# 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:** 94
**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 6, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1862 "2022-05-06T18:14:00Z")
Senator Ron Johnson says that the covid vaccine might cause AIDS, and all of the people pushing it should be criminally charged. > **[In interview, Sen. Johnson says it ‘may be true’ that COVID vaccines cause...](https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/in-interview-sen-johnson-says-it-may-be-true-that-covid-vaccines-cause-aids/)** > > In an interview on the right-wing social media site Rumble, Sen. Johnson said it "may be true" that COVID-19 vaccines cause AIDS. ---
**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 6, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1863 "2022-05-06T18:15:20Z")
Congresswoman Victoria Spartz from Indiana is voted the worst boss in Congress. > **[Amid an uproar over Capitol staff mistreatment, meet the House’s ‘worst boss’](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/06/capitol-house-staff-mistreatment-spartz-00030498)** > > Multiple former aides and other Republicans told POLITICO about the “trauma bonded” work environment of Rep. Victoria Spartz. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1864 "2022-05-06T18:35:08Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > Hydrosonic? Faster than the speed of… water? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OenlOpoW9hw/hqdefault.jpg "1960s Water Rocket Launcher Vintage Toy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OenlOpoW9hw) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/l7LItj7StIY/hqdefault.jpg "Water Rocket Launch") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7LItj7StIY) ---
**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 6, 2022, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1865 "2022-05-06T18:38:24Z")
Lousiana may be going all in > **[Louisiana bill would allow murder charges for abortions; opponents call it...](https://www.wwno.org/2022-05-05/louisiana-bill-would-allow-murder-charges-for-abortions-opponents-call-it-barbaric)** > > As the United States braces for the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade and an end to the constitutional protection of abortion rights, Louisiana lawmakers are advancing legislation that would bolster their ability to criminally punish doctors and... with a bill that would attach murder charges to harm done to any fertilized egg. This could in theory outlaw IUDs and in vitro fertilization. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1866 "2022-05-06T19:22:29Z")
Donny One-Scoop wants to know why bombing Mexico is a bad idea. > By next week I expect “Bomb Mexico and blame it on Jyna” to be a GOP campaign promise for the midterms. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2022, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1867 "2022-05-07T01:38:07Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > with a bill that would attach murder charges to harm done to any fertilized egg. That would criminalize a miscarriage. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2022, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1868 "2022-05-07T02:16:13Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > That would criminalize a miscarriage. To them, that’s a feature, not a bug. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1869 "2022-05-07T02:18:17Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > That would criminalize a miscarriage. Your point? What if doctors’ offices or labs destroy frozen embryos? Murder, of course. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2022, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1870 "2022-05-07T04:53:22Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Your point? I guess my only point is that the Louisianna bill is fucking idiotic. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2022, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1871 "2022-05-07T05:30:43Z")
Hopefully it comes back to bite them in the ass and bites them hard. Some legislator’s mistress _and_ the legislator get hauled up on capital charges. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1872 "2022-05-07T13:44:29Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > > That would criminalize a miscarriage. > > Your point? > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I guess my only point is that the Louisianna bill is fucking idiotic. Yeah, I knew that. Of course, the bill IS idiotic. @Smapti made the point that my terse comment failed to make. > [@Smapti](#): > > To them, that’s a feature, not a bug. ---
**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 7, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1873 "2022-05-07T16:05:07Z")
As has been mentioned elsewhere, Justice A Covid Barret has opined that the country is in need of [a domestic supply of infants](https://www.truthorfiction.com/domestic-supply-of-infants/) to service the high demand for those wanting to adopt, but women being allowed to terminate their pregnancies has caused this source to dry up, so we need to fix that. ---
**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 7, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1874 "2022-05-07T16:34:13Z")
C’mon, they had a whole system of harvesting children from families crossing the southern border, wasn’t that enough? ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1875 "2022-05-07T16:39:00Z")
> **[Idaho Republican Leader Says He'd Consider Banning Morning-After Pills and IUDs](https://jezebel.com/idaho-republican-leader-says-hed-consider-banning-morni-1848895519)** > > The Republican Party insists they "DO NOT want to take away contraception." But some lawmakers are admitting the quiet part out loud. Added this to the “Evil” thread too. Me, I’d consider mandatory vasectomies for Republiquan male children and castration for adult males. Just consider mind you. ---
**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 7, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1876 "2022-05-07T16:45:31Z")
xkcd has a pretty good idea of what a crisis pregnancy center is: > **[Trimester](https://xkcd.com/699/)** > > Also, it's not like anyone actually calls up the Nobel committee to double-check things. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1877 "2022-05-07T17:45:09Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > C’mon, they had a whole system of harvesting children from families crossing the southern border, wasn’t that enough? Those weren’t _white_ babies, you silly person. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1878 "2022-05-07T20:15:59Z")
More electoral hijinks from the Democrats. Just kidding, it’s the Stupid Republicans again. > **[A South Philly GOP ward leader has been ousted over ‘ballot harvesting’ concerns](https://www.inquirer.com/news/republican-mail-ballots-philadelphia-harvesting-billy-lanzilotti-20220507.html)** > > Billy Lanzilotti, who had been the Republican leader of the 39th Ward, diverted dozens of mail ballots of GOP voters to a P.O. Box registered to his political action committee. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1879 "2022-05-07T22:49:31Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > > That would criminalize a miscarriage. > > To them, that’s a feature, not a bug. There are reports that some states plan to access information from apps that track women’s periods: > [@](#): > > … There are fears that menstrual tracking apps could be used to punish those seeking a termination. > > Some of these apps share data with third parties. > > Exactly what the apps do with the period data is unclear, but some third parties feed that information back to the big tech companies like Google, Meta and Amazon. … Oh brave new world… > **[Period tracking apps warning over Roe v Wade case in US](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61347934)** > > Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation says women must know how their data is being used. ---
**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 8, 2022, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1880 "2022-05-08T01:40:41Z")
Arizona Senate candidate joins in on banning contraception. > **[GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters wants to allow states to ban contraception...](https://www.azmirror.com/blog/gop-senate-candidate-blake-masters-wants-to-allow-states-to-ban-contraception-use/)** > > Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters thinks judges should also take aim at the right to buy and use contraception after outlawing abortion. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2022, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1881 "2022-05-08T02:03:17Z")
You just know that with all these attempts to legislate the country back into before 1865, their ultimate goal is to make slavery legal again. I don’t remember where I saw it, likely on these boards, but the best description I ever heard about the far right’s whining about Blacks remembrance of the horrors of slavery was this response from Blacks: > [@](#): > > We’ll get over slavery when you get over losing your slaves. “The good old days” were not good, and they’re gladly gone. Not that the rightwingnuts won’t keep trying to bring them back, with all the horrors they had. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=93) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=95)