# 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:** 63
**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:** [April 4, 2022, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1242 "2022-04-04T02:27:56Z")
Oh, fuck him sideways with a running rusty chainsaw. There are days when I daydream about going Maxwell’s silver hammer on a whole lot of deserving people. Although I’m sure there are a few people out there who feel the same about me, so it’s just as well none of us will ever try to make those dreams come true. ---
**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 4, 2022, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1243 "2022-04-04T02:50:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Roger Stone whines because he’s being censored on Individual 1’s “free speech” app. And the even funnier thing is, from what I could make of it (from whatever news report I read), the thing he posted was perfectly in keeping with the kind of stuff that one would expect on Trump Social. He got censored (actually, just an added required click-through) by their AI modbots, for no obvious reason. That said, anyway, . . . > [@Morgyn](#): > > Oh, fuck him sideways with a running rusty chainsaw. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1244 "2022-04-04T02:54:42Z")
Perhaps because they copied their modbots, along with everything else, and don’t know how to configure them? ---
**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 4, 2022, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1245 "2022-04-04T02:57:09Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > Perhaps because they copied their modbots, along with everything else, and don’t know how to configure them?   Which, if so, is laughably funny, because the whole point of Trump Social is to allow the very kind of right-wing invective that tends to get censored by modbots elsewhere. ---
**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 4, 2022, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1246 "2022-04-04T06:58:37Z")
I dropped a few words there. The drinking age for the US military is 21, and a number of said service members aged 18 to 20 decide to get lit in town then return to base under the influence. ---
**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 4, 2022, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1247 "2022-04-04T07:56:48Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > And the even funnier thing is, from what I could make of it (from whatever news report I read), the thing he posted was perfectly in keeping with the kind of stuff that one would expect on Trump Social. He got censored (actually, just an added required click-through) by their AI modbots, for no obvious reason. This is the irony – IME these “free speech” apps are exactly the opposite. On Rumble, if you post that the 2020 election was fair, you get downvoted and then can no longer post, while people pile on calling you a commie libtard or whatever. I took a brief hiatus from Straight Dope to engage with a conservative forum, and they had a feature that people could start threads and block specific people from posting in that thread. Pretty quickly I was blocked from most threads. I never called anyone names, or hijacked threads or anything like that, I just gave counter-arguments. ---
**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 4, 2022, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1248 "2022-04-04T08:26:26Z")
Not going to bother to link to it, but - Nick “President Trump’s Favorite Author!” Adams on Twitter: > [@](#): > > Cancel culture has no place in American society! Nick Adams on Twitter LITERALLY ONE MINUTE LATER: > [@](#): > > Disney should be stripped of their self-governing status in Florida and lose all copyrights protected by Congress. > > Boycott them 100% and cancel your Disney+ account and credit cards! Pick a fucking lane, dude. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1249 "2022-04-04T11:13:33Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trey Gowdy (R-Benghazi) says nobody ever invited him to any cocaine orgies when he was in Congress That not evidence for the absence of cocaine orgies; it’s merely (additional) evidence that Trey Gowdy is a dork who never gets invited to anything if the inviters can help it. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1250 "2022-04-04T11:15:54Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > “President Trump’s Favorite Author!” He writes coloring books? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1251 "2022-04-04T13:03:41Z")
I’m not sure which thread to put this in, but it works here: [Alex Jones and Roger Stone](https://twitter.com/brandilynn4ever/status/1509766396070309922?s=21&t=yV0_YZIkxsZ3fUyMnG9iJA) imply that Kevin McCarthy is gay and living with a man (possibly Frank Luntz). There’s speculation that this is being used as an attempt to get McCarthy out of the way if the Republicans retake the House and Senate, making it easier to install Trump as the Speaker of the House. They then state that Biden will [either die in office or be 25th Amendment-ed](https://imgur.com/a/0KqtpFD) so that Harris can take over, be impeached immediately, and allow Trump to assume the presidency again. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1252 "2022-04-04T17:14:32Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > it’s merely (additional) evidence that Trey Gowdy is a dork who never gets invited to anything if the inviters can help it. With his _AMAZING_ hairstyles and stellar personality, I’m baffled how he was never invited to these orgies! > Let's remember Trey Gowdy's hair or whatever creature is on top of his head. [pic.twitter.com/mhonLEMX9B](https://t.co/mhonLEMX9B) > > — Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) [January 31, 2018](https://twitter.com/ErickFernandez/status/958754386385227776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [![](https://media.gq.com/photos/5582c1bbe52bc4b477a9bed5/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/copilot-entertainment-201503-1425924946370_trey-gowdy-hair-08.jpg) ](https://media.gq.com/photos/5582c1bbe52bc4b477a9bed5/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/copilot-entertainment-201503-1425924946370_trey-gowdy-hair-08.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1253 "2022-04-04T23:01:21Z")
Maybe she should ask Matt Gaetz. ---
**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 5, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1254 "2022-04-05T00:24:45Z")
A bill before the Tennessee legislature would allow “common law marriage” with no age limit (but only if it’s between “one man” and “one woman”). > **[‘A get out of jail free card’: GOP bill would eliminate age requirements for...](https://kfor.com/news/a-get-out-of-jail-free-card-gop-bill-would-eliminate-age-requirements-for-marriages-in-tennessee/)** > > A proposal making its way through the state legislature would establish a common-law marriage between “one man” and “one woman.” Opponents of the bill (HB 233) say it would eliminate an age r… ---
**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 5, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1255 "2022-04-05T00:50:51Z")
Another bill before the Tennessee legislature would toughen residency requirements to run for Congress. A lawsuit is likely to be filed because it would prevent Individual 1’s endorsed candidate, a former Fox analyst, from running. [https://archive.ph/ePGCO](https://archive.ph/ePGCO) ---
**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 5, 2022, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1256 "2022-04-05T01:20:14Z")
Hey, they’re just trying to Y’all-queda (Christian Taliban/Christian Sharia) the sexual mores of the Old Testament into law. Next thing you know, they’ll make it legal to have “Abrahamic marriage” (i.e. a man marrying his half-sister). Those idiots really do not know a damn thing about the book they want to enact into law. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1257 "2022-04-05T03:41:40Z")
My guess is that once they establish this common law marriage thing, they will then try to stop issuing marriage certificates altogether, constructively eliminating gay marriage in the state. I might be wrong on the specifics, but never forget that they’re playing a long game here. ---
**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 5, 2022, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1258 "2022-04-05T04:03:19Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > My guess is that once they establish this common law marriage thing, they will then try to stop issuing marriage certificates altogether, constructively eliminating gay marriage in the state. So if the Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right, that does not apply to common-law marriages? If the state passes a law recognizing common-law marriages, I would expect that the SC ruling would apply. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2022, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1259 "2022-04-05T04:07:02Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > My guess is that once they establish this common law marriage thing, they will then try to stop issuing marriage certificates altogether, constructively eliminating gay marriage in the state. Huh. I would have thought a key principle of Obergefell was that a state may not exclude same sex couples from the benefits appertaining to marriage. ---
**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 5, 2022, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1260 "2022-04-05T04:19:47Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > If the state passes a law recognizing common-law marriages, I would expect that the SC ruling would apply. ISTM that the point is to get the case before the Supreme Court in the hopes that Loser Donald’s justices will reverse Obergefell. ---
**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 5, 2022, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1261 "2022-04-05T04:21:07Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > ISTM that the point is to get the case before the Supreme Court in the hopes that Loser Donald’s justices will reverse Obergefell.   Okay, that makes total sense in the typical jackass Republican way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=62) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=64)