# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140 "2020-06-22T07:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/21 "2020-06-25T12:42:19Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [GOP House Candidate Insists George Floyd Killing Was Staged](https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/xandr/gop-house-candidate-insists-george-082705975.html) > > > A Republican House candidate in Missouri has published her own half-baked report claiming that the video of George Floyd’s death—which has sparked nationwide protests to end the racial inequities in the criminal-justice system—is, in fact, a staged “false flag.” > > > > Winnie Heartstrong, a candidate running for the St. Louis congressional seat held by Lacy Clay (D-MO), has pushed conspiracy theories about Floyd’s death for nearly a month on Twitter. In late May, a video featuring Heartstrong claiming that “George Floyd is alive” circulated among far-right Twitter accounts and received more than 100,000 views. > > > > Heartstrong went further last week with a 23-page document laying out a series of incoherent conspiracy theories about Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. Heartstrong insists Floyd actually died years earlier, and the video that shows his death is actually a bogus “deepfake” meant to stir up racial tensions. > > > > “We conclude that no one in the video is really one person but rather they are all digital composites of two or more real people to form completely new digital persons using deepfake technology,” Heartstrong writes in the document, which she claims was created with help from “citizen investigators.” I believe this was the yarn featuring “Cash Cab” host Ben Bailey as the stand-in for the police officer responsible for Floyd’s death. Being insane apparently won’t get you even lightly censured by the GOP these days. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/22 "2020-06-25T12:53:46Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > ‘Citizen investigators.’ Is that the polite way to say ‘crazy idiots’ these days? [Jack Burkman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Burkman) and [Jacob Wohl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Wohl), for starters. I suppose we could include Alex Jones and Infowars, but they’re more institutional. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/23 "2020-06-25T17:28:55Z")
> **[Officials Warn Defunding Police Could Lead To Spike In Crime From Ex-Officers...](https://www.theonion.com/officials-warn-defunding-police-could-lead-to-spike-in-1844149047)** > > LOS ANGELES—Insisting their department provided crucial services that help maintain order in the city, law enforcement officials warned Wednesday that defunding the police could lead to a spike in crime from ex-officers with no outlet for their... OTOH, Not the Onion:: > **[FBI director says bureau is looking into possible foreign influence in Floyd...](https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/politics/christopher-wray-fbi-protests-foreign-influence/index.html)** > > FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday that the bureau is looking into the "prospect of foreign influence or foreign interference" in the recent nationwide protests against police violence that were spurred by the police killing of George... J. Edgar lives! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/24 "2020-06-25T17:56:43Z")
Didn’t some “citizen investigators” in GA just get charged with murder? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/25 "2020-06-25T20:10:18Z")
Oddly, I’m only finding this story in UK sources. C’mon, Don Jr., the American MSM are tough! They can take it! [https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/donald-trump-jr-calls-to-replace-vandalised-statues-with-figures-of-his-father/ar-BB15TNZj](https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/donald-trump-jr-calls-to-replace-vandalised-statues-with-figures-of-his-father/ar-BB15TNZj) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/26 "2020-06-25T20:41:38Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Oddly, I’m only finding this story in UK sources. C’mon, Don Jr., the American MSM are tough! They can take it! > [MSN](https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/donald-trump-jr-calls-to-replace-vandalised-statues-with-figures-of-his-father/ar-BB15TNZj) >   There are no words… ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/27 "2020-06-25T21:27:32Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Oddly, I’m only finding this story in UK sources. C’mon, Don Jr., the American MSM are tough! They can take it! > [MSN](https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/donald-trump-jr-calls-to-replace-vandalised-statues-with-figures-of-his-father/ar-BB15TNZj) Wait! You’re missing the point! Don Jr. wrote: > Let’s get a movement going to replace any statue torn down during these riots with a new and more sturdy statue of [@realDonaldTrump].The nonsense would stop instantly. See? He knows his dad is _even more unpopular_ than Confederate generals, so if protesters know the statues they tear down will be replaced by Trump, they’ll reconsider. And we all thought Don Jr. was an idiot! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/28 "2020-06-25T21:44:49Z")
You’re right. (ThelmaLou sheepishly hangs head) I didn’t read the whole thing. I’m a rumor-monger. OTOH, I believe Don Jr. has opened a can of worms here. (That is the last time I will use that expression today.) I believe the trumpniks WOULD like to put up statues to His Orangeness. Maybe even rename a few states. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/29 "2020-06-25T22:31:55Z")
We already have a Trump statue to put up - Warning, requires eye bleach. > **[This Naked Donald Trump Statue Cannot Be Unseen](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/naked-donald-trump-sculpture-indecline_n_57b5d9d0e4b034dc73260c94)** > > It seems the emperor "has no balls." ---
