# 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:** 235
**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 27, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4697 "2021-04-27T14:59:34Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > (From Tucker Carlson’s idiocy: “Next time you see someone in a mask on the sidewalk or on the bike path, do not hesitate, ask politely but firmly, would you please take off your mask?” If someone does this, can we take off our masks and then cough heavily on their face, making sure there’s lots of spit and phlem spewing all over them? Apparently this is what they want. ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4698 "2021-04-27T15:06:40Z")
Makes sense to me. I don’t think I’d go to that much effort though. A hearty “Fuck You, asshole” will do, and I won’t have to stop walking. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4699 "2021-04-27T15:28:14Z")
Phlem is freedom! ---
**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 27, 2021, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4700 "2021-04-27T16:17:07Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > With good reason. The CONTENT of the Executive Orders matters immensely. Never suggested otherwise. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > No, you absolutely do not have to accept any such thing. > > It’s not just a question of trump _doing stuff we didn’t like_ , and you know that. False equivalence. Not going down that well-trodden path, which has been discussed in thousands of posts. > > Amended: Okay, you can **recognize** that it might happen, but **accepting** connotes “oh well, nuttin’ we can do until the next election.” I don’t buy that. This is idiotic. My claim is not that you need to accept the actual policies. There’s nothing wrong with fighting against shitty policies, and you don’t have to wait for the next election to do that. My point is that, if one of your fundamental political and constitutional arguments when your favored party holds the presidency is that that the President has the power to exercise broad-ranging (indeed, almost unlimited) authority and issue executive orders in cases where Congress has not passed a law, then you shouldn’t start complaining about executive power when the other guys get in and do the same thing. Whine about their actual policies all you like. Fight against the policies in any way that you can. But if the principle of executive power is fine when your side wields it, then don’t whine about the principle of executive power when the other side uses it. ---
**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 27, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4701 "2021-04-27T16:59:06Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > If someone does this, can we take off our masks and then cough heavily on their face, making sure there’s lots of spit and phlem spewing all over them? Apparently this is what they want. I wonder too if Fucker Carlson is going to advise everyone to insist that their waiters NOT wash their hands after talking a shit. “Ask your waiter if he washed his hands after shitting. If he says “yes” then DEMAND that he shit on his hands IMMEDIATELY. It’s your PERSONAL FREEDOM to get food delivered to you by someone with shit on their hands.” ---
**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 27, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4702 "2021-04-27T18:09:59Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Fucker Carlson says you should call CPS if you see children wearing face masks. > > [https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-masks/](https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-masks/) And it gets better. I presume [this is chastisement](https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1387030054769676290?s=20) of Fucker [QUOTE=Erick Erickson tweet] Conservatives don’t get in other people’s faces and tell them how to raise their kids. That’s what the other side does and I’m not on that side and so won’t behave that way. [/QUOTE] I mean where the fuck have you been, shithead? Oh, I see, the shit on your head explains it. ---
**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 27, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4703 "2021-04-27T18:22:41Z")
Carlson said last night that you need to call the police and keep calling them because children are wearing masks. I hope if anybody does that, they get arrested. The city of Long Beach asked people to contribute to a facility where immigrant children are being held, and _one_ person contributed _one_ copy of Kamala Harris’s children’s book to _one_ facility. And now that means that the federal government is paying for copies of her book and are handing them out to all immigrant children. > **[Analysis | No, officials are not handing out Harris’s picture book to migrant...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/27/no-officials-are-not-handing-out-harriss-picture-book-migrant-kids/)** > > A flawed report in the New York Post quickly spread on right-wing media. But it's Four-Pinocchios false. ---
**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 27, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4704 "2021-04-27T19:03:59Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > If someone does this, can we take off our masks and then cough heavily on their face, making sure there’s lots of spit and phlem spewing all over them? Apparently this is what they want. I recommend spitting santorum in their faces. ---
**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 27, 2021, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4705 "2021-04-27T19:08:44Z")
But where are you such that you are getting santorum in your mouth? ---
**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 27, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4706 "2021-04-27T19:12:49Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > But where are you such that you are getting santorum in your mouth? Merely reading about it, even here on this message board, fills me with a santorum-like analogue by mere osmosis, and it tastes every bit as bad as you’d expect. Blech! Exactly like I ooze cigarette smoke from every pore after merely being in the apartment next-door to a volcanic smoker (really), I ooze santorum after mere proximity to news stories like this. ---
**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 27, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4707 "2021-04-27T20:17:04Z")
The new York Post has deleted their article about the Harris book, but the link is still up, redirecting to the front page. ---
