# 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:** 410
**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 25, 2023, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8187 "2023-02-25T01:13:08Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > The classes are held in a meeting room at the local library. I truly enjoy this bit of irony. Don’t the magaters hate socialized institutions such as public libraries? > [@JaneDoe42](#): > > The last class featured a couple of ladies getting upset because they couldn’t carry their guns and one of them blamed Biden for it. > > Yavapai county is blood red. The board of supervisors are all Repug. The Repug run county mandated no guns in libraries and courtrooms well over a decade again. One of my students here in China is an ardent Trump supporter. Why? Who the fuck knows? But he certainly shares something with those women: a complete inability to follow a timeline. He tried to prove to me that it’s NATO’s fault that Russia attacked Ukraine and had events of the last 40 years garbled as to when they happened. Hey, one of my favorite stories is Brunner’s [Times Without Number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Without_Number), but I recognize it as fiction. In the real world, events do not relocate on the timeline. Those women not only are not critical thinkers, they’re not thinkers. They’re just repeating the latest bogey person as their mantra. In short, they’re the common clay of the new west, as someone else posted above. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2023, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8188 "2023-02-25T01:52:47Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The chair of the House Oversight Committee threatens DirecTV to restore Newsmax, “or else”. Whole lotta ridiculous, risible shit in that article. (subject, not writer) > [@](#): > > “We’re all huge fans of Newsmax,” Comer declared. “We don’t like to see Newsmax not being offered on DirecTV, especially considering **Newsmax is the, I think, the fourth highest-rated news show on TV now**.” Ah, the erudite “I think” accreditation, when a super quick google check might show kinda otherwise. And they’re fucking sounding more and more like children - not just the goofy “or else” shit, but: > [@](#): > > Likely realizing that this could lead to accusations of government overreach by Republicans on behalf of a preferred media company, Newsmax anchor John Bachman added: **“But they started it, congressman, they started it.”** 😢 Along with more craziness in the story. Maybe tell Newsmax not to demand exhorbitant fees, you fucking knuckleheads, and Direct TV might (disappointingly) still take them on? ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8189 "2023-02-25T02:42:09Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I truly enjoy this bit of irony. Don’t the magaters hate socialized institutions such as public libraries? There is a church volunteer run program out this way that goes to stores and farms to pick up the surplus and/or close to expiring food to give to the food banks. Once the food banks have everything they want, the food get taken to local community centers and handed out to local residents without any sort of income requirements. (These are not food boxes like folks get at food banks, these are just boxes of random perishable food items, most of which I also give away.) After all of the people have taken all they want, the rest goes to the local Future Farmers of America kids to feed their livestock. Very little of the food ends up in the landfills. I get really steamed when I see PAB bumper stickers on new pick-ups in line. WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN A SOCIALIST LINE, YOU IGNORANT SON OF A BITCH!!! I don’t say that part where they can hear me, but I think it really loud. It’s good that I’m old. You only get so many give a shits in a lifetime and I ran out of mine a few years ago. Plus, I smoke a whole bunch of weed which really helps with the whole “don’t give a shit” thing. ---
**Author:** ![Mortimus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Mortimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mortimus)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8190 "2023-02-25T02:56:59Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Trump flies on his own plane. I wonder if he pays his flight crew and maintenance people like he pays his lawyers. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2023, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8191 "2023-02-25T03:12:55Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > It’s good that I’m old. You only get so many give a shits in a lifetime and I ran out of mine a few years ago. Sing it, sister! ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8192 "2023-02-25T03:14:15Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > There is a church volunteer run program out this way that goes to stores and farms to pick up the surplus and/or close to expiring food to give to the food banks. Once the food banks have everything they want, the food get taken to local community centers and handed out to local residents without any sort of income requirements. […] After all of the people have taken all they want, the rest goes to the local Future Farmers of America kids to feed their livestock. Very little of the food ends up in the landfills. > > I get really steamed when I see PAB bumper stickers on new pick-ups in line. WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN A SOCIALIST LINE, YOU IGNORANT SON OF A BITCH!!! No no no, see, farms and stores distributing surplus resources at no direct cost, so that everybody is adequately fed and as little as possible is wasted, is just good old-fashioned neighborliness and charity. The government organizing a system to distribute surplus resources at no direct cost, so that everybody is adequately fed and as little as possible is wasted, is Evil Socialism™. (Yeah, I don’t really get the distinction either.) ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8193 "2023-02-25T03:56:27Z")
That just made way too much fucking sense. Maybe I need to start smoking heroin cause pot just isn’t doing it anymore. I keep thinking and that is certainly not encouraged out this way. ---
