# 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:** 283
**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 14, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5661 "2021-06-14T03:30:20Z")
republikkkarens > [@](#): > > [People wore MAGA hats and waved signs outside a packed school board meeting](https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-nv-state-wire-nevada-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-6185b8f9c5b56e1fa1347b7f4a203a52) … say the proposal would lead to the teaching of “critical race theory” … Critics say such lesson plans teach students to hate the United States. A conservative group even suggested outfitting teachers with body cameras to ensure they aren’t indoctrinating children with such lessons. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5662 "2021-06-14T07:31:00Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Kayleigh McEnany says that, as a woman of faith, she never lied as Press Secretary. “Oh Kayleigh, did you ever LISTEN to yourself?” ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5663 "2021-06-14T14:52:23Z")
As any lovers of logic puzzles will tell you Reporters are asking the wrong question. Rather than asking her whether she lies, they need to ask her “If we were to ask you if you lie what would you say?” ---
**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 14, 2021, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5664 "2021-06-14T16:24:25Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Rather than asking her whether she lies, they need to ask her “If we were to ask you if you lie what would you say?”- And her reply: “Whatever I say, believe the opposite.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5665 "2021-06-14T17:54:28Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Rather than asking her whether she lies, they need to ask her “If we were to ask you if you lie what would you say?” I think that’s supposed to be “If I were to ask you if you lie, would you say ‘Yes’?” – Raymond Smullyan analyzes these kinds of questions in depth and detail, in a thousand different variations, in his logic puzzle books. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5666 "2021-06-14T17:57:15Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It was upon seeing these theories that I have decided that qanon itself is no longer relevant. You’re not the only one: > **[Heffernan: Reports of QAnon's death aren't exaggerated](https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-06-11/qanon-jan-6-ron-watkins-sidney-powell)** > > The QAnon phenomenon has burned bright, but it's fading fast. Are we ready for what will take its place? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5667 "2021-06-14T18:41:45Z")
Isn’t that effectively the same question I asked? Regarding Smullyan, the man I am today is due in large part to his books. As well as his ever popular puzzle books he has some books on philosophy that I quite enjoyed, ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5668 "2021-06-14T21:02:56Z")
WARNING - TED CRUZ STORY - WARNING! > **[Ted Cruz Continues Courting Trump, Files Lawsuit for His Boo to Reclaim...](https://www.theroot.com/ted-cruz-continues-courting-trump-files-lawsuit-for-hi-1847091283)** > > The Texas senator believes Trump is entitled to millions he loaned his campaign. Apparently, the Texas-sized asshole is continuing his courting of former president-turned-slumlord Donald Trump as he’s now launched a lawsuit appealing to the “Supreme Court that Trump and other candidates should be able to pay themselves back the millions of dollars they use to self-fund their campaigns.” From [RawStory](https://www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-donald-trump-lawsuit/): Trump loaned his campaign $10.8 million in 2015, and by March 2016, he’d given his campaign $38 million. Trump even went so far as to claim that he was willing to spend as much as $100 million of his own money to win in 2016. He didn’t ultimately give that much officially, but it was certainly a lot, particularly given the hush-money payments uncovered. Cruz claims that the McCain-Feingold Law violates the First Amendment by limiting to $250,000 fundraising to repay loans a candidate makes to his or her own federal campaign." ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5669 "2021-06-14T22:10:19Z")
Mitch out-McConnell’s McConnell: > McConnell says Barr served the nation with distinction and honor. And said that IG probe is sufficient. > > “There’s no need for a partisan circus here in the Congress.” ---
**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 15, 2021, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5670 "2021-06-15T00:04:14Z")
Marjorie Taylor Greene held a press conference today to announce that she just found out the Holocaust was bad and actually not at all like wearing a mask or getting vaccinated. > **[QAnon congresswoman holds press conference to apologize for likening...](https://www.rawstory.com/holocaust-qanon-marjorie-taylor-greene/)** > > Weeks after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) compared mask mandates to the Holocaust, the controversial Republican is finally apologizing for her outrageous comments.Greene had initially doubled-down on her remarks, but changed her tune on... ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5671 "2021-06-15T00:20:55Z")
