# 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:** 400
**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 25, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8013 "2021-10-25T17:26:43Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I can even make biscuits. Real ones. šŸ˜‰ Uh, maybe I can start a bidding war with Susan? Iā€™d be willing to go real high for homemade biscuits. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8014 "2021-10-25T17:58:47Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The majority leader of the Kansas state Senate was arrested for driving drunk and driving the wrong way down the highway. This case FINALLY went to trial. A-hole was sentenced to two days in jail. He, of course, continues to serve in the Kansas Senate. > **[Court finds former Kansas Senate leader Gene Suellentrop guilty on 2 counts...](https://www.ksnt.com/news/kansas/former-senate-majority-leader-gene-suellentrop-to-appear-in-court-today/)** > > TOPEKA (KSNT) ā€“ Former Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop stood masked as he was sentenced in court Monday morning. Suellentrop pleaded no contest to DUI Class B misdemeanor and recklessā€¦ ---
**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 25, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8015 "2021-10-25T19:25:15Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Uh, maybe I can start a bidding war with Susan? Iā€™d be willing to go real high for homemade biscuits. B-b-but a _catio_ā€¦ \ ---
**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 25, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8016 "2021-10-25T19:35:49Z")
Canā€™t compete with a catio, but I _do_ have a very cuddly (once he gets to know you) dachshund. šŸ˜ ---
**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 25, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8017 "2021-10-25T19:45:39Z")
Ach! My Achilles heelā€¦ šŸ’˜ ---
**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 25, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8018 "2021-10-25T19:53:24Z")
Well, with dachshunds you know the saying ā€“ Death from the ankles 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:** [October 26, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8019 "2021-10-26T00:16:11Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > ā€¦Somehow I got on the Facebook list of a schoolmate from 'way back who has become a serious Trumper. I was astonished over the weekend to get a post with fake movie poster of ā€œProp Gunā€ (using the ā€œTop Gunā€ logo) that shows a photoshopped Alec Baldwin. It appears to have originated from the National Association for Gun Rights twitter feed, where you can se it, if youā€™ve got a mind to. > > Real Classy, both making that and distributing it. ā€œThe cruelty is the point.ā€ (Too bad Adam Serwer didnā€™t trademark that phrase; heā€™d be able to fund all the infrastructure bills himself, if he had.) ---
**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 26, 2021, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8020 "2021-10-26T00:53:20Z")
Capitol rioter claims thereā€™s no such person as Ashli Babbitt, and Individual 1 is still President. > **[MAGA rioter told investigators that Ashli Babbitt never existed and...](https://www.rawstory.com/insurrectionist-says-ashli-babbitt-fake/)** > > One of the men arrested for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 is proclaiming that the whole event was a fraud and that Ashli Babbitt doesn't even exist, legal expert Marcy Wheeler said, citing the court documents. Philip James Weisbecker outed... ---
**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 26, 2021, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8021 "2021-10-26T01:36:53Z")
Wow. šŸ™„ ---
**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 26, 2021, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8022 "2021-10-26T01:47:37Z")
Great, now what do we do with this Blutfahne? ---
**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:** [October 26, 2021, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8023 "2021-10-26T01:47:40Z")
Yeah, blah, blah, these people are just trying to get attention by ramping up the outlandish. If my bather is even crazier than yours, the cameras will turn in my direction. We need to stop giving them air (and, you know, maybe stop giving them air). And, fuck rawstory for feeding them and for their fucked up site. ---
**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 26, 2021, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8024 "2021-10-26T02:16:34Z")
> [@](#): > > ā€œWEISBECKER talked about Ashli Babbitt, who was supposedly shot in the U.S. Capitol and was from O.B. (Ocean Beach),ā€ the indictment reads. "WEISBECKER said she did not exist as he knew everyone from that area, and that he has asked his friends, and no one knew her. This part made me laugh. I grew up in 0B. Itā€™s not some sleepy little podunk where everyone knows everyone - itā€™s sprawling coastal SoCal suburbia surrounded on three sides by more suburbia and with a major theme park next door. Wikipedia gives its population as 32,000. You could no more know everyone from there than could know the entire population of some state capitals. ---
**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 26, 2021, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8025 "2021-10-26T04:21:23Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Capitol rioter claims thereā€™s no such person as Ashli Babbitt, and Individual 1 is still President. From the indictment: > WEISBECKER talked about Ashli Babbitt, who was supposedly shot in the U.S. Capitol > and was from O.B. (Ocean Beach). WEISBECKER said she did not exist as he > knew everyone from that area, and that he has asked his friends, and no one knew > her. All 31,000+ of them. ---
**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 26, 2021, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8026 "2021-10-26T04:43:45Z")
Ninjaā€™d by the post immediately above yours. ---
**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 26, 2021, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8027 "2021-10-26T08:41:07Z")
Cruelty? Check. Poor taste? Check. Grifting the rubes? Check. Involvement of a Trump? Check > **[ā€‹ā€‹Donald Trump Jr sells T-shirts mocking Alec Baldwin set shooting](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-jr-alec-baldwin-shooting-b1944549.html)** > > Trump shares photos of T-shirts with the words: ā€˜Guns donā€™t kill people, Alec Baldwin kills peopleā€™ ---
**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:** [October 26, 2021, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8028 "2021-10-26T08:46:31Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Cruelty? Check. > Poor taste? Check. > Grifting the rubes? Check. > Involvement of a Trump? Check - > > [ā€‹ā€‹Donald Trump Jr sells T-shirts mocking Alec Baldwin set shooting | The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-jr-alec-baldwin-shooting-b1944549.html) ā€œGuns donā€™t kill chained up animals, subhumans kill chained up animalsā€. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8029 "2021-10-26T09:48:37Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > ā€œGuns donā€™t kill chained up animals, subhumans kill chained up animals" Dehumanizing language? Interesting. ---
**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 26, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8030 "2021-10-26T15:53:43Z")
Not really, just a general purpose insult directed at an individual. Its not as if people who hunt chained up animals are a specific ethinic group whose dehumanization would encourage the violation of their human rights. But nice try at the tu quoque . ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8031 "2021-10-26T16:03:39Z")
Okay, just looked at Twitter and thereā€™s a hashtag faucilieddogsdied. Can it get any weirder? ---
**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 26, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8032 "2021-10-26T16:04:19Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Its not as if people who hunt chained up animals are a specific ethinic group I dunno, Iā€™d say that, with only the slightest margin of error, that group is entirely white. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=399) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=401)