# 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:** 428
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8547 "2023-03-15T22:15:15Z")
> _The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread_ > > - Anatole France ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8548 "2023-03-15T22:18:57Z")
My vital question of the day: “_So, is ‘Sleepy Joe’ woke?_” ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8549 "2023-03-15T22:22:19Z")
Depends which side of their mouth they are speaking from. ---
**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 15, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8550 "2023-03-15T22:30:53Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > From one of the top Republican state senators in Minnesota: he doesn’t know anyone who is hungry. It seems to me that, if one wishes to become a politician, then one ought to make the effort to go out and meet the people one is supposed to be representing. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2023, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8551 "2023-03-15T22:43:24Z")
🤣 Good one! ---
**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:** [March 15, 2023, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8552 "2023-03-15T22:54:37Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > From one of the top Republican state senators in Minnesota: he doesn’t know anyone who is hungry. I asked everyone in my country club and nobody said they were hungry except for this one chap but I directed him to the buffet table and that took care of that. Seriously though some feed the hungry organization needs to make a public invitation to take him on a quick tour of some of the areas in his district he might have missed. ---
**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 15, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8553 "2023-03-15T23:12:53Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > It looks like the Gnome of Tallahassee’s strategy for the nomination will be blathering about woke, pc, drag queens, grooming, woke, woke, pc, and woke. > **[Ron DeSantis Rails Against Woke Pants For Making His Ass Look Huge](https://www.theonion.com/ron-desantis-rails-against-woke-pants-for-making-his-as-1850185116)** > > TALLAHASSEE, FL—During a rally in which he decried the cut of his suit as yet another example of political correctness run amok, Florida governor and likely presidential candidate Ron DeSantis railed against his own pants Friday, blaming the woke... ---
**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:** [March 15, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8554 "2023-03-15T23:39:41Z")
Next they’re going to blame WOKE for making them racist. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2023, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8555 "2023-03-16T00:17:33Z")
The problem with _The Onion_ is that it is almost impossible to make a mockery out of the mockery we are currently experiencing. ---
**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 16, 2023, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8556 "2023-03-16T01:39:19Z")
Marjorie Taylor Greene says we need to invade Mexico because cartels are planting bombs along the border. The Border Patrol says it was a bag of sand. > **[Marjorie Taylor Greene's claim that cartel planted bomb at border is false,...](https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-claims-that-cartel-planted-bomb-at-border-deemed-false-by-cbp-report/)** > > The far-right Republican congresswoman from Georgia called for military action against the cartels before her claims were deemed to be without merit by a Fox News journalist. ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8557 "2023-03-16T01:56:41Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > It seems to me that, if one wishes to become a politician, then one ought to make the effort to go out and meet the people one is supposed to be representing. Many politicians hold frequent events for the sole purpose of meeting all the people they represent. These events are called “fundraisers.” ---
**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:** [March 16, 2023, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8558 "2023-03-16T02:37:05Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I’m surprised that some enterprising conservative hasn’t come up with one and just fed that to everyone as the line to parrot when asked this really basic question. It’s pathetic. That always seemed strange to me as well. They’ll repeat whatever they hear, so just give them something easy to remember, that sorta kinda applies while still maintaining the dog whistles. When they first kicked off their campaign against wokeness, they got close by getting everyone to say wokeness is about making people feel bad for being white, or wokeness teaching kids that they’re racist. It’s close enough that people don’t really push back, but it’s not exactly correct either. OTOH, it’s going exactly as planned. The right has said before that when these kind of things [people being woke, in this case] start popping up, they purposefully expand the definition of it to be so vague and all encompassing as to lose it’s meaning. They did the _exact_ same thing with Critical Race Theory. Look at how distracted people still are about CRT getting taught to 5 year olds. And I’ll continue to say, anyone that has a problem with CRT being taught to kids, won’t be able to tell you what CRT is if you ask them. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8559 "2023-03-16T02:54:23Z")
“_a Fox News journalist_” (in your link) is breaking my brain. Oxymoron of the decade. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2023, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8560 "2023-03-16T03:12:05Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Depends which side of their mouth they are speaking from. Mouth? ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8561 "2023-03-16T05:40:27Z")
Still amazes me how people think “breaking news” comes from a closed office from a politician rather than a NEWS source. How would a fucking senator know first? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8562 "2023-03-16T06:49:57Z")
Kentucky is [introducing a bill](https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/15/2nd-amendment-sanctuary-kentucky-lawmakers-pass-bill-on-gun-laws/70014329007/) that would make the state a “Second Amendment Sanctuary,” where federal gun regulations wouldn’t be enforced. Similar legislation in other states has been shown to be unconstitutional because state law cannot override federal law. I don’t know why they think this would work. The state is already deeply red. I can’t see this as anything more than trying to own the libs again. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2023, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8563 "2023-03-16T09:22:50Z")
Onion! That’s what I get for only glancing at the headline! ---
**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:** [March 16, 2023, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8564 "2023-03-16T09:44:44Z")
That sounds kinda foreign. It’s even got France in the name! ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8565 "2023-03-16T12:32:57Z")
A judge in Amarillo is hearing a case that might rescind the FDA’s approval of an abortion drug that has been approved for over twenty years. If the plaintiffs win, it would affect all 50 states! > **[Lawyers Spar Before Judge Over Rescinding of Federal Approval of Abortion Pill](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/health/abortion-pills-texas-lawsuit.html)** > > The judge said he would decide soon whether to issue a preliminary injunction ordering the F.D.A. to withdraw its approval of the drug or wait for the full trial. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8566 "2023-03-16T13:55:42Z")
The _Education Czar_ that believed some students were identifying as cats, just tweeted…whatever this is supposed to be. > [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=427) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=429)