# 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:** 70
**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 11, 2022, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1382 "2022-04-11T07:17:01Z")
Without even checking Twitter, I’d bet real money that the right wing (or, as I referred to it a couple of years ago on these boards, the white wing) are already freaking out and accusing Twitter of suspending her for “telling the truth about the Clintons” and not for her lies about COVID-19. Am I right? ---
**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 11, 2022, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1383 "2022-04-11T10:12:22Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > It’s like they’ve never even heard of, let alone read, the constitution. [https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/278005795\_5109337895772019\_3105871916236766758\_n.jpg?\_nc\_cat=109&ccb=1-5&\_nc\_sid=8bfeb9&\_nc\_ohc=q97ehfsBKEIAX8FZ41M&\_nc\_ht=scontent-sea1-1.xx&oh=00\_AT-ozenPAodEDkiQYC9JT4YmHSA54RS7\_S5mSjaBRdEsQQ&oe=6258DAF2](https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/278005795_5109337895772019_3105871916236766758_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=q97ehfsBKEIAX8FZ41M&_nc_ht=scontent-sea1-1.xx&oh=00_AT-ozenPAodEDkiQYC9JT4YmHSA54RS7_S5mSjaBRdEsQQ&oe=6258DAF2) ---
**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 11, 2022, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1384 "2022-04-11T10:26:46Z")
On a lighter note, a man has been [arrested for putting anti-Biden stickers on gas pumps.](https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2022/04/manor-township-man-charged-with-disorderly-conduct-resisting-arrest-after-allegedly-placing-anti-biden-stickers-on-gas-pump-reports.html) Perhaps he’ll join Dr. Oz’s staff as an advertising consultant. ---
**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 11, 2022, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1385 "2022-04-11T13:22:04Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > The traiterous tangerine twerp says he’s the most honest person God ever created. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > OTOH, the piece of shit makes no attempt to conceal the fact that he’s a piece of shit. In a sense, he is 100% honest – the things he says are 100% aligned with whatever he’s thinking at the moment. Some people equate unfiltered “speaking your mind” with “honesty.” ---
**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 11, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1386 "2022-04-11T16:00:44Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > On a lighter note, a man has been [arrested for putting anti-Biden stickers on gas pumps.](https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2022/04/manor-township-man-charged-with-disorderly-conduct-resisting-arrest-after-allegedly-placing-anti-biden-stickers-on-gas-pump-reports.html) “Freedom of speech” protests in three… two… one… ---
**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 11, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1387 "2022-04-11T16:02:08Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > “Freedom of speech” protests in three… two… one… It’s a sticky subject? Dammit, I got nothin’. ---
**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 11, 2022, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1388 "2022-04-11T16:14:30Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > > [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > > > On a lighter note, a man has been [arrested for putting anti-Biden stickers on gas pumps.](https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2022/04/manor-township-man-charged-with-disorderly-conduct-resisting-arrest-after-allegedly-placing-anti-biden-stickers-on-gas-pump-reports.html) > > “Freedom of speech” protests in three… two… one… He just got carried away with making his ad here. ---
**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 11, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1389 "2022-04-11T18:02:29Z")
So far all I’m seeing is that she’s being censored in a violation of her free speech rights. ---
**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 11, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1390 "2022-04-11T18:27:50Z")
Playwright David Mamet went on Fox to claim that teachers, especially male teachers, are pedophiles. His mother was a teacher. He teaches drama at NYU. ---
**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 11, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1391 "2022-04-11T18:34:28Z")
Here’s the article about that: > **[‘American Buffalo’ Playwright David Mamet Tells Fox News That Teachers “Are...](https://deadline.com/2022/04/david-mamet-fox-news-teachers-pedophilia-1234999992/)** > > With the high-profile, starry revival of his American Buffalo opening Thursday on Broadway, playwright David Mamet seems to be doing his best — or worst — to make headlines. The latest:… ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1392 "2022-04-11T18:38:52Z")
Sounds like Mamet just wants attention. However, I had a high school teacher who admitted that when you’re surrounded by teen-agers all day, you tend to fixate on that age group. At the remove of so many years it sounds like excuse-making to me. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1393 "2022-04-11T20:47:47Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > He started complaining about how prices are so high, and when I said it was due to corporate greed, he said it was _Biden’s_ fault, and that when he himself wins the lottery, he’s gonna run for president and give power back to the common people. (I think he might have even muttered something about getting rid of Congress). > > I failed to ask him what qualifications he has for president. Someone should ask him why he would have to win the lottery before he could consider running for President. Why is it that in many other democracies people of moderate income can run for national elective offices, while in the supposed “land of the free” you have to be a millionaire even to consider it? Maybe corporate greed is a bit of a problem in the US after all? ---
**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 11, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1394 "2022-04-11T21:01:16Z")
The insane amount of money required to run for office is the reason that I have never given a dime to any politician’s campaign. It’s the same thing as the reason why I vote- it’s the thing that I, personally, **can** do. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1395 "2022-04-11T21:06:38Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > The insane amount of money required to run for office is the reason that I have never given a dime to any politician’s campaign. That, and the fact that if you do give even one thin dime your name goes on a list that gets sold and propagated to the ends of the known universe and you get contacted by every candidate/party/PAC in existence asking for more MORE **MORE!** ---
**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 11, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1396 "2022-04-11T21:10:47Z")
There were times when I wanted to contribute! But I thought: No, all you’d be doing is perpetuating the madness. It’s the politicians who can change the way election campaigns are funded. Politicians: Fix that shit! ---
**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 11, 2022, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1397 "2022-04-11T21:26:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Playwright David Mamet went on Fox to claim that teachers, especially male teachers, are pedophiles. His mother was a teacher. He teaches drama at NYU. Is there something he wants to get off his chest – or anywhere else? ---
**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 11, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1398 "2022-04-11T21:54:50Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > why I vote- it’s the thing that I, personally, **can** do you are only encouraging them ---
**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 11, 2022, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1399 "2022-04-11T22:15:39Z")
The problem of course is that in order for the politicians to “fix that shit” they have to be elected, and until that shit gets fixed, getting elected takes tons of money. So there is a bit of a catch 22, and not contributing to candidates who might try and fix it, is as useful as fighting against voter disenfranchisement by not voting. Also back in [2001](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan_Campaign_Reform_Act), the politicians did actually take a good shot in the direction of fixing that shit, but unfortunately the supreme court decided that bribery by plutocrats was a first amendment right, so changing the one dollar one vote system might take an amendment. ---
**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 11, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1400 "2022-04-11T22:27:25Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > …not contributing to candidates who might try and fix it, is as useful as fighting against voter disenfranchisement by not voting. We will just have to disagree about that. ---
**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 11, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1401 "2022-04-11T23:13:57Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > The laws, and the Constitution, and more specifically the Supreme Court, have simply never really figured out what to do with this. The incitement must lead to _immediate_ violence to be forbidden, otherwise the First Amendment prevails. Even Trump’s rally and incendiary speech on January 6 2021 was not immediate enough, apparently (although perhaps that still remains to be tested in court). Good points. And it doesn’t help that we currently have an FBI head who’s expressed an ‘anything goes’ philosophy about incendiary speech, either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=69) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=71)