# 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:** 52
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1022 "2022-03-24T02:45:34Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Biden evidently just fired Dr. Oz, and the quack is throwing a shit fit It sure would be nice if some of these RWers were able to make sense. “(CFEFWSG) appointed me to two terms …” Yeah, that is not how it works. You were born and raised in this country, earned a college degree and you are still defeated by those sneaky word things. ---
**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 24, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1023 "2022-03-24T02:55:38Z")
Florida state senator on why she supports the don’t say gay bill: “Gay is not a permanent thing.” > ---
**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 24, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1024 "2022-03-24T02:58:47Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A nasty cough is running through the truck convoy. Nobody has yet declared it covid. When this happened with the New Zealand numb-nuts who were camping in front of parliament, they denied it was covid too. Of course, they decided that it was impossible that they were catching a highly communicable disease, even though they were all unvaccinated, unmasked and living in close quarters. NONSENSE! It was obvious to them what was going on: Electromagnetic radiation coming from cement blocks was making them sick. [And it was obvious what the solution was. Tinfoil hats.](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/its-catching/202203/new-zealand-protestors-in-tinfoil-hats-blame-sickness-radiation-rays) Yes. Tinfoil hats. ---
**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 24, 2022, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1025 "2022-03-24T03:11:34Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > The problem is that the pubbie base believes that nonsense, so what they’re going to do is vote for those who echo their beliefs. They’ll still be doing so in 2032. demanding the Biden administration be erased from history and CFSG be Photoshopped into photographs of the period, rather like Stalin did with his minions who’d fallen from grace. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1026 "2022-03-24T03:20:00Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Yes. Tinfoil hats. Nobody wears tinfoil has. Tin foil is expensive and hard to find, so they all wear aluminum (or aluminium) foil on their heads, which is unfortunate for them because aluminum foil amplies the mind control signals. Makes them stronger in the same way that a 30’ stack of concert speakers makes the music louder, meaning their subconscious minds are overwhelmed by the intensity of the signals, leading to confusion and misinterpretation. At least without the aluminum foil, the brain is able to handle the signals and sometimes discard the conflicting ones. These people are just screwing themselves up. ---
**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 24, 2022, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1027 "2022-03-24T03:24:23Z")
Perhaps if they covered their entire heads with Saran Wrap? Then don’t even have to use the brand name stuff. ---
**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 24, 2022, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1028 "2022-03-24T03:27:39Z")
Jill Biden is going to host a gathering for spouses of members of Congress. Erika Donalds, the wife of Florida Republican congressman Byron Donalds, who is unvaccinated and doesn’t want to obey the White House vaccination rules, was on Fucker Carlson’s show, where he told her she should just show up and put her arms around Jill Biden. > **[Tucker Carlson and Congressman’s Unvaxxed Wife Demand ‘Right’ to Flout Rules...](https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-and-congressmans-unvaccinated-wife-erika-donalds-demand-right-to-flout-white-house-rules)** > > The unvaccinated wife of a GOP congressman said she wants to do things like they do in “the free state of Florida.” The Fox News host said she should show up and break the rules. ---
**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 24, 2022, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1029 "2022-03-24T05:00:11Z")
When I was a student at Defense Language Institute in Monterey, one of the Chinese language instructors was firmly convinced the Chinese consulate in San Francisco had someone following him around and trying to control his mind with microwaves, so the instructor would always wear an aluminum foil hat when he was driving. When another student told me about this, I would’ve bet real money it was a joke. Then I saw the instructor in question open his car door, reach in to take something off the driver’s seat, put that something–the aluminum foil hat, of course–on, get into the car, and drive off. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1030 "2022-03-24T05:24:52Z")
judicious partial coverage should suffice ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1031 "2022-03-24T08:55:21Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > When I was a student at Defense Language Institute in Monterey, one of the Chinese language instructors was firmly convinced the Chinese consulate in San Francisco had someone following him around and trying to control his mind with microwaves, so the instructor would always wear an aluminum foil hat when he was driving. I once had a client whom I was representing in mental health hearings. She also had an aluminum foil head covering. The Prime Minister of Canada, the President of the United States, and Queen Elizabeth II had her under surveilliance, apparently; and her aluminium-foil hat kept their mind-controlling rays away. Aside to @Monty : my first instructor in the Russian language came from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2022, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1032 "2022-03-24T12:04:44Z")
Fired him from what? I didn’t think Oz was working for the federal government in any capacity. ---
