# 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:** 364
**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 23, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7261 "2024-08-23T01:36:15Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > What with Mike Lindell’s Snidely abiltity to be a master of disguise (losing the moustache) TIL that he charged people to watch the livestream of said mustache being removed. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2024, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7262 "2024-08-23T01:46:16Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > he charged people to watch the livestream of said mustache being removed. No need to kink shame. ---
**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 23, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7263 "2024-08-23T03:20:40Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > Cowards all of them. She doesn’t go after Walz directly because he’s not an easy target. So she goes after his son instead. It’s like super villain thinking. Dude. Speaking as someone who (according to my employer) holds a patent for an orbital death ray. Supervillians go after everyone equally. ---
**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 23, 2024, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7264 "2024-08-23T03:30:27Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Speaking as someone who (according to my employer) holds a patent for an orbital death ray. Is it aesthetically similar to the design tropes of any particular decade? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7265 "2024-08-23T04:05:40Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > > > Dude. Speaking as someone who (according to my employer) holds a patent for an orbital death ray. Supervillians go after everyone equally. > > Is it aesthetically similar to the design tropes of any particular decade? Ha! Sometimes it’s good to be old (if you still have intact memory). ---
**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 23, 2024, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7266 "2024-08-23T09:06:15Z")
Here’s one to trot out if anyone challenges the idea that the right are weird. I mean, WTAF. > **[If Men Suck, Why Won't Tim Walz Admit He Can't Fight Or Father?](https://thefederalist.com/2024/08/22/if-masculinity-is-bad-why-didnt-tim-walz-admit-he-ran-from-war-and-couldnt-father-a-child/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=if-masculinity-is-bad-why-didnt-tim-walz-admit-he-ran-from-war-and-couldnt-father-a-child)** > > For some reason, Tim Walz feels compelled to lie about his military service and obscure the details of his infertility journey. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7267 "2024-08-23T09:11:25Z")
Man, that is one mean spirited headline. I wonder who the actual person is behind that nasty statement. Ugliness personified. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7268 "2024-08-23T12:39:47Z")
If you think the headline is ugly, this is from the article: > The latest revelation is that, despite years of claims otherwise, Tim Walz and his wife, Gwen, didn’t actually conceive their daughter, Hope, with the medically invasive and potentially morally fraught in vitro fertilization (IVF) but instead with the less invasive and less controversial intrauterine insemination (IUI). > > By claiming that his family underwent IVF, he sidestepped any potential stigma associated with male infertility. Admitting to IUI, which is often necessitated by issues with male sperm motility, might have been an admission that he did not meet the traditional expectations of virility. In a society that continues to measure a man’s worth by his ability to sire children naturally, such an admission could have been seen as too emasculating — even for the Democrat Party. > … Wow. I’m speechless. There is no limit to how low they will go. ---
**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 23, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7269 "2024-08-23T12:45:14Z")
Yeah, they’re disgusting. But I think the good news is that this level of specific hatefulness is only playing to the MAGA base. I know exactly zero people outside that circle that are worried about being seen as “beta males” or “cucks.” That’s not to say that toxic masculinity doesn’t span the political spectrum (though not evenly), but this particular flavor is alt-right, MAGA, neo-Nazi bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7270 "2024-08-23T15:12:17Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Here’s one to trot out if anyone challenges the idea that the right are weird. The projection is so very strong in that article. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2024, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7271 "2024-08-23T15:59:25Z")
Has anyone here ever seen anything on The Federalist that is not Blaze/Infowars/SovCit class material? I rarely look at it because it just ends up pissing me off. Might as well just go hang out on Heritage, to be slightly less disgusted. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7272 "2024-08-23T17:55:20Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Has anyone here ever seen anything on The Federalist that is not Blaze/Infowars/SovCit class material? It’s explicitly a conservative magazine (and has a podcast). It was a huge proponent of the 2020 election steal lies. They also spread Covid misinformation and climate change denialism. It _is_ a Blaze/Infowars kind of site. The Wikipedia page for it is pretty explanatory: > **[The Federalist (website)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_(website))** > > Defunct > Newspapers > Journals ETA: Wow, Discourse has a weird preview of that page, I wonder if the software is just giving its own opinion. 😆 ---
**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 23, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7273 "2024-08-23T19:56:30Z")
Weirdos, every one of them. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVnPPENXYAAKqdm?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVnPPENXYAAKqdm?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**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 23, 2024, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7274 "2024-08-23T20:03:32Z")
Now do the math on Donald and Barron ya piece of shit. ---
**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 23, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7275 "2024-08-23T20:13:53Z")
I also don’t drink 47-year-old semen. ---
**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 23, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7276 "2024-08-23T20:29:47Z")
I just genuinely don’t get this type of mind. Spoiled? What? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7277 "2024-08-23T20:32:35Z")
I applaud Mr. Collins for adhering to the principle of drinking only the _freshest_ semen. And medically speaking, if a dipshit like that cares anything about facts, there is little risk if a man fathers a child before the age of 45. Even then, the risk is low until after 50. But again, anyone who think this is a valid topic of discussion (and would present it in such an ignorant manner) won’t give a shit about facts or medical science. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2024, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7278 "2024-08-23T20:44:46Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > It’s explicitly a conservative magazine (and has a podcast). It was a huge proponent of the 2020 election steal lies. They also spread Covid misinformation and climate change denialism. It _is_ a Blaze/Infowars kind of site. Huh, somehow I got the idea that it was more old school Republican. Maybe I’m mixing it up with the National Review. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7279 "2024-08-23T20:48:33Z")
Note back to Mr. Collins: When you drink milk do you determine how fresh it is based on the age of the cow? ---
**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 23, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7280 "2024-08-23T21:02:39Z")
“Despite your clear obsession with the bodily fluids, especially those of political figures, do you understand the differences between cow milk and human semen?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=363) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=365)