# 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:** 404
**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 28, 2021, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8093 "2021-10-28T01:48:49Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > As I stated above, there’s no need for a doorman - just work “Can I see your proof of vaccination?” into the order-taking process, and if they don’t have it, then the order has to be to go. - No, I think, as I said above, that they should have only drive-thru if they’re going to be this way. Lining up indoors just to order to-go should be ruled out, I feel. ---
**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 28, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8094 "2021-10-28T01:49:41Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Lining up indoors just to order to-go should be ruled out, I feel. Plenty of fast food restaurants in my area were doing that even during the “absolutely no dine-in” phase of the pandemic. ---
**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 28, 2021, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8095 "2021-10-28T01:53:31Z")
I take it you’ve never worked a customer service job before? You tried making a comparison to IDing for alcohol before, which was not relevant, as very are very few who will get verbally or even physically abusive about being asked for their ID for alcohol purchases. Doubly irrelevant, as In n Out doesn’t serve alcohol in the first place. You try to make this sound like a reasonable thing, but you are not understanding that the people being asked for their vaccine card are not always going to be reasonable. At the very least, you are going to get a screaming match several times a day, often during the busiest, and it will not be too infrequent or that employee to get a fist in the face for their troubles. ---
**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 28, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8096 "2021-10-28T01:57:31Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I take it you’ve never worked a customer service job before? 9 1/2 years in fast food, 10 1/2 in grocery, and I’ve been a supervisor/manager for most of my time in both industries. Yes, some people get angry about being carded. Some of them raise their voice. If they do, I refuse sale and tell them to leave. The only time anyone’s ever thrown a punch at me, though, was when I was helping LP with some shoplifters. People who like to try to argue the rules with you tend to give up when they realize you’re not going to change your mind and the other customers think they’re an asshole. ---
**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 28, 2021, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8097 "2021-10-28T02:03:31Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > > > Buy high. Sell low… Wait, what? > > > On the day Greene made the trade, Digital World Acquisition Corp. traded in a very wide range between $67.96 and $175. At best, the investment would be in the red slightly compared with current trading levels. > > So she’s one of the RUBES, who was sucked in by the Pump n Dump scam. I can’t tell you how much this makes me laugh. > > These people are _so fucking stupid._ According to this Raw Story thumbnail of an article, DWAC opened at $118 and dropped to about $67 that day, but the article didn’t make clear just when MTG got her $50K into the pot. It is suggested that she lost a pile, but that isn’t quite clear. Apparently, she did lose something, as it was going steadily down all that day (and since)? > **[Marjorie Taylor Greene buys $50K stock in Trump's social platform — and...](https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-social/)** > > Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) could be out thousands of dollars after she purchased SPAC stock linked to former President Donald Trump's future social media platform.According to CNBC, Greene filed a public disclosure revealing the $50,000 stake... ---
**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 28, 2021, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8098 "2021-10-28T02:33:27Z")
Loser Donald now thinks Bill Barr was part of the plot to rig the election against him. > **[Trump accuses Bill Barr and Mark Zuckerberg of stealing Pennsylvania election...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2020-pennsylvania/)** > > Former President Donald Trump accused Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his own former Attorney General William Barr of helping to steal Pennsylvania's election in 2020 in an angry letter written to the Wall Street Journal.Specifically, Trump took... ---
**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 28, 2021, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8099 "2021-10-28T03:17:16Z")
> an angry letter written …by somebody smart enough to spell “Zuckerberg” correctly, but dumb enough to work for Trump. ---
**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 28, 2021, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8100 "2021-10-28T04:05:18Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > …by somebody smart enough to spell “Zuckerberg” correctly, but dumb enough to work for Trump. Well, if Loser Donald had written it himself, he’d have called him “Mark Facebook”. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8101 "2021-10-28T13:37:52Z")
Didn’t Donald actually do slightly better in Philly metro in '20 than he did four years earlier? Trumpublicans is stoopid. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8102 "2021-10-28T15:26:53Z")
I see that Mittens Romney is doubling down on the importance of our country’s billionaires. Approaching “too big to fail” territory. “We need them.” ---
**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 28, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8103 "2021-10-28T15:32:14Z")
Good grief! It’s not like the Dems plan to bankrupt them, strip them of all their property and assets and send them to homeless shelters. They should be able to eke out a tolerable lifestyle minus a few million $$. After all, some Democrats are wealthy, too. The country needs money to run, FFS. Is it more desirable to bankrupt small businesses and middle class families? Silly question. 🤦🏽‍♀️ Of course it is. ---
**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 28, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8104 "2021-10-28T15:41:16Z")
Oh, and by the way, fuck every Republican that’s pretending that they ever gave a fuck about either workplace safety or gun safety, unless they were trying to eliminate it to make a buck or protect their “freedoms”. Fuck them all. ---
**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 28, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8105 "2021-10-28T15:53:44Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > I see that Mittens Romney is doubling down on the importance of our country’s billionaires. Approaching “too big to fail” territory. “We need them.” - Say the guy who made his money by raping and killing off companies and leaving nothing but the corpse for the lower level workers. ---
**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 28, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8106 "2021-10-28T15:58:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Yes, some people get angry about being carded. Some of them raise their voice. If they do, I refuse sale and tell them to leave. You being a management-type, I have no doubt that you do. Are your rank-and-file workers granted the same authority? Just curious. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8107 "2021-10-28T16:27:53Z")
Team, Mittens is doing some bizarre ‘Ted Lasso’ thing on social media, even including Sinema in the ‘joke’. > > > > ---
**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 28, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8108 "2021-10-28T16:51:59Z")
I don’t know what any of that refers to, but I shudder at picturing Mitt’s body as day-old rice. Also, nothing bad happens if you don’t warm up day-old rice. ---
**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 28, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8109 "2021-10-28T16:58:31Z")
I haven’t posted this article in a while, but it’s a must read for anyone that’s interested in how the Republican Party turned into the party of grift. > **[The Long Con](https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con)** > > Mitt Romney is a liar. Of course, in some sense, all politicians, even all human beings, are liars. Romney’s lying went so over-the-top extravagant by this summer, though, that the New York Times… The article was written in 2012, and if you need any indication as to how far we’ve fallen since then, their Republican villain, the amoral lying politician that epitomized the descent of the party into mendacity, was………Mitt Romney. Note the illustration that accompanies the article. He’s the guy that was fine with helping plan the bank robbery and waiting in the running car outside the bank, but balked when they told him he’d have to shoot the teller to get his share of the loot. Now he thinks this qualifies as heroic and he wants you to feel bad for him because the other bank robbers are mean to him. ---
**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 28, 2021, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8110 "2021-10-28T17:46:57Z")
> [@susan](#): > > … nothing bad happens if you don’t warm up day-old rice. Actually, day-old rice is the best for making fried rice. Of course, that does involve warming it up. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8111 "2021-10-28T20:12:19Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Also, nothing bad happens if you don’t warm up day-old rice. As someone who’s more than once eaten un-reheated refrigerated cooked rice with no ill effects whatsoever, I have to concur. Where do people think rice salad comes from, anyway? ---
**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 28, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8112 "2021-10-28T20:30:54Z")
They certainly have the authority to card people and refuse sale. If the customer has a problem with that, they call me and I back them up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=403) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=405)