans. > **[Alex Jones Now Claims The Invention Of The Calculator Was Designed To...](https://www.comicsands.com/alex-jones-calculators-enslave-humans-2659207665.html)** > > Yeah, that adds up. 😒🙄😒 ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6961 "2023-01-13T19:05:30Z")
I bet they used calculators to figure out how much he owes the Sandy Hook parents. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6962 "2023-01-13T19:14:33Z")
Those calculators better have scientific notation. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6963 "2023-01-13T19:21:07Z")
And you know, a lot of those calculators use… (looks right, looks left) (stage whisper) _Arabic numerals_. ---
**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 13, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6964 "2023-01-13T19:21:12Z")
Science is fake news ---
**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 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6965 "2023-01-13T19:36:37Z")
Idaho state rep says he’s qualified to discuss “the women’s health thing” because he’s milked cows. > **['National embarrassment': GOP lawmaker faces furious backlash after comparing...](https://www.rawstory.com/national-embarrassment-gop-lawmaker-faces-furious-backlash-after-comparing-women-s-reproductive-systems-to-cattle/)** > > A joke made by Idaho state Rep. Jack Nelsen (R) this Tuesday when he was introducing himself to the House Agriculture Committee didn't go over too well, since many interpreted the remarks as him comparing women to livestock. “I’ve milked a few cows,... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=347) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=349)