# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140 "2020-06-22T07:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**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:** [July 14, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/224 "2020-07-14T23:02:52Z")
Chuck Woolery’s son has tested positive. Funny how your stance changes in 24 hours. “To further clarify and add perspective, Covid-19 is real and it is here. My son tested positive for the virus, and I feel for of those suffering and especially for those who have lost loved ones.” > ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/225 "2020-07-14T23:08:15Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > > The Republican Party is considering moving their Jacksonville convention to an outdoors location. In Florida. In August.- > > Hurricane season will be underway then. Good move. 👍🏼 All that hot air will do what no Sharpie can do. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/226 "2020-07-14T23:11:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Chuck Woolery’s son has tested positive. Funny how your stance changes in 24 hours. > “To further clarify and add perspective, Covid-19 is real and it is here. My son tested positive for the virus, and I feel for of those suffering and especially for those who have lost loved ones.” Huh. Wonder if Trump will retweet this one? ---
**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:** [July 14, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/227 "2020-07-14T23:37:55Z")
Josh Hawley Says He ‘Took on an Asian Trafficking Ring’ and ‘Freed a Dozen Women in Sex Slavery.’ Narrator: He did not. > **[Sen. Josh Hawley Says He ‘Took on an Asian Trafficking Ring’ and ‘Freed a...](https://reason.com/2020/07/14/sen-josh-hawley-says-he-took-on-an-asian-trafficking-ring-and-freed-a-dozen-women-in-sex-slavery-thats-not-true/)** > > As a state attorney, the young GOP senator oversaw raids of more than a dozen massage parlors, but he didn’t secure a single sex trafficking conviction. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/228 "2020-07-15T00:33:38Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > All that hot air will do what no Sharpie can do. Hot air vortex emanating from Jacksonville will blow Jeff Sessions entirely out of Alabam? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/229 "2020-07-15T00:39:29Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Hot air vortex emanating from Jacksonville will blow Jeff Sessions entirely out of Alabam?- There’ll be no heebie jeebies hangin’ round. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/230 "2020-07-15T02:39:23Z")
Republican Congressman charged with three felony voter fraud counts. > **[GOP Rep. Charged With Three Felonies Over Fake Address Used to Vote](https://www.newsweek.com/gop-rep-charged-three-felonies-over-fake-address-used-vote-1517816)** > > The charges are connected to allegations of voter fraud after the represented listed a UPS store location as his home address in the 2019 general elections. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2020, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/231 "2020-07-15T02:59:57Z")
Rush Limbaugh: America should adapt to Covid just like the Donner Party adapted to cannibalism.’ [https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/rush-limbaugh-americans-should-adapt-coronavirus-famous-pioneers-who-had-turn](https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/rush-limbaugh-americans-should-adapt-coronavirus-famous-pioneers-who-had-turn)? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/232 "2020-07-15T03:05:55Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Rush Limbaugh: America should adapt to Covid just like the Donner Party adapted to cannibalism.’ - > [https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/rush-limbaugh-americans-should-adapt-coronavirus-famous-pioneers-who-had-turn](https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/rush-limbaugh-americans-should-adapt-coronavirus-famous-pioneers-who-had-turn)? Food for thought. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2020, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/233 "2020-07-15T03:13:56Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Food for thought.  He’d feed a large family. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/234 "2020-07-15T03:54:50Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > He’d feed a large family of peccaries ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/235 "2020-07-15T07:13:41Z")
Or [peckerwoods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peckerwood). ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/236 "2020-07-15T07:14:53Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > > The Republican Party is considering moving their Jacksonville convention to an outdoors location. In Florida. In August.- > > Hurricane season will be underway then. Good move. 👍🏼 If a hurricane hits right when and where the RNC are doing an outdoor convention, I may have to reconsider my atheism. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/237 "2020-07-15T12:17:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Republican Congressman charged with three felony voter fraud counts. After ten years of passing laws to disenfranchise voters, based on a false premise that voter fraud is a serious problem, Republicans are all: “Okay, fine, it’s not an actual problem. But, dammit, we’ll MAKE IT one!” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/238 "2020-07-15T13:45:49Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > After ten years of passing laws to disenfranchise voters, based on a false premise that voter fraud is a serious problem, Republicans are all: “Okay, fine, it’s not an actual problem. But, dammit, we’ll MAKE IT one!”- IOWRDI It’s okay when Republicans do it ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/239 "2020-07-15T14:07:45Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > IOWRDI > It’s okay when Republicans do it Wait, there’s more! > **[Kansas freshman GOP Rep. Watkins charged with 3 felonies](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kansas-freshman-gop-rep-watkins-charged-3-felonies)** > > A freshman Kansas congressman who had listed a UPS Inc. store as his residence on a voter registration was charged Tuesday with three felonies, including illegal voting. > Republican Rep. Steve Watkins is accused of voting illegally in advance in the 2019 local city and school board election, voting when not qualified and interfering with law enforcement by providing false information. Those felony charges were filed in state district court in Shawnee County, which includes Watkins’ hometown of Topeka. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/240 "2020-07-15T18:09:18Z")
I haven’t seen backpedaling like that since I rewound my VHS tape of the _Tour de France_😏 I hate to make light of his son getting sick and all that, but… Damn. I will give him props for not trying to blame this on Obama/Biden/Hillary/the Deep State. At least, not yet. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/241 "2020-07-15T18:17:28Z")
Hard to swallow. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/242 "2020-07-15T18:18:42Z")
Florida GOP edits Individual 1’s comments on mail in voting to make their constituents think that he’s in favor of it. > **[Florida Republican Party Doctored a Trump Tweet to Promote Mail In Voting...](https://secondnexus.com/florida-mailer-donald-trump-tweet)** > > Really? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/243 "2020-07-15T19:04:14Z")
yes; he was at that rally… > **[Oklahoma's governor says he has tested positive for COVID-19](https://apnews.com/b7f0791859d371ed8e8bb6bbe2173d87)** > > OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt announced Wednesday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus and that he is isolating at home, making him the first U... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=13)