# 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:** 251
**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 12, 2021, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5018 "2021-05-12T22:11:38Z")
The Arizona state legislature is set to issue subpoenas against all five Mariposa County supervisors and the Mariposa County sheriff to answer why they are not cooperating with the vote “audit”. > **[All five Maricopa County supervisors to be subpoenaed Monday over audit](https://tucson.com/news/local/all-five-maricopa-county-supervisors-to-be-subpoenaed-monday-over-audit/article_dd39fefa-af98-11eb-86bc-939d6af287bc.html)** > > PHOENIX — Senate Republican leaders are setting the stage for a new legal fight with Maricopa County. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2021, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5019 "2021-05-12T23:02:47Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > …the end times are coming. I didn’t vote for that. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5020 "2021-05-12T23:12:10Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Mariposa County supervisors and the Mariposa County sheriff I love how spell check doesn’t know what to do with Maricopa. Mariposa is Spanish for butterfly, but it has that in its dictionary? 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 12, 2021, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5021 "2021-05-12T23:16:06Z")
To confirm: So, Maricopa County was _legally bound,_ then, to surrender 2 million-odd ballots, tallying machines and other equipment to these 🙄Cyber Ninjas 🙄 slap-heads in Florida? I ask because of how absolutely fucking gobsmacked I am that these conspiracist bozos managed to actually _make_ such an acquisition. ---
**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 12, 2021, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5022 "2021-05-12T23:17:52Z")
I didn’t even notice. I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5023 "2021-05-12T23:33:33Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I didn’t even notice. I guess. . I just find it funny what spell check gets and doesn’t. My iPhone always corrects my spelling and capitalization on anything to do with Star Wars, but replaces “for” with “fir” everytime I type it. ---
**Author:** ![PackerMan2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/packerman2/32/2894_2.png) [@PackerMan2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PackerMan2)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5024 "2021-05-13T00:45:29Z")
> **[Matt Gaetz's Clueless Attack On Rep. Adam Kinzinger Backfires Spectacularly](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-gaetz-adam-kinzinger_n_609b404fe4b069dc48f40ab5)** > > There's one topic Gaetz should probably refrain from joking about, his fellow Republican congressman points out. Butthead really is a moron. I really wish Kinzinger didn’t hold some of the views he does. I would love to be able to support him. ---
**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 13, 2021, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5025 "2021-05-13T01:41:06Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > > I didn’t even notice. I guess. . > > I just find it funny what spell check gets and doesn’t. My iPhone always corrects my spelling and capitalization on anything to do with Star Wars, but replaces “for” with “fir” everytime I type it. Every time I speak the name “Joan,” it comes out with “Joanne.” ---
**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 13, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5026 "2021-05-13T02:31:51Z")
Senator James Inhofe I guess got tired of a black EPA nominee answering his questions, so he told her that if she didn’t behave he was going to “talk to her daddy”. > **[Inhofe tells EPA nominee, 'if you don't behave, I'm going to talk to your...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/12/politics/radhika-fox-confirmation-hearing-inhofe/index.html)** > > Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe told a female Environmental Protection Agency nominee on Wednesday that if she did not "behave," then "I'm going to talk to your daddy." A spokesperson for the governor of Oklahoma told a Native American reporter that it’s the state government’s policy not the talk to black owned media, because they “respond to journalists, not activists pretending to be reporters.” > **[Governor's spokesperson says refusing to respond to Black-owned media site is...](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/12/2030100/-Governor-s-spokesperson-says-refusing-to-respond-to-Black-owned-media-site-is-our-policy)** > > If only people knew the racist inner-workings that inform how they get their news, we’d have far more former CNN aficionados retreating into media-free solitude. The racism at work at your ... Congressman Andrew Clyde said today, that "There was no insurrection,” Clyde said. “And to call it an insurrection, in my opinion, is a bold-faced lie.” Clyde also claimed that video taken during the insurrection looked like “a normal tourist visit,” > **[Riot Video Contradicts GOP Rep. Andrew Clyde's Denial Of Capitol Riot](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew-clyde-video-capitol-riot-insurrection_n_609c5adce4b0909247fef7ea)** > > The Georgia congressman said the insurrection is "a bold-faced lie” and likened the Jan. 6 attack to "a normal tourist visit." The video tells another story. Coming out of the ouster of Liz Cheney, Kevin McCarthy said, “I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election.” > **[House Republican Leader McCarthy: No one ‘questioning the legitimacy’ of 2020...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republican-leader-mccarthy-no-one-questioning-legitimacy-2020-election-n1267140)** > > Hours earlier Rep. Liz Cheney was pushed out of her leadership position for rebuking Trump's recent claims that the election was "stolen." He then came out of a meeting with Biden and the other Congressional leaders and tweeted, “I just met with Corrupt Joe Biden and he’s STILL planning to push his radical Socialist agenda onto the American people.” > **[Kevin McCarthy sends out text bashing 'Corrupt Joe Biden' within minutes of...](https://www.rawstory.com/kevin-mccarthy-2652964250/)** > > House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Wednesday wasted no time bashing President Joe Biden shortly after attending a bipartisan White House meeting about a proposed infrastructure deal.As noted by Newsweek White House reporter Elizabeth... ---
