# 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:** 247
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4921 "2024-04-19T01:38:11Z")
That response team is silent but deadly. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4922 "2024-04-19T10:11:12Z")
The Oklahoma state athletic commission is mad at All Elite Wrestling for letting a transgender woman wrestle a cisgender woman at a TV taping. Because, you know, people assigned male at birth have an inherent genetic advantage in (checks notes) theatrical stage combat. > **[Oklahoma commission issues warning against All Elite Wrestling after...](https://okcfox.com/news/local/oklahoma-commission-issues-warning-against-all-elite-wrestling-after-transgender-match)** > > The Oklahoma State Athletic Commission is raising questions about a wrestling match. Why commissioners believe a professional company may have violated 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:** [April 19, 2024, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4923 "2024-04-19T10:43:02Z")
That’s quite humorous, though. ISTR such theatrical wrestling has had ~~scripted~~ events with men and women ~~pretending to~~ wrestle each other. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4924 "2024-04-19T12:43:04Z")
This isn’t a stupid REpublican Idea, but I’m not sure where else to put it: > [@](#): > > # Dismissed Trump Juror Says Former President Not As ‘Orange’ As Expected > > A juror identified only as “Kat” told MSNBC, “You know, he looked less orange, definitely like more yellowish, like yellow.” It’s noteworthy that , to a dismissed juror, Trump isn’t as orange as advertised. > **[Dismissed Trump Juror Says Former President Not As 'Orange' As Expected](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-juror-kat-looks-less-orange_n_66214e4ee4b0868a1b901ce9)** > > A juror identified only as "Kat" told MSNBC, "You know, he looked less orange, definitely like more yellowish, like yellow." ---
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4925 "2024-04-19T13:20:46Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > The “Freedom Caucus” is [carefully monitoring the House floor](https://www.salon.com/2024/04/18/the-floor-action-response-team-did-not-take-its-acronym-into-consideration/?in_brief=true) to prevent any moves that might reduce their influence, deploying a Floor Action Response Team to keep a close watch. > > presumably the team is well trained in blaming it on someone else So now I have a picture in my head of the Freedom Caucus walking around with their thumbs on their foreheads. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4926 "2024-04-20T02:03:33Z")
Devin Nunes, former Republican congresscritter and current Trump Media CEO blames the plummeting stock price on Joe Biden conspiring with Wall Street to make his life hell. > ---
**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:** [April 20, 2024, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4927 "2024-04-20T03:33:42Z")
Don’t these idiots have the capability to do anything whatsoever _without_ the cognitive dissonace? What he’s accusing Biden of is pretty much impossible for somone who has the mental facilities they say he has. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2024, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4928 "2024-04-20T04:11:36Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > ISTR such theatrical wrestling has had ~~scripted~~ events with men and women ~~pretending to~~ wrestle each other. Of course it has. It’s been a thing for decades. Andy Kaufman wrestled women. Chyna beat Jeff Jarrett for the Intercontinental title in 1999. In Japan, Minoru Suzuki wrestles J-pop idols who weigh less than half what he does. _It’s all predetermined_. You can book the Big Show lose to Taylor Swift if that’s what your story calls for and the state is just showing its bigotry here. I wonder if they’d object to the showing of a Marvel movie where Scarlet Johansen beats up Tom Holland? [![](https://preview.redd.it/minoru-suzuki-vs-maki-itoh-announced-for-tjpws-grand-v0-xi11toc7wujc1.jpeg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=915668098f97e1712122182fad77b8579c856287) ](https://preview.redd.it/minoru-suzuki-vs-maki-itoh-announced-for-tjpws-grand-v0-xi11toc7wujc1.jpeg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=915668098f97e1712122182fad77b8579c856287) ---
**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:** [April 20, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4929 "2024-04-20T04:15:59Z")
Oh, I know that. I’m just pointing out how hilarious it is for these pubbie idiots to have the vapors right now when, as you say, it’s been decades that men and women have fake wrestled in these performances. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2024, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4930 "2024-04-20T04:27:24Z")
Hell, the person writing the article showed bigotry by calling the match an “intergender” match. It’s _not_ an intergender match. Trans women ARE WOMEN. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2024, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4931 "2024-04-20T05:25:11Z")
And yet, I can’t help but wonder what OSAC’s response would be if Tony Khan were to book Nyla Rose against a male wrestler and promote it as an “intergender match”. He’s legitimately rich enough that the state can’t really hurt him with any fines that they might levy, so he may as well test their limits. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2024, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4932 "2024-04-21T08:49:02Z")
