# 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:** 275
**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:** [June 3, 2021, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5500 "2021-06-03T23:04:43Z")
I admit I’m guessing as to party affiliation here but hey, prove me wrong: > **[Audio cut in speech on Black people’s role in Memorial Day](https://apnews.com/article/sc-state-wire-lifestyle-memorial-day-race-and-ethnicity-f649e76fd5ae6140d501ac9dc0cac380)** > > Organizers of a Memorial Day ceremony in Ohio turned off the featured speaker’s microphone when a former Army officer began recalling how freed Black slaves honored fallen soldiers after the Civil War. > [@](#): > > Organizers of a Memorial Day ceremony turned off a speaker’s microphone when the former U.S. Army officer began talking about how freed Black slaves had honored fallen soldiers soon after the Civil War. > > Retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter said he included the story in his speech because he wanted to share the history of how Memorial Day originated. > > But organizers of the ceremony in Hudson, Ohio, said that part of the speech was not relevant to the program’s theme of honoring the city’s veterans. > > Cindy Suchan, chair of the Memorial Day parade committee and president of the Hudson American Legion Auxiliary, said it was either she or Jim Garrison, adjutant of the American Legion Post 464, who turned down the audio, the [Akron Beacon Journal](https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2021/06/02/veterans-audio-cut-when-he-discusses-blacks-role-memorial-day-speech-hudson-ohio/7508217002/) reported. > > The Ohio American Legion said Thursday that it was investigating. Cowards. _Racist_ cowards. No respect for anything: not for veterans, not for other people generally, not for anything. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2021, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5501 "2021-06-04T05:54:03Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > On [SWP INC - Colorado Company](https://colorado-corp.com/co/swp-inc), the same address is given, with “Mark Geist” listed as the corporate agent. Come on, he’s a Benghazi survivor. Once he goes public with the truth Hillary Clinton will never win the 2016 election! ---
**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:** [June 4, 2021, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5502 "2021-06-04T05:55:36Z")
This is just the break the McCain campaign has been waiting for! ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2021, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5503 "2021-06-04T06:10:48Z")
Well, now that we have time travel down, we can concentrate on reanimation of the dead. Hopefully not as zombies. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2021, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5504 "2021-06-04T08:58:43Z")
Anybody reanimates me after all this shit, I’m gonna punch em in the mouth. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2021, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5505 "2021-06-04T10:04:42Z")
I’m with you. It’s not even worth coming back for the braaaaains. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2021, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5506 "2021-06-04T13:44:49Z")
Headline: Zombie Horde Feasts on Brains, Republicans Untouched ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5507 "2021-06-04T16:10:59Z")
Was the double-meaning of “untouched” intentional? If so, well played. If not, well played anyway. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5508 "2021-06-04T18:52:36Z")
15954 JACKSON CREEK PARKWAY, SUITE B #564, Monument, CO 80132 is a strip mall. Google Maps doesn’t go into the parking lot to see what actual stores are there. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2021, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5509 "2021-06-04T22:16:17Z")
Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar claims socialists hate Jews. > **[Congresswoman under fire for bizarre claim all socialists are ‘anti-Jew’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/florida-congresswoman-socialist-jews-fox-b1859921.html)** > > There’s actually a long history of Jewish socialists in America and around the world Note that the host of this Fox show was Ben Domenech, the publisher of the Federalist website and husband of Meghan McCain. His father is a former Interior Department official under Individual 1. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2021, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5510 "2021-06-04T22:37:01Z")
Yes, Meghan always loves referencing her deceased father on The View. She was decidedly more tight-lipped about her father-in-law who was actively working for Trump’s administration. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5511 "2021-06-04T23:23:21Z")
Gay Republican is shocked that a Republican official said she was sickened that he and his husband had adopted children. > **[Gay man left shocked after Republican says she is ‘sickened’ he adopted children](https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/06/02/massachusetts-republican-jeffrey-sossa-paquette-deborah-martell/)** > > A gay Massachusetts Republican candidate was shocked after a party official said she was "sickened" to learn that he had adopted children. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2021, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5512 "2021-06-05T00:07:45Z")
[https://i.ibb.co/3mT4TVM/Leopards-Eating-People-s-Faces-Party.png](https://i.ibb.co/3mT4TVM/Leopards-Eating-People-s-Faces-Party.png) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5513 "2021-06-05T00:11:09Z")
“African American KKK member shocked at lack of civility at Annual White Pride Picnic”. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2021, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5514 "2021-06-05T02:09:19Z")
[Allen West has abruptly resigned as chair of the Texas QOP,](https://www.rawstory.com/allen-west/) so we can only imagine what scandal he was involved in that’s going to hit the papers in a day or two. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2021, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5515 "2021-06-05T02:17:08Z")
The public reason is that he (sort of) plans to run for governor, but who knows. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5516 "2021-06-05T02:22:07Z")
I heard that, too. Run against Greg Abbott. “Most Trumpy” competition, eh? Sounds like a pretty thin pretext. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2021, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5517 "2021-06-05T03:55:39Z")
My Pillow guy’s lawyers have dumped him after he filed a lawsuit against Dominion Voting Systems against their advice. > **[Law Firm Quits MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s Dominion Lawsuit, Claims Lawyer...](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/06/04/law-firm-quits-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindells-dominion-lawsuit-claims-lawyer-filed-it-without-permission/)** > > Lindell’s attorney is no longer with the firm, it said in a statement Friday. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2021, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5518 "2021-06-05T04:04:22Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > My Pillow guy’s lawyers have dumped him after he filed a lawsuit against Dominion Voting Systems against their advice. Wonder what Rudy’s doing next week… ---
**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:** [June 5, 2021, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5519 "2021-06-05T04:09:11Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Headline: **Zombie Horde Feasts on Brains, Republicans Untouched** _Mayans also disappointed_ “We dragged all those guys to the top of the pyramid and there wasn’t a heart among them,” spokesman says. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=274) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=276)