# 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:** 337
**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 13, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6746 "2021-08-13T15:57:44Z")
You know, a lot of the liberal sites like Raw Story have been interpreting the unhinged gish-gallop of pseudo-sentences coming out of the Cyber Symposium as a sign that these people are starting to realize they have nothing and back away. Nothing could be further from the truth, they came together to double-down and they did. They are still convinced that they will restore Trump to office. They are invoking God a lot, and claiming he’s on their side……I don’t see the evidence, if God wanted Trump to be President I think he could’ve found an easier way. The most concerning thing about what I’ve heard as I listened in, was the large number of private citizens - election officials, Dominion employees, that they are calling out by name as traitors and criminals. It’s dangerous, and someone’s going to get killed before this is over. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6747 "2021-08-13T17:06:48Z")
Each and every person who was named should file a lawsuit against everyone who was involved with this shit-show symposium. Make them put up or shut up in court, and then make them pay. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6748 "2021-08-13T17:10:35Z")
So can someone please explain this Jesse Kelly tweet? I’m given to understand that I just don’t see the humor. [https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1426173709723779074](https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1426173709723779074) His fall plan is a picture of Jeffrey Epstein and his Delta Variant is a picture of Hilary Clinton. I mean, I just don’t get it. Is he…no, that can’t be it. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6749 "2021-08-13T17:14:15Z")
His fall plans were killed by the delta variant, just like Epstein was killed by Hillary. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2021, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6750 "2021-08-13T17:16:00Z")
It’s silly. We all know Hillary doesn’t just rape children she bathes in their blood and eats their flesh after collecting their precious brain juices. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6751 "2021-08-13T18:46:28Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > His fall plan is a picture of Jeffrey Epstein and his Delta Variant is a picture of Hilary Clinton. Good God! Still fapping to Hillary Clinton? These people are seriously disturbed. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6752 "2021-08-13T19:16:08Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > His fall plans were killed by the delta variant, just like Epstein was killed by Hillary. Well, that makes more sense than my theory that he was going to commit suicide, and then “vote from the graveyard” for Clinton. ---
**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 13, 2021, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6753 "2021-08-13T19:47:19Z")
Republican operative who has appeared on Fox has been charged with ten counts of sex trafficking minors, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice. > **[A GOP strategist was arrested on 10 felony counts of underage sex...](https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-strategist-anton-lazzaro-arrested-sex-trafficking-obstruction-indictment-2021-8)** > > Anton Lazzaro is accused of having "conspired with others to recruit and solicit six minor victims to engage in commercial sex acts" last year. Fucker Carlson mocks AOC because she said that she was worried during the attack on the Capitol that she might be raped. > **[‘Get a Therapist, Honey’: Tucker Sneers at AOC’s Fear of Being Raped](https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-sneers-at-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-fear-of-being-raped)** > > The Fox News host ridiculed AOC saying Jan. 6 violence was sexualized while mockingly mimicking the progressive lawmaker. “I was going to be raped by Ashli Babbitt,” he snarked. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6754 "2021-08-13T19:59:52Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Well, that makes more sense than my theory that he was going to commit suicide, and then “vote from the graveyard” for Clinton. Yeah, but your theory is definitely more amusing 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 13, 2021, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6755 "2021-08-13T21:00:54Z")
Thanks for all your efforts guys. Sometimes I really wish I understood these people, but most of the time, I really am glad I don’t. Whew. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6756 "2021-08-14T00:16:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Fucker Carlson mocks AOC because she said that she was worried during the attack on the Capitol that she might be raped. You know, just yesterday I was wondering why none of the Republicans, Carlson in particular, had mocked AOCs concerns about being raped, and entertaining the possibility that post MeToo they may have decided it was just a smidge too crass. Nope, I guess its good to know that some things never change. On the other hand it could have been worse, she was only being hunted down by a mob of angry men who regularly post memes about her being raped, It isn’t as if someone told her she was a bad human being in front of her adult daughter. Let’s keep things in perspective. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6757 "2021-08-14T04:47:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Fucker Carlson mocks AOC because she said that she was worried during the attack on the Capitol that she might be raped. Does this guy ever go out in public? 'Cause I can’t imagine he’d be able to do anything in peace once he’s recognized. Not that that’s a bad thing. ---
**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 14, 2021, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6758 "2021-08-14T05:15:42Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > You know, just yesterday I was wondering why none of the Republicans, Carlson in particular, had mocked AOCs concerns about being raped Probably for the same reason Kevin McQarthy “jokes” about wanting to hit Nancy Pelosi with a large hammer - in their minds, or at least in the minds of the marks they’re cutting promos for, violence is the appropriate way to teach a woman her place. Eric Swalwell pointed out recently that Ted Cruz had bumped into him in one of the Capitol restrooms and praised the great job he’d been doing, when the night before he’d been on Tucker slandering Swalwell’s pregnant wife. To a lot of these Republicans, politics has become WWE - they don’t believe the things they’re saying, they’re just working the marks for a cheap pop. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6759 "2021-08-14T13:05:29Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Eric Swalwell pointed out recently that Ted Cruz had bumped into him in one of the Capitol restrooms and praised the great job he’d been doing, when the night before he’d been on Tucker slandering Swalwell’s pregnant wife. To a lot of these Republicans, politics has become WWE - they don’t believe the things they’re saying, they’re just working the marks for a cheap pop. I would not be a bit surprised if some of them got together and talked through their scripts. “So, I’ll be on FOX calling you a deviant scumbag who eats babies. You can go on Maddow and say I piss on grandmothers, deal? It’s all just politics, amiright?” ---
**Author:** ![Ziberian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/919ad9/32.png) [@Ziberian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ziberian)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6760 "2021-08-14T19:20:30Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > The most concerning thing about what I’ve heard as I listened in, was the large number of private citizens - election officials, Dominion employees, that they are calling out by name as traitors and criminals. It’s dangerous, and someone’s going to get killed before this is over. I agree – this campaign of intimidation by the right wing has become widespread & a very serious concern. And someone is going to get killed. But that may not necessarily be a bad thing. Republicans think they’re safe from the Trumper mob, but they’re wrong – Trumpers are loyal only to Trump, everyone else is either with Trump or anti-American (see Mike Pence). They’re forgetting Trump has pointed his mob at Republicans as often as Democrats, and for trivial slights. Which means there’s a good chance that the someone(s) who gets killed will be Republican. And if it’s a significant Republican, it might wake the saner members of the party to the reality of a future ruled by a right-wing mob & the benefits of keeping a democracy. A big maybe, but I do think this is one of the only things that could shift the track Republicans are on. ---
**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 14, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6761 "2021-08-14T22:03:25Z")
It certainly looks like, at the moment, they are hitting the Republicans WAY harder than they are hitting Democrats. Democrats are enemies but Republicans are traitors. From the bits and pieces I heard, I think the ultimate aim of the Cyber Symposium was to get their “base” to make widespread demands for state and local election audits - one of the seminars was geared towards instructing the attendees in strategies for doing this - and ratcheting up the pressure on mainstream Republicans and Fox News to support their efforts to audit and reverse the 2020 election. There was a lot of Fox News bashing at the symposium. If you aren’t with them, you’re against them. There a lot of crazy out there, here’s a transcript from some Lin Wood podcast where he exposes a conspiracy involving pedophilia, Mike Pence, Rod Rosenstein and John Roberts. The scariest thing about this one it that it alleges that John Robert’s adopted children are actually sex slaves and that he adopted them as some sort of favor for Jeffrey Epstein. It’s dangerous. > **[FULL-Transcript-of-Whistleblower-Interview.pdf](https://populist.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/FULL-Transcript-of-Whistleblower-Interview.pdf)** > > 769.38 KB Aside from the immediate threat of violence, it’s chilling, not just in the horror movie sense of the word but the legal sense. It dissuades honest people from seeking careers in election administration and government - much as the current extremist attitudes towards education and healthcare dissuade good people from careers in the field. This is part of the broader right-wing overall strategy. It clears a path for extremists. Now, I don’t want _ **anyone** _ to be the victim of violence, even if they are Republican, even if they are a Republican that was craven enough to enable Trump. If I’m reading you right, you think that if a Republican gets killed over this that will be a wake up call for the rest of them— I wish I could agree, but I can’t. They’re too far gone. If someone does successfully lynch Mike Pence, they will just disassociate from the perpetrators, probably by claiming they were Antifa. It may even be an effective tool for pulling other recalcitrant Republicans onto the election fraud bandwagon — fear of violence is a powerful motivator. I’m convinced there are Congressmen that don’t stand up to Trump mostly because they’re scared his supporters will burn their houses down. ---
**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 14, 2021, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6762 "2021-08-14T23:37:04Z")
To segue to a more comical variety of Republican Stupidity: Kevin McCarthy came up with an absolutely BRILLIANT idea—to sell Republicans MAGA-red shirts emblazoned with the word “Moron”: > [@](#): > > Pelosi last month called McCarthy, a Donald Trump apologist, the word after he decried the reimposition of a House mask mandate amid the spread of the highly contagious delta variant of COVID-19. > > McCarthy tried to flip it back on Pelosi with the shirt, which he is selling via the Republican fundraising site WinRed. Writing on the shirt defined the noun as “a term coined by Nancy Pelosi referring to freedom-loving Americans who oppose mask mandates.” … As the article notes, it’s the perfect gift for any Republican in your life! > **[Kevin McCarthy Hawks ‘Moron’ T-Shirts In Spectacular Self-Own](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kevin-mccarthy-t-shirt_n_611611c4e4b07c14031367c6)** > > The top House Republican tried to own Nancy Pelosi with the shirt. It did not go well. ---
**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 15, 2021, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6763 "2021-08-15T03:36:04Z")
This story has the potential to be the ugliest, although the source here might not be the most reliable, > **[GOP Aide Admits To Journalist Why They're Letting People Die](https://crooksandliars.com/2021/08/gop-aide-tells-journalist-why-republicans)** > > Yes, it really is a strategy. but it is just too easy to accept, based on history, that the entire content of the R platform consists of “_ **Pwn Libs** _”. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2021, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6765 "2021-08-15T04:50:47Z")
For a definitive answer about that tweet, the good folks at [knowyourmeme.com](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-fall-plans-delta-variant) have you taken care of. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/6766 "2021-08-15T17:59:00Z")
A few days ago, I drove down I-85 south through South Carolina. I saw a billboard with “TRUMP WON” across the top, below his pouty-lipped portrait. “120,000,000 VOTES!” stretched all the way across the billboard. Below, in smaller type: “Biden only got 81 million.” At the bottom was somebody’s web site address, but I don’t remember it. So in this case, they acknowledge Biden got 81 million, so it’s not a matter of stolen votes. They just assumed everybody who didn’t vote would have voted for Trump. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=336) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=338)