# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2092
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41825 "2019-08-14T04:01:35Z")
08/13/19 The founder of the Daily Stormer has been ordered to pay $725,000 to Taylor Dumpson for his troll attack on her because she was the first Black student body president of American University. He has also been ordered to pay $14 million against Jewish real estate agent Tanya Gersh, and $4.1 million against Muslim comedian Dean Obeidallah. > **[Neo-Nazi website operator ordered to pay $725K in harassment lawsuit](https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/457270-neo-nazi-website-operator-ordered-to-pay-725k-in-harassment/)** > > The first black woman to serve as student president at American University has been awarded more than $700,000 in a lawsuit against a neo-Nazi who organized a harassment campaign against her, accor… ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41826 "2019-08-14T04:09:44Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I laughed so hard, a huge booger shot halfway across my living room. Oddly enough, that’s quite fitting given the subject of this thread. I’m 14% proud, but 86% disgusted. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2019, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41827 "2019-08-14T08:31:43Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > 08/13/19 > The founder of the Daily Stormer has been ordered to pay $725,000 to Taylor Dumpson for his troll attack on her because she was the first Black student body president of American University. He has also been ordered to pay $14 million against Jewish real estate agent Tanya Gersh, and $4.1 million against Muslim comedian Dean Obeidallah. > [https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/457270-neo-nazi-website-operator-ordered-to-pay-725k-in-harassment](https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/457270-neo-nazi-website-operator-ordered-to-pay-725k-in-harassment) What about the trolls who actually carried out the harrassment? Are any of them facing charges? ---
**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:** [August 14, 2019, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41828 "2019-08-14T08:53:05Z")
Typos! That should be _harassment_ in Post #441852. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41829 "2019-08-14T10:36:06Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Typos! That should be _harassment_ in Post # **4** 41852. Emphasis added… Now THAT’s funny! ---
**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:** [August 14, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41830 "2019-08-14T12:31:27Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > Emphasis added… > > Now THAT’s funny! Yeah; too bad it wasn’t “45…” in honor of the twerp who’s tarnishing the office of the presidency. Who knows? Maybe this thread’ll get up to that number of posts by the time he’s impeached! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41831 "2019-08-14T17:35:19Z")
Rep. Steve King, defending anti-abortion legislation without an exception for rape or incest: > [@](#): > > “What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled out anyone who was a product of rape or incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?” he said in Urbandale, Iowa. “Considering all the wars and all the rapes and pillages that happened throughout all these different nations, I know that I can’t say that I was not a part of a product of that.” > **[U.S. Rep. Steve King: If not for rape and incest, 'would there be any...](https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/14/steve-king-abortion-rape-incest-westside-conservative-iowa-representative-birth-iowa-civilization/2007230001/)** > > King said some conservatives told him he would get more support on abortion legislation if he allowed certain exemptions. He did not agree to the caveats. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41832 "2019-08-14T18:04:20Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I’m going for an assassin HIRED BY a jealous lover. But the assassin falls in love with me,and we run away together. My goal is to be killed by an assassin using a jealous ex-lover just because i like my life complicated like that. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41833 "2019-08-14T18:43:02Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Rep. Steve King, defending anti-abortion legislation without an exception for rape or incest: > > [Steve King defends not allowing abortion exceptions for rape, incest](https://amp.desmoinesregister.com/amp/2007230001?__twitter_impression=true) Huh… Wha… Wait a… … the fucking fuck…? Is King simply trolling the world? ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41834 "2019-08-14T18:48:53Z")
Let’s take a moment to say a prayer of thanks for rape and incest. Yay! Conservatives rock! ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41835 "2019-08-14T19:11:32Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Is King simply trolling the world? He is literally _that_ deluded. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41836 "2019-08-14T19:14:33Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Rep. Steve King, defending anti-abortion legislation without an exception for rape or incest: > > > [@](#): > > > > “What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled out anyone who was a product of rape or incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?” he said in Urbandale, Iowa. “Considering all the wars and all the rapes and pillages that happened throughout all these different nations, I know that I can’t say that I was not a part of a product of that.” > > [Steve King defends not allowing abortion exceptions for rape, incest](https://amp.desmoinesregister.com/amp/2007230001?__twitter_impression=true) I feel fairly confident that Steve King was[sic] a part of a product of several generations of incest. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41837 "2019-08-14T19:22:30Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Let’s take a moment to say a prayer of thanks for rape and incest. Yay! Conservatives rock! Without them, they’d have to resort to farm animals. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41838 "2019-08-14T20:26:40Z")
Well, historically speaking, King is probably right. You have two parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, 16 great-great grandparents–go back just 15 generations and you have over 72,000 relations, and somewhere along the line the odds are favorable, given wars and human conduct thereof, that a child born of rapine or incest becomes likely. That said, that he believes we’re not slightly more mature as a people yet says oodles about him and how he would conduct himself if the world would just let him (let’s say Droit du seigneur probably holds great interest to him). ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41839 "2019-08-14T20:36:44Z")
> [@Steve\_McQwark](#): > > I feel fairly confident that Steve King was[sic] a part of a product of several generations of incest. Yes, a waste product… ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41840 "2019-08-14T20:40:01Z")
Re: Steve King King was _attempting_ to make the point that if you are against abortions, it doesn’t make sense to allow yourself the exception of being for an abortion that is wanted because of a rape. IOW, if you think abortion is murder, what does it matter how the child (fetus) was conceived? Why is murder no longer murder in that case? He wasn’t suggesting that rape is acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41841 "2019-08-14T20:55:47Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > He wasn’t suggesting that rape is acceptable. He was normalizing it, and that’s close enough. Also, there was this: “It’s not the baby’s fault for the sin of the father, or of the mother,” he said. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41842 "2019-08-14T21:31:47Z")
Y’know, if he wanted to say “pregnancy’s precious regardless how it started”, he could, like, _say **that** _. Others do. > [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Also, there was this: “It’s not the baby’s fault for the sin of the father, or of the mother,” he said. He should take that one to immigration court. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41843 "2019-08-14T21:43:03Z")
Liz Cheney decides to show she’s had enough by tweeting: “Today’s comments by @RepSteveKingIA are appalling and bizarre. As I’ve said before, it’s time for him to go. The people of Iowa’s 4th congressional district deserve better.” Of course, that’s the wrong Twitter account, but at least she tried. > ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/41844 "2019-08-17T04:57:39Z")
Devin Nunes [is a farmer](https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/regional/the-west/article233995452.html), or maybe he is not, but he claims to own a farm, which seems to be the size of a postcard and makes no money. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2091) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2093)