# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/41 "2023-07-08T20:26:47Z")
They’re saying “our bigoted followers will cost you more when they stomp off in a huff than you will gain by not chasing off minorities. And we think that’s just wonderful.” ---
**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:** [July 8, 2023, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/42 "2023-07-08T21:29:28Z")
Of course it was a crime of passion. The thing is racists are passionate about their bigotry. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/43 "2023-07-08T23:23:58Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > My Ovaltine conservative decoder ring translates what the attorneys are saying here as: ‘Our bigoted interests need to be satisfied! Stop letting the “others” have freedoms!’ With an implicit threat of “if you keep doing this, we will organize your shareholders against you.” ---
**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:** [July 9, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/44 "2023-07-09T01:19:23Z")
In case you were wondering where the Attorneys General were from… "Republican attorneys general from Indiana, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and South Carolina signed the letter, writing that they were “concerned by recent events involving the company’s ‘Pride’ campaign.” ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/45 "2023-07-09T01:46:07Z")
I’ve kind of wondered which customer base national corps would choose if forced. Maybe we’ll see soon… ---
**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 9, 2023, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/46 "2023-07-09T04:04:01Z")
Is there some sort of law these attorneys general are threatening them with? Or is it more of a, “Nice, little corporation you’ve got here. Be such a shame if, after you’ve catered to the wrong sort of people… something were to happen to it.” ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/47 "2023-07-09T05:59:50Z")
It was fun to see Democratic governor Tony Evers use a GOP bullshit line item veto rule in Wisconsin for good. In this case, increase State per student funding for 400 years. ---
**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 9, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/48 "2023-07-09T13:21:48Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Is there some sort of law these attorneys general are threatening them with? Yeah, that was my take on it. Why are the government lawyers suddenly getting involved in a (potential, it’s not even real yet) dispute between private business interests? A shareholders lawsuit, should one eventually emerge, should be a matter of purely civil law. Talk about government overreach! But of course, hypocrisy doesn’t matter to them. ---
**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 10, 2023, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/49 "2023-07-10T00:05:53Z")
Florida’s top PoS has signed a bill into law that will > **[Florida announces restrictions on Vermont licenses](https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/local-news/florida-announces-restrictions-on-vermont-licenses/)** > > Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the passing of a law could render driver’s licenses and other forms of identification from several states invalid, including Vermont. fail to recognize the validity of driver’s licenses issue by VT, RI, CT, HI and DE. The impression I get is that it has some tenuous connection to immigration status (and punishing the president). This kind of conflicts with some obscure “full faith and credit” thing, I suspect. ---
**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 10, 2023, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/50 "2023-07-10T00:12:41Z")
Alex Jones wants God to destroy the Earth in order to protect the children from globalists. > **[Alex Jones begs for God to destroy the Earth 'for the children'](https://www.rawstory.com/alex-jones-blow-up-earth/)** > > Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has a new desperate prayer to God: kill everyone. Speaking on his Sunday show, Jones' logic was a little convoluted, but essentially he wants the world to be blown up before anyone else can do it. "And we, we,... > [@](#): > > “Now I’m trying to give the globalists a way out,” Jones tried to explain. “The globalists are losing and might blow up the planet. But if they are going to win, then God should blow up the planet now for the sake of the children.” You know, the old “we had to destroy the planet in order to save it” approach. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/51 "2023-07-10T00:19:26Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > fail to recognize the validity of driver’s licenses issue by VT, RI, CT, HI and DE. Yeah, full faith and credit will kill this quick. In the meantime, Disney ought to tell everyone from those states planning a trip to Disneyworld to either 1) bring a passport, or 2) go to Disney **land** instead. The tourist dollars are already drying up in Florida. Time to make the idjits _pay_. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2023, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/52 "2023-07-10T02:42:35Z")
Not to mention the old “globalists” code word. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2023, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/53 "2023-07-10T11:21:33Z")
……won’t the children _also_ die if the planet blows up? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/54 "2023-07-10T11:43:50Z")
No, they’ll be joining the Overmind. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/55 "2023-07-10T12:12:10Z")
This is rapidly heading into doomsday cult territory. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2023, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/56 "2023-07-10T12:52:52Z")
At least they’ll have nice shoes. ---
**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 10, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/57 "2023-07-10T13:26:22Z")
I don’t know if this falls under “Stupid Ideas” or “Things the rest of us wish we could have done”… > “He kicked me in my balls as soon as I opened the door,” Mr DeYoung said, adding that Mr Chapman ran at him and slammed him into a chair. > **[Violent brawl breaks out at Michigan GOP committee meeting](https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/michigan-gop-meeting-brawl-video-b2372408.html)** > > Tensions stemming from budget questions boiled over committee meeting ---
**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 10, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/58 "2023-07-10T13:38:36Z")
“very _fine people on both sides_ ” ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/59 "2023-07-10T13:39:45Z")
Trash! ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/60 "2023-07-10T13:41:40Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > This is rapidly heading into doomsday cult territory. It’s been a doomsday cult for quite some time; that’s just expanding. Right-wing fundamentalist churches have been zealously pro-Israel from the beginning because, according to their reading of Revelation, the Temple in Jerusalem has to be rebuilt in order for the Second Coming to happen and Armageddon to start. Most have been content to wait for that to happen in God’s time, but there are more and more who have shown a willingness to lend a hand. If you believe that you’re about to be assumed bodily into Heaven while all your enemies suffer unspeakable torment, you’re not inclined to work on mitigating climate change or preventing war or curing disease. There are a disconcerting number of people in public life who seem to share that state of mind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=4)