# 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:** 431
**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 16, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8607 "2023-03-16T22:11:52Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I mean, you really hope you won’t have to do any major first aid while out hiking, but best to be prepared. I carried one in a first aid kit while climbing. Very handy if you get an ice-axe puncture wound. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8608 "2023-03-16T22:29:26Z")
None of you have come up with the thought that I had right away, looking at that bathroom photo? He’s talking about keeping our precious wimminfolk safe, right? And there’s that sweet innocent blonde being stared at menacingly by those DARK GIRLS. Connect the dots, people! Edit: Okay, further down the thread, a couple of you spotted it too. ---
**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, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8609 "2023-03-16T23:41:23Z")
A Virginia state delegate and 1/6 insurrectionist wants to charge congressmen with felonies if they write gun legislation. > **[Virginia lawmaker proposes felony charges for any member of Congress who...](https://www.rawstory.com/virginia-lawmaker-proposes-felony-charges-for-any-member-of-congress-who-writes-gun-laws/)** > > A far-right Virginia delegate who attended former President Donald Trump's "Stop the Steal" rally has a new idea, reported The Daily Beast on Thursday: prosecute members of Congress who write gun control laws."In a Wednesday email, first reported by... ---
**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 17, 2023, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8610 "2023-03-17T00:29:28Z")
It’s….innovative, I suppose. And disturbing. ---
**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 17, 2023, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8611 "2023-03-17T02:49:04Z")
Musing…it occurs to me that the Republicans could accomplish their whole legal/law enforcement agenda in one fell swoop by changing the orientation of the judicial system from its historical stance, “innocent until proven guilty,” to the reverse: “guilty until proven innocent.” Much more efficient! ---
**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:** [March 17, 2023, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8612 "2023-03-17T03:11:02Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > A Virginia state delegate and 1/6 insurrectionist wants to charge congressmen with felonies if they write gun legislation. In a related measure, he wants do dig up the signers of the US Constitution and mass execute them for including the totally misleading, “A well regulated Militia…” phrase in the second amendment. It was cramping his style on 1/6. ---
**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 17, 2023, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8613 "2023-03-17T03:26:05Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@Chronos](#): > > > > I mean, you really hope you won’t have to do any major first aid while out hiking, but best to be prepared. > > I carried one in a first aid kit while climbing. Very handy if you get an ice-axe puncture wound. When I was working on the ambulance, we kept a supply of tampons and pads for both female issues and gun/knife/industrial wounds. They were fantastic for those sorts of injuries. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2023, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8614 "2023-03-17T03:39:16Z")
Wasn’t that their original purpose, treating wounds? ---
**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 17, 2023, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8615 "2023-03-17T03:41:08Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > On the other hand I also don’t see how two black girls grimacing at a white girls washing her hands supports the notion of period equality. I am not really seeing “grimacing”, as such. They have what I would call comparatively neutral expressions – perhaps conveying something like “_glad that’s not happening to me today_” ?’ ---
**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:** [March 17, 2023, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8616 "2023-03-17T03:43:57Z")
You want efficiency? Tan the Conman wanted to give you efficiency! Just execute the accused. No need to have a trial. ---
**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 17, 2023, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8617 "2023-03-17T03:44:20Z")
Yeah. But a lot of ambulances switched to [ABD pads](https://www.bandagesplus.com/wound-care/wound-dressings/abd-pads#:~:text=ABD%20Pads%2C%20Dressing%2C%20Bandages%2C,discharge%20into%20an%20inner%20core.), ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8618 "2023-03-17T03:48:43Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Wasn’t that their original purpose, treating wounds? [More or less.](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/surprising-origins-kotex-pads-180964466/) > [@](#): > > Before Kotex sanitary napkins hit the market in 1921, most women relied on homemade cloth pads (although some storemade cloth pads and disposables had been on offer since the late 1880s.) […] > > For women who could afford such things and had access to them, there were options such as the [“Hoosier” sanitary belt](http://www.mum.org/hoosier2.htm), which held cloth pads in place, or [Lister’s Towels](https://www.maximhy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/listerstowels.jpg?w=190), possibly the first-ever disposable option, but the use of such products was not widespread, Mandziuk says. […] > > Like a number of other products that first came to market in the 