# 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:** 398
**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:** [February 17, 2023, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7947 "2023-02-17T18:51:41Z")
My congressman is full of shit, too! Um, hooray? ---
**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:** [February 17, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7948 "2023-02-17T19:09:40Z")
Congressman Warren Davidson of Ohio wants to impeach Pete Buttigieg over the Ohio train derailment. > ---
**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:** [February 17, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7949 "2023-02-17T19:19:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Middle Tennessee State, where he claims to have gotten his economics degree, says it can’t confirm that because Ogles has blocked that information. If he is an economist, why doesn’t he want his constituents to know that? Look, if we can’t confirm his education, we can just assume he’s lying about being a smarty-pants poindexter to pwn the libs who like that kind of shit. But if he goes and proves he _really is_ an educated soy-boy elite type? Well, we couldn’t stand for that! So it’s safer for the Party if he just hides everything. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Congressman Warren Davidson of Ohio wants to impeach Pete Buttigieg over the Ohio train derailment. “He should have fixed everything Trump broke! Even though we refuse to pass any new legislation!” ---
**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:** [February 17, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7950 "2023-02-17T19:27:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Greg Abbott says he will sign a bill making it illegal for citizens of China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia from buying land in Texas. Will any of that make it harder for Texas to become the new Silicone Valley? It seems they’ve been heading in that direction for the past 5 or 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7951 "2023-02-17T19:33:37Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Nikki Haley says Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law doesn’t go far enough. And this will make government smaller…how? ---
**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:** [February 17, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7952 "2023-02-17T19:44:41Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Will any of that make it harder for Texas to become the new Silicone Valley? Are there that many Texas women getting boob jobs? ---
**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:** [February 17, 2023, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7953 "2023-02-17T19:49:35Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Despite his claims of being a police officer and working in international sex crimes Dude, doing a personal investigation of which local Chinese Massage parlors will give you a “Happy ending” doesn’t make you an international sex crimes expert. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7954 "2023-02-17T20:27:30Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Are there that many Texas women getting boob jobs? Everything is bigger in Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7955 "2023-02-17T20:43:41Z")
Thanks for that. I’ve heard a deejay use the audio from there as broadcast bumpers and I had no idea where it came from. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7956 "2023-02-17T21:16:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Congressman Warren Davidson of Ohio wants to impeach Pete Buttigieg over the Ohio train derailment. > > [https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1626554444539215874](https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1626554444539215874) No doubt he was equally quick to denounce Trump’s Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao concerning [the 2017 derailments in Iowa and Washington, the 2018 collisions in South Carolina and Wyoming, and derailments in Virginia and Indiana, and similar catastrophes in 2019](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rail_accidents_(2010–2019)#2017) and [2020](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rail_accidents_(2020–present)#2020)? > [@](#): > > [2017] > 10 March – _United States_ – A freight train convoying ethanol derails and bursts into flames as it crosses a trestle bridge near [Graettinger, Iowa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graettinger,_Iowa). At least 27 of 101 cars derail. […] > > 18 December - _United States_ - **[2017 Washington train derailment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Washington_train_derailment)** : Amtrak _[Cascades](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak_Cascades)_ passenger train #501, the inaugural run of the _Cascades_ service on a new rail line designed for higher speeds than the previous route, fails to slow down when approaching a 30 miles per hour (48 km/h) speed restriction and derails on a bridge over [I-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_5) in [Pierce County, Washington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce_County,_Washington). Three people are killed and over 80 injured […] > > [2018] > 4 February - _United States_ - **[Cayce, South Carolina train collision](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayce,_South_Carolina_train_collision)** : [Amtrak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak) [_Silver Star_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Star_(Amtrak_train)) train #91 traveling from [New York City](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City) to [Miami](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami) collided with a [CSX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSX) freight train in [Cayce, South Carolina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayce,_South_Carolina), killing at least two people, injuring at least 100 others, and spilling thousands of gallons of fuel […] > > 19 May - _United States_ - A [CSX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSX) freight train is derailed when a bridge collapses under it at [Franconia, Virginia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconia,_Virginia) […] > > 17 June - _United States_ - A freight train consisting of 89 cars derails and causes an explosion outside of the city of [Princeton, Indiana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton,_Indiana). Of the 23 derailed cars, 5 contain propane. Authorities evacuate homes within a 1-mile (1.6 km) radius of the derailment.[[…] > > 4 October - _United States_ - A [Union Pacific](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific) freight train loses its brakes and collides with the rear of a stationary train in [Granite Canyon, Wyoming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Canyon,_Wyoming).