F\*&% Ohio. > **[Ohio State Senators Going After SNAP Recipients With Cars Worth More Than $7,000](https://jalopnik.com/ohio-state-senators-going-after-snap-recipients-with-ca-1847092307)** > > Here's how we're making it hard to be poor in America today! "… Ohio State Senators don’t think it’s hard enough. Republicans dropped “assets tests” for poor working families who receive benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program into the state budget last week. Among the requirements to receive aid? Not owning a car valued at $7,000 or more. The requirements don’t just touch on vehicles, and are all equally bonkers. From the [Columbus Dispatch](https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2021/06/11/ohio-senate-budget-bill-food-assistance-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program/7647949002/):Ohioans who receive food assistance would have 30 days to notify the program of a change in income that was more than $500. Parents would have to cooperate “with the child support enforcement program” as a condition of eligibility. And the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services would have to “conduct an asset test for each SNAP recipient.” The problem, Hamler-Fugitt said, is that the Senate set the total limit at $2,250. “Families are going to have to sell their cars to keep their SNAP benefits …,” she said. “Senior citizens who may have a modest burial insurance policy would have to liquidate that policy in order to feed themselves.” So the first $4,650 of an Ohioan’s car’s worth wouldn’t count towards that incredibly low $2,250 limit, but over that and you’re screwed out of food benefits. Anyone with half a brain knows you need a car to get most places in this country but especially in Ohio, where much of the state is rural and has no public transit to speak of." **NOTE: Republicans do not have half a brain!** more shit: “Now imagine someone in this family gets around using a wheelchair. Vans modified for wheelchair use are incredibly expensive and, even as well-used vehicles, hold their value incredibly well. This family could lose their only way of transporting this person in order to adequately feed themselves.” **Republican platform for 2022/2024** _"If you’re old, not white, poor; just f&% off and die already!"_\* ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5672 "2021-06-15T00:23:26Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Mitch out-McConnell’s McConnell: > > > McConnell says Barr served the nation with distinction and honor. And said that IG probe is sufficient. > > > > “There’s no need for a partisan circus here in the Congress.” _cough_Benghazi_cough_ ---
**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 15, 2021, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5673 "2021-06-15T00:30:45Z")
Gym Jordan is upset that Biden went to Europe for the G7 and NATO, instead of going to the border to deal with the “crisis”. > **[GOP Rep. Jim Jordan rips into Joe Biden for attending the same G-7, NATO...](https://www.businessinsider.com/jim-jordan-biden-europe-g7-nato-us-mexico-border-immigration-2021-6)** > > Jordan, a conservative lawmaker and staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, took to Twitter to blast Biden for attending diplomatic summits in Europe. ---
**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 15, 2021, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5674 "2021-06-15T00:44:38Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > **Republican platform for 2022/2024** > _"If you’re old, not white, poor; just f &% off and die already!"_ \* I think you’ll find that they’re perfectly OK with the white poors dying do, so long as they vote for them first. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2021, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5675 "2021-06-15T01:38:23Z")
The two axioms of Conservative economic theory: 1. To incentivize the wealthy and powerful, you need to constantly give them money. 2. To incentivize everyone else, you must relentlessly grind them into poverty. ---
**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 15, 2021, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5676 "2021-06-15T05:22:35Z")
Not to be excessively picky or unforgiving, but any apology that begins “I want to apologize for …” sounds wrong. If you want to apologize, then fucking apologize. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5677 "2021-06-15T05:32:52Z")
She only apologized bc she hated the fact she couldn’t go after Omar for her recent comments without getting raked over the coals. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2021, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5678 "2021-06-15T12:46:15Z")
> [@Major Dumbass](#): > > The horrors of the holocaust are something that some people don’t even believe happened. This is an apology? ---
**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:** [June 15, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5679 "2021-06-15T14:16:29Z")
[https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-panel-justice-dept-documents-show-trump-pressed-overturn-2020-election-2021-06-15/](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-panel-justice-dept-documents-show-trump-pressed-overturn-2020-election-2021-06-15/) > [@](#): > > The House of Representatives Oversight and Reform Committee, which sought the records, outlined a series of overtures made by the Republican former president, then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and an outside private attorney, Kurt Olsen, pushing the department to act on Trump’s claims. > [@](#): > > These overtures were separate from the revelations that the Trump-era Justice Department [secretly sought](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-leaks-justice/us-justice-dept-to-strengthen-policies-on-getting-lawmakers-records-idUSKCN2DQ1I3) the phone records of at least two Democratic lawmakers, a move that led Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday to vow to strengthen policies aiming to protect the department from political influence. Just more to add to the blotter. ---
**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 15, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5680 "2021-06-15T17:13:38Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Not to be excessively picky or unforgiving, but any apology that begins “I want to apologize for …” sounds wrong. If you want to apologize, then fucking apologize. As somebody posted – maybe even in this thread – “I’m sorry you feel sad/angry about what I said,” is no apology at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=282) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=284)