# 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:** 349
**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 31, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6991 "2021-08-31T03:49:15Z")
The Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina storms out of the legislature after being questioned as to how his “critical race theory” task force was now criticizing trans kids. Robinson is known for his anti-LGBTQ posts on Facebook. He has previously proclaimed that being gay is a step before pedophilia, that Michelle Obama is secretly a trans woman, and referred to trans-affirming people as “devil worshipping child molesters.” He also condemned gay people as an “abominable sin” in response to the 2016 Pulse massacre. > **[North Carolina Lt. Governor claims teachers are promoting “cutting off male...](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/08/north-carolina-lt-gov-claims-teachers-abusing-kids-pro-lgbtq-indoctrination/)** > > Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson stormed out of the legislature when people questioned why his task force on "critical race theory" ended up attacking trans-inclusive books and CNN articles... ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6992 "2021-08-31T05:16:05Z")
Why do I get the vibe someone is going to soon be found in a public bathroom stall tapping his foot? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6993 "2021-08-31T05:18:44Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > Why do I get the vibe someone is going to soon be found in a public bathroom stall tapping his foot?  He can’t help it if he has a wide stance! ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6994 "2021-08-31T05:20:04Z")
🤣 😂 🤣 ---
**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:** [August 31, 2021, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6995 "2021-08-31T07:16:26Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Make the word covid illegal. There! All gone pandemic! . . . and declare as well that none of the dead victims are actually, you know, _dead_. So they can all still vote. With the majority being Republicans who wouldn’t vax (since the vaccine was approved anyway), this will be a Republican winning strategy. ---
**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 31, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6996 "2021-08-31T16:07:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Madison Cawthorn says there will be bloodshed if rigged elections aren’t ended. Isn’t advocating for armed rebellion against law and order illegal? Did the GQP officially give up being the party of law and order, or did they just slide into it without them noticing? ---
**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:** [August 31, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6997 "2021-08-31T16:57:54Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Isn’t advocating for armed rebellion against law and order illegal? But it’s in defense of our democracy and our right to not have rigged elections that totally don’t elect the guy we think _should_ have won. Yeah, and I have a bridge in the Sahara up for sale. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6998 "2021-08-31T17:01:45Z")
“Rep. Madison Cawthorn falsely suggests elections are ‘rigged,’ says there…” The North Carolina Republican said Sunday that he is “willing to defend our liberty at all costs.” A spokesman said Cawthorn was the stupidest republican in a hotly contested freshman class not advocating violence. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2021, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6999 "2021-09-01T05:02:52Z")
Qevin MqQarthy’s brother-in-law and mother-in-law own a company that has received more than $7 million in noncompetitive government contracts reserved for minorities. They claim to be part Cherokee, but they connect to a tribe which is not recognized by the US government nor by other Cherokee bands as a legitimate Cherokee band. > **[House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s family benefited from U.S. program for...](https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-na-pol-mccarthy-contracts-20181014-story.html)** > > A company owned by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s in-laws won more than $7 million in no-bid and other federal contracts at U.S. military installations and other government properties in California based on a dubious claim of Native American... ---
**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:** [September 1, 2021, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7000 "2021-09-01T07:11:54Z")
Congressman Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, a former MMA fighter with no military experience, has decided to smuggle himself into Afghanistan with a suitcase full of cash on a “rescue mission”, and now nobody seems to know where he is. > **[US officials 'unsure' of whereabouts of GOP congressman who went rogue to...](https://www.rawstory.com/markwayne-mullin-afghanistan/)** > > On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) has gone rogue to travel to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan on a rescue mission, in the face of multiple warnings not to do so from the Pentagon and State Department — and that... His staff claims he’s “safe”, but either don’t know or aren’t saying whether he made it in or not. Clearly he took too many blows to the head in the octagon (his record was 3-5) and now thinks Rambo III was a documentary. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2021, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7001 "2021-09-01T07:50:39Z")
Man, I hope he brought a camera crew with him bc there’s no way that doesn’t turn out to be hilarious. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2021, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7002 "2021-09-01T10:27:42Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Congressman Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, a former MMA fighter with no military experience, has decided to smuggle himself into Afghanistan with a suitcase full of cash on a “rescue mission”, and now nobody seems to know where he is. 🎶 O-O-O-O-Oklahoma, where the wind goes sweeping through the brain…🎶 ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7003 "2021-09-01T10:37:50Z")
Man, I have family there. And you are so right. 😩 ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7004 "2021-09-01T14:33:10Z")
The Taliban have cameras. ---
**Author:** ![SoToasty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sotoasty/32/2803_2.png) [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7005 "2021-09-01T15:04:29Z")
My guess is he is hunkered down somewhere in Oklahoma, so at some point in the next few days he can pop back into the limelight and declare success. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7006 "2021-09-01T15:47:51Z")
> **[Conservative School Districts Where Trump Held Maskless MAGA Rally Suddenly...](https://www.theroot.com/conservative-school-districts-where-trump-held-maskless-1847591953)** > > One week after Trump brought his traveling COVID circus to town, nearly one-third of students in Cullman County, Ala. are out because of the coronavirus. DumpsterFire’s big rally in Cullman County, AL ignites local Covid superspreader event. "There are very few places whiter than Cullman County, Ala. In the 2020 presidential election, 88.1 percent of Cullman County residents voted for Donald Trump. According to the Cook Political Reporter, the home base of Alabama’s Fourth Congressional District is quite literally the Trumpiest place in America. In a state known for racism and college football, Cullman County was the site of two of Alabama’s most notorious “sundown towns,” including a sign warning visitors: “Nigger Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on You in This Town.” In a U.S. Congressional report, “the ‘most violent of today’s KKK groupings,” operated a campsite near Cullman, suspected to be located on the 47-acre property owned by Alabama’s Grand Dragon. To be fair, it was a long time ago… In 1980." This could go in any number of threads. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2021, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7007 "2021-09-01T17:18:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Qevin MqQarthy’s brother-in-law and mother-in-law own a company that has received more than $7 million in noncompetitive government contracts reserved for minorities. They claim to be part Cherokee, but they connect to a tribe which is not recognized by the US government nor by other Cherokee bands as a legitimate Cherokee band. Does Elizabeth Warren have a Twitter feed? Because please tell me she’s posted this. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7008 "2021-09-01T17:42:47Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > According to the Cook Political Reporter, the home base of Alabama’s Fourth Congressional District is quite literally the Trumpiest place in America. Oh, piffle. [Roberts county](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberts_County,_Texas#Government_and_politics), Texas had over 96% of its votes cast for Trump in 2020 and is the record holder plus if you mouse over the top map [here](https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2020/11/10/election-maps-2020-america-county-results-more-voters/6226197002/) you can find plenty of counties over 90%. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7009 "2021-09-01T18:00:53Z")
Counties are not congressional districts. I mean, like, no county anywhere in the US is coterminous with a congressional district. (There might actually be one somewhere, but I am seriously doubting it.) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7010 "2021-09-01T18:08:31Z")
And if you read the line above that I \*didn’t copy you will find > [@smithsb](#): > > In the 2020 presidential election, 88.1 percent of Cullman **County** residents voted for Donald Trump… Yes, I am quite aware county and congressional borders rarely match. For this reason I’m not sure you can easily find a breakdown by district but there is still quite a difference between 88 and 96%. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=348) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=350)