# 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:** 31
**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:** [August 18, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/605 "2020-08-18T22:55:50Z")
The GOP has been whining that Dems are saying “my way or the highway”, so how do they come back to the negotiating table? Why, with a bill that provides even less than they were previously offering, of course! > **[Senate Republicans preparing $500B virus relief proposal](https://apnews.com/6d252430644c0a9d35b1123756652359)** > > WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leaders are preparing a slimmed-down coronavirus relief package of roughly $500 billion that will include extended payments for unemployed people and smaller businesses, a GOP senator said Tuesday... ---
**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:** [August 18, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/606 "2020-08-18T23:17:03Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > > [@Morgyn](#): > > > > They’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel to find people who’ll speak for them. I’m surprised they didn’t invite the chair back. > > How about [James Alex Fields, Jr.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/James_Alex_Fields_Jr.png), the guy who got 2 life sentences w/o parole _plus_ 419 years, just in case, for squishing people in Charlottesville with his car? A comedian posted on Twitter, today, that Brock Turner, the Stanford student who infamously raped an unconscious woman behind a dumpster, had been invited to speak at the Republican National Convention. It instantly got retweeted a few thousand times, and “trended,” despite being a joke (or what the comedian who posted it considered a joke). Trump HAS appeared in public with at least one war criminal he’s pardoned (Eddie Gallagher). So people were primed to believe that Turner would be publicly embraced by the GOP. > **[No, Brock Turner Isn't Speaking at Republican National Convention | Law &...](https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/the-stupid-reason-why-sex-offender-brock-turner-trended-again-in-2020/)** > > If you're like us, you're wondering why on earth convicted sexual assailant Brock Turner, 25, trended on Twitter in 2020. Well, a number of people seemed to think he was actually going to speak at the upcoming Republican National Convention. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/607 "2020-08-19T01:31:38Z")
I apologize if this has been mentioned, but Ben Shapiro and his wife are very concerned that Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have wet ass p-word medical issues. > **[Twitter: Ben Shapiro's doctor wife diagnoses women in Cardi B's 'WAP' with...](https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/08/11/ben-shapiro-wife/?amp)** > > Ben Shapiro is a hot topic of conversation on social media right now after a video went viral of him reading out the lyrics of Cardi B's 'WAP' on his show. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2020, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/608 "2020-08-19T01:45:51Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > I apologize if this has been mentioned, but Ben Shapiro and his wife are very concerned that Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have wet ass p-word medical issues. That’s too funny. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2020, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/609 "2020-08-19T05:49:05Z")
Crazy Laura Loomer has won the Republican primary for the Congressional district including Mar a Lago. > **[Far-right candidate Laura Loomer wins GOP primary for district that covers...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/laura-loomer-wins-gop-primary-florida-district/)** > > "Great going Laura," the president tweeted after her primary victory. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/610 "2020-08-19T10:45:07Z")
[Marco Rubio sneers at Eva Longoria’s DNC speech](https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1295530141481865216), saying > [@](#): > > Brilliant move! No one is more in touch with the challenges & obstacles faced by everyday Americans than actors & celebrities. The entire internet reminds him who the Republicans’ own actual presidential candidate is. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/611 "2020-08-19T16:13:32Z")
I always love it when Republicans have to jeer celebrities who support the Democrats; they are _soooo_ desperate to have any big name celebrity hang out with them. Or at least, desperate enough to let Clint Eastwood have a ten minute conversation with an empty chair. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/612 "2020-08-19T16:20:34Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > [Marco Rubio sneers at Eva Longoria’s DNC speech](https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1295530141481865216), This from the clown who featured [the Vancouver skyline](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDQpbmq1Iwo) in his campaign ad “Morning In America” ---
