# 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:** 230
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4597 "2021-04-22T15:09:34Z")
It turns out “election fraud” is the modern from of “[Chariots of iron](https://biblehub.com/judges/1-19.htm).” ---
**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 22, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4598 "2021-04-22T15:18:37Z")
I can’t believe Ted Cruz thinks his God would even listen to a Democrat’s prayer. ---
**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 22, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4599 "2021-04-22T20:46:18Z")
One wonders how his comments could have had any impact on a sequestered jury. ---
**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 22, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4600 "2021-04-22T20:56:26Z")
The same way he snuck all those votes into the ballot boxes of six states to win the election, duh. ---
**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 22, 2021, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4601 "2021-04-22T23:10:13Z")
Ben Carson: Racial equity is just another form of racism. > **[Ben Carson defends op-ed arguing racial equity is ‘another kind of racism’](https://thehill.com/homenews/media/549642-ben-carson-argues-racial-equity-is-another-kind-of-racism/)** > > Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson began trending on Twitter Wednesday after an appearance on Fox News in which he discussed his belief that calling for r… ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4602 "2021-04-23T00:04:35Z")
There are _sooooo_ many people in the Trumpiverse that just will not shut the fuck up. ---
**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 23, 2021, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4603 "2021-04-23T00:41:10Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > There are _sooooo_ many people in the Trumpiverse that just will not shut the fuck up. - Seriously. The **Stupid Interregnum** is _over_, Ben Carson. Go back to sleep. ---
**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 23, 2021, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4604 "2021-04-23T00:52:01Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > > > There are _sooooo_ many people in the Trumpiverse that just will not shut the fuck up. - > > Seriously. > > The **Stupid Interregnum** is _over_, Ben Carson. Go back to sleep. - [He’s been talking in his sleep.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpflI3Weio0) ---
**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 23, 2021, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4605 "2021-04-23T00:53:55Z")
“I’ve been listening to your dreams and getting very low…” …_.I’ll_ say. ---
**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 23, 2021, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4606 "2021-04-23T02:40:49Z")
Is this the story where he says “and trust me I know all about that racism stuff 'cause I used to be black” ? ---
**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 23, 2021, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4607 "2021-04-23T05:35:40Z")
Whoa - you won’t believe this! Actually, wait…Yes, yes, you will believe this, as in - SOfrickinP. > **[Senate Republicans unveil a $568 billion infrastructure package that would...](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/senate-republicans-unveil-568-billion-160828150.html)** > > The plan would set up user-fees to tax people rather than corporations. Democrats are likely to oppose it since it's a quarter of Biden's proposal. That’s odd - nothing about clean-energy incentives or care for the elderly or children. Democrats anyway are going to let their $2.25 trillion version get relentlessly chipped away at. ---
**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 23, 2021, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4608 "2021-04-23T11:18:23Z")
Yet another day when it’s embarrassing to be a Texan. Texas Republicans, like all Republicans, hate poor people. [https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-House-vote-on-Medicaid-16121100.php](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-House-vote-on-Medicaid-16121100.php) > The Texas House on Thursday defeated an amendment to expand Medicaid-funded health coverage for hundreds of thousands of low-income Texans, likely closing off any viable path for Democrats to move the decade-long effort forward this session. > > The vote was 68-80, with Rep. Lyle Larson of San Antonio the lone Republican in support. Eight other Republicans who were being closely watched, given their earlier support for a separate Medicaid expansion bill, ultimately sided in opposition. > > “Unfortunately we are stuck in a decade-old narrative that has forced the closing of many rural hospitals and less access to physician care,” Larson tweeted after the vote. > … > > Texas has long had both the highest rate and overall number of uninsured people in the country, and has among the worst and least equitable health outcomes. > … We’re Number One! 👍🏽 ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4609 "2021-04-23T13:28:51Z")
> 5 HOURS LATER > Gee whiz, 14 whole pages? I can see why you wouldn’t feel the need to read the legislation you’re criticizing. Who has that kind of time? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4610 "2021-04-23T14:45:59Z")
I’m not sure who this is (there’s no name given in the description and I didn’t hear it during the video) but at about the 1 minute mark, he says something that makes even the other Fox News hosts (including Jeanine Pirro, who I do recognize) go “oh no”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Zuf-KjxrBYg/hqdefault.jpg "Fox host makes comment so gross that EVERY CO-HOST turns on him ON AIR") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuf-KjxrBYg) For those not inclined to watch, he says “I’m glad he (Chauvin) was convicted on all charges _even if he may not have been guilty of them all_ because I don’t want any more riots”. It was too much for even his co-hosts to stomach. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4611 "2021-04-23T14:55:59Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I’m not sure who this is (there’s no name given in the description and I didn’t hear it during the video) That’s Greg Gutfeld, a participant on Fox’s “The Five”, and guy with his own Late Night Talk Show now. I hadn’t heard of him before a couple of weeks ago, but he’s been outrageous lately (maybe to get publicity for his sow), and the TV in my gym runs Fox right next to the CNN that I watch. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4612 "2021-04-23T14:56:43Z")
“Shhhhh, no, not while we’re _on the air_!!” Oh, for the days when the FCC wasn’t completely spineless… ---
**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 23, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4613 "2021-04-23T15:44:44Z")
Not sure the FCC has the power to do anything about the idiots on FoxNews. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4614 "2021-04-23T17:05:54Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > > [@CaptMurdock](#): > > > > “Shhhhh, no, not while we’re _on the air_ !!” > > > > Oh, for the days when the FCC wasn’t completely spineless… > > Not sure the FCC has the power to do anything about the idiots on FoxNews. They don’t. They can only control broadcast TV. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4615 "2021-04-23T17:15:39Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > They don’t. They can only control broadcast TV. That’s not what is says on the FCC website: > “The Federal Communications Commission regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.” > **[What We Do](https://www.fcc.gov/about-fcc/what-we-do)** > > The Federal Communications Commission regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. An independent U.S. government agency... ---
**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 23, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4616 "2021-04-23T17:43:39Z")
The good news is that Arizona SB 1485, calling for anyone who misses two elections – including municipal and special elections – be purged from the PEVL\* if they do not respond to a post card – is stalled indefinitely by one vote. The bad news is that the one Republican who made the difference in a straight party line vote is merely waiting until the Republican party’s _third_ audit of the election. The senator who introduced the bill said, with no trace of irony, “It’s disappointing to be on the receiving end of someone’s temper tantrum.” [Cite.](https://www.thecentersquare.com/arizona/feuding-gop-lawmakers-stall-election-reform-bill/article_d42d5bb2-a3b4-11eb-9b44-2f1ac4e1003b.html) \*Permanent Early Voting List. Voters can be put on the list by merely signing up, and about 80% of registered voters have done so. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=229) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=231)