# 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:** 427
**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:** [November 24, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8556 "2021-11-24T16:49:54Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I guess Republicans don’t particularly _recall_ selling their souls to a con man. - There’s no way Trump would have paid for those things when so many were given for free. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8557 "2021-11-24T16:53:57Z")
> [@Turek' source](#): > > Some of these same officials who spoke to CNN also questioned why the party would foot the legal bills of a self-professed billionaire How do you think he got to be a billionaire in the first place? ---
**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:** [November 24, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8558 "2021-11-24T16:56:13Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > > [@Turek' source](#): > > > > Some of these same officials who spoke to CNN also questioned why the party would foot the legal bills of a self-professed billionaire > > How do you think he got to be a billionaire in the first place? - By lying about it? ---
**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 24, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8559 "2021-11-24T19:02:20Z")
Kamala Harris bought a pan. How dare she? > **[Right-wingers are mad that Kamala Harris bought a cooking pot - here’s why](https://www.indy100.com/viral/right-wingers-kamala-harris-pot-b1963505)** > > Vice President Kamala Harris took a well-deserved break from her diplomatic Paris trip to pick up some fancy cookware for Thanksgiving – and people are strangely mad about it. In what was branded a “breaking investigative exclusive”, The Washington... ---
**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:** [November 24, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8560 "2021-11-24T19:07:12Z")
Shocking. With my own money, I just bought a pan for my wife, and I might wear a tan suit. Guess I’d better give myself up now. ---
**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 24, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8561 "2021-11-24T19:23:13Z")
My god! I haven’t been so scandalized since I found out that [Pelosi buys Jenni’s ice cream](https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-view-blows-up-over-nancy-pelosis-ice-cream-filled-refrigerator)! ---
**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 24, 2021, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8562 "2021-11-24T21:02:47Z")
Uh-oh! The Muppets are now on the Republicans’ shit list. Who’s next? Mickey Mouse? I’m guessing The Tooth Fairy is already out. > **['#Notinvited': CPAC says famous fictional Muppets are not invited to their...](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2065935)** > > Republicans have expanded their list of people to hate on to include muppets. Last Thursday,�the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) posted not one but two tweets that barred Elmo, Big ... > Republicans have expanded their list of people to hate on to include muppets. Last Thursday, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) posted not one but two tweets that barred Elmo, Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie from attending their conference. That’s right: CPAC took to Twitter to **remind fictional characters they were not invited to a conference they have never been invited to before**. While they are wacky enough not to need a reason to randomly tweet at puppets, these conservatives were allegedly [triggered by a tweet](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/8/2062961/-Big-Bird-Dr-Seuss-Mr-Potato-Head-Republicans-really-don-t-want-to-talk-about-grown-up-stuff)shared by Big Bird’s Twitter account encouraging children to be vaccinated. > > “I got the COVID-19 vaccine today!” Big Bird’s tweet read. “My wing is feeling a little sore, but it’ll give my body an extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy.” > … My bold. Serious question: do y’all think the Pubs know that Muppets are imaginary creatures, i.e., _puppets_?? That they aren’t actual, you know, _people_? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8563 "2021-11-24T21:26:48Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > do y’all think the Pubs know that Muppets are imaginary creatures, i.e., _puppets_ ?? Why not? They’ve been called muppets (in the British sense of damned ignorant fools) so many times. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8564 "2021-11-24T21:30:44Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > > do y’all think the Pubs know that Muppets are imaginary creatures, i.e., _puppets_ ?? > > Why not? **They’ve been called muppets** (in the British sense of damned ignorant fools) so many times. - That’s an insult to Muppets. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8565 "2021-11-24T21:49:02Z")
And thus setting up liberal groups to counter by actually inviting the Muppets to their events. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8566 "2021-11-24T22:46:24Z")
I was wondering if this was maybe a misinterpretation of a vague statement that they didn’t want people dressed as Sesame Street characters, or people wearing Sesame Street apparel showing up. No, they were specific. ---
**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, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8567 "2021-11-24T22:50:49Z")
Big Bird got a covid vaccination. Republican stupidity necessarily followed. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2021, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8568 "2021-11-24T23:01:43Z")
I texted my maganut and asked if he watched the Tucker Rittenhouse interview. He has no but Kyle had said he supported BLM and he’s held hostage to the Bolsheviks, we’re supposed to let communists murder us. I can’t make sense of that.😳 ---
**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:** [November 24, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8569 "2021-11-24T23:52:08Z")
Tell maganut that you support Kyle’s important theoretical contributions to Rittical Race Theory, @SuntanLotion. ---
**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, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8570 "2021-11-24T23:53:52Z")
Yeah, and tell him that Trump suckers are Bullshitviks. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8571 "2021-11-25T00:01:18Z")
And the now and forever true: ‘Donald Trump got 700 of his supporters to attack the capital and he left them hanging high and dry. He didn’t pay for a single dime of their defense. He didn’t say anything in support of them, just left \*all \* of them to get federal felony counts, bankrupting many of his supporters. While he gets away absolutely free. And you know this is true.’ ‘How much money did you give so he could go 1-62 on election theft court decisions’? ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2021, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8572 "2021-11-25T02:13:05Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > ‘How much money did you give so he could go 1-62 on election theft court decisions’? Also ask if maganut is _STILL_ having his checking/credit accounts drained monthly? 😲 ---
**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:** [November 25, 2021, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8573 "2021-11-25T02:16:32Z")
‘Do you need credit counseling? Dial 1-800-MAGANUT today!’ ---
**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 25, 2021, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8574 "2021-11-25T02:18:01Z")
Shouldn’t that be “1- **900** -MAGANUT”? Can’t be givin’ out that good advice for free. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2021, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8575 "2021-11-25T02:25:35Z")
You guys always cheer me up with your humor. My acquaintance is on disability. He claims it’s for his asthma, but…maganut is the only way to describe him. He only listens to Alex Jones and some jerk called Salty cracker. I think he told me Armaud Arbery was seen in an empty house so of course you’re supposed to shoot someone who does that. I hesitate to call him. Republican, he probably prefers Constitutionalist. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=426) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=428)