# 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:** 318
**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 21, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6363 "2021-07-21T18:15:51Z")
The Missouri legislature held an invitation-only meeting to discuss Critical Race Theory. Only one black person was invited, and they declined, > **[No Black parents, teachers or scholars invited to Missouri hearing on...](https://amp.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article252899398.html)** > > “What not having any African Americans in the room really showed was that this wasn’t really about understanding.” ---
**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 21, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6364 "2021-07-21T19:33:33Z")
A close friend who is a teacher had this to say about that article: > [@HH](#): > > Oh, teaching race. > > “Well, see children. There are people of different ethnicities and races. The end.” That’s what these loudmouths want. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6365 "2021-07-21T21:20:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Only one black person was invited, and they declined, Gee I wonder why? I can’t understand why they wouldn’t be excited at the prospect of being the designated whipping boy at an entirely one-sided hearing designed to spread lies about their chosen academic discipline. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6366 "2021-07-21T21:21:41Z")
They remember the days when there were plenty of meetings where only one black man was invited. They weren’t that long ago. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6367 "2021-07-21T21:28:55Z")
What!? @silenus , how dare you say that I, personally, took part in lynchings! You shouldn’t be allowed to say that! ---
**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 21, 2021, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6368 "2021-07-21T22:12:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Matt Gaetz says we fought wars to keep kids from speaking with British accents after kids started copying Peppa Pig’s accent. Why do you people elect such huge fucking morons? Strike that. Why do you people elect such huge fucking sex offender morons? ---
**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:** [July 21, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6369 "2021-07-21T22:20:05Z")
As predicted, Pelosi has vetoed Jim Jordan’s appointment to the 1/6 committee. In response, Kevin McCarthy has pulled all his nominees and declared that he’s going to start his own investigation. > **[McCarthy pulls his 5 GOP members from 1/6 committee after Pelosi rejects 2 of...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/21/politics/nancy-pelosi-rejects-republicans-from-committee/index.html)** > > House Republicans balked at participating in the House committee that's investigating the January 6 insurrection on Wednesday after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two of the five Republicans House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had tapped for... ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6370 "2021-07-21T22:23:43Z")
I was listening to the radio in the car, and they had some audio of McCarthy criticizing Pelosi and referring to her as a “lame duck speaker.” This guy has been in Congress for over a decade and apparently does not know what “lame duck” means, in the political context. ---
**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 21, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6371 "2021-07-21T22:25:03Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > In response, Kevin McCarthy has pulled all his nominees and declared that he’s going to start his own investigation Jesus. This is like the getaway driver for the bank robbers rejecting the police investigation of the robbery, and insisting he’ll do his own investigation thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6372 "2021-07-21T22:38:45Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > In response, Kevin McCarthy has pulled all his nominees and declared that he’s going to start his own investigation. With blackjack. And hookers. ---
**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 21, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6373 "2021-07-21T23:19:46Z")
The MqQarthy committee will decide that the insurrection was caused by the FBI and Antifa. ---
**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 21, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6374 "2021-07-21T23:39:13Z")
And to do the legwork of the investigation, they’ll subcontract out to Cyber Ninjas. ---
**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 21, 2021, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6375 "2021-07-21T23:53:18Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > In response, Kevin McCarthy has pulled all his nominees and declared that he’s going to start his own investigation. Can the minority party in the House conduct its own investigation? I can’t find anything ‘official’, but I did find [this](https://archive.constitutionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Chapter-8.pdf), which states: > While minority members in the House are specifically accorded some rights, no ranking minority members or individual members can start official committee investigations, hold hearings, issue subpoenas, or attend informal briefings or interviews held prior to the institution of a formal investigation. ---
**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 22, 2021, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6376 "2021-07-22T00:08:39Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > As predicted, Pelosi has vetoed Jim Jordan’s appointment to the 1/6 committee. > > In response, Kevin McCarthy has pulled all his nominees and declared that he’s going to start his own investigation. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The MqQarthy committee will decide that the insurrection was caused by the FBI and Antifa. Well, they might very well decide it was the FBI and Antifa, _if_ they ever get around to the question of ‘how it started,’ which, personally, I doubt. First they have to examine the question of the training Nancy Pelosi gave to the Capitol Police, and how awful it was. We must get to the bottom of Pelosi’s training techniques!!!1!!! After that, it will be crucial to investigate the summer of 2020, in which several black people looted. This is the crux of the entire thing! Or something!!! If there’s any time left, they could look into other terrible things Nancy Pelosi has done. So it will be quite a while until they get to ‘_why did Trump supporters think they were supposed to break into the Capitol, assault law enforcement officers, threaten to hang Mike Pence, smear feces freely about, and keep Congress from doing its Constitutionally-required duty of certifying the vote_.’ ---
**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 22, 2021, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6377 "2021-07-22T00:19:18Z")
We must get to the bottom of why Nancy Pelosi didn’t parachute drop ninjas on motorcycles to double monkey punch to death the thing that wasn’t actually happening. ---
**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 22, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6378 "2021-07-22T00:21:05Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > We must get to the bottom of why Nancy Pelosi didn’t parachute drop ninjas on motorcycles to double monkey punch to death the thing that wasn’t actually happening. - You may just have programmed Fox News prime-time for the next ten weeks. ---
**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 22, 2021, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6379 "2021-07-22T01:07:24Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > We must get to the bottom of why Nancy Pelosi didn’t parachute drop ninjas on motorcycles She inquired, but the Ninjas were otherwise engaged in Arizona. ---
**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 22, 2021, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6380 "2021-07-22T02:17:59Z")
How many days had Pelosi been Speaker by 1/6? Like four days? ---
**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 22, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6381 "2021-07-22T02:20:18Z")
Which to a goldfish or a Trumpist is like four million years. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6382 "2021-07-22T04:14:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > How many days had Pelosi been Speaker by 1/6? Like four days? Unless I’m mistaken, Mrs. Pelosi had been Speaker for 1164 days (since January 3, 2019). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=317) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=319)