# 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:** 413
**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 28, 2023, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8247 "2023-02-28T04:25:10Z")
Just before the governor of Tennessee is set to sign an anti-drag bill, an image surfaces of him dressed in drag. > **[Image appearing to show Tennessee governor in drag surfaces](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bill-lee-tennessee-governor-drag-b2290642.html)** > > Bill Lee set to sign bill into law expanding defintion of ‘adult cabaret performance’ ---
**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 28, 2023, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8248 "2023-02-28T05:07:23Z")
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**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 28, 2023, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8249 "2023-02-28T07:30:40Z")
“He had to sign that pledge. If he didn’t sign the pledge, he couldn’t be in the debate and that means he could not run for president and win the third time. The deep state rigged this. He’s just doing what’s necessary to protect us from the sure destruction that will follow if he is not restored to the presidency.” Pardon me. I have to go puke now. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8250 "2023-02-28T12:11:06Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > the cheetahs start eating their faces too. Now there is cheetah party? Not surprised there was a schism with the leopards, I guess. > [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > he’ll see it to that _right ones_ will never get kicked out into the streets. Yes, but the point of the ‘first they came’ essay is that the definition of the ‘right ones’ constantly evolves (and gets more exclusive). Did anyone ever foresee Liz Cheney being called a RINO? ---
**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 28, 2023, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8251 "2023-02-28T22:14:00Z")
Florida legislator introduces a bill to ban the Democratic Party. > **[Blaise Ingoglia bill would ‘cancel’ Democratic Party](https://floridapolitics.com/archives/591585-blaise-ingoglia-bill-would-cancel-democratic-party/)** > > 'Some people want to have "uncomfortable conversations" about certain subjects.' ---
**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:** [February 28, 2023, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8252 "2023-02-28T22:28:05Z")
Thirded! “Tennessee’s governor, Bill Lee, is facing accusations of hypocrisy after a photo of him dressed in drag went viral days after the politician confirmed that he would sign legislation criminalizing drag performances. Lee, a Republican, announced on Monday that he plans to sign a bill passed previously by his state’s legislature that prohibits drag in public and in front of children. Lee also said he would sign a bill that bans gender-affirming care for [Tennessee](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/tennessee) minors. That announcement came two days after [a picture of Lee](https://i.redd.it/2zudd4knbjka1.jpg)dressed in drag during his high school days went viral on Reddit.” [![](https://i.redd.it/2zudd4knbjka1.jpg) ](https://i.redd.it/2zudd4knbjka1.jpg) > **[Tennessee governor to ban drag shows – despite photo of him dressed in drag](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/tennessee-governor-ban-drag-shows-photo-bill-lee)** > > Bill Lee says he will sign law criminalizing drag performances despite emergence of picture from 1977 high school yearbook ---
**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 28, 2023, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8253 "2023-02-28T23:35:02Z")
> **[House Oversight Chair Laments That Joe Biden’s Dead Son Was Never Prosecuted](https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-oversight-chair-james-comer-laments-that-joe-bidens-dead-son-was-never-prosecuted?source=articles&via=rss)** > > Fuming that the Trump-appointed attorney probing Hunter Biden hasn’t yet brought up charges, Comer then invoked Beau Biden and wondered why he wasn’t indicted at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Mortimus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Mortimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mortimus)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8254 "2023-02-28T23:49:10Z")
Bill Lee has nice gams. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8255 "2023-03-01T00:00:27Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Now there is cheetah party? Not surprised there was a schism with the leopards, I guess. Hm, maybe that’s the origin of the catastrophic lack of genetic diversity among cheetahs-- They banded together and ate the faces of any cheetah that was different, with the required level of difference progressively shrinking until the only cheetahs that were left were all identical. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8256 "2023-03-01T00:25:16Z")
The whitest, richest part of Atlanta wants to secede from the city and Marge Greene is all racist for it. > ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8257 "2023-03-01T00:29:23Z")
Marge and Thomas Massie are the only two No votes on a resolution offering prayers for the victims of the Turkish earthquakes. > **[MTG Couldn’t Care Less About Those Who Died in Earthquake](https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-couldnt-care-less-about-those-who-died-in-turkey-syria-earthquake)** > > Greene was joined by just one other member of the House in voting “no” on a symbolic measure to mourn the 50,000 lives lost. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8258 "2023-03-01T00:48:26Z")
A bill in Florida would ban the Democratic Party. > **[New bill would eliminate Florida Democratic Party](https://www.wesh.com/article/ultimate-cancel-act-florida-democratic-party/43125234#)** > > The Florida Democratic party would not exist if a new Senate bill is passed and signed into law. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8259 "2023-03-01T00:52:02Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Just before the governor of Tennessee is set to sign an anti-drag bill, an image surfaces of him dressed in drag. > [Image appearing to show Tennessee governor Bill Lee in high school drag surfaces | The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bill-lee-tennessee-governor-drag-b2290642.html) He now says HIS drag was okay because it was “light-hearted.” Not sure how he knows what’s in the hearts of those he wants to persecute, but then that’s kinda standard for hate-mongering authoritarians. [https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1630407236143939585](https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1630407236143939585) ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8260 "2023-03-01T00:55:12Z")
It is a school thing. My high school did it. Maybe its only okay if you’re mocking females. Who knows? ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8261 "2023-03-01T01:13:31Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Maybe its only okay if you’re mocking females. Who knows? In that case, this will end up being a big ol’ slippery slope, because I’ve been told by some conservative-leaning folks that drag is mocking femininity. By that logic, drag performances would be just fine. 😗 ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8262 "2023-03-01T02:39:07Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Marge and Thomas Massie are the only two No votes on a resolution offering prayers for the victims of the Turkish earthquakes. These votes are symbolic and stupid (just like “thoughts and prayers”), but what would lead this howler monkey to not go with every one else, minus other dipshit, to offer their own “tots and pears”? At this point, it is just to keep her fucking dumbass name in the news. And that is what pisses me off. When she was barred from committees, her newsworthiness was somewhat restrained. Now that the Howler Monkey Caucus (HMC) has taken over and she is on committees, she’s up to Pussy Ass Bitch level of news reporting. Boebert and the rest of the HMC is taking notes. We will never be free from these shitstains. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8263 "2023-03-01T02:55:50Z")
The Texas legislature wants to give tax exemptions to straight married couples for having lots of kids. > > ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8264 "2023-03-01T02:56:30Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > At this point, it is just to keep her fucking dumbass name in the news. Yep. “Look at me! Look at MEEEEE! I am hating people! EVERYONE LOOOOOOK AT MEEEEEE! Now send me money.” That’s all it is. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8265 "2023-03-01T03:25:13Z")
Iowa legislators propose a ban on same-sex marriage: > “In accordance with the laws of nature and nature’s God, the state of Iowa recognizes the definition of marriage to be the solemnized union between one human biological male and one human biological female,” says the [joint resolution](https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ba=HJR8&ga=90), introduced Tuesday by eight Republican members of the state House. > **[Iowa legislators propose a ban on same-sex marriage](https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/iowa-lawmakers-propose-ban-sex-marriage-rcna72759)** > > The Legislature is also considering a bill that would permit residents to deny recognition of same-sex marriages on religious grounds. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8266 "2023-03-01T08:21:01Z")
Rapey McForehead, while attempting to argue against US funding for Ukraine, enters an article from Chinese state-owned media into the Congressional record, immediately gets called out by witness for believing Chinese propaganda. > [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=412) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=414)