# 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:** 327
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6543 "2021-08-01T01:04:33Z")
I just had a six year old (granddaughter of someone who is dating a relative) tell me that Joe Biden touches children inappropriately and cheated on the election. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6544 "2021-08-01T01:11:01Z")
The parents of that 6 year old sound like wonderful people. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2021, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6545 "2021-08-01T03:14:56Z")
Donnie Jr., like most conservatives, doesn’t know how to tell a joke. “Someone should introduce a bill mandating that you have to show your vaccination card to vote and watch everyone on the Left’s brain malfunction and explode.” > ---
**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:** [August 1, 2021, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6546 "2021-08-01T03:39:20Z")
From Donnie’s lip to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ears . . . sadly it ain’t gonna happen. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2021, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6547 "2021-08-01T03:45:34Z")
If you are unvaccinated, you may only vote by mail – according to whatever rules your state has for obtaining a mail-in ballot. ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2021, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6548 "2021-08-01T13:49:56Z")
Here in western Canada (not to say it isnt so in other places) a lot of people have referred to spouses etc as partners for a couple of decades. It hasn’t been something I have associated specifically with same sex couples. Yes these people tend to be educated / progressive. More than being gender neutral I think it is meant to suggest equality. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2021, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6549 "2021-08-01T14:49:45Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > In the preface, the author explains that the three best-selling topics for books are golf, cats, and Nazi Germany, so this title was a guaranteed success. I wonder if they ever met Abraham Lincoln’s Doctor’s Dog. > **[Abraham Lincoln’s Doctor’s Dog](https://profmondo.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/abraham-lincolns-doctors-dog/)** > > You might recognize the title here as the punch line for an ancient joke: An author is told that the public likes books about Lincoln, doctors, and dogs, so he decides to write a sure bestseller. I… > **[Lincoln's doctor's dog](http://www.metaphordogs.org/Dogs/entries/lincolns.html)** > > Lincoln's doctor's dog. An archaic reference in the publishing industry to the notion that the way to ensure a book is a bestseller is to write about Lincoln, dogs, or doctors. This prompted one author to title his book, about publishing in the... ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6550 "2021-08-01T17:29:30Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > The parents of that 6 year old sound like wonderful people. That’s one way to put it ---
**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:** [August 1, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6551 "2021-08-01T18:22:52Z")
Kevin McCarthy “jokes” about hitting Nancy Pelosi with the Speaker’s gavel. As people have pointed out on Twitter, he voted against the Violence Against Women Act. > **[Kevin McCarthy reportedly joked about hitting Nancy Pelosi with a speaker's...](https://www.businessinsider.com/kevin-mccarthy-joked-hitting-nancy-pelosi-gavel-reports-2021-8)** > > During a speech to 1,400 GOP donors in Tennessee, Kevin McCarthy reportedly said it would be "hard" not to hit Pelosi with a gavel. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6552 "2021-08-01T20:07:38Z")
A Republican Congressman’s staffer has filed an ethics complaint against Madison Cawthorn after he rebated her in her boss’s office. The affray continued between the two Republicans on the floor of the House. > **[Madison Cawthorn facing ethics complaint after screaming match with fellow...](https://www.salon.com/2021/07/31/madison-cawthorn-facing-ethics-complaint-after-screaming-match-with-fellow-gop-congressman/)** > > Colleagues reportedly feared the conflict would boil over into an actual fistfight ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6553 "2021-08-01T20:22:15Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A Republican Congressman’s staffer has filed an ethics complaint against Madison Cawthorn after he rebated her in her boss’s office. So she _didn’t_ want the money back? ---
**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:** [August 1, 2021, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6554 "2021-08-01T21:09:41Z")
lol Oops. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2021, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6555 "2021-08-01T21:26:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Donnie Jr., like most conservatives, doesn’t know how to tell a joke. > “Someone should introduce a bill mandating that you have to show your vaccination card to vote and watch everyone on the Left’s brain malfunction and explode.” I’d love to see his head explode when they say “Yes” to this deal. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6556 "2021-08-01T21:30:01Z")
Wait…did he really sign his “apology letter” “Good Day, junior \<—A joke written in good taste”? That has to be a parody, right? Right? ---
**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:** [August 1, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6557 "2021-08-01T22:29:55Z")
I’m only seeing this on Twitter, without any supporting documentation: Joseph Flynn, Michael’s equally crazy right wing brother, has come down with covid. He tweeted that he had gone to a tractor supply store to get ivermectin, an anti-parasitic, to treat it. Twitter has banned him for seven days for spreading false covid information. > ---
**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:** [August 1, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6558 "2021-08-01T23:33:01Z")
Tractor Supply is, in fact, literally begging its customers not to buy ivermectin as a covid treatment. > ---
**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:** [August 1, 2021, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6559 "2021-08-01T23:41:35Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I’m only seeing this on Twitter, without any supporting documentation: > Joseph Flynn, Michael’s equally crazy right wing brother, has come down with covid. He tweeted that he had gone to a tractor supply store to get ivermectin, an anti-parasitic, to treat it. Twitter has banned him for seven days for spreading false covid information. > [https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1421829783374254082](https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1421829783374254082) Intermectin is used to treat horses with worms. Fox News hosts (specifically Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham) have been telling viewers they should NOT get vaccinated, but instead should take the horse-worms medication if they come down with COVID-19. They base this on ONE study that said the drug (Intermectin) IS effective against COVID—but that study has been withdrawn as it was found to use faked data: > [@](#): > > A major study supporting the use of the drug ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment was withdrawn on Thursday over concerns that it relied upon fabricated data. > > … [Australian chronic disease epidemiologist from the University of Wollongong, Gideon] Meyerowitz-Katz told the Guardian that “this is one of the biggest ivermectin studies out there”, and it appeared to him the data was “just totally faked”. … > **[A big study supporting ivermectin, Fox's latest miracle COVID treatment, was...](https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/big-study-supporting-ivermectin-foxs-latest-miracle-covid-treatment-was-just-retracted)** ---
**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:** [August 1, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6560 "2021-08-01T23:45:06Z")
They’re just outright trying to kill their viewers now. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2021, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6561 "2021-08-01T23:46:04Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Fox News hosts (specifically Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham) have been telling viewers they should NOT get vaccinated, but instead should take the horse-worms medication if they come down with COVID-19. > > They base this on ONE study that said the drug (Intermectin) IS effective against COVID—but that study has been withdrawn as it was found to use faked data: - That’s OK, they’re fake newspeople. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2021, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6562 "2021-08-01T23:46:20Z")
Sky News Australia, which is owned by the Murdochs, has been banned from YouTube for seven days for repeatedly putting up incorrect covid cure information. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=326) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=328)