# 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:** 270
**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 29, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5400 "2021-05-29T18:13:46Z")
Ted Cruz introduces a bill to ban vaccination passports nation wide. > **[Ted Cruz follows suit from red states and introduces a bill to ban the...](https://www.businessinsider.com/ted-cruz-gop-senators-bring-bill-to-ban-vaccine-passports-2021-5)** > > Cruz was joined by Sens. Mike Braun and Cynthia Lummis. The home states of all three senators have already passed bans on vaccine passports. ---
**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 29, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5401 "2021-05-29T18:16:59Z")
The Governor of South Dakota flew to the Republican Governors’ Convention on the My Pillow guy’s private jet. When he wasn’t allowed inside the convention, he flew off, leaving her stranded and looking for a ride home. > **[MyPillow CEO flew Kristi Noem to GOP governors conference on his private jet](https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/28/mike-lindell-kristi-noem-private-jet-491348)** > > Mike Lindell was then kicked out of the RGA event after threatening to confront certain governors. ---
**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 29, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5402 "2021-05-29T20:50:34Z")
I approve of this cover, except that I think it is insulting to hardworking worms everywhere. [![](https://i.imgur.com/mLnLKyi.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/mLnLKyi.jpg) ---
**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:** [May 29, 2021, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5403 "2021-05-29T22:38:51Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > that little tiny fig leaf of principle, the idea that there _might_ actually be things you wouldn’t do, that always served to separate traditional Republican politicians from outright criminals … This is so accurate that it brings tears (of rage or of frustration? tough to say) to my eyes. ---
**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 29, 2021, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5404 "2021-05-29T23:04:45Z")
Excellent John Oliver show last week with several strong segments, including one taking jabs at (R.) candidates like Chuck Peruto, [who reassures us:](https://youtu.be/uyiz4VrA3gI?t=71) > [@](#): > > "I understand Black people just about as well as a Black person…I’m not going to say equal, but pretty good … Remember the Wonderful McCloskeys? The weapons-grade paranoid lawyers brandishing firearms at protestors who were simply walking past their house to protest at the mayors house? [Here’s Numbnut’s electoral bid.](https://youtu.be/uyiz4VrA3gI?t=114) I wonder where he stands on the stand-your-ground law. Next up - yet another up-side-down-mouther, like his old man and Gaetz, there’s Andrew Giuliani (a sort of sperm-mutation-in-a-petri-dish of Ron Howard, Will Ferrell and Mark Davis), who, as a 35 year-old, [claimed to be in politics for 32 years](https://youtu.be/uyiz4VrA3gI?t=194) Imperative: you must continue watching on for Andrew’s stint on a golf-themed reality tv show. Absolute, complete Backpfeifengesicht. (Mike: “I mean - he would talk to this door, if it had ears.”) (never seen a reality tv show, but if it had golden commentary like that all the time, yeah, I’d watch.) As Oliver concluded - yeah, buffoons, but so is Trump. In this GOP world, anything is fucking possible now. Scary. ETA: Luckily Peruto is in a dem stronghold area. (Philly) ---
**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 29, 2021, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5405 "2021-05-29T23:53:14Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Quite a few. But the top requirement is to acknowledge the direction that their party leaders are currently taking them is sheer madness. And yet, they still enable the crazies by voting with the R bloc. It is a red wall, not unlike the “blue wall” of LE, in the same way as there may be decent police officers, but they still side will the nasty ones. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5406 "2021-05-30T02:29:04Z")
Most of these went on the record as actively voting for Biden and some went so far as to campaign for him. I can’t say 100% of them, but a solid majority did. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5407 "2021-05-30T02:39:54Z")
Trumplicans _approve_ of MLK now? Who knew! ---
**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 30, 2021, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5408 "2021-05-30T05:26:00Z")
The Texas voter suppression law has a provision that lets judges overturn elections without any evidence of voter fraud or any reason other than the judge’s personal opinion. “language was inserted in the bill making it easier to overturn an election, no longer requiring evidence that fraud actually altered an outcome of a race — but rather only that enough ballots were illegally cast that could have made a difference.” > **[Texas Republicans finalize bill that would enact stiff new voting...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/texas-voting-restrictions/2021/05/29/86923248-be25-11eb-9c90-731aff7d9a0d_story.html)** > > The expansive measure, likely to pass this weekend, would make it harder to vote by mail, ban drop boxes and empower partisan poll watchers. ---
