# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018 "2022-02-07T00:52:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 139
**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:** [June 17, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2762 "2022-06-17T16:45:45Z")
[Hiking the Appalachian Trail](https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/scs-mark-sanford-returned-from-hiking-the-appalachian-trail-10-years-ago-today/article_66eb4780-9687-11e9-acbf-8315bf00be44.html). ---
**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:** [June 17, 2022, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2763 "2022-06-17T16:54:53Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > > [@DesertDog](#): > > > > They’d just use the standard fallback: “He works in mysterious ways. It is not our place to question Him.” > > The thing that really annoys me is that they don’t apply this to _everything_. How come they never think, “Biden got 81 million votes and won the election? Must be God’s will!”- Strangely enough, God’s will perfectly lines up with what the person wants. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2764 "2022-06-17T17:01:33Z")
I didn’t know that, but I recall the news stories on Loudermilk saying that he was taking his “constituents” into areas that tourists aren’t normally allowed into, and they mentioned the tunnels. I figured they were off limits since the capitol police use the tunnels to move Congress and staff safely when the situation calls for it. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2765 "2022-06-17T17:22:18Z")
Like I said, this was the early 90’s and security theater may have been much more lenient back then. I was only in my early teens, so I don’t remember it all that well, but I _do_ remember finding the tunnels and the underground trains to be fascinating. You didn’t need an appointment or anything, you could just walk right into the Capitol and wander its halls, even go up into the galleries overlooking the Senate and House chambers and watch legislators legislate. They had guided tours, but you didn’t have to be on one to be there. I’m sure there were some off limits areas, but it was pretty open for the most part. Same with the White House. That obviously had even more off limits areas, and to get into anything really beyond the gift shop you had to be on a tour, but you could still just show up and walk in. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2766 "2022-06-17T21:59:35Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Let’s not forget that, at the time, there were no tours of the Capitol Building allowed, at all, due to covid restrictions. That’s right, and that’s what caught the attention of those members of Congress (Rep. Sherill et al.) who reported the activity. (I don’t think all those who reported the tours witnessed the “photographing security checkpoints” incidents–they were reporting on the basis of the ‘violates COVID restrictions’ rules.) ---
**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:** [June 17, 2022, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2767 "2022-06-17T22:59:16Z")
Y’know, maybe god’s plan was that the loss of these children would serve the greater good by spurring the nation to enact laws that limit access to these instruments of death. I wonder if Paxton ever thought of that? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2768 "2022-06-17T23:02:09Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I wonder if Paxton ever thought of that? 2 words too long. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2022, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2769 "2022-06-18T03:22:19Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I suppose things have probably changed in the last 30 years, but when I visited back in the early 90’s, visitors were allowed to use the connecting tunnels to travel from the Capitol to the office buildings where the Reps and Senators had their offices. Even got to ride on the train. Ditto 40 years ago except I had to walk the tunnel, not ride. 🙁 No other tunnels or escape routes, though or even any mention of their existence. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2770 "2022-06-18T17:14:19Z")
The Michigan governor candidate who was arrested for his involvement in the Capitol attack has taken the lead in the polls. > **[Candidate for Mich. Governor Leads GOP Poll After He's Arrested by FBI for...](https://people.com/politics/michigan-gubernatorial-candidate-ryan-kelley-leads-gop-poll-after-arrest/)** > > Ryan Kelley was taken into custody June 9 on four federal charges related to the 2021 Capitol riots ---
**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:** [June 18, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2771 "2022-06-18T17:17:32Z")
The right wing organization Salem Media, which owns Town Hall and Red State, financed Dinesh D’Souza’s election lying movie, “2000 Mules”. Ann Coulter published an article criticizing the movie on Town Hall, and Town Hall has taken it down without comment except to whine about how they are censored by Google. > **[Right-Wing Site Quietly Deletes Ann Coulter Post Bashing D’Souza’s Movie It...](https://www.thedailybeast.com/townhall-quietly-deletes-ann-coulter-post-bashing-dinesh-dsouza-movie-it-funded)** > > The right-wing blog silently excised Coulter’s column, which took aim at the D’Souza “documentary” funded by its parent company. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2772 "2022-06-18T19:11:42Z")
