# 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:** 299
**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:** [June 19, 2024, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5961 "2024-06-19T22:55:56Z")
See post 5956. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5962 "2024-06-19T23:22:16Z")
My very first thought after hearing about this un-American law was: Alright, ACLU, get on this. This is a textbook example of why I periodically send you guys my own money. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5963 "2024-06-20T01:06:14Z")
Not a republican idea but conservative and dumb: > **[‘Anti-woke’ water - Freedom2o - hawked to conservatives](https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-woke-water-becomes-hit-162048764.html)** > > “It’s just water,” the company’s website states, in big, bold letters > Water is being pushed on conservative voters as “anti-woke” that is “unapologetic.” > > “Freedom2o” is becoming all the rage for some right-wing voters and now Alex Clark, a MAGA-world talking head, is pitching the water in a cringeworthy ad during Turning Point’s People’s Convention over the weekend, according to Mediaite. > > The label tells consumers that “this water isn’t free, but your speech is” and its marketing seems to suggest that by simply drinking the special “anti-woke” water that consumers are engaging in an act of rebellion. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5964 "2024-06-20T01:18:14Z")
Dave Reichert wants to exile Washington’s homeless population to a former federal prison on an island used to house unreformable sex offenders - that is, unless he can force The Evergreen State College to house them in the dorms. > **[Candidate for governor Dave Reichert makes pitch during Adna campaign stop -...](https://chronline.com/stories/candidate-for-governor-dave-reichert-makes-pitch-during-adna-campaign-stop,342170)** > > As he introduced Dave Reichert during a campaign event in Adna, Lewis County Sheriff Rob Snaza, who is not up for reelection this November but has endorsed Reichert’s campaign, said the … ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5965 "2024-06-20T01:36:05Z")
Are you sure that’s not a Saturday Night Live fake ad? ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5966 "2024-06-20T01:44:30Z")
Sure seems like one but you can actually [buy the stuff on Amazon right now](https://www.amazon.com/Freedom2o-Bottled-Unapologetic-Purified-Freedom/dp/B0CZR4N3YM) so it exists. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5967 "2024-06-20T01:44:31Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > this water isn’t free Correct. At 21 bucks for a 12-pack, it’s decidedly not free. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5968 "2024-06-20T02:14:29Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Dave Reichert wants to exile Washington’s homeless population to a former federal prison on an island used to house unreformable sex offenders - that is, unless he can force The Evergreen State College to house them in the dorms. And here’s more brilliance from ol’ Dave: > **[Washington governor's race candidate Dave Reichert takes hard-line stance on...](https://www.khq.com/news/washington-governors-race-candidate-dave-reichert-takes-hard-line-stance-on-lgbtq-issues/article_80a4c3da-fe11-11ee-b115-538cf970467f.html)** > > OLYMPIA, Wash. – Dave Reichert, a prominent Republican candidate for Washington governor, asserted that marriage is only between a man and a woman during a campaign event. > [@](#): > > Dave Reichert, a prominent Republican candidate for Washington governor, asserted that marriage is only between a man and a woman during a campaign event. > > Reichert made the remarks [during a meeting with the Pierce County GOP on Feb. 21.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQXtAhd99GY) > > “Marriage is between a man and a woman,” Reichert 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:** [June 20, 2024, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5969 "2024-06-20T02:16:17Z")
And the truly sad part of it is that Reichert is the SANE Republican candidate for governor. His competitor Semi Bird is an absolute MAGA fruitcake who makes ol’ Dave look like an Eisenhower Republican in comparison. For you out-of-staters; WA has a nonpartisan top-two primary, and the state QOP has endorsed Bird over Reichert, but it won’t be until after the August primary that we know which of them will end up running against the all-but-certain winner, Democratic AG Bob Ferguson, in the November general. Reichert is a former Congressman and King County (the county where Seattle is) sheriff who oversaw the manhunt for the Green River killer, and Bird is a former Richland (city in eastern WA that was established as a government-owned company town for people working on the Manhattan Project) school board member who was ousted for refusing to enforce the mask mandate during covid and has been accused of stolen valor and defrauding the Army by submitting false documentation that resulted in him receiving medals he didn’t earn. