# 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:** 497
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9958 "2022-02-03T13:49:50Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > The horror! The horror! > > (if true) > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > . > [Rudy Giuliani Revealed As Masked Singer Contestant: Reports | HuffPost Latest News](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rudy-giuliani-masked-singer_n_61fb2375e4b0c7df97462def) Goddammit, Rudy! You’ve just made me think well of Robin Thicke. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9959 "2022-02-03T13:52:21Z")
The Waltons did it [https://waltonswebpage.proboards.com/thread/267/memorable-scenes](https://waltonswebpage.proboards.com/thread/267/memorable-scenes) ---
**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:** [February 3, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9960 "2022-02-03T13:54:37Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Goddammit, Rudy! You’ve just made me think well of Robin Thicke. Jenny McCarthy is also on the Masked Singer panel. It’s an absolute horrorshow of morally questionable characters. AFAIK Ken Jeong is fine. And probably Nicole Scherzinger. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9961 "2022-02-03T14:07:17Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Gosh, who would think conservatives would tarnish someone’s character? Someone who’s been living in a cave since 2016… wait 2008… hold on… nope… then too… ok, got it… 1953. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9962 "2022-02-03T14:17:33Z")
To be fair, “nominated for a Nobel prize” means absolutely bupkis. Pretty much every person you’ve ever heard of has been nominated for a Nobel prize. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9963 "2022-02-03T14:35:24Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Jenny McCarthy is also on the Masked Singer panel. It’s an absolute horrorshow of morally questionable characters. > > AFAIK Ken Jeong is fine. And probably Nicole Scherzinger. Jenny McCarthy is the main reason I refuse to even consider to watch that show. I was in a show with Ken Jeong about twenty years ago when he was just a really funny and cool Med Student at Duke. I still shake my head that he’s on that show. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2022, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9964 "2022-02-03T14:35:42Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > The Waltons did it > > [https://waltonswebpage.proboards.com/thread/267/memorable-scenes](https://waltonswebpage.proboards.com/thread/267/memorable-scenes) Well, I’m gobsmacked that there’s an entire message board devoted to The Waltons. 😲 ---
**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:** [February 3, 2022, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9965 "2022-02-03T15:00:45Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > The Waltons did it That reminds me, they did something similar with a German Bible in [Little House on the Prairie.](http://wtf-littlehouse.blogspot.com/2009_05_31_archive.html) ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9966 "2022-02-03T15:02:28Z")
I remember that one too. Mrs. Olsen felt superior to the German immigrants because they couldn’t read English (and were thus “illiterate”) - but the German immigrants could read German just fine (and of course could speak German and English, while Mrs. Olsen could only speak English) ---
**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:** [February 3, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9967 "2022-02-03T15:17:45Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Speaking of face-eating, Governor Parson’s of MO is [pissed that his nominee for the Health Department was rejected](https://missouriindependent.com/2022/02/01/gov-mike-parsons-pick-to-lead-state-health-department-rejected-by-missouri-senate/). Why was he rejected? Because he thinks vaccines work and are a good idea. He is adamantly against mandates, but why take a chance? > > > “I’ve been a conservative Republican my entire life,” Parson said, “and contrary to what some senators believe, tarnishing a man’s character by feeding misinformation, repeating lies and disgracing 35 years of public health experience is not what it means to be conservative.” > > Gosh, who would think conservatives would tarnish someone’s character? Fuck Mike Parson. This is the guy who pardoned the gun-wielding McCloskeys, but refused to commute the sentence of a proven wrongly convicted black man. He’s also the ass-hat who had the health department run a study on the efficacy of mask mandates, then sat on the results when he didn’t get the answer he wanted. He’s just marginally less of a piece of shit than his predecessor, disgraced former governor Eric Greitens. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9968 "2022-02-03T16:00:19Z")
Oh, absolutely. My wife giddily came to me with the paper this morning, with the headline about Parson’s, happy something bad had happened to him. Had to burst her bubble a bit by explaining that he was suffering a setback for not being conservative enough for the real crazies around here. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9969 "2022-02-03T19:26:39Z")
Ted Cruz jokes about the cost of tickets to Cancun ahead of a new storm about to hit Texas. > **[Ted Cruz tweets about rising Cancun flight costs ahead of another Texas...](https://wgntv.com/news/ted-cruz-tweets-about-rising-cancun-flight-costs-ahead-of-texas-winter-storm/)** > > Cruz posted Wednesday morning on his personal Twitter account, “Inflation is out of control.” He then listed the words gas prices, food prices and lumber prices next to upward arrow emo… ---
**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:** [February 3, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9970 "2022-02-03T19:31:10Z")
The best defense is being offensive. 🙄 ---
**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:** [February 3, 2022, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9971 "2022-02-03T19:34:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ted Cruz jokes about the cost of tickets to Cancun ahead of a new storm about to hit Texas. - > [Ted Cruz tweets about rising Cancun flight costs ahead of Texas winter storm | WGN-TV](https://wgntv.com/news/ted-cruz-tweets-about-rising-cancun-flight-costs-ahead-of-texas-winter-storm/) I know where he can go that’s _plenty_ warm. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9972 "2022-02-03T22:52:27Z")
They don’t want him either. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2022, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9973 "2022-02-03T23:55:52Z")
I’m going to buck the trend, to say that while I think Ted Cruz is a truly loathsome human being, I found that little bit of self deprecating humor was actually pretty good. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9974 "2022-02-04T00:01:46Z")
It’d be self-deprecating humor if he had ever acknowledged that his actions were wrong and shown any sort of remorse. As it is, it’s just deprecating all those idiotic enough to not call him to task for his previous wrongdoings. ---
**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 4, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9975 "2022-02-04T01:25:04Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Goddammit, Rudy! You’ve just made me think well of Robin Thicke. Seriously. I’ve never watched that show and now likely never will. But is anyone surprised that a show produced and distributed by Fox Entertainment (yes, the one whose parent company is the Murdoch-owned Fox Corporation, not the spun-off part owned by Disney) is trying to paint Trump’s immoral hatchet-man Rudy Giuliani as a ‘fun, normal, entertaining’ kind of guy? Good for Robin Thicke for walking out (even if that’s not enough to redeem his reputation). ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9976 "2022-02-04T02:21:33Z")
Mike Parsons just can’t stop putting his foot in it. His implication that [he would only hire Christians for a state Dept of Health and Human Services post](https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/only-christians-need-apply-missouri-governor-s-christian-values-statement-prompts-legal-concerns/article_c021c395-7645-5d63-982f-56d01002a7a0.html?utm_source=stltoday.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletter-templates%2Flocal%2Fevening-dispatch&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_content=7aa409af65889991eb893b1640d6f70efff7f48a&recip_id=192235) was too much even for other Missouri Republicans. Turns out not all of them are Christian and they don’t appreciate the blatant Constitutional violation of “no religious test for public office.” ---
**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:** [February 4, 2022, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9977 "2022-02-04T04:42:32Z")
A “Constitutional sheriff” (self described) in North Dakota is deputizing the locals to form a militia to fight against the federal government. > **[McFeely: North Dakota sheriff says he'll deputize citizens against U.S....](https://www.inforum.com/opinion/mcfeely-north-dakota-sheriff-says-hell-deputize-citizens-against-u-s-government)** > > Bowman County sheriff opposes Biden administration conservation plan, says federal government 'stealing land' [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=496) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=498)