# 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:** 49
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/966 "2020-09-19T21:29:05Z")
Republican or Russian? Either way, these are stupid. > **[NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week - WTOP News](https://wtop.com/national/2022/04/not-real-news-a-look-at-what-didnt-happen-this-week-32/)** > > A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked… ---
**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 19, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/967 "2020-09-19T23:37:52Z")
I consume a ton of news and I never heard of most of those. I’m not sure what that might mean, but I find it sort of comforting. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2020, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/968 "2020-09-20T00:22:44Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ann Coulter: > “Surely the Dem talking point will be: No vote on a nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg until the new senators from Puerto Rico, D.C., and The 1619 Project are sworn in.” > > [twitter.com](https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1307120238912245760) Poor old Ann—reduced to expressing outrage over stuff she’s _fantasizing_ about. Though I guess that’s pretty much her normal modus operandi… ---
**Author:** ![Ziberian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/919ad9/32.png) [@Ziberian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ziberian)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/969 "2020-09-20T01:08:42Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Basically, if an issue does not directly affect her, she doesn’t care about it. That world view applies to every Conservative I know. They rejoice in insular ignorance. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2020, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/970 "2020-09-20T10:58:48Z")
Except the male anti-abortion folks, who care deeply about something that doesn’t directly affect them. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/971 "2020-09-20T14:06:14Z")
If It’s any consolation, I care about the treatment of ICE detainees, the unwanted hysterectomies of some of them, the wildfires in California, people I don’t know and have never met contracting Covid-19, and the murder of black people by police, none of which directly affect me either. ---
**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 20, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/972 "2020-09-20T18:01:04Z")
A large group of Individual 1 supporters, waving flags for him and shouting Four More Years, rallied outside a polling place in Fairfax, Virginia. I’ve seen that they were blocking people from getting inside, but I can’t verify that. > **[Trump Supporters Disrupt Early Voting in Virginia (Published 2020)](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/us/politics/trump-supporters-early-voting-virginia.html)** > > A group waving Trump flags and chanting “four more years” created a commotion at a polling location in Fairfax, Va. A county official said some voters and staff members felt intimidated. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/973 "2020-09-20T19:33:18Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A large group of Individual 1 supporters, waving flags for him and shouting Four More Years, rallied outside a polling place in Fairfax, Virginia. Could be worse. They could have been chanting, “Twelve more years”. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/974 "2020-09-20T19:33:38Z")
This is just the beginning. Wait until all those absentee ballots are just piled up somewhere waiting to be counted. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/975 "2020-09-20T19:45:07Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Poor old Ann—reduced to expressing outrage over stuff she’s _fantasizing_ about. > > Though I guess that’s pretty much her normal modus operandi… I am of the opinion that every hysterical fever dream that Ann has should be post-haste adopted as a platform plank and promoted by Dems. It goes back to when I was a child and I was crying about something or other, my father would always say, “Stop that, OR I WILL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT!” Meaning he would hit me. So, for every crazy idea Ann and her ilk accuse the Dems of, they should say, “Yep, x 100!” ---
**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 20, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/976 "2020-09-20T21:28:49Z")
The official Virginia GOP Twitter account, responding to the New York Times article on Individual 1 supporters blocking voters: Quick! Somebody call the waaaambulance! > **[“Virginia GOP” Is Trending On Twitter…and NOT For Any Good Reasons! LOL](https://bluevirginia.us/2020/09/virginia-gop-is-trending-on-twitter-and-not-for-any-good-reasons)** > > Yesterday, video (2.2 million views already – great work by filmmaker/photographer Anthony Tilghman!) and news about Trump Republicans engaging in voter intimidation at the Fairfax County Gover They are officially supporting voter suppression. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/977 "2020-09-20T23:19:05Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > I am of the opinion that every hysterical fever dream that Ann has should be post-haste adopted as a platform plank and promoted by Dems. It’s an interesting concept. But it would be WAY too good for her career. So: I vote ‘no.’ ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/978 "2020-09-21T21:13:01Z")
