# 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:** 233
**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 25, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4657 "2021-04-25T20:44:25Z")
Well I’m sure his fancy scotch is meat based. ---
**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 25, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4658 "2021-04-25T23:06:57Z")
Featured speaker at Minnesota GOP event says George Floyd killing was a hoax planned since 2016. > **[Minnesota county's GOP event featured far-right conspiracy theorist](https://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/minnesota-countys-gop-event-featured-far-right-conspiracy-theorist)** > > Loudon's hour-long talk was rife with communist and Marxist conspiracy theories. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4659 "2021-04-25T23:48:54Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Featured speaker at Minnesota GOP event says George Floyd killing was a hoax planned since 2016 Good lord what a horrid site. “Please turn off your ad blocker!” (I do so) “Please register!” Would not click again. ---
**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 26, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4660 "2021-04-26T01:19:58Z")
Not an ad-blocker fan, myself (nor the registering type), so [this source](https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/government-and-politics/6998962-Minnesota-countys-GOP-event-featured-far-right-conspiracy-theorist) might work a little better, and from it, five handy hints: (again - un-quote-box-able) 😡[QUOTE] 😡 \* More than 100 members of Congress should be investigated for espionage. “We need to investigate about 100 of your Democratic colleagues for working for foreign governments and the communist and Islamic movements.” - Offered a conspiracy theory that the killing of Floyd and the subsequent civil unrest was planned since 2016. “This was planned since 2016, folks. This was all organized by a group headquartered in Minnesota called the ‘Freedom Road Socialist Organization.’” - Pushed a conspiracy theory that the pandemic was a planned effort by the Chinese government so President Trump would lose the 2020 election. “The People’s War (Chinese government) is biological weaponry. The COVID was deliberately spread to this country. It was timed for an election year to destroy your economy, destroy Trump and an even worse purpose.” - Suggested that voting machines were rigged despite an absence of evidence. “ **Second, no more voting machines. None.** Now, there are probably voting machines out there that are perfectly reliable. There probably are. The fact is, most of our base doesn’t trust them because we’ve been lied to and scammed.” - Advocated that conservative states and counties band together to defy legislation passed by a democratically elected government. He said he was not advocating secession, but his proposal would have the same effect. “I don’t mean to leave the union. I want to go back to that people, so you can join together and you tell a federal government **we will not implement any unconstitutional directives in our states**.”. 😡[/QUOTE] 😡 First bolded: words…fail me? Second bolded: “…we will not honour those icky gross dem votes”. ---
**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 26, 2021, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4661 "2021-04-26T02:25:21Z")
The new GQP, same as the old “Qanoon” [came from the spell check - I like it]. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4662 "2021-04-26T02:36:46Z")
> [@](#): > > Pushed a conspiracy theory that the pandemic was a planned effort by the Chinese government so President Trump would lose the 2020 election. “The People’s War (Chinese government) is biological weaponry. The COVID was deliberately spread to this country. It was timed for an election year to destroy your economy, destroy Trump and an even worse purpose.” It is a sadly common tactic for people to say that their enemies have choices in what they do, but that they, themselves, do not. Once you accept that fallacy, it is easy to blame your enemies for everything bad that happens. In this case, there is no reason why COVID had to cost Trump the 2020 election. If Trump had responded well to the pandemic, he could have touted that as a success during the campaign and it would have improved his chances of reelection. China didn’t cost Trump the election, Trump’s own actions did. ---
**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 26, 2021, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4663 "2021-04-26T03:51:18Z")
An Alaska state Senator has been banned from flying on Alaska Airlines due to refusal to wear a mask. This means she has no access to a flight into the state capital, and the only other choice is by ferry. > **[Alaska Airlines bans Eagle River lawmaker for violating COVID-19 mask policy](https://www.adn.com/politics/alaska-legislature/2021/04/24/alaska-airlines-bans-eagle-river-lawmaker-for-violating-covid-19-mask-policy/)** > > Sen. Lora Reinbold took a ferry back to the capital after being blocked from the only scheduled air service between Anchorage and Juneau. ---
**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 26, 2021, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4664 "2021-04-26T12:00:56Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Plant based beer. God, what an idiot. I hop he was joking. This made me look up “meat-based beer”. Og help us, it exists. But it wouldn’t if those tree-hugging liberals had their way: > **[Meatbeers: 12 Beers Brewed With Animal Meat](https://affotd.com/2014/04/09/meatbeers-12-beers-brewed-with-animal-meat/)** > > Yes, people have used meat to brew beer. Here are some of the examples. > > **[12 Beers Brewed With Meat, Donuts, And Other Crazy Ingredients](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/12-beers-brewed-with-meat_b_5119241)** > > You might have expanded your drinking palate beyond Crazy Stallion since you finished college. ---
**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 26, 