# 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:** 247
**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:** [May 10, 2021, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4938 "2021-05-10T05:28:01Z")
Yep. It’s more efficient to just incessantly pound on the fact that it’s a sin to vote for a Republican, until they get it through their skulls. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4939 "2021-05-10T05:31:33Z")
Is that at me? SD highlighted your post as if it was. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2021, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4940 "2021-05-10T12:04:49Z")
Texas, our Texas… 🎶 🎵 > **[Medicaid expansion for uninsured Texans had bipartisan support, but lawmakers...](https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/07/texas-medicaid-expansion-legislature/)** > > Nothing is truly dead until the session ends. But committee chairs in both chambers have blocked bills from getting hearings, and supporters have dim hopes that Republican leaders will revive it in time. > … > Medicaid expansion “appears extremely unlikely to move this session,” said state [Sen. Nathan Johnson, D-Dallas](https://www.texastribune.org/directory/nathan-johnson/), author of [Senate Bill 117](https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=87R&Bill=SB117), a plan that had bipartisan support among House members but not in his own chamber. “It appears that for purposes of this session, lingering misinformation and political intransigence are still too large to overcome.” > … > > Texas has the largest number of uninsured residents in the nation, many of them working adults who can’t afford private or subsidized insurance but don’t qualify for Medicaid because they earn too much. Roughly 20% of the state’s population lacks health insurance — a number health officials say has grown since more than a million Texans lost jobs and, in many cases, health coverage because of the COVID-19 pandemic. > … > > Opponents of expanding Medicaid to an estimated 1.4 million adult Texans who would qualify under the Affordable Care Act of 2010 argue that the program is poorly managed and financially unsustainable, and that **expansion encourages government dependence** , delivers poor health outcomes, and crowds out children and people with disabilities who need it the most. > > “The new reality is that Medicaid expansion isn’t just dead for now, it should be dead-dead,” said David Balat, director of the Right on Healthcare initiative at the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation. “There’s no longer any rational justification for expanding Medicaid to help the uninsured.” > … My bold. “Government dependence” – must be avoided at all cost! Even if it costs lives. Does “government dependence” include being able to count on electricity and clean water? I guess it does. Best not to expect anything from the state government, eh? I hate Texas Republicans with every molecule of my being. 😡 They’re going to be with us for a long time: > **[Texas GOP’s voting restrictions bill could be rewritten behind closed doors...](https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/07/texas-voting-restrictions/)** > > In a 78-64 vote, the House on Friday passed a pared down version of priority GOP legislation to place new restrictions on voting. Now the bill likely will be reshaped in conference committee with the Senate, largely out of public view. Texas already has some of the most restrictive voting laws in the country. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2021, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4941 "2021-05-10T16:20:16Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > Is that at me? SD highlighted your post as if it was. Well, it was intended as being in agreement with your post (the part about educating them being slower). On a more in-depth reading of the post, it’s apparent that one needs to tilt the head, squint, and adjust the lighting in order to make my suggestion look like an additional point to yours. My apologies for the maladroit structure and lack of clarity. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4942 "2021-05-10T16:23:46Z")
Ah, no worries ---
**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:** [May 10, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4943 "2021-05-10T16:57:49Z")
A group of QAnon believers in Arizona is asking the state Supreme Court to remove all elected officials from office and install them instead. > **[QAnon Has an Alarming New Plan to Steal Arizona for Trump](https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yy75/qanon-has-an-alarming-new-plan-to-steal-arizona-for-trump)** > > It involves replacing all the state’s elected officials. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4944 "2021-05-10T17:58:15Z")
Hey, why not? Stranger things have happened. And will yet happen… ---
**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:** [May 10, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4945 "2021-05-10T19:35:09Z")
My Pillow guy urges Dominion Voting employee to turn himself in to the authorities so that he will only have to serve 10 to 20 years. > **[Lindell Urges Dominion Worker to Turn Himself In for Reduced Jail Sentence](https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-urges-dominion-employee-turn-himself-only-10-20-years-jail-1589919)** > > "You're disgusting and you are treasonous. You are a traitor to the United States of America," Lindell said of Dominion's Eric Coomer. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2021, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4946 "2021-05-10T19:47:07Z")
