# 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:** 91
**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:** [May 3, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1802 "2022-05-03T17:39:12Z")
Oh, such a rookie mistake, surely he knows the accepted chant is. “Lock Her UP!” ---
**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:** [May 3, 2022, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1803 "2022-05-03T21:35:59Z")
Good op-ed in _Commentary_ by Thom Hartmann, reprinted at Raw Story: > **[A third of America is lost to hate: Is it time to move on?](https://www.rawstory.com/a-third-of-america-is-lost-to-hate-is-it-time-to-move-on/)** > > It’s time to stop normalizing and accommodating the white supremacists among us. They may be a third of America, but they’re the lost third, longing for return to a time we will never revisit. Instead of looking forward, they’re stuck to a past that... > [@](#): > > Instead of looking forward, they’re [stuck to a past](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-supporter-kicked-off-plane/) that will never be revived, no matter how many elections they rig or people they terrorize or kill. > > The America I was born into and grew up in as a kid was a very different place from today. In the 1950s the country was firmly under the control of straight white men: . . . [Detailed catalogue of hatreds, bigotries, and white supremacies follow here . . .] > [@](#): > > Americans and our institutions should stop normalizing them, as if being a member of the GOP means a person is suddenly above also being a white supremacist bigot. Racists should no longer be able to hide behind the sheet of “just being political.” > > [. . .] > > Racists and bigots must be called out, labeled, and shunned, no matter how wealthy or powerful they may be. > [. . .] > > And then we must turn to the most important work: getting about the business of governing and moving forward, rebuilding this country from the wreckage of 40 years of Reaganism, while leaving his and Trump’s bigoted followers to marinate alone in their own putrid stew. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2022, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1804 "2022-05-03T22:01:50Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Instead of looking forward, they’re [stuck to a past](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-supporter-kicked-off-plane/) that will never be revived, no matter how many elections they rig or people they terrorize or kill. Many liberals are not so confident about this, 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:** [May 4, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1805 "2022-05-04T17:30:50Z")
Matt Gaetz going full misogynist: “How many of the women rallying against overturning Roe are over-educated, under-loved millennials who sadly return from protests to a lonely microwave dinner with their cats, and no bumble matches?” > ---
**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:** [May 4, 2022, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1806 "2022-05-04T18:09:57Z")
Matt Gaetz can immure himself in some obscure corner of Florida from whence he will never, ever emerge again, and neither will his words or his horrible attitude. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1807 "2022-05-04T18:13:01Z")
Well, I will say this. As a long-widowed under-loved Boomer who returns from rallying against various egregious things, I return home for a non-lonely dinner with no cats, no bumble matches (whatever those are) – but with profound gratitude that I will not find an excrescence waiting at home for me like Matt Gaetz. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1808 "2022-05-04T18:28:20Z")
As opposed to what, driving underage teenagers across state lines to sleep with them like Gaetz does? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1809 "2022-05-04T18:28:31Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > no bumble matches (whatever those are) Dating app, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1810 "2022-05-04T18:29:43Z")
See? You could tell I was a Boomer without even looking! 😉 Thanks. 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 4, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1811 "2022-05-04T18:33:38Z")
Some of the replies to that shit tweet are great. _Says the guy who has to Venmo to get laid._ _They cruise Bumble for matches, you cruise high schools_ [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FR6JDXDVsAAq35a?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FR6JDXDVsAAq35a?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**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:** [May 4, 2022, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1812 "2022-05-04T18:43:55Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > but with profound gratitude that I will not find an excrescence waiting at home for me like Matt Gaetz. They come out when you turn off the lights. Fast little buggers. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1813 "2022-05-04T18:46:10Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > > [@Aspenglow](#): > > > > but with profound gratitude that I will not find an excrescence waiting at home for me like Matt Gaetz. > > They come out when you turn off the lights. Fast little buggers. - Don’t turn off the lights. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2022, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1814 "2022-05-04T19:00:30Z")
The mystery solved (for wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey values of “solved”): > **[Newsmax Host Suggests Ketanji Brown Jackson, Who Isn't In The Supreme Court...](https://nationworldnews.com/newsmax-host-suggests-ketanji-brown-jackson-who-isnt-in-the-supreme-court-yet-draft-leaked/)** > > Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield suggested on tuesday - without evidence or reasoning - that future Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson may be > Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield suggested on tuesday – without evidence or reasoning – that future Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson may be responsible for the leak of a draft ruling decriminalizing abortion rights. > > There’s a huge problem with this theory: Jackson isn’t on the Supreme Court yet… ---
**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:** [May 4, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1815 "2022-05-04T19:02:29Z")
The article rightly points out that the other liberal members of the Court, who are white, weren’t accused. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2022, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1816 "2022-05-04T19:47:14Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Don’t turn off the lights What’s that [you said](https://youtu.be/nwJBqzK3tIw)? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1817 "2022-05-04T21:23:07Z")
I know that Sonia Sotomayor is considered white by some demographic surveys, but Republicans sure don’t consider herself that, so I’m surprised she apparently wasn’t heavily accused. ---
**Author:** ![jshore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jshore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jshore)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1818 "2022-05-05T02:54:14Z")
You can stop being surprised now: [Anti-abortion zealots target Sotomayor aide as source of leak: Their threats are no joke | Salon.com](https://www.salon.com/2022/05/04/anti-abortion-zealots-target-sotomayor-aide-as-source-of-leak-their-are-no-joke/) (Okay, technically her aide and not her herself, but…) ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2022, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1819 "2022-05-05T03:05:16Z")
This only makes me think republicans did it. Whenever we see republicans accuse others for something it is almost always them who are engaging in whatever act it is they are accusing others of. They are very much like children. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2022, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1820 "2022-05-05T03:50:50Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > This only makes me think republicans did it. Whenever we see republicans accuse others for something it is almost always them who are engaging in whatever act it is they are accusing others of. There is also an opinion kicking around in the media, speculating that a die-hard conservative staffer leaked it. The logic is something like this: The opinion was supposed to be still a secret, circulating internally among the justices for further debate and perhaps modification. There is some chance that a more moderate Repub on the court (read: Roberts) could get them to water it down a bit before they release it. By leaking this hard-nosed hard-right opinion now in its current form, it put any of the conservative justices in a very awkward position if they want to amend the decision to water it down before they release it. The thinking is, by leaking it now, it works towards getting it cast in stone just as it currently stands. See the section of this article on the idea that a conservative staffer may have leaked it: > **[Who Leaked The Supreme Court Draft? Here Are 4 Theories](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-roe-v-wade-leak_n_6271a2b0e4b01131b1285f02)** > > Did a liberal law clerk do it? Or a conservative? What about John Roberts? Or was it just left in the printer? ---
**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:** [May 5, 2022, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1821 "2022-05-05T03:53:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Matt Gaetz going full misogynist: > “How many of the women rallying against overturning Roe are over-educated, under-loved millennials who sadly return from protests to a lonely microwave dinner with their cats, and no bumble matches?” And Matt Gaetz wishes them all to know that he is available to help these sad ladies find the love that they so desperately seek. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=90) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=92)