# 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:** 5
**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:** [February 8, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/81 "2022-02-08T19:41:17Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Cthulhu. The folks that worship him are hoping they’ll be eaten last. [here is the relevant material](http://home.avvanta.com/~sydde/1stEt.pdf) because of its sensitive content, the pdf is encrypted with a simple password (4 letters associated with this site, all lower-case) ---
**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:** [February 8, 2022, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/82 "2022-02-08T19:52:51Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Come on rubella! And be sure not to let pregnant women know that you have rubella. Cf. Agatha Christie, _The Mirror Crack’d_. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/83 "2022-02-08T20:10:35Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Nothing like a polio outbreak to trigger the Libs. “Ha ha Libs! I’m in an iron lung, and there’s _nothing you can do about it!_ Nyaa nyaa!” ---
**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:** [February 8, 2022, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/84 "2022-02-08T20:30:33Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > > [@Gyrate](#): > > > > I’m with you on this one - as long as he’s not out there condemning other people for doing what he did, the fact that his marriage used to be open is a non-issue. Tbh, it’s a surprise he’s **not** being openly hypocritical, given the entire rest of the party he belongs to. > > My read is that he is espousing Libertarian viewpoints. And I have found that many Libertarians find a home in the GOP. A Libertarian has been described as “a Republican who wants to smoke pot.” ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/85 "2022-02-09T01:21:01Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > “Ha ha Libs! I’m in an iron lung, and there’s _nothing you can do about it!_ Nyaa nyaa!” _Pulls plug_ We’ll have another machine free any second now. ---
**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 9, 2022, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/86 "2022-02-09T03:45:05Z")
A bill before the Florida legislature would allow parents to sue a school if they serve their child a vegetarian meal without the parents’ prior permission. > ---
**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:** [February 9, 2022, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/87 "2022-02-09T04:47:46Z")
because, _freedom_ or something something something ---
**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 9, 2022, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/88 "2022-02-09T04:58:01Z")
A state senator in West Virginia - the same West Virginia that the Supreme Court ruled against in _West Virginia v. Barnette_ that students cannot be compelled to recite the Pledge of Allegiance - has introduced a bill that would require high school seniors to swear an oath to the Constitution as a requirement to graduate. > **[Bill introduced by Senate would require seniors to pledge oath to Constitution](https://www.wdtv.com/2022/01/27/bill-introduced-by-senate-would-require-seniors-pledge-oath-constitution/)** > > If passed, Senate Bill 495 would require high school seniors to pledge an oath to the Constitution as a condition of graduation. Incidentally, the bill’s sponsor was at the Capitol on 1/6/2021 and described the rioters as “peaceful American loving, constitution loving, God-loving Americans”. > **[WV senator draws criticism for description of Capitol riots](https://www.wboy.com/news/west-virginia/wv-senator-draws-criticism-for-description-of-capitol-riots/)** > > CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — As the flags in West Virginia fly at half-staff following the riot at the nation’s Capitol and the death of a police officer as a result, one West Virginia repub… ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/89 "2022-02-09T13:26:50Z")
In the anti-vax thread I asked - > Is it too early to start investing in the stocks of Iron Lung makers? That was August of 2017. I am now sorry I did not make any investments. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2022, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/90 "2022-02-09T13:51:23Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > In the anti-vax thread I asked - > > > Is it too early to start investing in the stocks of Iron Lung makers? > > That was August of 2017. I am now sorry I did not make any investments… From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung): > The use of iron lungs is largely obsolete in modern medicine, as more modern breathing therapies have been developed,[[5]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung#cite_note-5) and due to the eradication of polio in most of the world.[[6]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung#cite_note-americas_last_2017_11_22_independent_co_uk-6) However, in 2020, the [COVID-19 pandemic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic) revived some interest in the device as a cheap, readily-producible substitute for [positive-pressure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modes_of_mechanical_ventilation#Continuous_positive_airway_pressure) [ventilators](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_ventilator), which were feared to be outnumbered by patients potentially needing temporary artificially assisted respiration.[[7]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung#cite_note-modern_iron_lung_2020_04_06_newatlas-7)[[8]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung#cite_note-alberta_team_2020_03_25_city_news-8)[[9]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung#cite_note-one_kansas_company_2020_04_09_ksn_com-9)[[10]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung#cite_note-hess_offers_2020_04_09_hdnews_net-10) There’s a description of how they work(ed), something I always wondered. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/91 "2022-02-09T14:42:59Z")
