# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/164 "2020-07-08T17:15:05Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > You underestimate their ability to just lie. A week after Trump endorses mask wearing, not one of those idiots will ever admit to having uttered such nonsense Plus most will just be morons anyway. A woman in a Facebook group I’m in posted a flyer that that said “ADA says it’s illegal for places to make you wear a mask” I told her “Yeah, that’s incorrect” and linked to the ADA site AND to the DOJ notice specifically about that flyer and her response was “I don’t care. I’m still not wearing a mask” 🙄 ---
**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:** [July 8, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/165 "2020-07-08T17:49:05Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Plus most will just be morons anyway. A woman in a Facebook group I’m in posted a flyer that that said “ADA says it’s illegal for places to make you wear a mask” > > I told her “Yeah, that’s incorrect” and linked to the ADA site AND to the DOJ notice specifically about that flyer and her response was “I don’t care. I’m still not wearing a mask” 🙄 God, I hate those people so much, and we’re even getting them here in Canada. I’m one of those people with breathing problems who actually does find wearing a mask makes things worse. I also wear a mask because that very same problem makes it far more likely I’ll _fucking die_ if I catch this thing. But selfish assholes like that, trying to abuse systems put in place to help people, just so they can continue to be assholes and put my life, and a lot of other lives, at risk just piss me off so much. I’ve re-arranged my whole life, and also put up with no small amount of discomfort, to try to protect myself and others, and these jerks just can’t be bothered? And then they fucking lie about it? ---
**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:** [July 8, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/166 "2020-07-08T20:53:18Z")
Facebook has taken down over a hundred accounts linked to Roger Stone and the Proud Boys. > **[Facebook removes Roger Stone from Instagram after linking him to fake accounts...](https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/tech/roger-stone-proud-boys-facebook/index.html)** > > Facebook announced Wednesday it had shut down pages and accounts linked to Roger Stone and Proud Boys, a far-right group Facebook has banned under its hate policies. Stone's own Instagram account was shut down as part of the takedown. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/167 "2020-07-08T21:04:38Z")
# [Vice President Pence, Detached from Reality, Says Florida, Texas, and Arizona Covid-19 Outbreaks Are Improving](https://theslot.jezebel.com/vice-president-pence-detached-from-reality-says-flori-1844310523) Title says it all. Detached from reality. People in the audience should have been screaming, “Liar, liar liar.” And hurling shoes. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/168 "2020-07-08T21:50:12Z")
It was a briefing with actual journalists in attendance, right? Did any of them attempt to confront him with the actual numbers? Or do briefings not include questions? ---
**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:** [July 8, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/169 "2020-07-08T23:02:56Z")
I propose that the early part of the 21st century in America be known as the Gaslight Era. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2020, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/170 "2020-07-09T00:58:28Z")
Did Pence later claim that he had proven that the virus was actually a tasty treat if eaten with ice cream (two scoops!)? ---
**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:** [July 9, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/171 "2020-07-09T02:29:18Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Did Pence later claim that he had proven that the virus was actually a tasty treat if eaten with ice cream (two scoops!)?  I hadn’t heard that before, but I did read that a dose of the virus, added to lysol and lemonade, provides your B vitamins. So probably works when mixed with ice cream too, I suppose. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/172 "2020-07-09T13:57:15Z")
> **[The Republican coronavirus meatgrinder](https://theweek.com/articles/924348/republican-coronavirus-meatgrinder)** > > They have given up on containment > The second wave of the coronavirus pandemic continues to accelerate. July 7 saw over [54,000 confirmed cases](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html), a 72-percent increase over the previous two weeks. Many hospital intensive care units are completely full in [Texas](https://www.ft.com/content/7af504a4-775e-3b9d-a079-fd62bb74e93c), [Florida](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/florida-invited-the-nation-to-its-reopening--then-it-became-a-new-coronavirus-epicenter/2020/07/07/74645c82-c069-11ea-b178-bb7b05b94af1_story.html), [Arizona](https://theweek.com/speedreads/924264/dozens-florida-intensive-care-units-are-full-texas-arizona-hospitals-are-quickly-filling), and elsewhere, and there is every sign the outbreak will get _much_ worse before it gets better. > > **In response, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is laser-focused on … [immunizing companies from legal liability](https://hosted.ap.org/standardspeaker/article/c82b808174b50beb755f5320c44fc5dc/mcconnell-eyes-virus-aid-evictions-benefits-cuts-loom) if they infect their customers or employees.** Meanwhile, President Trump is [threatening to cut off federal aid](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1280853299600789505) to schools that do not reopen in the fall, despite the fact that neither he nor anyone else in his party has gotten behind the massive aid to states and local governments that would be a necessary precondition to even thinking about doing so safely. > > The ruling Republican Party has all but given up on containment. Instead they are feeding the American people into the coronavirus meatgrinder. > … My bold. That’s Unca Mitch-- always lookin’ out for the ~~Re~~ **public** ~~an~~ good! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/173 "2020-07-09T15:58:18Z")