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5970 "2024-06-20T02:28:34Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > > Dave Reichert, a prominent Republican candidate for Washington governor, asserted that marriage is only between a man and a woman during a campaign event. But outside a campaign event, anything goes. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5971 "2024-06-20T02:31:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Reichert is a former Congressman and King County (the county where Seattle is) sheriff who oversaw the manhunt for the Green River killer, Yet, > **[How missed evidence helped a serial killer evade capture for nearly two decades](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gary-ridgway-green-river-serial-killer-washington-rcna67794)** > > Tiny paint spheres helped snare serial killer Gary Ridgway after at least 49 murders in Washington. The evidence was on his first victims, records show. > **[MythBusters: Dave Reichert Did Not Catch the Green River Killer](https://www.thestranger.com/blogs/2010/10/12/5127209/mythbusters-dave-reichert-did-not-catch-the-green-river-killer)** > > If there is ever a political figure who is purely the figment our local media's imagination, it is the silver-haired sheriff, Rep. Dave Reichert, a man whose entire political career is built upon the fiction that he single-handedly brought to justice... There are idiots on my NextDoor feed who proclaim that if only Reichert were elected governor, the graffiti on their neighbor’s fence would be a thing of the past. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5972 "2024-06-20T02:33:27Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > if only Reichert were elected governor, the graffiti on their neighbor’s fence would be a thing of the past. Well, it would take 20 years, but he’d probably track down that miscreant tagger eventually. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5973 "2024-06-20T02:33:58Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Well, it would take 20 years, but he’d probably track down that miscreant tagger eventually Well done! ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5974 "2024-06-20T02:37:13Z")
Don’t think for a second that I’m praising Reichert. I’m just saying that, compared to Semi Bird, he’s practically the most liberal Republican in Washington now that Kim Wyman’s joined the Biden admin and Jaime Herrera-Beutler has gone back to whatever it is she does. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5975 "2024-06-20T02:52:06Z")
And what’s more woke that environmental and public health regulations! I’m guessing it comes straight from a superfund site. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5976 "2024-06-20T03:09:59Z")
And the bottles are definitely NOT recyclable. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5977 "2024-06-20T03:35:14Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Don’t think for a second that I’m praising Reichert. Oh, I’m not, sorry! I’m building off of what you said. I’m just so annoyed with idiots here who believe the anti-Bob Ferguson BS put out by the republicans. They repeat how he’s supposedly against law & order but have no idea what or why, just that they’ve heard it so often it must be true. The funny thing is Ferguson is very straight-up law & order. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5978 "2024-06-20T04:01:59Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > All classrooms in Louisiana must have the 10 Commandments displayed in them. Are they _sure_ it’s only ten? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/I48hr8HhDv0/hqdefault.jpg "History of the World Part 1 (Mel Brooks) - Old Testament - Moses - Ten Commandments") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I48hr8HhDv0&t=45s) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5979 "2024-06-20T04:06:34Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > All classrooms in Louisiana must have the 10 Commandments displayed in them.🙄 From The Borowitz Report: > **Louisiana Orders Classrooms To Display All Ten Commandments That Trump Has Broken** > **[Louisiana Orders Classrooms To Display All Ten Commandments That Trump Has...](https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/louisiana-orders-classrooms-to-display?r=1n578h)** > > “We want Louisiana's students to grow up to be productive felons," Governor Jeff Landry said. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5980 "2024-06-20T11:54:51Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > All classrooms in Louisiana must have the 10 Commandments displayed in them My reaction is, “Well, if you’re going to have them, might as well enforce them!” Particularly against professed “christians”. Every kid who mentions ‘g\_d’ in class has profaned the name of the Lord, and should be punished by 10 days detention. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=298) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=300)