# 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:** 67
**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, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1322 "2022-04-07T20:56:11Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “snowflake libruls don’t know a joke… when it commits insurrection and overthrows the government." ---
**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 7, 2022, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1323 "2022-04-07T21:32:37Z")
She’s apparently got another campaign ad with her holding a semi-automatic something or other (big, nasty looking, long-barreled gun) with AOC, Omar, and Pressley’s faces shown over her shoulder shouting at her, and the slogan is “Squad’s Worst Nightmare”. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPsUC6gVQAI1rm7?format=png&name=small) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPsUC6gVQAI1rm7?format=png&name=small) Looks to me like she’s making a threat. Perhaps they should take out a restraining order that would, hopefully, keep her out of the House chambers. ---
**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, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1324 "2022-04-07T21:38:16Z")
Should probably be red-flagged and lose her guns, too. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1325 "2022-04-07T21:39:50Z")
See? That’s another one of those silly jokes that you pansy libruls just don’t get! That “gun” is made of chocolate! And the Squad’s worst nightmare is the weight they’d gain if they ate it. The chocolate, that is. 🙄 Do you get it now, or is it still over your head and under your radar? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1326 "2022-04-07T21:51:08Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > … new jobless claims have dropped to the lowest since 1968. Only if you believe the lyin’ Deep State and the lamestream media. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1327 "2022-04-07T22:09:29Z")
Rand Paul, whose vote made no difference, was late and held up the Senate confirmation vote of Ketanji Brown Jackson. He then had to vote from the cloakroom because he wasn’t wearing a suit. Pure class, dude, pure class. > **[Rand Paul Held Up Ketanji Brown Jackson's Senate Vote, And Twitter Was Not...](https://news.yahoo.com/rand-paul-held-ketanji-brown-202801298.html)** > > The Kentucky senator held up the vote for more than 15 minutes before sticking his hand through a door and voting no. ---
**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, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1328 "2022-04-07T22:50:37Z")
Why was Lindsay Graham late? ---
**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:** [April 7, 2022, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1329 "2022-04-07T22:53:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > new jobless claims have dropped to the lowest since 1968. Trump: “My policies have finally kicked in and now Joe will get all the credit! Only one thing left to do: _sue him!_” ---
**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 7, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1330 "2022-04-07T23:13:38Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Why was Lindsay Graham late? No tie. Another cloakroom vote. Can’t have footage of a fine upstanding GOP Senator showing anything that looks like ‘respect’ for an uppity \_\_\_\_\_ woman!!! ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1331 "2022-04-08T00:00:25Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > …with Gain. Coke-Gain? Cocgaine? 🤔 ---
**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 8, 2022, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1332 "2022-04-08T00:58:58Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > And yet the Republican go-to word of the week is “grooming”. Not so much “stupid” as “unspeakably evil”, but I wasn’t sure where to put this. Ruben Verastigui was a Trump aide, employee of the RNC and Turning Point, and “pro-life” activist. He was arrested last year for child pornography offenses and was sentenced today. **SERIOUS TRIGGER WARNING** in the story (and blurred accordingly in the excerpt): > **[District Man Sentenced to 151 Months in Prison for Receipt of Child Pornography](https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/district-man-sentenced-151-months-prison-receipt-child-pornography)** > > WASHINGTON – Ruben Verastigui, 29, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 151 months in prison on a federal charge of receipt of child pornography. > [@](#): > > According to the government’s evidence, from April 2020 through February 2021, Verastigui was active in an online group devoted to trading child pornography and discussing child sexual abuse. Verastigui shared child pornography videos with another member of the group and made numerous comments about sexually abusing children. Verastigui indicated his preference for babies, saying they were his “absolute favorite,” and solicited another group member for videos of babies being raped. The other group member promptly sent Verastigui a video of a baby being raped, to which Verastigui responded enthusiastically. The other group member then sent Verastigui numerous other videos of child pornography. The way this week is going, maybe we need a “Republican Sex Offender of the Day” thread. But tell us again, MTG, how Democrats are the party of pedophiles. ---
**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 8, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1333 "2022-04-08T17:48:37Z")
Republican discord in Virginia! Party official post ugly tirade against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and also Gen. Russell Honoré, both Black, with nasty racist language and call for public lynchings. Local GOP party chairman calls for his expulsion. Article here at Raw Story, _including the entire post_. Trigger warning: The language ain’t pretty! > **[Virginia GOP official calls Biden’s Pentagon chief a ‘stinking’ N-word – and...](https://www.rawstory.com/virginia-gop-official-calls-bidens-pentagon-chief-a-stinking-n-word-and-calls-for-a-good-public-lynching/)** > > According to a report from WAVY, the chairman of the Virginia Hampton GOP has called for the ousting of the electoral board chair over an ugly tirade on Facebook where he used a racial slur to describe Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and retired Gen.... > [@](#): > > According to a report from WAVY, the chairman of the Virginia Hampton GOP has called for the ousting of the electoral board chair over an ugly tirade on Facebook where he used a racial slur to describe Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and retired Gen. Russell Honoré – both of whom are Black. ETA: Maybe? When I open the above article in Firefox, the offending post does not display. When I open the same article in Safari, with Javascript disabled, the full post does display. Go figure. ETA#2: Here’s the link to the actual Facebook post responding, including the full original post. The Virginia party responds: [https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=348893373946736&set=a.268220352014039&type=3&\_rdr](https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=348893373946736&set=a.268220352014039&type=3&_rdr) ---
