# 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:** 321
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6423 "2021-07-23T18:42:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Madison Cawthorn says Jill Biden needs to be indicted for mistreating poor mentally unstable Joe. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > My Pillow guy says that his cyber symposium in August will draw billions of viewers from around the world These are no longer simply “stupid Republican ideas.” Maybe we need a new thread: _Today’s evidence that Republicans have lost their goddamn minds_ ---
**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 23, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6424 "2021-07-23T19:22:12Z")
The evidence is all over this series of tubes we call “the internet.” ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6425 "2021-07-23T19:25:25Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > draw billions of viewers from around the world I don’t think there are billions of people who care who the US president is, although it is hard for the “USA! USA!” crowd to grasp that concept. ---
**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 23, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6426 "2021-07-23T19:28:12Z")
But they **ALL** love pillows, amirite? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6427 "2021-07-24T01:00:00Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Governor of Missouri blames George Soros for the reporting of the covid spike in his state. Does George Soros actually exist? All I’ve seen of him has been these claims that he will pay me to be bad, and I ain’t seen no dough. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6428 "2021-07-24T01:22:19Z")
Yeah, me and my Marxist homies been partying like our Soros checks are in the mail. C’mon, Georgie boy, don’t leave us hangin’! ---
**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:** [July 24, 2021, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6429 "2021-07-24T04:39:59Z")
From Salon artile on Mike’s Symposium: > [@](#): > > When asked if that’s how he acquired [the Smartmatic, ES&S and Dominion voting machines], Lindell responded, “No, no, and I’m not gonna say how we got them. You know, we were — we didn’t take them, **we were given them**.” Asked if these machines were with him now, or still in an undisclosed location ahead of the big event, he said, “I don’t carry machines around with me!” Ah, grin and wink on the bolded. So it was hot, then? What shit’s this guy on, anyway? _"I drunk a jar of cof-feeee,_ _and then I took some of these."_ - Mark E. Smith An imaginary $50 he’ll do it in an Elvis get-up. Not sure what odds on that. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6430 "2021-07-24T08:32:53Z")
What? Let’s get to the important details. Is there a description of the blanket? That has to be one Hell of a bedcovering. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6431 "2021-07-24T08:34:23Z")
Speaking of the South’s stupid Republian politicians, let’s not forget the [Congresscritter laughing at dead children](https://www.cracked.com/article_30813_rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-laughs-at-question-referencing-dead-children.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=postup). ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6432 "2021-07-24T09:46:25Z")
In local news, North Carolina Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger is a-ok with venom-spitting, non-native reptiles freely roaming the state. > **[NC Senate leader: No on zebra cobra bill](https://www.wral.com/nc-senate-leader-no-on-zebra-cobra-bill/19784588/)** > > The Senate's top Republican says he doesn't want to wade in on new animal regulations. (For reference, some dumb kid in Raleigh with a rather large exotic reptile collection had a zebra cobra escape many months ago, and it wasn’t reported to authorities until the thing was seen basking on a neighbor’s porch earlier this month.) ---
**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 24, 2021, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6433 "2021-07-24T11:58:00Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > In local news, North Carolina Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger is a-ok with venom-spitting, non-native reptiles freely roaming the state. Must…resist…making…Florida…joke… In other news, now I know whose porch to dump snakes on. ---
**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 24, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6434 "2021-07-24T22:39:19Z")
Why don’t Republican politicians pass laws against dangerous. highly toxic. snakes in the grass? Professional courtesy. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6435 "2021-07-25T02:37:26Z")
Ah, a gopper rep doesn’t like “traitors”, but [adores actual traitors](https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/gop-state-senators-stand-culture-134852032.html), celebrating the culture the actual traitors fought for. You know culture, right? Bigotry, armed treason, stuff like that. ---
**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 25, 2021, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6436 "2021-07-25T04:38:54Z")
\< sniff\> \< wipes tear\> That’s beautiful! ---
**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 25, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6437 "2021-07-25T14:44:38Z")
Seriously: everything is a grift to Republicans. > **[Officials in Michigan county will return virus bonuses](https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-michigan-b340bbca1462da8d565f9823d021ba67)** > > CORUNNA, Mich. (AP) — Elected officials in a conservative Michigan county who gave themselves bonuses of $65,000 with federal COVID-19 relief aid said they will return the money following days of criticism. > [@](#): > > The commissioners, all Republicans, voted on July 15 to award themselves $65,000 as part of a plan to give $557,000 to 250 county employees as “hazard pay” for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. > > The smallest amounts for recipients were $1,000 to $2,000. But County Board Chairman Jeremy Root got $25,000. Two more commissioners received $10,000 each, while four others received $5,000 each. > > The vote was 6-0 with one commissioner absent. > > The commissioners awarded money to other elected officials, including the prosecutor, the sheriff and the county clerk, all Republicans. They, too, said they would give it back. Buncha fucking _thieves_; they should be prosecuted. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6438 "2021-07-25T16:06:39Z")
There was a link to Ted Cruz’s opinion on the Cleveland team name change below your link. He asked why MLB hated Indians. This was my favorite response: > ---
**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 25, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6439 "2021-07-25T18:44:23Z")
Individual 1 says “Indians” should sue the Cleveland team for changing their name. ---
**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 25, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6440 "2021-07-25T19:12:03Z")
When I didn’t see a link in your post, I thought that you were just making a joke about how much and idiot Trump is, akin to solar powered flashlights and screen doors on submarines. Then I thought, you know I’d better check on this… > **[Donald Trump Thinks Cleveland’s Baseball Team Should Keep Its Racist Name](https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-thinks-the-cleveland-baseball-team-should-keep-its-racist-name)** > > “If I were an Indian, I’d sue!” said the former president. Damn you Poe’s law! ---
**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:** [July 25, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6441 "2021-07-25T20:44:10Z")
WAAAAAAA!!! > **[House Freedom Caucus pushes McCarthy to force vote to oust Pelosi as speaker](https://www.businessinsider.com/house-freedom-caucus-asks-mccarthy-force-vote-oust-pelosi-2021-7)** > > The group alleged that Pelosi "has no interest in representative democracy" and lamented proxy voting and the installation of metal detectors. So did the Freedom Caucus replace the Tea Party? Late question, but yeah. OMG metal detectors - _so_ violating. Totally feeling for {{{_ **Lauren** _}}} right now. ---
**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 25, 2021, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6442 "2021-07-25T23:18:29Z")
Fox News panel sez childless adults (read: Teh Gheyz) shouldn’t be allowed to vote, but people with kids should get an extra vote for each of their children. > **[Fox News hosts discuss how to ban 'childless' liberals from voting](https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-childless-liberals/)** > > Fox News hosts on Sunday promoted the idea that "childless" Americans should not be allowed to participate in society by voting. > > The idea was recently floated by Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance. > > "Let's give votes to all children in... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=320) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=322)