# 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:** 494
**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 31, 2022, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9898 "2022-01-31T07:31:00Z")
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have broken up after 39 years because lead singer Dicky Barret has gone anti-vax. > **[The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Break Up Amid Anti-Vax Controversy](https://etcanada.com/news/861829/the-mighty-mighty-bosstones-break-up-amid-anti-vax-controversy/)** > > Ska no more. This week, the Boston-based band the Mighty Mighty Bosstones announced that they are splitting up after forming nearly 40 years ago. \[readmore label="READ MORE: "... ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9899 "2022-01-31T09:38:01Z")
Seems we have an answer to whether he’s a coward or not. At least that’s the impression that I get. ---
**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 31, 2022, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9900 "2022-01-31T12:39:16Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > Seems we have an answer to whether he’s a coward or not. He’d just never been tested. Turns out he failed. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9901 "2022-01-31T14:58:18Z")
Rand Paul once again fails in an attempt to be clever. > **[Rand Paul Tweaks Neil Young Song To Support Joe Rogan And Twitter Can't Even](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rand-paul-neil-young-spotify_n_61f27271e4b094ce54a696f1)** > > Critics offered rockin' rewrites after the GOP senator applauded Spotify for removing the "Heart of Gold" singer's music at his request. ---
**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 31, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9902 "2022-01-31T16:17:38Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Anita Hill would be _sweet_. No, save Anita Hill for when Clarence Thomas kicks the bucket. _That_ would be sweet. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9903 "2022-01-31T16:24:09Z")
Oh, great idea! ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9904 "2022-01-31T16:59:02Z")
The poetic justice would be sweet, but then you miss the opportunity to rub it in Thomases face while he’s still alive. Coming into work every day to see Anita’s smiling face looking at him and saying “you didn’t beat me, motherfucker”, has a sweetness of its own. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9905 "2022-01-31T17:09:19Z")
I read the whole article and all I can say is, rhetorically, what in god’s name is wrong with these people? ---
**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 31, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9906 "2022-01-31T17:47:54Z")
They’ve been groomed for decades by the right-wing media never to think critically but rather to believe all sorts of extreme paranoid bullshit without question. And here we are. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9907 "2022-01-31T17:55:59Z")
If it wasn’t so frightening it would be hilarious. ---
**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 31, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9908 "2022-01-31T18:00:34Z")
This is how we get kid-fucking, blood-draining libruls in the basement of a pizza place that has no basement. This is how we get plots to have “the military” seize voting machines to prove voter fraud when there is no evidence of fraud. This is how we get people downing algacide and deworming pills instead of getting a vaccination. This is how we get people at a rally expecting JFK to show up. ---
**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 31, 2022, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9909 "2022-01-31T19:34:03Z")
A Michigan state legislature candidate, endorsed by Individual 1, suggests that people bring guns to their voting places to make sure that people vote the right way. He also suggested that people unplug voting machines. > **[GOP Candidate For Michigan State Senate Tells Group To ‘Show Up Armed’ At The...](https://newsone.com/4283644/gop-candidate-michigan-state-senate-tells-group-to-show-up-armed-at-polls/)** > > A video surfaced Sunday of Republican candidates in Michigan seemingly encouraging supporters to come to the polls armed and tamper with machines if they don’t like the outcome. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9910 "2022-01-31T20:10:40Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > suggests that people bring guns to their voting places to make sure that people vote the right way. Naturally, the candidate himself won’t bring any guns, because the one thing these types are, even more than sedition traitors, is cowards. “I didn’t mean _actual guns, or actual violence_, I was just talking.” ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9911 "2022-01-31T20:24:14Z")
Although I will say that Marianna Wright probably could have handled the that individual incident better. Not that I entirely blame her since its hard to think strategically in the heat of the moment, but when confronted with a couple of paranoid provocateurs its best to avoid taking actions that could be interpreted as supporting their delusions. Trying to prevent them from recording the encounter by stealing their phone and them prevent them from leaving even if they stole yours is just going to be seen as evidence that you were hiding something. Probably the best thing would be to give them a tour explaining the wonder of butterflies, or if there were concerns about the integrity of the habitat tell them they need to leave and call the police to charge them with trespassing if they don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9912 "2022-01-31T22:27:09Z")
