# 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:** 213
**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:** [April 2, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4252 "2021-04-02T15:59:02Z")
To DoctorJ’s point, I’ve experienced KY homegrown and holy f\*\*king sh\*t. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4253 "2021-04-02T16:26:49Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I’ve forgotten conversations I’ve had while stoned, but I think I would have remembered a 4-day trip to Kenya.- But let’s face it, you can’t **really** be sure, can you? 🤔 ---
**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:** [April 2, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4254 "2021-04-02T16:29:37Z")
I’m sorry to sound all self-righteous about this, but if you haven’t ever woken up with a new and inexplicable stamp in your passport and springbok hair in the crack of your ass, then … well … I’m not so sure I want to know you. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4255 "2021-04-02T16:45:30Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The CEO of Delta did a little backtrack of his initial statement supporting the Georgia anti-voting law and announced that he opposes the law. (I’m sure calls for a boycott had nothing to do with it) > So the Georgia state legislature has introduced a bill to eliminate Delta’s tax breaks. “Gee. I guess we’ll move our hub to JAX or DFW. then.” ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4256 "2021-04-02T16:47:09Z")
You went through passport control? Amateur. I woke up dry beneath the African sky, just me and my Swiss Army knife. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4257 "2021-04-02T16:51:56Z")
I went to Giraffic Park once, but the animals got loose and killed most of my party. One star. Would not recommend. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2021, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4258 "2021-04-02T17:46:55Z")
> [@Steve\_McQwark](#): > > I woke up dry beneath the African sky, just me and my Swiss Army knife. But you had that mango, so there’s that… ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4259 "2021-04-02T18:27:48Z")
I got lucky there; it was the last one they had. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2021, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4260 "2021-04-02T19:14:36Z")
In response to the anti-voting legislation in Georgia, Major League Baseball has announced that it’s moving the All Star Game out of Atlanta. The draft is also going to be moved. > **[Metsmerized Online - Everything New York Mets](https://metsmerizedonline.com)** > > Everything New York Mets ---
**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:** [April 2, 2021, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4261 "2021-04-02T19:43:21Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > In response to the anti-voting legislation in Georgia, Major League Baseball has announced that it’s moving the All Star Game out of Atlanta. This story from [mlb.com](https://www.mlb.com/news/2021-all-star-game-draft-relocated) appeared on my FB feed. The comments are hilarious. All of the right-wingers are complaining that the new Georgia law is a law requiring ID to vote, nothing more. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2021, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4262 "2021-04-02T19:59:46Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > This story from [mlb.com](https://www.mlb.com/news/2021-all-star-game-draft-relocated) appeared on my FB feed. The comments are hilarious. All of the right-wingers are complaining that the new Georgia law is a law requiring ID to vote, nothing more. Closing polls, limiting drop boxes, banning handing out water. I’d like to hear their explanation as to how this all about IDs. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4263 "2021-04-02T20:03:25Z")
Simple: They’ll say that it doesn’t do any of those things. When confronted with the actual text of the bill, they’ll still say it doesn’t do any of those things. The fact that this is in contradiction to easily-verifiable truth is irrelevant to them. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4264 "2021-04-02T20:03:26Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > All of the right-wingers are complaining that the new Georgia law is a law requiring ID to vote, nothing more. Dollars to donuts says a lot of them are the same right-wingers who have a nuclear meltdown about the intolerable threat to their “liberty” when they’re asked to put on a mask to go to the grocery store during a fucking pandemic. But requiring them to show a government-issued ID in order to be able to exercise their most fundamental right as American citizens? Hey, if it’ll keep more of Those People from voting, the righties are just fine with that! ---
**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:** [April 2, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4265 "2021-04-02T20:33:19Z")
The Chairman of the Dallas, Texas County Republican Party threatened to raise taxes on corporations that oppose Texas’s proposed anti-voting laws. > **[As business leaders back voting rights, will the GOP retaliate?](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/business-leaders-back-voting-rights-will-gop-retaliate-n1262892)** > > A growing number of corporate leaders are voicing opposition to voter-suppression bills. Will Republicans retaliate in response? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4266 "2021-04-02T20:38:12Z")
It seems like it should be illegal to target tax raises based on what a corporation says about any sort of bill. And if it’s not illegal, it certainly sounds wrong. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4267 "2021-04-02T21:10:27Z")
Those corporations can take their marbles and go elsewhere. Southwestern Bell left St. Louis and moved to San Antonio and then moved again to Dallas. And it wasn’t all that long ago. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4268 "2021-04-02T21:17:36Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > It seems like it should be illegal to target tax raises based on what a corporation says about any sort of bill. And if it’s not illegal, it certainly sounds wrong . Tsk-tsk, what’s wrong is to deny generous tax incentives to corporations because you’re concerned about their environmental policies or the burdens they place on local resources. That is evil socialistic communist government, because corporations are Benevolent Bountiful Job Creators who must be courted and placated at all costs. The situation here concerns denying generous tax incentives to corporations because they are mildly criticizing the oppressive anti-social-justice nature of your legislation. That is striking a heroic blow for liberty, because corporations are Soulless Bureaucratic Behemoths at the Mercy of Woke Mobs who must be resisted at all costs. It’s a mystery to me how any Republicans are still able to hear what they’re saying out of either side of their own mouths. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4269 "2021-04-02T23:08:44Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > > She also posted a video of herself lifting weights, saying that’s how she keeps covid free. > > I had the misfortune of seeing that video on another forum. She jerkily hefts some weights on a barbell, flings it to the ground, then heaves herself in a diagonal motion on a chin-up bar. Empty Greene was not only excoriated all over the internet for her dangerous medical advice, she’s been repudiated by the CrossFit company: > [@](#): > > …Being jacked or flinging about on a pullup bar like “like a wild salmon trying to escape a grizzly bear” does not make you immune from a respiratory viral infection. According to the World Health Organization, the coronavirus is transmitted through respiratory droplets among people who are in close contact … > Some Twitter users also pointed out to Greene that CrossFit doesn’t even want to be associated with her. > > “CrossFit supports respectful fact-based political dialogue to address our common challenges, and we strongly oppose the loathsome and dangerous lies attributed to Ms. Greene,” the company told told BuzzFeed News last month. … . > **[Marjorie Taylor Greene Slammed For Claim That Working Out Is Her ‘Covid...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-slammed-for-dumb-claim-that-crossfit-is-her-covid-protection_n_6064e08ec5b6adf599cc903a)** > > Twitter users exercised their right to mock the Georgia Republican after she posted a video of herself doing a CrossFit-style workout. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4270 "2021-04-02T23:24:22Z")
Congressman Jeff Duncan wants to rescind Major League Baseball’s antitrust exception because of their removal of the All Star Game from Georgia. > ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4271 "2021-04-02T23:27:05Z")
Good plan, Republican constituents notoriously hate baseball. However, this will give all the self-described anti-“cancel culture” conservatives a nice opportunity to scold their overreacting legislators for attempting to “cancel” MLB. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=212) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=214)