[_[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)_] Preliminary NTSB reports have put the cause at a kink or pinched air hose along with a communication failure between the head end and the train’s [end-of-train device](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-train_device). The crew of the runaway train were killed […] > > [2019] > 6 January – _United States_ – A Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derails in [Jefferson County, Georgia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_County,_Georgia) near [Bartow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartow,_Georgia), prompting the evacuation of all addresses within a 7-mile (11 km) radius of the crash site due to tanker leakage. No injuries from the derailment were reported; however, at least 26 people, including a firefighter and three law enforcement officers, were treated for chemical exposure […] > > 9 April – _United States_ – Several cars of a [Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware-Lackawanna_Railroad) train derail in [Dickson City, Pennsylvania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickson_City,_Pennsylvania) […] > > 16 April – _United States_ – Six cars of a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying trash derail in [Wyomissing, Pennsylvania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyomissing,_Pennsylvania). The train was traveling westbound from [Oak Island, New Jersey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island_Yard) to [Mingo Junction, Ohio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingo_Junction,_Ohio). The derailment backs up train traffic as far away as [Chicago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago) […] > > 17 August – _United States_ – About 140 cars from two BNSF Railway trains derail near [Walton, Kansas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton,_Kansas) due to high winds from a storm […] > [@](#): > > [2020] > 1 January – _[United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States)_ – A [BNSF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNSF) freight train strikes a landslide and derails near [Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonner%27s_Ferry,_Idaho). Both locomotives end up in the [Kootenai River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kootenai_River). Two crew are rescued by boat […] > > 13 February – _United States_ – Five cars of a 96-car [CSX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSX) freight train derail in Draffin, [Kentucky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky) due to a rockslide. The locomotives and train cars caught fire, causing evacuations of nearby communities. Two crew members from the train were taken to a hospital […] > > 27 March - United States - In [Deland, Florida](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deland,_Florida), an Amtrak Auto Train derailed when 8 train cars tipped over, 1 person was injured […] > > 29 July – _United States_ – A freight train derails on a bridge in [Tempe, Arizona](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempe,_Arizona). The wreck catches fire and the bridge collapses […] > > 11 October - United States - In [Lilburn, Georgia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilburn,_Georgia), a CSX train derails during heavy rains following [Hurricane Delta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Delta_(2020)), causing minor injuries to the two occupants of the locomotive […] > > 28 November - United States - In [Wellington, Colorado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington,_Colorado), a _[BNSF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNSF)_ Train collided with an empty train car and derailed with the train wheels of the empty train car which made the BNSF Train derail, 1 person was injured […] Oh, he didn’t? Somehow I thought not. (And I’m not even including the dozen or so regional or light rail accidents or ones involving automobiles in the same period.) Actually, I was a bit surprised myself to learn how not-rare train derailments and even hazmat-related mass evacuations following train derailments are in the US. Certainly, nobody who didn’t make any fuss about the several such incidents during the Trump years has any standing to be calling for Buttigieg’s head about the Ohio disaster. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7957 "2023-02-17T21:23:11Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > > Nikki Haley says Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law doesn’t go far enough. > > And this will make government smaller…how? They don’t want small government. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2023, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7958 "2023-02-17T23:34:46Z")
> ---
**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:** [February 17, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7959 "2023-02-17T23:44:18Z")
It amazes me that too many of the Qliban (as I call the so-called Good of the People party) twerps manage to get so far with their faked credentials. After all the crap they gave Pressident Obama about not only his birth certificate but also his university transcripts, one would think the Qliban types would be trotting out proof of every single thing they say in their political life. Ah, see what happens when I post early in the morning. I post the content of my dreams. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7960 "2023-02-17T23:47:53Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > It amazes me that too many of the Qliban (as I call the so-called Good of the People party) twerps manage to get so far with their faked credentials. After all the crap they gave Pressident Obama about not only his birth certificate but also his university transcripts, one would think the Qliban types would be trotting out proof of every single thing they say in their political life. Every Accusation Is A Confession. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2023, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7961 "2023-02-18T00:42:54Z")
You know, that phrase is being overused to the point of being meaningless, especially if you consider the fact that it also means that if we accuse the conservatives, we must be guilty of what we accuse them of. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2023, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7962 "2023-02-18T00:45:32Z")
I confess…Republicans are assholes. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2023, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7963 "2023-02-18T01:16:10Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Will any of that make it harder for Texas to become the new Silicone Valley? Typo, or deliberate? ---
**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:** [February 18, 2023, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7964 "2023-02-18T01:22:46Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Are there that many Texas women getting boob jobs? Perhaps not but plenty of Texas legislators are bigger boobs than I thought possible. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2023, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7965 "2023-02-18T01:43:54Z")
Well played, @DesertDog ---
**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:** [February 18, 2023, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/7966 "2023-02-18T04:02:02Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > “Foursome at the country club.” Is that what they call a circle-jerk these days? It only just now occurred to me that “foursome” might be intended to refer to _golf_. :forehead smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=397) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=399)