2021, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4665 "2021-04-26T12:04:00Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > > [@bobot](#): > > > > Plant based beer. God, what an idiot. I hop he was joking. > > This made me look up “meat-based beer”. Og help us, it exists. But it wouldn’t if those tree-hugging liberals had their way: - > > [Meatbeers: 12 Beers Brewed With Animal Meat | America Fun Fact of the Day](https://affotd.com/2014/04/09/meatbeers-12-beers-brewed-with-animal-meat/) > > [https://alcohol.stackexchange.com/questions/574/are-some-beers-brewed-with-meat](https://alcohol.stackexchange.com/questions/574/are-some-beers-brewed-with-meat) > > [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/12-beers-brewed-with-meat\_b\_5119241](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/12-beers-brewed-with-meat_b_5119241) - Fermented bullion. Yum. ---
**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 26, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4666 "2021-04-26T12:43:01Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Fermented bullion. Yum.- Emphasis on the BULL, eh? ---
**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 26, 2021, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4667 "2021-04-26T12:45:37Z")
This Republican idea isn’t stupid, but it showcases Republicanstupidity. Or possibly treason > [@](#): > > **Anti-Trump conservative group to grade GOP lawmakers on whether they uphold (or undermine) democracy** > > An anti-Trump conservative group is launching an effort to track and evaluate whether Republicans in Congress, in the group’s view, have acted to either undermine or uphold democracy and democratic values and what role, if any, they played in attempts to overturn the 2020 election. > > The Republican Accountability Project [has created what it’s calling a “GOP Democracy Report Card,”](https://accountability.gop/report-card/) which assigns grades to Republican members of Congress ranging from an “A,” which the group describes as excellent, to an “F,” which it describes as very poor. The details of the report card were first shared with CNN ahead of its release on Monday. > > … > > Only 14 Republicans in Congress received an “A,” the highest possible grade. In contrast, more than 100 Republicans received an “F,” the lowest possible grade. [https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/26/politics/gop-democracy-report-card/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/26/politics/gop-democracy-report-card/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4668 "2021-04-26T14:02:06Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Governor of Montana signs a law making it illegal for the federal government to ban guns. The law doesn’t make it illegal for the federal government to ban guns; the law says that the state of Montana will not direct any money or resources to enforcing federal gun bans, and prohibits state and local employees from helping to enforce those bans. There’s nothing stopping the feds from continuing their own enforcement of federal law. > [@running\_coach](#): > > Breaking news: The GOP approves of sanctuary cities. Right, but those of us on the left/liberal side of politics also need to be careful about throwing stones in glass houses on this issue. If we believe that it’s OK for states and cities to refuse to enforce federal laws in areas like immigration, or marijuana prohibition (and I do believe that), then the same principle should probably apply to other areas of the law as well. ---
**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 26, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4669 "2021-04-26T14:12:14Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Right, but those of us on the left/liberal side of politics also need to be careful about throwing stones in glass houses on this issue. If we believe that it’s OK for states and cities to refuse to enforce federal laws in areas like immigration, or marijuana prohibition (and I do believe that), **then the same principle should probably apply to other areas of the law as well.** - I agree. The GOP doesn’t. I don’t think it’s a glass house issue to point out the GOP’s hypocrisy. ---
**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 26, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4670 "2021-04-26T15:14:26Z")
Ken Paxton is a fucking idiot: > **[Supreme Court rejects Texas suit over California travel ban](https://apnews.com/article/travel-clarence-thomas-foster-care-ken-paxton-lawsuits-b0c0084f8da0154a84201a7cd5bfc2c2)** > > WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider Texas' challenge to ---
**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 26, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4671 "2021-04-26T15:15:20Z")
I think “those on the left” need to learn to recognize false equivalences when we are presented with them. A state declaring their intention not to enforce legislation _that hasn’t been passed yet, or even written_ is not the same as a state declining to enforce a federal law already on the books. It’s a purely performative act, a way to cement their defiance of a government they are looking to paint as illegitimate. The intent of this legislation, IMHO, was not to protect the gun owners of the state of Wyoming. It’s to further advance a lie, the lie that the federal government, under the new administration, is gearing up to take your guns - with the added bonus of pleasing the democracy hating wing of their constituency by declaring that they do not consider laws passed by the Biden Administration to be legitimate. I have been increasingly frustrated by people on “my side” that don’t get it and persist in using their own failings to excuse the abusive behavior of the opposition. The Trumpublican Party has a stated philosophy of “hitting back ten times harder” and this philosophy is behind everything they do. You dared to suggest accuse a Republican of acting illegally. OK- we’ll accuse any one that makes an accusation against a Republican of torturing, raping and murdering children as part of an organized child trafficking cabal. You investigated our Presidents son? Wait til you see what we do to the son of _your_ President! You dared to investigate the President? We’re going to tear up the personal lives of every person assigned to the investigation and destroy them. You said Trump cheated in 2016? Watch us accuse your guy of cheating if you want to see how it’s done! No one is perfect, especially in politics. Everyone lies sometimes. But a lie like “65% of the population has received one COVID vaccine shot”, when the true number was 62% - is NOT the same ballpark as a guy who resoundingly lost the election claiming he won in a landslide. Even if the person trying to tell you otherwise says it a million times in a million different ways. ---
