# 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:** 259
**Author:** ![loriloolee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5fc32e/32.png) [@loriloolee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loriloolee)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5161 "2024-05-10T15:21:14Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > In a sane world or even a sane state, that sort of argument would ensure passage of the bill. > > But this is the state that has given us **professional concern troll** Susan Collins, so… _Bolded by me_. I laughed hard at this. I love this place so much. [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5162 "2024-05-10T20:07:47Z")
> **[Republicans concoct an odd new reason to try to impeach Biden](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-concoct-odd-new-reason-try-impeach-biden-rcna151633)** > > Some congressional Republicans want to impeach President Joe Biden over his policy toward Israel. The White House was right to call this "ridiculous." > Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) is prepping articles of impeachment against President Biden after he warned that the U.S. will stop supplying offensive weapons to Israel if its forces launch an invasion into Rafah. Mills, a first-year lawmaker, unveiled his impeachment resolution Thursday, which charges Biden with abuse of power, and he said he plans to “pursue action” Friday. > **[Republican who voted twice against Israel aid wants to impeach Biden for...](https://www.businessinsider.com/cory-mills-vote-israel-aid-impeach-biden-rafah-2024-5)** > > Rep. Cory Mills has voted against Israel aid twice in recent months. Now, he wants to impeach Joe Biden for threatening to withhold some of it. > Mills, a freshman lawmaker and [former arms dealer](https://www.businessinsider.com/rep-cory-mills-florida-congress-sells-weapons-foreign-government-committee-2023-3), argued that Biden’s move amounted to a quid pro quo. “Joe Biden is pressuring Israel, our biggest ally in the Middle East, by pausing their funding that has already been approved in the House, if they don’t stop all operations with Hamas,” Mills [told Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-gop-drafting-biden-impeachment-articles-israel-aid-cutoff-threat). “It’s a very clear message, ‘this for that.’” What a Florida Man. ---
**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, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5163 "2024-05-10T21:40:00Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Next they’ll tell us that pregnant women count double. Compromise: 1-3/5 ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5164 "2024-05-10T23:08:28Z")
Until the child is born, at which point it doesn’t count at all until it’s old enough to work and pay taxes. Say six. ---
**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, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5165 "2024-05-11T00:30:07Z")
Katie Britt wants to create a federal registry of all pregnant women. > **[Katie Britt shredded for 'Handmaid's Tale'-type proposal to 'register'...](https://www.rawstory.com/katie-britt-shredded-register-women/)** > > U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) is being ridiculed on social media for a new piece of proposed legislation that, while billed as a child support bill for new moms, is being panned as yet another dystopian intrusion into women's pregnancies. > Britt, who... ---
**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:** [May 11, 2024, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5166 "2024-05-11T01:41:42Z")
Republicans want to outlaw pregnancy! The registry is just the first step! ---
**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, 2024, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5167 "2024-05-11T11:21:04Z")
No, just sneak a healthy dose of eugenics in there. You can (and must) have the kid, but it must be an Alpha kid. Betas are acceptable for photo ops and some Vice-presidential choices. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2024, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5168 "2024-05-11T11:29:08Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > > “It’s a very clear message, ‘this for that.’” Has he not paid any attention to how the US has handled its foreign policies for, like, the last 100 years or so? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5169 "2024-05-11T11:35:52Z")
There’s been a foreign policy for 100 years? Unacceptable! There must only be an American policy! ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5170 "2024-05-11T14:20:25Z")
MTG suggests Alaska should be given back to Russia because the deed was never notarized. Well, it sounds like something she’d say. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5171 "2024-05-11T21:52:20Z")
Moscow Marjorie should just be sent to Russia to live there with her hero Putin. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5172 "2024-05-11T21:59:00Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Has he not paid any attention to how the US has handled its foreign policies for, like, the last 100 years or so? Or how any nation at all has handled foreign policy since Ur? “This for that” is how policy always works. Even if sometimes the “this” is “we won’t send our army in to obliterate you”. ---
