# 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:** 39
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/762 "2022-03-10T17:12:58Z")
Hillary Clinton, Keanu Reeves, Brad Pitt, and Jerry Seinfeld have also been on that particular Emmy Award winning show. The shows aren’t really all that comparable. In any case, the point wasn’t that he appeared on the show, point was that that seems to be the only “media” outlet that will have him now. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/763 "2022-03-10T17:24:33Z")
Exactly. One show was funny and aired on Comedy Central. The other is a semi-obscure podcast. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/764 "2022-03-10T18:56:19Z")
13 Republicans in the New Hampshire state legislature voted to secede from the Union today. Of course, the vote failed hugely. But then, it’s important to know that as a small state with the largest legislature in the country, New Hampshire legislators represent fewer people than in any other state. > ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/765 "2022-03-10T19:19:19Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Didn’t Obama go on Between Two Ferns when he was POTUS? Yeah. And he was actually asked: “What is like to be the last Black President” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/766 "2022-03-10T20:04:57Z")
> [@](#): > > # Florida To Launch The First Election Police Force In The U.S. > > Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign a bill creating the Election Crimes office, even though there is no evidence of widespread fraud in the Sunshine State. Don’t worry – if they don’t find any fraud, they can always make it. > **[Florida To Launch The First Election Police Force In The U.S.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-opens-first-office-of-election-crimes-and-security-in-the-us_n_622a0eb1e4b0d1329e817c6b)** > > Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign a bill creating the Election Crimes office, even though there is no evidence of widespread fraud in the Sunshine State. ---
**Author:** ![SoToasty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sotoasty/32/2803_2.png) [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/767 "2022-03-10T20:52:10Z")
Hopefully anyone can csll with tips of voting irregularities. Msybe starting with the villages. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/768 "2022-03-10T23:20:54Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > # Florida To Launch The First Election Police Force In The U.S. > > > > Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign a bill creating the Election Crimes office, even though there is no evidence of widespread fraud in the Sunshine State. > > Don’t worry – if they don’t find any fraud, they can always make it. > > [Florida To Launch The First Election Police Force In The U.S. | HuffPost Latest News](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-opens-first-office-of-election-crimes-and-security-in-the-us_n_622a0eb1e4b0d1329e817c6b) Let me guess: uniforms include brown shirts and hobnailed boots. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/769 "2022-03-10T23:26:20Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > > Madison Cawthorn charged for driving on a revoked license. In three separate counties. - > > > > [NC Rep. Madison Cawthorn is charged with driving with revoked license](https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2022/03/09/nc-rep-madison-cawthorn-charged-driving-revoked-license-court/9439056002/) > > They should boot his chair. Cawthorn made further news today, likely in a effort to obscure his ‘I’m an irresponsible driver’ news: **GOP lawmaker calls Zelensky a ‘thug’ and Ukrainian government ‘incredibly evil’** Updated 6:14 PM ET, Thu March 10, 2022 [https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/10/politics/madison-cawthorn-volodymyr-zelensky-comments/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/10/politics/madison-cawthorn-volodymyr-zelensky-comments/index.html) > [@](#): > > … Cawthorn made the comments to a group of supporters in Asheville, North Carolina, last weekend. WRAL, a CNN-affiliate television station in Raleigh, then published a video of Cawthorn making them. > > “Remember that Zelensky is a thug,” said Cawthorn in the video. “Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and it is incredibly evil and it has been pushing woke ideologies.” … “Pushing woke ideologies.” Yeah, _that’s_ what’s important to Zelenskyy as he defends his nation against a vicious invader… ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/770 "2022-03-10T23:31:50Z")
No, they’re right. Not wanting to live under the regime of a brutal, regressive dictator is, indeed, one example of a woke ideology. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/771 "2022-03-10T23:35:56Z")
Steve Bannon and Erik Prince said they support Russia because Putin is anti-gay. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/772 "2022-03-10T23:36:55Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > No, they’re right. Not wanting to live under the regime of a brutal, regressive dictator is, indeed, one example of a woke ideology. - Well, sure, the way the left originally used “woke,” that fits. Cawthorn, of course, was using “woke” as a right-wing snarl word meaning ‘_scary icky stuff like black people and trans people and females wanting rights to which they are not entitled and bothering us, the Lords of the Universe, with their scary icky demands_.’ And **that’s** tough to see going on in Ukraine these days. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2022, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/773 "2022-03-10T23:45:29Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > GOP lawmaker calls Zelensky a ‘thug’ and Ukrainian government 'incredibly evil’ Well, they wouldn’t play ball with His Nibs when he ~~demanded~~ politely asked they ~~manufacture~~ find dirt on Hunter Biden. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/774 "2022-03-11T01:44:36Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > civil cases brought before a jury usually require a majority vote rather than full consensus. Not quite correct. Usually the jury verdict still has to be unanimous, but the standard of proof (more likely than not; preponderance of the evidence) is lower than in criminal prosecutions (beyond a reasonable doubt). ---
**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:** [March 11, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/775 "2022-03-11T02:20:40Z")
Ted Cruz rode in the truck convoy this morning. I know a Senator can’t be arrested while going to or from Congress, but if he’s engaged in committing a crime, he sure could be. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/776 "2022-03-11T02:51:29Z")
I feel like the world has gone crazy. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2022, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/777 "2022-03-11T03:04:27Z")
It’s the pro Putin convoy. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2022, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/778 "2022-03-11T03:30:48Z")
Remember when the Attorney General of South Dakota killed a guy with his car? Even the Republicans in the state are trying to get rid of the guy, but so far, no luck. So the Director of Public Safety just issued a copy of an anonymous email he received where the sender said, “At least [the dead guy] was a Democrat.” > **[Republican AG Told ‘at Least the Guy Was a Democrat’ After He Killed a Man...](https://www.thedailybeast.com/south-dakota-attorney-general-jason-ravnsborg-got-vile-text-about-joe-boever-days-after-he-was-killed)** > > The family of a man run over and killed by South Dakota’s Republican attorney general have expressed outrage at a vile text message sent after his death. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2022, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/779 "2022-03-11T03:53:35Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ted Cruz rode in the truck convoy this morning. I know a Senator can’t be arrested while going to or from Congress . . . If he’s just riding in the convoy, going round and round and round in circles on the Beltway, then he’s not going to or from Congress. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2022, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/780 "2022-03-11T03:54:09Z")
Exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/781 "2022-03-11T05:35:59Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > You think any other living former president would have to stoop so fucking low if they wanted to give an interview as to go to a prank Youtube/podcast channel? You seem to be under the impression that 45 had to stoop to do this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=40)