# 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:** 394
**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:** [October 21, 2021, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7893 "2021-10-21T14:38:49Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > [It hasn’t even launched, and it’s already at stage 4. > .](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-truth-social-hacked-within-hours-announcement-1641137) I saw a tweet earlier that the Official Twitter Account for TRUTH SOCIAL posted a tweet with America First! and a photo of the Liberian Flag instead of the American one. They may have deleted it now, but there are screen shots, which I saw but can’t figure out how to copy. Trump calling his site Truth anything is just him being his usual troll. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7894 "2021-10-21T14:53:24Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Trump calling his site Truth anything is just him being his usual troll. He wanted to call it “Pravda”, but Putin sued him over trademark infringement. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7895 "2021-10-21T15:03:45Z")
Hell, why not just call it **“LIES”**? It’s not like that will deter any likely subscribers. Or, to be fancy, **“MENDACITY”** – he can even trademark the name. He practically has already. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7896 "2021-10-21T16:13:06Z")
It also has a “non-disparagement clause” in the TOS and is a SPAC, which is some kind of shady stock/fundraising gimmick? ---
**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:** [October 21, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7897 "2021-10-21T16:22:50Z")
here ya go: > **[Special-purpose acquisition company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_acquisition_company)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > A special purpose acquisition company (SPAC; /spæk/), also known as a "blank check company", is a shell corporation listed on a stock exchange with the purpose of acquiring a private company, thus making it public without going through the traditional initial public offering process and the associated regulations thereof. According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), SPACs are created specifically to pool funds to finance a futur... ---
**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:** [October 21, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7898 "2021-10-21T16:57:03Z")
Damn, is Trump positioning himself for a hostile takeover of Lindell’s _Frank_?! ---
**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:** [October 21, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7899 "2021-10-21T17:35:14Z")
More information about the SPAC that is merging with Trumps Media in order to start Trump’s social network. Looks like its already fulfilling its primary purpose of fleasing the rubes. > **[Shares of Trump-linked SPAC close up 350% following news of social media deal](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/21/trump-linked-spac-shares-soar-more-than-40percent-on-news-of-social-media-deal.html)** > > Trump has a planned social media platform,"TRUTH Social," which is allied with the SPAC company Digital World Acquisition Corp. It sounds like its probably deluded MAGAts who are driving the price, > The ticker DWAC was among the top 10 most popular names on Reddit’s WallStreetBets chatroom Thursday, even exceeding meme stock [GameStop’](https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/GME)s mentions, according to alternative research provider Quiver Quantitative. > > That could be a sign that retail investors active on social media platforms were fueling the rally in the SPAC. > … > A corporate overview of Trump’s new company does not list any officers, employees, or operations. The CEO also has a somewhat politically inconvenient employment history. > Orlando, who graduated from MIT, spent five years at Deutsche Bank, where he worked with emerging markets fixed income derivatives. > > Orlando later moved into the South American sugar industry and is currently involved with at least three other SPACs, or so-called blank check companies: [Yunhong International](https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/ZGYH), [Benessere Capital Acquisition](https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/BENE), and [Maquia Capital Acquisition](https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/MAQCW). > > Orlando is CEO of Yunhong International, which was[incorporated in the Cayman Islands in 2020](https://sec.report/CIK/0001773086) and which lists its headquarters in Wuhan, China. If I were the speculative type, I’d be taking a look at Put Options on DWAC with about a 6 month time frame. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7900 "2021-10-21T17:36:32Z")
Apparently Jim Jordan doesn’t want teachers any safer then students under his watch, [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/t024uFKg3wE/maxresdefault.jpg "Attorney General Garland: "FBI agents will not be attending local school board meetings."") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t024uFKg3wE) ---