**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 25, 2023, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8194 "2023-02-25T04:40:18Z")
MyPillow guy is suing MqQarthy because he gave the 1/6 tapes to Fucker Carlson and not to him. > **[Mike Lindell suing Kevin McCarthy over January 6 tapes](https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-suing-kevin-mccarthy-over-january-6-tapes-1783496)** > > "We're gonna run this all the way to the Supreme Court," Lindell vowed about his lawsuit against the House Speaker. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2023, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8195 "2023-02-25T05:20:37Z")
The Congressional Dumbshit Caucus sent a letter to Pete Buttigieg attacking him because the NTSB failed to prevent the train derailment. The NTSB is not part of the Department of Transportation. > ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8196 "2023-02-25T05:58:33Z")
> [@Mortimus](#): > > I wonder if he pays his flight crew and maintenance people like he pays his lawyers. **Aircraft Maintenance Technician:** Mr. Trump, when will you pay that $1000 invoice we sent you last month? **Trump:** Don’t worry; you’ll get your money. **AMT:** Mr. Trump, do you want to know what part on your aircraft will fail on its next flight? It’ll cost you $1000 to find out. Pretty sure that his aircraft people know how to make him pay up. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8197 "2023-02-25T08:19:10Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > I truly enjoy this bit of irony. Don’t the magaters hate socialized institutions such as public libraries? > > There is a church volunteer run program out this way that goes to stores and farms to pick up the surplus and/or close to expiring food to give to the food banks. Once the food banks have everything they want, the food get taken to local community centers and handed out to local residents without any sort of income requirements. (These are not food boxes like folks get at food banks, these are just boxes of random perishable food items, most of which I also give away.) After all of the people have taken all they want, the rest goes to the local Future Farmers of America kids to feed their livestock. Very little of the food ends up in the landfills. > > I get really steamed when I see PAB bumper stickers on new pick-ups in line. WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN A SOCIALIST LINE, YOU IGNORANT SON OF A BITCH!!! I don’t say that part where they can hear me, but I think it really loud. > > It’s good that I’m old. You only get so many give a shits in a lifetime and I ran out of mine a few years ago. Plus, I smoke a whole bunch of weed which really helps with the whole “don’t give a shit” thing. I may not have mentioned it before, but you are one of my most favourite posters. Just sayin’. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2023, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8198 "2023-02-25T11:58:36Z")
Congressman Barry Moore ( **THE GUN IS GOOD, THE PENIS IS EVIL** - AL) has introduced a bill to make the AR-15 the “National Gun of America”. > ---
**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 25, 2023, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8199 "2023-02-25T12:24:45Z")
Typically, when it comes to freedom of the press and freedom of religion, aren’t weapons like these used to _suppress_, and not _protect_? ---
**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:** [February 25, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8200 "2023-02-25T13:35:50Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > MyPillow guy is suing MqQarthy because he gave the 1/6 tapes to Fucker Carlson and not to him. > > [Mike Lindell Suing Kevin McCarthy Over January 6 Tapes](https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-suing-kevin-mccarthy-over-january-6-tapes-1783496) I thought this looked familiar. > [@Railer13](#): > > Oh, crap. I actually sorta agree with MyPillow man on this one. > > [https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1628803359703707648](https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1628803359703707648) > > I definitely now need a shower. ---
**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 25, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8201 "2023-02-25T15:32:40Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The NTSB is not part of the Department of Transportation. And let’s not miss them complaining that a preliminary report “stopped short” of reaching a conclusion as to the cause of the accident. “Goddamn it, we expect our experts to jump to _immediate_ conclusions!” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8202 "2023-02-25T15:54:28Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > The NTSB is not part of the Department of Transportation. > > And let’s not miss them complaining that a preliminary report “stopped short” of reaching a conclusion as to the cause of the accident > > “Goddamn it, we expect our experts to jump to _immediate_ conclusions!” And not only is the NTSB not part of the Department of Transportation, it’s not even the correct agency. From what I’ve read in several articles about the derailment, it’s the Federal Railroad Administration that is in charge of railroad safety. (ETA: which _is_ part of DOT.) I guess it’s too much to ask of these morons to spend 15 minutes a day reading their daily newspapers. Who needs facts when you’re trying to pwn the libs? ---
**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 25, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8203 "2023-02-25T16:45:20Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > “Goddamn it, we expect our experts to jump to _immediate_ conclusions!” And if those immediate conclusions don’t include “blame Biden”, then they’re part of the Deep State! ---
**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:** [February 25, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8204 "2023-02-25T16:50:36Z")
‘And how did you determine the the wheel bearing did not over heat due to CRT, wokeness, or because it was on puberty suppressors?’ ---
**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:** [February 25, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8205 "2023-02-25T16:55:58Z")
I can see the signs/stickers now: Blame-din! Or “Derail Biden!” ---
**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:** [February 25, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8206 "2023-02-25T17:12:35Z")
Louie Gohmert: [Can we alter the moon’s orbit to combat climate change?](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lunar-new-deal-gop-rep-gohmert-suggests-altering-moon-s-n1270219) I don’t often swear because I work with kids, but what a fucking numbskull. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=409) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=411)