# 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:** 17
**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:** [July 28, 2023, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/321 "2023-07-28T01:46:17Z")
Supposedly Eric Swalwell called Kevin McCarthy a pussy. McCarthy threatened to kick his ass, but when Swalwell called him on it, McCarthy backed down. Nobody is confirming that it’s true, but nobody is denying it, either. > **['You're a weak man': McCarthy called out by Eric Swalwell in profane House...](https://www.rawstory.com/mccarthy-swalwell-beef/)** > > House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) got into a fight on the floor of the House loaded with obscenities and threats of physical violence, according to sources that spoke to The Daily Beast.The fight came during a floor... ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/322 "2023-07-28T01:49:45Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > “School to prison pipeline? Absurd, there’s no such thing!” My uncle is a jail guard. My aunt (his wife) spent her entire career as a teacher at schools in the ‘bad’ parts of town (ie, she’s been punched more than once). On a few occasions, inmates have seen my uncle’s last name and told him that his wife was their teacher in grade school. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2023, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/323 "2023-07-28T01:52:28Z")
I now give you Matt Walsh, swastika diaper wrestling referee. [https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1684600056291442688](https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1684600056291442688) ---
**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:** [July 28, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/324 "2023-07-28T02:54:21Z")
You really should have spoilered that ---
**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:** [July 28, 2023, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/325 "2023-07-28T02:58:04Z")
I will concur with the above post - I was eating lasagna. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/326 "2023-07-28T03:56:51Z")
Added spoilers to the eldritch horror two posts above. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/327 "2023-07-28T03:57:15Z")
My hero! ---
**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:** [July 28, 2023, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/328 "2023-07-28T04:01:48Z")
Thank you. In retrospect that was a bit much to take in unexpectedly. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2023, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/329 "2023-07-28T14:37:21Z")
Orders to amazon for brain/eye bleach spiked during the time that post was out in the open. 😬 ---
**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:** [July 28, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/330 "2023-07-28T15:05:54Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Added spoilers to the eldritch horror two posts above. But did I pay attention? No-o-o-o. Where’s that brain-bleach? ---
**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:** [July 28, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/331 "2023-07-28T15:35:02Z")
Too late! What has been seen cannot be unseen. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/332 "2023-07-28T15:46:57Z")
Found the guy who never drinks to excess! ---
**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:** [July 28, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/333 "2023-07-28T16:40:03Z")
Republicans support fetuses, not babies. Once those babies are born, they’re on their own! > **[Opinion | A year after Dobbs, House GOP proposes taking food from hungry babies](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/27/farm-bill-house-gop-wic-children/)** > > The GOP House agriculture bill would cut benefits for 5.3 million kids, pregnant women and new moms. > A year ago, when the Supreme Court[struck down](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/24/supreme-court-ruling-abortion-dobbs/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) the federal right to abortion access, Republican politicians [pledged](https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1171) to [support](https://www.politico.com/newsletters/women-rule/2022/07/08/dobbs-decision-spotlights-care-policies-00044680) women facing unplanned pregnancies. > > Today? Republican lawmakers are literally trying to take food away from disadvantaged new moms and their children. > > They’re doing so via the annual House appropriations agricultural bill, specifically the GOP-written House version [that was slated](https://www.majorityleader.gov/schedule/weekly-schedule.htm) for a vote this week. This legislation covers a lot of ground, including rural development grants and loans for farmers. But among its most critical, least appreciated, highest return-on-investment programs is [one known as WIC](https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic) (officially, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children). > > WIC was created in the early 1970s to serve low-income pregnant women, new moms, babies and young children at nutritional risk. > … > > The GOP-controlled House’s fiscal 2024 agricultural bill would either eliminate or reduce benefits for 5.3 million