# 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:** 194
**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:** [March 10, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3870 "2021-03-10T14:50:11Z")
Ah yes, the “pro-life party” in action. Makes what happened in Arkansas seem almost tame. > **[Arkansas Governor Signs Bill Banning All Elective Abortions to 'Set the Stage...](https://lawandcrime.com/abortion/arkansas-governor-signs-bill-banning-all-elective-abortions-to-set-the-stage-for-the-supreme-court-to-overturn-roe-v-wade/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark)** > > Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed into law a bill that bans all elective abortions in the state, in hopes that the U.S. Supreme Court’s new conservative majority will overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3871 "2021-03-10T15:18:52Z")
Fuck I hope that’ll be just a 7-2 Supreme decision. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3872 "2021-03-10T15:36:04Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Then Don Jr send me an e-mail with a very scary looking table that showed my name … and the word NONE next to end of month donation. Don Jr. really didn’t want to have to show my donor file to his daddy and he begged me not to let the President down. They stole this from Hogan’s Heroes! A couple of officers come by, taking donations to give to Hitler, to “Beautify Berchtesgaden”. One tells Klink, “I have two books, One has the names of people that donated. This book is full. The other book is the names of those who did not donate. This book is empty. I’ll give both books to der fuhrer.” ---
**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 10, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3873 "2021-03-10T19:34:24Z")
Bill moves forward in the Kentucky legislature criminalizing insulting police. > **[Kentucky lawmakers advance bill to criminalize insulting police](https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/542284-kentucky-lawmakers-advance-bill-to-criminalize-insulting-police/)** > > Lawmakers in Kentucky have advanced a bill that, in part, seeks to criminalize insulting or taunting police officers in a way that could provoke a violent response.The bill says a pe… ---
**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 10, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3874 "2021-03-10T19:35:20Z")
Fucker Carlson calls pregnant military members “a mockery of our military”. > **[Fox News' Tucker Carlson calls pregnant women in armed forces a 'mockery of...](https://www.rawstory.com/amp/tucker-carlson-pregnant-soldiers-military-2650997382)** > > Fox News host Tucker Carlson took a moment to trash women in the military who get pregnant. Carlson began his show Tuesday mistakenly assuming that Piers Morgan was fired after he walked off the set of "Good Morning Britain." Morgan, in fact, quit... ---
**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 10, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3875 "2021-03-10T19:36:30Z")
Lauren Boebert runs an end demanding that Nancy Pelosi take down the fences around the Capitol and ends the ad with the sound of a gun firing and another round being chambered, > **[GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert’s Anti-Pelosi Ad Ends With A Chilling Sound Effect](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lauren-boebert-pelosi-ad-sound-effect_n_60488e5bc5b60e0725f3dd38)** > > "What exactly are you implying with that?" one critic asked the Colorado Republican, in light of the deadly U.S. Capitol riot. ---
**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 10, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3876 "2021-03-10T21:06:09Z")
Lindsey Graham calls the portion of the covid relief package for farmers “reparations”. > **[Clyburn condemns Lindsey Graham for calling COVID aid to Black farmers...](https://www.axios.com/2021/03/10/clyburn-lindsey-graham-reparations-farmer)** > > "Lindsey Graham is from South Carolina. He knows South Carolina's history." ---
**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 10, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3877 "2021-03-10T21:29:14Z")
MTG doesn’t think American tax dollars should go to foreign countries like Guam. > **[Greene thinks US territory of Guam is a foreign country that doesn't deserve aid](https://americanindependent.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-guam-us-territories-foreign-countries-taxpayer-dollars/)** > > Guam has been a part of the United States for 122 years, and its residents are American citizens. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3878 "2021-03-10T21:42:59Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > MTG doesn’t think American tax dollars should go to foreign countries like Guam. Just great. Now, on top of everything else, I have to worry about being deported back to my home “country”. ---
**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 11, 2021, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3879 "2021-03-11T03:35:16Z")
Lauren Boebert lied before Congress today that she armed the workers at her restaurant because a man was shot in the alley behind her establishment. No such thing happened. > **[Rep. Boebert uses a shameless lie about a deadly incident at her bar to fight...](https://washingtonpress.com/2021/03/10/rep-boebert-uses-a-shameless-lie-about-a-deadly-incident-at-her-bar-to-fight-needed-legislation)** > > The Colorado congresswoman was outed for her fake story by a local newspaper in her home state. ---
**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 11, 2021, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3880 "2021-03-11T04:27:25Z")
Roger Wicker is flexing about the benefits of the stimulus bill, which he voted against. > ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3881 "2021-03-11T04:28:53Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I may have posted some of this before, but back in October I signed up for the Trump e-mail list for approximately 8 hours (I’m glad I used a throwaway account because even after I unsubscribed, they’d already sold the address to hundreds of “partners”, and that account was immediately drenched with several dozen e-mails a day.) > > It was quite the adventure. I, too gave an email address for some Trumpian BS, mostly to answer questions in their shove polls. You know the ones that ask _Who you you trust more to clean up the cesspool in Washington?_ - Trump - The thieving Demonrats Unlike you, though I didn’t many mailings beyond the initial source. I think that since, owning a domain, I could easily set up a forwarding address suckmydickdonnie@[mydomain].com might have been why. ---