**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 8, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1334 "2022-04-08T17:57:50Z")
There are allegations that Alex Jones has been funneling money out of his radio show accounts into shell companies to avoid having money to pay damages to the Sandy Hook parents (and to another guy who’s suing him for claiming he was the Parkland shooter). > **[Alex Jones Accused of ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Scheme to Stiff Sandy Hook Families](https://www.yahoo.com/news/alex-jones-accused-jaw-dropping-160251301.html)** > > Sandy Hook plaintiffs claim the InfoWars conspiracy theorist is hiding millions in shell corporations controlled by his family members. ---
**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 8, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1335 "2022-04-08T17:59:03Z")
Devin Nunes goes on Fox to claim that Truth Social is a more popular site than Twitter. > **[Devin Nunes Flops in Fox Grilling About Trump’s Truth Social Debacle](https://www.thedailybeast.com/devin-nunes-absolutely-flops-in-fox-grilling-about-trumps-truth-social-debacle)** > > The Trump toady peddled outlandish positivity about his flailing app but couldn’t hack serious questions even from the friendly Fox Business Network. ---
**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 8, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1336 "2022-04-08T18:02:00Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Devin Nunes goes on Fox to claim that Truth Social is a more popular site than Twitter. It may be, if you count all the Яussian trollbots. ---
**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 8, 2022, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1337 "2022-04-08T20:05:16Z")
Didn’t Jones claim the shooting didn’t happen? And he’s accusing someone of being the shooter? Is he getting his material from _I, Mudd_? ---
**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 8, 2022, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1338 "2022-04-08T20:14:07Z")
He said, on the air, that Sandy Hook was fake and the bereaved families were portrayed by crisis-actors (whatever the fuck a “crisis-actor” is). He has since stated that he believes that the massacre did in fact happen, so that makes it all better – though it seems that this statement was made off the air, as a sort of CYA action, and it is not evident (to me, a non-listener) that he has sufficiently emphasized this position to his audience. ---
**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 8, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1339 "2022-04-08T23:57:57Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > The way this week is going, maybe we need a “Republican Sex Offender of the Day” thread. > > But tell us again, MTG, how Democrats are the party of pedophiles. Projection, as always with the right. The whole Q phenomenon was built on people who enjoy spending a large part of their waking hours thinking about child-molestation. If you have a job that’s about protecting children (social worker or cop with that specialty, for example): yes, you will probably spend a large part of your waking hours thinking about child-molestation. If you yourself suffered such abuse, then yes: you may well spend a large part of your waking hours thinking about child-molestation. ANYBODY ELSE: something distinctly _not-healthy_ is going on. And this particular sick weirdness is not only still going on, it’s ramping up, with the attacks of Florida Governor Ron Desantis and General Miscreant Don Trump Jr. on Disney. They do it because they know their voters love spending a big part of their waking hours thinking about child-molestation (and because those people will give them money). Profoundly sick and ugly. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1340 "2022-04-09T00:54:25Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > whatever the fuck a “crisis-actor” is There actually is such a thing as a crisis actor: > **[Crisis actor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_actor)** > > A crisis actor (aka actor-patient or actor victim) is a trained actor, role player, volunteer, or other person engaged to portray a disaster victim during emergency drills to train first responders such as police, firefighters or EMS personnel. Crisis actors are used to create high-fidelity simulations of disasters in order to allow first responders to practice their skills and help emergency services to prepare and train in realistic scenarios as part of full-scale disaster exercises.\[4 Actors... They play parts in emergency personnel disaster training drills. And no, Sandy Hook victims’ parents are not crisis actors. Alex Jones is a (_checks forum_) pusillanimous little shit, and I hope the best forensic accountants in the U.S. government are busy cracking his shell companies wide open even as we speak. And isn’t it time we started outlawing those kinds of asset hiding devices anyway? ---
**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 9, 2022, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1341 "2022-04-09T07:46:49Z")
I wonder if it was a deliberate choice to say that, if they wanted a civil war, they would get it in “spades.” “Spade,” of course, being an ethnic slur against Black people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=66) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=68)