# 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:** 396
**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, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7933 "2021-10-21T23:17:14Z")
Thanks, **CMC**. Never heard of her before. During her candidacy, did she also claim to not be a witch? I understand that’s a Delaware politics thing. 😛 ---
**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, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7934 "2021-10-21T23:23:38Z")
So, Covid is an insane bio-weapon that’s totally a hoax and isn’t even as bad as the flu and cured by drugs with no known effect on the disease and an evil product of the Beast System… that cover it? ---
**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, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7935 "2021-10-21T23:30:04Z")
She said, “I’ve lost all of my senses…” I think she meant, “I’ve lost all of my _sense_…” and I would agree with that. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7936 "2021-10-21T23:33:42Z")
She could just as well have said “marbles.” ---
**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 21, 2021, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7937 "2021-10-21T23:55:49Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > 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. MeidasTouch has a tweet that shows it. The Liberian flag is very similar to the U. S. flag – eleven red-and-white stripes, and a blue field with a single big white star in it. View it here: [https://ifunny.co/picture/meidastouch-that-s-the-flag-of-liberia-the-truthsocial-thetruthsocial-Z8avpfR19](https://ifunny.co/picture/meidastouch-that-s-the-flag-of-liberia-the-truthsocial-thetruthsocial-Z8avpfR19) ETA: Flag of Liberia: [https://www.gettysburgflag.com/media/catalog/product/cache/2/thumbnail/520x416/602f0fa2c1f0d1ba5e241f914e856ff9/l/i/liberia-4x6.jpg](https://www.gettysburgflag.com/media/catalog/product/cache/2/thumbnail/520x416/602f0fa2c1f0d1ba5e241f914e856ff9/l/i/liberia-4x6.jpg) ---
**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 22, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7938 "2021-10-22T00:12:24Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > all I have to do is show the doorman a picture of my vaccine card or a screenshot from the state vaccine database. To all the vaccinated were given these Cards of Power, for within each was the strength and will to enter all venues of their choice. But they were all of them deceived! For another Card was made. In the dark halls of the Deep State, the Master forged, in secret, another Card. And into this Card he poured all his evil malice and will to dominate. One Card to Rule Them All! ---
**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 22, 2021, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7939 "2021-10-22T00:13:41Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > So, Covid is an insane bio-weapon that’s totally a hoax and isn’t even as bad as the flu and cured by drugs with no known effect on the disease and an evil product of the Beast System… that cover it? You forgot the part about losing all of your senses and being constantly indifferent and brain-fogged is a “drastic improvement”. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2021, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7940 "2021-10-22T00:24:38Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > > [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > > > Rudy dressed up like Abraham Lincoln to make a video in support of VA Governor candidate Glenn Youngkin. > > Well, technically he didn’t dress up; he used a video filter, which arguably makes him look even more ridiculous. Someone on television (Colbert, maybe) correctly pointed out that the hat superimposed on Rudy is NOT a Lincolnesque stove-pipe hat, but is instead a Mad Hatter-shaped hat. Apparently filter-AI is advanced enough to make editorial commentary on filter-users. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7941 "2021-10-22T00:25:02Z")
RE: Lauren Whatsherface It’s awesome how she implies that the effects of a covid infection are also what you get from the vaccine. And you know there are dumb motherfuckers out there that just received all the corroboration they need. Dumbfucks. ---
**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 22, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7942 "2021-10-22T00:45:03Z")
Its okay, you can just ignore what she wrote. I mean, she was fucking brain-fogged and stupid when she wrote, by her own description. ---
**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 22, 2021, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7943 "2021-10-22T00:46:39Z")
The Lt. Governor of Texas has had to pay out $25,000 after he offered the money to anybody who could prove there was voter fraud. The voter fraud was committed by a Republican. > **[Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has paid his first voter fraud bounty. It went to...](https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/10/21/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-just-paid-his-first-voter-fraud-bounty-it-went-to-an-unlikely-recipient/)** > > AUSTIN — Nearly a year after offering up a hefty bounty for evidence of voter fraud in the wake of Donald Trump’s loss, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has handed out... ---