**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 26, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4672 "2021-04-26T16:08:56Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > In this case, there is no reason why COVID had to cost Trump the 2020 election. If Trump had responded well to the pandemic, he could have touted that as a success during the campaign and it would have improved his chances of reelection. China didn’t cost Trump the election, Trump’s own actions did. In addition to this, if you were planning some sort of apocalypse with the specific intent of damaging Trump, a pandemic would be the _last_ thing you’d consider. The man is well-known as a germaphobe, and as such, a pandemic would have been the one crisis I would have predicted he’s actually be competent to handle. Who would have guessed that a germaphobe would have listened to the advice of the best doctors in the world, that pretty much amounted to “Wash your hands, don’t touch me, and don’t breathe on me!”, and then said “NO!!!” to literally all of that?!? ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4673 "2021-04-26T18:05:40Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Well I’m sure his fancy scotch is meat based. Since all their other accusations turned out to be projection, I’m waiting for the reveal that he was confused because HIS alcoholic beverages are all made from children’s blood harvested below a pizza parlor. ---
**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 26, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4674 "2021-04-26T18:12:23Z")
A dive into the Republican claims that Biden is going to ban beef. > **[Fact check: No, Biden is not trying to force Americans to eat less red meat |...](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/04/26/politics/fact-check-biden-climate-plan-red-meat-hamburger/index.html)** > > Republican members of Congress, Fox News personalities and other prominent right-wing figures are falsely claiming that President Joe Biden is trying to force Americans to eat far less red meat. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4675 "2021-04-26T20:09:31Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > state declining to enforce a federal law We have to remember, on both sides, that it’s **not the state’s job** to enforce federal laws. In the case of immigration sanctuary, the states (actually it’s usually local govts) are just saying to the feds “do you’re own job, we’re not gonna help”. And with cannabis, the states are passing their own laws about how it should be treated and enforced. Montana (or whatever state) can write their own laws about how guns should be treated within their state, and how state law enforcement should respond. The tricky part comes when trying to figure out if it’s legal or not for the states to do this. The supremecy clause of Article VI of the Constitution says that federal law wins whenever there is a conflict. But the federal govt has rarely enforced this clause. Only in cases that it considers in the interests of national security or when a state makes a much stricter law that the federal govt feels treads on individual rights. (cf: [Arizona v United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_v._United_States) So if some state decided to say that “there’s no restrictions on guns” then that would be the law in that state, but it wouldn’t supercede federal law. And the feds may or may not decide to get involved. Sorry for the civics lesson here in the pit, but I thought we all needed to be one the same page on this. ---
**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 26, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4676 "2021-04-26T20:42:59Z")
> **[Rick Santorum Says 'Nothing' Was In America Before White Colonizers Arrived](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-santorum-native-american-culture_n_6086ddb7e4b05af50db9656b)** > > "I mean, yes, we have Native Americans, but candidly, there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture," said the CNN commentator. > [CNN](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/cnn) senior political commentator Rick Santorum said Friday that there was “nothing” in America before white colonizers arrived and that Native Americans haven’t contributed much to American culture anyway. > > “We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here,” Santorum, a former Republican senator from Pennsylvania, told students during remarks at a Young America’s Foundation event. “I mean, yes, we have Native Americans, but candidly, there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.” > … > > The very foundation of the United States and its system of representative democracy stems from a political system developed by the Iroquois Confederacy of Nations, founded in 1142. The U.S. Senate even paid tribute to the Iroquois [with a 1988 resolution](https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/hconres331.pdf) stating: “The confederation of the original 13 colonies into one republic was influenced by the political system developed by the Iroquois Confederacy, as were many of the democratic principles which were incorporated into the constitution itself.” > … The stupid just goes on and on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=232) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=234)