# 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:** 372
**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 27, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7421 "2024-08-27T22:38:00Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > ‘Have their way’ might mean something else Like maybe they ordered hamberders from Berder King. ---
**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 27, 2024, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7422 "2024-08-27T22:41:01Z")
“And another thing: im not mad. Please dont put in the newspaper that I got mad” > ---
**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 27, 2024, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7423 "2024-08-27T22:45:53Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I didn’t say otherwise, I said based on context it can mean something else, and we have that context here. The context is a bunch of known-misogynistic men saying it about a woman. Yes, the context does make it clear. The only way it can mean something else is if “rape” is being used as a metaphor for something else, but the plain (and here, clearly-intended) meaning is rape. One thing is true, though. He was not, in fact, suggesting anything of a sexual nature. He was explicitly stating outright something a sexual nature. That’s no suggestion. ---
**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 27, 2024, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7424 "2024-08-27T22:55:35Z")
> Watters: People are misconstruing my comments to mean something inappropriate. Inappropriate… Inappropriate… Yes, I guess inappropriate is a way that someone, well Jesse Watters clearly, could describe gang rape. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7425 "2024-08-27T23:06:20Z")
Actually, I believe him that he didn’t mean to imply a sexual attack. Trouble is, when your schtick is misogyny and baseless attacks, every once in a while you’re going to pick a phrase that takes it too far. I’m waiting for him to walk back his baseless accusation that in a serious situation Kamala Harris would be incapable of showing leadership. ---
**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 27, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7426 "2024-08-27T23:35:48Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Actually, I believe him that he didn’t mean to imply a sexual attack. He’s never been known to tell the truth before. Why would he have started yesterday? ---
**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 28, 2024, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7427 "2024-08-28T00:28:54Z")
So they’ve lost the cat lady vote, and now they’re trying to get dog owners? ---
**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 28, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7428 "2024-08-28T01:00:39Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > He’s never been known to tell the truth before. Why would he have started yesterday? Because there are two potential scenarios; one where they are picturing a female president being ignored by military leaders because she’s a woman and weak and incapable of gaining the respect of those people. And one where she’s literally being gang-raped by military leaders because she can’t move. The first scenario fits the common stereotype that the right is trying to paint about Kamala Harris; her laughing, her “joy instead of policy”, her failure to support the border against invasion. The other is a crazy non-sequitur that came out of left field and doesn’t really relate to any of the right’s messaging; even when they are being total pigs about her “sleeping her way to the top”, they’re presenting her as using sex in a transactional way and not that she’s a victim. I don’t in any way think a person like Watters is incapable of saying such a thing, but it makes no fucking sense to think he was saying that. 😆 (I do however believe that they’d joke about it off the air though, fucking shitheads they are.) ---
**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 28, 2024, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7429 "2024-08-28T01:10:46Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I do however believe that they’d joke about it off the air though And on the air as well, as is apparent to everyone in this thread except for you. ---
**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 28, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7430 "2024-08-28T01:12:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > And on the air as well, as is apparent to everyone in this thread except for you. Yeah, no, you’re wrong about even that. There are others that agree with me here. You sometimes have trouble seeing past your blinders Smapti. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2024, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7431 "2024-08-28T01:14:32Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Because there are two potential scenarios; one where they are picturing a female president being ignored by military leaders because she’s a woman and weak and incapable of gaining the respect of those people. > > And one where she’s literally being gang-raped by military leaders because she can’t move. You keep leaving out the third option. I would say you forgot it…but it has already been brought up in this thread. ---
**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 28, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7432 "2024-08-28T01:15:32Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I would say you forgot it…but it has already been brought up in this thread. If I did please remind me (I’m being honest, I might have). ---
**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:** [August 28, 2024, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7433 "2024-08-28T01:18:56Z")
And again: He was boasting about what they would do (without any intention of actually doing it, because of cowardice) and badly misjudged his audience. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2024, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7434 "2024-08-28T01:22:43Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Yeah, no, you’re wrong about even that. There are others that agree with me here. I do think I see what you’re saying. Some of us believe he used the phrasing he did for a reason. I think you’re saying it was an unfortunate accident because he has that sort of vocabulary right at his fingertips, being the jerk that he is. I kind of wish we’d all just drop it now. We all agree Watters is a fuckhead. ---
**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 28, 2024, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7435 "2024-08-28T01:24:58Z")
I don’t doubt he’s capable of that. I just think it makes more sense that he’d stick with the right wing talking points about her. I guess if he let it slip in an unguarded moment when he wasn’t doing his job as a propagandist and tried to recover, that makes sense. But that’s a big departure I find hard to accept. (But, maybe, it’s not impossible.) > [@needscoffee](#): > > I think you’re saying it was an unfortunate accident because he has that sort of vocabulary right at his fingertips, being the jerk that he is. > > I kind of wish we’d all just drop it now. We all agree Watters is a fuckhead. And yeah, I think you get me, and I agree, I hate talking about the slimeball too. 🤢 ---
**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 28, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7436 "2024-08-28T01:29:09Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > but it makes no fucking sense to think he was saying that. So, typical Republican, then. And no, he’s not sticking to the talking points. I think it’s as simple as “She’s a woman. We should attack her for being a woman. What do I know about women? I like raping them. Women exist to be raped.” Which attitude is unfortunately very common, and very appealing to an unfortunately-large number of folks. ---
**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 28, 2024, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7437 "2024-08-28T01:49:49Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Which attitude is unfortunately very common, and very appealing to an unfortunately-large number of folks. By “unfortunately-large”, you mean more than zero, right? ---
**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 28, 2024, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7438 "2024-08-28T01:53:56Z")
Well, yes, more than zero is already pretty bad. But it’s a lot worse when it’s a large enough percentage to do things like swing elections. Which it seems to be. ---
**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 28, 2024, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7439 "2024-08-28T01:55:53Z")
The more I hear from Jesse Watters, the more I imagine him in Ferengi makeup hissing about “FEEEEEEE-males” > ---
**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 28, 2024, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7440 "2024-08-28T01:57:10Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The more I hear from Jesse Watters, the more I imagine him in Ferengi makeup hissing about “FEEEEEEE-males” That’s an insult to Ferengi culture! At least they had rules they followed. But if and when Harris wins, it’ll be some delicious schadenfreude to watch him cry about it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=371) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=373)