**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:** [August 20, 2020, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/613 "2020-08-20T03:21:06Z")
Senator John Cornyn uses a video of schools in Estonia in his reelection ad as an example of how smoothly school reopening is going. > **[GOP senator's ad on reopening Texas schools uses video of "class" in Estonia,...](https://www.salon.com/2020/08/19/gop-senators-ad-on-reopening-texas-schools-uses-video-of-class-in-estonia-where-covid-is-scarce/)** > > The ad also appears to suggest that Sen. John Cornyn has eased back on his hardline demands for in-person learning ---
**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:** [August 20, 2020, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/614 "2020-08-20T03:21:57Z")
Britt Hume of Fox News calls Biden senile. > **['Oh My Goodness!': Fox News Panel Goes Haywire After Brit Hume Calls Biden...](https://www.mediaite.com/tv/oh-my-goodness-fox-news-panel-goes-haywire-after-brit-hume-calls-biden-senile/)** > > Fox News' Outnumbered took a dramatic turn on Wednesday when Brit Hume argued that former Vice President Joe Biden and even himself are definitely senile to a certain degree. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/615 "2020-08-20T14:55:47Z")
Unsurprising… > **[Top Trump adviser Steve Bannon arrested in connection with ‘We Build the...](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/former-white-house-adviser-steve-bannon-arrested-in-fraud-scheme-2020-08-20?mod=home-page&fbclid=IwAR1LEiELFNvaNkFaqas1JqQXv4Vhr8RzPLypWb5FmA63U23k14HJkbyhXyk)** > > Former White House adviser Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday on charges that he and three others ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme “We Build... ---
**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:** [August 20, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/616 "2020-08-20T16:04:50Z")
I figure trump will either rush (tweet) to Bannon’s defense or claim he never heard of the guy. 🤣 Could go either way. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/617 "2020-08-20T16:10:17Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I figure trump will either rush (tweet) to Bannon’s defense or claim he never heard of the guy. 🤣 Could go either way. - He went with the latter. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/618 "2020-08-20T16:21:38Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > He went with the latter.- [Did I call it or what?](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-bannon-reaction/trump-laments-arrest-of-former-adviser-bannon-idUSKBN25G1V1) > WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday he feels “very badly” about the arrest of his former close adviser Steve Bannon but knows nothing about the fundraising organization involved in the federal criminal case. > > “I do think it’s a sad event,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I haven’t dealt with him at all now for years, literally years.” ETA: Bannon announces he’s writing a book in 3…2…1… ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/619 "2020-08-20T17:35:51Z")
The SDNY needs to string out this prosecution so that it doesn’t culminate until after the election. As someone on Twitter noted, if there is anybody who has enough dirt on Trump to wrangle a pardon or a commutation, it’s Bannon… ---
**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:** [August 20, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/620 "2020-08-20T23:14:45Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Unsurprising… > > [Top Trump adviser Steve Bannon arrested in connection with ‘We Build the Wall’ crowdfunding scheme - MarketWatch](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/former-white-house-adviser-steve-bannon-arrested-in-fraud-scheme-2020-08-20?mod=home-page&fbclid=IwAR1LEiELFNvaNkFaqas1JqQXv4Vhr8RzPLypWb5FmA63U23k14HJkbyhXyk) Unsurprising, yes. But how about ‘ironic’: it was the US Postal Service who accomplished this arrest: > [@](#): > > When a Coast Guard vessel sped toward a yacht that had Stephen K. Bannon aboard Thursday morning, it carried the gun-toting members of the Postal Service’s investigator unit. > … “The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is committed to identifying and investigating anyone who exploits others for their own benefits,” Chief Postal Inspector Gary Barksdale [said](https://www.uspis.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/NY-We-Build-The-Wall-082020.pdf) in a statement Thursday. > > The arrests were part and parcel for the USPIS, which touts its long history of arrests [in a 20-minute video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfCUuIsnFBQ&feature=emb_title). One of its more notable moments was in 1920, when investigators probed the incredible claims of an investor who promised huge returns for people who purchased international postage exchanges. > > Five years later, Charles Ponzi [was sentenced](https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/behind-the-badge-case-histories-scams-and-schemes/ponzi-scheme) for a scheme that sounded too good to be true. > **[The surprising mission of the Postal Service police who arrested Stephen Bannon](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/08/20/postal-service-police-bannon/)** > > The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is the country’s first and oldest federal law enforcement agency. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/621 "2020-08-21T01:19:33Z")
> [@SwissMan](#): > > The SDNY needs to string out this prosecution so that it doesn’t culminate until after the election. As someone on Twitter noted, if there is anybody who has enough dirt on Trump to wrangle a pardon or a commutation, it’s Bannon… Not necessarily. If Bannon is convicted and then pardoned, he loses any 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination wrt the case, so he could be called to testify against Kumquat at a later date and could not refuse to answer. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/622 "2020-08-21T01:40:54Z")
