# 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:** 226
**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:** [April 16, 2021, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4516 "2021-04-16T05:33:54Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Yes, it would have been nice if Fauci had said something like this. Or at the very least: > > “Unfortunately, we can’t give a specific answer to when the pandemic will be declared over or when we can lift public health mandates. This is because there are far, far too many people like yourself, who are not doing their part, and are helping to spread not only this disease, but also foolish and wrong notions that are actually prolonging this crisis. So YOU, Mister Jordan, have it in your power to make this go away sooner. It’s a shame that you’re doing the opposite.” > [@Sherrerd](#): > > Fauci can’t really win in these situations because he doesn’t feel he can say ‘you and your irresponsible messaging are the main problem here’ or anything close. And what stops Fauci from saying exactly that? Euphonious\_Polemic’s suggested retort is a Euphonious Polemic indeed. I’d pay money to hear him say that in committee, on C-Span, right to Jordan’s face. (How do you suppose Maxine Waters would react to that?) ---
**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 16, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4517 "2021-04-16T13:47:08Z")
> **[Ted Cruz Shows His True Colors Once Again With Mask Stance](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-mask-senate_n_607943f4e4b0eac4813bd4ab)** > > "He doesn't care about anyone but himself," one critic said of the Texas Republican. Ted is a man who sticks to principles, namely: > The modern conservative movement. “I’m fine, I don’t care about other people.” [https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1382805419228282881](https://t.co/hJY5G4BgAw) > > — jakedecker (@jakedecker) [April 15, 2021](https://twitter.com/jakedecker/status/1382810298508185606?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [This tweet is quoted at the HuffPost link.] ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4518 "2021-04-16T14:47:18Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Jim Jordan kept asking Dr. Fauci stupid questions like, “Give me a date when the pandemic will be over”, and “when will public health mandates be lifted”, and wouldn’t stop asking questions and demanding answers, even after his speaking time was up. Watching that idiot genuinely struggle to keep his mask over his nose is quite comical. What a fucking Republican. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4519 "2021-04-16T20:39:30Z")
Well, now, this here is a hum-dinger of a stupid. By way of our good friends over at _Talking Points Memo_… **New GOP Caucus Pushes Nativist Agenda With Calls For ‘Uniquely Anglo-Saxon Political Traditions’** "A new “policy platform” document sprinkled with nativist and white supremacist language emerged Friday from a newly launched far-right caucus linked to Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ). The group is, according to the document, pushing for “uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions” and new infrastructure that “befits the progeny of European architecture.” [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/new-gop-caucus-pushes-nativist-agenda-with-calls-for-uniquely-anglo-saxon-political-traditions](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/new-gop-caucus-pushes-nativist-agenda-with-calls-for-uniquely-anglo-saxon-political-traditions) Point and laugh, shriek in horror… Also, architecture has “progeny”? ---
**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:** [April 16, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4520 "2021-04-16T21:53:28Z")
For those the can stomach it, the actual memo can be found here. > **[America-First-Caucus-Policy-Platform-FINAL-2.pdf](https://punchbowl.news/wp-content/uploads/America-First-Caucus-Policy-Platform-FINAL-2.pdf)** > > 392.73 KB It’s just your standard white nationalist, issolationist, American exceptionalism that has come to represent the GOP. The only slightly encouraging bit is that they don’t out and out deny global warming exists, (they just don’t want to do anything about it if it might inconvenience anyone.) Two other things that caught my eye: In terms of unwitting ironic humor > Recent election results demonstrate a compromised integrity of our elections and made our election system a subject of global mockery. No argument there, but it was your golden boy’s unwillingness to concede that was mocked. Second was this head scratcher > We must protect the rights of Americans to best position themselves for a changing economy by promoting the development of cryptocurrency companies domestically, and defend the rights of Americans to hold privates tores of wealth–including gold, silver, and other blockchain-based currencies like Bitcoin. Gold and silver are blockchain-based currencies? and what does this have to do with anything? ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4521 "2021-04-16T22:01:31Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Gold and silver are blockchain-based currencies? and what does this have to do with anything? Right-wing goldbugs are notorious for whipping up hysteria that the federal government is going to confiscate privately owned gold and artificially set the price for it. During the early years of the Obama Administration, guys like Glenn Beck pushed this constantly. Unscrupulous companies like Goldline scammed a lot of consumers by convincing them to purchase gold coins instead of bullion (because the coins would supposedly be exempt from this confiscation that was supposedly about to happen), often at a significant markup relative to what the same coins were trading for in the open market. ---
