# 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:** 489
**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:** [June 10, 2023, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9767 "2023-06-10T19:13:11Z")
Anyone thinking of January-6th-ing the arraignment really ought to think\* twice; the [authorities are gearing up for them](https://wsvn.com/news/politics/barricades-sharpshooters-among-security-measures-expected-for-trumps-arraignment-in-downtown-miami/), up to and including sharpshooters. \*Yeh, I know, “think” and MAGAts. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2023, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9768 "2023-06-10T20:55:03Z")
If I were a nasty cynical person I might suggest these calls to arms are just ways to lull the authorities into a false sense of safety (as in there’s a small gathering that amounts to nothing) before another J/6. But that would take so much planning that it doesn’t seem feasible or likely. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9769 "2023-06-10T22:37:08Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Bagged air! That’s right - bagged air. Think of the MAGA’a in Arizona, OK, TX, Arkansas, and other strongholds being DEPRIVED of a chance to, “OWN THE LIBS”. For only $49.95 plus S & H (per week/$199.95 per month), you can have baggies of genuine “WOKE SMOKE” sent to your door. Order extra to insure your continued huffing pleasure. Just include bank information (don’t do this) and check off how often you’re willing to contribute to “OWN THE LIBS, LLC”. > > A fantastic chance to open your own business, operate from home, cash in your spare time. Also, get your masks here! Ladies and gentleman (because we’re all one or the other amirite?), I hope you’ve already thrown out any evil Soros covid masks that killed freedom and reflected your own disgusting lung gas at you. Instead, you can now buy these _patriot_ masks. The difference is, these are _reversed_ such that they just reflect woke smoke away. They are also designed to stop the FBI from lip-reading your words and cancelling you. Only available in the stars and stripes $19.99 each ---
**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:** [June 11, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9770 "2023-06-11T14:14:31Z")
Kari Lake, fading from sanity, or still going for national news, tries badass. > **[Kari Lake Threatens Mass Gun Violence in Defense of Donald Trump](https://jezebel.com/kari-lake-threatens-mass-gun-violence-in-defense-of-don-1850526207)** > > “If you want to get to President Trump, you're going to have to go through me and 75 million Americans just like me...card carrying members of the NRA." Demerits for lousy math (number of republicans, number of NRA members). But, since when did facts, numbers, statistics matter to the QAloons. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9771 "2023-06-11T15:22:57Z")
OK. Whatever you want Kari. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2023, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9772 "2023-06-12T04:26:00Z")
In a turn of events that should shock nobody, House Republicans have followed up their months of “Aw shucks, we can’t afford to pay our bills, we’re gonna have to force the country into bankruptcy if we don’t cut funding for the poors” pantomime by proposing a $240 billion tax cut for the rich. > **['Tax scam': Republicans follow debt ceiling fight by proposing tax cuts for...](https://www.rawstory.com/tax-scam-republicans-follow-debt-ceiling-fight-by-proposing-tax-cuts-for-wealthy/)** > > After threatening to force the government into default over the debt ceiling, Republican lawmakers Friday introduced new tax cuts that could add at least $21 billion to the national deficit over the next decade. Three new GOP-backed bills would cut... ---
**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:** [June 12, 2023, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9773 "2023-06-12T08:47:44Z")
[MTG admits on camera to revealing the details of a document she was shown in a SCIF](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fspBlG5uvFM). Which may well be a crime. (The relevant bit is right at the beginning of the video; the rest is commentary.) ---
**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:** [June 12, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9774 "2023-06-12T15:17:22Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > a turn of events that should shock nobody, House Republicans have followed up their months of “Aw shucks, we can’t afford to pay our bills, we’re gonna have to force the country into bankruptcy if we don’t cut funding for the poors” pantomime by proposing a $240 billion tax cut for the rich. But tax cuts pay for themselves and so don’t raise the deficit as can clearly be shown by this made up graph I drew on a cocktail napkin. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9775 "2023-06-12T18:01:54Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > But tax cuts pay for themselves and so don’t raise the deficit as can clearly be shown by this made up graph I drew on a cocktail napkin… It only counts if you used a Sharpie. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2023, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9776 "2023-06-12T21:28:06Z")
And your name is Laffer. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9777 "2023-06-13T04:03:41Z")
[Young women told to give up](https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-conference-tells-young-women-221000348.html): > **Republican ConferenceTells Young Women to Give Up Their Dreams & Their Birth Control** > > This past weekend marked the conservative organization Turning Point USA’s annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit. Over the course of three days, as Media Matters’ Madeline Peltz [reported](https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/career-women-right-wing-media-tell-young-girls-give-their-dreams-young-womens), a stacked roster of some of the worst people on the internet offered some variation of the same speech imploring young attendees to give up their career aspirations and their birth control. The Daily Wire’s Candace Owens literally wrapped up the convention by telling attendees, “Every ill that we are fighting right now in society has been brought forth by women.” > > Ironically, nearly all the speakers at the conference—from Owens and TPUSA’s podcast lead Alex Clark to Fox host Laura Ingraham and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)—were invited _because_ of their high-power, high-earning careers and massive platforms. But they spent the duration of their speeches preaching that if young women focus on professional dreams rather than marriage and childrearing, then (as Clark put it) they’re contributing to our “degenerate rotten culture.” More coverage of that nonsense at the link. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2023, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9778 "2023-06-13T08:44:11Z")