kids and pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding adults, [the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates](https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/hundreds-of-thousands-of-young-children-and-postpartum-adults-would-be). > > Of that total, roughly 4.6 million participants would have their benefits cut… Another 650,000 to 750,000 eligible people would likely be turned away from the program entirely because of funding shortfalls. > > The House’s plan to turn away or waitlist these vulnerable families, for the first time in a quarter-century, would be an astonishing break in precedent. > … > > Republicans portray their spending cuts as fiscally responsible. In reality, they’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2023, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/334 "2023-07-28T16:48:01Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Republicans portray their spending cuts as fiscally responsible. In reality, **they’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater.** - Of course. Once they’re born, they’re worthless unless they get a job to support their freeloading mother. /s ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/335 "2023-07-28T18:42:55Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Republicans support fetuses, not babies I ran across this a few days ago and, as best as I can tell, it’s real. [![](https://wp-media.patheos.com/subdomain/sites/8/2020/02/ProLifeIrresponsibleJeffries.png) ](https://wp-media.patheos.com/subdomain/sites/8/2020/02/ProLifeIrresponsibleJeffries.png) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/336 "2023-07-28T20:15:42Z")
Republicans support anything that will increase the birthrate, because that creates more children to brutalize, abuse, starve, bully and traumatize in any vindictive way they can imagine. The cruelty is the point. ---
**Author:** ![Nightaudit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightaudit/32/17181_2.png) [@Nightaudit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightaudit)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/337 "2023-07-28T20:29:34Z")
Genesis 3:16, pretty much sums up the whole thought process and justifies their actions. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/338 "2023-07-28T20:30:32Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I ran across this a few days ago and, as best as I can tell, it’s real. I’m highly skeptical. It seems to be too much on the nose to be real. I don’t think she would mention her health unless trying to draw obvious parallels. ---
**Author:** ![Running\_with\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/339 "2023-07-28T20:56:11Z")
This made the rounds on Reddit recently, and the consensus was it’s real (that is, it was a real tweet), but it doesn’t matter. You can put down anyone you want as preferred placement, but it doesn’t mean they have to accept. It also raises the question of how the mother had the contact info of the Twitter poster. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/340 "2023-07-28T21:07:07Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I’m highly skeptical. I was kinda skeptical too, but a little googling came up with: > **[Ashley Trussell and Jamie... - Arizona Life Coalition](https://www.facebook.com/Arizonalifecoalition/posts/ashley-trussell-and-jamie-jeffries-the-prolife-wife-were-on-the-mike-broomhead-t/3902626839810112/)** > > Ashley Trussell and Jamie Jeffries - The ProLife Wife were on the Mike Broomhead T.V. Show to talk about the march and rally on Saturday. > > Great job... a Facebook post from a bit before what @Joey_P had posted (it’s about three and half years, old, by the way). Looks like most of this took place on Facebook. One Upworthy post about the kerfluffle: > **[Pro-lifer who talked a woman out of abortion slammed for not taking in the...](https://scoop.upworthy.com/pro-lifer-slammed-talked-woman-out-of-abortion-wont-take-in-child)** > > In a post that was reportedly shared on a private Facebook group called Are You Even Pro-Life, a woman talks about how she cannot take in the child because it would be too much for her. which includes some follow up from the exchange shown above (the pro-life poster worked some connections and found a foster placement for the baby). And there was a fairly understanding and evenhanded post by another person (which also talks about some of the followup from Jamie Jeffries): > **[when I was a pro-life hypocrite](http://samanthapfield.com/2020/02/08/when-i-was-a-pro-life-hypocrite/)** > > This week, a Facebook post written by Jamie Jeffries and submitted to the “Are You Even Pro-Life?” Facebook group went viral after Hayley Farless shared a screenshot of it to Twitter. J… Jamie Jeffries is still active (ETA: in pro-life advocacy), apparently: > **[Abortion on Trial: Jamie Jeffries on Dr. Shannon Carr - Maine Wire TV - The...](https://www.themainewire.com/2023/05/abortion-on-trial-jamie-jeffries-on-dr-shannon-carr-maine-wire-tv/)** > > The Maine Wire reported Friday about the $1.26 million settlement involving Dr. Shannon Carr, a Maine OB/GYN tapped by Gov. Janet Mills to lobby in support of LD 1619, a bill to legalize full-term abortion in Maine. Last Monday, Carr was invited into... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=18)