**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 11, 2021, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3882 "2021-03-11T15:05:53Z")
Shameless lying is, after all, their specialty. I mean, everybody is good at _something_. ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3883 "2021-03-11T15:18:04Z")
Holy Cow, @Rick_Kitchen. How many hours a day do you read the news? I mean, I appreciate the links, they’re great, but damn, that’s a lot of links. 😃 Lots of GOP madness, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3884 "2021-03-11T16:51:17Z")
So many Stupid Republicans… ETA: And their stupid ideas! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3885 "2021-03-11T18:35:56Z")
A typical example of Republican ethics, from Bucks County, PA: > **[Who's calling? Not J&J with vaccine info. It's the Bucks GOP.](https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/2021/03/08/bucks-county-republican-party-apologizes-j-j-robocall/4626376001/)** > > A robocall asking Bucks County residents to sign candidate petitions showed up for some as Johnson and Johnson. > A phone call that appeared to be coming from Johnson and Johnson has riled some county residents who answered and instead got a GOP petition drive [recording](https://www.nomorobo.com/lookup/215-273-8522) this weekend… > > One Perkasie poster said their elderly parents picked up the phone expecting to hear some announcement about the vaccine, but were instead asked to attend two petition signing events for the May 18 municipal primary… ---
**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 11, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3886 "2021-03-11T18:46:31Z")
Apparently there have been a number of instances of Republiopaths touting the assistance and benefits of the COVID relief bill that they themselves voted against. ---
**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 11, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3887 "2021-03-11T18:57:01Z")
So many stupid Republican ideas, so little time. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3888 "2021-03-11T19:19:19Z")
> [@](#): > > **Oklahoma House Passes Bill To Give Immunity To Drivers Who Hit Protesters** > > The Republican-majority Oklahoma state House passed a bill on Wednesday that would grant immunity to drivers who “unintentionally” run over protesters. > > In an early morning vote [along party lines](https://twitter.com/MickeyDollens/status/1369538922846519296), with [79 votes in favor](https://twitter.com/OKHouseofReps/status/1369537340113227778) and 18 against, state lawmakers approved [legislation](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22%20ENGR/hB/HB1674%20ENGR.PDF) that would remove criminal or civil liability for any driver who “unintentionally” injures or kills someone while “fleeing from a riot,” as long as they have a “reasonable belief” that fleeing would protect themselves from harm. > > The bill would also allow protesters to be charged with a misdemeanor if they “unlawfully obstruct” traffic, punishable by up to a year in jail and $5,000 in fines. > **[Oklahoma House Passes Bill To Give Immunity To Drivers Who Hit Protesters](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oklahoma-bill-protect-drivers-hit-protesters_n_6049801ac5b6cf72d093ed9e)** > > The legislation approved by the Republican-led House comes after Black Lives Matter protests last summer against racist police violence. [https://www.oklahoman.com/article/feed/10205141/new-legislation-would-protect-drivers-who-hit-protestors](https://www.oklahoman.com/article/feed/10205141/new-legislation-would-protect-drivers-who-hit-protestors) > **[Oklahoma House passes bill to protect drivers who hit protesters](https://news.yahoo.com/oklahoma-house-passes-bill-protect-141422007.html)** > > Oklahoma House Republicans approved a bill that would grant immunity to drivers who hit protesters. Democrats say the "real issues" aren't being addressed. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3889 "2021-03-11T20:07:05Z")
> [@](#): > > **Rick Scott to states and cities: Turn down COVID relief funds** > > > "Florida U.S. Sen. Rick Scott has a message for states and cities poised to receive a collective $360 billion from the American Rescue Act stimulus package: Send it back… In an open letter to governors and mayors, sent moments after the U.S. House on Wednesday approved the $1.9 trillion bill, Scott called it “massive, wasteful and non-targeted,” urging states to follow his lead and send a message to Congress to “quit recklessly spending other people’s money.” > > The Republican senator added that states and cities would be doing the right thing by “rejecting and returning any unneeded funds.” > > Given the circumstances, it’s likely that Rick Scott’s appeal will be ignored. Indeed, his own state’s Republican governor, Florida’s Ron DeSantis, not only seemed eager to put federal funds to good use, he also seemed annoyed that GOP Sens. Scott and Marco Rubio didn’t secure even more money for the Sunshine State. > **[Florida Sen. Rick Scott implores states to 'reject and return’ stimulus...](https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/politics/state/2021/03/10/scott-says-florida-should-reject-stimulus-money-desantis-wants-more/6936353002/)** > > U.S. Sen. Rick Scott says states should reject American Rescue Act stimulus money. But Gov. Ron DeSantis is upset Florida isn't getting more of it. > **[Rick Scott to states and cities: Turn down COVID relief funds](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rick-scott-states-cities-turn-down-covid-relief-funds-n1260710)** > > During the Great Recession, several Republicans said states should reject federal economic aid. Now, Rick Scott is making the same pitch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=193) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=195)