# 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:** 13
**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, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/244 "2020-07-15T19:07:14Z")
And yet Stitt says he won’t mandate masks. ---
**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, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/245 "2020-07-15T19:07:59Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > yes; he was at that rally… > [Oklahoma's governor says he has tested positive for COVID-19 | AP News](https://apnews.com/b7f0791859d371ed8e8bb6bbe2173d87) He’s leading by example… What a maroon. ---
**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, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/246 "2020-07-15T19:22:51Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > And yet Stitt says he won’t mandate masks Well, it’s too late for him, so what’s the point? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/247 "2020-07-15T20:45:56Z")
I was thinking last night about the scene in Back to The Future where Marty the time traveler has to tell Doc Brown that the president is Ronald Reagan. “The _actor_?” Can you imagine trying to tell somebody that President Donald Trump was backing himself up in a public health crisis with the wise words of Chuck Woolery? 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/248 "2020-07-15T20:50:29Z")
Stitt is also an anti-vaxxer. And a former businessman with no political experience. Regarding his business acumen: “Stitt’s business history has been cited in attack ads by competing gubernatorial candidates Gary Richardson in the GOP primary and more recently in Stitt’s runoff with former Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett. The ads and a website have pointed to disciplinary consent orders between Gateway and mortgage regulators in Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Illinois and Kentucky, as well as the three states listed by Wisconsin regulators, between 2005 and 2011.” > **[Stitt's Mortgage Firm Failed to Tell Regulators of Past Problems - Oklahoma...](https://oklahomawatch.org/2018/08/16/stitts-mortgage-firm-failed-to-tell-regulators-of-past-problems/)** > > Republican gubernatorial candidate Kevin Stitt’s mortgage company did not tell Wisconsin officials about its past run-ins with other states’ regulators when it applied for a mortgage banking license a decade ago, according to documents obtained by... ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/249 "2020-07-15T21:53:28Z")
> **[Mike Pence: We Don’t Want CDC Guidelines Determining When We Open Schools....](https://www.theroot.com/mike-pence-we-don-t-want-cdc-guidelines-determining-wh-1844391192)** > > There are times when the news is so outrageous it almost seems satirical and then there is the Trump administration, which has skirted the line between truth and fiction so much that there is no line anymore. Not an Onion article, I swear. " Pence claimed “our ability to respond to this pandemic is substantially better than two or three months ago,” [WWLTV](https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/vp-pence-says-schools-should-open-as-louisiana-schools-plan-delays/289-bd6818de-4836-4b33-b5f4-575ccae2baa8) reports." And lots more uncoordinated drivel. [wild conspiracy] It’s got to be deep state. Someone is deliberately feeding Pence stupid s\*#) to say in order to discredit him. I believe he’s being setup. Dumsterfire will blame him for the polling and remove him prior to or at the nominating convention. Ivanka (nepotism Barbie) will be the replacement - you know - for the family continuity thing. [/wild conspiracy] ---
**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, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/250 "2020-07-15T23:35:08Z")
Check out this Republican trying to say that Florida is doing great, it is not the epicenter of a pandemic, and everyone is swell. (6:40 video at the link) > **[Florida GOP lawmaker's claim about coronavirus stuns Brianna Keilar | CNN...](https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/07/15/anthony-sabatini-florida-is-doing-fine-keilar-sot-nr-vpx.cnn)** > > Florida Republican state lawmaker Rep. Anthony Sabatini, who has filed numerous lawsuits to prevent mask mandates in his state, tells CNN's Brianna Keilar that his state is doing just fine despite data showing Florida is a hotspot for coronavirus. To her great credit as both a reporter and a human being, Miss Keilar does not let Rep. Sabatini’s assertions go unchallenged. ---
**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, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/251 "2020-07-15T23:41:48Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > To her great credit as both a reporter and a human being, Miss Keilar does not let Rep. Sabatini’s assertions go unchallenged. I don’t know. It would be interesting if CNN told their anchors to go for the throat if they feel like it. She was looking like a mauling was lurking just beneath the surface. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/252 "2020-07-16T05:59:33Z")
> **[Kemp bans cities, counties from mandating masks](https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-governor-extends-coronavirus-restrictions/75SLQWLJ6FBULIGVEDMNSY5M64/)** > > Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday extended Georgia’s coronavirus restrictions, largely keeping existing rules in place amid growing calls from local governments for more drastic action as illnesses spike across the state. Small local government is dead as a Republican idea (not that they really meant it to begin with). Fraudulently elected via last minute voter purging and closed voting stations; now Gov. Kemp is upset that local cities and counties are trying to protect citizens from the rapid spread of the virus in Georgia. “…That could improve the state’s standing in a courtroom fight against a string of cities that have defied Kemp’s emergency order by requiring masks. Savannah led that charge earlier this month, and since then other cities including Atlanta, Athens and Augusta have followed suit…” I’m sorry, isn’t looking out for your constituents more important than courtroom antics? “…Also Wednesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Twitter that New York will send 7,500 COVID-19 test kits, 30,000 pieces of personal protective equipment and 1,250 gallons of hand sanitizer to Atlanta by Friday…” Cuomo a political hack but it’s a good gesture. In the old days, he’d send a hit team. “…Georgia reported 3,871 new cases of the disease on Wednesday, the second-highest daily count to date, and 37 deaths. So far, 127,834 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Georgia, more than double the number reported in mid-June, and 3,091 have died from it in the Peach State…” All under control here, nothing to see. The cases will plummet when we start burying the numbers by sending them to Dumpsterfires’ handpicked crack Corona Task Force alternate reality statistics and shredding emporium. Testing positive rate has doubled too. #resign #adultdiapersonhead #nepotismbarbie ---
**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 16, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/253 "2020-07-16T12:50:14Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > …crack Corona Task Force alternate reality statistics and shredding emporium… CCTFARSSE for short. We have hats and t-shirts. Operators are standing by. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/254 "2020-07-16T13:02:17Z")
Make America FARSSE again! ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/255 "2020-07-16T17:41:13Z")
You accidentally included the “Force” from “Corona Task Force” in your acronym. It would be more correct to omit that. ---
**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 16, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/256 "2020-07-16T17:46:23Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > You accidentally included the “Force” from “Corona Task Force” in your acronym. It would be more correct to omit that.- I included it intentionally. Why is that incorrect? ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/257 "2020-07-16T17:55:46Z")
Not you, **Ludovic** , who chopped off the start of the acronym to make it an adjective or something. ---
**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 16, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/258 "2020-07-16T17:57:35Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > Not you, **Ludovic** , who chopped off the start of the acronym to make it an adjective or something.- Oh. I’m still not used to grasping immediately which post goes with which quote. Getting better though. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/259 "2020-07-16T19:17:36Z")
Okay, it took me awhile to get that. It does sound more appropriate if you get the “F” out. I meant it to echo mostly Farsi but also partly Fart but did not jump to the other better acronym slogan. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/260 "2020-07-16T19:23:45Z")
I’m sorry, where are we? Do we need another “F”? If so, I propose “Farce” or “Fauci-Free”. And I’d like to buy a vowel. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/261 "2020-07-16T19:30:25Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > It does sound more appropriate if you get the “F” out. People often tell me to get the “F” out. (ARSSE 😁) ---
**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 16, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/262 "2020-07-16T20:29:34Z")
[Fox’s Harris Faulkner is a fucking idiot and part of the problem.](https://apnews.com/5ddb7bfdc425cf761b1c7292cba5dc0c) (Big surprise, eh?) > [@](#): > > When discussing Black Lives Matter in an interview with The Associated Press, Faulkner brings up violence in cities like Chicago, killings of children and wonders why demonstrators aren’t marching in the streets to protest Black-on-Black crime. > > Many supporters of the movement consider that a deflection, akin to answering Black Lives Matter with “all lives matter.” Of course, all lives matter, they say. The point is to draw attention to times when officials with a duty to serve and protect seem to value Black lives less. > > Told that no one is arguing that the lives of young people caught up in street violence don’t matter, Faulkner said, “But nobody is saying they do, and that’s the problem.” > > In her view, “everybody’s race counts. > > “My husband is white,” she said. “His faith is Judaism. When we talk about these issues, we don’t get into a discussion of how my life matters more than his, or his life matters more than mine. We get at it from, ‘how do we both rise in this situation?’” Don’t talk about things you don’t understand, Miss Faulkner. And you clearly don’t understand. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/263 "2020-07-17T00:11:42Z")
> **[Georgia governor sues Atlanta mayor over city's mask mandate | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/politics/georgia-kemp-mask-mandate/index.html)** > > Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced Thursday he is suing Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms over the city's mask mandate, claiming the measure violates his emergency orders. Because he has nothing better to do that make it so that local areas getting swamped by COVID can’t protect themselves from maskholes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=14)