# 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:** 261
**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:** [May 20, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5218 "2021-05-20T20:33:10Z")
And they don’t stop! ---
**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 20, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5219 "2021-05-20T20:37:30Z")
Lauren Boebert claims Texas hasn’t had a covid death since Abbott lifted the mask requirement. Even the state’s own statistics show over 3500 people have died from it. > **[Lauren Boebert Falsely Claims Texas Hasn't Had a Single COVID-19 Death Since...](https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/lauren-boebert-falsely-claims-texas-hasnt-had-a-single-covid-19-death-since-lifting-all-restrictions-two-months-ago/)** > > Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado and other Republican lawmakers are rebelling against the requirement that members of Congress wear a mask while on the ---
**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 20, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5220 "2021-05-20T20:51:23Z")
Qevin MqQarthy holds a press conference about the mean Democrats who want to investigate the attack on the Capitol Reporter: "Are you absolutely certain that none of your members were in any communication with any of the people who stormed Capitol Hill?” MqQ: “goodbye.” > ---
**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 20, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5221 "2021-05-20T21:45:38Z")
Tennessee has passed a law requiring businesses to post signs “warning” the public if trans people are allowed to use the bathroom. [https://time.com/6049595/tennessee-anti-trans-bathroom-bill/](https://time.com/6049595/tennessee-anti-trans-bathroom-bill/) ---
**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 21, 2021, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5222 "2021-05-21T02:25:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Tennessee has passed a law requiring businesses to post signs “warning” the public if trans people are allowed to use the bathroom. This law, I’m willing to bet, is on a fast track to a federal lawsuit, and there’s a half-decent chance that it will be struck down as unconstitutionally compelled speech. A few years ago, the Supreme Court basically ruled unconstitutional a California law requiring so-called crisis pregnancy centers to post notices making clear whether or not they were licensed medical facilities, and informing customers that the sate provides free or low-cost access to family planning services, including contraception and abortion. California passed the law because most of these crisis pregnancy centers are Christian-run organizations whose main aim is to prevent pregnant women from getting abortions, and many uneducated and low-income Californians go to these centers thinking that they are regular reproductive health facilities. The law was essentially passed with the aim of compelling these clinics to be honest about what they are, and are not, but the [Supreme Court struck it down 5-4](https://www.oyez.org/cases/2017/16-1140), and that was back when Ginsburg was still on the court. If the state can’t force a clinic to post signs about whether or not it’s actually a licensed medical facility, then surely a state can’t force a business to post warning signs about who might be in the bathroom. Although, with this Supreme Court, you never know. ---
**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 21, 2021, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5223 "2021-05-21T02:30:50Z")
Andrew Guiliani, who is running for Governor of New York, claims he has been in government for 50 decades. He’s 35 years old. His former government experience was as Individual 1’s liaison to sports teams who wanted to visit the White House. His previous job was as a pro golfer. ---
**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 21, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5224 "2021-05-21T02:39:21Z")
> **[Tucker Carlson lashes out at Capitol Police for supporting 9/11-style...](https://www.rawstory.com/tucker-carlson-capitol-police/)** > > The Capitol Police are unhappy with congressional Republicans turning their back on a January 6 commission to investigate the violent invasion of the U.S. Capitol — and on Wednesday, wrote a letter sharply criticizing their opposition.But Fox News'... > [@](#): > > “Members of Congress … trust their lives to the Capitol Hill Police,” said Carlson. “And that’s why Capitol Hill Police don’t lobby Congress. That would be a dangerous conflict of interest backed by an implied threat: do what we say, or watch your back. In this case that’s exactly what they were saying to Republicans.” > > “That’s a ransom note,” Carlson said of the letter. “Imagine getting it from one of your own bodyguards. It might be enough to make you rethink your position, which is of course the point of it. The Capitol Hill police are now effectively an armed political action committee. So you’ve got to ask, what other partisan demands will they make in the future?” Why yes, Tucky-Tuck. It would be just terrible if the police had a political agenda that was at odds with the people they protect and were wont to threaten elected officials of they didn’t get their way. Good thing that never happens in this country, right? ---
**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 21, 2021, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5225 "2021-05-21T02:40:05Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > His former government experience was as Individual 1’s liaison to sports teams who wanted to visit the White House. So he was in charge of picking up the hamberders, then. ---
**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 21, 2021, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5226 "2021-05-21T02:47:20Z")
Oops, I meant 5 decades. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2021, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5227 "2021-05-21T02:53:54Z")
