# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588 "2023-07-04T21:42:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 138
**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:** [December 29, 2023, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2741 "2023-12-29T09:47:36Z")
That furrow in her brow’s gonna become permanent. That’ll teach her! ---
**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:** [December 29, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2742 "2023-12-29T13:26:44Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > SUSAN COLLINS IS DEEPLY CONCERNED. Oh dear. I’d better sit down. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2743 "2023-12-29T14:40:22Z")
this happened to nikki haley, she is not having a good week. [New Hampshire 9-year-old calls Nikki Haley ‘the new John Kerry’ to her face (msn.com)](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-hampshire-9-year-old-calls-nikki-haley-the-new-john-kerry-to-her-face/ar-AA1maFUc) she will pardon trump because an 80 year old in prison would divide the country. oy! ---
**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:** [December 29, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2744 "2023-12-29T15:46:27Z")
The hamsters must be getting tired… > **[Biden’s climate triumph is the new Obamacare for Republicans](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/28/2211569/-Biden-s-climate-triumph-is-the-new-Obamacare-for-Republicans?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=)** > > In just 10 months, the Republican House voted more than two dozen times to repeal varying parts of the Inflation Reduction Act, which makes the IRA the Affordable Care Act of the 2020s. By the time ... > In just 10 months, the Republican House [voted more than two dozen times](https://climatepower.us/resources/inflation-reduction-act-repeal-votes-tracker/) to repeal varying parts of the Inflation Reduction Act, which makes the IRA the Affordable Care Act of the 2020s. … > > …The very first vote the GOP House took this year (once they finally settled on what proved to be a temporary speaker) was to [repeal the IRA’s [Inflation Reduction Act’s] new funding](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/9/2146347/-House-GOP-s-first-policy-vote-is-a-gift-to-wealthy-tax-cheats-securing-Biden-s-first-veto-threat) for the IRS, money that was targeted in large part at hiring more agents to go after rich tax evaders. > > That remains a constant target, along with many of the measures included in the IRA to combat climate change. Among their repeal efforts: the fee for methane emissions from oil and gas producers and pipeline operators; the $27 billion [Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund](https://www.epa.gov/greenhouse-gas-reduction-fund); homeowner rebates and training for energy-efficient appliances; the $4.5 billion [High-Efficiency Electric Home Rebate Program](https://www.rewiringamerica.org/policy/high-efficiency-electric-home-rebate-act); $200 million in [State-Based Home Efficiency Contractor Training Grants](https://www.energy.gov/scep/state-based-home-energy-efficiency-contractor-training-grants); and $1 billion for [Technical Assistance for Building Energy Codes](https://www.energy.gov/scep/technical-assistance-adoption-building-energy-codes). > > Those are programs that will directly help Americans save money, save energy, and do a little bit to save the planet, not to mention making the air cleaner and maybe even slowing climate change. > > But just as they did with Obamacare, they’re putting corporate and individual greed above regular Americans, with the same life and death consequences—this time with even bigger stakes, because it’s about the future of the planet. > … _Quote:_ Those are programs that will 1. directly help Americans save money, 2. save energy, and 3. do a little bit to save the planet, 4. not to mention making the air cleaner and 5. maybe even slowing climate change. Well, what right-minded rich person gives a fuck about those things? ---
**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:** [December 29, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2745 "2023-12-29T16:17:49Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > The Secretary of State’s decision would deny thousands of Mainers the opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice, and it should be overturned. Couldn’t we use the same logic to say that party primaries shouldn’t be allowed? Why can’t I vote for Moron Q. Idiot, just because “thousands” of other primary voters thought that Genius McSmartypants was a better candidate for the general election? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2023, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2746 "2023-12-29T16:51:00Z")
And what if the candidate of my choice is a stripper down at The Glitter Factory and she’s not 35 yet? ---
**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:** [December 30, 2023, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2747 "2023-12-30T08:11:19Z")
Remember that alt-right grifter company that was selling “non-woke” beer for $30 a six-pack to people who were apoplectic because a trans person held a can of Bud Light? They’ve now launched their own official alt-right titty calendar for 2024 (endorsed by George Santos, famed pioneer in the field of heterosexual softcore, even!), and alt-right Twitter is up in arms over whether it’s “demonic” or not. > **[Calendargate](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/calendargate)** > > Calendargate or #Calendargate refers to the viral controversy and online debate over the Conservative Dad's Real Women of America 2024 Calendar, produced by Ultra Right Beer, which featured scantily-clad female conservative influencers. Debate over... ---
