# 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:** 479
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9567 "2023-05-24T21:47:40Z")
In a move that should shock noone, Congressional Republicans are planning to follow up on the debt ceiling hostage crisis by rolling out massive tax cuts for the rich. > **[GOP plans to unveil deficit-exploding tax cuts for the rich 2 weeks after...](https://www.rawstory.com/debt-ceiling-2660598222/)** > > With the U.S. careening toward a default crisis that they manufactured, House Republicans are reportedly crafting a major tax cut package that would overwhelmingly benefit the rich and corporations while blowing a multitrillion-dollar hole in the... ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9568 "2023-05-24T21:49:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > In a move that should shock noone, Congressional Republicans are planning to follow up on the debt ceiling hostage crisis by rolling out massive tax cuts for the rich. - How is it that after all these years, there’s still taxes on the rich left to cut? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9569 "2023-05-24T22:02:29Z")
Well, at some point, we have to get to negative tax rates so they can create more of them jobs I keep hearing about. Profit motive clearly isn’t enough incentive to do that on their own ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9570 "2023-05-24T23:44:54Z")
Remember Kandiss “Jesus, Guns, and Babies” Taylor? She’s back! In Flat-Earther form! > **['Globes everywhere!': Georgia GOP official pushes Flat Earth conspiracy theory](https://www.rawstory.com/flat-earth-gop/)** > > A former Republican candidate for Georgia governor recently elected as a district-level GOP chair is now pushing conspiracy theories that the Earth is flat, reported Rolling Stone on Wednesday.Kandiss Taylor is best known for her campaign touring... > [@](#): > > “That’s what they do, to brainwash,” Taylor told Weiss and Long. “For me if it’s not a conspiracy. If it is real, why are you pushing so hard everywhere I go? Every store, you buy a globe, there’s globes everywhere. Every movie, every TV show, news media — why? More and more I’m like, it doesn’t make sense.” Those crafty ancient Greek mathemeticians working as pawns for Big Globe to sell more globes. ---
**Author:** ![DirtyHippy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtyhippy/32/107_2.png) [@DirtyHippy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirtyHippy)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9571 "2023-05-24T23:54:23Z")
It’s a global conspiracy! ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9572 "2023-05-24T23:58:49Z")
My daffy landlord recently said that he’s disappointed by the number of people whose podcasts he listens to who’ve been peddling the flat-earth nonsense. I told him that if they’re wrong about that, imagine what _else_ they’re wrong about. No response. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9573 "2023-05-25T00:03:32Z")
I thoroughly enjoyed reading her admission that she knows the Sun is a planet. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9574 "2023-05-25T02:09:19Z")
Meanwhile, Paxton has called for Republican Speaker of the Texas House Dade Phelan to resign, alleging that he presided over the chamber drunk. Texas politics never fails to entertain, I tell you what. [Dade Phelan allegedly drunk on House floor (fox4news.com)](https://www.fox4news.com/video/1224720) ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9575 "2023-05-25T03:07:46Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > I think I just chundered a bit! Pictures of McCarthy’s chapstick lubricating Trumps sphincter, and…no, no, no, I shall not go there. I might just have to put you on ignore for a while! OMG, where’s the brain bleach!!! ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9576 "2023-05-25T03:14:06Z")
Of all the terrible things so many republicans have been accused of and never been held accountable for being drunk while presiding over the Texas House seems low on the list. I expect him to get more votes because of it the next time he runs. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9577 "2023-05-25T04:02:24Z")
Loser Donald is being even more incoherent than usual tonight. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fw7dqlJX0AEuDpa?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fw7dqlJX0AEuDpa?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9578 "2023-05-25T04:43:16Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > …being drunk while presiding over the Texas House seems low on the list. If I had to preside over that mess, I’d probably be hitting the bottle pretty hard, and I don’t even drink! ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9579 "2023-05-25T06:45:34Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Loser Donald is being even more incoherent than usual tonight. > > [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fw7dqlJX0AEuDpa?format=jpg&name=medium](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fw7dqlJX0AEuDpa?format=jpg&name=medium) What on earth is that meant to mean? Honestly, he sounds like a Gr 3 kid in a game of one-upmanship, and reckons he’s gong to be friends soon with the school bully!?? Seriously, this kid is going to be running for POTUS again next year? WTF? ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9580 "2023-05-25T07:24:10Z")
What’s with the closing parenthesis without an opening parenthesis? \*Yeah. I know. “Out of all of the spelling/grammar errors there, _that’s_ the one you’re focusing on?” ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9581 "2023-05-25T07:27:04Z")
McCarthy’s Chapstick? Trump’s red button? 🤮 ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9582 "2023-05-25T07:33:07Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Trump’s red button? [![](https://mario.wiki.gallery/images/thumb/a/a6/Super_Mushroom_Artwork_-_Super_Mario_3D_World.png/1200px-Super_Mushroom_Artwork_-_Super_Mario_3D_World.png) ](https://mario.wiki.gallery/images/thumb/a/a6/Super_Mushroom_Artwork_-_Super_Mario_3D_World.png/1200px-Super_Mushroom_Artwork_-_Super_Mario_3D_World.png) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9583 "2023-05-25T08:32:06Z")
Trying desperately to ignore the heavy Freudian overtones for a moment: why is Kim Jung Un about to become his friend and why tf would anyone brag about that? ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9584 "2023-05-25T08:41:06Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I expect him to get more votes because of it the next time he runs. Depends on what he was drinking. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9585 "2023-05-25T08:49:18Z")
What I find weird is that I have a vague memory of the America-hating fuckstick using the “red button” taunt as a bit of sabre-rattling _against_ Kim Jong Un early in his term, before he fell in love with him. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9586 "2023-05-25T09:05:18Z")
Yes, he did. But Trump loves a good line, regardless of consistency or sense. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=478) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=480)