# 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:** 336
**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:** [August 12, 2021, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6726 "2021-08-12T19:08:47Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Yes, if someone has a link, I would be interested in seeing what the text of the amendment actually was I couldn’t find the text, but the Senate amendment number is [3113](https://www.congress.gov/amendment/117th-congress/senate-amendment/3113). Meanwhile, while searching for this amendment, I did come across another resolution introduced by Tuberville and passed by unanimous consent. Senate resolution [353](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-resolution/353?s=4&r=1) designates August 2021 as ‘National Catfish Month.’ ---
**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:** [August 12, 2021, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6727 "2021-08-12T19:27:00Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > …effectively disproving what had been a main Republican talking point. If only that was enough to get the Republicans to stop talking about it. ---
**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 12, 2021, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6728 "2021-08-12T19:27:14Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Senate resolution [353](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-resolution/353?s=4&r=1) designates August 2021 as ‘National Catfish Month.’ So nice to see the GOP finally stepping up to govern in these hard times. ---
**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 12, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6729 "2021-08-12T19:31:29Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > > [@Railer13](#): > > > > Senate resolution [353](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-resolution/353?s=4&r=1) designates August 2021 as ‘National Catfish Month.’ > > So nice to see the GOP finally stepping up to govern in these hard times. - Are you sure it wasn’t an imposter? ---
**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 12, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6730 "2021-08-12T19:33:46Z")
Well, now that you mention it, no. ---
**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 12, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6731 "2021-08-12T19:53:51Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > {…} Meanwhile, while searching for this amendment, I did come across another resolution introduced by Tuberville and passed by unanimous consent. Senate resolution [353](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-resolution/353?s=4&r=1) designates August 2021 as ‘National Catfish Month.’ Can we be certain that they knew this resolution was referring to the fish? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6732 "2021-08-12T20:22:42Z")
Oooffff, good point. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6733 "2021-08-12T21:15:39Z")
never mind ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6734 "2021-08-12T21:54:17Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Can we be certain that they knew this resolution was referring to the fish? Can we be certain that the resolution _is_ referring to the fish? ---
**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:** [August 12, 2021, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6735 "2021-08-12T22:07:31Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I see that view a lot amongst the Trumperati: Marxism, Socialism, Communism, Fascism - it’s all the same thing, it’s all bad, and it’s all left-wing. But Russia has never had any connection whatsoever to any of that. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6736 "2021-08-12T23:17:07Z")
Well, we’ve never seen him near any dead bodies, so probably not. ---
**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 13, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6737 "2021-08-13T00:27:38Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I’m feeling very dim-can you break down this story and why it’s a good thing? As you probably saw, Buck\_Godot gave an excellent break-down of the story: > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > So the Republicans have erected a straw man which they have been flogging non stop that says that Congressional Democrats want to defund the police. > > So Tuberville apparently drank his own flavor-aide\* and, believing this lie, put an amendment into the infrastructure bill that will “punish”, (but without penalty) jurisdictions that defund the police. He expected that all of the Democrats would vote against it, thus proving that they hate the police and love crime. Instead they all voted in favor of it, effectively disproving what had been a main Republican talking point. Republicans/the right lie incessantly about what Democrats/the left want and believe. And this time the right-wing lie about Democrats was shown up and exposed—decisively. I like that. ---
**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 13, 2021, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6738 "2021-08-13T02:14:52Z")
The pillow guy says antifa disguised themselves as journalists to sabotage his proof of election fraud. > **[WATCH: Mike Lindell blames failure of his disastrous Cyber Symposium on...](https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-antifa/)** > > MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's "Cyber Symposium" on 2020 election fraud was an utter disaster, as his own hand-picked cybersecurity expert admitted this week that the data they used to justify claims that China hacked the election were... Also, antifa beat him up by the elevators, but there’s no police report, presumably because the Sioux Falls police department is also antifa. > **['It hurts a little': Mike Lindell blames Dominion after he's physically...](https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-attacked/)** > > MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said this week that he was physically "attacked" at his hotel following the second day of a so-called "cyber symposium" that he promised would prove the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent. > > Lindell kicked off the... No word as to whether antifa trampled his begonias and has been thumbing through the magazines in his mailbox, but he did have to flee Minnesota in secret after antifa found out where he lives, so I wouldn’t rule it out. > **[WATCH: Mike Lindell claims his evidence was 'compromised' in unhinged rant on...](https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-cyber-symposium-2654648422/)** > > MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell came unglued Thursday on the final day of his "cyber symposium" in South Dakota, claiming that his long-promised evidence showing the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump has somehow been "compromised." "I was... ---
**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:** [August 13, 2021, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6739 "2021-08-13T02:28:26Z")
> > The corrupt media was working with antifa by switching out name tags. My god, will they stop at nothing? How low can they go? ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6740 "2021-08-13T02:34:12Z")
I really don’t think Lindell’s a grifter. The dude’s insane. Do they have to prove that what he’s saying about Dominion is malicious and that he’s intentionally being dishonest? ---
**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 13, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6741 "2021-08-13T02:45:38Z")
An insanity plea is not an actual legal response to a civil law suite . . . sadly, for Mike. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2021, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6742 "2021-08-13T03:05:53Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Also, antifa beat him up by the elevators, but there’s no police report, presumably because the Sioux Falls police department is also antifa. He should have wrapped pillows around himself. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2021, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6743 "2021-08-13T03:36:53Z")
…and fortifed with lots of covid-killing bleach. aaaaa it was probably just Geraldo he came across. Tuned’im up. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2021, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6744 "2021-08-13T04:55:12Z")
[GOP rep heckled at fundraiser after saying Trump lost election](https://news.yahoo.com/dan-crenshaw-heckled-fundraiser-after-saying-trump-lost-election-175835491.html) Dummy tried to appease the idiots by saying there’s probably a lot of election fraud. Then he told them there wasn’t enough fraud to have stolen the election from Tan the Conman. The “real Republicans” didn’t buy it. ---
**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 13, 2021, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6745 "2021-08-13T07:23:23Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > An insanity plea is not an actual legal response to a civil law suite I stayed in the Civil Law Suite at Trump International Las Vegas once. I wouldn’t recommend it. (Puns aside, though, I have a coworker who went to Vegas last month and spent one night at Trump’s hotel before moving to the Plaza because it was the most run-down place she’s ever stayed in her life, and that included the motel in rural Idaho they stayed in on the drive from here to there.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=335) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=337)