Just saw a television ad for Oberweis for Congress in which they showed video of the incumbent Democrat talking about “beautiful protests” then juxtaposed video of rioting, looting, and arson, with all or nearly all the rioters and looters being black. 1. Give up already, Jimmy, and stick to making ice cream, it’s the only thing you’re good at. 🙄 You didn’t get into the Senate with your pandering “Soldier Field full of illegal immigrants” ad years ago and you ain’t getting in to the lower House now. 2. Protests aren’t riots or looting, you ignorant schmuck! Another pandering ad, this time following Trump’s “all protests=riots and looting” herp-derp. Oberweis, Oberweis, we’re not happy to see you. Soft and white, but not clean or bright, you curse my homestate forever. ---
**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 21, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/979 "2020-09-21T22:54:21Z")
> **[Opinion | At least we can count on Senate Republicans to do the right thing](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/21/least-we-can-count-senate-republicans-do-right-thing/)** > > Thank God, thank God that Mitch McConnell will honor his word. > Opinion by [Alexandra Petri](https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/alexandra-petri/), Columnist > > On one thing, at least, we can count: Senate Republicans know that filling a Supreme Court vacancy is far too important a responsibility to rush through a nominee in the year before an election. Let alone in the last six weeks! They were very, very clear on that point four years ago, and their word means everything to them. I have no doubt they will do the right thing! (I’m sorry, after typing that, my voice shriveled up and I caught on fire.) > > Mitch McConnell is a man of principle — oh, no, my hand melted and the bones became snakes and slithered away under my writing table. Lindsey Graham will do what is right — oh my goodness, I’m sinking into the earth! Help! My mouth is filling up with sand! > > The Senate Republicans need simply be told that to push another nominee through now, before the election, would be hypocritical, after what they said in 2016 about Merrick Garland, and they are sure to stop. After all, their word means everything to them. Hmm, every Constitution in a six-mile radius just caught fire for no discernible reason. > > They were in absolute earnest that the people must have their say. I cannot imagine them going back on their word — oh no, I’m imagining it. Oh, no, it’s happening. Who could have foreseen this? > … 😆 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/980 "2020-09-21T23:46:00Z")
Remember that in 2016, Lindsey Graham said, “I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.” ---
**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:** [September 22, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/981 "2020-09-22T03:19:50Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Remember that in 2016, Lindsey Graham said, “l want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.” Yeah, pretty sure when you try to use those words against him, he’s gonna say “But there wasn’t a Republican President in 2016. The presidency was held by a Democrat until January, 2017, so none of the rest of that applies.” Or possibly “We’re counting the term starting January 20, 2021 as his ACTUAL first term, because no President has been treated as badly as he has (you can just ask him), so we’re giving him a do-over.” ---
**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 22, 2020, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/982 "2020-09-22T04:41:02Z")
Fox “doctor” accusing Biden of being on drugs. > **[Fox News Doctor Wildly Speculates That Biden’s on ‘Speed’ and ‘Adderall’](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-contributor-dr-marc-siegel-wildly-speculates-that-joe-biden-is-on-speed-and-adderall)** > > “These drugs can help in low doses for short periods of time,” Siegel said, backing Trump’s baseless claims that Biden is using PEDs ahead of the first presidential debate. ---
**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 22, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/983 "2020-09-22T04:57:39Z")
Senator Kelly Loeffler brags about being more conservative than Atilla The Hun. > **[Sen. Kelly Loeffler Roasted For Ad Saying She's 'More Conservative Than...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kelly-loeffler-attila-the-hun-ad_n_5f694c4fc5b6a9b19b3d785e)** > > The Georgia Republican apparently thinks it's a good idea to compare yourself to a conqueror known for brutality. ---
**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 22, 2020, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/984 "2020-09-22T12:03:25Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Fox “doctor” accusing Biden of being on drugs. > > > [The Daily Beast – 22 Sep 20](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-contributor-dr-marc-siegel-wildly-speculates-that-joe-biden-is-on-speed-and-adderall) > > > > ### [Fox News Doctor Wildly Speculates That Biden’s on ‘Speed’ and ‘Adderall’](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-contributor-dr-marc-siegel-wildly-speculates-that-joe-biden-is-on-speed-and-adderall) > > > > “These drugs can help in low doses for short periods of time,” Siegel said, backing Trump’s baseless claims that Biden is using PEDs ahead of the first presidential debate. Hmmm… they spelled _trump_ wrong in that headline. Everything else seems right. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/985 "2020-09-22T13:14:53Z")
In [2018](https://youtu.be/_s8qgBU58O8?t=52), Graham explicitly said a vacancy in the last year of Trump’s term in office should be held until after the election. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=48) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=50)