This article has a link to Coulter’s column ( I don’t want to link it directly)- as well as some commentary. > **[Ann Coulter Calls Dinesh D’Souza’s Election Fraud Movie ’Stupid’](https://uproxx.com/viral/ann-coulter-dinesh-dsouza-slams-2000-mules/)** > > Once the GOP’s most incendiary commentator, Coulter now slams Trump and comes for a roundly discredited conspiracy theory film. Coulter was an early Trump supporter who dumped him in disgust because he was too soft on guns and immigrants. She hates him for all the wrong reasons, but she does hate him and she does a good job debunking the stupid premises of the movie and calling out Trump as a grifter. The article begins _As much as I’m enjoying the January 6th committees careful assembly of evidence proving former President Trump is a douchebag, I wasn’t seeing much in the way of criminal offense until this week’s underreported story about how Trump used his “Stop The Steal” fundraising appeals to grift his supporters out of 250 million, none of which was, in fact, used to fight election fraud_. And she definitely thinks Trump lost. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2773 "2022-06-18T21:07:56Z")
The Texas Republican Part has banned the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay organization, from their upcoming convention, and the Log Cabin Republicans are shocked. Isn’t this the same party which has members saying every gay person should be shot? > **[Log Cabin Republicans Are SHOCKED That They Were Shut Out of Texas Convention](https://www.themarysue.com/log-cabin-republicans-are-shocked-that-they-were-shut-out-of-texas-convention/)** > > Log cabin republicans are shocked that they were shut out of the Texas Republican Convention, despite their own party being virulently anti-gay. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2774 "2022-06-18T21:14:29Z")
A group of Proud Boys attacked Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw and his staff at the Texas GOP convention, calling Crenshaw “eyepatch McCain”, a phrase made up by Fucker Carlson. Apparently Tulsi Gabbard was there, too. When did she formally become a Republican? > **[WATCH: Dan Crenshaw, Staff Physically Attacked by Group Shouting 'Eyepatch...](https://www.mediaite.com/online/breaking-dan-crenshaw-staff-physically-assaulted-by-right-wing-attackers-shouting-eyepatch-mccain-at-tx-gop/)** > > A group of far right activists that included Proud Boys assaulted the Congressman's staff in a violent confrontation on Saturday. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2775 "2022-06-18T23:58:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A group of Proud Boys attacked Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw and his staff at the Texas GOP convention, calling Crenshaw “eyepatch McCain”, a phrase made up by Fucker Carlson. … GOP politicians, and their media arm Fox News, have been selling the idea that violence is the best way to deal with all issues for some time, now. And so now they’re shocked that the targets of that message are actually…you know, using violence when they don’t like someone or something–even a fellow-Republican. (And this won’t be the last time, either, I’m guessing.) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2776 "2022-06-19T00:32:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Apparently Tulsi Gabbard was there, too. No, Fucker Carlson made up the name for Crenshaw during a conversation on his show with Gabbard. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > When did she formally become a Republican? You’re not wrong about _that,_ though. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2777 "2022-06-19T00:36:09Z")
Oh, thanks for clarifying that. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2022, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2778 "2022-06-19T00:37:38Z")
The Texas GOP voted to declare homosexuality an abnormal lifestyle, declared Biden not legitimately elected, and condemned Senator John Cornyn for voting for the gun control compromise. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2022, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2779 "2022-06-19T00:43:59Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Texas GOP voted to declare homosexuality an abnormal lifestyle, declared Biden not legitimately elected, and condemned Senator John Cornyn for voting for the gun control compromise . More details here: > **[Texas Republican Convention calls Biden win illegitimate and rebukes Cornyn...](https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/18/republican-party-texas-convention-cornyn/)** > > Some 5,100 delegates and alternates voted on a party platform that also calls for ending the federal income tax, requiring education about fetal gestation and limiting the Legislature’s right to regulate guns. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2022, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2780 "2022-06-19T09:54:23Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > No, Fucker Carlson made up the name for Crenshaw during a conversation on his show with Gabbard. So along with fashion and humanity, Tucker fails at comedy, too? Cause that’s about the worst “gotcha” nickname I’ve ever heard. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2022, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2781 "2022-06-19T11:44:42Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > So along with fashion and humanity, Tucker fails at comedy, too? Cause that’s about the worst “gotcha” nickname I’ve ever heard. Emphasized by the idiot in the video shouting it over and over again. Dude, if you didn’t get a laugh the first time, the tenth time isn’t going to work either. But he was just so desperate to sound “clever”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=138) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=140)