**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 13, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5027 "2021-05-13T03:15:01Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I just find it funny what spell check gets and doesn’t. My iPhone always corrects my spelling and capitalization on anything to do with Star Wars, but replaces “for” with “fir” everytime I type it. Yet every spell check gets Cthulhu correct. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5028 "2021-05-13T10:55:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A spokesperson for the governor of Oklahoma told a Native American reporter that it’s the state government’s policy not to talk to black owned media, because they “respond to journalists, not activists pretending to be reporters.” Oddly enough it reminds me of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog talking to costumed Star Wars fans waiting in line for _The Phantom Menace_. One particular nerd told him “I don’t speak to inferior life forms.” Triumph addressed the nerd’s crotch and said “Hear that? He’s not talking to you!” ---
**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:** [May 13, 2021, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5029 "2021-05-13T12:41:37Z")
There are… consequences for misspelling certain names. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5030 "2021-05-13T13:06:56Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Wisconsin is on a tear lately: > [National anthem would be required under Wisconsin bill | AP News](https://apnews.com/article/wi-state-wire-green-bay-packers-wisconsin-sports-nfl-171d2a657dd99e415e02a7fe8c4bbd62) Aw. I was going to bring that one up. The party of “free speech,” everyone. What the guy at the end misses is that, if a country is worthy of patriotism, then it doesn’t need be taught. Just like how a good, nice person doesn’t have to go around convincing people they are good and nice. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5031 "2021-05-13T13:39:55Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > MTG says that the “Jihad Squad” shouldn’t be allowed in Congress. Twitter was quick to point out her support for the Capitol linsurrection. That’s rich coming from the spokesperson of the national YeeHawd movement. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2021, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5032 "2021-05-13T13:44:29Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Senator James Inhofe I guess got tired of a black EPA nominee answering his questions, so he told her that if she didn’t behave he was going to “talk to her daddy”. Your characterization of this incident is rather tendentious. Upon reading your description, and the CNN headline, I thought that his comment must have been part of a testy exchange, or a strong difference of opinion. But as the body of the CNN story makes clear, the nominee had specifically mentioned her family and her father in her opening statement, and her father was in the room for the hearing. Inhofe was just making a little joke before he moved on to questioning other nominees. He explicitly referred to her opening statement about her family and her father before he made the quip. And she’s not black; she’s the daughter of Indian immigrants. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5033 "2021-05-13T13:57:07Z")
Yes, this was much ado about nothing. It was a lighthearted joke that she laughed about. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5034 "2021-05-13T14:34:00Z")
I agree that it wasn’t a _big_ deal, it was a textbook example of a microaggression. It carried the insinuation that she was a child (the use of the word “daddy” instead of father) that needed a good “talking to” if she misbehaved. Lighthearted? Why would Inhofe share a genuine _light-hearted_ quip with an official that he has an adversarial relationship with? She wasn’t a friend, and this wasn’t a social occasion. Do you really think he was trying to be genuinely nice? Inhofe? I can make a snowball so global warming is a hoax Inhofe? He knew he was putting her down, he probably had a good laugh with his troll friends. Jut because you smile and use a friendly tone of voice when you say something belittling doesn’t make it a “light-hearted” quip. And if you don’t laugh, or god forbid, complain…you’re just being overly sensitive and prickly. Because it’s not a big deal. It wasn’t a big deal, microaggressions never are. They’re like paper cuts, an injury so minor that it’s a joke, but if you get a dozen paper cuts a day it’s not that funny. It wasn’t a big deal, but it’s not nothing. ---
**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 13, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5035 "2021-05-13T14:52:22Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I agree that it wasn’t a _big_ deal, it was a textbook example of a microaggression. It carried the insinuation that she was a child (the use of the word “daddy” instead of father) that needed a good “talking to” if she misbehaved. > > Lighthearted? Why would Inhofe share a genuine _light-hearted_ quip with an official that he has an adversarial relationship with? She wasn’t a friend, and this wasn’t a social occasion. Do you really think he was trying to be genuinely nice? Inhofe? I can make a snowball so global warming is a hoax Inhofe? He knew he was putting her down, he probably had a good laugh with his troll friends. > > Jut because you smile and use a friendly tone of voice when you say something belittling doesn’t make it a “light-hearted” quip. > > And if you don’t laugh, or god forbid, complain…you’re just being overly sensitive and prickly. Because it’s not a big deal. It wasn’t a big deal, microaggressions never are. They’re like paper cuts, an injury so minor that it’s a joke, but if you get a dozen paper cuts a day it’s not that funny. > > It wasn’t a big deal, but it’s not nothing.- This. One hundred percent. Every word. 😡 ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5036 "2021-05-13T15:01:57Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > It wasn’t a big deal, but it’s not nothing. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > This. One hundred percent. Every word. Agreed. Let’s reverse the roles. If SHE had said that to HIM, what would the reaction be? I can guaran-damn-tee that Fox would be all over her for her comments and demeaning language. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2021, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5037 "2021-05-13T15:11:26Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Agreed. > > Let’s reverse the roles. If SHE had said that to HIM, what would the reaction be? I can guaran-damn-tee that Fox would be all over her for her comments and demeaning language. I don’t measure things by the standard of what FOX News does or does not do. I know that if she had said the same thing to him, MY reaction–the only reaction I’m responsible for–would have been exactly the same. Inhofe is a big fucking idiot in a variety of ways. I also think that what he said was unnecessary and a bit unprofessional considering the circumstances, and probably also reflects the patronizing attitude of an older man towards a younger women. There are all sorts of ways that we might identify it as a product of power imbalances between the two people. But if you watch the [video](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/553289-inhofe-tells-epa-nominee-hell-talk-to-her-daddy-if-she-does-not-behave), it also seems to come across much more as “clueless grandpa” than any deliberate attempt to demean or humiliate or offend Ms. Fox. While unintended offense should still be identified, I still think intent matters, and I don’t see much here except a clumsy attempt at humor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=250) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=252)