# 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:** 34
**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:** [April 11, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/661 "2025-04-11T17:39:46Z")
Guns? As many as you want, in fact, the more the better. Dildos? Careful now. America…what a country! ---
**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:** [April 11, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/662 "2025-04-11T22:08:33Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > When the Democratic candidate for the North Carolina supreme court narrowly won the election in November (by just a few hundred votes), the Republican candidate demanded a recount. Fair enough you might think. > > Then another recount. > > When neither of those recounts gave the “right” result, he took the case to court and now a (Republican-majority) appeals court has ruled that 65,000 votes are going to be thrown out, unless those people all, individually, submit documentation proving their eligibility to vote within the next two weeks. Good news on this front - the state Supreme Court has mostly overruled that decision. [https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article303943281.html](https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article303943281.html) ---
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/663 "2025-04-12T00:15:18Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > Guns? As many as you want, in fact, the more the better. > > Dildos? Careful now. Play the Saint’s Row game franchise and both are deadly weapons (and prominent parts of the world). ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/664 "2025-04-12T00:23:47Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > Guns? As many as you want, in fact, the more the better. > > Dildos? Careful now. I was thinking, make the dildo into a gun, and you’d be okay, but then I thought about it some more, and yeah, “Be careful” is good advice. We’ll have to make the magazines into dildos. Attach a dildo to the end of the magazine, and market it as a “Tactical hand grip that No Man would ever lose his grip on!” We’ll sell millions! ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/665 "2025-04-12T00:42:34Z")
Just to be on the safe side I checked an online listing of the ballots that were being questioned to make sure I wasn’t on it. Notices were supposed to be sent out, but considering how much effort the NC Republicans have consistently put into disenfranchising possible Democratic voters I wasn’t taking any chances. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/666 "2025-04-12T08:36:41Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > Guns? As many as you want, in fact, the more the better. > > Dildos? Careful now. The gun is good. The penis is evil. Apparently even plastic ones. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gavlcbunY00/maxresdefault.jpg "Zardoz - The gun is good, the penis is evil") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gavlcbunY00&t=32s) ---
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/667 "2025-04-12T09:46:05Z")
Attach dildos to arrows? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/668 "2025-04-12T10:22:42Z")
Pasolini fan, huh? ---
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/669 "2025-04-12T20:07:58Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > The gun is good. The penis is evil. This one is just bet-ween? [NSFW] [https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1\*k4ufZkUyIyQvSH8HzzvUqw.png](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*k4ufZkUyIyQvSH8HzzvUqw.png) Edit: added spoiler tags - Miller ---
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/670 "2025-04-12T20:24:55Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > The gun is good. The penis is evil. Always liked that as the slogan of the Lesbian Shooting Club. But Texas will do. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/671 "2025-04-12T20:37:16Z")
Remember-exhale, slowly squeeze, and keep pulling the trigger until the job is done. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/672 "2025-04-12T20:40:53Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > Just to be on the safe side I checked an online listing of the ballots that were being questioned to make sure I wasn’t on it. Notices were supposed to be sent out, but considering how much effort the NC Republicans have consistently put into disenfranchising possible Democratic voters I wasn’t taking any chances. I checked, too and I wasn’t on the list. However, I would like to remind all North Carolinians of the thing that makes this bullshit possible. I do not know if this condition exists in other states. I noticed the thing the first time I voted here. The thing is…….your ballot is not secret. It’s blinded and it’s not public, but it’s not secret. When you go to vote ( or when you vote absentee ), they print out two items…….one is the form you sign with your information and the “terms and conditions”, as it were. That form has a bar code. The second item is your ballot, which has the same bar code. This is how they have the physical capability to remove your vote. And ( although I’m sure it’s highly illegal) it would be possible for someone with access to the system to call up your ballot and see how you voted. I do not like this feature of the system, but everyone is so freaky about election security they don’t pay attention to privacy anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/673 "2025-04-12T20:57:54Z")
You’d figure that if _anyone_ would advocate for sex toys and things to use to get yourself off, it’d be a woman who’s husband is paralyzed from the waist down. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/674 "2025-04-12T22:38:44Z")
Said husband has a mouth and two working hands so he is entirely capable of satisfying his wife if he’s a mind to. Depending on where, exactly, his spinal injury occurred he may or may not have erectile function. This factor is why quadriplegics are, in fact, more likely to have a working set of genitalia that a man whose spinal injury was much lower down the spine. It’s all whether or not the erectile reflex loop was damaged or not. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/675 "2025-04-12T22:45:16Z")
Please. The less I have to think about Greg Abbot’s sex life, the better. I’m still emotionally recovering from Ben Shapiro accidentally admitting that he doesn’t know how to arouse his “doctor wife”. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/676 "2025-04-13T00:09:24Z")
I’m aware of all of that. I spent 8 years as an EMT, and got to deal with my fair share of spinal injuries. I was just going for the easy joke. ---
**Author:** ![Nightaudit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightaudit/32/17181_2.png) [@Nightaudit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightaudit)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/677 "2025-04-13T02:32:03Z")
It would explain Hot Wheels’s hostility towards anything sex positive and humanity in general… ---
**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:** [April 13, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/678 "2025-04-13T02:32:19Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > You’d figure that if _anyone_ would advocate for sex toys and things to use to get yourself off, it’d be a woman who’s husband is paralyzed from the waist down. ??? Is Ken Paxton paralyzed from the waist down, too? ---
**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:** [April 13, 2025, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/679 "2025-04-13T02:35:57Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Is Ken Paxton paralyzed from the waist down, too? There’s a certain subset of these “alpha male” types who claim that going down on a woman makes you gay because it’s a “submissive” act. Just toss that into the fucked-up psychosexual stew brewing in these weirdos’ heads because their dads didn’t love them. ---
**Author:** ![Nightaudit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightaudit/32/17181_2.png) [@Nightaudit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightaudit)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/680 "2025-04-13T02:37:29Z")
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