# 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:** 190
**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:** [March 5, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3790 "2021-03-05T21:22:31Z")
There’s a bill before the Georgia state legislature, among other voter suppression laws, that would criminalize giving water to people standing in voting lines. > **[Georgia Republicans Advance Bill to Criminalize Giving Water to Voters in Line](https://truthout.org/articles/georgia-bill-would-criminalize-giving-water-to-voters-waiting-in-long-lines/)** > > The measure is part of a bill that reduces early voting times and imposes other restrictive measures on Georgia voters. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3791 "2021-03-05T21:26:26Z")
The only logical next step is to charge the port-a-potty companies with Treason. What the actual fuck. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3792 "2021-03-05T22:02:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > There’s a bill before the Georgia state legislature, among other voter suppression laws, that would criminalize giving water to people standing in voting lines. Hmmm… next will it be against the law for people to bring their own bottled water to stand in line to vote. If it’s a married couple, can the wife offer her husband a drink from her bottle. Do they have to prove they’re married. IOW can a non-married couple-- or GOD FORBID!-- a same sex couple share bottled water? We’re getting into very deep… uh… you know… 🌊 🚰 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3793 "2021-03-05T22:41:17Z")
Never mind any of that; who are they going to prosecute if it rains? ---
**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:** [March 5, 2021, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3794 "2021-03-05T22:41:58Z")
> **[Johnson's delay tactics fizzle, and Senate gets down to business of passing...](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019519)** > > After a mammoth afternoon, evening, and night of Senate clerks being forced to read the entirety of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan—10 hours and 43 minutes—Sen. Ron Johnson got bored with his delaying tactics meant to drag out the process.... > After a mammoth afternoon, evening, and night of Senate clerks being forced to read the entirety of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan—[10 hours and 43 minutes](https://twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1367839847226998784)—Sen. Ron Johnson got bored with his [delaying tactics](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/4/2019383/-Senate-votes-to-proceed-on-VOID-19-relief-while-Republicans-vow-to-delay-delay-delay) meant to drag out the process. Philip Bump at the _Washington Post_ did [some calculations](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/04/while-senate-reads-coronavirus-relief-bill-nearly-1400-americans-may-die-virus/): “Given the current rate at which people are dying of covid-19, that means that about 880 Americans likely succumbed to the disease during” the reading of the bill forced by Johnson. Johnson didn’t stick around to the end. > > **He wasn’t there to object when Sen. Chris Van Hollen [requested](https://twitter.com/kristin__wilson/status/1367808241804181506?s=21) that they cut what was supposed to be 20 hours of debate following the reading of the bill down to three hours. No Republican—including Johnson—was on the floor to stop it, so the agreement was made and Sen. Tammy Baldwin gaveled the Senate out.** So much for Johnson’s [shift system](https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1367536314934063109) of always having a Republican there to make sure they use up as much time as possible. That could mean the Senate finishes work on the bill relatively quickly, delivering hundreds of billions for state, local, and tribal economies hit hard by the pandemic. > … The part I bolded is pretty hilarious. 😂 ---
**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:** [March 5, 2021, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3795 "2021-03-05T22:42:17Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > Sen. Ron fucking Johnson is frosting my shorts this morning. > I sincerely hope he sat in chambers and listened to the full damn reading of the Covid relief bill that he demanded because “we should know what’s in the bill”. ([nope, he didn’t](https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/03/04/senate-chamber-empties-as-reading-of-628-page-relief-bill-gets-underway/?sh=147434f87c15)) My understanding is that it was read to an empty chamber with only one token Democrat and one Republican in attendance. > Btw, 80 Americans died during each hour that the bill was read and delayed. > Fucking fucker. Johnson got owned later.He left the floor and a Dem senator proposed cutting debate from 20 hours to three. It passed unanimously, he was the only one present I guess. “After the all-night reading, Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen proposed that the debate time on Friday be shortened from 20 hours to three and because no one, not even dumbass Ron Johnson was around to contest the proposal, the bill reading slowed down nothing.” > **[Sen. Ron Johnson Forced Senate Staffers to Read All 628 Pages of the COVID...](https://www.theroot.com/sen-ron-johnson-forced-senate-staffers-to-read-all-628-1846415076)** > > In what can only be called the pettiest of petty bullshit, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) forced Senate staffers to read the entire 628-page COVID bill aloud on the Senate floor, Thursday, delaying the debate and vote on the bill. ninjaed by seconds, damn you, and Abbott. