# 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:** 167
**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:** [February 8, 2021, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3329 "2021-02-08T23:51:15Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > To say nothing about gay pride but no straight pride. Those straight people had their Straight Pride Parade in Boston last summer. Apparently it was ( see the ellipses here . . . ) controversial. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3330 "2021-02-09T09:48:45Z")
If people want to hold Straight Pride Parades, that’s fine (as long as they’re about Straight Pride and not just gaybashing), much like it’s fine if they want to go down to the trophy store and buy themselves a big ol’ trophy with their name on it. And it will mean just about as much. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3331 "2021-02-09T22:30:39Z")
> **[Two right-wing senators eager to keep first Native woman from running...](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014935)** > > Republican Sen. Steve Daines, the extremist junior senator from Montana who shills for the oil and gas industry, met with Rep. Deb Haaland last week and came away saying he will seek to block her nomination as secretary of the Department of... …Department of the Interior, that is. 'Cause, after all, what does it have to do with her?? ---
**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:** [February 9, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3332 "2021-02-09T23:22:25Z")
The Republican leader of the Michigan state Senate says that the insurrection was a hoax. > **[Michigan Senate leader labels D.C. insurrection 'a hoax': video](https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/09/michigan-senate-leader-labeled-d-c-insurrection-a-hoax-video/4454585001/)** > > The Republican leader of the Michigan Senate, Mike Shirkey, described the insurrection in Washington, D.C., as "a hoax," according to a recording ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3333 "2021-02-10T00:16:49Z")
Why not? It always works. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2021, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3334 "2021-02-10T00:18:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Republican leader of the Michigan state Senate says that the insurrection was a hoax. From the article: "I regret the words I chose, and I apologize for my insensitive comments.” “Insensitive”?? How about “I acknowledge that I am a motherfucking LIAR and I LIED because that’s what LIARS do”? ---
**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:** [February 10, 2021, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3335 "2021-02-10T01:47:14Z")
OAN’s parent company has been ordered to pay $250,000 in court fees to Rachel Maddow and MSNBC after OAN lost a lawsuit against them when Maddow called them paid Russian propaganda. > **[OAN parent company ordered to pay Rachel Maddow and MSNBC $250k](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/oann-rachel-maddow-msnbc-defamation-b1799436.html)** > > Herring Networks wanted $10m in damages after Maddow said that OAN was 'paid Russian propaganda' ---
**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:** [February 10, 2021, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3336 "2021-02-10T05:37:47Z")
From that link: > Herring Networks President Charles Herring told website Law&Crime that “the case is currently under appeal". What, you want to pay even more of MSNBC’s legal fees? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3337 "2021-02-10T07:07:56Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Republican leader of the Michigan state Senate says that the insurrection was a hoax. Gotta at least give Sparky credit for consistency (from article): > [@](#): > > “That wasn’t Trump people,” Shirkey said, then further down… > [@](#): > > “Some of those Trump folks probably just got caught up in the emotion of it,” he said. …despite the fact they’re apparently not supposed to be Trump people to begin with? Got it. 🤪 Much credit to _The Detroit News_ website - I can’t remember the last time I clicked on a site where I wasn’t immediately presented with a pop-up for paywall/cookies/ad block/yada, and just read along, unpestered. Thanks! Can think of at least three reasons how great the name Shirkey is. I just cannot read that Maddow/OANN article without wanting to constantly go: “Aaaaaaaaaaaaa _ **HERRING!!!1!!!** _” Heck - another great name - this one _not in the least bit suggestive_ of certain colour. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2021, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3338 "2021-02-10T22:54:58Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Eyman lost to Culp in the primary, so he’ll have to go back to his day job of promoting anti-tax ballot initiatives that inevitably get struck down in court. Well, maybe not: > **[Eyman fined $2.6 million, barred from campaign control](https://apnews.com/article/campaigns-lawsuits-campaign-finance-tim-eyman-courts-af7066c708c6201bea41574b89f6beb2)** > > SEATTLE (AP) — Tim Eyman, the watch salesman-turned-antitax folk hero whose initiative campaigns have bedeviled state and local governments across Washington for decades, will no longer be allowed to have any financial control over political... > … to have any financial control over political committees, under a judge’s ruling Wednesday that blasted him for using donor’s contributions to line his own pocket. > > The decision stands to significantly alter the Washington’s political landscape. For the past two-decades-plus, Eyman has been the state’s most prolific proponent of ballot measures and one of its most influential populists, frequently persuading voters to approve tax-limiting measures only to see them struck down by the state Supreme Court as unconstitutional. > > For almost as long, Eyman has had a history of campaign finance violations. In 2002, following a report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Eyman called an Associated Press reporter to make an emotional confession that he had been secretly paying himself with campaign contributions, despite insisting publicly that he had not been. At the time Eyman called it “the biggest lie of my life.” Of course, Timmy will play the martyr card through multiple appeals (while picking his supporters’ pockets shamelessly). But at least for this moment: O frabjous day! ---
**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:** [February 11, 2021, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3339 "2021-02-11T02:09:26Z")
What was that thing about him stealing an office chair from a store (by sitting in it and rolling it out of a store, do I have that right)? ---
**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:** [February 11, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3340 "2021-02-11T04:42:40Z")
[Pretty much](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzL76X6FUHM), though he wasn’t sitting in it when he rolled it out. ---
**Author:** ![Manwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Manwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manwich)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3341 "2021-02-11T09:51:55Z")
Sorry wrong forum ---
**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:** [February 11, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3342 "2021-02-11T13:25:52Z")
At least Kenny got scolded. [https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-Senators-scold-AG-Ken-Paxton-for-violating-15941182.php](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-Senators-scold-AG-Ken-Paxton-for-violating-15941182.php) > Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton violated his budget authority when he transferred $40 million of taxpayer money to cover pay raises for some members of his staff without approval of the Legislature or the governor, triggering an angry response from lawmakers on Wednesday. > > “You know that I am not pleased,” Senate Finance chair Jane Nelson told Paxton during a meeting about the state budget. “We have an appropriations process for a reason. And if every agency did what yours did, General Paxton, we wouldn’t have a budget. We wouldn’t even need a budget.” > … Oooo… she _"is not pleased_"! Pretty strong language-- hell hath no fury, amirite? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3343 "2021-02-11T13:29:53Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Oooo… she _"is not pleased_ "! Pretty strong language-- hell hath no fury, amirite? She might even become “irked”. That’ll teach him! ---
**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:** [February 11, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3344 "2021-02-11T15:06:40Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Of course, Timmy will play the martyr card through multiple appeals (while picking his supporters’ pockets shamelessly). But at least for this moment: O frabjous day! Hallelujah! Eyman and Culp are both con-men but on a much smaller scale than their mentor Trump. It doesn’t hurt that their followers are completely gullible. Did you know that if you look up gullible in the dictionary, the definition is “republican”? 😆 ---
**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:** [February 11, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3345 "2021-02-11T15:08:09Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Oooo… she _"is not pleased_ "! Pretty strong language-- hell hath no fury, amirite? > [@Gyrate](#): > > She might even become “irked”. That’ll teach him! She should take lessons in “righteous indignation” from Susan Collins. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3346 "2021-02-11T15:12:37Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > She should take lessons in “righteous indignation” from Susan Collins. Or “concern”. Collins has a black belt in “concern”. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3347 "2021-02-11T15:24:18Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > > [@Railer13](#): > > > > She should take lessons in “righteous indignation” from Susan Collins. > > Or “concern”. Collins has a black belt in “concern”. - With a sewn-in crease to indicate she’s a “furrowed brow” adept. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3348 "2021-02-11T15:45:11Z")
There’s always the Klingon prosthetic forehead with the permanently furrowed brow. [![](https://amasquerade.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Brow_martian_med.jpg) ](https://amasquerade.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Brow_martian_med.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=166) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=168)