# 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:** 35
**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 27, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/685 "2020-08-27T13:06:09Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [That 'famous' Lincoln quote in Lara Trump's RNC speech? He never said it. | The Week](https://theweek.com/speedreads/934050/that-famous-lincoln-quote-lara-trumps-rnc-speech-never-said) > 'As Albert Einstein once notably stated, ‘The problem with quotes you find on the internet is they are often untrue.’ Einstein never said that, it’s a Lincoln quote. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/686 "2020-08-27T13:29:18Z")
You’re both wrong. Obviously that’s one of Mark Twain’s quotes. ---
**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 27, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/687 "2020-08-27T13:36:14Z")
I though Twain invented the internet. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/688 "2020-08-27T14:34:28Z")
Not quite but he had a hand in digital imaging [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWAIN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWAIN) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/689 "2020-08-27T15:13:02Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I though Twain invented the internet. That was Shania, not Mark. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/690 "2020-08-27T15:13:47Z")
And surprise, surprise, surprise, there are also sexual misconduct allegations against Mr. Very Fine Cawthorne. [https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/madison/2020/08/20/madison-cawthorn-nc-katrina-krulikas-sexual-assault/3394391001/](https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/madison/2020/08/20/madison-cawthorn-nc-katrina-krulikas-sexual-assault/3394391001/) ---
**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 27, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/691 "2020-08-27T15:17:36Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > I though Twain invented the internet. > > That was Shania, not Mark. - She invented country music, not the internet. ---
**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 27, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/692 "2020-08-27T15:41:34Z")
Come on, people, everyone knows the internets were invented by Francois-Marie “Voltaire” Arouet as the his crowning achievement in satire. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/693 "2020-08-27T16:18:29Z")
I meme therefore I spam. ---
**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 27, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/694 "2020-08-27T16:22:02Z")
In dreary weather, you must ride in the Rainy Day Cart. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/695 "2020-08-27T16:51:42Z")
Wow, TIL. I always struggled with pronunciation of that name. Now I never will again. TY. ---
**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 27, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/696 "2020-08-27T17:53:52Z")
Washington state legislator believes that children are being kidnapped for sexual pleasuring of human-reptile hybrids who were brought here by interdimensional beings. > **[Republican has no regrets about promoting conspiracy theory about...](https://www.rawstory.com/amp/republican-has-no-regrets-about-promoting-conspiracy-theory-about-reptile-human-hybrids-harvesting-children-2649316589)** > > A Republican state lawmaker in the state of Washington says she has no regrets about promoting conspiracy theories involving reptile-human hybrids who harvest and sexually abuse children.Inlander reports that Rep. Jenny Graham wrote months... ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/697 "2020-08-27T18:42:07Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Scott Adams of Dilbert infamy proves that Joe Biden is really Satan. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Washington state legislator believes that children are being kidnapped for sexual pleasuring of human-reptile hybrids who were brought here by interdimensional beings. From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis): > **Psychosis** is an abnormal condition of the [mind](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind) that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real.[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis#cite_note-NIH2018QA-4) Symptoms may include [delusions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion) and [hallucinations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination).[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis#cite_note-NIH2018QA-4) So how are these people (and so many others like them) not considered psychotic? ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/698 "2020-08-27T19:04:07Z")
The are psychotic, and they represent the psychotic vote. Won’t someone think of the psychotics for pitys sake ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/699 "2020-08-27T19:29:44Z")
Speaking of psychotics… [Ann Coulter praises the kid who crossed state lines to murder protestors](https://thegailygrind.com/2020/08/26/ann-coulter-praises-17-year-old-arrested-for-murder-of-2-protesters-i-want-him-as-my-president/) Coulter responded: “I want him as my president.” Always going for the moral high ground, our little Annie… 🙄 ---
**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 27, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/700 "2020-08-27T20:17:12Z")
So… conservatives are actively calling for the murder of fellow citizens. Tell me again how this nation is going to hold together? ---
**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 27, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/701 "2020-08-27T21:01:29Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > So… conservatives are actively calling for the murder of fellow citizens. {…} Well, yes . . . but, but protesters are yelling at people in a scary loud way! ---
**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 27, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/702 "2020-08-27T21:18:57Z")
Fucker Carlson’s all for it, too: > **[Fox's Tucker Carlson takes heat for Kenosha commentary](https://apnews.com/a8e257f5e6aa20c42c069646ad06ac09)** > > NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News' Tucker Carlson, no stranger to the hot seat for his commentary, is being criticized for suggesting that no one should be surprised by the killing of two demonstrators during social unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/703 "2020-08-27T22:09:28Z")
> [@casdave](#): > > Won’t someone think of the psychotics for pitys sake When asked why he was supporting a Supreme Court nominee who had been assessed as “mediocre,” Senator Roman Hruska (R-Nebraska) semi-famously [replied](https://blawgletter.typepad.com/bbarnett/2007/07/quote-of-the--3.html) that mediocre people deserved some representation on the court. I suppose that if one tilts one’s head just so and squints a little, the same argument can be applied to psychotics and the Presidency. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/704 "2020-08-28T00:15:47Z")
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