# 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:** 376
**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:** [October 3, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7532 "2021-10-03T22:30:55Z")
Paul Gosar wants Congress to hold another election this year with Individual 1 vs. Biden. There should be a law that you can’t serve in Congress if you can’t pass a government test. > **[Republican rep wants a Biden-Trump rematch ... in 2021](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/republican-rep-wants-biden-trump-rematch-2021-n1280233)** > > Paul Gosar wants Congress to somehow set a Biden-Trump rematch, not for 2024, but for later this year. He didn't appear to be kidding. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7533 "2021-10-04T02:14:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > There should be a law that you can’t serve in Congress if you can’t pass a government test. In the case of Gosar and some others, a psychiatric evaluation would probably be more in order. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2021, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7534 "2021-10-04T05:58:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Cory Lewandowski (remember him?) claimed during a Vegas fundraiser last week that he runs 57 miles a day, can last eight hours at a time in bed, and has murdered two people by stabbing them to death, one when he was 10 years old. Did he also [kilt himself a bar when he was only three](https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tennesseeernieford/theballadofdavycrockett.html)? ---
**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:** [October 4, 2021, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7535 "2021-10-04T06:13:22Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Not sure if anybody has been deranged enough to crunch the data, or that there is even enough to crunch, but I wonder roughly what the death rate is, Republican vs Democrat-wise. How many of their voters have the Republicans killed? There have certainly been plenty of news reports comparing death rates in states that voted Republican versus states that voted Democrat. A google search will find lots of such reports. There is even at least one report that breaks it down to the county level in Washington State. Counties that voted at least 60% Republican had 44.4 deaths per 100,000, while counties that voted at least 60% Democrat had 6.8 deaths per 100,000. > **[COVID-19 deaths are much higher in Washington’s Republican counties, analysis...](https://www.opb.org/article/2021/09/30/covid-19-deaths-higher-washington-republican-counties/)** > > The death toll from the “fifth wave” of COVID-19 is hitting Republican counties in Washington much harder than Democratic ones, according to a new analysis. > [@](#): > > The death toll from the “fifth wave” of COVID-19 is hitting Republican counties in Washington much harder than Democratic ones, according to a new analysis. > > As of this week, the death rate for people with COVID-19 was 44.4 per 100,000 in counties that voted over 60 percent Republican in statewide races in 2020. By contrast, counties that went for Democratic statewide candidates by 60 percent or more have a death rate of just 6.8 per 100,000. > > The statewide average is 17.8 deaths per 100,000. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2021, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7536 "2021-10-04T06:52:53Z")
Not sure what thread is best for this, but here is good enough. It’s all over the news, especially the right-wing news, that Sen. Tammy Duckworth, _et_ many _al_ pay $0 property tax due to Illinois property tax exemptions for disabled veterans. Fox News, Breitbart, and all the rest, are spinning this as proving what awful deadbeats they are. I first saw this at Raw Story IIRC, which of course posts lots of comments and tweets that they find. The best tweet I recall was something along the lines of       “What will the next headline be?       Sen. Tammy Duckworth ticketed       for parking in disabled spot.”        ---
**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:** [October 4, 2021, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7537 "2021-10-04T09:08:19Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > can last eight hours at a time in bed I can’t even get eight hours of _sleep_ in bed these days. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Paul Gosar wants Congress to hold another election this year with Individual 1 vs. Biden. There should be a law that you can’t serve in Congress if you can’t pass a government test. Is anyone else having a [_Trading Places_ flashback](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPZn4rbiB8g)? ---
**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:** [October 4, 2021, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7538 "2021-10-04T09:19:09Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Paul Gosar wants Congress to hold another election this year with Individual 1 vs. Biden. This ain’t golf, bub. You don’t get a mulligan. Even if you did, wouldn’t the double-secret Deep State that managed to out-cheat Trump and his minions so slick not a single trace of their perfidy can be found… simply do it again? Side note: I had the impression his district was north-eastern Arizona, and it mainly is, but a fat tentacle reaches down, curling around those evil bastions of Phoenix and Mesa to grasp Apache Junction, just a few miles from where I live. He’s bound to attend a campaign rally there – think 'll attend. If I don’t make it back tell Mom love her. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Arizona_US_Congressional_District_4_%28since_2013%29.tif/lossless-page1-1200px-Arizona_US_Congressional_District_4_%28since_2013%29.tif.png) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Arizona_US_Congressional_District_4_%28since_2013%29.tif/lossless-page1-1200px-Arizona_US_Congressional_District_4_%28since_2013%29.tif.png) ---
**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:** [October 4, 2021, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7539 "2021-10-04T12:47:48Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Not sure if anybody has been deranged enough to crunch the data, or that there is even enough to crunch, but I wonder roughly what the death rate is, Republican vs Democrat-wise. How many of their voters have the Republicans killed? The cited article says Covid has killed 1 in 434 rural Americans and 1 in 513 urban Americans. I’m not sure how they define those terms. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2021, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7540 "2021-10-04T13:12:21Z")
Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin has died. > **[Ex-US Rep. Todd Akin, sunk by ‘legitimate rape’ remark, dies](https://www.wagmtv.com/2021/10/04/ex-us-rep-todd-akin-sunk-by-legitimate-rape-remark-dies/)** > > Akin's career was overshadowed by the outrage from the post-primary comment in a television interview after he was asked whether he would support allowing abortions in cases of rape. It says he had cancer, but I don’t think he really had cancer - after all, the body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7541 "2021-10-04T13:35:31Z")
