# 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:** 97
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1922 "2022-05-09T21:46:29Z")
I’d be firmly in favor of blowing up every granite monument in the state of Georgia as long as they do [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain#Confederate_Memorial_Carving) one first. ---
**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 9, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1923 "2022-05-09T21:52:02Z")
Obviously Satanic, not to mention an insult to the intelligence (did Satan think we’d be fooled by leaving one of the Four Horsemen outside the picture frame?). ---
**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 9, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1924 "2022-05-09T23:25:33Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > I’d be firmly in favor of blowing up every granite monument in the state of Georgia as long as they do [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain#Confederate_Memorial_Carving) one first. Set up artillery funded by donations, $50 a shot – $500 and you can pull the cord. ---
**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 10, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1925 "2022-05-10T00:07:32Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > The thing is, despite the assertions that I’m one of their best supporters, worthy of having lunch with his nibs, I’ve not contributed so much as a dime and on the rare occasions I can respond to their polls without sending money I reply with invective. > > Either they have no clue how “productive” I am or they are lying to the folks who rented the list. That’s just psychological manipulation. They expect that some large proportion of non-donors, receiving a message that calls them “one of our best supporters,” will feel first shame, then guile (‘they’ve made a mistake about my history of no-donating, but they don’t REALIZE it!!!’) then will give $$$$ in the expectation that they now will be joining that elite host of Good Supporters. (‘No one will know that was my first donation!!!’) This type of manipulation probably works fairly well on the, er, poorly-educated or otherwise intellectually-challenged. _You_, they don’t care about. _You’re_ never going to fall for it. (But maybe someone you forward the poll to for the purposes of mockery will actually fall for it…) ---
**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 10, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1926 "2022-05-10T00:15:37Z")
Meghan McCain’s autobiography sold a whopping 244 copies worldwide in its first week of sales. > **[Meghan McCain’s New Memoir ‘Bad Republican’ Flops With Fewer Than 300 Copies...](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/meghan-mccains-new-memoir-bad-republican-flops-with-fewer-than-300-copies-sold/ar-AAX0ck8?ocid=st)** > > Meghan McCain’s new book has flopped with fewer than 300 copies sold since its release, according to a report. McCain dropped Bad Republican: A Memoir on April 26. According to a listing for the 224-page book on Amazon, McCain “expresses how it is to... ---
**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:** [May 10, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1927 "2022-05-10T00:25:02Z")
Tate Reeves, GOP governor of Mississippi: > I’m empathetic to all of these ladies who find themselves in very difficult times and very difficult decisions. No, governor, you are not. Asa Hutchinson, GOP governor of Arkansas, has similar sentiments: When asked about Arkansas women who want an abortion but cannot afford to travel to another state to get one, or who are pregnant from rape or incest, Hutchinson said his heart is with them. > Well, first of all, again, that’s where your heart goes out to them. I’ve had to deal with those very difficult circumstances of rape and incest as governor. And it’s difficult. And so you have to understand that. No, governor, you have never had to deal with those difficult circumstances. You are a male. ---
**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 10, 2022, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1928 "2022-05-10T00:59:25Z")
Hey, he could be confessing there, after all. ---
**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 10, 2022, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1929 "2022-05-10T02:23:08Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Wife and I are here in GA with the grandkids; this person’s presence in the political/election sphere is > [/quote][quote=“DesertDog, post:1919, topic:959018”] > Hello? \>click-click\< Operator! I’ve been cut off! Just weak humor on my part. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2022, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1930 "2022-05-10T09:22:35Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Meghan McCain’s autobiography sold a whopping 244 copies worldwide in its first week of sales. To be fair, Jill Biden’s only sold 250 in its first week, and she’s had a more interesting life than McCain. I think everyone’s traumatized by the massive volumes the Obamas produced. Also, I suspect McCain’s autobiography will double as a biography of John McCain, with a high recurrence of the phrase “my father”. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2022, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1931 "2022-05-10T10:49:13Z")
> the far-right’s increasing hostility to the Guidestones, which have taken on an outsized importance among conservative conspiracy theorists as a symbol of a nefarious plot to kill off 95 percent of the world’s population. Isn’t that basically the Rapture? Where lots of people die after the ‘worthy’ are transported to Heaven? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1932 "2022-05-10T13:50:36Z")
Some fuck-knuckle county clerk screwing around with voting machines. Wanna guess party affiliation? > **[A Second MAGA Clerk in Colorado Also Breached Voting Machines](https://www.thedailybeast.com/dallas-schroeder-a-second-maga-clerk-in-colorado-also-breached-voting-machines)** > > County clerks in the state keep breaking into the voting machines under their supervision to supposedly “prove” their election fraud conspiracy theories. ---
**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 10, 2022, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1933 "2022-05-10T13:53:53Z")
I hope they’re making these dipshits pay for a new machine to replace each one they compromised. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2022, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1934 "2022-05-10T20:06:47Z")
For all the Republican screaming about “voter fraud” I found it interesting that almost every time I hear about someone trying to rig the voting or voting illegally it’s a Republican doing so. (Cue the loud cries of FAKE NEWS!) ---
**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:** [May 10, 2022, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1935 "2022-05-10T20:16:45Z")
I think the standard response is “Both sides! No, of course I don’t have a cite, but many people are saying!” ---
**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 10, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1936 "2022-05-10T21:59:55Z")
Susan Collins, or “Senator Karen” as I will now be referring to her, called the cops over the weekend to report sidewalk chalk. > **[Susan Collins calls police after abortion rights chalk message appears...](https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/05/09/news/bangor/pro-abortion-chalk-message-appears-on-susan-collins-bangor-sidewalk/)** > > “Susie, please, Mainers want WHPA -----\> vote yes, clean up your mess,” the message read, according to a Bangor police report.  ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1937 "2022-05-10T22:28:58Z")
Every accusation is an admission. They don’t have the creativity or the empathy to make stuff up. ---
**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 10, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1938 "2022-05-10T23:37:05Z")
Wants to take positions without receiving consequences, nothing new. Wonder how she’ll react when she starts getting harangued when eating in a restaurant? ---
**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 11, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1939 "2022-05-11T00:50:21Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Wonder how she’ll react when she starts getting harangued when eating in a restaurant? Don’t make her furrow her brow! That’s the nuclear option! ---
**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 11, 2022, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1940 "2022-05-11T01:17:13Z")
I’m sure she’ll be strongly concerned, but decide that they’ve learned their lesson. ---
**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 11, 2022, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1941 "2022-05-11T01:44:01Z")
Wild applause, standing ovation, freedom medal, thumbs up. Also, “Came here for this; left satisfied.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=96) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=98)