# 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:** 221
**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:** [April 12, 2021, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4414 "2021-04-12T21:13:12Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > unimaginably conventional When did this become a bad thing for the CONSERVATIVES?!?! ---
**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 12, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4415 "2021-04-12T21:20:54Z")
OH NO’s! Biden’s tweets are “unimaginably conventional.” How horrible! Biden better get moving tweeting insults, accusing celebrities of crimes and otherwise entertaining us with some funny foul-mouthed bleating. Cornyn is a fucking moron. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4416 "2021-04-12T21:33:01Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > No, he did not explicitly say that, but it is clearly what he meant, and it is othering of the worst kind. Othering, absolutely. Of a bad kind, yes. But it’s not of the worst kind. History has, unfortunately, shown us many examples of worse kinds of othering. ---
**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 12, 2021, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4417 "2021-04-12T21:39:07Z")
Biden should post a tweet mocking “Low IQ John Cornyn.” Maybe that will make Cornyn happy. ---
**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 12, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4418 "2021-04-12T21:58:28Z")
“Cornball Cornyn cries like a baby about my unconventional tweets. Maybe he should man up. Sad.” ---
**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:** [April 12, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4419 "2021-04-12T22:10:20Z")
Why would they assume conservatives read Harry Potter? ---
**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 12, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4420 "2021-04-12T22:20:38Z")
Note that that tweet is [lifted directly from Politico](https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/12/biden-white-house-press-strategy-480930). Those are not Cornyn’s own words. He links to the source above that tweet. ---
**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 12, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4421 "2021-04-12T22:23:45Z")
Funny, it looks to me like it’s direct from Cornyn’s tweets. Being the one who posted it, that’s where I copied from. ---
**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 12, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4422 "2021-04-12T22:28:15Z")
The words are in his tweet. He c&p’d them directly from the politico piece that he linked to above that tweet. ---
**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 12, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4423 "2021-04-12T22:40:34Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > unimaginably conventional Then he’s extra fucking stupid. The internet is widely mocking him now for his copy/paste, which every one assumes he thought up himself. What’s next? He’s going to complain about Biden not golfing more? Complain about the lack of porn stars in the White House? ---
**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 12, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4424 "2021-04-12T22:43:34Z")
Maybe he can complain that we’re not having to fact-check a new lie every 30 seconds. Though we’re still stuck continually fact-checking all the old ones from the former guy. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4425 "2021-04-12T22:45:53Z")
I found the [Fox News article](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cornyn-questions-biden-in-charge) on John Cornyn’s tweets. They’re suggesting that Biden’s lack of tweets and cable news appearances mean that he’s “not really in charge.” ---
**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:** [April 12, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4426 "2021-04-12T23:22:06Z")
Dear God, are these people pretending they don’t remember a time before Twitter? And a time before the president urped out every single mental fart he produced without a filter the moment it came forth? I guess they are. ---
**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 12, 2021, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4427 "2021-04-12T23:30:49Z")
They’re also pretending that we _miss_ it. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4428 "2021-04-12T23:36:59Z")
And Trump went weeks or months without any press conferences. In the last few months of his term, his schedule merely said for almost every day, “President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings.” ---
**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:** [April 13, 2021, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4429 "2021-04-13T00:02:06Z")
IOWRDI. Or in this case, “when Republicans DON’T do it.” In short whatever Pubs do is okay. Whatever Dems do is wrong, evil, against all moral standards, and just plain malicious. And stupid. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4430 "2021-04-13T00:03:30Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Dear God, are these people pretending they don’t remember a time before Twitter? They don’t remember January. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4431 "2021-04-13T00:09:18Z")
YAFers. Damn. I was on a local political debate show on TV when I was in high school (in a team of 3). We got to the studio to tape the show against a team from Burbank High, and their car was plastered with YAF and Max Rafferty bumper stickers. Hilarious. Even more hilariously we were the “Pro” on should the US stop bombing North Vietnam, and they were “Con.” In the week between us being given our topic and the taping? LBJ announced he was stopping the bombing of North Vietmam. We said we were soooooo good we didn’t even need to debate to convince people! Oh, and one of the Burbank guys actually used the phrase “pointy headed intellectuals.” Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4432 "2021-04-13T01:02:05Z")
Is it supposed to be obvious what YAF stands for? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4433 "2021-04-13T01:06:58Z")
I’m guessing Young Americans for Freedom, the subject at hand before Sen Cornyn upped the Stupid Ante. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=220) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=222)