To be fair, all those people focused on professional dreams and have demonstrably contributed to our degenerate rotten culture. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2023, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9779 "2023-06-13T08:47:33Z")
I know. The worry is they–or at least the party they support–will be in power and will harm all young women in the country by making that declaration a reality. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9780 "2023-06-13T12:01:11Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > Ironically, nearly all the speakers at the conference—from Owens and TPUSA’s podcast lead Alex Clark to Fox host Laura Ingraham and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)—were invited _because_ of their high-power, high-earning careers and massive platforms. But they spent the duration of their speeches preaching that if young women focus on professional dreams rather than marriage and childrearing, then (as Clark put it) they’re contributing to our “degenerate rotten culture.” > > More coverage of that nonsense at the link. Ah, but, you see, _ **they** _ had a special “God-given” call to those high powered careers. Remember, it’s all about everyone Knowing Your Place and staying there _unless_ you _gain favor_ from those who _ **do** _ have “merit” to be on top (i.e. Rich White Anglo “Christian” (cis)Men) ---
**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:** [June 13, 2023, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9781 "2023-06-13T12:17:52Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > “Every ill that we are fighting right now in society has been **brought forth by** women.” My bold. Well, in the sense that the men causing all the problems were _given birth to_ by women… okay. The solution seems to be to make sure this disruptive element cannot harm society any more than it already has. Let’s return to a completely matriarchal social structure and values! The sooner the better! ---
**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:** [June 13, 2023, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9782 "2023-06-13T12:23:59Z")
Whenever I see articles that include lines like ‘at a three day conference’ or ‘during a weekend class’ it reminds me that the republicans of the next generations don’t just ‘end up’ in politics, they’re actively training for it their entire lives. The Turning Point USA’s annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit is directed 15-26 year old girls. When you send your 15 year old daughter to a conference like that, with speakers like those and couple that with being raised in, what I can safely assume is, a very very conservative household, of course they’re going to grow up to think their only duty is to be barefoot and pregnant. And if that’s the way they feel life should be, that’s entirely fine and they’re welcome to create that life for themselves. However, we know many of these young women will grow up to become politicians spewing this same toxic garbage. Well, unless they actually do too good of a job of it and reverse feminism far enough that they find themselves unable to hold office. While I’m sure there’s a Dem version of these types of classes/courses/conferences, I’m guessing it’s not quite so aggressive. If something similar existed that could be considered even a little, tiny bit ‘too’ left, Fox and the rest of the right, would be all over it. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9783 "2023-06-13T12:38:53Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > While I’m sure there’s a Dem version of these types of classes/courses/conferences, I’m guessing it’s not quite so aggressive. If something similar existed that could be considered even a little, tiny bit ‘too’ left, Fox and the rest of the right, would be all over it That one reason that I do not think there is a huge wave of teaching _whatever they mean by_ “Critical Race Theory” in public schools, because there are hundreds of thousands of teachers, and millions of phones in our schools, so if that sort of stuff (whatever it is) were so widespread, there would have been lots and lots of teachers being recorded saying it and it would have been posted all over right wing news and the alt-right-o-sphere by now. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2023, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9784 "2023-06-13T12:50:00Z")
I don’t think that there are conferences specifically to teach young women to be liberal. But there are plenty of conferences to teach young women to be powerful, influential members of society, in any of a wide variety of fields of their choosing. And the concept that women can be those things is a liberal concept. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2023, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9785 "2023-06-13T14:05:07Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > But there are plenty of conferences to teach young women to be powerful, influential members of society, in any of a wide variety of fields of their choosing. And the concept that women can be those things is a liberal concept. Grooomer! 🤪 ---
**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:** [June 13, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9786 "2023-06-13T14:51:48Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I don’t think that there are conferences specifically to teach young women to be liberal. I’ve heard there are weekly meetings in a lot of places where they promote the idea that we should be kind to each other, and to help poor people. SOCIALIST INDOCTRINATION. These places should be shut down! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=488) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=490)