# 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:** 227
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4537 "2021-04-19T19:57:42Z")
Well I mean, to be fair, I think it is probably technically correct to say that if Coca Cola persists in opposing Georgia’s voting restrictions, Coca Cola won’t win a single electoral race in the midterms. ---
**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 19, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4538 "2021-04-19T20:07:14Z")
_‘Good thing we vote with our wallets’ he says, sipping his 4th Diet Coke of the morning._ ---
**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 19, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4539 "2021-04-19T20:25:16Z")
Actually, I think that saying he is just blowing smoke with nothing behind it is the most charitable interpretation of his words. The alternative is that he is going to enact legislation focusing on specific companies out of pure partisan vengeance which would be abuse of power of the worst kind. Someone needs to call him on this and ask whether that is what he really meant. ---
**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, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4540 "2021-04-19T20:30:43Z")
Of course that’s what he really meant! They’ve already introduced legislation going after MLB. I can see them trying to craft all sorts of bills revoking tax breaks and such. It will bite them in the ass, of course. Hard. ---
**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 19, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4541 "2021-04-19T22:25:44Z")
My Pillow guy says that Dominion Voting Systems is a branch of the government, so attacking them, and even lying about them, is covered by the First Amendment. > **[Trump-loving MyPillow CEO claims First Amendment right to lie about voting...](https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-lawsuit-2652631285/)** > > MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is building a high-profile legal team to defend him against a billion-dollar defamation suit that he hopes will land before the U.S. Supreme Court.The staunch Donald Trump ally has hired veteran First Amendment attorney... ---
**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 20, 2021, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4542 "2021-04-20T02:32:03Z")
And now Mr. MyPillow is suing Dominion. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4543 "2021-04-20T03:35:38Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > (courtesy of Raw Story) > MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is building a high-profile legal team to defend him against a billion-dollar defamation suit that he hopes will land before the U.S. Supreme Court. He _does_ realize, doesn’t he, that in order to get to SCOTUS, he’s going to have to lose at trial at least twice? If not, Dershowitz ought to be disbarred for not explaining that to him. ---
**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 20, 2021, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4544 "2021-04-20T03:56:04Z")
Not the first reactionary but:[https://www.abc15.com/news/state/gov-ducey-issues-executive-order-banning-vaccine-passports](https://www.abc15.com/news/state/gov-ducey-issues-executive-order-banning-vaccine-passports) "Arizona Governor Doug Ducey issued an executive order Monday banning the use of vaccine passports. According to a release, the executive order would prevent state and local governments from requiring Arizonans to provide COVID-19 vaccination status to receive service or enter a business, building, or area. “The residents of our state should not be required by the government to share their private medical information,” said Governor Ducey. “While we strongly recommend all Arizonans get the COVID-19 vaccine, it’s not mandated in our state — and it never will be. Vaccination is up to each individual, not the government.” Of course if the Federal Department of Overreach [what the GQP would call it] requires them for travel - just a lot of hot air. Note that the fake vaccine passports sprouting online constitute a Federal offense, a felony. Be nice to put people with them on a twenty year no-fly list, lose security clearances, etc. I’m feeling mean. Wrote to my congressional delegation (Hawaii) suggesting a Federal requirement and appropriate penalties. ---
**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 20, 2021, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4545 "2021-04-20T05:05:18Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > And now Mr. MyPillow is suing Dominion. no u ::crossing fingers Lindell might go for a dream team of Lewin, L. Lin Wood, Sidney Powell and a sort of shadowy Mr. Dershowitz, with occasional input from Rudy, and maybe Mr. Stone can tilt his bowler into the fray:: ---
**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 20, 2021, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4546 "2021-04-20T05:33:58Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Someone needs to call him on this and ask whether that is what he really meant. To say nothing of explaining what _bill of attainder_ means. You’d think a lawyer would know this already. ---
**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 20, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4547 "2021-04-20T14:58:06Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > To say nothing of explaining what _bill of attainder_ means. You’d think a lawyer would know this already. A bill of attainder is OK if you do it from an Admiralty Court with a fringed flag. ---
**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 20, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4548 "2021-04-20T16:23:08Z")
Okay, this isn’t a stupid Republican idea, but we don’t have a thread for “smart Republican ideas” (I wonder why 🤨). George W. Bush weaves a Republican fantasy… (bless his heart): [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bush-today-s-gop-is-isolationist-and-nativist/ar-BB1fQZkj?ocid=msedgdhp](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bush-today-s-gop-is-isolationist-and-nativist/ar-BB1fQZkj?ocid=msedgdhp) > … > Still, Bush remained hopeful that a more moderate Republican — one who supported reasonable gun reform measures, increased public school funding and a path to citizenship for undocumented workers, among other policies — could succeed in the party’s 2024 presidential primary. > > “I think if the emphasis is integrity and decency and trying to work to get problems solved, I think the person has a shot,” he said. > … Oh, George… “moderate Republican”? I don’t think so. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4549 "2021-04-20T16:26:11Z")
