# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 4) **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 117
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2321 "2025-12-05T01:41:28Z")
Well, a kid deafened by rubella has bigger worries than autism, doesn’t he? And one dead from diphtheria has no worries at all. Allowing the weak to survive is so woke. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2322 "2025-12-05T03:38:19Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Allowing the weak to survive is so woke. I believe it’s correct form to cite that quote that’s clearly from RFK. 😉 ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2323 "2025-12-05T04:08:40Z")
House Republicans are getting tired of Mike Johnson constantly pretending to not be aware of anything and not advancing legislation and are increasingly concerned that they’re going to lose the majority next year. > **[Speaker Johnson pleads with Republicans to keep concerns private after...](https://apnews.com/article/house-republicans-troubles-midterms-trump-7a4a88479807ea15a8050129dbe19c0d)** > > Rank-and-file Republicans in the House are increasingly going public with anger towards their leadership. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2324 "2025-12-05T07:23:37Z")
As I’ve said elsewhere: > **[Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin'](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp92pr5pr48o)** > > The violin is smaller than a human hair and has "laid the groundwork" for future research. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2325 "2025-12-05T11:34:09Z")
I’m actually sorta happy the Rs aren’t legislating. Whatever they did manage to introduce would be just more MAGA adulation and further normalize the idea that the criminal regime has the support of (a majority of) Congress. Any thought the R contingent might develop a spine and push back on this or that trumply outrage is nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2326 "2025-12-05T16:08:15Z")
100% LSL perhaps we can’t sink THERE boat. But if they lose their oars, that’s good news. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2327 "2025-12-05T16:18:04Z")
Erika Kirk blames the election of Mamdani on women who depend on governmental support instead of getting married. > “What I don’t want to happen is women young women in the city look to the government as a solution to put off having a family or a marriage because you’re relying on the government to support you instead of being united with the husband, where you can support yourself and your husband can support and you can guys all combine together,” she said. > > “I just find it so ironic and so interesting that a heavy percentage of the individuals that voted for him are female,” Erika added of Mamdani, who defeated former New York governor Andrew Cuomo in the November 4 mayoral election. > **[Erika Kirk Claims Women Are Replacing Husbands With the Government](https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/erika-kirk-claims-women-are-replacing-husbands-with-the-government/)** > > Erika Kirk said 'career-driven women' are 'relying' on the government instead of having a husband, and urged young women not to 'put off' having a family ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2328 "2025-12-05T16:29:19Z")
“I love you and I want to be with you for the rest of my life, I want to grow old with you. I want to bounce our grandchildren on our knees. I want to be your world, your universe, your everything, and I want you to be mine.” “I love you too honey, but I’m getting $33 dollars a month in SNAP benefits. So I’ll just grow old alone. But thanks anyway.” ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2329 "2025-12-05T16:44:09Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Erika Kirk blames the election of Mamdani on women who depend on governmental support instead of getting married. This administration and the people that support them will be studied for eternity. WTF is wrong with them? ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2330 "2025-12-05T16:46:35Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > depend on governmental support instead of getting married. Turns out, a lot of guys are Republicans, and $33/mo from SNAP is a better deal. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2331 "2025-12-05T17:49:01Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > “I love you too honey, but I’m getting $33 dollars a month in SNAP benefits. So I’ll just grow old alone. But thanks anyway.” I’m sure they imagine these people are getting thousands of dollars, money they are blowing on drugs and other frivolous things. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2332 "2025-12-05T19:42:09Z")
Welfare queens driving Cadillacs – a trope as old as Reagan. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2333 "2025-12-05T19:57:28Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Erika Kirk blames the election of Mamdani on women who depend on governmental support instead of getting married. A opposed to women who depend on governmental support _and_ are married. She also said it’s “career- driven women” on governmental support. I guess she’s admitting women are paid less than men? She probably thinks that’s a good thing. Incentivize those women to skip the career and have a family so they can be supported by their husbands. There’s a whole lot of faulty assumptions and excluded middles in her statements. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2334 "2025-12-05T20:23:39Z")
