# 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:** 190
**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:** [February 20, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3781 "2024-02-20T17:27:25Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > if you have a rack of test tubes in the passenger seat, you can drive in the HOV lane? More importantly, if I keep this rack of test tubes in my freezer for 18 years, can I register them to vote? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3782 "2024-02-20T17:27:51Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > So, if you have a rack of test tubes in the passenger seat, you can drive in the HOV lane No, you’ll be fined for not having a bus driver’s license. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3783 "2024-02-20T17:30:36Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > More importantly, if I keep this rack of test tubes in my freezer for 18 years, can I register them to vote? Depends. What party? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3784 "2024-02-20T17:53:25Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Yes outlawing masturbation would primarily affect the activities of men who, unlike women, actually matter. So such legislation probably wouldn’t get far. Human cruelty in misogynistic mate-guarding masquerading as pious virtue knows no bounds, and many societies have found a brutal way around this “problem”. Even Republicans might balk at implementing FGM, but their sanctimonious cruelty to women has exactly the same underlying motivation, driven by bestial Darwinian instinct unadulterated by several thousand years of progress in civilization and morality. Don’t underestimate their imagination. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3785 "2024-02-20T18:06:46Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > More importantly, if I keep this rack of test tubes in my freezer for 18 years, can I register them to vote? Even more importantly, if you get into an accident and they’re destroyed, will you be okay with a life in prison for each one lost? If you (not you, specifically) were at an IVF clinic that happened to catch fire, would you save the 5 year old in the waiting room or, since life begins at conception, will you leave that kid to fend for themselves while you grab the dewar flask full of embryos. Now, if I could only remember where I read or heard that? Here maybe? Edit, yes, here: > [@Abortion, the morals and ethics.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-the-morals-and-ethics/779731/9): > > The other example I’ve heard is this: Imagine a fire at an IVF clinic. You have time to save a box containing 24 human embryos or one 2 year old child. Not even the most pro-life among us would grab the box and leave the child there to burn. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3786 "2024-02-20T18:21:26Z")
Is every test tube individually seat-belted (because it is illegal to have more than one child per seat belt)? If one rack holds, let’s say for the sake of argument, twelve test tubes, that would be twelve counts of child endangerment…and you wouldn’t even have to be in the HOV lane for that to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3787 "2024-02-20T18:27:33Z")
More importantly - can I claim them on my taxes? ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3788 "2024-02-20T18:31:35Z")
I didn’t turn on the sound and I couldn’t make it halfway through. Just awful. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3789 "2024-02-20T20:26:53Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Yes outlawing masturbation would primarily affect the activities of men who, unlike women, actually matter. So such legislation probably wouldn’t get far. Oh, I’m sure they’d enact the ‘hairy palms’ test to determine if you violated that law. No fur, no felony! > [@Joey\_P](#): > > If you (not you, specifically) were at an IVF clinic that happened to catch fire, would you save the 5 year old in the waiting room or, since life begins at conception, will you leave that kid to fend for themselves while you grab the dewar flask full of embryos. Well, yes, it’s quite clear one of the unintended consequences is that they’ve decided that some lives are truly more valuable than others. And that’s an awfully slippery slope when we’re supposed to receive equal protection under the law ---
**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:** [February 20, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3790 "2024-02-20T21:19:06Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > And that’s an awfully slippery slope when we’re supposed to receive equal protection under the law In the fine print, there’s a number of qualifiers in the whole “equal protection” thingy. We have color charts, genders, blood drops, religious affiliations, political affectations, cults, sects, not from around here, etc … Just some ranting… carry on. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3791 "2024-02-20T22:06:11Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > If you (not you, specifically) were at an IVF clinic that happened to catch fire, would you save the 5 year old in the waiting room or, since life begins at conception, will you leave that kid to fend for themselves while you grab the dewar flask full of embryos. A madman has tied five test tubes containing fertilized ova to a trolley track… ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3792 "2024-02-20T22:14:58Z")
Hmm, I did get a look at the drag queen; that may have been when I turned it off. It was both funny and horrifying. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3793 "2024-02-20T22:16:25Z")
