# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/21 "2023-07-06T03:04:54Z")
Last I heard, it was found in a visitor cubby. I’m sure Hunter goes in through the visitor entrance, if he even goes there at all. 🙄 ---
**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:** [July 6, 2023, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/22 "2023-07-06T03:06:45Z")
Hmph. There you go yammering on about facts and stupid things like that. Never mind that now, there’s a scandal to flog! ---
**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:** [July 6, 2023, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/23 "2023-07-06T03:28:04Z")
To “celebrate” the 4th, noted insurrectionist and traitor Josh Hawley tweeted a quote by Patrick Henry - which was actually made up in 1956 by a neo-Nazi magazine. > **[Josh Hawley's fake quote about America's Christian founding has a dark origin...](https://www.rawstory.com/josh-hawley-2662228921/)** > > Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) marked the Fourth of July by tweeting theocratic propaganda through a fake quote incorrectly attributed to founding father Patrick Henry — and there's a dark implication to why he did it, wrote MSNBC's Steve Benen.“It cannot... ---
**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 6, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/24 "2023-07-06T13:57:39Z")
> **[Moms for Liberty Speaker Says It's Time to Start Re-Reading Hitler, Stalin,...](https://jezebel.com/moms-for-liberty-speaker-says-its-time-to-start-re-read-1850606573)** > > North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) suggested at a prayer breakfast for the fascist "parental rights" group that dictators are being taken out of context. Just bizarre. And he’s running for Gov. " This is not the first time Robinson has invoked Hitler in the last month. In June, [the Republican compared his political opponents to the Nazi leader](https://forward.com/fast-forward/550181/mark-robinson-antisemitism-north-carolina-governor/) during a speech at the North Carolina Republican convention. “We look back at history, we look at the Germans and we look at the Japanese, we think, how in the world did those people let that happen? Why did they not do something about it?” Robinson said. “Could they not have seen the disaster that was heading towards them? It’s time for us to take a look at ourselves and ask ourselves that question. We see the disaster coming.” Well, look at history; slavery, Jim Crow laws, lynching, voter suppression, economic supression, education inequality… Now wait here Steve, you’ll make white kids feel bad so assholes in Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Ohio… are actively trying to destroy history. Dear Idiot Robinson: We do see the disaster coming. It’s you, DJT, DeSantis, Turtle, Alito, Thomas, Paxton, Crow, Singer, Koch, Carlson, Murdoch et al. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2023, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/25 "2023-07-06T14:15:25Z")
Also from that article: > [@](#): > > This is not the first time Hawley has come under fire for rewriting history. On Juneteenth, he proclaimed that “Christianity is the faith and America is the place slavery came to die,” overlooking that Christians were on both sides of the Civil War and certain Christian sects were founded [explicitly for the preservation of slavery](https://www.npr.org/2018/12/13/676333342/southern-baptist-seminary-confronts-history-of-slaveholding-and-deep-racism). It’s only true that “slavery came to America to die” in the sense that the US was the last major nation in the world to ban slavery. That’s not exactly a rousing endorsement of us. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/26 "2023-07-06T16:12:25Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Dear Idiot Robinson: We do see the disaster coming. It’s you, DJT, DeSantis, Turtle, Alito, Thomas, Paxton, Crow, Singer, Koch, Carlson, Murdoch et al. Every accusation is a confession. The best way to perform a Fascist takeover is to scare your followers into believing Those Other People are about to do a takeover, and only you, the Ideal Strongman, can prevent it. It may be the oldest trick in the book. But it’s the oldest because it still works so darn well. A lot of humans desperately want to be under the thumb of a strongman. They don’t realize that’s what they want, but it _is_ what they want. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/27 "2023-07-06T17:36:35Z")
What many of them seem to want is a feeling of security — an assurance that The Other™ won’t harm them, either directly or by taking something\* that should rightly be theirs. This is an easily-stoked fear in a depressingly large segment of the body politic. I’ve said it elsewhere that while politicians used to want people to be fat, dumb and happy, now they want them to be dumb and scared (fat optional). \* Including basic human dignity, which to many seems to be a zero-sum commodity. ---
**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 6, 2023, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/28 "2023-07-06T18:48:04Z")
Dumb, scared, and armed - unfortunately. ---
