# 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:** 147
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2929 "2021-01-22T14:57:11Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > Didn’t know where else to put this observation, but I thought Turtle looked very bad yesterday at his gift presentation to Joe. I mean physically bad. After he gave his remarks he walked the six feet or so back over to Elaine and it seemed to take him forever. I’ve seen that kind of walk before and it’s by older people in bad health. I saw them arrive; he had a hell of a time climbing the handful of steps into the Capitol. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2930 "2021-01-22T15:00:40Z")
Apparently Orly is filing cases at the rate of one a day, and the latest is just … bonkers. I mean, even more so than usual. > > ---
**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:** [January 22, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2931 "2021-01-22T17:32:46Z")
This prolly deserves to be in multiple threads: > **[Capitol Police investigating after congressman discovered carrying a gun when...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/22/politics/congressman-gun-capitol/index.html)** > > US Capitol Police are investigating an incident in which a Republican lawmaker was stopped from bringing a concealed gun onto the House floor on Thursday, sources told CNN, the first time a member of Congress has been discovered with a firearm by the... ---
**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:** [January 22, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2932 "2021-01-22T18:04:26Z")
So we finally have an answer to that question in Blade Runner. Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t. Not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that? Answer: Because its Mitch Fucking McConnell. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2933 "2021-01-22T18:32:38Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > its Mitch Fucking McConnell. Oh, is that how he reproduces? ---
**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:** [January 22, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2934 "2021-01-22T18:41:26Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > its Mitch Fucking McConnell. > > Oh, is that how he reproduces? - You put that image in my mind. A pox upon thee! ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2935 "2021-01-22T18:58:17Z")
Here, a bit of brain bleach for you. [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/ZWUoVdK.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/TELyQRN) ---
**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:** [January 22, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2936 "2021-01-22T19:15:01Z")
The latest cover of TIME magazine shows a drawing of Biden in the Oval Office, surrounded by trash. Harris Faulkner of Fox is OUTRAGED that Biden would trash the Oval Office like 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:** [January 22, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2937 "2021-01-22T19:19:10Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Harris Faulkner of Fox She seemed sane and competent during her years in Kansas City. I guess the Fox job has rotted her brain. Or she is afraid she’ll get fired like a lot of the real news people if she doesn’t hop on the crazy train. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2938 "2021-01-22T19:23:40Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Like, “if you change your name from Raphael to Ted, you just might…” Now, we have _two_ Raphaels in the Senate! ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2939 "2021-01-22T19:42:10Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The latest cover of TIME magazine shows a drawing of Biden in the Oval Office, surrounded by trash. Harris Faulkner of Fox is OUTRAGED that Biden would trash the Oval Office like that. She’s an idiot, but that’s not what she’s pissy about: > **[‘Time’ Magazine’s Biden Cover Breaks Fox News Anchor’s Brain](https://news.yahoo.com/time-magazine-biden-day-one-181012223.html)** > > Fox News “hard news” anchor Harris Faulkner had a disturbing amount of trouble comprehending that an artistic illustration was not, in fact, a literal image of the Oval Office. In Faulkner’s words, the [cover](https://adage.com/article/campaign-trail/times-latest-cover-shows-biden-oval-office-trashed-his-predecessor/2307551), which was illustrated by longtime _Time_ artist Tim O’Brien and is accompanied by the headline “Day One,” shows Joe Biden in the Oval Office “trashed by his predecessor as he looks out at the nation on fire.” She went on to posit that if the cover depicted a Republican president in a similar way, “mainstream media would be on fire about it, but with Joe Biden it’s OK to do this?” Faulkner grew increasingly agitated as she stared at the illustrated cover and shouted, “That’s not real! That picture isn’t real! I thought we were a nation who cared about the facts.” ---
**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:** [January 22, 2021, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2940 "2021-01-22T19:44:56Z")
It’s still pretty stupid to not recognize a metaphor, and its aptness. ---
**Author:** ![Manwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Manwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manwich)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2941 "2021-01-22T21:19:44Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Faulkner grew increasingly agitated as she stared at the illustrated cover and shouted, “That’s not real! That picture isn’t real! I thought we were a nation who cared about the facts.” It’s not a stupid idea for them to pretend to be upset it’s their job. You can argue it’s stupid idea to take and do that job, or that it’s stupid to have a country where that is people’s job but it isn’t really stupid of them to do what they’re paid for. ---
**Author:** ![Manwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Manwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manwich)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2942 "2021-01-22T21:24:44Z")
Yahoo exists still and fuck the mental-toss flycoon Republicans in Montana. > **[Transgender youth bills in US states reflect deep divisions](https://news.yahoo.com/transgender-youth-bills-us-states-162129845.html)** > > Transgender kids would be banned from playing on school sports teams for the gender with which they identify under a GOP-backed bill that advanced Thursday in Montana, one of more than a dozen states where lawmakers are proposing restrictions on... > The proposals run counter to an executive order signed by Democratic President Joe Biden during his first day in office prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity in school sports and elsewhere. Respect his authority Montana Republicans, he’s your gosh darn President. ---
