# 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:** 300
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6003 "2021-07-01T22:59:50Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > MqQarthy told the House Republicans that he will strip them of committee seats if they participate in the 1/6 commission. And Cheney’s would be, “You’ve already thrown me out of the leadership position because I wouldn’t back down. What makes you think I’ll back down now?” ---
**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:** [July 1, 2021, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6004 "2021-07-01T23:43:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > MqQarthy told the House Republicans that he will strip them of committee seats if they participate in the 1/6 commission. Why not take a leaf from Greg Abbott’s book and stop paying them? ---
**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:** [July 2, 2021, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6005 "2021-07-02T02:37:30Z")
Lauren Boebert: “The easiest way to make the Delta variant go away is to turn off CNN. And vote Republican." Then she deleted it. > **['Stupidity has a champion in Colorado': Lauren Boebert posts, quickly...](https://www.dailydot.com/debug/lauren-boebert-deletes-tweet-covid-delta-cnn/)** > > Lauren Boebert quickly deleted a tweet on Wednesday that claimed the Delta variant of the coronavirus could be defeated by ignoring CNN. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6006 "2021-07-02T02:49:47Z")
How fucking many people have to die before these monsters start taking this shit seriously? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6007 "2021-07-02T03:12:40Z")
The same number who have to die to get them to take gun violence seriously. That is, essentially infinity. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2021, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6008 "2021-07-02T11:52:55Z")
Kansas Republicans tell Kansas Republicans that covid caused more deaths than anything else in Kansas in 2020 but Kansas Republicans don’t believe Kansas Republicans and want to audit the state auditors to check for fraud because, they say, they have _heard things_. > **[Kansas audit says COVID top cause of death; GOP suspicious](https://apnews.com/article/ks-state-wire-kansas-coronavirus-pandemic-health-51c1bf34b1b09a002c0bf317519e833d)** > > TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — COVID-19 was the leading cause of death in Kansas during the last four months of 2020, a legislative audit said Tuesday, prompting Republican lawmakers to call for more investigation of the numbers based on unsubstantiated... > [@](#): > > The [short report](https://www.kslpa.org/audit-report-library/comparing-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-death-rates-during-certain-months-of-2019-and-2020/) from the GOP-controlled Legislature’s auditing division said there were “slight variations” in the number of deaths from Sept 1 through Dec. 31 due to what are traditionally the leading causes in Kansas, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes and suicide. The audit said COVID-19 caused more than 2,500 deaths during those four months, surpassing deaths from each of the traditional top 10 causes. > > Auditors also said that COVID-19 was largely responsible for a 14% increase in total deaths in Kansas for all of 2020. Deaths increased to about 31,000 last year from about 27,300 in 2019. > > But Republican Sens. Caryn Tyson, of Parker, and Mike Thompson, of Shawnee, said they’ll push for another review of the statistics to get more information about how doctors and medical examiners have concluded that COVID-19 is the underlying cause of a death. > > “I’ve worried from the beginning — and not just in Kansas but nationwide — that those numbers were inflated,” Thompson said after auditors presented their report to the legislative committee that oversees their work. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6009 "2021-07-02T12:57:04Z")
OMG. Tucker Carlson voted for Kanye West in 2020! > ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6010 "2021-07-02T13:24:59Z")
oh good grief. there really is no bottom to this barrel. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6011 "2021-07-02T13:25:58Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > oh good grief. there really is no bottom to this barrel. - Wouldn’t that make it a tube? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6012 "2021-07-02T13:28:35Z")
i’m thinking wormhole. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6013 "2021-07-02T13:30:09Z")
Republicans know that _everything_ is really just a series of tubes. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6014 "2021-07-02T13:47:58Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Kansas Republicans tell Kansas Republicans that covid caused more deaths than anything else in Kansas in 2020 but Kansas Republicans don’t believe Kansas Republicans and want to audit the state auditors to check for fraud because, they say, they have _heard things_ . I guess the only way to know for sure is to exhume all 31,000 people who died and do autopsies on all of them. But will Republicans trust the results of those autopsies? Probably not. Okay, there will need to be three different teams of medical examiners and each team will do the 31,000 autopsies and report their results. But will the Republicans trust **those** results? Probably not. Better make that NINE different teams of medical examiners doing 31,000 autopsies (odd number, just in case). Will Republicans trust **those** results? Probably not. I got nuttin’ else. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6015 "2021-07-02T13:53:36Z")
I propose that we acknowledge these devotees of their Dear Leader, Donald Trump, by referring to them as “donnies”. This would, at the very least, enable many people to say “shut the fuck up, donnie” in earnest several times a day. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2021, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6016 "2021-07-02T13:54:11Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > i’m thinking wormhole Complete with its own worm. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6017 "2021-07-02T14:16:44Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > i’m thinking wormhole. I’m thinking intestines because that would explain the source of their “facts”. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6018 "2021-07-02T14:46:13Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I guess the only way to know for sure is to exhume all 31,000 people who died and do autopsies on all of them. Sounds like a job for CyberNinjas. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6019 "2021-07-02T15:09:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > MqQarthy told the House Republicans that he will strip them of committee seats if they participate in the 1/6 commission. Nothing to see here, [Citizen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)). Move along or be processed. ---
**Author:** ![SingleMalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/singlemalt/32/3961_2.png) [@SingleMalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleMalt)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6020 "2021-07-02T15:13:25Z")
“The Bottomless Colon” ---
**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:** [July 2, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6021 "2021-07-02T18:57:36Z")
Qevin MqQarthy claims that he took a room in a luxury penthouse owned by a Republican pollster because his buddy the pollster had had a stroke and Qev was just there to make sure his buddy took his pills. Salon points out that the guy seems to be just fine in the videos he publishes. > **[Kevin McCarthy now says he stayed in Frank Luntz’s penthouse to care for...](https://www.salon.com/2021/07/01/kevin-mccarthy-now-says-he-stayed-in-frank-luntzs-penthouse-to-care-for-stricken-gop-pollster/)** > > Kevin McCarthy's new explanation for rooming with Frank Luntz: "I wanted to make sure he took his medication" ---
**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:** [July 3, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6022 "2021-07-03T20:39:04Z")
GQP tweets out a complaint that Biden isn’t cleaning up the previous guy’s mess fast enough: > [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=299) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=301)