# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 4)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [February 22, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678 "2025-02-22T21:08:19Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1 "2025-02-22T21:08:19Z")
Continuing the discussion from [NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3) - #10000 by OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/10000).
Previous discussions:
- [NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140)
- [NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018)
- [NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588)
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### Author:  [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2 "2025-02-22T21:23:48Z")
The stupid continues…
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### Author:  [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3 "2025-02-22T22:25:35Z")
The mere fact this topic could grow to a fourth edition pretty much says it all, doesn’t it?
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### Author:  [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4 "2025-02-22T22:39:39Z")
A spin-off thread might be “Second Stupidest Republican Idea Ever?” Second because nominating Trump is clearly the first.
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5 "2025-02-22T23:32:39Z")
But I think the formula must look something like:
[stupid^3 x ideas]
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### Author:  [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/6 "2025-02-22T23:48:31Z")
From previous thread:
> [@NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9996):
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> This is incredibly tone deaf - it misses that corporate bigwigs merging/buying out companies in order to downsize them are already a trope for _the bad guys_ in movies.
Also when the bigwigs throw all of their workers out on the street they at least pretend to be sorry about it, rather than holding rallies celebrating the suffering of those they laid off. Yes, I know, the cruelty is the point.
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/7 "2025-02-23T00:16:04Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#):
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> A spin-off thread might be “Second Stupidest Republican Idea Ever?” Second because nominating Trump is clearly the first.
Even Agent 86 would have to agree.
> [@DavidNRockies](#):
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> But I think the formula must look something like:
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> [stupid^3 x ideas]
Yep. And since their ideas (such that they be) are essentially nil, they’re dividing by zero. And that, my friends, is why their minds don’t work.
I just saw [this on _Yahoo_](https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-tv-station-removes-clip-145942369.html). Evidently some republicans are crying about being called Nazis when they, get this, act like Nazis.
> A [Texas](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/texas) TV station removed a clip that showed footage of [Nazi](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/nazi) book burning in a report on a local school district decision after outraged [Republicans](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/republicans) intervened.
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> Houston’s KPRC - owned by Graham Media Group - aired a [report](https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/02/13/they-call-us-crazy-cy-fair-isd-faces-backlash-over-controversial-textbook-revisions/) last week on Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District’s removal of chapters from textbooks about vaccines, climate change and diversity.
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> The changes were “quietly implemented” last year, according to the network.
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> Introducing his report to the camera, journalist Joel Eisenbaum opened a textbook and tore out some of the pages to illustrate the story. “Book banning, in one form or another, goes back a long time,” he said, as the footage was cut with clips of Nazis burning books. “And now it’s fashionable again, at least in some of our school districts,” Eisenbaum continued.
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> Republicans responded with fury and accused KPRC of branding GOP school board members as “Nazis.”
Later in the article is more proof that the republicans have no ideas, but can only repeat their inane mantras.
> “For the record: these texts were removed over a year ago, so why is this a ‘story’ now? Because there’s an election upcoming! It sounds like election interference to me.”
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/8 "2025-02-23T00:49:13Z")
Wisconsin governor Tony Evers, changed the phrase “pregnant mother” to “inseminated person” as part of making things more gender neutral (and maybe to make recognizing same sex marriages easier).
The Republican Governors Association have declared that “our society is lost” because of it.
> **[Republican group criticizes Gov. Tony Evers after 'mother' changed in bill to...](https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/22/republican-group-criticizes-wisconsin-gov-evers-after-woman-language-changed-to-person-inseminated/79494127007/)**
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> "If Tony Evers can reduce motherhood to an ‘inseminated person’ then our society is lost," said RGA Executive Director Sara Craig.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/9 "2025-02-23T00:55:43Z")
Malicious compliance:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZtuQCQu86k)
I like some of the comments:
> The chairperson’s inability to even process what’s happening or what the irony is really speaks to why this happened… so many of these bigots are so mad about things they genuinely don’t even comprehend
> People complaining about pronouns sure do get upset when you don’t call them by their preferred pronouns don’t they.
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### Author:  [@SailorHG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SailorHG)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/10 "2025-02-23T01:30:34Z")
I’m sorry but “inseminated person”? Seriously? That’s the best term they could come up with? Doesn’t that include anyone who receives that bodily fluid in any orifice whatsoever? Pregnant or no? Sheesh, just call them “pregnant people” for hell’s sake!
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/11 "2025-02-23T01:36:59Z")
From what I’m seeing here, I think they’re specifically using ‘inseminated person’ in order to reference the person who did or didn’t do the inseminating.
[ ](https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2272/files/2025/02/screenshot-20250221-165227-x-605x299.jpg)
Edit: Here’s it is with all the edits made
If, with the spouse’s consent, a person is inseminated artificially as provided in par (b) with semen donated by a person who is not the spouse of the person being inseminated, the spouse of the inseminated person at the time of the conception of the child shall be the natural parent of the child conceived. The spouse’s consent must be in writing and signed by him or her by the inseminated person.
Interesting that they left in ‘him or her’. Also, now that I typed this out, there must have been an issue with who the parents of an IVF baby are.
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### Author:  [@SailorHG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SailorHG)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/12 "2025-02-23T01:45:25Z")
Thanks for clarifying. Yes that makes more sense now. So, it’s a legal description rather than a term for everyday use, and the R’s are sensationalising as always. (I should have known!)
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/13 "2025-02-23T01:47:27Z")
> [@SailorHG](#):
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> So, it’s a legal description rather than a term for everyday use
Yes, sorry, this all took place inside of a budget bill.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/14 "2025-02-23T06:07:09Z")
> [@NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/10000):
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> Anything I might get from President Musk and Shadow Puppet Trump would be split equally between Planned Parenthood and the local YWCA womens’ shelter.
If Elon Musk gives me $5,000 I’m donating it to a coworker of mine to put towards her top surgery, because that’s the most objectively good thing I can think of that would piss him off the most.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/15 "2025-02-23T14:43:59Z")
I’ll donate my $5000 to Planned Parenthood, like I did with the last round of trumpbucks.
Or I’ll buy a carton of eggs.
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/16 "2025-02-23T19:36:22Z")
They better not be _fertilized_ eggs.
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/17 "2025-02-23T20:55:12Z")
I vote this to be the best judo move to upend the cruelty of the right that I’ve seen in years. It should be a national movement.
I wonder who would be brave enough to do it to Trump?
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### Author:  [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/18 "2025-02-23T21:09:01Z")
> [@SailorHG](#):
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> I’m sorry but “inseminated person”? Seriously?
After a meeting with Putin, would Rump qualify…?
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### Author:  [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/19 "2025-02-23T22:30:22Z")
The Montana legislature voted down a law on Tuesday that would have made mRNA vaccines illegal–all of them. 34-66, so thank og. The sponsor’s quote today was “If an individual is told a product will prevent them from getting sick, and yet the actual outcome of taking the product does not result in that effect, then the product is a scam.”
Thank you for demonstrating that you don’t understand how medicine, human biology, or statistics work.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/20 "2025-02-23T22:55:02Z")
> [@Tride](#):
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> “If an individual is told a product will prevent them from getting sick, and yet the actual outcome of taking the product does not result in that effect, then the product is a scam.”
If that were the law of the land, then Andrew Tate, Joe Rogan, Alex Jones, and most of the rest of the right-wing podcastsphere would all go broke overnight from not being able to sell knockoff Chinese boner pills and counterfeit Ozempic. Orrin Hatch would be spinning in his grave.
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