# 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:** 88
**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 28, 2022, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1742 "2022-04-28T14:21:30Z")
Just putting this here because Eric Swalwell’s Twitter feed is fun. In response to a tweet from Jim Jordan: > [@](#): > > Canceling student loan debt is stupid. Swalwell wrote: > [@](#): > > \*Jim Jordan, known advocate for student well-being. Quality shade throwing there. ---
**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 28, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1743 "2022-04-28T14:24:17Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Loser Donald is apparently very worried that he will be killed by having a pineapple thrown at him. Well, now I’m confused, [I thought I was supposed to be throwing “soup for my family”.](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/soup-for-my-family) ---
**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 28, 2022, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1744 "2022-04-28T14:26:14Z")
Yeah, why get a loan, when you can just get a wrestling scholarship? ---
**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 28, 2022, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1745 "2022-04-28T14:28:22Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > **Brazil Nuts** When I was a kid they were referred to by a highly inappropriate nickname involving black folks’ pedal phalanges so I think they’d be right in the Republican wheelhouse. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1746 "2022-04-28T16:02:49Z")
The revenge of SpongeBob ---
**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 28, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1747 "2022-04-28T17:37:19Z")
> [@Jumpbass](#): > > Speaking of fish, which we weren’t, If I was to throw food at a speaker I didn’t like, I wouldn’t bother with fruit. I’d throw fish. Big stinky fish. I think I would prefer to throw some sort of startled _tetraodontidae_, just for effect. Not stinky, as such, though. ---
**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 28, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1748 "2022-04-28T18:03:29Z")
Republican Senator Thom Tillis is actually calling for an investigation of his fellow North Carolinian Madison Cawthorn for insider trading. over the Let’s Go Brandon cryptocurrency. > **[Tillis calls for investigation of Cawthorn over insider trading allegations](https://thehill.com/news/campaign/3469427-tillis-calls-for-investigation-of-cawthorn-over-insider-trading-allegations/)** > > Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) Wednesday called for an investigation by the House Ethics Committee into Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) over allegations that Cawthorn violated federal insider trading law… ---
**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 28, 2022, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1749 "2022-04-28T19:15:40Z")
How about a very spiny Sea Urchin? [![](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diadema_antillarum#/media/File:Diadema_antillarum_Flower_Garden_Banks.jpg) ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diadema_antillarum#/media/File:Diadema_antillarum_Flower_Garden_Banks.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1750 "2022-04-28T19:32:00Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > When I was a kid they were referred to by a highly inappropriate nickname involving black folks’ pedal phalanges so I think they’d be right in the Republican wheelhouse. But in Brazil, they just call them Bolsonartoes. ---
**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 29, 2022, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1751 "2022-04-29T01:24:37Z")
And the hits keep on coming… > Looks like somebody wants to not only toss Cawthorn under the bus, they want to drive the bus back and forth over him a couple times, as a lesson that one _Does Not Talk About The Cocaine Orgies_. ---
**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 29, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1752 "2022-04-29T01:27:18Z")
🎜We don’t talk about orgies, no, no, no We don’t talk about orgies… BUT!🎜 ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1753 "2022-04-29T02:46:24Z")
[That could be problematic.](https://giphy.com/gifs/wheres-kMkTJV4a32ba8) ---
**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 29, 2022, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1754 "2022-04-29T09:11:20Z")
“Well bitches, I’m back on Twitter” > **[Roger Stone Comes Back to Twitter and Is Immediately Re-Banned](https://www.thedailybeast.com/roger-stone-tries-to-come-back-to-twitter-is-immediately-re-banned)** > > “Well bitches I’m back on Twitter,” Stone bragged on early Thursday morning. It didn’t last long. Who’s a bitch now, Roger? ---
**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 29, 2022, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1755 "2022-04-29T11:10:55Z")
[And speaking of Twitter](https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1519427450400174080): Candace Owens, in response to the launching of DHS’s Disinformation Governance Board: > [@](#): > > A literal, actual Ministry of Truth. > We are now deep in the throes of a Harry Potter novel. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1756 "2022-04-29T13:05:51Z")
There, there, at least she knew it was a literary reference. 😁 ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1757 "2022-04-29T14:52:14Z")
Although she probably only remembered it from the movie. ---
**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 29, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1758 "2022-04-29T15:41:39Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > “Well bitches, I’m back on Twitter” What did he do to get insta-banned? Or should i say _which_? > “My new Twitter account was suspended after just six hours. So much for free speech,” he further wrote after getting the boot. So, it’s “I get to use _your_ microphone to say anything I want.” ---
**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 29, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1759 "2022-04-29T15:47:01Z")
“So much for free speech”, he says to the news outlet reporting on what he is saying. ---
**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 29, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1760 "2022-04-29T16:17:15Z")
Basically started a new account, even though his old one was banned. I’m guessing he was dumb enough to think “Elon’s now in charge and we’re all free to come back!” even though Elon’s not in charge yet. ---
**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 29, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1761 "2022-04-29T18:21:59Z")
Speaking of Twitter, Charlie Kirk and Fucker Carlson are saying that Elon got them unbanned (they were banned for making anti-trans comments), but it fact, they got unbanned by Twitter for following their policy by deleting the offending posts. Plus Elon isn’t running things yet. > **[Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk Wimp Out on Their Twitter Chest-Thumping](https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-and-charlie-kirk-wimp-out-on-their-twitter-chest-thumping)** > > The MAGA stars both thumped their chests claiming they’d never back down to Twitter and delete the transphobic tweets that got their accounts locked. Surprise! They deleted. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=87) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=89)