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3796 "2021-03-05T22:44:48Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Going by [number of adherents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#By_population), both Judaism and Jainism would be _way_ down on the list. In the US, however, Judaism appears to be second after Christianity. So I think it makes the list. Just as soon as you’ve gotten the Christian churches to stop fighting over who is or isn’t a “real Christian”, that is. > **[Demographics of the United States | Religious affiliations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Religious_affiliations)** > > The table below is based mainly on selected data as reported to the United States Census Bureau. It only includes the voluntary self-reported membership of religious bodies with 750,000 or more. The definition of a member is determined by each religious body. In 2004\[update\], the US census bureau reported that about 13% of the population did not identify themselves as a member of any religion.\[clarification needed\] > In a Pew Research Survey performed in 2012, Americans without a religion (atheist... ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3797 "2021-03-05T23:05:35Z")
I mean, in any listing of the ‘X major world religions’ with 5 or more entrants, Judaism usually makes the list for being the/a progenitor of two of the other religions. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3798 "2021-03-05T23:06:30Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > In the US, however, Judaism appears to be second after Christianity. So I think it makes the list. Based on the pie chart, it is 3rd, after “no religion”. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2021, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3799 "2021-03-05T23:10:47Z")
To make it really universal you could expand it to the top 365 world wide. So each religion gets a day. I’m thinking that either Christmas or Easter would be a good day for the Christian prayer in schools day. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3800 "2021-03-06T00:15:30Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > So each religion gets a day… So, one day you’d have a Zoroastrian praying in your school, the next day a Scientologist, the next week an atheist, a Satanist, then a Bob from the Church of the SubGenius… oh, and 4/20 would be Rastafarian day, I assume… ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3801 "2021-03-06T01:13:34Z")
Who gets Feb 29th every four years? ---
**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:** [March 6, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3802 "2021-03-06T01:26:52Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Who gets Feb 29th every four years? - Riders of these. > **[29er (bicycle)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/29er_(bicycle))** > > 29ers or two-niners are mountain bikes and hybrid bikes that are built to use 700c or 622 mm ISO (inside rim diameter) wheels, commonly called 29″ wheels. Most mountain bikes once used ISO 559 mm wheels, commonly called 26″ wheels. The ISO 622 mm wheel is typically also used for road-racing, trekking, cyclo-cross, touring and hybrid bicycles. > In some countries, mainly in Continental Europe, ISO 622 mm wheels are commonly called 28″ wheels or "28 Incher". > 29er rims have an interior diameter of 62... ---
**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:** [March 6, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3803 "2021-03-06T01:49:05Z")
More like 170, which is the approximate number of days school is in session. And since Christian, Jews, Mormons and Muslims have 52 Saturdays/Sundays a year for praying and stuff, we could just exclude them because, redundancy. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3804 "2021-03-06T02:46:14Z")
Congratulations to MAGA for freaking out about a copyright holders’ decision to no longer publish 6 books in their catalog, claiming the author is being cancelled, and then proving this by having about 14 of his non-racist books appear on Amazon best seller lists. You showed them! We liberals are _owned_! And so are the copyright holders, just crying as they are alllll the way to the bank. Good job, people. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3805 "2021-03-06T09:22:10Z")
> [@digs](#): > > So, one day you’d have a Zoroastrian praying in your school, the next day a Scientologist, the next week an atheist, a Satanist, then a Bob from the Church of the SubGenius… oh, and 4/20 would be Rastafarian day, I assume… Obligatory Babylon 5 scene: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8Hg_TRynRIs/hqdefault.jpg "Babylon 5 Earth's Dominant Belief System Display") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hg_TRynRIs) ---
**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:** [March 6, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3806 "2021-03-06T13:25:11Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > More like 170, which is the approximate number of days school is in session. But that ruins my joke about Christians getting Christmas and Easter. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3807 "2021-03-06T16:27:00Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > But that ruins my joke about Christians getting Christmas and Easter. Wait, so Christians give Jesus a birthday party every year? Okay… but then he rises from the dead and he gets _another_ birthday party? ---
**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:** [March 6, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3808 "2021-03-06T16:50:08Z")
yes, and they can have a prayer for all of the kids who are in school on those days. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3809 "2021-03-06T21:33:17Z")
Yeah, that’ll show us!! And, the next time you click on an ad for some $49.95 gold-plated commemorative Trump coin, and the banner on the ad says “THE LIBS ARE STEAMING MAD BECAUSE WE ARE SELLING THIS COIN SO CHEAP”, that as is so right. There is nothing that owns us more than seeing conservative rubes buying Trump coins with their rent money, it really pisses us off. So buy a whole lot of them, it will make our heads explode. ( I’ve clicked some banners on conservative grift sites, and they all say stuff like this. It’s hysterical.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=189) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=191)