**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 6, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/29 "2023-07-06T19:00:25Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > (fat optional) Fat has been accomplished (on a national level). ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/30 "2023-07-06T19:19:03Z")
Or as **Shrub** once said, albeit a _bit_ prematurely: “Mission accomplished.” ---
**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 6, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/31 "2023-07-06T19:35:29Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Dumb, scared, and armed - unfortunately. [Dean Wormer for President!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkoPq5AOCOA) ---
**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:** [July 7, 2023, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/32 "2023-07-07T19:10:15Z")
Oklahoma superintendent says the Tulsa massacre had nothing to do with skin color. > **['Let's not tie it to skin color': Oklahoma superintendent says racism not to...](https://www.rawstory.com/oklahoma-superintendent/)** > > Far-right Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters suggested at a public hearing in Norman that lessons about the infamous racial massacre that destroyed the most prosperous Black community in Oklahoma don't have to mention race, reported Fox 25... ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/33 "2023-07-07T19:22:26Z")
Well, now, it really _wasn’t_ about their skin color! I mean, a person could be paler than most of the “whites” in town, but if they had any known Vlack ancestors, that’s what they were. So it was about _race,_ not skin color. Put that in the history books. ---
**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 7, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/34 "2023-07-07T20:34:05Z")
[![](https://www.tulsahistory.org/wp-content/gallery/race-riot/Screen-Shot-2018-11-01-at-2.55.53-PM.png) ](https://www.tulsahistory.org/wp-content/gallery/race-riot/Screen-Shot-2018-11-01-at-2.55.53-PM.png) Nope, nothing to do with race at all, nope nothing… ---
**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 7, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/35 "2023-07-07T20:38:41Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > ['Let's not tie it to skin color': Oklahoma superintendent says racism not to blame for infamous Tulsa massacre](https://www.rawstory.com/oklahoma-superintendent/) This is a stupid, vile, mendacious pile of excrement. Not human. Even normal Oklahomans would despise this worm except for the (R) after the name. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2023, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/36 "2023-07-07T21:38:10Z")
Beware the Stupidman? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/37 "2023-07-08T07:12:54Z")
Or, as Mr. Snrub once said, “Hello, my name is Mr. Snrub, and I come from, uh… someplace far away! (Yes, that will do.) Anyway, I… I say we invest that money back in the nuclear plant!” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/38 "2023-07-08T07:54:18Z")
I like the way Snrub thinks! ---
**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, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/39 "2023-07-08T16:23:28Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > ['Let's not tie it to skin color': Oklahoma superintendent says racism not to blame for infamous Tulsa massacre](https://www.rawstory.com/oklahoma-superintendent/) The Onion take on that corrupt, rancid pustule GQP poster boy. > **[Oklahoma Schools To Teach Students That Tulsa Massacre Was Crime Of Passion...](https://theonion.com/oklahoma-schools-to-teach-students-that-tulsa-massacre-1850615493/)** > > NORMAN, OK—Claiming that statewide curricula should no longer ignore this violent historical event, Oklahoma school officials announced plans Friday to begin teaching students that the Tulsa Race Massacre was a crime of passion that resulted from... ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/40 "2023-07-08T18:19:58Z")
> **[Republican attorneys general issue warning letter to Target about Pride...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republican-attorneys-general-issue-letter-to-target-about-pride-merchandise/)** > > The letter did not include any specific demands nor did it outline how the attorneys general believe the campaign could violate child protection laws. > But Target’s management has no duty to fill stores with objectionable goods, > let alone endorse or feature them in attention-grabbing displays at the behest of rad- > ical activists. However, Target management does have fiduciary duties to its share- > holders to prudently manage the company and act loyally in the company’s best > interests. Target’s board and its management may not lawfully dilute their fiduciary > duties to satisfy the Board’s (or left-wing activists’) desires to foist contentious social > or political agendas upon families and children at the expense of the company’s hard- > won good will and against its best interests. Well, besides me noticing the gross denial of a supposed big conservative no-no of having government telling a private enterprise what to do… My Ovaltine conservative decoder ring translates what the attorneys are saying here as: ‘Our bigoted interests need to be satisfied! Stop letting the “others” have freedoms!’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=3)