**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 30, 2021, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5409 "2021-05-30T07:36:02Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > Trumplicans _approve_ of MLK now? At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if they thought MLK was killed by the Deep State because he had found out about their plan to make Joe Biden president 52 years later and was about to deliver the proof to Fred Trump (who died one month before JFK Jr.'s “accidental” death - _coincidence_?) ---
**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 30, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5410 "2021-05-30T16:11:18Z")
I’m kinda done with the exercise of distinguishing good conservatives and republicans from destructive ones. What’s the point? They cannot stop the destruction of American democracy at this point, which is something that they as a party have enabled for years. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5411 "2021-05-30T17:23:51Z")
To their discredit, Democrats in Congress also appear to be having trouble bringing themselves to believe just how dangerous the GQP attack on democracy is. I kinda understand – who would want to believe that your colleagues elected to the nation’s highest legislative body are so small minded? – but they’re in danger in being swept aside by the shameless and nefarious tactics of their opponents. Somewhere buried in that morass of stupidity that has become the Republican Party lies a group who are smart enough to understand that the nation’s electorate is moving away from them. Yet they still believe that they can, and should be able to, govern with a minority of the people behind them. They might be right. ---
**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 30, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5412 "2021-05-30T18:23:47Z")
Anti-marijuana Republican Congresswoman is stocking up on marijuana stocks. > **[Meet the anti-legalization GOP Congresswoman cashing in on marijuana stocks](https://www.salon.com/2021/05/29/meet-the-anti-legalization-gop-congresswoman-cashing-in-on-marijuana-stocks/)** > > “It brings into question her credibility as a lawmaker,” one Congressional ethics expert told Salon ---
**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 30, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5413 "2021-05-30T18:26:47Z")
The My Pillow guy is going to investigate the Republican governors of Georgia and Arizona after he was booted from the Republican Governors’ Convention. He claims he’s spending millions of dollars on the investigation. Maybe he ought to start saving his money for when Dominion Voting Systems takes over his company. > **[Mike Lindell Vows 'Deep Investigation' of Republican Governors Kemp, Ducey](https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-vows-deep-investigation-doug-ducey-brian-kemp-after-gop-governors-meeting-ejection-1596094)** > > "We already know that Brian Kemp is in on it," Lindell said on Friday. "All the stuff Brian Kemp did, I've already done a lot of investigation into him. But we're going into a deeper dive, these two guys." ---
**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 30, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5414 "2021-05-30T19:20:45Z")
Well, it’s not like he’s going to be able to keep anything once the lawsuit is over. I wouldn’t be surprised if at least some of this spending is actually laundering money to hide it so it’s not confiscated. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5415 "2021-05-30T23:33:39Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Well, it’s not like he’s going to be able to keep anything once the lawsuit is over. I wouldn’t be surprised if at least some of this spending is actually laundering money to hide it so it’s not confiscated. - That sounds on-brand. In a big-dollar case such as Dominion’s against Lindell, there’s surely some mechanism for identifying money-laundering by the rightly-pessimistic defendant…isn’t there? Perhaps it varies by state? I’m reminded of divorce cases in which the more asset-rich of the two parties, anticipating the break-up, tries to hide some of those assets. This is so common an element in news reports about divorce that perhaps it’s _not_ illegal, though surely it should be. ---
**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 31, 2021, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5416 "2021-05-31T02:09:57Z")
During a cult meeting closed to the media, Mike Flynn calls for a Myanmar-style coup to install Loser Donald as dictator. [https://www.rawstory.com/michael-flynn-coup/](https://www.rawstory.com/michael-flynn-coup/) ---
**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 31, 2021, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5417 "2021-05-31T02:50:59Z")
Crazy “pastor” Rick Wiles, who doesn’t believe in covid or vaccines, has covid. > **[Vaccine Conspiracy Theorist Rick Wiles Hospitalized With COVID-19](https://hillreporter.com/vaccine-conspiracy-theorist-rick-wiles-hospitalized-with-covid-19-102360)** > > Vaccine Conspiracy Theorist Rick Wiles Hospitalized With COVID-19 ---
**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 31, 2021, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5418 "2021-05-31T02:53:06Z")
Fox is OUTRAGED that Kamala Harris told everybody to have a good long weekend, instead of talking about Memorial day being about soldiers. 20 minutes after Fox reported on their outrage, they reported on the best cocktails to drink this weekend. Meghan McCain is also outraged by Harris’s comments. In the meantime, she’s gambling and drinking in Vegas, while Harris visited John McCain’s grave. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5419 "2021-05-31T12:59:56Z")
^ I like both of these, for various values of ‘like’, but googled a bit to confirm. The FOX pivot from outrage to cocktails is [legit](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/05/hypocritical-fox-news-attacks-kamala-harris-pre-memorial-day-tweet-tweeted-cocktails/) and not surprising. McCain was at a casino on Saturday but it was just outside of Washington and so it’s a stretch to turn that one into much of a gotcha. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=269) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=271)