# 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:** 426
**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:** [November 22, 2021, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8536 "2021-11-22T22:18:25Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Wrong thread? Sounds like a smart idea. Sounds like it would fit better on the Schadenfreude thread (another Trump-endorsed loser). ---
**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:** [November 22, 2021, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8537 "2021-11-22T22:42:46Z")
Abusing his wife and kids is a smart idea? ---
**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:** [November 22, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8538 "2021-11-22T22:44:11Z")
No, suspending his campaign. (That’s why I cut out the rest of the quote.) I think it’s a great idea for anyone backed by Trump to leave politics forever. ---
**Author:** ![Ziberian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/919ad9/32.png) [@Ziberian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ziberian)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8539 "2021-11-22T23:14:16Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > So being a zombie would be “unnatural immunity”? (If there isn’t a COVID zombie movie out yet I will be amazed). Don’t zombies eat brains? So they’re gonna roll right by anti-vaxxers. Yet another way those plague rats are putting the rest of us at risk. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2021, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8540 "2021-11-22T23:18:07Z")
About 100 Qs showed up in Dealey Plaza again today waiting for JFK Jr., who failed to show up yet again. Now their leader is apparently leading a pilgrimage to Waco and talking about how they need to “experience physical death” to find the truth. > **[The QAnon JFK Cult in Dallas Is Tearing Families Apart](https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjb8mv/qanon-jfk-cult-tearing-families-apart)** > > “My sister may be too far gone, but it's not too late to bring awareness to others. Do not fall into this trap.” ---
**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:** [November 22, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8541 "2021-11-22T23:20:14Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > … It makes a much sense as confronting an active shooter by standing up and waving your arms with the idea that the more people he shoots the sooner he’ll run out of bullets. My take on this (which I may have expressed here) is that eventually the survivors, if any, will evolve armor plate. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2021, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8542 "2021-11-22T23:35:43Z")
That story is scary as HELL! 😱 Surely the next step is FlavorAid. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8543 "2021-11-22T23:45:07Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > talking about how they need to “experience physical death” to find the truth When he starts talking about the spaceship hidden behind the comet, get out of there… ---
**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:** [November 23, 2021, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8544 "2021-11-23T00:06:23Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > That story is scary as HELL! 😱 Surely the next step is FlavorAid. I predicted this (somewhere here) not all that long ago. I had really been hoping I was being hyperbolic. Now, though… ---
**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:** [November 23, 2021, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8545 "2021-11-23T01:08:12Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > That’s just science, and everyone knows that scientists are socialists. And they’re stuck up and look down their noses at Real People, too. In re recent topics in this thread—“natural immunity” through ‘letting the virus run its course’, and the Q people heading to Waco to ‘experience physical death’ in order to meet John Jr.—they make it hard to regard the “GOP is a death cult” meme as being exaggerated or hyperbolic. It does appear to be quite literally true, for some large proportion of the right. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2021, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8546 "2021-11-23T10:37:23Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > they make it hard to regard the “GOP is a death cult” meme as being exaggerated or hyperbolic. [![](https://i.imgflip.com/5v7o2j.jpg) ](https://i.imgflip.com/5v7o2j.jpg) ---
**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:** [November 23, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8547 "2021-11-23T15:13:54Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > That story is scary as HELL! 😱 Surely the next step is FlavorAid. When the Jonestown thing went down and everyone was asking how that could happen, the girlfriend I had at the time saw it as entirely possible – her father was a lay preacher for some tiny sect and she was kind of keeping an eye at him at an arm’s distance, intending on alerting the authorities if it looked like it was turning into a death cult. I’m looking at the photo in the article and wondering. With an actual tinfoil hat, is he serious or pranking, either his followers or the press? Also, the background looks commercial, a hotel lobby or conference center perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8548 "2021-11-23T15:28:24Z")
Odd - Bill suddenly appearing in the “Yeah, this is it.” frame. (and someone with yellow hair sitting next to him?) (maybe they were picked up, later, after the first frame?) ---
**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:** [November 23, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8549 "2021-11-23T16:21:02Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > I’m looking at the photo in the article and wondering. With an actual tinfoil hat, is he serious or pranking, either his followers or the press? It may not matter. Poe’s law works both ways. Not only does it make it hard for us to tell whether a an extreme post come from an actual believer versus someone poking fun at them, the believers themselves can’t tell. I’m convinced that at least half of the core tenets of the QAnon were made up by internet trolls poking the crazy with a stick, but have become gospel. So even if the of the post was a joke at how crazy they had become that doesn’t mean that some of them won’t act on it. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8550 "2021-11-23T17:53:02Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > (and someone with yellow hair sitting next to him?) That’s Boomhauer. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2021, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8551 "2021-11-24T03:54:07Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Odd - Bill suddenly appearing in the “Yeah, this is it.” frame. It’s like that in the cartoon, too. Chalk it up to animator error, I guess. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4aOHQ-sMCps/hqdefault.jpg "King Of The Hill: Y'all With The Cult") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aOHQ-sMCps) ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8552 "2021-11-24T04:00:50Z")
Hey, they might storm the ranch, pull out MAGA hats and say it was all a joke! “Fuck you, Llibs!” on one of their signs. Or maybe not. I actually wonder if any law enforcement should get into detaining them, it leads to more disruption. They don’t seem interested so far, according to the upthread Vice story. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8553 "2021-11-24T16:42:07Z")
[https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/24/politics/trump-rnc-payments/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/24/politics/trump-rnc-payments/index.html) > A pair of payments the Republican National Committee made to a law firm representing former President Donald Trump is raising questions among former and current GOP officials about the party’s priorities in a critical election year and its ability to remain neutral – as long-standing RNC rules require – in the 2024 presidential primary. > … > Some of these same officials who spoke to CNN also questioned why the party would foot the legal bills of a self-professed billionaire who was sitting on a $102 million war chest as recently as July and has previously used his various political committees to cover legal costs. According to FEC filings from August, the former President’s Make America Great Again committee has paid Jones Day more than $37,000 since the beginning of the year, while his Make America Great Again super PAC has paid a combined $7.8 million to attorneys handling his lawsuits related to the 2020 election. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8554 "2021-11-24T16:47:22Z")
> [@](#): > > why the party would foot the legal bills of a self-professed billionaire Are they ever gonna catch on to the fact that Trump doesn’t pay his bills? ---
**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:** [November 24, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8555 "2021-11-24T16:47:38Z")
I guess Republicans don’t particularly _recall_ selling their souls to a con man. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=425) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=427)