# 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:** 60
**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:** [April 1, 2022, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1182 "2022-04-01T12:34:32Z")
To no one’s surprise, Trump’s personal social media site is tanking. Even HE doesn’t use it. and I thought one of the points was that this would be a site that wouldn’t ban him. (Although, according to this article, the way Trump messages would be breaking the rules of the site, making him ripe for banning, if he didn’t already own the site). [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/31/2089418/-Just-an-update-Trump-s-Social-Network-site-is-completely-collapsing?utm\_campaign=trending](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/31/2089418/-Just-an-update-Trump-s-Social-Network-site-is-completely-collapsing?utm_campaign=trending) ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1183 "2022-04-01T12:40:54Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > He is now complaining about the “radical left, the establishment, and the media” trying to silence him. Somehow I doubt that anyone on the radical left, the moderate left, or even the wishy-washy left has the slightest interest in “silencing” his talk of Republican Cocaine Orgies… Clearly the Republican long knives are out for Cawthorn in a way that they haven’t been for Boebert, MTG, Gaetz, etc. The lesson being that you can let fly with whatever batshit crazy, Q-related accusations you want – as long as they’re only aimed at Democrats. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1184 "2022-04-01T13:17:50Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The defense rested in the case where righties tried to kidnap and assassinate Governor Whitmer of Michigan. One of the defendants testified in his own defense, apparently not doing much good for himself. He called two others who had pled guilty liars, called the federal informant who turned them in a b----- (presumably bitch?), and said he never called Whitmer a tyrant, but then the prosecution played tapes of him making suggestions as to how to kill her. > [Defense rests after Whitmer kidnap suspect Daniel Harris mocks informant](https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/03/31/whitmer-kidnap-plot-trial-daniel-harris-fbi-informant/7230538001/) Also related, and also stupid, the FBI are investigating threats made against the judge and a couple of defense counsel in the case. I retract “stupid”. Maybe it should go in the Evil thread. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1185 "2022-04-01T13:20:52Z")
I am so tempted to make a yard sign that says “Support Congressional cocaine orgies! Vote Cawthorne!” ---
**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:** [April 1, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1186 "2022-04-01T13:24:31Z")
I do wonder if it is similar to the corrupt cop trope, where your fellow cops don’t trust you unless you take the bribe. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2022, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1187 "2022-04-01T13:42:31Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > He called two others who had pled guilty liars, called the federal informant who turned them in a b----- (presumably bitch?), and said he never called Whitmer a tyrant, but then the prosecution played tapes of him making suggestions as to how to kill her. Ah, the Bart Simpson defense: “I didn’t do it nobody saw me do it you can’t prove a thing.” ---
**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:** [April 1, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1188 "2022-04-01T13:47:53Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > I am so tempted to make a yard sign that says “Support Congressional cocaine orgies! Vote Cawthorne!” You’re not the only one with that idea. Here’s his fellow (Democratic) Congressman, Ted Lieu, on Twitter: > ---
**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:** [April 1, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1189 "2022-04-01T14:09:01Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > The lesson being that you can let fly with whatever batshit crazy, Q-related accusations you want – as long as they’re only aimed at Democrats. But the other lesson that should be learned, by the Republicans, is that _this is what you get when you promote the batshit crazy people_. People who are batshit crazy are not often noted for their ability to stop being batshit crazy just because they’re now being crazy about people on their own side. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1190 "2022-04-01T16:56:56Z")
Let us not forget that Rep. Cawthorn sustained his paralyzing injury while returning from Spring Break in Daytona Beach in his buddy’s BMW. I’m just saying, I think he’s been at least in the vicinity of a key bump or two. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1191 "2022-04-01T17:27:01Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > I’m just saying, I think he’s been at least in the vicinity of a key bump or two. Without a doubt. Kind of blows a hole in his babe in woods act. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1192 "2022-04-01T21:42:07Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > Let us not forget that Rep. Cawthorn sustained his paralyzing injury Maybe Cawthorne is just bitter, resentful, and angry at the world after what’s happened to him. I’m sure I would be. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1193 "2022-04-01T22:45:32Z")
Or maybe he’s just a spoiled little brat who would have been a toad even without the paralyzing wreck. All apologies to toads, of course. They actually serve a purpose in this world. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1194 "2022-04-01T22:54:17Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > Or maybe he’s just a spoiled little brat who would have been a toad even without the paralyzing wreck. That too. As mentioned earlier somewhere, some of his college-days classmates (some, or all, female presumably), (and pre-accident?) have commented on what an obnoxious jerk he was. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1195 "2022-04-01T23:14:52Z")
Lauren Boebert: We require people to be 21 to purchase alcohol beverages, and 21 to purchase tobacco products. Why is it so unreasonable to require people to reach a certain level of maturity before making life-altering decisions about their sexuality and identity? > ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1196 "2022-04-01T23:21:48Z")
First I’ve ever heard of him and saw what he looked like, my first reaction ( other than his revolting politics ) was that he was, appearance wise, the absolute embodiment of the typical smug, brash, frat-boy douchebag. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1197 "2022-04-01T23:40:21Z")
So she supports access to birth control and safe, legal abortion, right? …right? ---
**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:** [April 2, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1198 "2022-04-02T00:07:59Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > First I’ve ever heard of him and saw what he looked like he has, in common with Shkreli, the archetypal backpfeifengesicht ---
**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:** [April 2, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1199 "2022-04-02T00:08:10Z")
Robert D. Kaplan, writing in Bloomberg: “Biden is wrong: People in developing nations want stability, efficient government and personal freedoms more than the right to vote every few years.” [https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-01/russia-ukraine-war-to-save-global-democracy-sign-up-a-few-good-dictators](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-01/russia-ukraine-war-to-save-global-democracy-sign-up-a-few-good-dictators) ---
**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:** [April 2, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1200 "2022-04-02T00:24:50Z")
Because people often realize they’re gay, or trans, long before 21. And if they’re trans, and haven’t taken hormone blockers, it’s too late to prevent massive body dysmorphia. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1201 "2022-04-02T00:28:10Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Robert D. Kaplan, writing in Bloomberg: > “Biden is wrong: People in developing nations want stability, efficient government and personal freedoms more than the right to vote every few years.” . Hey, open fascism for the GOP win, right??? Let’s go AUTOCRATS! Let’s go AUTOCRATS!! Rah rah rah AUTHORITARIANISM!!! More seriously: Kaplan’s argument is based on bizarre takes such as his admiration for Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman. Many (including me) will find his fan-boy take on MBS to be unattractive and unconvincing. Sample of Kaplan’s ‘huzzah for happy dictatorships’ thinking: > [@](#): > > Not only in Saudi Arabia, but throughout the Gulf, there is a social contract between ruler and ruled that is a reproach to the supposed end of history, since it basically tolerates dictatorship in return for good governance that is perceived as just. Yuh-huh. So why don’t _you_ move to a dictatorship, Bob-old-boy??? (Obvious answer: because he has high hopes of the USA becoming one within just a few years.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=59) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=61)