# 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:** 488
**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:** [January 26, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9741 "2025-01-26T18:26:20Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > No, menstruation is involuntary. Are you sure? Because I’ve heard the mysterious female body has ways of “shutting that down”. If, for some unfathomable reason, she doesn’t want to be raped. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9742 "2025-01-26T19:05:48Z")
Let’s face it, nobody really knows what goes on _down there_. ---
**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 26, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9743 "2025-01-26T19:35:49Z")
We all know there’s no solving “woman problems”, so they’re going to have to live with them in jail. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9744 "2025-01-26T19:50:55Z")
It’s just a mystery, I tell you! ---
**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 26, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9745 "2025-01-26T19:52:17Z")
No, you got that backwards. Her body can “_shut that whole thing down_” if she _is_ raped, so that she does not end up carrying the rapist’s spawn – unless, of course, she has a secret urge _to_ get pregnant (whether she is aware of it or not). ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9746 "2025-01-28T16:23:52Z")
Pirates vs. Drug Lords sounds like a cheapo action movie, similar to _Dracogator vs. Colossal Boa_ Or somesuch. I’m sure it would be the perfect answer to the drug problem, and I encourage all Republicans to enlist on a privateer. > **[MAGA Senator Floats Crazy Plan for ‘Pirates’ to Fight Cartels and Take a Cut](https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator-mike-lee-floats-crazy-plan-for-pirates-to-fight-cartels-and-take-a-cut/)** > > Mike Lee has been fantasizing about state-sponsored piracy for more than a decade. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9747 "2025-01-28T18:42:15Z")
First bounty hunters to round up undocumented immigrants, now pirates to target drug cartels. Officially sanctioned bully thugs to carry out dubious government actions. How wonderful. Maybe they should all get special shirts to signify their status. Something sedate to emphasize their serious role. I’m thinking a nice Park Ranger brown. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9748 "2025-01-28T18:49:50Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Officially sanctioned bully thugs to carry out dubious government actions What a horrorshow idea! (I’m getting Clockwork Orange vibes from that.) ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9749 "2025-01-28T19:11:22Z")
The one I’m half watching/waiting for (more than actually expecting it) is … > **[What Would Privatized Social Security Mean for Americans?](https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/040715/what-would-privatized-social-security-mean-americans.asp)** > > Privatizing Social Security benefits is an alternative to the current pay-as-you-go government program, but it comes with pros and cons. Depending on how far they took it, it could be an unprecedented (upward) transfer of wealth to the (publicly-traded) private sector. It’s wildly unpopular, yet it’s both the kind of thing this oligarchy/kleptocracy/corporatocracy/kakistocracy should drool over _and_ the kind of thing that an administration who feels emboldened, and that they can act with impunity, might be tempted to do. Maybe most important: think what it would do for the net worth of basically every single one of Trump’s appointees, his buddies (Forbes 400 types), Trump himself, and his family. The ultimate grift. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9750 "2025-01-28T20:14:34Z")
This is going to be a long 4 years. These screenshots are from this [imgur post](https://imgur.com/gallery/here-we-go-GYULUxy) (not mine) but come from this [reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ibbbh7/this_was_posted_about_opm_in_our_union_chat/?share_id=-tO_VNDb839N4bJGLE2k5&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1): [![](https://i.imgur.com/A9AOyTV.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/A9AOyTV.jpeg) . [![](https://i.imgur.com/39YcGEd.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/39YcGEd.jpeg) . [![](https://i.imgur.com/8Ol6ZO9.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/8Ol6ZO9.jpeg) . [![](https://i.imgur.com/HWNLite.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/HWNLite.jpeg) ---
**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 28, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9751 "2025-01-28T21:04:36Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > This is going to be a long 4 years. That reminds me of what happened when I worked for a Native American tribe. They are run by an elected council, and there was a complete takeover at one point while I worked there. Every member of the council was voted out and replaced by new people (all of the folks were from feuding families, both old and new council members) and they went through and fired just about everyone in a leadership position within tribal administration. The IT department I belonged to went from a team of 6 to a team of 2. My boss, my boss’s boss, and his boss (who ran the entire tribal administration) were all fired. I ended up having nobody to report to except some 20-year-old kid who had just been elected to the council, who to be fair was a nice guy but had no idea what he was doing and had no power to do anything (because everyone else on the council just told him what to do). I saw rules being violated left and right, saw everything falling apart, and I no longer had a budget or any backing to change anything. My biggest concern was that we had a failing network (made of a hodge-podge of switches and routers bought on the cheap over the years) and absolutely _no_ backup system in place for our servers or any other data, which was something that my department was in the process of replacing before most of them got fired and I suddenly had no way to continue the project. It also didn’t help that certain council members came in and started getting mad at how we were doing our jobs, even though we were following all of the rules set by the council. The new council could sit down and rewrite the rules if they wanted to, but they didn’t want to bother; they just wanted what they wanted and wanted it right now, and it didn’t matter if you broke the rules in the process because they were telling you to do it. I even had one lady literally screaming and throwing things at us like a kid, this was a lady in her 60s who hated that we didn’t just immediately do what she told us without asking any questions (even to clarify what she needed). I got my ass out of there before a disaster happened and I became a scapegoat as the only person left with any responsibility. (While I still had one coworker, she was completely desktop support and I was the network administrator, so it would fall on my head, and there could even be legal liability if something really bad happened because things weren’t in compliance.) I think I know exactly how it must feel for them to be working in federal government right now. Suddenly your bosses are incompetent, vindictive clowns, critical things are coming to a screeching halt, and you can barely do your job anymore, and certainly can’t do it properly or safely. It’s a nightmare. