# 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:** 302
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6043 "2021-07-05T11:46:58Z")
I, too, would run away from a group of pissed-off Philadelphians. This is the same city that killed [HitchBot](https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/03/us/hitchbot-robot-beheaded-philadelphia-feat/index.html). ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6044 "2021-07-05T17:11:26Z")
More unsurprising news: > **['The epitome of hypocrisy’: 17 Tennessee Republicans accepted PPP loans — but...](https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/ppp-loan)** > > During the COVID-19 pandemic, liberal economists such as Robert Reich (former secretary of labor in the Clinton Administration) and the New York Times' Paul Krugman have applauded enhanced unemployment benefits as good for the U.S. economy —... > Reporting for Fox 17 Nashville, DelPilar explains, “A FOX 17 News investigation found 17 state lawmakers who supported the unemployment cuts also accepted PPP loans for their businesses. They accepted a combined $12.4 million.” ---
**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 5, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6045 "2021-07-05T20:53:45Z")
Ted Cruz celebrated 4th of July by praising American patriots defending against space aliens. > ---
**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 5, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6046 "2021-07-05T20:58:21Z")
Lauren Boebert: “It’s not a coincidence that Independence Day is on a Sunday this year.” > **[No 'Coincidence' That July 4 Fell on Sunday This Year, Says Boebert at Grand...](https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2021/07/no-coincidence-boebert/37875/)** > > A group of about 150 Mesa County residents cheered as Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert walked up the steps of the old Mesa County Courthouse in Grand Junction, where the group... ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6047 "2021-07-05T21:04:11Z")
To be fair, I wouldn’t call it a coincidence, either. More that it’s “an occasional occurrence that has been foreseeable for hundreds of years”. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6048 "2021-07-05T21:55:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ted Cruz celebrated 4th of July by praising American patriots defending against space aliens. He’s got Randy Quaid’s vote! ---
**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 5, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6049 "2021-07-05T21:55:32Z")
Maybe she will become famous(er) for being able to _predict_ when July 4 will fall on Sundays in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6050 "2021-07-05T22:00:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Lauren Boebert: “It’s not a coincidence that Independence Day is on a Sunday this year.” Republicans: “How do these crazy calendars work? It’s like some kind of magic!” ---
**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:** [July 5, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6051 "2021-07-05T22:02:11Z")
And fuckin’ magnets! How do they work? ---
**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:** [July 5, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6052 "2021-07-05T22:55:19Z")
It is like the tide. What causes that? Nobody knows how any of that stuff works! ---
**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:** [July 5, 2021, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6053 "2021-07-05T23:03:15Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Lauren Boebert: “It’s not a coincidence that Independence Day is on a Sunday this year.” > > [https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2021/07/no-coincidence-boebert/37875/](https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2021/07/no-coincidence-boebert/37875/) Q-ist thinking at its finest: Interpret the signs! There are signs all around! NOTHING is a coincidence!!1!!! …If humans survive this ongoing fall of democracy to the extent that science is able to progress, brain science will, ultimately, be able to show us the exact part of Boebert’s brain that generates the Q-ist “reasoning.” Not that it will do us any good back here in 2021. But I guess it will be nice for future humanity to have explained this particular dysfunction. ---
**Author:** ![Ziberian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/919ad9/32.png) [@Ziberian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ziberian)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6054 "2021-07-05T23:14:43Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It is like the tide. What causes that? Nobody knows how any of that stuff works! Looks like Conservatives are on the brink of discovering science. ---
**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 5, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6055 "2021-07-05T23:23:14Z")
Does she … not _know_ how a calendar works? Jesus, I knew she was stupid, but this is mindbogglingly so. ---
**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 5, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6056 "2021-07-05T23:26:43Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Does she … not _know_ how a calendar works? > > Jesus, I knew she was stupid, but this is mindbogglingly so. - Just think, her audience of millions are equally baffled. ---
**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 5, 2021, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6057 "2021-07-05T23:47:10Z")
To her audience, she is _insightful_. They are impressed that she was canny enough to see through the veil and realize that no! it isn’t a coincidence! And they are grateful to her for sharing it with them. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6058 "2021-07-06T00:45:51Z")
So what is her message anyway? God made July 4th on a Sunday this year because he hates Biden? ---
**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:** [July 6, 2021, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6059 "2021-07-06T02:44:49Z")
Did anyone point out to Boebert that Friday the 13th, however, falls on a Tuesday this month?(\*) (However, coincidentalwockle, Friday the 13th does fall on a Friday next month.) (\*) With apologies to Walt Kelly. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6060 "2021-07-06T12:23:21Z")
Maybe she’s waiting for Friday the 13th to fall on a Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6061 "2021-07-06T14:58:39Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > He’s got Randy Quaid’s vote! Even Randy thinks Cruz is a whack doodle. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6062 "2021-07-06T17:14:59Z")
It’s just “cheap heat.” Boebert was using the occasion to appeal to her religious constituency, like God approves of what they’re doing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=301) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=303)