**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 27, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4708 "2021-04-27T21:18:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The city of Long Beach asked people to contribute to a facility where immigrant children are being held, and _one_ person contributed _one_ copy of Kamala Harris’s children’s book to _one_ facility. And now that means that the federal government is paying for copies of her book and are handing them out to all immigrant children. Well, it’s more credulity than most of the stories floating around out there. See _plant-based beer_ above. ---
**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 27, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4709 "2021-04-27T23:13:08Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > What a foul and ugly place is the mind of Rick Santorum. > > it is brimming with santorum If ever a human being\* deserved to be associated with excrement-related bodily fluids, it’s Rick Santorum. \*allegedly \ [quote=“Senegoid, post:4690, topic:911140, full:true”] > [@Smapti](#): > > Fucker Carlson says you should call CPS if you see children wearing face masks. All the major media have picked up this story. Google for: Tucker Carlson Call Child Protective Service on kids wearing masks to find the story at Yahoo, Forbes, Business Insider, The Wrap, HuffPo, The Independent, many others. Carlson also urges the freedom-loving unmasked to harass mask-wearing adults in public. From the Raw Story article that @Smapti posted: > [@](#): > > “Masks have always been **incompatible with a free society** ,” said Carlson. “Masks are for the guilty. They’re signifiers of shame and submission.” > … I wonder if Carlson will emphasize this to his surgical team, should he ever be in need of surgery? I can hear him now: ‘_No masks in MY operating room! Spit and cough into my open body all you like! FREEEEDUMB!!!_’ Erick Erickson’s somewhat-cowardly commentary on Carlson, as quoted upthread a bit, is missing the point of “conservative” politics these days. “Conservatives” do NOT get elected by following Erickson’s ideas about not telling others how to raise their kids----“conservatives” get elected these days by being as dictatorial toward everyone else as they possibly can. Scolding Tucker Carlson for advising being an asshole is a waste of time for Erickson. TC knows that is the road to POWER POWER POWER, and he’s only going to become more extreme in his exhortations to his fans. (Unless lawsuits, against TC or against his employer, convince him otherwise. But I’m not holding my breath about the prospect. Carlson and the Murdochs SHOULD be sued if someone takes the advice to “confront” someone else and injuries follow…but who knows if what should happen, actually will.) ---
**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 27, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4710 "2021-04-27T23:13:36Z")
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas says the state’s new voting law which eliminates drive through voting won’t affect people of color because most of them don’t have cars. > **[Fact check: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick claims most people of color don’t have a...](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/politifact/article/Fact-check-Lt-Gov-Dan-Patrick-claims-most-16130478.php)** > > Democratic critics of SB 7 argue that eliminating drive-thru voting would... ---
**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 27, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4711 "2021-04-27T23:19:54Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > All the major media have picked up this story. Google for: > Tucker Carlson Call Child Protective Service on kids wearing masks I hope everyone now knows that they have the FREEDOM to hock a big lugie into Tucker Carlson’s face. In fact, he WANTS you to do it. If you don’t spit in his face, you should be reported. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4712 "2021-04-27T23:24:15Z")
The author of the article says she was ordered to write it despite knowing it was false, and has now quit the Post. > **[Rupert Murdoch reporter quits in disgust after being 'ordered to write' BS...](https://www.rawstory.com/ny-post-kamala-harris-lie/)** > > Rupert Murdoch's tabloid, the New York Post, published a ridiculously false smear of Kamala Harris."The New York Post temporarily deleted, and then edited and republished, a debunked article that falsely claimed that copies of Vice President Kamala... ---
**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 27, 2021, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4713 "2021-04-27T23:49:40Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > All the major media have picked up this story. Google for: > > Tucker Carlson Call Child Protective Service on kids wearing masks > > I hope everyone now knows that they have the FREEDOM to hock a big lugie into Tucker Carlson’s face. In fact, he WANTS you to do it. > If you don’t spit in his face, you should be reported. If that DID happen and Carlson filed a police report about it, think how entertaining his description of the situation would be! Naturally he’d have no problem whatsoever with the blatant hypocrisy he’d be displaying, and neither would his fans----but we’d all have a bit of fun playing his self-contradicting clips. More interesting, perhaps, would be the situation in which someone takes Carlson literally and spits copiously in _Rupert Murdoch_’s face—giving Tucker full credit. It’s exactly what Rupert deserves, really. ---
**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 28, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4714 "2021-04-28T02:19:53Z")
As if Caitlyn Jenner wasn’t bad enough, Randy Quaid says he’s considering running for Governor. > **[California braces for another 'clown car' of recall candidates](https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/04/27/california-braces-for-another-clown-car-of-recall-candidates-1378427)** > > The current social-media culture gives enterprising Californians an easy way to amplify their voice and build a following should they join the fray. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4715 "2021-04-28T05:58:48Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > “Conservatives” do NOT get elected by following Erickson’s ideas about not telling others how to raise their kids----“conservatives” get elected these days by being as dictatorial toward everyone else as they possibly can. See also: Conservatives throwing shit fits about other people being “allowed” to agree to gender-affirming medical treatment or even just personal gender expression for their own transgender children, for example. ---
**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 28, 2021, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4716 "2021-04-28T11:03:54Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The author of the article says she was ordered to write it despite knowing it was false, and has now quit the Post. Why didn’t she quit before she wrote it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=234) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=236)