# 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:** 452
**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:** [December 21, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9058 "2021-12-21T23:39:59Z")
Although this is an attractive from a karmic standpoint, depletion of voter rolls due to death by Covid isn’t going to swing elections much. Over the past two years we have had around 800k deaths out of a population of 330 million, so about 0.4%. Even if you get similar death rates over the next year and all of it come from the red side, its still going to be less than 0.5% of the red vote. So while it may result in a slight nudge in results, its not going to overturn polling results like he suggested. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9059 "2021-12-22T00:52:47Z")
But, as the Republicans are want to point out, it isn’t so much “how many” as it is “where.” Take out the right amounts in the right districts and things could get swingy. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9060 "2021-12-22T00:55:20Z")
Given the fact that so much of that wind will be hot air, I’m thinking that we need to redesign wind turbines to resemble angel chimes, and mount them over the appropriate legislative buildings. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9061 "2021-12-22T00:58:50Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > But, as the Republicans are want to point out, it isn’t so much “how many” as it is “where.” Take out the right amounts in the right districts and things could get swingy. Also, you have to figure that the Republicans who aren’t getting vaccinated tend to be the most fanatic of them. They’re more likely to vote, and less likely to vote non-Republican. So taking out a chunk of your core, and maybe alienating a chunk of the less fanatical can add up. How many “swing voter” Republicans are thinking, “Those anti-vax bastards killed my mom”? Every little bit adds up. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2021, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9062 "2021-12-22T01:07:17Z")
Brian Kilmeade says Jesus was born in a Manger because the hotels were full of tourists enjoying the holiday season and doing their Christmas shopping. > **[Fox News host praises Jesus Christ's parents for finding a manger during the...](https://www.rawstory.com/brian-kilmeade-jesus-manger/)** > > Fox News host Brian Kilmeade said on Tuesday that he gives Jesus Christ's earthly parents "full credit" for finding a manger to have their child during the busy "holiday season."Kilmeade launched into the rant after co-host Carley Shimkus reported... ---
**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:** [December 22, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9063 "2021-12-22T01:19:30Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Brian Kilmeade says Jesus was born in a Manger because the hotels were full of tourists enjoying the holiday season and doing their Christmas shopping. - And we must note, also, Kilmeade’s claim that “animals” were “used to heat Jesus” (and that is a direct quote). > [@](#): > > “I know we had this conversation before, but were the animals used, were their breaths used to heat Jesus?” Kilmeade wondered. “Remember the animals would go around because it was so cold in Bethlehem. I get them confused. It was so cold at that time, the animals breathed on him to keep him warm.” SNL used to do _Fox and Friends_ parodies with Bobby Moynihan playing the intellectually-challenged Mr. Kilmeade …but their writers would never have dared to show him being _ **this** _ stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9064 "2021-12-22T01:42:56Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > The argument made in the video is that the first disparity alone is enough to swing elections, given that people are going to die from COVID. Democrats should come out STRONGLY in favor of cancer treatments, quick treatment of heart attacks, and medications for stroke. Make this a central message. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2021, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9065 "2021-12-22T02:16:14Z")
Fucker Carlson says Congressman Eric Swallwell has multiple doses of chlamydia. Due to his having slept with Chinese spy Fang Fang. There is no evidence that he has chlamydia, and there is no evidence that he slept with Fang Fang, > **[Tucker Carlson Thinks ’Unclean’ Eric Swalwell Probably Has Chlamydia](https://uproxx.com/viral/tucker-carlson-eric-swalwell-chlamydia-unclean/)** > > Eric Swalwell doesn’t think unvaxxed people should be allowed to fly. Tucker Carlson thinks Swallwell’s dick is the real health crisis. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2021, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9066 "2021-12-22T02:25:30Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > There is no evidence… > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > …and there is no evidence… And your point would be…? ---
**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:** [December 22, 2021, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9067 "2021-12-22T03:48:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Fucker Carlson says Congressman Eric Swallwell has multiple doses of chlamydia. I read up on the slander laws once. One of the very explicit causes of action for a slander suit is falsely accusing someone of having a “loathsome disease”. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2021, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9068 "2021-12-22T03:55:49Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > I read up on the slander laws once. One of the very explicit causes of action for a slander suit is falsely accusing someone of having a “loathsome disease”. - Does that cover accusing someone of _being_ a loathsome disease? ---
**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:** [December 22, 2021, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9069 "2021-12-22T03:57:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Fucker Carlson says Congressman Eric Swallwell has multiple doses of chlamydia. Does he not know that chlamydia is easily curable with antibiotics, or is he just assuming that his audience doesn’t know that? ---
**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:** [December 22, 2021, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9070 "2021-12-22T03:59:17Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Does he not know that chlamydia is easily curable with antibiotics, . . . . . . and, as far as I know, is not as readily transmitted by undiapered passengers on crowded airplanes. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2021, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9071 "2021-12-22T07:51:06Z")
What is going on with what Jesse Watters said regarding Mr. Fauci? Sorry, I am unable to post a link ---
**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:** [December 22, 2021, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9072 "2021-12-22T08:10:39Z")
Here’s one, about DR. Fauci’s reaction that might provide some background. > **[‘The guy should be fired on the spot’: Fauci rebukes Fox News host over...](https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/12/21/fauci-fox-525826)** > > Jesse Watters encouraged attendees at a conservative conference to rhetorically “ambush” the president’s chief medical adviser. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2021, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9073 "2021-12-22T10:37:31Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Brian Kilmeade says Jesus was born in a Manger because the hotels were full of tourists enjoying the holiday season and doing their Christmas shopping. When _Steve Doocy_ is the voice of reason in the conversation, things have gone very wrong indeed. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Fucker Carlson says Congressman Eric Swallwell has multiple doses of chlamydia. One wonders if this has something to do with Swalwell’s open suit against Donald Trump for inciting the January 6 insurrection. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9074 "2021-12-22T15:42:16Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Brian Kilmeade says Jesus was born in a Manger because the hotels were full of tourists enjoying the holiday season and doing their Christmas shopping. Holy shit! There is a ton of stupidity in that clip. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9075 "2021-12-22T15:51:59Z")
Damned Saturnalia shoppers! ---
**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:** [December 22, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9076 "2021-12-22T16:19:49Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Democrats should come out STRONGLY in favor of cancer treatments, quick treatment of heart attacks, and medications for stroke. Make this a central message. And while they’re at it, food and shelter. After all, manly men and womenly women scoff at creature comforts. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9077 "2021-12-22T17:11:19Z")
I’m not a biblical scholar or religious person or anything, but weren’t the Bethlehem hotels all booked up because the freedumb hating Romans made everyone travel so they could count them, or something? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=451) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=453)