# 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:** 480
**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:** [January 19, 2022, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9618 "2022-01-19T20:09:46Z")
Hey Ted, while you’re at it, could you have some of your crack team of investigators look at Obama’s birth certificate? Probably made with bamboo fibers, has soy sauce spilled on it, and faked signatures. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9619 "2022-01-19T20:15:07Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Hey Ted, while you’re at it, could you have some of your crack team of investigators look at Obama’s birth certificate? Probably made with bamboo fibers, **has soy sauce spilled on it** , and faked signatures. - Foreign condiments! That proves…something. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9620 "2022-01-19T20:31:56Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Eric Trump and Allen Weisselberg both pled the Fifth Amendment over 500 times in answering questions about the Trump Organization in the New York state Attorney General’s probe. I’m confused why Eric would plead the Fifth. He could answer “I don’t know” 500 times and no one would doubt him. ---
**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 19, 2022, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9621 "2022-01-19T20:36:58Z")
Utah’s state Senate President went into the Senate unmasked and positive for covid and told everybody he was negative. > **[Senate President Stuart Adams tested positive for COVID twice Tuesday before...](https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2022/01/18/session-opens-senate/)** > > After inquiries from The Tribune, the Senate acknowledged that Senate President Stuart Adams had tested positive twice for COVID on Tuesday, contrary to his public statements. ---
**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 19, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9622 "2022-01-19T20:38:58Z")
Ron Johnson posted a poll as to whether people wanted the filibuster to end, and 96% of respondents said yes. > ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9623 "2022-01-19T20:44:49Z")
Of course he will bend to the will of the people he represents! 🤣 ---
**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:** [January 19, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9624 "2022-01-19T20:45:37Z")
Unfortunately, what the American public wants is largely immaterial in deciding policy. > **[Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think](https://represent.us/americas-corruption-problem/)** > > I had no idea how bad things actually were until I saw one simple graph. > **[Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average...](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B)** > > Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens - Volume 12 Issue 3 ---
**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 19, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9625 "2022-01-19T22:36:52Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Weekly World News is till around in website form with regularly updated content if you need your Batboy or Ed anger fix. This is cool! Apparently, they’re having to pull out the stops to compete with Q crazy. Forget JFK coming back from the dead: > Betty White Will Join Forces with Teddy Roosevelt and Run For President! ---
**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 19, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9626 "2022-01-19T22:40:31Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ted Cruz sent out a campaign flyer saying he’s investigating the FBI collusion in the 1/6 attack. This should be in Ted’s next flyer (gratuitously stolen from Weekly World News): > THE REAL REASON FOR GLOBAL WARMING > > ## TEENAGE SPACE ALIENS ARE STEALING OUR GLACIERS FOR PARTY ICE! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9627 "2022-01-19T22:43:00Z")
N.H. Gov. Sununu says he decided not to run for Senate because when he talked to other GOP Senators, they admitted they are essentially useless. [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-sununu-governor-new-hampshire-turned-down-senate-bid-gop-senators-do-nothing](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-sununu-governor-new-hampshire-turned-down-senate-bid-gop-senators-do-nothing) I thought this was the best part: > [@](#): > > Sununu said he was “bothered” not just by how the senators were fine with doing nothing, but also the fact that they apparently couldn’t explain why, if the current goal is to obstruct until the GOP potentially wins the White House in 2024, they didn’t do anything even when they did have the White House during Trump’s term. > > “I said, ‘OK, so if we’re going to get stuff done if we win the White House back, why didn’t you do it in 2017 and 2018?’” Sununu recounted. > > “Crickets. Yeah, crickets,” he said of the senators’ response. “They had no answer.” ---
**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 19, 2022, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9628 "2022-01-19T23:31:57Z")
Texas’s Secretary of State says there isn’t enough paper available to send out voter registration application forms. [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/texas-secretary-state-paper-shortage-voter-registration-forms](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/texas-secretary-state-paper-shortage-voter-registration-forms) ---
**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:** [January 19, 2022, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9629 "2022-01-19T23:38:40Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Texas’s Secretary of State says there isn’t enough paper available to send out voter registration application forms. - > [Texas Secretary Of State Claims There’s Not Enough Paper For Voter Registration Forms](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/texas-secretary-state-paper-shortage-voter-registration-forms) They’re not even trying anymore. ---
**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 19, 2022, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9630 "2022-01-19T23:39:30Z")
Wait until they propose sending certain voters 3/5 of a registration form… ---
**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:** [January 19, 2022, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9631 "2022-01-19T23:41:32Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Wait until they propose sending certain voters 3/5 of a registration form… - Or skintone matching charts with corresponding percentages. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9632 "2022-01-19T23:49:44Z")
Time for UN observers. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2022, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9633 "2022-01-20T01:13:39Z")
DeSantis is already at work hiring people to “observe” your vote so they can make sure you vote the right way. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9634 "2022-01-20T01:13:56Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Of course he will bend to the will of the people he represents! It’s not like his constituents will vote him out for not bending to their will. Poll after poll show people want certain things, but politicians refuse to deliver them. But it doesn’t matter at all. ---
**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 20, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9635 "2022-01-20T01:27:09Z")
Florida’s legislature is also discussing whether to ban teaching about LGBTQ history and society. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2022, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9636 "2022-01-20T02:15:23Z")
maganut says the LGBTQ trans movement is also about depopulation. George Soros is purposely Jewish so anyone who dares speak against his agenda is called anti semitic. Once he mentioned Soros, our phones cut off. I told him they’re listening in on us and didn’t like us talking about G.S. heh. ---
**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 20, 2022, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9637 "2022-01-20T03:24:31Z")
Hell, why not just ban teaching, period? Reading, writing, and arithmetic are so overrated. Benefit: instant increase in the work force! Child labor was good enough for our ancestors, it should be good enough for us. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=479) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=481)