Have we mentioned that the QOP’s “star witness” in their Biden impeachment inquirt has been indicted for making the whole thing up and is apparently also a Russian asset? > ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3794 "2024-02-20T22:23:37Z")
Don’t count them out. I’m sure FMG is on the schedule somewhere down the line. I don’t think they’d even blink at legislating it. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3795 "2024-02-20T22:30:53Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [x.com](https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1760056767780716675) Yes, post #1044 from JohnT in the hunter biden laptop thread P&E. With more detail in post #1048, #`1056 Of course the usual suspects in that thread who were convinced that Hunter Biden was guilty because he owned a laptop AND a penis have not yet commented on this. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2024, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3796 "2024-02-20T23:49:18Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > The preserved one can go on the shelf next to the Nazi and KKK memorabilia. They might even suggest that in whatever paperwork comes with the shoes. > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > More importantly - can I claim them on my taxes? This. Conceivably (heh) one could claim a thousand child tax credits. For decades, since they will never reach adulthood. Why not, really? ---
**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:** [February 21, 2024, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3797 "2024-02-21T01:02:23Z")
Never mind. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2024, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3798 "2024-02-21T01:52:30Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Yes outlawing masturbation would primarily affect the activities of men who, unlike women, actually matter. So such legislation probably wouldn’t get far. Are you saying such legislation would be _impotent_? > [@Shoeless](#): > > So, if you have a rack of test tubes in the passenger seat, you can drive in the HOV lane? Didn’t a pregnant woman claim her unborn child, under her state’s law, was legally a person and thus should count as one person for the purpose of driving in the HOV lane? > [@Joey\_P](#): > > If you (not you, specifically) were at an IVF clinic that happened to catch fire, would you save the 5 year old in the waiting room or, since life begins at conception, will you leave that kid to fend for themselves while you grab the dewar flask full of embryos. [magatflaearther mode engaged]Is the child here legally? Were the child’s parents American citizens when the child was born? Is the child white? And the most important question: is the child male? > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Oh, I’m sure they’d enact the ‘hairy palms’ test to determine if you violated that law. > > No fur, no felony! Now you’re just being silly. Everyone knows if you masturbate you lose your sense of > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Well, yes, it’s quite clear one of the unintended consequences is that they’ve decided that some lives are truly more valuable than others. And that’s an awfully slippery slope when we’re supposed to receive equal protection under the law Unintended? Yeah, right. This time it actually fits in with the worldview of the magatflatearthers. They truly believe that equal protection under the law applies to them, not to others. > [@Smapti](#): > > Have we mentioned that the QOP’s “star witness” in their Biden impeachment inquirt has been indicted for making the whole thing up and is apparently also a Russian asset? The star witness was Trump?! > [@Sylvanz](#): > > Don’t count them out. I’m sure FMG is on the schedule somewhere down the line. I don’t think they’d even blink at legislating it. The second they find out FGM ensures the female does not _enjoy_ sex, they’ll be all in on such a law. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3799 "2024-02-21T02:46:54Z")
One of these days it’s going to turn out that the water pressure at Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago is shit because Loser Donald is a cheapskate who refuses to pay for basic maintenance, and that’s why he can’t stop ranting about showers and faucets and how dishwasher CEOs are coming up to him with tears in their eyes and saying “Sir, we’re not allowed to use water”. > **['Faucet! Dishwasher! Water! Bad!': Trump ruthlessly mocked for town hall rant](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-rant-mocked/)** > > Former President Donald Trump went into a rant about dishwashers at his Fox News town hall with Laura Ingraham on Tuesday evening — the latest in a long string of times he has complained about the low water pressure on newer, energy-saving fixtures... ---
**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:** [February 21, 2024, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3800 "2024-02-21T05:24:36Z")
Probably mentioned by the new owner shortly after it is seized to pay one of his many judgements. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=189) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=191)