# 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:** 349
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6966 "2023-01-13T20:10:15Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > And you know, a lot of those calculators use… > > (looks right, looks left) > > (stage whisper) _Arabic numerals_. The House needs to introduce a bill to abolish those numerals with possibly terrorist origins and go back to… um… whatever we used before. Whatever that was… The upside is no more zeros. (The Arabs invented them, right?) No more budget balancing, no more worries about deficit spending, no more zeros-- win-win! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6967 "2023-01-13T20:19:43Z")
> [@Airbeck](#): > > They made their own bed though, so no sympathy at all here. Yep. The Republican Party has made its Trumpy bed, and they can lie in the pool of Russian hooker pee. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6968 "2023-01-13T21:26:30Z")
The next story will probably be “George Santos claims he founded a magazine named after himself.“ ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6969 "2023-01-13T21:27:35Z")
I read that as Margarine. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2023, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6970 "2023-01-13T21:28:21Z")
“I absolutely respect women, and the right to choose their own healthcare,” Nelsen said in a statement. So he’s pro-choice, then? Refreshing! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6971 "2023-01-13T21:32:08Z")
“Not like that!” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6972 "2023-01-13T21:33:48Z")
Equally likely. ---
**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 13, 2023, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6973 "2023-01-13T23:37:07Z")
“I’ve milked a few cows, spent most of my time walking behind lines of cows, so if you want some ideas on repro and the women’s health thing, I have some definite opinions.” But wouldn’t the squeezing out of white liquid from a phallus-shaped fleshy thing might possibly pertain more to men’s than womens’ health? I’m sure he took that into consideration. ---
**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 14, 2023, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6974 "2023-01-14T00:46:12Z")
Earlier this week, a member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission mused that gas stoves could potentially be banned in the future if they couldn’t be made safer through regulation. The right has morphed this into “JOE BIDEN IS COMING TO TAKE AWAY YOUR STOVE”. > **[The Absurd Arc of Gas Stove–Gate](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/gas-stoves-republicans-joe-biden-culture-wars.html)** > > Stoves got polarizing in, uh, something like 72 hours. Time for a tweet rundown. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6975 "2023-01-14T00:46:16Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > So he’s pro-choice, then? Refreshing! Surprisingly, [he is](https://eyeonsunvalley.com/Story_Reader/9981/Jack-Nelsen-Lives-in-Jerome-but-has-a-Familiarity-with-the-Wood-River-Valley/). > “I’m not extremist. Putting Idaho politics back to the middle would be good for everyone,” he said. > > Nelsen says he doesn’t believe government should tell a woman what to do when it comes to issues like abortion. ---
**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 14, 2023, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6976 "2023-01-14T00:53:50Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Earlier this week, a member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission mused that gas stoves could potentially be banned in the future if they couldn’t be made safer through regulation. > > The right has morphed this into “JOE BIDEN IS COMING TO TAKE AWAY YOUR STOVE”. > > [Gas stoves: How this kitchen item got politically polarizing in, uh, something like 72 hours.](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/gas-stoves-republicans-joe-biden-culture-wars.html) Of course they’ve all forgotten their collective outrage at the “news” that Biden was going to ban beef. Heck, that happened way back in 2021–what self-respecting conservative could be expected to remember back that far??? > **[Biden’s fake burger ban and the rising culture war over meat](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/4/26/22403599/biden-red-meat-ban-burger-kudlow)** > > Biden’s not taking away your meat, as Republicans claimed this weekend. But partisan conflict over eating animals is just getting started. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2023, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6977 "2023-01-14T01:42:49Z")
Only banning burgers cooked on gas stoves. Off to the reich-wing triggers thread. ---
**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 14, 2023, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6978 "2023-01-14T02:05:00Z")
Wyoming is planning on banning electric vehicles. [https://wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2023/SJ0004](https://wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2023/SJ0004) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6979 "2023-01-14T02:21:28Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Only banning burgers cooked on gas stoves. Congress should pass the How to Achieve No Carbon Hamburgers by Implementing Limits Law, or HANC HILL. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2023, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6980 "2023-01-14T04:45:48Z")
Wyoming should go back to the horse and buggy. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6981 "2023-01-14T04:48:20Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > I read that as Margarine. _I Can’t Believe It’s Not George Santos_ ---
**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 14, 2023, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6982 "2023-01-14T05:44:11Z")
If at first you don’t win the lawsuit and get yourself installed as governor…try try to get another sucker to do it… [Kari Lake supporter files a suit to overturn the election.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kari-lake-supporter-sues-judge-to-get-election-overturned/ar-AA16k5bw?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=362c442cc2aa42dcbc585e9da852b293&rc=1) This is my favorite part: > The petition was filed by Ryan Heath, who founded The Gavel Project, a nonprofit organization that describes its work as "peacefully fighting for civil liberties on behalf of victims **suffering from the abuses of woke ideologues."** Oh, my stars. Somebody give me pearls to clutch. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6983 "2023-01-14T06:27:37Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > (The Arabs invented them, right?) Nope, a [7th century mathematician in India](https://blutick.com/who-invented-zero-and-why/) came up with the idea of zero being both a value and a placeholder. India is also responsible for the symbols we use to represent numbers now. The Western world calls them Arabic because the Arab world was where the Western world first learned about them. ---
**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 14, 2023, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6984 "2023-01-14T06:34:48Z")
Actually their legislature soon hopes to pass the ACRA (Advanced Coal Rolling Act). ---
**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 14, 2023, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6985 "2023-01-14T10:42:41Z")
Obituary for Michael Haight, the Utah man who murdered his wife, mother-in-law, and five kids before turning the gun on himself; > [@](#): > > Michael made it a point to spend quality time with each and every one of his children. Michael enjoyed making memories with the family. He spent many evenings and Saturdays coaching the children’s city league sporting teams, attending the children’s concerts at school, going on side-by-side rides, doing home-improvement projects, sledding and much more. > Michael lived a life of service. Whether it was serving in the church or in the community, he was willing to help with whatever was needed. > **[Michael Haight Obituary (1980 - 2023) - Cedar City, Utah](https://mortuary.org/obituaries/michael-haight?fbclid=IwAR3Hy9X9QQy4BZ-OMClvKG2Oow6cGwPakEYTOrrBpqpoqriWSAgOvuuqyII&mibextid=Zxz2cZ)** > > Michael was born on January 7th, 1980 and passed away on > January 4th, 2023 at the age of 42 > **[Utah father Michael Haight kills wife, five children and mother-in-law before...](https://news.sky.com/story/utah-father-michael-haight-kills-wife-five-children-and-mother-in-law-before-shooting-himself-police-say-12781032)** > > An American father killed his wife, their five children and his elderly mother-in-law before taking his own life weeks after his wife had filed for divorce, police in Utah said. Meanwhile, his wife’s family put out a statement about how this would never have happened if only there had been **MOAR GUNS**. > ![](https://media3.giphy.com/media/KUAb8YQOhmWNq/giphy.gif) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=348) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=350)