“We’ll get you and your little dog, too”, he said as he shook his tiny fist at the sky. This is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time, or at least since Mitch McConnell made the same threats a week or so ago, besides it goes a long way towards proving my point that the Republican Party’s primary tactic is now straight-up extortion. And they aren’t really good at it. So, the GQP is threatening to pass malicious and vindictive legislation against their corporate donors if they regain power in 2022 “no matter how much money they give us”. Now, I’m no political strategist but this does not seem like an effective fund-raising gambit or campaign strategy. It must be that four dimensional chess thing. Speaking of, how’s that conservative boycott going? I guess boycotting Coke is hard, too hard for the Trump Organization. > **[Trump wants you to boycott Coke. His properties are still serving it | CNN...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/19/business/donald-trump-coke-boycott/index.html)** > > Over the past few years former President Donald Trump has called for boycotts against a number of companies, so it's hardly unusual to see him add Coca-Cola, Delta and other corporate giants that recently spoke out against Georgia's laws restricting... But I hope his supporters DO boycott Merck and the other pharmaceutical companies he carries grudges against…telling your supporters to boycott their medication is short term thinking at its finest. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4550 "2021-04-20T16:29:20Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Oh, George… “moderate Republican”? I don’t think so. It tells you something that GWB - whose administration pushed the party and the country hard to the right - is now claiming to be a “moderate” Republican voice. And it makes you wonder what the _next_ Republican administration will be like and how far right they will be. There is always a farther horizon, at least until you fall off the edge of the earth. ---
**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 20, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4551 "2021-04-20T16:46:24Z")
> > Chuck Grassley claims MLB moving the All-Star Game from Georgia cost the state “100 million jobs” ---
**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:** [April 20, 2021, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4552 "2021-04-20T16:54:50Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1384512274174447617](https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1384512274174447617) > > > Chuck Grassley claims MLB moving the All-Star Game from Georgia cost the state “100 million jobs” - > **[U.S. total employment and unemployment rate 1980-2028 | Statista](https://www.statista.com/statistics/269959/employment-in-the-united-states/)** > > In 2022, it was estimated that over 158 million Americans were in some form of employment, while 3.64 percent of the total workforce was unemployed. Appx. 150 million in 2021. I’ll bet the work commute is a nightmare in Georgia. ---
**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 20, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4553 "2021-04-20T17:06:11Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > But I hope his supporters DO boycott Merck and the other pharmaceutical companies he carries grudges against…telling your supporters to boycott their medication is short term thinking at its finest. OTOH, is this really a cohort that we want _off_ their meds ? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4554 "2021-04-20T17:20:17Z")
I’m pretty sure the CFSG already was full on neo-fascist at the end. Future GQP administrations can be more successful at retaining power, they cannot go further to the right. ---
**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 20, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4555 "2021-04-20T17:32:06Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@Steve\_MB](#): > > > > [https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1384512274174447617](https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1384512274174447617) > > > > > Chuck Grassley claims MLB moving the All-Star Game from Georgia cost the state “100 million jobs” - > > [U.S. total employment and unemployment rate 1980-2028 | Statista](https://www.statista.com/statistics/269959/employment-in-the-united-states/) > Appx. 150 million in 2021. I’ll bet the work commute is a nightmare in Georgia. What was it Barbie used to say? Oh yeah, math is hard. ---
**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 20, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4556 "2021-04-20T17:44:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > There is always a farther horizon, at least until you fall off the edge of the earth. No, there’s always a farther horizon. Now that the America First caucus idea has been floated, just because it was shot down by the current GQP leadership doesn’t mean it’s dead. It will fester until someone decides its now viable and be resurrected… and survive. The Overton window has shifted yet again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=226) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=228)