# 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:** 34
**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:** [August 16, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/661 "2023-08-16T15:09:38Z")
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**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:** [August 16, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/662 "2023-08-16T15:32:30Z")
Fox News lunatic says we wouldn’t have violent crime if we just got rid of all the women. > **[Fox's Greg Gutfeld goes on sexist rant, suggests crimes would 'disappear' if...](https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/media/greg-gutfeld-sexist-rant-fox-news/index.html)** > > One of Fox News’ top hosts said that many of the world’s problems would be solved if women were to vanish from the planet. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2023, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/663 "2023-08-16T15:36:53Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Fox News lunatic says we wouldn’t have violent crime if we just got rid of all the women. > Gutfeld concluded his rant, shouting, “What I’m saying is that we have gotten so soft and it is because we have decided that discipline and punishment is wrong.” Yes, this is why Russia is world-famous as a perfectly peaceful place with no crime at all! ---
**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:** [August 16, 2023, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/664 "2023-08-16T15:38:11Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Fox News lunatic says we wouldn’t have violent crime if we just got rid of all the women It’s true. Humans would die off. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/665 "2023-08-16T15:41:48Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Gutfeld concluded his rant, shouting, “What I’m saying is that we have gotten so soft and it is because we have decided that discipline and punishment is wrong.” I don’t need to know about your personal kinks, Greg. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/666 "2023-08-16T16:13:27Z")
Cf. James Tiptree, Jr., “The Screwfly Solution.” ---
**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:** [August 16, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/667 "2023-08-16T23:13:09Z")
The new leader of QAnon is a 13-year-old numerologist called “Tiny Teflon” who was anointed by her late predecessor. > **[13-year-old girl emerges as new leader of QAnon cult – and vows to...](https://www.rawstory.com/qanon-cult-2663939738/)** > > An adolescent acolyte of the late QAnon cult leader Michael Protzman has seemingly taken over as leader of the apocalyptic group which is waiting for John F. Kennedy and his son to make themselves known.Protzman, who died in June in a dirt bike wreck... ---
**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:** [August 16, 2023, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/668 "2023-08-16T23:31:49Z")
> “Pity.” The word you are looking for, Ronny, is “pity,” not “hate.” ---
**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:** [August 16, 2023, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/669 "2023-08-16T23:38:22Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/media/greg-gutfeld-sexist-rant-fox-news/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/media/greg-gutfeld-sexist-rant-fox-news/index.html) To be fair, that would work. But, hey, why shouldn’t you ignore our species going extinct? Pro tip for Gutfeld: Suzdal is the good guy; klopts are bad. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/670 "2023-08-16T23:51:12Z")
> Protzman, who died in June in a dirt bike wreck… … Or _DID HE_? ---
**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:** [August 17, 2023, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/671 "2023-08-17T04:45:09Z")
Harlan Crow-appointed federal judge says anti-choicers have standing to sue to ban mifeprestone because they like looking at babies and would suffer “aesthetic injury” by not getting to look at potential babies that had been aborted. > ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/672 "2023-08-17T05:28:34Z")
> **[Texas woman accused of threatening to kill judge overseeing Trump election...](https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-tanya-chutkan-judge-threats-texas-7d90ad3c8b552b49e269a3f842a6700c)** > > A Texas woman has been charged with threatening to kill the federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Washington and a congresswoman. > [@](#): > > In the call, Shry told the judge, who is overseeing the election conspiracy case against Trump, “You are in our sights, we want to kill you,” the documents said. Prosecutors allege Shry also said, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you,” and she threatened to kill U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat running for mayor of Houston, according to court documents. Waste of space also went after a democratic mayoral (Houston) candidate. More of this nonsense from these shitheads to come. ETA: Maybe should’ve put this in the “Reps/evil” thread. ETA 2: Heh, or possibly this thread: [Isolated shit, courtesy your neighbourly right wing scumbag - #203 by Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isolated-shit-courtesy-your-neighbourly-right-wing-scumbag/966900/203) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/673 "2023-08-17T05:56:50Z")
Checked Politics and Elections for a Roger Stone thread - no luck. Anyway, great picture of him. > **[New Footage of Roger Stone Working to Overturn 2020 Election Emerges](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/footage-roger-stone-working-overturn-005105175.html)** > > The longtime Republican operative was brainstorming ways to thwart the voters’ will even before the election had been called for Joe Biden. > [@](#): > > “Although state officials in all 50 states must ultimately certify the results of the voting in their state…the final decision as to who the state legislatures authorize be sent to the Electoral College is a decision made solely by the legislature,” Stone said on Nov. 5, 2020, a date in which he would have otherwise been in prison for lying to Congress, obstructing a congressional investigation, and tampering with a witness, had Trump not [commuted his 40-month sentence](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-commutes-roger-stones-sentence-days-before-prison?ref=home) that summer. ---
**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 17, 2023, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/674 "2023-08-17T06:58:27Z")
> [@](#): > > Prosecutors allege Shry also said, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you,” Haven’t we been assured by Trump himself that this fourth indictment assures his victory in the next election? Surely Trump’s acolytes should be hailing the judge for the great favor she has done for him. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/675 "2023-08-17T08:34:09Z")
My last name contains both of those, as well, followed by an _-en_. I don’t know what effect that suffix has on “Stone Mountain.” ---
**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:** [August 17, 2023, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/676 "2023-08-17T10:17:19Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Haven’t we been assured by Trump himself that this fourth indictment assures his victory in the next election? Surely Trump’s acolytes should be hailing the judge for the great favor she has done for him. You forget that, although his indictments (according to him, of course) make him stronger in the election, that election will be stolen too (according to him and all the rest of the magatoflatearth). ---
**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 17, 2023, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/677 "2023-08-17T13:17:29Z")
“Stone Mountains” ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/678 "2023-08-17T13:45:58Z")
_Danke_ (That means “thank you,” @Miller, so I fulfilled the English part of the post) ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/679 "2023-08-17T13:49:04Z")
Or Mountain Stones perhaps? depending on the word order?. ---
**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 17, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/680 "2023-08-17T13:56:39Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > _Danke_ > > (That means “thank you,” @Miller, so I fulfilled the English part of the post) Bitte Schön. (That’s the German equivalent to “You’re Welcome.”) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=35)