**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:** [October 21, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7901 "2021-10-21T17:39:00Z")
I see it being different in quite a number of ways. First of all, In-n-Out doesn’t serve alcohol, so checking ID is not something that employees would ever be asked to do. Then there’s the fact that the number of people who would fight about whether they need to show ID to buy alcohol are in the fringe, and are almost all underage. Checking the birthdate on an ID is not as medically invasive as checking vaccine status. Also, you only need to check ID on those buying alcohol, not everyone entering the establishment. I can see how someone who wouldn’t be involved in having to check on the vaccine status of customers wouldn’t see it being any different and being rather indifferent to putting the burden of public health safety on the shoulders of some teenager working for minimum wage, but having been in that position, I see it as different, quite different in fact. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7902 "2021-10-21T17:39:43Z")
More than 6 in 10 Republicans tell pollsters they believe Biden’s win was fraudulent, despite all the evidence to the contrary? Out of those, I reckon a minority, maybe 20%, are complete fools, too stupid to tell apart their butt from a hole in the ground, who believe that claim is literally true. But the majority, maybe 80% of them, are venal fools. They’re able to convince themselves they “believe” it because it’s seen as a strategy to grab power. Everyone’s familiar with Orwell’s concept of “doublethink,” which is not irrelevant here. But much better than Orwell, I think, Sinclair Lewis in _It Can’t Happen Here_ and Isabel Allende in _House of the Spirits_ went into some depth on the psychology of those who choose to throw in their lot with oncoming Fascism and how they manage to rationalize it to themselves. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7903 "2021-10-21T17:53:06Z")
My god Jim Jordan’s a dick. Paraphrasing, “Police commissioner, was the decision to send officers to the local 7-11 influenced in any way by the 911 call made by the clerk reporting an armed robbery? Doesn’t this mean that you are going to start arresting kids buying slurpees?” ---
**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 21, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7904 "2021-10-21T18:30:14Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Here’s some more on the site: > > “Built-in irony.” Hehe. I was gonna point out the Truth/Pravda irony but somebody beat me to it in the FB comments shown in the article. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7905 "2021-10-21T18:34:12Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > More information about the SPAC that is merging with Trumps Media in order to start Trump’s social network. Looks like its already fulfilling its primary purpose of **fleasing** the rubes. My bold. Nitpick (unless I’m missing some _sub-tile_ humor): “fleecing,” as in shearing the sheep, i.e., relieving them of their fleece. > fleece /flēs/ _verb_ > > gerund or present participle: **fleecing** > > 1. _informal_ obtain a great deal of money from (someone), typically by overcharging or swindling them. > _“money that authorities say he fleeced from well-to-do acquaintances”_ ---
**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 21, 2021, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7906 "2021-10-21T18:39:06Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Checking the birthdate on an ID is not as medically invasive as checking vaccine status. “Medically invasive”? Seattle already has a similar rule for entertainment venues - all I have to do is show the doorman a picture of my vaccine card or a screenshot from the state vaccine database. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7907 "2021-10-21T19:01:19Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Or, to be fancy, **“MENDACITY”** – he can even trademark the name. He practically has already. Always hear that in Burl Ives’s voice (cf. _Cat on a Hot Tin Roof_). ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7908 "2021-10-21T19:02:19Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Looks like its already fulfilling its primary purpose of fleasing the rubes. I like the typo. The fleece has fleas! ---
**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:** [October 21, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7909 "2021-10-21T19:03:56Z")
Something like that crossed my mind, too… when the sheep leave, they’re infested with fleas. It kind of works. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7910 "2021-10-21T19:04:50Z")
It’s fleas all the way down… ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7911 "2021-10-21T19:55:32Z")
Ooh, sounds like she’s associated with these doofuses. Have we mocked them properly yet? > **[Crowds of anti-vaccine protesters chant 'save Australia' during rally in New...](https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/crowds-of-anti-vaccine-protesters-chant-save-australia-during-rally-in-new-york/cwxipwqfh)** > > Some Australians have reacted with bemusement to an anti-vaccination protest in New York where US demonstrators vowed to “save” Australia from COVID-19 lockdowns. TBF, given that they’re all Trumpians, I guess “do lots of hard work towards a common goal that help people other than yourself” probably DOES sound a lot like tyrrany to them. I mean, not like the sort of thing they’d get on board with voluntarily 🙄 ---
**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:** [October 21, 2021, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7912 "2021-10-21T20:00:59Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Step 1) Massive technical issues; > Step 2) Massive troll invasion; > Step 3) Massive data breach; and then > Step 4) Site is overwhelmed by scammers, spammers and porn. Step 5) Blame the failure on Antifa, Biden, Hillary etc. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=393) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=395)