# 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:** 307
**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:** [July 8, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6143 "2021-07-08T18:49:06Z")
When Is the trial? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6144 "2021-07-08T19:26:24Z")
what is really amazing is that he looks good in his shaman clothes, not so much in non-shaman clothes. really odd. ---
**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 8, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6145 "2021-07-08T20:23:54Z")
The Nevada QOP has a new plan to win elections - just kick out two-thirds of the population. > **[‘New Nevada’: Republicans seek to form another state by ousting Las Vegas to...](https://www.rawstory.com/new-nevada-state-republicans/)** > > Fear over the political choices made by "urban people" is driving efforts to slip Nevada into two states to dilute the power of voters in Las Vegas."Launched in January, 2019, the New Nevada State Movement has spent the last two years working to... ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6146 "2021-07-08T20:41:31Z")
🤣 That was beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6147 "2021-07-08T21:20:35Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > what is really amazing is that he looks good in his shaman clothes, not so much in non-shaman clothes. really odd. That’s largely because he’s bald underneath that marvelous furry horny headdress. ---
**Author:** ![Drsunflower1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drsunflower1/32/12711_2.png) [@Drsunflower1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drsunflower1)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6148 "2021-07-08T22:10:53Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > So, if the cult doesn’t have an interest in the case, he might perform ethically. But if he’s a committed Scientologist he’s not going to feel obligated. He’s going to feel obligated towards the Scientologists. This is a good example of group conscience. As long as the group you belong to condones your behavior or even encourages it, that apparently overrides any qualms you as an individual may have. It’s the same mechanism that made the Nazis commit atrocities and think of themselves as good people at the same time. Thanks for the book recommendation. Interesting stuff. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2021, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6149 "2021-07-08T22:18:48Z")
The threat of being ‘[Lisa McPhersoned](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Lisa_McPherson)’ brings remarkable clarity of purpose. ---
**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 8, 2021, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6150 "2021-07-08T23:47:16Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The Nevada QOP has a new plan to win elections - just kick out two-thirds of the population. And the major revenue source for the state. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2021, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6151 "2021-07-09T00:31:41Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > When Is the trial? The first trial date for another defendant was set for April of 2022. ---
**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 9, 2021, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6152 "2021-07-09T04:04:24Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > That’s largely because he’s bald underneath that marvelous furry horny headdress. Oh. In that case, hopefully he’ll just keep it on. For the trial. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6153 "2021-07-09T04:18:54Z")
Wonderful, except you forgot about the part where he just walked through open doors. That’s mommy’s favorite refrain after all. ---
**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 9, 2021, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6154 "2021-07-09T06:37:18Z")
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for not including Giuliani demonstrating his dick collapse in your scenario. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6155 "2021-07-09T12:46:25Z")
So now he’s going with an incompetency defense? While we all know The Big Lie supporters have some kind of defect, I’m not sure it will be a legal defense. > **[Man known as “QAnon Shaman” undergoing competency evaluation in Colorado...](https://www.denverpost.com/2021/07/07/qanon-shaman-jacob-anthony-chansley-colorado-prison-evaluation/)** > > The man known as the QAnon Shaman who was one of the most recognizable faces of the Jan. 6 insurrection is undergoing a competency evaluation at the Englewood Federal Correctional Institution in Li… ---
**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 9, 2021, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6156 "2021-07-09T13:02:36Z")
> **[Almost 150 guards are staffing an empty Texas prison as state officials work...](https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/08/texas-immigration-prison-empty/)** > > While many Texas prisons are understaffed, some dangerously so, the emptied-out Briscoe Unit in Dilley is in "maintenance mode" as officials scramble to implement the governor's plan to increase the state's role in border enforcement. > … > While state officials work to figure out the standards that must be in place, the Briscoe prison officers are monitoring empty dorms and cells while their colleagues suffer from dangerous understaffing at other units throughout the state. > > In May, TDCJ was short more than 5,300 officers, with about 78% of positions filled. At the Telford Unit in northeast Texas, both [employees and prisoners reported dangerous conditions in 2018](https://www.texastribune.org/2018/05/09/understaffing-texas-prisons-telford-maximum-security-prison-timothy-da/) as assaults on prisoners and officers rose while staffing ranks dwindled. At that point, Telford was 65% staffed. The prison now only has 45% of its officer positions filled. > > “Our staff are working 16 hour days … some are just going home to sleep and come back,” said Jeff Ormsby, executive director of Texas prisons’ American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees branch. “They’re putting their life on the line.” Great use of resources, Greg, you grandstanding MF! You make us ashamed to be Texans. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6157 "2021-07-09T14:30:15Z")
Ain’t that the truth… What part of the state do you live in? I’m in Houston. ---
**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 9, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6158 "2021-07-09T14:32:31Z")
San Antonio. There are at least a couple other San Antonians here and a few other Texans. We keep our heads down and slink from room to room… ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6159 "2021-07-09T14:42:40Z")
He looks like a comic-book character come to life. ---
**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 9, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6160 "2021-07-09T17:51:16Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > And the major revenue source for the state. Not to worry. I’m sure they have a plan so that this “new state” of Nevada sans Las Vegas would still obligate Las Vegas to send them money. Red State Welfare Recipients. ---
**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 9, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6161 "2021-07-09T18:21:08Z")
It’s like all of the rednecks who want to split northern California and southern Nevada into the State of Jefferson. Every county in the proposed state depends on state welfare. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6162 "2021-07-09T18:51:37Z")
Marc Thiessen, conservative columnist, thinks that if Biden gives Trump credit for the vaccine, then more people will get vaccinated. He might be right. > **[Opinion | If Biden wants to convince the vaccine hesitant, give Trump credit...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/06/how-biden-can-win-over-vaccine-hesitant/)** > > The message to vaccine-hesitant Republicans should be: If you trust President Trump, get your Trump vaccine. > If Biden wants to convince those Americans to get immunized, he should remind them that Operation Warp Speed — the greatest public health achievement in human history — was also the greatest achievement of the Trump presidency. But, as usual, it’s never the fault of Trump to convey the message. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=306) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=308)