# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2197
**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:** [April 4, 2020, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43929 "2020-04-04T00:08:38Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Just a friendly reminder that the Republican party is continuing its assault on the judiciary by nominating and confirming supremely unqualified ideological extremists to positions they have done absolutely nothing to earn. > > [Political hack and local idiot Justin Walker gets Trump’s nomination to the US Court of Appeals](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/justin-walker-mcconnell-trump-dc-circuit.html). I have no doubt that yet another Unqualified ranking from the ABA will do nothing to slow down his rise from drooling partisan idiot to “Associate Justice” thanks to a political party bent on destroying the judicial branch. > > So, once again, fuck the Republican party, where partisan ideology is the only qualification you need for some of the most important judicial jobs in the country. Partisan ideology AND the capacity–and willingness–to lie shamelessly: > [@](#): > > Now [Mitch McConnell is] saying—about a guy who has served for just 5 months and never been in a courtroom before that!—“I think you cannot credibly argue that Justin Walker is not a judicial all-star.” > **[McConnell aims to elevate unqualified judge to powerful appeals court after...](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/3/1934045/-McConnell-aims-to-elevate-unqualified-judge-to-powerful-appeals-court-after-just-5-months-on-bench)** > > Remember when Sen. Mitch McConnell blew off the second stimulus response bill to take a long weekend back in Kentucky? Yes, it was just under three weeks ago, but in novel coronavirus time that’s 30 years. Anyway, Mitch took that long weekend just... If McConnell had said that two days ago, it would have been a great April Fools joke! But as it was, it was simply GOP-style communication. (How proud Joseph Goebbels would be, if only he could be here to see it.) ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43930 "2020-04-04T18:08:13Z")
Remember 6 years ago, when Hobby Lobby told the US Supreme Court that providing health insurance for its employees was an important religious belief of theirs (like making sure 3rd parties doesn’t pay for their employee’s contraception)? Well, maybe its not that important. They closed their stores and furloughed almost all their workers rather than spend some of their billions to provide said health insurance. Who could have guessed? ---
**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:** [April 4, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43931 "2020-04-04T19:23:06Z")
Hobby Lobby provides health insurance for its employees the way people used to provide fancy soap and towels to their guests. It’s for lookin’ at, not using. CMC fnord! ---
**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:** [April 4, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43932 "2020-04-04T19:43:08Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Remember 6 years ago, when Hobby Lobby told the US Supreme Court that providing health insurance for its employees was an important religious belief of theirs (like making sure 3rd parties doesn’t pay for their employee’s contraception)? > > Well, maybe its not that important. They closed their stores and furloughed almost all their workers rather than spend some of their billions to provide said health insurance. > > Who could have guessed? Actually, no, that [is _not_ why Hobby Lobby closed](https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-police-shut-down-hobby-lobbys-that-still-opened-20200401-n2ypsdtczneq5becs4oov2c7fi-story.html) its stores. They had _to be forced to_ by the police. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43933 "2020-04-04T20:09:16Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Actually, no, that [is _not_ why Hobby Lobby closed](https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-police-shut-down-hobby-lobbys-that-still-opened-20200401-n2ypsdtczneq5becs4oov2c7fi-story.html) its stores. They had _to be forced to_ by the police. I think he means that they furloughed the workers rather than provide health insurance, which they could well afford to do. This after forcing them to work at risk of losing their jobs if they didn’t, in the middle of a pandemic. And I’m willing to bet that most of their workers weren’t full-time anyway, which means they wouldn’t be getting health insurance to begin with. Their religious principles were only a cover for being cheapskates. ---
**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 4, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43934 "2020-04-04T22:14:48Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Actually, no, that [is _not_ why Hobby Lobby closed](https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-police-shut-down-hobby-lobbys-that-still-opened-20200401-n2ypsdtczneq5becs4oov2c7fi-story.html) its stores. They had _to be forced to_ by the police. I guess God really dropped the ball on [that vision He sent them telling them to stay open.](https://www.businessinsider.com/hobby-lobby-reportedly-leaving-stores-open-message-from-god-2020-3) ---
**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:** [April 4, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43935 "2020-04-04T22:15:49Z")
The Governor of Georgia has issued an executive order overriding local Covid 19 rules and ordering the beaches to be reopened. [https://thehill.com/homenews/news/491157-georgia-beaches-reopen-after-governors-executive-order](https://thehill.com/homenews/news/491157-georgia-beaches-reopen-after-governors-executive-order)? ---