**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:** [January 22, 2021, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2943 "2021-01-22T21:51:57Z")
Newsmax hosts are upset that a picture of Andrew Jackson was taken down, and that a bust of Rosa Parks was put in in the Oval Office > **[Newsmax Host Scoffs at Rosa Parks Bust in Biden’s Oval Office: ‘Identity...](https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmax-host-scoffs-at-rosa-parks-bust-in-oval-office-calls-it-identity-politics)** > > Rob Finnerty also complained about the bad rap that Trail of Tears-leading President Andrew Jackson has gotten from the “left-leaning media.” ---
**Author:** ![Manwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Manwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manwich)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2944 "2021-01-22T22:00:19Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Newsmax hosts are upset that a picture of Andrew Jackson was taken down, and that a bust of Rosa Parks was put in in the Oval Office Again they are not stupid to talk about this stuff, it’s virtue signalling to the right and a great distraction from talking about people’s actually living ̣̣or dying situations. It’s clever strategy. Clever-ish, clever enough ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2945 "2021-01-23T00:13:43Z")
> [@Manwich](#): > > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > > Newsmax hosts are upset that a picture of Andrew Jackson was taken down, and that a bust of Rosa Parks was put in in the Oval Office > > Again they are not stupid to talk about this stuff, it’s virtue signalling to the right Oh gee, is Rosa Parks persona non grata on the right again now? It’s [hard to keep up with the flipflopping](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/01/problems-with-holding-up-open-up-protesters-legacy-rosa-parks/): > [@](#): > > [May 2020] > > After demonstrators filled the streets near the several state capitols last month demanding that their political leaders reopen the states, Trump was asked his view on the protesters […] > > Other Trump allies have compared protesters to civil rights activists protesting racism — despite some of them carrying Confederate flags and flags with swastikas. > > Stephen Moore, a member of the White House council to reopen the country, praised those taking to the streets. > > “I call these people the modern-day Rosa Parks — they are protesting against injustice and a loss of liberties,” he [told](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/rallies-against-stay-at-home-orders-grow-as-trump-sides-with-protesters/2020/04/17/1405ba54-7f4e-11ea-8013-1b6da0e4a2b7_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_13) The Washington Post earlier this month. Rosa Parks as misappropriated mascot for right-wing maskholes protesting public-health measures during a pandemic: good!😇 Rosa Parks as real-life activist for civil rights being commemorated with a bust in the Oval Office: bad!😠 ---
**Author:** ![Manwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Manwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manwich)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2946 "2021-01-23T07:16:52Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Rosa Parks as misappropriated mascot for right-wing maskholes protesting public-health measures during a pandemic: good! 😇 Am I too cynical for thinking that everyone involved knows that everyone else is also thinking “we don’t actually like black people, we are just saying this to own the libs”? Like not just a dog whistle, but theres an entire ultra sonic vocabulary. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2947 "2021-01-23T17:26:16Z")
There are stupid Republicans in my town right now. Bob and I were just off to the weed store and as we drove down Maine Street (not Main Street in my town, Maine Street - I know, it’s weird) there were a collection of demonstrators on the sidewalk next to the park. At first I thought it was a pro-Democracy thing, because I saw and American flag waving. Then as I got closer I noticed the blue stripe on the flag. Then I notice what looked conspicuously like a Trump MAGA flag, but it was actually a “Fuck Biden” flag. So I beeped at them and flipped them off. None of them seem too ruffled by me. I had a little speech planned for the way back that went something like this: “Trump is a loser and so are assholes. Losers! Losers! Looooooooosers!” - that I was going to scream out the window with a full bird flying, but the train crossing that transverses Maine Street was triggered, through there was no train, and the entire downtown strip was just jammed with cars going nowhere. I had to find an alternate route home that kept my speech in my pocket, damnit. Did the protestors trigger the crossing to cause chaos? One can only speculate. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2948 "2021-01-23T17:40:22Z")
> **[Local fans of Trump stand by their man - San Antonio Express, 1/23/2021](http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODN/SanAntonioExpressNews/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=SAEN%2F2021%2F01%2F23&entity=Ar00104&sk=79D9C6EB&mode=text)** > > San Antonio Express - 1/23/2021 > … > A small sampling of local Republicans told the San Antonio Express-News this week that they remained ardent supporters of Trump and do not know anyone in their group of friends who thinks the Republican brand has been damaged by the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 — including the beating death of a police officer trying to stop the mob. > > On the contrary, they believe the Capitol storming, vandalism and deaths were orchestrated by the vaguely defined anti-fascist group antifa. > > “Yes, absolutely, I believe that,” said Stuart Knowlton, a former U.S. Army captain and electronics firm owner who now serves as an Atascosa County commissioner. > > … > > “Look at their garb,” he said. “I’ve been to a Trump rally. I’ve been on a Trump Train down in the Valley. I’ve never seen anyone dressed like these alleged rioters.” > > **Knowlton minimized the violence — “It wasn’t as bad as a normal night in Washington, D.C.,” he said, and was blown out of proportion by the “liberal media.”** > > … > > [Bob] Bruce said his two most trusted sources of news were the One America News Network, an 8-year-old California-based operation that bills itself as a supporter of Trump and traffics in falsehoods and conspiracy theories, and the Epoch Times, a pro-Trump, anti-China media outlet financed by members of Falun Gong, a religious movement persecuted in China for years. > > “I will not watch CNN or MSNBC,” Bruce said. > > Not watching any of the inauguration on TV — “I was reading my Bible and the Constitution” — was Deana Abiassi, 58, a homemaker and mother of three who now is the communications director for the Bexar County Republican Party. > > She told a reporter seeking her views that she was recording the phone call. > > “There’s been no proof,” she said of the involvement of Trump supporters in the Capitol rioting. > > … > > **Four years from now, Bruce said, he’d like to see Ted Cruz as president.** > … My bold. Texas will always be Texas… sigh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=146) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=148)