# 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:** 360
**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 14, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7211 "2021-09-14T20:39:34Z")
MTG says trans rights are what the Taliban wants us to support. > **[Marjorie Taylor Greene says trans rights are “exactly” the same as the...](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/09/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-trans-rights-exactly-talibans-ideology/)** > > Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said that letting a "guy in a dress... beat us in our own sports" is just what the Taliban wants... ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7212 "2021-09-15T00:10:10Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > MTG says trans rights are what the Taliban wants us to support. It’s even dumber: she doesn’t know (or is assuming that her voters don’t know, which sadly is probably a pretty reasonable assumption) the difference in meaning between “beat” as in “physically assault” and “beat” as in “outperform in a competition”. > [@](#): > > […] "Cheering on a biological man while he beats a woman is not a sport, that’s exactly what the Taliban does,” she tweeted. > > “Joe Biden abandoned Americans to the Taliban terrorists who beat women and treat them like dogs and the Democrats want to give a guy in a dress the right to beat us in our own sports […] Yes, the sports competition in question was an MMA fight, but the transgender McLaughlin was not physically assaulting the cisgender Provost any more than Provost was physically assaulting her. An MMA match is not comparable to domestic abuse. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7213 "2021-09-15T00:22:34Z")
No, I think she might have a point. Could we put Greene in the ring against Provost, instead of McLaughlin? I think that would make everyone happy. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7214 "2021-09-15T01:23:46Z")
It would certainly make me very happy. ---
**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 15, 2021, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7215 "2021-09-15T02:14:00Z")
A Qpublican senator from Idaho decided to interrupt Anthony Blinken’s briefing the Senate on the Afghanistan withdrawal to demand that Blinken reveal who has “the authority to press the button and cut off the president’s speaking ability”. > **[Blinken struggles to keep a straight face as GOP senator angrily demands to...](https://www.rawstory.com/no-magic-button-cutoff-biden/)** > > Tuesday morning, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken appeared before the Senate to testify about the Afghanistan withdrawal, but Sen. James Risch (R-ID) kept asking the same question repeatedly about a conspiracy theory the secretary had never heard... ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7216 "2021-09-15T11:19:50Z")
The Republicans tried yet again to make an end-run around democracy, this time in California, and failed yet again. I just wanted to take a moment to gloat. Ha ha, scumbags. You can go suck a bag of dead donkey dicks. ---
**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 15, 2021, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7217 "2021-09-15T11:21:25Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > and failed yet again This time. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7218 "2021-09-15T11:31:47Z")
Yep. Fuckers. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2021, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7219 "2021-09-15T14:20:01Z")
Oh I dunno… > Now Newsom has won that referendum [in a landslide](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/us/newsom-governor-california-recall.html). According to the latest results, California voters rejected removing him from office by a margin of 64 percent to 36 percent. > [Cite](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/briefing/gavin-newsom-recall-covid-referendum.html) 64% to 36% sounds awfully close to me — I think a complete recount/audit/show of hands is called for here! ---
**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:** [September 15, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7220 "2021-09-15T14:26:13Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > 64% to 36% sounds awfully close to me — I think a complete recount/audit/show of hands is called for here! It’s clearly a fraudulent result, because they cleverly let 36% of the real votes go through, to hide how they stole the other 64%. Sneaky bastards! ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7221 "2021-09-15T15:52:34Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > A Qpublican senator from Idaho decided to interrupt Anthony Blinken’s briefing the Senate on the Afghanistan withdrawal to demand that Blinken reveal who has “the authority to press the button and cut off the president’s speaking ability”. That is some funny stuff. > [@](#): > > “[…] are you telling this committee that this does not happen and there’s nobody in the White House and pushes a button and cuts him off mid-sentence?” Risch asked again. > > Blinken said simply, “correct.” > > “Are you saying that didn’t happen?” Risch asked. > > “Senator, I really don’t know what you are referring to. All I can tell you is having worked with the president for now 20 years, both here on this committee and in over the last nine months at the White House, the president very much speaks for himself,” Blinken said. > > Risch tried another way of asking the same question, saying, “let’s take a different attack. He does speak for himself, but what happens when somebody doesn’t want him speaking? You are telling us you don’t know anything about this, somebody cuts him off in mid-sentence, is that what you are trying to tell this committee? Because everybody here has seen it.” > > “Senator, I am telling you, based on my own experience with the president over the last 20 years, anybody who tried to stop him from saying what he wanted to say, speaking his mind, would probably not be long for their job,” Blinken said. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2021, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7222 "2021-09-15T15:56:12Z")
Who has the authority to press the button and cut off the president’s speaking ability? Fox ‘’‘News’’’ (et al). ---
**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 15, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7223 "2021-09-15T16:05:26Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Because everybody here has seen it If everyone has seen it, why doesn’t he know the answer? ---
**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 15, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7224 "2021-09-15T16:10:58Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > 64% to 36% sounds awfully close to me — I think a complete recount/audit/show of hands is called for here! Perhaps they will insist on direct democracy like they used to do in Switzerland.\* The people would gather in the town square, hear a proposal, then raise their swords to vote yea or nay on the proposal. Of course, in this country at this time it’ll be AR-15s and AK-47s that are raised. \*Nowadays the Swiss government is classified as a [semi-direct democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Switzerland) where it is remarkably easy to get a referendum to decide whether a politician or law should be retained, rather like what just happened in [California](https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/as-california-votes-it-rethinks-its-tradition-of-direct-democracy/). ---
**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 15, 2021, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7225 "2021-09-15T18:33:11Z")
Forget injecting/inhaling bleach, ramming UV tubes up your ass, misusing horse de-wormer; **the anti-vaccine crowd is now into snorting and gargling iodine because …???** The fraud cure black hole as assembled by wiki: > **[List of unproven methods against COVID-19](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unproven_methods_against_COVID-19)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > There are many fake or unproven medical products and methods that claim to diagnose, prevent or cure COVID-19. Fake medicines sold for COVID-19 may not contain the ingredients they claim to contain, and may even contain harmful ingredients. In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a statement recommending against taking any medicines in an attempt to treat or cure COVID-19, although research on potential treatment was underway... ---
**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:** [September 15, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7226 "2021-09-15T18:45:31Z")
That just popped up in my YouTube subscriptions, [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2FQ9xbAn68M/maxresdefault.jpg "Is Betadine a MIRACLE TREATMENT?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FQ9xbAn68M) ---
**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:** [September 15, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7227 "2021-09-15T18:45:56Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Forget injecting/inhaling bleach, ramming UV tubes up your ass, misusing horse de-wormer; **the anti-vaccine crowd is now into snorting and gargling iodine because …???** Can’t someone just launch a rumor about cyanide or arsenic? It would save so much time and trouble. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7228 "2021-09-15T18:47:15Z")
Ahem, ‘Voting causes Covid!’ and ‘Not voting cures Covid!’. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7229 "2021-09-15T18:54:27Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Can’t someone just launch a rumor about cyanide or arsenic? It would save so much time and trouble. ☝ ---
**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:** [September 15, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7230 "2021-09-15T19:00:57Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Ahem, ‘Voting causes Covid!’ and ‘Not voting cures Covid!’. YES!! 👍🏽 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=359) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=361)