# 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:** 62
**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:** [April 2, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1222 "2022-04-02T21:22:26Z")
We’re apt to get sued for libel by some leopards before long. ---
**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 3, 2022, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1223 "2022-04-03T04:39:52Z")
Moms Of Outrage, or whatever they call themselves, allegedly [found a memo/letter from a Florida teachers org](https://twitter.com/CDG_GTR/status/1509957923211866113) detailing how teachers will be dealing with laws restricting sex-related language: by redacting all gender-specific language of any kind (pronouns _and_ nouns) everywhere and using “Mx.” to replace Mr/Miss/Mrs/Ms. It is most likely a fake, but still funny. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2022, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1224 "2022-04-03T05:33:43Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > And while we’re at it, the US drinking age of 21 is ridiculously high. Agreed. Why won’t the US let legal adults drink alcohol? They can buy real property, can sign contracts, can emancipate themselves from their parents without a court order at age 18, but they cannot have a beer? Ridiculous. But letting legal adults (and yes, a legal adult is 18 years old, not 21) not buy a beer in a neighbourhood pub, or a six-pack in a liquor store, while allowing that same person to sign a contract of sale in order to buy a house costing in the hundreds of thousands, regardless of what their parents say? Or a car, costing tens of thousands? Or negotiating a loan for that car with a bank? Or anything else a legal adult can do? Double ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2022, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1225 "2022-04-03T06:44:25Z")
One word: Control. The lower the drinking age, the lower the BAC limit, the lower the speed limit, the larger net cast and the greater the bonanza for the police industrial complex. ---
**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 3, 2022, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1226 "2022-04-03T06:51:56Z")
JD Vance’s attempt to boycott Disney didn’t even last 24 hours. > > ---
**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 3, 2022, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1227 "2022-04-03T07:01:43Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Moms Of Outrage, or whatever they call themselves, allegedly [found a memo/letter from a Florida teachers org](https://twitter.com/CDG_GTR/status/1509957923211866113) detailing how teachers will be dealing with laws restricting sex-related language: by redacting all gender-specific language of any kind (pronouns _and_ nouns) everywhere and using “Mx.” to replace Mr/Miss/Mrs/Ms. It is most likely a fake, but still funny. This may not be as out-there as you think. Here’s an article from a lesbian mother with a point of view: She claims that our schools are indoctrinating children to be cis straight, without ever using those words, simply by teaching them the standard stereotyped role models. (This is hardly anything new – Remember those Dick and Jane books we used? Father goes to work. Mother stays home and cooks.) > **[I’m Trying To Raise My Kids As Homosexuals (And I Never Even Have To Say ‘Gay’)](https://www.yahoo.com/news/m-trying-raise-kids-homosexuals-130024023.html)** > > "How am I attempting this? Well, it’s simple: I learned how from watching straight people enforce a sexual orientation on their kids without ever saying 'straight.'" > [@](#): > > One of the most amazing things about cisgender straight people is that most of them think they don’t have a sexual orientation or a gender identity. A major premise of [Florida’s recently passed “Don’t Say Gay”](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-desantis-signs-dont-say-gay-bill-florida_n_6227adfbe4b004a43c10cb11) bill is that children should be sheltered from discussions of sexual orientation, and in many ways, I, a queer mom married to a woman, actually agree with this. That also goes for gender identity too ― I think it would be amazing if schools stopped teaching gender as an innate expression stemming from what is in one’s pants. And I believe young children can learn all about love and family and different family structures without needing to have it framed in ways that are overly sexual or romantic. But that’s not how straight society likes to play. > > The ironic twist regarding this legislation is that mainstream straight culture enjoys aggressively (hetero)sexualizing young children in ways that, if LGBTQ people did it, we would be labeled perverts, extremists and child abusers. And yet heterosexual grooming ― a term I coined for this phenomenon ― is so constant and ubiquitous most people don’t even notice it. > > What is heterosexual grooming? ---
**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:** [April 3, 2022, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1228 "2022-04-03T08:32:38Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > > [@Horatius](#): > > > > And while we’re at it, the US drinking age of 21 is ridiculously high. > > Agreed. Why won’t the US let legal adults drink alcohol? It’s sillier than you think. The drinking age–both on and off base–for the United States military members, yet the drinking age in South Korea is 19. So, of course, one of the common reasons young 18 and 19 year old US servicemembers get in trouble with the US military is going off base and drinking, then returning to the base under the influence. ---
**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 3, 2022, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1229 "2022-04-03T10:39:08Z")
Congresswoman Lisa McClain (Fucking Idiot - MI) claims Loser Donald caught Osama bin Laden. > **[GOP Rep. McClain falsely claimed that Trump caught Osama bin Laden. The Al...](https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-congresswoman-wrongly-claims-trump-caught-bin-laden-obama-did-2022-4)** > > "When President Trump was in office, we didn't have a war, and I think he made three peace treaties," McClain said. "Caught Osama –Osama bin Laden and Soleimani, Al Baghdadi." ---