**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 16, 2021, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4522 "2021-04-16T23:04:24Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Gold and silver are blockchain-based currencies? and what does this have to do with anything? What Swissman said. It’s about fleecing the rubes by selling them overpriced metals or certificates. Or simply phony “gold”. (see Glenn Beck and other right wing charlatans) ---
**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:** [April 16, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4523 "2021-04-16T23:42:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Jim Jordan kept asking Dr. Fauci stupid questions like, “Give me a date when the pandemic will be over”, and “when will public health mandates be lifted” “Are we there yet?” _(kicks seat)_ “Are we there yet?” _(kicks seat)_ “Are we there yet?” _(kicks seat)_… ---
**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 17, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4524 "2021-04-17T00:15:13Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > > Jim Jordan kept asking Dr. Fauci stupid questions like, “Give me a date when the pandemic will be over”, and “when will public health mandates be lifted” > > “Are we there yet?” _(kicks seat)_ > “Are we there yet?” _(kicks seat)_ > “Are we there yet?” _(kicks seat)_ … … Pretty much. And yet to millions of alleged human brains, Jordan’s screaming demands at Fauci to predict the future (to the day) counts as both “intelligent” and “leadership.” Because you yell at expert witnesses to show that YOU are in charge, not them with their stupid FACTS!!!1!!! We saw the same thing with Trump’s fandom, of course. They looked at toddler tantrums and saw “leadership.” And it wasn’t solely a function of being in a news bubble that gave them nothing but praise of the toddler. It was looking at the _exact same toddler conduct_ the rest of us were seeing, and somehow coming to the conclusion: ‘that’s what a MAN does.’ One despairs, sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4525 "2021-04-17T01:09:00Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > One despairs, sometimes. Frequently, even. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4527 "2021-04-17T01:24:11Z")
I don’t know if I want MTG to STFU…or keep on talking. Quite a conundrum. Maybe that new GOP caucus will become emboldened enough to dog-whistle loud enough to say only blonde-haired blue-eyed Aryans can govern. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4528 "2021-04-17T03:24:48Z")
I believe the tradition is to have foreign invaders from neighboring countries becoming the dominant culture in the land they invaded. The modern equivalent to Germanic tribes overtaking England would be Central American migrants crossing into the US. So the Anglo-Saxon tradition would be pro-immigration. But I am certain that this woman is too stupid to realize what she is actually advocating. [https://images.app.goo.gl/goWHU3rkHjAvCTP8A](https://images.app.goo.gl/goWHU3rkHjAvCTP8A) ---
**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:** [April 17, 2021, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4529 "2021-04-17T04:36:05Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > I don’t know if I want MTG to STFU…or keep on talking. I think I’ll go with curtain number one. Hopefully Six-Shooter Lauren is behind there as well. [https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/16/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-lauren-boebert-vote-against-bill-for-leukemia-patients/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/16/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-lauren-boebert-vote-against-bill-for-leukemia-patients/index.html) > [@](#): > > Boebert said in a statement to CNN, “This bill added hundreds of millions of dollars to the national debt, while not receiving a CBO score or going through the committee process,” a reference to scoring done by the Congressional Budget Office, the agency that, among other things, tells lawmakers how much legislation will cost. And Greene, who often makes outlandish claims to seek headlines, claimed that “Nothing in this bill prevents the funding of aborted fetal tissue by taxpayers.” The program keeps an inventory of cord blood and a database of bone marrow donors for matches with patients diagnosed with leukemia and other fatal blood diseases and is not related to the fetal tissue argument raised by Greene or the argument raised by Boebert How can such toxic shit like these two _not_ lead to internecine GOP goofiness down the road, which is fine and dandy by me, but jesus, how can anyone…I dunno…_eat lunch_ with them? ---
**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:** [April 17, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4530 "2021-04-17T14:11:28Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > I don’t know if I want MTG to STFU…or keep on talking. I find this disrespectful. Please refer to Marjorie Wharrgarbl by name. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2021, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4531 "2021-04-17T14:30:38Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > For those the can stomach it, the actual memo can be found here. > > [punchbowl.news](https://punchbowl.news/wp-content/uploads/America-First-Caucus-Policy-Platform-FINAL-2.pdf) > > ### [America-First-Caucus-Policy-Platform-FINAL-2.pdf](https://punchbowl.news/wp-content/uploads/America-First-Caucus-Policy-Platform-FINAL-2.pdf) > > 392.73 KB “Our education system is broken. Let me demonstrate:” > [@](#): > > The 20th Century saw the decline in many vital American institutions. None has been more damaging to the United States than our education system. The increased consolidation of educational spending came with it the ability for powerful left-wing special interest groups to redirect the focus away from preparing future generations of national talent to progessive indoctrination and enrichment of an out-of-control elite oligarchy. Even worse, our education has worked to actively undermine pride in America’s great history and is actively hostile to the civic and cultural assimilation necessary for a strong nation. I mean, it is slightly more coherent than ShitGibbon could have done, but I can see the little marks around the edges where they kept putting the sharpie down for a moment. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4532 "2021-04-17T23:20:19Z")
Whaddya know, [they backed down.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repubs-have-formed-an-openly-racist-caucus/940207/203) ---
**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:** [April 18, 2021, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4533 "2021-04-18T02:06:08Z")
> **[Colorado Republican Makes Lynching Joke Before Declaring That the...](https://www.theroot.com/colorado-republican-makes-lynching-joke-before-declarin-1846700252)** > > Republicans are so desperate to whitewash America’s racist history that they are willing to reach far and wide for white-splanations that rewrite history to make a nation that sanctioned mass human trafficking, torture and the oppression of an entire... Somehow his totally self-aware lynching joke was the least offensive thing he was about to say. “Going back to the founding, and going back to the three-fifths, and I heard the comments and I appreciate them, and I respect them,” Boomer Ben Shapiro continued. “But the Three-Fifths Compromise, of course, was an effort by non-slave states to try to reduce the amount of representation that the slave states had. It was not impugning anybody’s humanity.” For the record: [The three-fifths compromise](https://www.thoughtco.com/three-fifths-compromise-4588466) was an agreement between both slave-owning and non-slave-owning states to keep America running smoothly at the expense of Black people—there’s nothing about that that can be construed as _not_ racist." ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4534 "2021-04-18T02:14:53Z")
Yeah. As your cite described, > [@](#): > > Delegates from Northern states, however, objected on the grounds that enslaved people could not vote, own property, or take advantage of the privileges that White men enjoyed. ISTM pretty legit to “try to reduce the amount of representation” that a state is claiming based on its population of enslaved people that it refuses to regard as people in any other capacity. ---
**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 18, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4535 "2021-04-18T23:39:49Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > ISTM pretty legit to “try to reduce the amount of representation” that a state is claiming based on its population of enslaved people that it refuses to regard as people in any other capacity. And Ben Shapiro _knows_ that. He knows it very well. He just says otherwise because it he profits from doing so. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4536 "2021-04-19T19:49:22Z")
Voldemort has issued a warning to all “woke corporations.” He actually thinks they are more afraid of him that he is of them. Who has the money, asshole? > **[Rick Scott warns ‘woke corporate leaders’ of ‘massive backlash’](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/549016-rick-scott-warns-woke-corporate-leaders-of-massive-backlash/)** > > Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R) warned corporations opposing Georgia’s recently enacted voting restrictions they will face “massive backlash” during the midterm elections in… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=225) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=227)