**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 24, 2022, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1033 "2022-03-24T12:07:58Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > It’s not a NEW stupid republican idea, but Biden evidently just fired Dr. Oz, and the quack is throwing a shit fit on Twitter. If there’s a dumbass idea about the pandemic, Oz has probably brought it up within the past hour. It’s actually more nuanced than that: > [@](#): > > Dr. Mehmet Oz and Herschel Walker were both appointed to the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition by twice-popular-voter-loser former President Donald Trump. Both are running for the Senate; Oz in Pennsylvania, Walker in Georgia. > > Per the Hatch Act, special government employees like Oz and Walker are not permitted to run for partisan office while they conduct office government business. This the president sent both of them letters asking for their resignations by the end of the day. > > Walker has not commented publicly, but Oz had a downright tizzy on Twitter. Biden didn’t fire them (yet) – he’s called for their resignations. Nominally because they’re violating that Hatch Act (which they are), but I suspect also because their anti-science stances are unacceptable. > **[Biden requests resignations of Dr. Mehmet Oz and Herschel Walker by end of...](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/23/2087758/-Biden-requests-resignations-of-Dr-Mehmet-Oz-and-Herschel-Walker-by-end-of-day?utm_campaign=trending)** > > Dr. Mehmet Oz and Herschel Walker were both appointed to the President's Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition by twice-popular-voter-loser former President Donald Trump. Both are running for the Senate; Oz in Pennsylvania, Walker in Georgia.... > **[White House Removes Dr. Oz, Herschel Walker From Presidential Council](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dr-oz-herschel-walker-presidential-council_n_623bddbde4b0f1e82c532165)** > > The Biden administration asked the Republican Senate candidates to resign or be removed from the council on sports, fitness and nutrition. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2022, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1034 "2022-03-24T12:40:47Z")
Someone on Twitter went through the openly-available minutes of the PCSFN - which meets ONCE A YEAR - and pointed out that Dr. Oz only attended late and by phone in 2018 and 2019 and said nothing (or at least nothing worth minuting), and didn’t attend at all in 2020. I’m sure the council will get on just fine without him. Oz and Walker do have one other thing in common: they’re running for Senate seats in states they don’t actually live in – Oz really lives in New Jersey but is running in Pennsylvania, and Walker recently set up a mailing address in Georgia for his run even though he’s lived on a ranch in Texas since 2011. (From the excerpted minutes I’ve seen, it looks like Walker attended in 2018 and 2020. Not sure if he contributed anything to the conversation.) ---
**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:** [March 24, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1035 "2022-03-24T13:33:19Z")
Good - I can appropriate “drain the swamp” for this, then. Thanks, Don. ---
**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 24, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1036 "2022-03-24T17:52:20Z")
Texas’s Attorney General says that Austin schools’ gay pride celebrations ae illegal because it’s illegal in Texas to have sex education without parental consent. > **[Texas Attorney General Has a Total Meltdown Over Schools’ Pride Week](https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-has-a-meltdown-over-austin-schools-pride-week)** > > Ken Paxton ranted that events uplifting the LGBTQIA+ community were “immoral and illegal.” ---
**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 24, 2022, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1037 "2022-03-24T17:54:41Z")
Kansas state representative Ponka-We Victors is Native American. She presided over the House the other day, and one of the Republicans wanted to know if she was using a tomahawk instead of a gavel. > **[A Native woman made history in the Kansas House. An insensitive remark...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/native-woman-made-history-kansas-220909039.html)** > > ‘I just think that we need to be careful of the times that we’re in…it was a bad comment,’ said Rep. John Alcala. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1038 "2022-03-24T18:00:25Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Kansas state representative Ponka-We Victors is Native American. She presided over the House the other day, and one of the Republicans wanted to know if she was using a tomahawk instead of a gavel. - > [A Native woman made history in the Kansas House. An insensitive remark quickly followed](https://www.yahoo.com/news/native-woman-made-history-kansas-220909039.html) “No, paleface tool works just as well.” \< gavels idiot’s forehead \> ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1039 "2022-03-24T20:48:15Z")
> **[Donald Trump sues Hillary Clinton and allies over Russia claims](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/24/donald-trump-sues-hillary-clinton-and-allies-russia-00020174)** > > Sprawling lawsuit accuses a large cast of racketeering conspiracy over allegations that Trump was in Putin's pocket in 2016. “Just because I envy Putin and want to be a dictator like him doesn’t mean I was colluding with him! WITCH HUNT!” ---
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[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bsLpioIS95E/maxresdefault.jpg "Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising (HQ)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsLpioIS95E) “… Still not hungry…” 😉 ---
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> [@Spoons](#): > > I once had a client whom I was representing in mental health hearings. She also had an aluminum foil head covering. The Prime Minister of Canada, the President of the United States, and Queen Elizabeth II had her under surveilliance, apparently; and her aluminium-foil hat kept their mind-controlling rays away. My condolences. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=51) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=53)