# [QAnon-Curious House Candidate Gave Her Customers Diarrhea](https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-curious-house-candidate-lauren-boebert-of-colorado-gave-her-customers-diarrhea) You can just imagine what she’ll do for the rest of the country. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/174 "2020-07-09T18:19:43Z")
More cray-cray… > **['STOP GETTING TESTED' For Coronavirus, Ohio Politician Tells Constituents](https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/09/889356233/stop-getting-tested-ohio-politician-tells-constituents?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news)** > > "This is what happens when people go crazy and get tested," Ohio state Rep. Nino Vitale wrote on social media. > Ohio state Rep. Nino Vitale is urging his constituents not to get tested for the coronavirus, flouting advice from health officials — and from another Republican lawmaker, Gov. Mike DeWine. > > “This is what happens when people go crazy and get tested,” Vitale [wrote on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/RepVitale/posts/3042895512455145) this week. “STOP GETTING TESTED!” > > Vitale was evidently incensed by an order from DeWine and state health officials that people in seven Ohio counties with severe outbreaks must wear face coverings when out in public. That order took effect Wednesday. > > Vitale shared an altered graphic about the order — in that version, there is an extra message at the bottom: > > “!! NEVER GET TESTED !!” > … > > The state lawmaker accused “the government” of using the pandemic “to claim something is happening that is not happening at the magnitude they say it is happening” — and apparently, to infringe on people’s rights. > > “Stop listening to these frauds,” he wrote. > > Ohio has reported around 60,000 confirmed and probable coronavirus cases, and nearly 3,000 people have died from COVID-19, according to the [state health department](https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/home). > > Compared with the rest of the state, the pandemic has barely affected [the three counties](https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/dashboards) Vitale represents: Champaign, Logan and Shelby. Those counties have reported a combined total of six deaths, and their case counts are measured in tens, not in hundreds of thousands. > … Yeah, so far… ---
**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:** [July 9, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/175 "2020-07-09T18:23:36Z")
Murderers, all. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/176 "2020-07-09T18:34:23Z")
Borrowing from Bugs Bunny, my new word for MAGAbots/Covidiots (who are typically one in the same): maroons. Ironic bonus: > **[Maroons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroons)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Black Seminoles, Bushinengue, Jamaican Maroons, Mauritian Maroons, Kalungas, Palenqueros, Quilombola > Historical groups > Maroons are descendants of Africans in the Americas and Islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery and formed their own settlements. They often mixed with indigenous peoples, eventually evolving into separate creole cultures such as the Garifuna and the Mascogos. > Maroon, which can have a more general sense of being aband... ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/177 "2020-07-09T18:37:09Z")
> [@](#): > > The state lawmaker accused “the government” of using the pandemic “to claim something is happening that is not happening at the magnitude they say it is happening” If only there was some way to prove that Nino . . . maybe some kind of a test procedure that proved people didn’t have Covid, I know, that’s crazy talk right Nino? CMC ---
**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:** [July 9, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/178 "2020-07-09T18:49:53Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > The state lawmaker accused “the government” of using the pandemic “to claim something is happening that is not happening at the magnitude they say it is happening” > > If only there was some way to prove that Nino . . . maybe some kind of a test procedure that proved people didn’t have Covid, I know, that’s crazy talk right Nino? - > CMC There _is_ a test for Covidiotitis. Just turn your head and cough in their face. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/179 "2020-07-09T19:04:31Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > If only there was some way to prove that Nino . . . maybe some kind of a test procedure that proved people didn’t have Covid, I know, that’s crazy talk right Nino? > CMC Dang. If only those dead people could testify. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/180 "2020-07-09T20:10:23Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “This is what happens when people go crazy and get tested,” Vitale [wrote on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/RepVitale/posts/3042895512455145) this week. “STOP GETTING TESTED!” If people stop going to the dentist, then they won’t get any more cavities, either. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/181 "2020-07-09T20:15:02Z")
Alternatively, they can go to the dentist and have all their teeth removed. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/182 "2020-07-09T20:25:41Z")
That Ohio legislator, Vitale, has introduced a bill prohibiting Ohio officials from issuing mask rules without a 2/3 vote of the legislature. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/183 "2020-07-10T03:59:01Z")
Since no one listed this one… [https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/kentucky-circuit-judge-coronavirus-orders-masks/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/kentucky-circuit-judge-coronavirus-orders-masks/index.html) > In order to issue and enforce executive orders related to Covid-19, Privett wrote that the governor must first “specifically state the emergency that requires the order, the location of the emergency, and the name of the local emergency management agency that has determined that the emergency is beyond its capabilities.” > [Kentucky Attorney General Daniel]Cameron said in a statement that Thursday’s decision was “a clear win for the rule of law and will help Kentucky families and businesses across the Commonwealth who have suffered and continue to suffer financial losses and economic hardship because of the Governor’s executive orders.” So a double whammy of a Republican judge who appears to be unable to understand the definition of an emergency, and a Republican AG who figures that keeping a plague from spreading via common sense measures is a hardship. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=10)