It’s not logic. It’s propaganda. Trying to apply logic to propaganda is a fool’s errand. Each “fact” is false, any semblance of sound reasoning is an illusion, and the entire story begins by them having an idea to sell then inventing a narrative that sells it. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2335 "2025-12-05T22:07:48Z")
I know nothing about her but I am assuming she is one of those dinosaurs whose idea of the ‘perfect home’ is straight out of the 1950s where the man is the breadwinner, and the woman is solely there to clean and tidy, look after the kids and have dinner ready when hubbie gets home? Oh and do what she’s told and not overwork her fragile little mind beyond anything such as a new recipe for carrot cake or what the latest in fashionable dresses is. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2336 "2025-12-05T22:23:22Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > I know nothing about her but I am assuming she is one of those dinosaurs whose idea of the ‘perfect home’ is straight out of the 1950s where the man is the breadwinner, and the woman is solely there to clean and tidy, look after the kids and have dinner ready when hubbie gets home? She isn’t, but she’s clearly _pandering_ to those dinosaurs. Erika got a degree in political science and international relations at Arizona State University. She started a nonprofit, is the CEO of a clothing brand as well as the CEO and chair of Turning Point USA, and is a real estate agent. And is a podcaster. She is very far from the stereotype of a stay-at-home housewife who exists to serve a husband, but as long as she says the words people want to hear, they don’t know and probably don’t care. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2337 "2025-12-05T22:24:11Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’m sure they imagine these people are getting thousands of dollars, money they are blowing on drugs and other frivolous things There’s an AI video going around right now of a welfare queen in Atlanta bragging to a reporter about how she sells her $2,000 SNAP benefits for $1200 every month. It looks real - they show her supposedly being interviewed by a reporter from Atlanta’s Fox 5 News. > **[Fact Check: Video of Atlanta Lady Saying She Sells Her $2,000 In SNAP Food...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-video-atlanta-lady-014733419.html)** > > Is a video of a lady in Atlanta telling a reporter that she sells $2,000 in SNAP food stamps each... > The video originated on a TikTok channel that acknowledges all of its content is AI-generated. The post includes “AI-generated” in the description of the video. The video does not exist on Atlanta’s Fox 5 News website. > The video has been duplicated on other social platforms without an AI disclaimer, but the host channel of the original version makes no secret that its videos are not real. The what.if1411 profile reads: “what IF the channel of possibilities” So this TikTok channel posts propaganda videos for the taking - all you have to do is remove the disclaimer. I heard about it when the waitress at the next booth was telling an old guy about the video from the news, how terrible those cheats are and how trump is going to fix our country because nobody would let him last time he was president. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2338 "2025-12-05T22:28:29Z")
The White House tweeted a video of ICE kidnappings set to a Sabrina Carpenter song. Sabrina Carpenter told them to never use her music again. They have since deleted the video. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s6uwytvvpihxcqyzvcltzmrr/bafkreiakj52nfik2w4qxzkj6nq7k7xfk3to3icvgp4izfy6tt5b4rcq25u@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s6uwytvvpihxcqyzvcltzmrr/bafkreiakj52nfik2w4qxzkj6nq7k7xfk3to3icvgp4izfy6tt5b4rcq25u@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2339 "2025-12-05T23:48:50Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > There’s an AI video going around right now of a welfare queen in Atlanta bragging to a reporter about how she sells her $2,000 SNAP benefits for $1200 every month. It looks real - they show her supposedly being interviewed by a reporter from Atlanta’s Fox 5 News. > > [Fact Check: Video of Atlanta Lady Saying She Sells Her $2,000 In SNAP Food Stamps For $1,200 A Month Is NOT Real -- AI-Generated](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-video-atlanta-lady-014733419.html) _Two thousand dollars_ in SNAP benefits? I know nothing about the subject but that sounds like a ridiculous amount for one family to get. Okay, [Googling](https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/recipient/eligibility), a household of nine people would get just over $2,000. And yes, I can’t believe that decades after Ronald Reagan, the “welfare queen” is still the nightmare scenario of public benefits. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2340 "2025-12-06T00:24:28Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > And yes, I can’t believe that decades after Ronald Reagan, the “welfare queen” is still the nightmare scenario of public benefits. When you get down to it, conservatism is just racism with a respectable coat of paint on it. “Big government” is bad because they don’t like the idea of tax dollars going to _those people_, and they’d rather hurt other white people than see black and brown people treated as their equals. As Lee Atwater said in his later years; > You start out in 1954 by saying, "N\_\_\_\_, n\_\_\_\_\_, n\_\_\_\_\_” By 1968 you can’t say "n\_\_\_\_\_” —that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N\_\_\_\_\_, n\_\_\_\_\_.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=116) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=118)