Here in Washington, the Republicans have been in a permanent minority status for quite some time - they haven’t held the governorship since the Reagan years, nor a Senate seat for about as long, and it’s been nearly a decade since they held a majority in either house of the legislature. For awhile, the only Republican in statewide office was our Secretary of State - that is, until she resigned to join the Biden administration, leaving absolutely no Republicans in statewide office. You might think the state QOP would respond to this by moving towards the middle. Instead, they’ve increasingly embraced the extreme and fully embrace Trumpism despite its massive unpopularity among most of the state’s population. To that point, they held their state convention this weekend, and they had to choose between two candidates to endorse for this year’s gubernatorial race. They could’ve chosen Dave Reichert, the former King County sheriff widely credited with catching the Green River killer, and who has since been a veteran Congressman. Or they could’ve chosen Semi Bird, a man once convicted of bank larceny, whose political experience consists of being kicked off of the Richland school board for illegally ordering schools to defy the statewide mask mandate during the pandemic. They chose the latter by 72%. > **[WA GOP endorses Semi Bird for governor at Trump-dominated convention](https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-gop-endorses-semi-bird-for-governor-at-trump-dominated-convention/)** > > The Washington state GOP convention in Spokane was a Trump show. It was also a Semi Bird show, as he nabbed the party’s endorsement for governor on Saturday. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2024, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4933 "2024-04-21T10:37:15Z")
_Links in this post go to Yahoo! news, X, and AZ Central._ Well, what do you know? The damned republicans were right; [there has been election fraud](https://www.yahoo.com/news/another-maga-lawmaker-faces-accusations-195841821.html). Of course, it’s not the Democrats, but one of the republicans’ own. > **Another MAGA lawmaker faces accusations of election fraud** > > “To protect my family today, I’ll withdraw as a candidate.” That’s the main takeaway from a [rather long statement](https://twitter.com/azaustinsmith/status/1780964857166356493) released on Thursday by Arizona state Rep. Austin Smith, who’s no longer running for re-election in his district after being accused of forging signatures to get on the ballot this fall. > > As AZ Central [report](https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2024/04/18/rep-austin-smith-resign-forged-ballot-signature/73369984007/)s: > > The signatures on his petitions have also been sent to the state attorney general for review. > > Smith’s lengthy statement (which you can read below) says this is “silly” and part of a plot by Democrats who are “unhappy with my politics.” He says he’s choosing not to run to avoid a legal fight that could prove costly for him and his wife, and he says he’ll make changes in future campaigns to avoid similar legal challenges so “no one can make up any stories.” But he doesn’t actually deny any of the specific claims made in the lawsuit. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4934 "2024-04-21T21:38:45Z")
Lindsay Graham credits DJT for the passage of the Ukranian aid package. > “President Trump has created a loan component to this package that gives us leverage down the road.” I have no fucking idea what he’s talking about. Maybe someone can explain. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4935 "2024-04-21T21:43:32Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I have no fucking idea what he’s talking about. Maybe someone can explain. What he means is “Trump is gonna give those pictures of my rent boys to the New York Post if I don’t find a way to spin this so it looks like it was his idea all along”. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4936 "2024-04-21T21:56:01Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Links in this post go to Yahoo! news, X, and AZ Central. It is considerate that you state this. Thank you! Now, for more Stupid Republicans… ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4937 "2024-04-21T22:06:08Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I have no fucking idea what he’s talking about. Maybe someone can explain. The former guy did not tell the House Republicans to defeat the bill. Therefore, the bill passed because of him. Now you may be thinking, “I didn’t tell the House Republicans to defeat the bill, either.” But you’re not the former guy, now, are you. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4938 "2024-04-21T22:07:49Z")
> [@Possibly Lindsay Graham](#): > > Trump is gonna give those pictures of my rent boys I get the impression that they are more “pocket money” boys than rent boys. Significantly younger. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4939 "2024-04-21T23:39:32Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I have no fucking idea what he’s talking about. Maybe someone can explain. Trump’s criminal behavior and whining baby tantrums in social media have finally, finally gone too far, and convinced a large number of Republicans to cooperate with the Democrats to finally get shit done. So thanks to Trump for being such an absolute dick-wad, there is now work getting done in Congress. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2024, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4940 "2024-04-22T03:54:12Z")
You know, I hate to say it, but Fox News might be right about this one. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLunSYSXoAUvZf4?format=jpg&name=small) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLunSYSXoAUvZf4?format=jpg&name=small) > **[Poll Finally Resolves The Question: Do Americans Think Trump or Biden Would...](https://www.mediaite.com/politics/poll-finally-resolves-the-question-do-americans-think-trump-or-biden-would-win-a-hot-dog-eating-context/)** > > Voters are being polled on lots of topics ahead of November's election, and that list now includes whether Trump or Biden would win in a hot dog eating contest. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=246) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=248)