# 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:** 299
**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:** [October 5, 2026, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5961 "2026-10-05T23:57:03Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > He basically turned “for the 2023-24 school year and the 2024-25 school year” into “for 2023-2425 school year”. Yeah, while I agree with the outcome in that specific case, that’s definitely the sort of use that I don’t think should be allowed, and I hope that that action caused the Wisconsin legislature to rethink the law allowing that. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2026, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5962 "2026-10-06T05:30:25Z")
Megyn Kelly (remember her?) says the Cornell gang-rape victim probably wanted it because she’s not hot enough to pull guys otherwise. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:urrjvjmc7sowchg3ph322pbr/bafkreiaohrgyg3va6zcnoo6anxnerarripzye2fsvsve2joonirswo7dwq) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:urrjvjmc7sowchg3ph322pbr/bafkreiaohrgyg3va6zcnoo6anxnerarripzye2fsvsve2joonirswo7dwq) ---
**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:** [October 6, 2026, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5963 "2026-10-06T05:46:15Z")
I can’t even. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5964 "2026-10-06T11:23:47Z")
Me neither. What an anus. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5965 "2026-10-06T14:19:39Z")
If Megyn Kelly has any kind of soul left, she probably goes home and violently throws up after delivering something like that. This is where her life has descended to; attacking women who were victims as she was in order to try to hold onto a dwindling career. It’s just as likely that her soul has been fully sacrificed already and she is completely dead inside. She goes home and feels nothing. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2026, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5966 "2026-10-06T14:25:20Z")
A reminder that Kelly has a teenaged daughter. Sometimes I wonder what her daughter thinks about what Mommy does at work. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5967 "2026-10-06T14:50:41Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m not trying to be insulting. Well, thanks for that. I’m curious how this might have come out if she were trying to be insulting. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5968 "2026-10-06T15:17:47Z")
She didn’t once use the term “slut”. She showed real constraint. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5969 "2026-10-06T17:41:22Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Megyn Kelly (remember her?) says the Cornell gang-rape victim probably wanted it because she’s not hot enough to pull guys otherwise. Meagan Kelly thinks rape doesn’t apply to ugly/fat women. You have to be pretty for it to be rape. Otherwise, you secretly want the attention. Jane Doe was talked into a threesome, dosed with ketamine repeatedly, then gang-raped for 7 hours. Hey Meagan, even if she _had_ wanted it to begin with, don’t you think there was some point in the _7 hour_ fucking she might have thought “I think that’s enough fun for one night.” ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5970 "2026-10-06T19:03:04Z")
Sarah Huckabee Sanders released a campaign ad featuring a lazy, could work but doesn’t want to medicaid recipient. This angered some Republicans because the role was played by a white guy. [https://apnews.com/article/welfare-queen-medicaid-arkansas-huckabee-sanders-c458e5fb258ecc36aa635e13890473a0?utm\_source=copy&utm\_medium=share](https://apnews.com/article/welfare-queen-medicaid-arkansas-huckabee-sanders-c458e5fb258ecc36aa635e13890473a0?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share) ---
**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:** [October 6, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5971 "2026-10-06T19:42:35Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Meagan Kelly thinks rape doesn’t apply to ugly/fat women. I don’t think that’s true. I just think she’s saying what she knows her audience wants to hear. Which to me is ten times worse. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2026, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5972 "2026-10-06T20:43:35Z")
Yep. When one asshole is cheered by millions of assholes, the problem isn’t the one. She could be gotten rid of and the problem would remain intact. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2026, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5973 "2026-10-06T20:46:34Z")
She’s full of shit, she knows she’s full of shit, her audience probably doesn’t care that she’s full of shit, but as long as she’s reinforcing their bigoted views they’re happy and she’ll continue to make lots of money. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2026, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5974 "2026-10-07T00:32:43Z")
[“But, but, but…that welfare leech cannot be WHITE!!!”](https://www.aol.com/articles/arkansas-campaign-ad-sparks-conservative-040703000.html) > [@](#): > > LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A new video from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was standard issue Republican messaging for promoting her state’s stricter rules for people on Medicaid. No more could able-bodied people lounge around while receiving taxpayer-funded healthcare, she said — [they needed to work](https://apnews.com/article/snap-medicaid-hud-work-requirements-trump-big-beautiful-bill-05c560dc624acd69d9da5c5631721c29). > > But the decision to portray an unemployed moocher as a young, white, cheeseball-chomping gamer named Brad upset some conservative commentators last week. Five decades after Ronald Reagan popularized the “welfare queen” trope about people living luxuriously while not working, they wanted to know why the video wasn’t featuring a Black woman instead. > > “Republicans don’t have the balls to do this ad with ‘Shaniqua’ as the villain,” posted Matt Walsh, a conservative writer. “Even though that would actually be an accurate portrayal of the problem at hand.” > > Sean Davis, co-founder of the Federalist website, wrote that “our government has systematically discriminated against white men for decades now, and yet now has the audacity to dishonestly mock young white men as welfare queens.” > > Never mind that the video was about Medicaid, not welfare, or that most Medicaid recipients in Arkansas are white. The outrage was a reminder of how old tropes are “chronically accessible” images in some voters’ minds, said Ange-Marie Hancock, author of “The Politics of Disgust and the Public Identity of the ‘Welfare Queen.’” ---
**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:** [October 7, 2026, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5975 "2026-10-07T00:48:07Z")
But money white people get isn’t welfare, because we deserve it! Besides, I need my disability payments, because my chronic back pain flares up whenever I do anything but watch TV or play sports. I couldn’t possibly sit at a desk and work! ---
**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:** [October 7, 2026, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5976 "2026-10-07T02:11:24Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Sarah Huckabee Sanders released a campaign ad featuring a lazy, could work but doesn’t want to medicaid recipient. This angered some Republicans because the role was played by a white guy. The more they turn on each other the better for the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5977 "2026-10-07T23:09:15Z")
Besides, if you’re trying to go after able-bodied people collecting government money instead of working, college drop outs in their parents ’ basement who are too lazy to even do DoorDash are the real problem, not middle-aged men with back and knee injuries, or single mothers who have a couple of children they are trying to raise. Poor Black people who don’t have money for higher education and live in a high- poverty area and don’t have reliable transportation or job opportunities are a system issue. By the way, so are poor white people who don’t have money for higher education and live in high- poverty area and don’t have reliable transportation or job opportunities, but there are some different system issues involved. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2026, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5978 "2026-10-08T22:56:52Z")
Jorkin DaPeanus Vance says that socialism is when there’s co-ed sports. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mxeqcszdqn2c)** > > Q: How do you define socialism personally? > > > JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports ---
**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:** [October 8, 2026, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5979 "2026-10-08T23:03:20Z")
So, clearly he has no fucking idea what the term means. He’s not close in any sense. This should surprise nobody. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5980 "2026-10-09T00:27:06Z")
And the thing is… you just know the Reps could get themselves obliterated in the election a month from now and their candidates and voters will insist on flying the Stupid Flag even prouder. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=298) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=300)