# 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:** 483
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9641 "2025-01-14T23:46:20Z")
[https://kfor.com/news/local/oklahoma-aims-to-ban-all-but-two-cities-from-providing-homeless-shelters-homeless-outreach/](https://kfor.com/news/local/oklahoma-aims-to-ban-all-but-two-cities-from-providing-homeless-shelters-homeless-outreach/) > The bill defines a homeless person as anyone who: > > - Lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence > - Has as a primary nighttime residence a publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations > - Has as a primary nighttime residence a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings > > Or > > - Persons and families who do not have access to normal accommodations as a result of violence or the threat of violence from a cohabitant. That last bullet point is particularly evil IMO, but not surprising in the least. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9642 "2025-01-15T00:57:49Z")
> [@Zoobi](#): > > That last bullet point is particularly evil IMO, but not surprising in the least. Yeah, what the hell? Why are these wimps not fighting back? ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9643 "2025-01-15T03:44:02Z")
The sponsor, receiving flak for including domestic violence shelters with homeless shelters, acknowledges the “unintended consequences” of her bill and will remove that portion. [Cite.](https://www.normantranscript.com/news/senator-cites-unintended-consequences-in-homelessness-bill-will-rework-in-committee/article_256723fa-d2c8-11ef-8423-77165fcca465.html) That’s utter B.S.! The way the bill was written, domestic violence shelters weren’t just sucked into a broad definition of homeless shelters, the last clause of the definition is a clear description of a domestic violence shelter! This newbie senator either fully intended to ban Oklahoma municipalities from spending on domestic violence shelters and outreach, or she didn’t read her own damned bill. 🙄 ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9644 "2025-01-15T04:01:54Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > This newbie senator either fully intended to ban Oklahoma municipalities from spending on domestic violence shelters and outreach I’m somewhat aware of what some on the right think about domestic violence shelters . . . and it’s as bad as you can imagine. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9645 "2025-01-15T04:08:20Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > it’s as bad as you can imagine Watch for the bill repealing a woman’s right to own property – I mean, how can property own property? ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9646 "2025-01-15T04:53:50Z")
Wharrgarbl Trailer Grease suggests we [fight the fires](https://www.mediaite.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-cooks-up-harebrained-theory-on-how-to-stop-the-wildfires-they-know-how-to-do-it/) with silver iodide, because that works so well in clear skies. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9647 "2025-01-15T05:48:06Z")
I’d point out that three months ago she was accusing Democrats of controlling the weather and calling it a bad thing, but cultists like her believe more mutually contradictory things before breakfast than most people do all day. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9648 "2025-01-15T05:55:25Z")
It’s amazing and disheartening that to get a job these days one has to jump through hoops, have their background checked, and spew perfect, corporate blather, yet a hateful, not too bright, mentally ill woman can be a member of congress. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9649 "2025-01-15T06:23:50Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > I hope the questioners at his confirmation hearing are informed? Misinformation is a _kind_ of information… ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9650 "2025-01-15T06:43:19Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > yet a hateful, not too bright, mentally ill woman can be a member of congress It appears that her parents were able to buy her a degree from UG. Or, maybe she actually earned it – people with a degree in Biz Admin have varying levels of broad intelligence, often mostly constrained to their field of study. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9651 "2025-01-15T07:38:19Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > This newbie senator either fully intended to ban Oklahoma municipalities from spending on domestic violence shelters and outreach, or she didn’t read her own damned bill. I’m pretty sure she didn’t read her own damned bill, at least not with the thoroughness it deserves. The bill comes in with a definition of homeless, which is fairly (and rightly) expansive - it’s intended to include people who are couch-surfing with friends, sleeping out of doors, in cars, or in shelters, and everyone in between. So it makes sure to include those people who might have a key to an apartment somewhere, and their name might even be on the lease, but if they go home they are taking their life into their hands. I wouldn’t be surprised if they got this definition of homeless from a group that tries to fight homelessness and maintain the rights of those who are homeless. So put that together with an exclusion on providing shelter or outreach to such people, and boom! You’ve outlawed helping DV shelters without realizing it. There are probably hundreds of bills with similar issues of unintended consequences introduced in state legislatures all across the country. While I would oppose this bill on general principles, I wouldn’t assume the person who drafted it is intending to eliminate support for DV centers, any more than I would think a programmer splicing together two bits of code intended for a bug to show up because of some incompatibility in how variables are used between the snippets. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9652 "2025-01-15T08:39:35Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > It’s amazing and disheartening that to get a job these days one has to jump through hoops, have their background checked, and spew perfect, corporate blather, yet a hateful, not too bright, mentally ill woman can be a member of congress. When you interview for a real job, generally you’re being evaluated by a professional with experience and expertise who knows what to look for in a candidate and has standards you need to meet. When you run for office you’re being evaluated by a horde of randos going by whatever they saw or heard on social media. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9653 "2025-01-15T14:06:43Z")
> [@](#): > > The bill defines a homeless person as anyone who: > > - Has as a primary nighttime residence a publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations I guess I’m glad I don’t have to stay in a hotel in Oklahoma. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9654 "2025-01-15T20:32:21Z")
Thom Tillis wants to make sure people know the QAnon shaman guy isn’t a cannibal. > **[Confused GOP senator defends QAnon followers on cannibalism because 'shaman'...](https://www.rawstory.com/thom-tillis-qanon/)** > > A seemingly confused Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) defended Jacob Chansley, the so-called QAnon Shaman, because he was reportedly a vegetarian. > During Wednesday's confirmation hearing for attorney general nominee Pam Bondi, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) noted... ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9655 "2025-01-15T20:51:44Z")
There’s no possible way this guy is a cannibal, [![](https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2021/02/05/d9a1c18b-8819-460d-9075-681f760e4f91/thumbnail/640x413/c81e09becfd4f8d89690baf3c9c8687a/angeli-split-screen.jpg?v=fa9977353833f46f40b07abcd9d5240b) ](https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2021/02/05/d9a1c18b-8819-460d-9075-681f760e4f91/thumbnail/640x413/c81e09becfd4f8d89690baf3c9c8687a/angeli-split-screen.jpg?v=fa9977353833f46f40b07abcd9d5240b) He clearly lacks sufficient melanin. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9656 "2025-01-15T23:04:37Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > I love how point #1, the primary thing bringing the US “miltary” to the brink of defeat is… Discouraging the use of mom and dad at the air force academy. Well, of course you do always put your strongest argument right at the top. > [@Maus\_Magill](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > The bill defines a homeless person as anyone who: > > > > - Has as a primary nighttime residence a publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations > > I guess I’m glad I don’t have to stay in a hotel in Oklahoma. Let’s all help out Oklahoma by declining to give it any of our tourist dollars, or do any kind of business there that would require an overnight stay! ---
**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:** [January 16, 2025, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9657 "2025-01-16T06:25:19Z")
Sam Alito wants to know if Pornhub has essays by Gore Vidal like Playboy used to. > **["Is it like old Playboy?": Justice Alito asks if anyone visits Pornhub for...](https://www.salon.com/2025/01/15/is-it-like-old-playboy-justice-alito-asks-if-anyone-visits-pornhub-for-the-articles/)** > > The Supreme Court justice wondered if the porn site was like "old Playboy" during oral arguments ---
**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:** [January 16, 2025, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9658 "2025-01-16T06:43:45Z")
It sounds like he overplayed the “Ignorance” card to me. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2025, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9659 "2025-01-16T08:50:14Z")
“Pourin’ hub? Is that a place to talk about your favorite kinds of tea?” …shift eyes, sweat beads on forehead, nervous cough… ---
**Author:** ![yendis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed8c4c/32.png) [@yendis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yendis)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9660 "2025-01-16T12:37:56Z")
No Gore Vidal essays but there are maths and science lectures hosted on the site. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=482) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=484)