Yes, that would normally be the case. Of course, Bannon and his ilk do not come across like the sort of people who have any respect for the rule of law. If Bannon did try to refuse, the Dems should fully perp walk the guy into jail for contempt. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/623 "2020-08-21T02:23:11Z")
I was going to put this in the Bannon thread but I think it fits better here. Here’s a great article on how the Republican Party has become the party of straight up grift. > **[Opinion | Bannon’s indictment confirms that the American right is made up of...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/20/bannons-indictment-confirms-that-american-right-is-made-up-con-artists/)** > > Bannon gets charged with the oldest grift in the conservative playbook. It may be paywalled, but the links it contains aren’t. There is a highly organized operation that specializes in selling conservative mailing lists to scammers. > **[The Long Con](https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con)** > > Mitt Romney is a liar. Of course, in some sense, all politicians, even all human beings, are liars. Romney’s lying went so over-the-top extravagant by this summer, though, that the New York Times… ETA- I didn’t read this article fully before I posted the link. It’s 8 years old. They talk about what liar Romney is. Read it and weep, this is what outraged us 8 years ago. It also details the mailing list scam. Mike Huckabee uses his mailing lists to hawk a secret biblical cancer cure. > **[Mike Huckabee Is Literally a Con Artist](https://prospect.org/power/mike-huckabee-literally-con-artist/)** Ben Carson uses his to sell another scam cancer cure. > **[Inside Ben Carson’s Cancer Scam](https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-ben-carsons-cancer-scam)** > > ‘Glyconutrients’ worked so well that the doctor said he didn’t need to have surgery. So why did he wait until he was a spokesman to say how they saved his life? And Herman Cain uses used his mailing lists to promote erectile dysfunction cures. Good luck with that. > **[Why Is Herman Cain Trying to Cure Your Erectile Dysfunction?](https://newrepublic.com/article/116237/newt-gingrich-herman-cain-are-now-making-money-spam)** > > B-list Republican presidential candidates are now making money off internet spam.  This one isn’t in the WaPo article, but conservative Alan Keyes is a spokeperson for a cure-all that consists of literally drinking bleach. Not just any bleach, a special very expensive bleach. > **[Alan Keyes Is Helping Sell a Toxic Bleach ‘Cure’ to the Vulnerable and Desperate](https://www.thedailybeast.com/alan-keyes-is-helping-sell-a-toxic-bleach-cure-miracle-mineral-solution-to-the-vulnerable-and-desperate)** > > The politician fronts a conservative web-based TV channel and appears in broadcasts with bottles of “Miracle Mineral Solution” on his desk. Lets not forget the aggressive legislative actions by Orrin Hatch and Rand Paul to completely deregulate and kill all oversight of “dietary supplements”. And the NRA scam. I don’t think there’s anything legitimate left. No wonder conservatives have no consumer power, they’re being bled dry. It’s hurting the Trump campaign in a big way, and they’re noticing. There’s a long list of pro-Trump PAC’s that aren’t affiliated with his campaign, soliciting donations and sucking up MAGAbot dollars - and they seem to siphon off most of the donations to “consulting firms”. Then there are all the people selling unofficial Trump merchandise. > **[Trump campaign plagued by groups raising tens of millions in his name](https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/23/trump-campaign-compete-against-groups-money-089454)** > > Outside entities are raising huge money in Trump's name, despite disavowals from the campaign, and spending little of it on 2020. So the President of Trump U, the king of grift, is getting played. It is what it is. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/624 "2020-08-21T03:19:44Z")
It’s small potatoes compared to all things Trump-related, but here in Olympia, a Republican who came in third in the open primary for county commissioner (and thus won’t be on the general election ballot) now has one of his top boosters [spreading birther rumors about the Democratic front-runner in the hopes of disqualifying her so he can get onto the ballot.](https://www.theolympian.com/news/politics-government/article245087140.html#storylink=mainstage_card3) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=32)