**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:** [April 5, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43936 "2020-04-05T01:14:50Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Governor of Georgia has issued an executive order overriding local Covid 19 rules and ordering the beaches to be reopened. > [https://thehill.com/homenews/news/491157-georgia-beaches-reopen-after-governors-executive-order](https://thehill.com/homenews/news/491157-georgia-beaches-reopen-after-governors-executive-order)? Is he vying for the title of stupidest, most venal man elected to office? Dear heavens. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43937 "2020-04-05T01:29:43Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Is he vying for the title of stupidest, most venal man elected to office? > > Dear heavens. Gentle correction: He wasn’t elected. [He cheated](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/georgia-election-server-showed-signs-tampering-expert-says-n1117441). (NBC) With help from the Russians. > [@](#): > > A computer security expert says he found that a forensic image of the election server central to a legal battle over the integrity of Georgia elections showed signs that the original server was hacked. > > The server was left exposed to the open internet for at least six months, a problem the same expert discovered in August 2016. It was subsequently wiped clean in mid-2017 with no notice, just days after election integrity activists filed a lawsuit seeking an overhaul of what they called the state’s unreliable and negligently run election system. The whole article is worth a read if you’re concerned about election integrity in 2020. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43938 "2020-04-05T01:58:37Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Governor of Georgia has issued an executive order overriding local Covid 19 rules and ordering the beaches to be reopened. > [https://thehill.com/homenews/news/491157-georgia-beaches-reopen-after-governors-executive-order](https://thehill.com/homenews/news/491157-georgia-beaches-reopen-after-governors-executive-order)? The beches will mostly be used by Black people, and Gov. Kemp doesn’t care if they get sick and die – he might even prefer it. It will keep them from voting. He did his best as Secretary of State to eliminate as many as possible from the voting list; that’s how he got ‘elected’ in the first place. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43939 "2020-04-05T19:20:45Z")
You just have to laugh some times. The new Fox News talking point is that the Democrats were downplaying the dangers of the coronavirus in the early days. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43940 "2020-04-05T21:36:46Z")
Pat Robertson: The coronavirus is caused by oral sex and lady chemicals. [https://thebiznews.org/2020/03/24/robertson-blames-coronavirus-on-oral-sex-lady-chemicals/](https://thebiznews.org/2020/03/24/robertson-blames-coronavirus-on-oral-sex-lady-chemicals/) (Yeah, I know it was from two weeks ago.) ---
**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:** [April 5, 2020, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43941 "2020-04-05T21:48:02Z")
> [@](#): > > During an appearance on “The 700 Club,” Robertson blamed the coronavirus on oral sex. > “Some of these young uns are doing all kinds of unnatural things with their sex organs,” said Robertson. “When people do that, they transfer all kinds of chemicals from ladies’ private parts and that’s where I think the virus came from. We never had this kind of thing when I was coming up. But no one was committing oral sex back then.” No Pat, just 'cause you were a major disappointment to your wife doesn’t mean everyone was. CMC fnord! ---
**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 5, 2020, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43942 "2020-04-05T21:49:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > You just have to laugh some times. The new Fox News talking point is that the Democrats were downplaying the dangers of the coronavirus in the early days. Were they asked “Which Democrats?” I mean, are they talking Democrats like Donald Motherfucking Trump? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43943 "2020-04-05T22:01:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Pat Robertson: The coronavirus is caused by oral sex and lady chemicals. > [https://thebiznews.org/2020/03/24/robertson-blames-coronavirus-on-oral-sex-lady-chemicals/](https://thebiznews.org/2020/03/24/robertson-blames-coronavirus-on-oral-sex-lady-chemicals/) > (Yeah, I know it was from two weeks ago.) It’s widely known in sciencey circles that COVID-19 originated in women’s wild untamed vaginas before making the jump to humans. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43944 "2020-04-05T22:09:37Z")
Momma always warned you about wild women and their untamed vaginas with their lady chemicals. Now you know exactly why. Was it worth it? I hate to say I told you so, but… ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43945 "2020-04-05T22:17:31Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Is he vying for the title of stupidest, most venal man elected to office? > > Dear heavens. Just top stupid. He has a lot of work to do. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43946 "2020-04-05T22:17:38Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > No Pat, just 'cause you were a major disappointment to your wife doesn’t mean everyone was. Are you implying that _other guys_ have been going down on Pat Robertson’s wife??? ---
**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:** [April 5, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43947 "2020-04-05T22:37:19Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Are you implying that _other guys_ have been going down on Pat Robertson’s wife??? Oral Roberts, most likely. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/43948 "2020-04-05T22:44:55Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Are you implying that _other guys_ have been going down on Pat Robertson’s wife??? > [@running\_coach](#): > > Oral Roberts, most likely. Annnd, this is why we need a like button. CMC fnord! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2196) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2198)