1920s, Kotex sanitary pads originated as a wartime invention. Kimberly-Clark, an American paper products company formed in the 1870s, produced bandages from a material called Cellucotton for World War I. Cellucotton, which was made of wood pulp, was five times as absorbent as cotton bandages but much less expensive. > > In 1919, with the war over, Kimberly-Clark executives were looking for ways to use Cellucotton in peacetime. The company got the idea of sanitary pads from the American Fund for the French Wounded, [according to](https://books.google.ca/books?id=xlPNB5HpRDIC&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=cellucotton+patent&source=bl&ots=rtmwuuzoxP&sig=J0mrBr6k2_4hEyATfQnTia0sOXQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiO5Kba7YjVAhVMzoMKHcQ0Ay8Q6AEIQDAG#v=onepage&q&f=false) historians Thomas Heinrich and Bob Batchelor. The Fund “received letters from Army nurses claiming they used Cellucotton surgical dressings as makeshift sanitary napkins,” the pair write. […] > > Kimberly-Clark employee Walter Luecke, who had been tasked with finding a use for Cellucotton, understood that a product designed to appeal to about half the country’s population could create enough demand to take the place of the wartime demand for bandages. He jumped on the idea. […] > > The name Kotex came from one employee’s observation that the product had a “cotton-like texture.” “Cot-tex” became the easier-to-say “Kotex,” creating a name that–like another Kimberly-Clark product, [Kleenex](http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health-products/tissue-reviews/g953/history-of-kleenex/?slide=1)–would become a colloquial way to refer to the class of product itself. So the basic idea of using some kind of absorbent textile pad for menstruation hygiene had been around for a very long time, but the specific characteristics of the first commercially produced and marketed mainstream menstrual pads were, as you say, based on wartime wound dressings. ---
**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 17, 2023, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8619 "2023-03-17T03:53:00Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Next they’re going to blame WOKE for making them racist. > **[Conservative Historian Claims Diversity Ultimately Doomed Third Reich](https://theonion.com/conservative-historian-claims-diversity-ultimately-doom-1850233848/)** > > NEW YORK—Bemoaning “woke culture” for infecting the empire and ultimately leading to its untimely demise, conservative historian Antony Reed told reporters Thursday that diversity was what ultimately doomed the Third Reich. “Sadly, had Hitler and his... ---
**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:** [March 17, 2023, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8620 "2023-03-17T03:54:28Z")
I think “next” is not the right word there. That’s been one of the “go to” excuses for decades, IME dealing with racists. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8621 "2023-03-17T12:39:41Z")
Why is Scott Adams’ blog showing up on the Onion? ---
**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:** [March 17, 2023, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8622 "2023-03-17T13:50:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > You mean woke, woke, woke, woke, woke, woke, woke, woke, and woke? Singing: Wo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ke! Wo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ke! Wo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ke! Wo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ke! Lovely Woke! (Lovely Woke!) Lovely Woke! (Lovely Woke!) Lovely Woke! > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > by changing the orientation of the judicial system from its historical stance, “innocent until proven guilty,” to the reverse: “guilty until proven innocent.” Nah, all that “proving” stuff is hard 'n shit, let’s just go with “guilty”. > [@k9bfriender](#): > > Why is Scott Adams’ blog showing up on the Onion? Because The Onion has finally admitted defeat? ---
**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:** [March 17, 2023, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8623 "2023-03-17T14:12:16Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > > [@k9bfriender](#): > > > > Why is Scott Adams’ blog showing up on the Onion? > > Because The Onion has finally admitted defeat? “What’s my job now?” - Lewis Black, 2016. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8624 "2023-03-17T14:20:44Z")
Upcoming article: “The Onion gives up, reality wins.” "For thousands of years, The Onion has delivered to trillions of readers the pinnacle of satire, exploring a parallel world of exaggeration and hyperbole to shine a mirror on our own, a caricature for sure, but a caricature that shows off both the flaws and the tribulations of our own world. Today that comes to an end. We are no longer able to stretch the truth, no longer able to wrangle reality, no longer will we be able distort the view of the world into one of ridiculousness and absurdity. Reality has now acquired a monopoly on the absurd, and we just can’t compete. From now on, we will engage in straightforward journalism, reporting on the actual who, what, when, and where of news stories. Because reality is stranger than fiction, and we just can’t make this shit up. Thank you for your years of service, The Onion Staff" ---
**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:** [March 17, 2023, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8625 "2023-03-17T14:24:47Z")
You should seriously submit that. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8626 "2023-03-17T14:51:01Z")
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