# 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:** 99
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1961 "2025-11-13T11:50:01Z")
Aren’t they selling trump rx or something like that? I go back and forth between they just want us in pain or they want to do away with all OTC meds so we have to get prescriptions for everything. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1962 "2025-11-13T12:46:18Z")
No reason it can’t be both ---
**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:** [November 13, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1963 "2025-11-13T16:32:01Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I go back and forth between they just want us in pain or they want to do away with all OTC meds so we have to get prescriptions for everything. Neither seems plausible when they’re jjust going after two drugs. ---
**Author:** ![Drsunflower1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drsunflower1/32/12711_2.png) [@Drsunflower1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drsunflower1)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1964 "2025-11-13T16:56:47Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > they want to do away with all OTC meds so we have to get prescriptions for everything. That’s what it looks like to me. They’re sowing distrust of established practice in order to make people believe they need prescription medicine. Thus racking up the profits. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1965 "2025-11-13T20:29:56Z")
Hmm… does anyone know if any company has filed for a patent on a new (thus proprietary for a few years) analgesic/antipyretic? ---
**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:** [November 13, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1966 "2025-11-13T21:36:03Z")
Megyn Kelly (remember her?) wants to know what’s so terrible about trafficking 15-year-olds anyway. > **['Disgusting': MAGA host under fire after 'career-ending' take on Epstein emails](https://www.rawstory.com/megyn-kelly-jeffrey-epstein/)** > > MAGA podcaster Megyn Kelly — and mother of a 14-year-old daughter — is getting slammed over saying that Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted child sex offender, was possibly "not a pedophile."Kelly tried to make the argument that Epstein... ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1967 "2025-11-13T22:17:07Z")
This is one of those cases where someone is making a technically accurate point in an incredibly stupid, pointless, and tone-deaf way. From a [2009 Scientific American article](https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/bering-in-mind/pedophiles-hebephiles-and-ephebophiles-oh-my-erotic-age-orientation/): > …a **hebephile** [is] a newly proposed diagnostic classification in which people display a sexual preference for children at the cusp of puberty, between the ages of, roughly, 11 to 14 years of age. **Pedophiles** , in contrast, show a sexual preference for clearly prepubescent children. There are also **ephebophiles** (from _ephebos_, meaning “one arrived at puberty” in Greek), who are mostly attracted to 15- to 16-year-olds; **teleiophiles** (from _teleios_, meaning, “full grown” in Greek), who prefer those 17 years of age or older); and even the very rare _gerontophile_ (from _gerontos_, meaning “old man” in Greek), someone whose sexual preference is for the elderly. So although **child sex offenders are often lumped into the single classification of pedophilia** , biologically speaking it’s a rather complicated affair. Some have even proposed an additional subcategory of pedophilia, “ **infantophilia** ,” to distinguish those individuals most intensely attracted to children below six years of age. [Emphases mine.] So Epstein may not have had a “a sexual preference for clearly prepubescent children,” and may, technically, been a hebophile or ephebophile. But as noted above, pedophilia is the commonly accepted term for all child abuse, and anyone who doesn’t want to appear to be defending a child abuser, of any stripe, should know that. Kelly is an idiot, and her career _should_ be damaged by this stupid position. Although MAGATs have sometimes been willing to stand behind people seeming to defend the indefensible, child abuse is one of their triggers, and ISTM she’s unlikely to come away from this unscathed. Nor should she. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1968 "2025-11-13T23:49:54Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Megyn Kelly (remember her?) wants to know what’s so terrible about trafficking 15-year-olds anyway. > “This is career-ending for Megyn Kelly,” Sammarco told The Beast. “Fifteen-year-olds are CHILDREN. They can’t drive. They can’t see rated R movies. But disgusting 50-year-old men should be allowed to rape them? Goodbye. Forever.” One can hope. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1969 "2025-11-14T00:42:59Z")
The hoops this stupid woman is willing to jump through to continue her support of trump is just creepy as hell. "he was into the barely legal type. Like, he liked 15-year-old girls. I’m just giving you facts that he wasn’t into, like, 8-year-olds. But he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby,” Kelly said. I guess that makes it all okay. Blech ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1970 "2025-11-14T00:53:10Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > [quoting Kelly] “he was into the barely legal type. Like, he liked 15-year-old girls.” Nope he wasn’t into the “barely legal”, at best he could be said to be into the “barely illegal”. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1971 "2025-11-14T00:55:28Z")
