# 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:** 456
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9101 "2024-11-21T04:00:22Z")
The homo/trans phobic congressmen are going to be mighty uncomfortable when she uses their restroom. If I were her, I’d try to make it as uncomfortable as possible for them. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9102 "2024-11-21T09:56:30Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Meanwhile, Congresswoman McBride apparently agrees that she’s a pervert and a man in drag. Or else she decided that’s not the hill she wants to die on, metaphorically speaking. Also: > [@Fugazi](#): > > The homo/trans phobic congressmen are going to be mighty uncomfortable when she uses their restroom. If I were her, I’d try to make it as uncomfortable as possible for them. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9103 "2024-11-21T15:22:47Z")
I’m guessing that the first time she uses the men’s room, they’ll raise a stink about _that_. It reminds me of the BLM/George Floyd protests. Republicans, to Black people: “Why can’t you people protest peacefully?” Black NFL players start taking a knee during the National Anthem. Republicans: “No, not like that!” ---
**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:** [November 21, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9104 "2024-11-21T16:15:50Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I’m guessing that the first time she uses the men’s room, they’ll raise a stink about _that_. McBride, responding (hypothetically): “I don’t know what they’re complaining about - there’s so little to see in there.” ---
**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:** [November 21, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9105 "2024-11-21T16:40:04Z")
fetterman has offered his bathroom. [Fetterman Attacks Speaker Johnson’s Transgender Bathroom Ban, Invites Sarah McBride To Use Bathroom In His Office](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fetterman-attacks-speaker-johnson-s-transgender-bathroom-ban-invites-sarah-mcbride-to-use-bathroom-in-his-office/ar-AA1usozL?ocid=BingNewsSerp) ---
**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:** [November 21, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9106 "2024-11-21T17:21:31Z")
Le sigh… > **[Republican who won county seat pleads guilty to sexual assault of daughter](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/19/indiana-john-jessup-sexual-assault)** > > John Jessup to resign as commissioner in Hancock, Indiana, and faces prison after guilty plea over incident in Las Vegas > **[Commissioner’s daughter steps forward as the woman he sexually assaulted in...](https://www.greenfieldreporter.com/2024/11/19/jessups-daughter-steps-forward-as-the-woman-he-sexually-assaulted-in-las-vegas/)** > > HANCOCK COUNTY — One of Rachel Jessup’s fondest childhood memories used to be going to the polls on Election Day with her dad, John Jessup. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9107 "2024-11-21T17:25:29Z")
He took Trump and Trump’s daughter lust to an extreme. What a cult! Reply to Gyrate ---
**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:** [November 21, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9108 "2024-11-21T17:30:54Z")
The second link contains the longer story from the daughter’s POV of what happened. I’m not sure it makes it “better” to note that the daughter is 22 except in the sense that “incestuous rapist” is somehow “better” than “incestuous rapist pedophile”. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9109 "2024-11-21T18:28:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I’m not sure it makes it “better” to note that the daughter is 22 except in the sense that “incestuous rapist” is somehow “better” than “incestuous rapist pedophile”. Either way, as a dad with two daughters that story made me literally sick to my stomach. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9110 "2024-11-21T18:37:30Z")
The North Carolina legislature just passed a law titled “Disaster Relief 3/Budget/Various Law Changes”. Among the “Various Law Changes” are the following: - Give incoming State Auditor Dave Boliek, a Republican, power to appoint members to the State Board of Elections, taking all appointments from the governor. - Ban incoming Attorney General Jeff Jackson, a Democrat, from taking any position on state laws in court that is inconsistent with one taken by the General Assembly. - Prevent incoming State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mo Green, a Democrat, from appealing decisions made by the N.C. Charter School Review Board. The mostly Republican NC legislature has also been doing their best to strip the Democratic Governor from exercising any power. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9111 "2024-11-21T18:40:12Z")
I mean, all of that seems pretty smart, if you’re a Republican. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2024, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9112 "2024-11-21T18:50:20Z")
This is why I keep saying the lame duck period in US elections needs to be done away with. This kind of sore-loser legislation has become standard among Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![Nightaudit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightaudit/32/17181_2.png) [@Nightaudit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightaudit)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9113 "2024-11-21T18:54:35Z")
Watch him try to use “it’s in the Bible so it’s allowed.” As his defense… re.: Gen. 19.31:38… ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9114 "2024-11-21T19:18:02Z")
This isn’t even lame-duck actions. Even before the election the legislature has been overriding Gov Cooper’s vetoes of bills regarding school vouchers for private schools, immigration enforcement, and other things to promote the Republican agenda. Although, as @Love_Rhombus said, I guess this isn’t really a “Stupid Republican idea”. Maybe be should start a thread on “Annoying Republican ideas”. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9115 "2024-11-21T19:26:22Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > Maybe be should start a thread on “Annoying Republican ideas”. That would be “All of them.” ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9116 "2024-11-21T22:49:08Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > > [@LurkMeister](#): > > > > Maybe be should start a thread on “Annoying Republican ideas”. > > That would be “All of them.” . Yep. But it **is** a problem that some GOP ideas are all-too-likely to succeed in undermining our republic. How about a thread for _likely-to-help-Republicans-end-democracy_ ideas called “Repressive Republican Idea of the Day”? ---
**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:** [November 21, 2024, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9117 "2024-11-21T22:56:06Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I’m guessing that the first time she uses the men’s room, they’ll raise a stink about _that_. It reminds me of the BLM/George Floyd protests. > > Republicans, to Black people: “Why can’t you people protest peacefully?” Remember, they were protesting peacefully. The rioters were mostly from right-wing groups like the Hell’s Angels, the Proud Boys, and the various police departments. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2024, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9118 "2024-11-22T01:31:10Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > How about a thread for _likely-to-help-Republicans-end-democracy_ ideas called “Repressive Republican Idea of the Day”? “Democracy-Ending Idea of the Day” would work, 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:** [November 22, 2024, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9119 "2024-11-22T01:32:55Z")
We already have the evil Republican thread. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2024, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9120 "2024-11-22T01:53:04Z")
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