Well…from a certain point of view… He was born in 86 and he’s been around his dad (who’s been in politics since way before then) his whole life. So he’s “been in” politics in the 80’s, 90’s, 00’s, 10’s and 20’s. That’s five decades…from his point of view… ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5228 "2021-05-21T02:58:34Z")
Republican = scum. Pigs. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5229 "2021-05-21T03:45:23Z")
Republicans are deformed cicadas. Wait, no, that’s too kind. What the fuck are they, then? Radioactive waste? p.s. Ravenman, where the fuck are you? You were telling me to chill out, how you knew Republicans, and how there was a way to be rational with rabid fruit bats. Come on out, coward! ---
**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:** [May 21, 2021, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5230 "2021-05-21T04:25:28Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Republican = scum. > > Pigs. On one of my random byzantine sojourns about the internets, I landed on a video, a clip of a movie in which the actor playing Welch uttered the famous line, “have you no sense of decency, at long last, Senator, have you no sense of decency?” Yes, those were Rs he was addressing, and yes, they were on an unspeakably vile crusade championed by a drunk who had no skills, personality or measurable intellect so he fell back on outspoken assholery and baseless accusations. The problem is that we stand on the same precipice, facing the opposite way. Republicans seek to destabilize/destroy the US to the same (or greater) extent as the pinkos sought in the mid 20th. In most ways, the R agenda is far worse than what was reviled as “communism” back in the day. Our passion and anger could possibly drive us to HUAC-levels of enmity directed at them. And perhaps they would genuinely deserve it even more. But it is a dangerous path that we need to avoid, or to tread very cautiously its edges. I want them punished. They need to be punished. But we absolutely must not go looking like vindictive monsters in the process. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5231 "2021-05-21T06:11:33Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Republicans seek to destabilize/destroy the US to the same (or greater) extent as the pinkos sought in the mid 20th I would _really_ be interested in how you come to believe this, not necessarily about the Republicans, but the assertion the Left was as equal a threat to American democracy in the 1950s as the Right is in the Trump era. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5232 "2021-05-21T12:17:42Z")
If they get another chance, they’ll tear the first amendment to shreds. > **[Trump Justice Department seized CNN records tied to correspondent’s phone and...](https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/20/trump-doj-cnn-correspondent-490091)** > > The news comes less than two weeks after The Washington Post said the department secretly got three of its reporters’ phone records. > **[Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Post reporters’ phone records](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-justice-dept-seized-post-reporters-phone-records/2021/05/07/933cdfc6-af5b-11eb-b476-c3b287e52a01_story.html)** > > The action grew out of a leak investigation surrounding reporting on Russia’s role in the 2016 election. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5233 "2021-05-21T12:40:38Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Our passion and anger could possibly drive us to HUAC-levels of enmity directed at them. The only reason “HUAC-levels of enmity” were inappropriate back in the day is that they were predicated upon dubious if not outright concocted allegations of sedition. Such reactions are perfectly proper in response to clear and unmistakable sedition such as the case currently before us. ---
**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 21, 2021, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5234 "2021-05-21T13:16:00Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Andrew Guiliani, who is running for Governor of New York, claims he has been in government for 50 decades. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Oops, I meant 5 decades. No, you were right the first time. He was including his past lives. In Transylvania. > [@Smapti](#): > > “That’s a ransom note,” Carlson said of the letter. “Imagine getting it from one of your own bodyguards. Ha! My bodyguards know not to mess with me lest they feel the sting of my lash! Oops. I meant my _lashes_ – I just bat my eyes coyly at them and they get right back in line. * * * ETA: Just noticed that today is my cake day. I joined in 2010. Only 11 years ago – seems _much_ longer. In a good way. Now I want cake. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5235 "2021-05-21T13:25:41Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Oops. I meant my _lashes_ – I just bat my eyes coyly at them and they get right back in line. I tried that once. They all quit. ---
**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 21, 2021, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5236 "2021-05-21T14:19:54Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Just noticed that today is my cake day. Happy Cake Day! > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Now I want cake. If you want the SDMB to send you baked goods, you have to set your browser to accept cookies. ---
**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 21, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5237 "2021-05-21T15:08:57Z")
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