Based on what he know from his trials and his take on consent (much less some of the things he’s said about his own daughter), at best, he’s pretty solidly into illegal ---
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1972 "2025-11-14T01:28:03Z")
This comedian (from several years ago) does a great job of explaining why not all ‘pedophiles’ are _technically_ pedophiles. Just hear him out. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nu6C2KL_S9o/maxresdefault.jpg "R. Kelly is not a p\*dophile (technically speaking) | Gianmarco Soresi | Stand Up Comedy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu6C2KL_S9o) ---
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1973 "2025-11-14T04:02:10Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Hmm… does anyone know if any company has filed for a patent on a new (thus proprietary for a few years) analgesic/antipyretic? And with the 1500% lowering of the drug prices, we can all buy health insurance! ---
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1974 "2025-11-14T14:57:01Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > But as noted above, pedophilia is the commonly accepted term for all child abuse, and anyone who doesn’t want to appear to be defending a child abuser, of any stripe, should know that. And which is a peripheral discussion about language and categories. ( \* ) But ANYWAY the _crimes_ are not “being a pedophile”. The crimes are trafficking or statutory rape or Mann Act violations or corruption/endangerment of minors or whathaveyou. The code defines the crimes by the _actions_ and by the **age** of those affected, NOT by their developmental maturity. This is such an attempt to distract and deflect. “Oh no, what we meant for you to ragehate was like, real PEDO pedophiles! You can keep wishing THEM dead!” (\* Yeah, so maybe we should have kept saying “child molester” or “kiddie diddler” instead of “pedophile”, keep emphasizing conduct, not mental state. Full disclosure, that had been my position because I anticipated semantics wars. But we have what we have, deal with it, Megyn ) ---
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1975 "2025-11-14T17:11:03Z")
It’s going great for Megyn Kelly. Last year when Ryan Girdusky, founder of the 1776 Project PAC, joked with Mehdi Hasan on CNN that he “hoped his pager didn’t go off”, Kelly invited Girdusky on her show to laugh about it and criticized Hasan for “freaking out about a joke”. Today, however… > **[Right-wingers accuse The Babylon Bee of ‘inciting murder’ against Megyn Kelly](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/babylon-bee-megyn-kelly-pager-bomb-backlash-b2865537.html)** > > ‘This is a fun way for the Babylon Bee to call for murder,’ one conservative podcaster reacted to the since-deleted post. > [@](#): > > Conservative satire site The Babylon Bee is being accused of “inciting murder” and “threatening to kill Megyn Kelly” for joking that the former Fox News star had gotten rid “of an old pager just to be safe,” invoking [Israel’s 2024 electronic device attack on Hezbollah](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/pagers-walkie-talkie-explosions-hezbollah-israel-b2615403.html). Kelly herself responded “WTF Seth Dillon”, somehow not finding the joke _quite_ as funny this time for some reason. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1976 "2025-11-14T18:44:04Z")
So we can add stochastic terrorism to the ever-growing list of things that are fine when RW traitors do them to other people, but not when it’s done to them. Even if it’s done to them by one of their own. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1977 "2025-11-14T21:02:34Z")
Megan R. Kelly. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1978 "2025-11-14T22:48:46Z")
Charlotte, NC, you’re up next… > **[US Border Patrol agents will be sent to Charlotte, local sheriff says](https://www.tmj4.com/politics/immigration/us-border-patrol-agents-will-be-sent-to-charlotte-local-sheriff-says)** > > The Trump administration will deploy federal Border Patrol agents to Charlotte, North Carolina, for its immigration crackdown as early as this weekend, according to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1979 "2025-11-14T23:13:48Z")
Oh, Charlotte, you’re in for a treat! They go into residential neighborhoods in the daytime and throw tear gas around! What’s that? Your kids were playing outside? See, it’s starting to get cold in Chicago, and the neighborhood teargas trick isn’t any fun when everyone is inside. Welcome to New America. Sponsored by every Republican voter you know. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1980 "2025-11-14T23:50:59Z")
Charlotte is full of unimaginative reflexive RW voters. Lotsa leopard voters gonna get their faces eaten here. Yaay for that much at least. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=98) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=100)