# 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:** 333
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6641 "2024-08-02T13:19:54Z")
is that jd vance or tammy faye bakker? ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6642 "2024-08-02T14:37:05Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Perfect example of “If you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that barks is the one you hit”. I always heard it as “a hit dog hollers.” (And, yes, a perfect example.) ---
**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:** [August 2, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6643 "2024-08-02T15:09:30Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > The term, for me, that better applies (but can’t be used because of the fucking British) is “spaz.” I’m not sure what the British have to do with that. “Spaz” is a shortened form of “spastic”, meaning someone subject to palsy or some other condition causing uncontrolled shaking of the muscles. Everywhere the word “spaz” is used, that’s where it comes from. Without that original meaning, the word wouldn’t exist at all, and I hope I don’t have to describe how that original meaning makes the word offensive. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6644 "2024-08-02T15:29:23Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I’m not sure what the British have to do with that. I suspect the point is that in America the original connection to cerebral palsy has long been forgotten and now it just refers to someone frenetically uncoordinated, whereas in the UK the rather unkind term “spastic” was in use to refer to people with CP much more recently (the charity “The Spastics Society” only renamed itself “Scope” in **1994** ) and so the word is very much seen as a directed slur rather than a broad, mild and lightly comic gibe. Which is not to say that the US use is acceptable, but it explains why it is sometimes used so casually (including by (yep) Weird Al in “Word Crimes”, much to his later chagrin upon learning the background of it). In conclusion, fuck Trump and Vance and the couch they rode in on. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6645 "2024-08-02T15:32:45Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > and the couch they rode in on … 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 … ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6646 "2024-08-02T15:38:31Z")
Texas republicans in their never-ending quest to disenfranchise Texans. https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7398127411780603182 If you (understandably) don’t want to click on a TikTok vid, here’s the upshot: Say you want to register to vote in Texas. You Google ‘online voter registration’ and are directed to a .gov website. Once you’ve filled out the form, you click on the ‘submit’ button at the bottom of the page. Is your registration submitted? Hell, no. You still need to print out the form and mail it in. There is no online registration in Texas, ha ha. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6647 "2024-08-02T15:49:32Z")
So, something I found out recently when renewing my Texas Driver’s License. There was some reason I couldn’t renew online, so I went in person and got to talking with the staffer who did my renewal. The people who do the online work on the Texas .gov site, at least for the DL stuff, is entirely separate from the staff (generally good but massively overworked and understaffed) at the DPS offices across the state. It’s actually a company they subcontract (of course they wouldn’t miss any opportunities to give their grifter friends a break while touting the “efficiencies” of the private sector) rather than state employees. So, there is online renewal at least, but on an entirely separate system that in a few respects can’t 100% ‘talk’ with the state system. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6648 "2024-08-02T15:52:50Z")
Here’s a stupid Republican idea: it’s not reasonable to expect that boneless chicken has no bones in it. 🤨 So saith the GOP majority (4-3) of the Ohio Supreme Court, with a scathing dissent pointing out that the very definition of boneless is without bones. [Linky.](https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/07/30/ohio-supreme-court-majority-ruling-that-boneless-wings-can-have-bones-is-an-embarassment/) The purpose of this Orwellian ruling is to screw a customer who got an over-1 inch bone in a 1 inch piece of chicken 😲 stuck in his throat and required two surgeries from the complications. Because he purportedly could not reasonably expect boneless chicken to be boneless, the Ohio Supremes affirmed the dismissal of his lawsuit against the restaurant without getting to a trial. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2024, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6649 "2024-08-02T16:03:43Z")
Not that I disagree that it was a head-scratcher of a decision, but did that guy ever hear about the concept of chewing? Regardless of whether or not I expected bones to be in my food, I suspect I’d have a hard time somehow missing a nearly 2 inch long bone sliver to the extent it could “slip down the wrong pipe”. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6650 "2024-08-02T16:08:13Z")
If they took the bones out, it wouldn’t be crunchy, would it? ---
**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:** [August 2, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6651 "2024-08-02T16:08:30Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Regardless of whether or not I expected bones to be in my food, I suspect I’d have a hard time somehow missing a nearly 2 inch long bone sliver to the extent it could “slip down the wrong pipe”. I was going to make a perfectly innocuous point about how there isn’t a “right pipe” for a bone to “slip down” but I could see that trainwreck coming a mile off. Anyway - that’s a pretty big chunk of bone to bite into, and I am surprised that it wasn’t caught during the chewing stage. But fuck the “boneless isn’t boneless” Republicans anyway. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6652 "2024-08-02T16:10:06Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > But fuck the “boneless isn’t boneless” Republicans anyway. Oh, no doubt. But that was a detail that caught my attention. Plenty of stupidity all around on this one, I suspect. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6653 "2024-08-02T16:16:14Z")
Most processed meat in the US can end up with small fragments of bone in it. It’s not ideal, of course, but everyone knows that biting on a bit of bone is a possibility. Now, a two-inch piece of bone, that was a pretty big screw-up by whoever processed that chicken, but also a pretty big screw-up by whoever tried to swallow it whole. I suspect that if they had eaten like a normal person, and then made a truth in advertising claim, they’d have probably won. But for a personal injury claim, no, because there’s no way a reasonable person would have gotten that injury. I suspect that the plaintiff did, indeed, eat the chicken like a normal person, and discover the bone, but then lied about choking on it in hopes of a larger payout. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6654 "2024-08-02T16:23:05Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I suspect that the plaintiff did, indeed, eat the chicken like a normal person, and discover the bone, but then lied about choking on it in hopes of a larger payout. To the point of needing two surgeries? Yeah, they probably should have noticed before swallowing, but it doesn’t sound like the consequences were fabricated. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6655 "2024-08-02T16:51:05Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > If they took the bones out, it wouldn’t be crunchy, would it? In 400 years, will people quote Monty Python as we quote Shakespeare today? It’s amazing how many phrases apply perfectly 50 years later. Also, 🤣. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6656 "2024-08-02T17:25:32Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > It’s amazing how many phrases apply perfectly 50 years later. No, it isn’t. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6657 "2024-08-02T17:28:03Z")
An argument isn’t just disagreeing with everything someone says! ---
**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:** [August 2, 2024, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6658 "2024-08-02T17:33:16Z")
In order to argue, you have to take a contrary position. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6659 "2024-08-02T17:38:25Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > No, it isn’t. Spam, > [@Chronos](#): > > An argument isn’t just disagreeing with everything someone says! spam, > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > In order to argue, you have to take a contrary position. and spam. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6660 "2024-08-02T17:38:43Z")
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