# Madison Cawthorn, controversial Republican Congressman from North Carolina, has lost the primary election **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 18, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616 "2022-05-18T14:55:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/141 "2022-05-26T21:01:58Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I must’ve missed the episode where Hugh Laurie got naked and shoved his junk in Stephen Fry’s face. “Drat, old chap, certainly didn’t mean to put the old block-and-tackle there. Dreadfully sorry about that!” ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/142 "2022-05-27T13:43:35Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I must’ve missed the episode where Hugh Laurie got naked and shoved his junk in Stephen Fry’s face. Not that Stephen would have minded. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/143 "2022-05-27T15:27:24Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Not that Stephen would have minded. Why do you think that? Do you disbelieve Stephen Fry’s public statements that he never had romantic or sexual feelings towards Hugh Laurie? Or are you assuming that because he is gay, Fry must just love any man’s junk shoved in his face? It was a cheap shot, and you ought to have had second thoughts about publishing it. I personally don’t care if Cawthorn is secretly gay or bi, except insofar as it affected any policy decisions or his public political statements on such things as equal rights for LGBTQ people. Now that his career is effectively over, it seems fairly moot. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/144 "2022-05-27T15:47:32Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Or are you assuming that because he is gay, Fry must just love any man’s junk shoved in his face? My comment was based was based on the theory that many people don’t mind exposure to the naked portions of bodies of the gender they find desirable - similar to het-cis men liking to look at naked breasts (we don’t all like it, but many do). But, not my community so I probably should have refrained. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/145 "2022-05-27T15:47:39Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > “Drat, old chap, certainly didn’t mean to put the old block-and-tackle there. Dreadfully sorry about that!” 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/146 "2022-05-27T18:08:41Z")
Oddly but probably reasonably, ISTM that there’s often more distaste for that sort of generic “phwoarrr!”-type joke applied to people in a close but nonsexual relationship than when it’s applied to mutually unknown randos. Consequently, saying that well-known gay actor Stephen Fry might have rather enjoyed accidentally getting a facefull of another hot young actor’s genitals sounds kinda funny in a sort of bawdy nightclub-comic way. But saying that Fry might have enjoyed getting the same sort of facefull from his lifelong platonic friend and comedy partner Hugh Laurie sounds a bit gross and predatory. Similarly, it would be sort of funny to say that the heterosexual actor Warren Beatty, in his hot and horndoggy youth, wouldn’t have minded seeing some pretty young actress’s boobs during a nude scene on set. But saying that Beatty wouldn’t have minded a nude-scene glimpse of the boobs of the young Shirley MacLaine, for example, would come across as quite repulsive, given that MacLaine is his sister. (this is a completely unjustifiable hijack that has nothing to do with Cawthorn anyway, sorry, I am going away now) ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/147 "2022-05-27T22:44:48Z")
Take Cawthorn with you. But you come back. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/148 "2022-05-27T23:42:52Z")
As an aside, I’m now imagining a “lost” Jeeves and Wooster episode where Bertie has stumbled his way into yet another unwanted engagement and has gone on holiday in some far-flung tropical outpost to get away, where the locals confuse him and Jeeves for a couple, but then the bride-to-be shows up with the wedding party in tow and he has to keep up appearances to both groups at once. Somehow it ends with the two driving away in the back of a cab, Bertie in morning dress and Jeeves in a white bridal gown, and Bertie says “Well, at least I didn’t have to kiss you,” to which Jeeves responds with a knowing eye-roll to the camera. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/149 "2022-05-28T07:16:07Z")
Well, nobody’s perfect ---
**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:** [May 28, 2022, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/150 "2022-05-28T09:04:21Z")
That sounds a little like _Arrested Development_, where Jason Bateman and his real-life sister, Justine, were rumored to be playing love interests for each other. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/151 "2022-06-08T22:35:57Z")
Why am I not surprised? Full title: **Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn failed to properly disclose up to $950,000 in cryptocurrency trades, including ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ coin, bitcoin, and ethereum** > **[Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn failed to properly disclose up to $950,000...](https://www.businessinsider.com/madison-cawthorn-crypto-cryptocurrency-lets-go-brandon-congress-2022-6)** > > Cawthorn, who lost re-election last month, already faces several legal and ethical problems, including an investigation by the US House. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2022, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/152 "2022-06-08T22:48:14Z")
“And I would have gotten away with it, too if it weren’t for those meddling voters!” ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/153 "2022-06-08T23:37:56Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Why am I not surprised? > > Full title: **Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn failed to properly disclose up to $950,000 in cryptocurrency trades, including ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ coin, bitcoin, and ethereum** It’s sort of like how Lauren Boebert circumnavigated the globe (and then some!) in order to earn the reimbursement check she needed to pay off business tax liens. > [@](#): > > The allegations against Boebert were first reported in February 2021, claiming that Boebert had cashed two checks from her campaign totaling $22,259 for mileage reimbursement, but that figure worked out to 38,712 miles — which is significantly further than the planet’s 24,901-mile circumference. Grifters gonna grift. > **[Lauren Boebert Staring Down Fraud Probe Over An Astronomical Claim](https://uproxx.com/viral/lauren-boebert-mileage-fraud/)** > > What on Earth was Lauren Boebert thinking while (apparently) making up this number for an expense claim? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/154 "2022-06-09T05:53:32Z")
Boebert is a grade-school drop-out, isn’t she? I doubt that she is mathematically literate. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/155 "2022-06-09T20:39:23Z")
Hey, she figured out the miles needed to claim to get the amount she needed for the tax lien. That takes math (unless she had someone figure it out for her). ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/156 "2022-06-09T22:43:32Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Boebert is a grade-school drop-out, isn’t she? You mock, but she earned that GED months before taking office! > **[Did Rep. Boebert Get Her GED Months Before Winning Election?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/boebert-ged-months-before-election/)** > > A college degree is not a prerequisite to hold elected office. Snopes fact-checks the claim about Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2022, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/157 "2022-06-10T01:24:56Z")
You’d think MTG was a pre-school drop-out but she actually has a degree from the U of Georgia which I recommend you avoid at all costs. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/158 "2022-06-10T02:29:20Z")
Miss Peach Tree Dishes - good grief. That reminds me of Gary Johnson not knowing what Aleppo was. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/159 "2022-06-10T02:34:21Z")
What is a leppo? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616/160 "2022-06-10T02:54:48Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > That reminds me of Gary Johnson not knowing what Aleppo was. Not everyone is familiar with the Marx Brothers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madison-cawthorn-controversial-republican-congressman-from-north-carolina-has-lost-the-primary-election/964616.md?page=9)