# 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:** 303
**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:** [July 6, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6063 "2021-07-06T20:30:05Z")
My Pillow guy sets a date for Individual 1’s reinstatement - August 13. > **[Mike Lindell set August 13 as the date in his bonkers theory that Trump will...](https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lindell-claims-august-13-trump-reinstatement-2021-7)** > > The MyPillow CEO has been hawking a groundless theory that the 2020 election will be overturned and Trump will be president again. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6064 "2021-07-06T21:42:05Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > My Pillow guy sets a date for Individual 1’s reinstatement - August 13. - And that IS a Friday-the-13th. Which means that Jesus approves? Or something… ---
**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:** [July 6, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6065 "2021-07-06T21:48:59Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > My Pillow guy sets a date for Individual 1’s reinstatement - August 13. plus or minus two weeks… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6066 "2021-07-06T21:55:51Z")
When is this guy’s Dominion case? I want to see all the “evidence” he’s planning on presenting to the court. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6067 "2021-07-06T22:25:41Z")
What’s Lindell’s angle on all this. I don’t see his pillow business profiting, and I really don’t see him gaining any position of power in a “reinstated” administration. Is he just really a “true believer” or am I missing something? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6068 "2021-07-06T23:55:56Z")
All signs point to “batshit crazy”. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6069 "2021-07-07T00:01:55Z")
Yeah, he’s crazy, but I do find myself wondering if he’s under any kind of audit or something in which he really hopes Trump can help him out. To me, he comes off as scared shitless. I’m sure it’s just my active imagination though. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6070 "2021-07-07T00:13:59Z")
He simply strikes me as an attention-starved fucking ass-monkey, hoping to drum up more business by getting into the headlines again. I bet he’d kill himself before shaving off the moustache - a totally defining accessory for him. The question is - how many times is the date going to get changed once the 13th comes and goes, as **EP** was mentioning? Just like those end-of–timers. "If I turn out wrong - 2 for 1 on My Pillows!!! ---
**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 7, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6071 "2021-07-07T01:49:21Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > My Pillow guy sets a date for Individual 1’s reinstatement - August 13. Oh God Damn it, four and a half years after I swore not to travel to the US again because Trump’s inauguration ruined the vibe of my last Vegas Vacation, is the Vegas Vacation I just booked for this August going to be ruined by _yet another_ Trump inauguration?!? \>:( ---
**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, 2021, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6072 "2021-07-07T02:13:39Z")
Apparently this is what Lindell’s “proof” looks like; > ---
**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:** [July 7, 2021, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6073 "2021-07-07T02:16:59Z")
Hmmm…that looks a bit like the interior walls of that garage at the end of “A Beautiful Mind.” 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6074 "2021-07-07T02:22:30Z")
Looks like an anus to me, the way the lines angle in toward the center. It’s fitting that Trump would be right at the center. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2021, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6075 "2021-07-07T02:49:50Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Apparently this is what Lindell’s “proof” looks like; Forget it Jake. It’s Crazy Town. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2021, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6076 "2021-07-07T02:56:22Z")
Working at her new Fox job, Kayleigh MciNinny lies right off the bat. “All of the Founding Fathers were opposed to slavery.” > **[Kayleigh McEnany Falsely Claims ‘All of Our’ Founding Fathers Were ‘Against...](https://www.thedailybeast.com/kayleigh-mcenany-falsely-claims-all-of-our-founding-fathers-were-against-slavery)** > > Despite McEnany’s blatant falsehood, the vast majority of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were slave owners. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2021, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6077 "2021-07-07T04:10:02Z")
National Review is whining that liberal women don’t want to have sex with them. > **[Political Discrimination as Civil-Rights Struggle | National Review](https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2021/07/12/political-discrimination-as-civil-rights-struggle/)** > > Viewpoint neutrality should be legally mandated. ---
**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 7, 2021, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6078 "2021-07-07T04:51:25Z")
It reminds me of [Pepe Silvia](https://youtu.be/_nTpsv9PNqo), possibly the best scene in _It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia._ ---
**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 7, 2021, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6079 "2021-07-07T04:54:13Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > And fuckin’ magnets! How do they work? [Miracles](https://youtu.be/8GyVx28R9-s) ---
**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:** [July 7, 2021, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6080 "2021-07-07T05:24:23Z")
Man, what a screed that is. > [@](#): > > … This reveals the predilection among many young elite Americans for progressive authoritarianism, a belief system that justifies infringing rights to equal treatment or free speech in the name of the emotional “safety” of historically marginalized race, gender, and sexuality groups. In this left-modernist worldview, conservatives’ resistance to racial, gender, and sexual progressivism mark them as moral deviants. As Millennials take power, this generational earthquake is set to shake the foundations of the cultural elite to its core, leading to pervasive discrimination against, and censorship of, conservative views. … Terrible. But, he keeps using “conservative” wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6081 "2021-07-07T07:39:33Z")
Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there “progressive authoritarianism” 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6082 "2021-07-07T08:11:05Z")
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