What, in the good name of Jerry Korab, does Ted Cruz think he makes even the slightest fucking sense… > **[Ted Cruz says a Black woman on the Supreme Court is an ‘insult to Black women’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ted-cruz-supreme-court-black-b2004406.html)** > > ‘The fact that he’s willing to make a promise at the outset, that it must be a Black woman, I got to say, that’s offensive’ > [@](#): > > “He’s not even pretending to say that, he’s saying ‘if you’re a white guy – tough luck, if you’re a white woman – tough luck, if you’re [Attorney General and 2016 Supreme Court nominee] Merrick Garland – how much does it suck to be Merrick Garland?” Mr Cruz pondered. > [@](#): > > “He literally has to sit there and be told at the outset he is ineligible, because sorry – wrong skin pigment and wrong y chromosome,” Mr Cruz added. “It’s an example [of] how Democrats, and in particular the far left – everything is race, they will discriminate based on race, they will pigeonhole you, they don’t care about the … individual.” I guess the GOP are at least being more honest these days in really _really_ explicitly saying the quite part out loud. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9913 "2022-01-31T22:30:46Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > What, in the good name of Jerry Korab, does Ted Cruz think he makes even the slightest fucking sense… > [Ted Cruz baffles after saying a Black woman on the Supreme Court is an ‘insult to Black women’ | The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ted-cruz-supreme-court-black-b2004406.html) > > > [@](#): > > > > “He’s not even pretending to say that, he’s saying ‘if you’re a white guy – tough luck, if you’re a white woman – tough luck, if you’re [Attorney General and 2016 Supreme Court nominee] Merrick Garland – how much does it suck to be Merrick Garland?” Mr Cruz pondered. > > > [@](#): > > > > “He literally has to sit there and be told at the outset he is ineligible, because sorry – wrong skin pigment and wrong y chromosome,” Mr Cruz added. “It’s an example [of] how Democrats, and in particular the far left – everything is race, they will discriminate based on race, they will pigeonhole you, they don’t care about the … individual.” > > I guess the GOP are at least being more honest these days in really _really_ explicitly saying the quite part out loud. Oh, _now_ Cruz is concerned about Garland’s feelings? Thanks for speaking up six years ago, jagoff. ---
**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 31, 2022, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9914 "2022-01-31T23:07:08Z")
After Ron DeSantis’s spokeswoman suggested that the Nazi demonstrators in Orlando might have been Democrats, she deleted the post. > **[DeSantis aide deletes tweet suggesting Nazi protesters were Democratic...](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/31/desantis-aide-nazi-protestors-democrats-00003678)** > > Christina Pushaw's comments drew widespread condemnation from elected officials as well as a prominent South Florida rabbi. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2022, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9915 "2022-02-01T01:06:00Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > After Ron DeSantis’s spokeswoman suggested that the Nazi demonstrators in Orlando might have been Democrats, she deleted the post. > [https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/31/desantis-aide-nazi-protestors-democrats-00003678](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/31/desantis-aide-nazi-protestors-democrats-00003678) - Some days you eat the gas-lighting; some days the gas-lighting eats you. (Videos from the many posted on Twitter Saturday shows the “Democrats” doing some very intensive play-acting, apparently; wait for the end of the 1:19-minute one for the White Power! chant: > > ---
**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:** [February 1, 2022, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9916 "2022-02-01T01:32:23Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > c.f. Kamala Harris Very true. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2022, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9917 "2022-02-01T04:07:49Z")
Republicans in the New Hampshire state legislature have proposed a law banning negative depictions of US history, such as the role of racism in the nation’s founding. The bills authors describe its purpose as ensuring the loyalty of teachers, and banning the teaching of subversive doctrines. > **[Opinion | A GOP proposal targeting ‘negative’ U.S. history is cause for...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/31/gop-proposal-targets-negative-us-history/)** > > How a repugnant bill in New Hampshire could be a model for future GOP censorship. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=493) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=495)