There’s so much to love about that Mike Lindell story. Firstly, maybe continuing to harass Eric Coomer ahead of the Dominion court case isn’t the wisest strategy. Secondly, > [@](#): > > “Eric Coomer if I were you right now, instead of going over and making deals at Newsmax, if I were you, I’m turning myself in and turning in the whole operation,” he said, “so maybe, just maybe you get immunity and you only get to do, I dunno, ten [to] twenty years.” That’s… not how immunity works, usually. Thirdly, > [@](#): > > These are things I have evidence of. The evidence is there. It’s sitting there. Well Mike, why don’t you turn it all in to the [Supreme Court](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/supreme-court) and bring it to the [FBI](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/fbi)? Oh it’s getting to the Supreme Court everybody." That’s…not how the Supreme Court works either. And finally: > [@](#): > > “Mr. Lindell is the sole author and executive producer of this program and is solely and exclusively responsible for its content,” the disclaimer read. “The topic of this broadcast is the 2020 election. OAN has undertaken its own reporting on this topic. This program is not the product of OAN’s reporting.” When you’re too batshit crazy for OAN, it’s probably too late to get back onto the path to sanity. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4947 "2021-05-10T19:47:51Z")
> But not everyone in the Republican world is happy about the efforts to overturn the election results, including those who voted to sanction the audit last month. > > “It makes us look like idiots,” State Sen. Paul Boyer, a Republican from suburban Phoenix who supported the audit, told the New York Times. > > “Looking back, I didn’t think it would be this ridiculous. It’s embarrassing to be a state senator at this point.” The nonexistent watermarks, [suspicious folds](https://www.azmirror.com/2021/04/30/audit-using-unproven-technology-developed-by-failed-inventor-jovan-pulitzer/) and whackadoo bamboo weren’t enough? ---
**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:** [May 10, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4948 "2021-05-10T19:50:47Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > When you’re too batshit crazy for OAN, it’s probably too late to get back onto the path to sanity. That’s probably what his lawyers are counting on. Otherwise Coomer is going to own a crappy pillow company. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4949 "2021-05-10T19:54:20Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Otherwise Coomer is going to own a crappy pillow company. In my wilder musings, Dominion gets ownership of MyPillow and leases the production facilities to [Good Pillow](https://www.businessinsider.com/david-hogg-resigns-from-good-pillow-a-mypillow-competitor-2021-4?r=US&IR=T). If nothing else, the quality would likely improve. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4950 "2021-05-10T20:29:59Z")
The “auditors” of the Arizona votes are demanding the passwords for county computer systems. The sheriff is not willing to comply. They also want to go door to door to ask voters how they voted. > **[Sheriff Goes Ballistic After Arizona Recounters Demand Access To County...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/maricopa-county-sheriff-paul-penzone-arizona-recount-router-access-cyber-ninjas_n_60989401e4b0ae3c687ffc44)** > > Giving computer network router and password information to a firm run by a conspiracy theorist is "mind-numbingly reckless," the Maricopa County sheriff said. What happened to the shut down due to DOJ questions? ---
**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:** [May 10, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4951 "2021-05-10T20:34:07Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > They also want to go door to door to ask voters how they voted. And I’m sure everyone would willingly share how they voted on their secret ballot last November with a bunch of belligerent nutcases. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4952 "2021-05-10T20:42:08Z")
Canvassing results: - 33% Biden - 30% Trump - 37% Fuck off ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4953 "2021-05-10T21:17:09Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > In my wilder musings, Dominion gets ownership of MyPillow and leases the production facilities to Good Pillow… Then I’d retrofit my _Ice Cream From A Custom AMC Pacer_ business to sell pillows, just so I could say [“Welcome to Good Pillow, home of the Good Pillow, may I take your order please?”](https://imgur.com/gallery/heb9M) ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4954 "2021-05-10T22:02:47Z")
Obviously, the 37% who responded “Fuck off” were Trump voters, since Biden was the only one who would trigger that sort of response. So the final tally is 67% Trump, 33% Biden: as Dear Leader predicted, a landslide! ---
**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:** [May 10, 2021, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4955 "2021-05-10T22:16:50Z")
Arizona official says that the covid vaccine turns you into a potted plant. > **[An Arizona GOP official made unverified claims that COVID vaccine turns...](https://www.businessinsider.com/arizona-gop-official-covid-jab-turns-people-into-potted-plants-2021-5)** > > Republican official Jim O'Connor peddled unverified claims about the COVID vaccine, claiming that some 40,000 people had turned into "human vegetables." ---
**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:** [May 10, 2021, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4956 "2021-05-10T22:19:17Z")
“Wow! 40,000 people! All documented and everything! Wow! Can you take me to see ten of them?” ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4957 "2021-05-10T23:44:34Z")
I saw this on my brother’s FB yesterday. My response was that if being a potted plant meant not having to put up with this moron\* and his ilk, I’d consider that a feature. \* Yes, I know that’s insulting. To morons. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=246) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=248)