Wyoming Republican Senator gets special mention for one of the most convoluted statements I have heard recently > [@](#): > > I think it was an interesting approach to have a novel approach to have a national Republican committee take a position like that. So, this not a support or oppose, this is just an observation that I thought that was novel and unique. My writing teachers would keelhaul her for using “approach to have” two times in rapid succession like that, but even without that clumsy repetition, this statement wins points for excessive obscurity. Which is the point. She was effectively making a contentless comment on the RNC’s censure of Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Chris Hayes of MSNBC called it one of the “all-time great cowardly politician” quotes. > **[GOP Senator Slammed For ‘All-Time Great Cowardly Politician’ Quote](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cynthia-lummis-quote-chris-hayes-cowardly_n_62036bb0e4b0bb5f9715fd7d)** > > "I have seen more than a few in my day, and that is up there," MSNBC's Chris Hayes said of Sen. Cynthia Lummis' comment on the censure of anti-Trump Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/92 "2022-02-09T16:04:55Z")
Not entirely sure where this belongs, but … somewhere: [https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/08/politics/joyce-beatty-hal-rogers-poke-mask-dispute/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/08/politics/joyce-beatty-hal-rogers-poke-mask-dispute/index.html) > Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio said Tuesday that Republican Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky poked her in the back and told her “kiss my ass” after she asked him to [wear a mask](http://www.cnn.com/2022/02/08/health/covid-mask-guidance-cdc-director/index.html) before boarding the US Capitol’s subway system. Rogers has since apologized, but … I’m guessing that the Capitol subway is Federal, and that the **[‘public transport’ mask mandate](https://www.transit.dot.gov/TransitMaskUp)** would apply. But I’m so GD cynical that I wouldn’t preclude Rogers and Beatty staging the whole thing to gin up campaign $upport. I’ve always wondered why professional wrestling hasn’t sued Congress for copyright infringement. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/93 "2022-02-09T16:45:23Z")
Well as to whether the statement of Lummis was cowardly, all I can say is that it was a unique quote that used words that I had not seen used in that order before, and so without saying that I agree or disagree as to its cowardice, I found that it represented a different alternative approach to the question she was asked. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/94 "2022-02-09T16:45:56Z")
Bless her heart, she means well. ---
**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 9, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/95 "2022-02-09T16:53:09Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > I’m guessing that the Capitol subway is Federal, and that the **[‘public transport’ mask mandate](https://www.transit.dot.gov/TransitMaskUp)** would apply. I’m guessing it is under the control of Congress - so Chuck and Nancy at some level presumably set the rules (so there probably is a mask mandate). ---
**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:** [February 9, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/96 "2022-02-09T17:09:21Z")
Nice try, but your statement made way too much sense. I’m sorry, but I’m afraid you don’t qualify to be a Republican Congressman. No, I take that back. I’m not sorry. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/97 "2022-02-09T17:49:18Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Well as to whether the statement of Lummis was cowardly, all I can say is that it was a unique quote that used words that I had not seen used in that order before, and so without saying that I agree or disagree as to its cowardice, I found that it represented a different alternative approach to the question she was asked. Very Good. It would have been better if you could have used “approach to have” at _least_ once in it (in all fairness, you did have “approach to” in it), but very good, nonetheless. ---
**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 9, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/98 "2022-02-09T18:47:17Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Well as to whether the statement of Lummis was cowardly, all I can say is that it was a unique quote that used words that I had not seen used in that order before, and so without saying that I agree or disagree as to its cowardice, I found that it represented a different alternative approach to the question she was asked. Sob. That was beautiful. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/99 "2022-02-09T18:55:44Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > I’ve always wondered why professional wrestling hasn’t sued Congress for copyright infringement. I wouldn’t want to see any of them in a onesie, though. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2022, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/100 "2022-02-09T20:43:49Z")
Candidate for the Texas House says transgender children make her uncomfortable, and it’s unfair that their classmates can’t make fun of them. > **[A Republican Texas House candidate and former teacher complained that she...](https://www.businessinsider.com/republican-texas-house-candidate-transgender-students-2022-2)** > > "I am not comfortable with the transgenders, the kids that they brought in my classroom," Shelley Luther was recorded saying at a candidate forum. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=6)