**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 22, 2021, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7944 "2021-10-22T00:48:12Z")
Pay-walled. ETA: I found it here: > **[Report: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick hands out first voter fraud reward](https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/dan-patrick-voter-fraud-reward/269-d97e8616-a622-4ed7-829b-8544c068b098)** > > A Pennsylvania poll worker received Patrick's first $25,000 after he provided evidence of alleged voter fraud by a registered Republican. EATA: Thanks, **susan**! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7945 "2021-10-22T00:50:14Z")
> **[Texas’ Lt. Guv Pays First Voter-Fraud Reward—to a Progressive Poll Worker](https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-lieutenant-governor-dan-patrick-pays-first-voter-fraud-reward-to-a-dem-poll-worker)** > > Eric Frank was rewarded with $25,000 after flagging a 72-year-old Republican who voted twice. Try this one. ---
**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 22, 2021, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7946 "2021-10-22T00:58:04Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Try this one. Aha! While checking out that link, I also noticed this rather surprising headline: > **[Nine House Republicans Join Vote to Hold Steve Bannon in Criminal Contempt](https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-of-representatives-votes-to-hold-steve-bannon-in-contempt-for-evading-jan-6-subpoena)** > > After Bannon ducked a congressional subpoena, the resolution passed largely along party lines, with the final vote count tallying 229-202. > House Republicans whipped hard against the vote, with GOP leadership calling the committee’s subpoena “invalid,” because the panel “does not get to step into the shoes of law enforcement.” But nine Republicans crossed the aisle, including Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who both served on the Jan. 6 select committee that summoned Bannon. Reps. Fred Upton and Peter Meijer of Michigan, John Katko (R-NY), Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Nancy Mace (R-SC), and Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) joined them. ---
**Author:** ![TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thegunismightierthanthepen/32/2981_2.png) [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGunIsMightierThanThePen)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7947 "2021-10-22T01:28:25Z")
To his credit, he actually held up his end of the bargain. I totally expected him to have tried to weasel out of it by using some bullshit “_only voter fraud committed by Democrats count_” clause instead. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2021, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7948 "2021-10-22T06:52:29Z")
But now that there’s _proven_ voter fraud (and five will get you ten that most ~~propaganda~~ press releases will ignore or change the perpetrator’s party affiliation), it’s just a baby step to infer that **MASSIVE DEMOCRAT VOTER FRAUD** must exist. I mean, have the Democrats ever PROVEN that it doesn’t? ---
**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 22, 2021, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7949 "2021-10-22T11:44:48Z")
I’ll be interested to see John Fetterman’s reaction to this payout. ---
**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 22, 2021, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7950 "2021-10-22T13:09:48Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > I agree with Bo’s interpretation, and further, I see nothing wrong with his actual request. Let him see the committee info and findings. Who cares? > > The only thing that worries me is how badly the linked site spun the news. It felt like I was reading the Left version of OANN. Am I the only one who interprets the signature as a representation that he’s the ranking member? Jim Banks Ranking Member ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7951 "2021-10-22T13:11:07Z")
Yeah I missed that part. ---
**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 22, 2021, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7952 "2021-10-22T13:52:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Lt. Governor of Texas has had to pay out $25,000 after he offered the money to anybody who could prove there was voter fraud. The voter fraud was committed by a Republican. > [Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has paid his first voter fraud bounty. It went to an unexpected recipient](https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/10/21/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-just-paid-his-first-voter-fraud-bounty-it-went-to-an-unlikely-recipient/) Only $25,000? I thought it was supposed to be one million. Although on further review Dan Patrick’s offer appears to be “up to one million.” So whaddya gotta do to get the big money? (Maybe that’s reserved for voter fraud by Democrats.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=395) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=397)