# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588 "2023-07-04T21:42:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 107
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2121 "2023-11-15T00:09:22Z")
Has this been seen yet? This is a twofer. Comer has a meltdown and Rep Mullen tries to get into a fight with a Union Leader. > **[James Comer Melts Down Over Report He Did the Exact Same Thing as Joe Biden](https://newrepublic.com/post/176931/james-comer-melts-down-report-loan-brother-money-biden)** > > “You look like a Smurf,” the House Oversight chair desperately yelled, hoping to change the subject. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2122 "2023-11-15T00:15:02Z")
Oh man, this is the Union Leader. Too funny. I’ve watched it several times. It’s only about 15 seconds long. > ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2123 "2023-11-15T00:17:51Z")
hehe, he even _looks_ a little bit like Stone Cold Steve Austin. “What?!” ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2124 "2023-11-15T01:06:00Z")
“You’re a United States senator, sit down,” boomed Sanders. “This is a hearing. God knows the American people have enough contempt for Congress.” ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2125 "2023-11-15T01:53:19Z")
Oklahoma’s got em a real tough guy WWF senator! I know these two have been going at it social media style, and that the Hulkamaniac from Okie has been hostile to Mr. Teamster in previous hearings. I guess when Hulkamaniac started being hostile this time, Teamster called him “cowboy”, and the gloves came off. And then Hulkster sat down after the very scary Bernie Sanders scolded him. What a typical Republican shit talking poser. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2126 "2023-11-15T02:00:58Z")
And I’ll bet he doesn’t even have the grace to thank Sanders for defusing the situation before it ended with (prediction judging from the looks of the two parties) him getting his ass kicked. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2127 "2023-11-15T02:08:44Z")
I guess Okie is some sort of a fighter, but who takes on the head of the teamsters? That’s how you end up buried beneath a parking lot. Allegedly. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2128 "2023-11-15T02:12:24Z")
This is why he’s mad: > ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2129 "2023-11-15T02:55:34Z")
> Rapey McForehead, on the other hand, is unimpressed. > I eagerly look forward to MAGA heads exploding at the notion of Gaetz calling Bernie Sanders a hero. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2130 "2023-11-15T05:09:41Z")
> ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2131 "2023-11-15T08:42:13Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > This is why he’s mad: w [ww.youtube.com/watch?v=cuOa5ogeFTk](http://ww.youtube.com/watch?v=cuOa5ogeFTk) ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2132 "2023-11-15T09:01:48Z")
I swear to God the GOP is made up of elementary school kids. [GOP Rep Tim Burchett accuses Kevin McCarthy of elbowing him in the kidneys](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/14/politics/burchett-mccarthy-elbowing-fight/index.html) > [@](#): > > "I got elbowed in the back and it kind of caught me off guard because it was a clean shot to the kidneys. And I turned back (and) there, there was Kevin, and for a minute I was kind of, what the heck just happened and then chased after him of course,” Burchett told CNN’s Manu Raju, adding, “Now he’s the type of guy that when you’re a kid would throw a rock over the fence and run home and hide behind his mama’s skirt.” ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2133 "2023-11-15T11:54:40Z")
How do you elbow kidneys from behind? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2134 "2023-11-15T12:04:02Z")
Getting punched in the lower back, off to the side, is referred to as getting punched in the kidney(s). [![](https://www.muaythai.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/The-Kidney-Punch.jpg) ](https://www.muaythai.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/The-Kidney-Punch.jpg) If someone said they were elbowed in the kidneys by someone walking behind them, I’d assume they were elbowed somewhere in the general lower back area. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2135 "2023-11-15T12:10:12Z")
"Mullin’s [Senate website](https://www.mullin.senate.gov/about/biography/#:~:text=Markwayne%20Mullin%20is%20a%20former,Hall%20of%20Fame%20in%202016.) notes he is a “former undefeated Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter with a professional record of 5-0” who has been inducted into the Oklahoma Wrestling Hall of Fame. Ooo, scary. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2136 "2023-11-15T13:05:56Z")
I’m not an MMA fan, but 5-0 doesn’t seem like much of a record. Did he decide to quit before he lost a fight, just so he could remain undefeated? ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2137 "2023-11-15T13:23:38Z")
I have a nephew who is doing low level MMA fighting - seeing pictures of what he looked like after his first fight (a loss), it seems likely that Mullin decided that the pain/injuries just weren’t worth it, even if he was winning. Note, said nephew is now 1-1 and he came out of the second fight with no obvious facial damage. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2138 "2023-11-15T15:03:14Z")
I hint picture it. Seems to me that I can only stick my elbow into someone’s lower back if I am facing backwards from them. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2139 "2023-11-15T15:03:45Z")
Funny thing - I’m only seeing articles saying he’s got 3 professional (in regional Oklahoma) fights to his record. His office is the only one saying 5-0 record, so he’s probably including a couple non-sanctioned fights. Maybe the non-union Mexican equivalents? A Republican senator embellishing the truth? Shocking, I know ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2140 "2023-11-15T15:28:53Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > His office is the only one saying 5-0 record, so he’s probably including a couple non-sanctioned fights. Maybe the non-union Mexican equivalents? > > A Republican senator embellishing the truth? Shocking, I know He’s counting the two times he kicked a toddler off his tricycle for riding near his lawn. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=106) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=108)