# 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:** 65
**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:** [April 6, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1282 "2022-04-06T14:33:16Z")
My source is an AP story that says it: > **[Trump aide seeking NH House seat voted in 2 states in 2016](https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-chris-christie-new-jersey-new-hampshire-congress-734e2b2722c66883eab85bfca96fbc8c)** > > CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former Trump administration official now running for Congress in New Hampshire voted twice during the 2016 primary election season, potentially violating federal voting law and leaving him at odds with the Republican Party’s... ---
**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 6, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1283 "2022-04-06T17:51:19Z")
JD Vance runs a racist ad complaining about being called a racist for supporting WALL. > **[J.D. Vance Asks Ohio Voters 'Do You Hate Mexicans?' in New Senate Ad](https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-voters-do-you-hate-mexicans-new-senate-ad-ohio-1695254)** > > "Joe Biden's open border is killing Ohioans, with more illegal drugs and more Democrat voters pouring into this country," the Republican Senate candidate said. ---
**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 6, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1284 "2022-04-06T17:58:01Z")
Tom Cotton claims that Ketanji Brown Jackson would have represented Nazis during the Nuremberg Trials. He neglects to mention that she was assigned representation of Guantanamo prisoners because she was a federal defense attorney and you take the jobs you’re assigned. > **[Sen. Cotton claims Ketanji Brown Jackson would have defended Nazi war...](https://www.businessinsider.com/cotton-says-scotus-nominee-brown-would-defend-nazis-gop-attack-2022-4)** > > Republicans have launched a series of misleading attacks on SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's record as a public defender and judge. I wonder how he feels about John Adams representing British soldiers following the Boston Massacre. ---
**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 6, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1285 "2022-04-06T18:00:12Z")
As one of his justifications for the Don’t Say Gay bill, Ron DeSantis tells a story of a child in Leon County, whom he claims was assigned a male identity by his school. Turns out the child’s parents sent an email to the school asking them to accommodate the child’s preferred gender, then turned around and sued the school for following their request. > **[Fact check: Emails show one of DeSantis' stories backing the rationale for...](https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/politics/fact-check-desantis-dont-say-gay-family-narrative/index.html)** > > Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has repeatedly pointed to the case of a family in the state's Leon County to explain the need for a controversial new law, dubbed by critics the "Don't Say Gay" bill, that bans schools from teaching about sexual orientation... ---
**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 6, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1286 "2022-04-06T18:54:38Z")
I wonder if he’s asked Jared and Ivanka. Apparently, his wife is one of Ivanka Trump’s best friends, and the two couples were known to vacation together. Actually, now she’s his ex-wife, and it looks like Abramovich transferred some assets to her recently. There is some speculation that was done to protect them from sanctions. > **[Roman Abramovich’s jet-set ex-wife, friend of Ivanka Trump and Karlie Kloss,...](https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/12/roman-abramovichs-jet-set-ex-wife-friend-of-ivanka-trump-and-karlie-kloss-in-the-hot-seat/)** > > About a week before Russia’s invasion, Dasha Zhukova partied with Karlie Kloss for New York Fashion Week. She now faces scrutiny over the $96 million in New York property transferred to her b… ---
**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:** [April 6, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1287 "2022-04-06T19:03:04Z")
Throw sanctions on her as well. All assets of Russians with property or businesses in the US should be seized. This should include relatives of Russians. Seize it all, seize their cars, the cloths off their backs, every last matryoshka doll. Seize the children’s piggy banks. Every. Single. Thing. Let them go to court to get anything back. Tie it up as long as possible. I want to see these people under the bridges begging for nickles. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1288 "2022-04-06T21:04:51Z")
Speaking of stupid Republicans, what became of the magatruckers circling D.C.? Did they accomplish their moronic goal, whatever the fuck it was? I just don’t hear about those clowns anymore. ---
**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 6, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1289 "2022-04-06T21:23:01Z")
The House proposed a simple non-binding resolution asking Biden to support NATO and its commitment to protecting democracy. 63 House Republicans voted against it. Usual suspects, of course, included. Gaetz, Greene, Boebert. > > > Bill Pascrell, Jr. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BillPascrell ---
**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:** [April 6, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1290 "2022-04-06T21:50:32Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Did they accomplish their moronic goal, whatever the fuck it was? Their goal was to get money from rubes to pay for them to drive around all day and party all night. That’s pretty much it. The ones in my neck of the woods are all unemployed alcoholics who found a way to get a free camping spot and someone to pay for their booze. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2022, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1291 "2022-04-06T22:51:10Z")
From Rich\_Kitchen’s link: > Others, however, defended the advertisement, including U.S. Representative [Jim Banks](https://twitter.com/Jim_Banks/status/1511373794497212416), an Indiana Republican, who praised Vance as “the most articulate America First candidate in the USA.” He may be right. That’s a mighty low bar there. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2022, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1292 "2022-04-06T23:20:55Z")
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is going to kidnap 50,000 undocumented immigrants, put them on 900 charter busses, drive them to the US Capitol and dump them off. > **[Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to bus migrants to Washington, D.C., will be voluntary](https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-governor-greg-abbott-bus-migrants-to-washington-dc/285-fc39ec37-ed32-4782-8485-d8d93fa85742)** > > Texas Division of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd said the state will have over 900 buses for this operation. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1293 "2022-04-06T23:24:23Z")
Oh, goodie! How will the people of Texas react when their governor gets arrested by the Feds for 25,000 counts of violating the Mann Act? ---
**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:** [April 6, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1294 "2022-04-06T23:25:31Z")
Applause? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1295 "2022-04-06T23:26:04Z")
Point. ---
**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 7, 2022, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1296 "2022-04-07T01:48:11Z")
There’s lots of talk on Twitter today about Congressman John Rose of Tennessee, who met his now-wife when she was 17 and he was 42. They met at a Future Farmers of America gathering. And yet the Republican go-to word of the week is “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 7, 2022, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1297 "2022-04-07T02:59:49Z")
Well, now we know why it is. They’re quite familiar with it. ---
**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 7, 2022, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1298 "2022-04-07T12:45:08Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Their goal was to get money from rubes to pay for them to drive around all day and party all night. Did they actually get the money, though? Our Canadian Idiots mostly got screwed by the organizers, who kept all the money\* collected, despite promises to pay the idiots’ expenses. \*Well, until all their accounts and GoFundMes were frozen by the courts. 😃 ---
**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 7, 2022, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1299 "2022-04-07T12:47:26Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is going to kidnap 50,000 undocumented immigrants, put them on 900 charter busses, drive them to the US Capitol and dump them off. Are we taking bets on how long it will be before all the “No one wants to work anymore!” posts start, when 50,000 people suddenly don’t show up for work? ---
**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 7, 2022, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1300 "2022-04-07T12:52:15Z")
They will probably need to hire undocumented immigrants to have enough drivers for the busses. ---
**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 7, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1301 "2022-04-07T12:54:13Z")
That’s actually a great idea! They won’t have to pay them to drive the busses back, just dump them off as well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=64) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=66)