**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:** [December 30, 2023, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2748 "2023-12-30T10:06:00Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > and alt-right Twitter is up in arms over whether it’s “demonic” or not. “Well, we’ll each just have to buy a copy, and study it diligently until we figure it out!” ---
**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:** [December 30, 2023, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2749 "2023-12-30T11:03:00Z")
Wait, there might be grift involved? _Gasp!_ And why would Santos care about the calendar? I guess keeping his name out there. And now I know what a “coomer” is, so yay for that? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2750 "2023-12-30T17:52:33Z")
Good to see, though, that Josie (with the libertarian red hair) is a proud Christian. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2751 "2023-12-30T21:02:11Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Boebert realizes that she can’t be re-elected, so she’s gonna move to a safer district and run from there I don’t get this. If a Democrat from another district ran in MY district because they were scared of losing in theirs…even if I liked that candidate, that would be a big mark against them. Cannot believe I would be the only one who would think that way. She would not win any Democrats, and may energize the Democratic Party of that district. The campaign ads write themselves. Plus, _SOME_ Republicans will turn away for her cowardly swithing to a Distric she is not from… ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2752 "2023-12-30T22:04:24Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > She would not win any Democrats, and may energize the Democratic Party of that district. The campaign ads write themselves. Plus, _SOME_ Republicans will turn away for her cowardly swithing to a Distric she is not from… They think she “Stands up to the MAN”. And hey, she likes guns. She’s just another looser like their hero. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2753 "2023-12-30T22:09:29Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Plus, _SOME_ Republicans will turn away for her cowardly swithing to a Distric she is not from… A different GOP candidate in her current district has a better chance of winning. So some Pubbies will think she’s a genius for switching to another district and may vote for her. But she’s got a tough primary, so we’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2754 "2023-12-30T22:18:10Z")
Yeah, looking at this purely as a cynical calculation of odds, it probably is a smart move for her. Yes, she will lose some votes from folks who regard her as a carpetbagger or opportunist or quitter or whatever. But there are also benefits. Her current district isn’t all that tilted to the Republicans, and seems to be shifting further away from them. Add that to her own personal repulsiveness which turns off even some Republicans, and she would have a very high chance of losing the general election. The district she’s switching to, however, has a much stronger R lean, and so the Republican candidate is very likely to win the general, even if it’s Boebert. And in a Republican primary, the number of votes she loses from being herself is a much smaller proportion, and she has far more name recognition than any of her possible challengers, so she has a good chance of winning the primary, too. Basically, this move costs her votes, on net, in the primary, where she can afford to lose a fair number of votes, and gains votes, on net, in the general, that she needs. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2023, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2755 "2023-12-30T22:28:09Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Basically, this move costs her votes, on net, in the primary, where she can afford to lose a fair number of votes, and gains votes, on net, in the general, that she needs. I think your analysis is spot on. If she wins the primary, she’s back in Congress. > [@Fugazi](#): > > Got to hope she loses the primary because the Colorado 4th is so Red that even she couldn’t lose it. Amen, amen, amen. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2756 "2023-12-30T22:45:54Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > She’s just another looser … Judging by her performance at _Beetlejuice_, she is definitely loose. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2757 "2023-12-30T22:57:10Z")
I can’t believe how much some of these republicans sneer. bobert, that woman on fox, mat gaetz. Didn’t their mom’s tell them their faces would freeze that way. I can see looking annoyed, outraged, etc. but constant, consistent sneering is just gross. The same people smirk too. Not any more attractive in looks or personality. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2023, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2758 "2023-12-30T23:09:49Z")
That’s their natural resting state. These people are not at peace. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2759 "2023-12-31T01:50:16Z")
Hercules over here apparently thinks the wokes are offended by… (checks notes) cotton. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCoGi-YWsAAdgtD?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCoGi-YWsAAdgtD?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2023, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2760 "2023-12-31T03:16:34Z")
You should have spoilered that. I feel stupider for having read it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=137) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=139)