Got any other cite for that? I’d like to read the exact words of his confession, but the Raw Story link is a 404. And the political divide in covid cases and deaths is especially pronounced when you realize that, ordinarily, epidemics hit high population densities much harder. To get numbers like we’re getting, the rural people have to be going out of their way to try to deliberately get infected. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7542 "2021-10-04T13:37:46Z")
Every study I see has ratios. I want raw numbers. I want a body count. I want a study that tells me that x Republicans in Ohio have died of Covid. The numbers have to be there, otherwise nobody could produce ratios unless they are pulling the numbers out of their ass. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7543 "2021-10-04T14:12:18Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Not sure what thread is best for this, but here is good enough. > > It’s all over the news, especially the right-wing news, that Sen. Tammy Duckworth, _et_ many _al_ pay $0 property tax due to Illinois property tax exemptions for disabled veterans. Fox News, Breitbart, and all the rest, are spinning this as proving what awful deadbeats they are. > > I first saw this at Raw Story IIRC, which of course posts lots of comments and tweets that they find. The best tweet I recall was something along the lines of >       “What will the next headline be? >       Sen. Tammy Duckworth ticketed >       for parking in disabled spot.” > >        I seem to remember Individual 1 bragging during the 2016 debates that he was smart because he didn’t pay taxes. So, you’d think Republicans would be _absolutely delighted_ that Duckworth\* paid zero taxes. \* No, autocorrect, I am not trying to spell "sucked" or "fucked". ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7544 "2021-10-04T14:54:29Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I seem to remember Individual 1 bragging during the 2016 debates that he was smart because he didn’t pay taxes. So, you’d think Republicans would be _absolutely delighted_ that Duckworth\* paid zero taxes. IOKWARDI or more precisely IOOKWARDDI (It’s only OK when a Republican doesn’t do it.) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7545 "2021-10-04T17:08:07Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Got any other cite for that? I’d like to read the exact words of his confession, but the Raw Story link is a 404. > **[Ex-Trump aide Corey Lewandowski bragged about killing two men before groping...](https://www.salon.com/2021/10/03/ex-aide-corey-lewandowski-bragged-about-two-men-before-groping-donor-police-report/)** > > The incident was so blatant that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem allegedly texted Lewandowski to stop It doesn’t have Lewandowski’s exact words, only Ms Odom’s recollection of them. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2021, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7546 "2021-10-04T17:16:50Z")
Heres a detailed version of the story, I was just coming here to post it. It includes her full statement to the police. It sounds like he thought he could intimidate her into having sex with him. When he found he couldn’t, he threw a drink at her and called her stupid. > **[Trump donor told police she feared for safety due to Corey Lewandowski](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10052469/Married-Trump-donor-told-police-feared-safety-Corey-Lewandowski-told-killed-man.html)** > > Super PAC donor Trashelle Odom has told cops former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told her he has killed people, according to police report obtained by DailyMail.com. South Dakota governor ( and alleged Lewandowski side piece ) says she saw him harassing Odom and sent him a text telling him to stop. I’m not sure if she did this because she was concerned for Odom or just jealous. Several other people “reassured” Odom that “Corey always acts like this.” They’re all troglodyte savages and have no place in polite society. Thus just confirms it. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7547 "2021-10-04T17:22:33Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Ex-Trump aide Corey Lewandowski bragged about killing two men One of them just for snoring. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7548 "2021-10-04T17:40:04Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > One of them just for snoring. And the other one in Reno, just to – aw, come on, you know the rest! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7549 "2021-10-04T17:42:35Z")
How much do you want to bet that the police question him on those two murders, and he tells them “Aw, man, I was just trying to intimidate her into sleeping with me”, and then they get him on attempted rape? ---
**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:** [October 4, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7550 "2021-10-04T17:59:21Z")
What I don’t get is why he would need to intimidate anyone into sleeping with him? I mean, I get all tingly just looking at him. (You have to say that completely straight-faced to get the best sarcasm.) 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7551 "2021-10-04T18:01:18Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > How much do you want to bet that the police question him on those two murders, and he tells them “Aw, man, I was just trying to intimidate her into sleeping with me”, and then they get him on attempted rape? I’ll take that bet. Far far far more likely is “Aw, man, I was just trying to intimidate her into sleeping with me”, and the LEOs say OK and walk away. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=375) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=377)