**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 12, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5173 "2024-05-12T00:05:28Z")
[This](https://us.yahoo.com/entertainment/stephen-colbert-exposes-trumps-most-065925168.html) really shows how cult-like Tan the Conman’s herd of followers is. > This week, during a day off from his [criminal trial](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-hush-money-trial-week-4-live-updates_n_663544dae4b0fc2b95297591) in the [Stormy Daniels](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/stormy-daniels) hush money case, the presumptive Republican nominee for president [held a dinner for fans](https://www.axios.com/2024/05/08/trump-nft-dinner-trial-2024-election-campaign) who bought at least 47 of those NFTs, which cost $99 each. > > “Some attendees also received physical cards with pieces of the suit and the tie that Trump was wearing when he was arrested in Georgia,” Colbert said. ---
**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 12, 2024, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5174 "2024-05-12T00:06:00Z")
> There are two possibilities here; 1. Loser Donald is making shit up like usual 2. Macron was humoring Loser Donald to get what he wanted out of him and Donald is too much of a narcissistic moron to realize it wasn’t legitimate praise ---
**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 12, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5175 "2024-05-12T00:08:27Z")
You left out: 1. Loverboy Kim didn’t gush on him so now he’s looking for a replacement. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2024, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5176 "2024-05-12T02:53:29Z")
Now he was on the phone so Donald couldn’t see but you just know that Macron had tears in his eyes when he said 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 12, 2024, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5177 "2024-05-12T03:07:27Z")
> Morgan Freeman voice: “Springsteen sold out MetLife Stadium three nights in a row last year. Donald Trump got a few thousand people to meet him in a parking lot.” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5178 "2024-05-12T06:47:14Z")
Of course, he also likes to claim that his inauguration crowd was the largest ever. [![](https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2017/01/20/e8142477-d7fd-41cd-b53c-7e4531433f34/thumbnail/620x340/3cbe1bf81ec862b286bf43804a798452/trump-screen-shot-2017-01-20-at-12-36-59-pm.png?v=218688c1357f974b9630d4fa8914721c) ](https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2017/01/20/e8142477-d7fd-41cd-b53c-7e4531433f34/thumbnail/620x340/3cbe1bf81ec862b286bf43804a798452/trump-screen-shot-2017-01-20-at-12-36-59-pm.png?v=218688c1357f974b9630d4fa8914721c) Eight years earlier, however: [![](https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2017/01/20/6140c5c9-8f9c-42a1-90b4-364d5d784dc0/thumbnail/620x415/c229446f93ac8fd768f883fae388de42/gettyimages-84375608.jpg?v=218688c1357f974b9630d4fa8914721c) ](https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2017/01/20/6140c5c9-8f9c-42a1-90b4-364d5d784dc0/thumbnail/620x415/c229446f93ac8fd768f883fae388de42/gettyimages-84375608.jpg?v=218688c1357f974b9630d4fa8914721c) ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5179 "2024-05-12T18:36:54Z")
Heh, I just started reading Jen Psaki’s book last night, and she said that Sean Spicer’s quote about the inauguration crowds came into her head when she was preparing for her first press conference on the day Biden was inaugurated. ---
**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 12, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5180 "2024-05-12T18:46:52Z")
Trump’s New Jersey rally yesterday, in which he claimed to be more of a crowd-drawer than Bruce Springsteen (as seen in Smapti’s post, above), was not about Trump’s campaign. It was all about Trump’s _feelings_. > [@](#): > > … New Jersey is a deep blue state that hasn’t voted for a Republican for president since 1988, raising questions about the wisdom of a Trump rally in the area. Trump claimed the state is in play, though it’s widely expected to favor Biden again this year. > Wildwood is a Republican enclave within New Jersey … Trump has virtually no chance of taking New Jersey in November. (Biden won it by sixteen points in 2020.) So spending Trump’s limited time-to-campaign there was profoundly stupid. But in this particular part of New Jersey, there are a lot of Trump fans. Giving them a spot-to-rally that wouldn’t require much effort on their part would mean bigger numbers—so that Trump could get that ego-boost he so desperately needed. Plus it’s near his big-boy bed at Bedminster. > **['Gloves are off': Trump attacks Biden, sweeping criminal charges at raucous...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/12/trump-attacks-biden-criminal-charges-new-jersey/73660138007/)** > > Trump held a large rally on the beach in Wildwood, New Jersey, and claimed the deep blue state is in play. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=258) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=260)