# 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:** 476
**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:** [January 15, 2022, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9538 "2022-01-15T20:25:28Z")
I’m sure this will end up being antifa. > **[All hostages out and safe at Texas synagogue, governor says | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/15/us/colleyville-texas-hostage-situation/index.html)** > > The hostage situation at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, is over, according to the governor of Texas. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9539 "2022-01-15T22:32:13Z")
In his new anti-“critical race theory” bill, a Virginia state Delegate included that students would be instructed about the Lincoln Douglas debates between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. > **[A Bill Proposed a New Way to Teach History. It Got the History Wrong....](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/us/virginia-lincoln-douglas-debates-bill.html)** > > A Republican legislator in Virginia who campaigned against critical race theory introduced a bill that incorrectly said the Lincoln-Douglas debates were between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2022, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9540 "2022-01-15T22:33:27Z")
Two idiots from the Wall Street Journal decided that Hillary is going to run again in 2024, so Fox has spent hours talking about it. > **[Fox News Contributor Throws Cold Water on Fox’s Latest Hillary Clinton Fantasy](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-contributor-throws-cold-water-on-foxs-latest-hillary-clinton-fantasy)** > > This week, Fox News has run nearly 20 different segments speculating that Clinton will run again in 2024—all based on a single goofy op-ed. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9541 "2022-01-15T22:36:15Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > I’m sure this will end up being antifa. Or one of those damn teacher’s unions. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9542 "2022-01-15T22:44:41Z")
Hillary should absolutely let them think this is true until the last minute. Maybe AOC can announce too. Fox might be so busy, they’ll leave Biden alone for awhile. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2022, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9543 "2022-01-15T23:12:28Z")
They do love their Two-Minute Hate of Clinton. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9544 "2022-01-15T23:37:34Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > In his new anti-“critical race theory” bill, a Virginia state Delegate included that students would be instructed about the Lincoln Douglas debates between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Wow- that’s really dumb! Everyone knows that Frederick Douglass is standing by to debate trumpy when he runs again! ---
**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:** [January 16, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9545 "2022-01-16T00:07:36Z")
Candace Owens is going with the “Bob Saget died from getting a vaccination” trope. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2022, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9546 "2022-01-16T01:48:28Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Yesterday, Virginia’s incoming Attorney General fired the entire Conviction Integrity Unit without notice, and also fired staff working on human trafficking projects that are funded by grants. The “moderate Republican” image that helped sell Virginians on Youngkin (and his new Administration) actually worked to install a fairly extremist right-wing agenda. We will be seeing more and more of this unless Democrats find a way to communicate the truth behind the ‘moderate’ image. > ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9547 "2022-01-16T05:44:30Z")
A new bill from [need I say it?] Florida proposes teachers be miked up while at school so parents can listen to the lessons being taught their children. [Linky-link](https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/columns/2022/01/12/proposed-house-bill-1055-recording-public-school-teachers-florida-political-assault-education/9168253002/) ETA: apologies if someone else has posted this. I didn’t see any link to this story. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2022, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9548 "2022-01-16T05:55:01Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > A new bill from [need I say it?] Florida proposes teachers be miked up while at school so parents can listen to the lessons being taught their children. > > [Linky-link](https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/columns/2022/01/12/proposed-house-bill-1055-recording-public-school-teachers-florida-political-assault-education/9168253002/) Totally paywalled. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9549 "2022-01-16T05:56:55Z")
Oops. Try [this one.](https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/proposed-bill-would-allow-video-audio-recording-in-florida-classrooms/) ---
**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:** [January 16, 2022, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9550 "2022-01-16T05:59:56Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Oops. Try [this one.](https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/proposed-bill-would-allow-video-audio-recording-in-florida-classrooms/)   That link works. What a strange idea. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2022, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9551 "2022-01-16T07:52:45Z")
Remember back when Individual 1 floated the idea of buying Greenland? The idea came from Tom Cotton, who got the idea from Russians pretending to be from the Greenland foreign minster’s office. Since Greenland belongs to Denmark, I don’t think they even have a foreign minister. > **[Denmark accuses Russia, China, Iran of espionage threat](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/denmark-accuses-china-russia-iran-espionage-threat-2022-01-13/)** > > Denmark warned on Thursday of a rising espionage threat from Russia, China, Iran and others, including in the Arctic region where global powers are jostling for resources and sea routes. ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9552 "2022-01-16T08:47:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > don’t think they even have a foreign minister. Well, they have something like it, the chairman of the landsstyre, Múte Inequnaaluk Bourup Egede, is also chairman of the department of foreign affairs. I don’t think he could sell Greenland without consulting with the Danish government and without a referendum, in Greenland and in Denmark. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9553 "2022-01-16T13:05:22Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Yeah! You tell 'em, ~~Fucker~~ Tucker! Doctors shouldn’t even have to wear masks during surgery! I’m hoping he undergoes surgery for ulcerative dyspepsia and the entire team licks the incision. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9554 "2022-01-16T13:19:26Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > I’m hoping he undergoes surgery for ulcerative dyspepsia and the entire team licks the incision. All they have to do is spit a little. No need for them to come in contact with whatever HE’S carrying. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2022, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9555 "2022-01-16T13:28:12Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Russians pretending to be from the Greenland foreign minster’s office …and yet, Trumpers still won’t believe how easy it is to influence Trump. At this point, there’s probably a Russian agent deliberately doing a really bad Boris Badenov accent while pretending to be from England hanging around Trump, just to see exactly how much they can get away with, for shits and giggles. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9556 "2022-01-16T15:41:48Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > > Yeah! You tell 'em, ~~Fucker~~ Tucker! Doctors shouldn’t even have to wear masks during surgery! > > I’m hoping he undergoes surgery for ulcerative dyspepsia and the entire team licks the incision. Way to disincentivize people from applying to medical school. Is there a glut of doctors in your neck of the woods? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9557 "2022-01-16T15:44:39Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > …and yet, Trumpers still won’t believe how easy it is to influence Trump. Heck, I’m surprised by how easy it was to influence Tom Cotton. I mean, he’s supposed to be the _smart_ authoritarian fascist… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=475) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=477)