**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:** [June 25, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/30 "2020-06-25T23:13:18Z")
Tom Cotton says the racist parts out loud. Wyoming deserves to be a state because its citizens contribute to society, while the citizens of DC do not deserve to be a state because they don’t contribute. > **[Republican Senator Is Getting Called Out as 'Racist' for His Questionable...](https://secondnexus.com/tom-cotton-wyoming-dc-statehood)** > > Everyone knew what he meant. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/31 "2020-06-25T23:56:10Z")
Wow. If widespread freeloading off the labor of others were a disqualifier, about ten colonies and territories would never have become states (MI, AL, GA, SC…) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/32 "2020-06-26T01:19:23Z")
Another stoopid Texan! WTF is the matter with this guy?? > [@](#): > > … Even as Texas health officials grappled with the surge, the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn the Affordable Care Act, which has extended health insurance to [more than 1.1 million Texans](https://www.healthinsurance.org/texas-state-health-insurance-exchange/#enrollment) while protecting state residents who have pre-existing medical conditions. > > In legal briefs filed with the court on behalf of Texas and 19 other states, Mr. Paxton argued that when Congress rescinded the tax penalty that the law imposed on Americans who did not purchase insurance — known as the “individual mandate” — the entire law became invalid, a legal argument that has not changed with the pandemic. > > “Congress deliberately designed the ACA and its goal of expanding health care coverage around the individual mandate,” Thursday’s brief said. Absent the mandate, it added, other provisions of the law “not only malfunction, but result in the opposite of what Congress intended.” > … [Source (scroll down)](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/world/coronavirus-updates.html?campaign_id=154&emc=edit_cb_20200626&instance_id=19761&nl=coronavirus-briefing®i_id=35181819&segment_id=31887&te=1&user_id=e7ef30a42952da41e1799362ca85af83#link-35c482f3) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/33 "2020-06-26T01:31:16Z")
Heartstong. Mindweak. And I doubt anyone in Republican circles much cares, Clay is in a very blue district and averages 70% of the votes the last few general elections, so Heartstrong’s chances are virtually nil. Press on. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2020, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/34 "2020-06-26T11:01:27Z")
Well of course the current administration thinks there is foreign influence driving the Black Lives Matter movement. After all, Trump himself believes Black congresspersons are foreigners and “should go back to where they came from”. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/35 "2020-06-26T12:09:43Z")
Nah, I think it’s more a matter of projection, projection, projection. After all, they’re being influenced by a foreign power. Ergo, everyone else must be too. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/36 "2020-06-26T12:34:10Z")
Oh look, more stupid news out of my home state. 😒 > **[Lt. Gov. Forest to sue Cooper over coronavirus shutdown orders](https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/lt-gov-forest-to-sue-cooper-over-coronavirus-shutdown-orders/19161612/)** > > Lt. Gov. Dan Forest said he plans to sue Gov. Roy Cooper over alleged violations of the state Emergency Management Act during the pandemic. I still can’t believe that I’m related to Dan Forest…I occasionally have conversations with an out-of-state relative on that side of the family who just can’t believe that I refuse to vote for the guy. (This relative is a Democrat, by the way…) ---
**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:** [June 26, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/37 "2020-06-26T14:49:54Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > I still can’t believe that I’m related to Dan Forest… I have relatives that, well, it seems amazing that my parents were able to raise children that were no so dreadfully fucked up. I recall hearing one of them touting how she drove around in a predominately Jewish neighborhood blaring xtian music in an effort to convert those poor sad Hebrews to the correct way of thinking. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/38 "2020-06-26T15:47:00Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > Nah, I think it’s more a matter of projection, projection, projection. After all, they’re being influenced by a foreign power. Ergo, everyone else must be too. That’s what I think, too. Plus he’s trying to set up a narrative to claim foreign influences helped _Democrats_ in 2020 and the election is therefore invalid and he is still “president”. (For life.) ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/39 "2020-06-26T16:52:41Z")
I can only imagine how worse it will get leading up to the election. (its difficult to access this board, I can only do it at library so anyone who wants to catch up e mail me please) ---
**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:** [June 27, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/40 "2020-06-27T03:16:25Z")
# MOO > **[Devin Nunes cannot sue Twitter over fake cow parody account, judge rules](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/devin-nunes-cannot-sue-twitter-over-fake-cow-parody-account-judge-rules/2020/06/24/88116298-b673-11ea-a8da-693df3d7674a_story.html)** > > The lawsuit made the little-known Twitter account go viral, with over 725,000 followers. I wonder, if an account is clearly identifiable as parody or satire, how do slander/libel/defamation-of-character laws apply? Clearly an account called “Devin Nunes Cow” is not intended to be taken seriously. How dirty can one get under the umbrella of “I’m lying about who I am to begin with”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=3)