# 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:** 390
**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:** [October 18, 2021, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7813 "2021-10-18T03:45:57Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Has anyone mentioned this yet? > > Ron Watkins, the conspiracy theorist otherwise known as Q, is running for Congress in Arizona. > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Don’t you have to live in a state to get elected in that state? I thought this guy lived in the Philippines. > > ETA: Aha! From the linked article: Yes. We did. > [@Smapti](#): > > Q is running for Congress. > [@Senegoid](#): > > Does Q guy even live in Arizona? > [@Morgyn](#): > > I thought he lived in the Philippines, but it wasn’t my decade to keep track of him. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2021, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7814 "2021-10-18T08:59:42Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > My GOD that’s as bad as thinking an island would tip over if it got crowded. To be fair, that one was a stupid Democrat. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7815 "2021-10-18T13:23:09Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > One can’t enjoy vacations or travel without a partisan filter? Mrs A and I, considering a vacation for next year, are making likely political affiliation of the locals a major filter. I’m completely serious. Who wants to go out to dinner and see Fox News on all the screens, or hear idiots talk about how Biden has advanced dementia? ---
**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:** [October 18, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7816 "2021-10-18T16:52:39Z")
Ted Cruz tried to lecture the government of Australia’s Northern Territory about vaccine mandates, and the Chief Minister of the Territory told him to shove it. > **[‘Don’t Need Your Lectures, Thanks Mate’: Australia Leader Beclowns Ted Cruz...](https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-gunner-beclowns-ted-cruz-over-his-northern-territory-vaccine-mandate-opinions)** > > The Northern Territory’s chief minister told Cruz that he loves Texas, but, on COVID: “I’m glad we are nothing like you.” ---
**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:** [October 18, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7817 "2021-10-18T18:53:19Z")
That put a smile on my face. Thanks. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2021, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7818 "2021-10-18T20:18:55Z")
You haven’t really been snarked until you’ve been snarked by an Aussie. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2021, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7819 "2021-10-18T23:40:20Z")
Kentucky congressman proposes providers fake vaccine administration as a form of protest against vaccine mandates. > ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7820 "2021-10-19T00:43:30Z")
So the Yippies finally got the LSD into the water supply. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7821 "2021-10-19T00:49:47Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Has anyone mentioned this yet? > > Ron Watkins, the conspiracy theorist otherwise known as Q, is running for Congress in Arizona. > > [QAnon figure says he's running for Congress in Arizona | AP News](https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-elections-arizona-house-elections-congress-d09795931e358c1e36154171c2fcc0f8) > > He denies being Q but there’s a lot of evidence that points his way. Awful for Arizona as it would be to have this cynical liar in Congress, it would be somewhat amusing to see what the deplorables already infesting Congress—Marjorie Taylor Green, Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert, Lauren Boebert et al.—make of him. Would they carry him around in a sedan chair, and wait on him? Or would they pretend they don’t know they’ve been dancing to his sour tune for the last couple of years? ---
**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:** [October 19, 2021, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7822 "2021-10-19T01:17:03Z")
Dennis Prager says he has covid, and he meant to get it. > **[Dennis Prager Announces He Has COVID After Hugging ‘Thousands’ to Get It](https://www.thedailybeast.com/dennis-prager-announces-he-has-covid-after-hugging-thousands-to-get-it)** > > The right-wing personality offered dangerous advice to his audience about achieving natural immunity, which can kill a person in the process. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7823 "2021-10-19T01:22:51Z")
Damn good chance he is lying through his teeth. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7824 "2021-10-19T01:26:49Z")
Yes, but also a damned good chance that he really is just that stupid. It’s always a tough call. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7825 "2021-10-19T01:31:10Z")
I reported his YouTube channel. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7826 "2021-10-19T01:35:04Z")
I meant lying about getting Covid. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7827 "2021-10-19T02:49:43Z")
Massie is the biggest assclown in the KY Congressional lineup, and friends, that is saying something. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7828 "2021-10-19T10:49:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ted Cruz tried to lecture the government of Australia’s Northern Territory about vaccine mandates, and the Chief Minister of the Territory told him to shove it. And, unlike John Snow, the headline is accurate in that he really does know nothing about epidemiology. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7829 "2021-10-19T15:36:04Z")
Who knows how many people Prager sickened by hugging them? Oh, and he might have given them COVID, too… ---
**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:** [October 19, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7830 "2021-10-19T20:37:05Z")
Christian author says anybody who tries to prevent people from dying from COVID is a sinner because dying is a good thing. > **[Far-right website claims that Christians should see dying from COVID as ‘a...](https://www.alternet.org/2021/10/anti-vaxxers-2655324736)** > > Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the MAGA movement and far-right Christian fundamentalists have downplayed its severity — inspiring critics to slam MAGA as a suicidal "death cult." Christian fundamentalist Joy Pullmann, in a shocking op-ed published... ---
**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:** [October 19, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7831 "2021-10-19T21:27:18Z")
Nebraska congressman indicted. > **[GOP Rep. Jeff Fortenberry indicted | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/19/politics/jeff-fortenberry-indictment/index.html)** > > Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska has been indicted, the Department of Justice announced on Tuesday. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2021, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7832 "2021-10-19T21:39:55Z")
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