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9752 "2025-01-29T01:16:53Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > A [proposed bill](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/mississippi-lawmaker-introduces-contraception-begins-erection-act-rcna188938) in Mississippi ‘_would make it unlawful for “a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”_’ Essentially, it would outlaw choking the chicken. Now that he’s getting death threats, he was just joking. > **[Mississippi Lawmaker Behind Masturbation Ban Bill Is Getting Death Threats](https://www.tmz.com/2025/01/28/mississippi-lawmaker-masturbation-ban-is-getting-death-threats/)** > > The Mississippi lawmaker proposing a bill that effectively bans masturbation for men says he's shocked by how upset some dudes are ... 'cause he's getting death threats! But I’m not sure what to make of it. > **[Lawmaker getting death threats for anti-masturbation bill](https://rollingout.com/2025/01/28/lawmaker-death-threats-masturbation-bill/)** > > A Black lawmaker is getting death threats from men in Mississippi for proposing a bill that would criminalize masturbation. > “When a bill has been filed that would regulate what a man is able to do with his own body in his own home, it suddenly has people in an uproar,” [he said in a statement on his official Instagram page](https://www.instagram.com/p/DFLNQiwROdf/), saying he created the proposal to highlight the “double standards in legislation.” So, was he serious and now he’s walking it back or was this always the endgame. ---
**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 29, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9753 "2025-01-29T01:21:59Z")
Poe’s Law is a harsh mistress. ---
**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 29, 2025, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9754 "2025-01-29T02:01:39Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > So, was he serious and now he’s walking it back or was this always the endgame. [![](https://frinkiac.com/video/S07E24/h_BuvkZki5dZdmpm4DHYRB7wF0Y=.gif) ](https://frinkiac.com/video/S07E24/h_BuvkZki5dZdmpm4DHYRB7wF0Y=.gif) ---
**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 29, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9755 "2025-01-29T02:07:44Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > So, was he serious and now he’s walking it back or was this always the endgame. No, his whole point from the get-go was to shine a light on all the laws wrapped around a woman’s body and what happens when you point that kind of weapon at penises. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9756 "2025-01-29T02:08:40Z")
And he’s a Democrat. ---
**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 30, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9757 "2025-01-30T23:16:06Z")
Ron DeSantis is fighting with the Republican-controlled FL legislature because their immigration crackdown bill (called, of all things, the TRUMP Act) puts the Commissioner of Agriculture in charge of immigration enforcement instead of letting him appoint an immigration czar. > **[Sheriffs take sides in DeSantis' feud with Florida GOP](https://www.rawstory.com/sheriffs-take-sides-in-dispute-between-desantis-legislative-leaders-over-immigration-bil/)** > > Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw joined Gov. Ron DeSantis’ effort Thursday morning to publicly bash the Republican-led Legislature over its passage of an immigration bill the governor has labeled weak. > Bradshaw is not the only law enforcement... ---
**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:** [January 31, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9758 "2025-01-31T12:20:48Z")
[Senate Republicans urge Trump to sanction ICC after failed legislation push](https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-republicans-urge-trump-sanction-203819137.html) (The link goes to Yahoo.) Here’s the money quote: > “I would have preferred to have Congress speak on it. But if they won’t help, let’s let Trump do it.” I’ll wait a moment while you push your eyes back into their sockets and pick your jaw up from the floor. Okay, here’s more from that link. > Senate Republicans are recommending President Trump issue an executive order to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its pursuit of war crimes cases against Israel, after Senate Democrats blocked sanctions legislation absent a bipartisan compromise. > > The appeal comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet Trump at the White House on Feb. 4. > > Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he has encouraged Trump to issue the executive order and said the president was responsive, but he didn’t elaborate. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9759 "2025-01-31T13:25:06Z")
NPR and PBS have come under fire from the new FCC Chair. Per Media Bias Fact Check: NPR: Overall, we rate NPR (National Public Radio) Left-Center Biased based on story selection that leans slightly left and High for factual reporting due to thorough sourcing and accurate news reporting. PBS (NewsHour): Overall, we rate PBS NewsHour as slightly Left-Center Biased based on story selection that slightly favors the left and High for factual reporting due to a reasonable fact checking record. Lean left, highly factual. Ah. I see the problem. > **[Trump’s FCC is investigating NPR and PBS stations over sponsorships | CNN...](https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/media/trump-fcc-npr-pbs/index.html)** > > Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission’s new chairman, on Wednesday ordered an investigation into the sponsorship practices of NPR and PBS member stations. _“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."_ –Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian, paraphrasing Joseph Goebbels, WWII German Propaganda Minister ---
**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 31, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9760 "2025-01-31T20:48:07Z")
DeSantis to the people of Florida; DO AS I COMMAND, PEASANTS! > **[‘You have your marching orders:’ DeSantis urges Floridians to help him fight...](https://www.rawstory.com/you-have-your-marching-orders-desantis-urges-floridians-to-press-legislature-on-immigra/)** > > Seeking to drum up support in the Panhandle Friday in his political fight with the Legislature, Gov. Ron DeSantis called upon Floridians to press their lawmakers on the immigration bill he has vowed to veto. > The dispute between the governor and the... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=487) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=489)