**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:** [April 3, 2022, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1230 "2022-04-03T11:08:03Z")
> [@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.” As I’ve said, this is basically why, when condemning china, republicans must always call it _communist_ china. Because, the reasons most people condemn china: lack of democracy, repression of a Muslim minority, repression of gay, trans etc, authoritarian government with draconian punishments…they are totally on board with. But “communist” still works as a scary word, even if china isn’t actually very communist. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2022, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1231 "2022-04-03T11:30:38Z")
[Ben Shapiro and fiends will be making kids’ shows.](https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2022/03/31/the-daily-wire-100m-kids-entertainment.html) Won’t someone think of the children? I suppose this is more evil than dumb, though. ---
**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 3, 2022, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1232 "2022-04-03T11:45:56Z")
Until recently, I never noticed that Ben Shapiro is pretty much always wearing a plain black yarmulke, and the fact that he does just puzzles me. It blends into his hair so perfectly that it’s difficult to even notice it if you aren’t looking. It’s like he’s wearing his Judaism on his sleeve while simultaneously hoping that the demographic he’s appealing to doesn’t find out about it, like some kind of reverse dog whistle. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1233 "2022-04-03T13:20:52Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > For years, Herschel Walker has claimed that he graduated in the upper 1% from Georgia. Absolutely true – if the metric is rushing yards or Heisman trophies won. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1234 "2022-04-03T16:45:41Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Congresswoman Lisa McClain (Fucking Idiot - MI) claims Loser Donald caught Osama bin Laden. Can you prove that he wasn’t in disguise as part of SEAL Team Six? /s ---
**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 4, 2022, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1235 "2022-04-04T00:21:33Z")
Because he outweighs the rest of the team put together? ---
**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 4, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1236 "2022-04-04T01:25:41Z")
Well, that would explain why one of the helicopters crashed… ---
**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 4, 2022, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1237 "2022-04-04T01:32:59Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Congresswoman Lisa McClain (Fucking Idiot - MI) claims Loser Donald caught Osama bin Laden. She also said that unemployment is currently at the highest level in it’s been in 40 years. ---
**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 4, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1238 "2022-04-04T01:59:58Z")
Trey Gowdy (R-Benghazi) says nobody ever invited him to any cocaine orgies when he was in Congress and that Madison Cawthorn should name names. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/aPn5cMFZVSE/maxresdefault.jpg "Cawthorn should name names") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPn5cMFZVSE) ---
**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 4, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1239 "2022-04-04T02:14:00Z")
Is he hoping to get names so he can ask if he can come? ---
**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 4, 2022, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1240 "2022-04-04T02:23:02Z")
Matt Gaetz voted against lowering the price of insulin because "90-95% of people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes, which “can be prevented or delayed with healthy lifestyle changes, such as losing weight, eating healthy food, and being active.” Arbitrary price controls are no substitute for individual weight control. Since 2000, the number of diabetes cases in the U.S. has nearly doubled. The demand for insulin has increased and the requisite price increase has followed suit. In other words, the price of insulin increases as waistlines increase. " > **[Rep. Matt Gaetz votes against capping insulin prices, says people should just...](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/04/rep-matt-gaetz-votes-against-capping-insulin-prices-says-people-should-just-lose-weight/)** > > The Florida congressman said “the price of insulin increases as waistlines increase.” ---
**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 4, 2022, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1241 "2022-04-04T02:24:12Z")
Roger Stone whines because he’s being censored on Individual 1’s “free speech” app. > **[Roger Stone Claims He’s Being ‘Censored’ on Trump’s Free-Speech App](https://www.thedailybeast.com/roger-stone-claims-hes-being-censored-on-trumps-truth-social)** > > Stone is the most high-profile MAGA character to claim he’s being silenced on the app. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=61) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=63)