# 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:** 456
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9138 "2021-12-26T17:45:11Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > The right really doesn’t understand what freedom of speech is, do they? I’ll add it to the list of things they don’t understand. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9139 "2021-12-26T17:52:57Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > I’ll add it to the list of things they don’t understand. But think that they do. ---
**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 26, 2021, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9140 "2021-12-26T18:33:32Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > That’s ALWAYS an accident. Monkeys, typewriters and _Hamlet_ come to mind as do blind pigs and acorns. ---
**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 26, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9141 "2021-12-26T23:13:25Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > > [@k9bfriender](#): > > > > The right really doesn’t understand what freedom of speech is, do they? > > I’ll add it to the list of things they don’t understand. Indeed. One of those things they don’t understand being “expressing yourself forthrightly without hiding behind a cowardly dodge.” We see the principle of showing/saying exactly what you mean with this critic of Trump, representative of so many: > **[Cyclist who famously flipped off Trump motorcade wins election in Virginia](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cyclist-famously-flipped-off-trump-motorcade-wins-election/story?id=66791339)** > > A Virginia cyclist who flipped off President Donald Trump has won a seat on the county supervisor board overseeing his Virginia golf club. Trumpites, by contrast, always seem to take the weaseling, Uriah-Heepish way out with their “let’s go Brandon” evasion. Cowards, always (which may explain why so many feel the need to walk around with assault weapons at the ready). ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9142 "2021-12-27T16:29:27Z")
> **[Pro-Trump Group Invented Voter Fraud Claims MONTHS Before Election](https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-trump-group-liberty-center-for-god-and-country-invented-voter-fraud-claims-months-before-election-2020)** > > The Texas organization, founded by an anti-LGBT activist, later paid off a disgraced ex-cop who ran a stranger off the road in a fruitless hunt for stolen ballots. > [@](#): > > The fringe group, the Liberty Center for God and Country (LCGC), led a lucrative fundraising blitz in the run-up to the election and quietly networked with now-notorious election denialists. Their work came to light in October of that year when [former Houston Police captain Mark Aguirre](https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-aguirre-ex-houston-police-captain-indicted-for-2020-voter-fraud-assault) allegedly rammed his SUV into a man’s truck, forced the man onto the ground at gunpoint, and accused him of transporting 750,000 fraudulent ballots. Aguirre’s claims were baseless—his victim was an innocent air conditioner technician—and no widespread voter fraud has been found in the 2020 election. Aguirre was indicted this week for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. A good article that expounds on the hideousness of the LCGC (Liberty Center for God and Country). ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9143 "2021-12-27T17:14:17Z")
^ Good find, **Id** ; thanks for posting it. ---
**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 27, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9144 "2021-12-27T17:14:57Z")
Thanks! It important to know and remember that these “election fraud” groups - and the fraud conspiracy theories- were around long before the 2020 election - ASOG was looking for a a losing candidate to help spread the theories back in 2018, but they couldn’t find the “right” candidate, one that _knew_ he won. If you’ve ever wondered about how these complex election fraud conspiracy theories were fully developed in the days right after the 2020 election, the answer is that they weren’t. The theories have been kicking around for years, waiting for the right sore loser. > **[How an obscure Texas security company helped convince Americans the 2020...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/trump-election-fraud-texas-businessman-ramsland-asog/)** > > Russell J. Ramsland Jr. has sold everything from Tex-Mex food to a light-therapy technology. Starting two years ago, he helped sell the notion that votes in U.S. elections were being manipulated. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9145 "2021-12-27T17:23:09Z")
Yes, Schmeck absolutely does have freedom of speech. One of the truly great things about this country is that, if you want to tell the President “Fuck you”, you can, and the government won’t do anything about it. But what the Hell does he mean when he says that he “meant no disrespect by it”? Of course he meant disrespect. And he’s allowed to say that he disrespects the President. What, even, is the purpose of such a transparent lie? ---
**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 27, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9146 "2021-12-27T17:26:54Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > What, even, is the purpose of such a transparent lie? Trying to avoid getting fired? A sop to make all the reporters go away? A distraction before everybody finds out about the sheep he’s been diddling in the back 40? Who knows? ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9147 "2021-12-27T17:27:21Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > What, even, is the purpose of such a transparent lie? He’s a whiny little scum sucker who can’t stand the fact that freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of consequence from speech. > [@silenus](#): > > A distraction before everybody finds out about the sheep he’s been diddling in the back 40? They already know. ---
**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 27, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9148 "2021-12-27T17:44:50Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Thanks! > > It important to know and remember that these “election fraud” groups - and the fraud conspiracy theories- were around long before the 2020 election - ASOG was looking for a a losing candidate to help spread the theories back in 2018, but they couldn’t find the “right” candidate, one that _knew_ he won. > > If you’ve ever wondered about how these complex election fraud conspiracy theories were fully developed in the days right after the 2020 election, the answer is that they weren’t. The theories have been kicking around for years, waiting for the right sore loser. > > [https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/trump-election-fraud-texas-businessman-ramsland-asog/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/trump-election-fraud-texas-businessman-ramsland-asog/) If they really want to prove that such vote manipulation as they’re claiming is so possible and easy as they’re claiming, they should hire some super-hacker to break into the system and make it so EVERY vote in the midterms goes to the Democratic candidate, even in so-called “safe” GOP districts. Not a single Republican vote throughout the land. That might be sufficient to make their whining seem like it has a plausible justification. ---
**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 27, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9149 "2021-12-27T19:01:46Z")
Schmeck told his local newspaper that he isn’t an Individual 1 guy, but he went on Steve Bannon’s show proclaiming that Individual 1 is his President, and really won the election. > ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9150 "2021-12-27T19:03:20Z")
So, a typical Republican liar. Used to be a cop, so even more practice at being dishonest there. ---
**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 27, 2021, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9151 "2021-12-27T19:04:47Z")
Madison Cawthorn is in the middle of a divorce, but he talked about how he met his wife. He claims he visited a casino in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he met an army captain and they stayed friends. A little later, back in the US, the army captain called him and invited him to a crossfit competition. Which he claims was a setup in order to introduce Cawthorn to the woman whom he later married. Casinos are illegal in Russia. He went to an illegal club where he just happened to meet a guy who just happened to set up a fake crossfit competition to introduce him to a woman? Yeah, nothing suspicious about that. > > > Grant Stern is boosted! @grantstern ---
**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 27, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9152 "2021-12-27T19:45:31Z")
Nevada Congressional candidate calls for General Mark Milley to be executed live on TV. > ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9153 "2021-12-27T20:03:39Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > everybody finds out about the sheep he’s been diddling in the back 40? Who knows? Lots of people are saying that that is what “Let’s go Brandon” means. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9154 "2021-12-27T20:22:28Z")
I thought that was “Let’s go @Hal_Briston”. ---
**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 27, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9155 "2021-12-27T20:54:35Z")
I heard that people are saying that “Let’s Go Brandon” is a secret code that pedophiles use to identify themselves while shopping for child pornography. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9156 "2021-12-27T21:08:51Z")
:nodding: It was on Facebook, Ann. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9157 "2021-12-27T21:25:46Z")
From a [link](https://www.political.tips/post/oh-no-ah-nv-cd-3-candidate-noah-malgeri-praised-asylum-and-took-sisolak-grant-before-going-maga) from the tweet about Malgieri: > [@](#): > > What has been discovered is that same man who, in addition to railing against Marxist infiltration, is now calling for a [shutdown of the southern border](https://veteransinpolitics.org/2021/12/noha-malgeri-running-for-congress-the-tide-is-turning-close-the-borders-until-we-build-the-wall/) and the denial of refugees to make their claims in the US. Along with his immigration plank, Malgeri revealed to long time Las Vegas political activist [Steve Sanson](https://ballotpedia.org/Steve_Sanson) that [General Mark Milley](https://www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography/Article/614392/general-mark-a-milley/) should be [executed live on _C-SPAN_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkMiM2GduBs&ab_channel=VeteransInPolitics). **Yet, prior to announcing his candidacy, Malgeri actively advocated for asylum seekers** , and saw his newest business venture seeded with revenue gifted to him from the office of Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak. Furthermore, records show Malgeri’s current lawsuit against McShane, LLC is the second active one he is part of, the other being a Federal Court case in Florida against the maker of an over the counter pill used to [alleviate depression](https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/sadenosyllmethionine-same-in-depth), among other health benefits. > [@](#): > > Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada is often times the last resort for the economically disadvantaged and societally disenfranchised with a cornerstone of the work they are able to accomplish throughout the Vegas Valley thanks to their [_Pro-Bono Project_](https://www.lacsn.org/pro-bono-project-for-clients). That office connects highly qualified private attorneys with clients in need of various services, all at no cost. For [nearly five years](https://www.linkedin.com/in/noahmalgeri/), Noah Malgeri was in charge of the program, leaving just prior to his entry into the political arena. **While in that role, Malgeri advocated for immigration rights on multiple occasions, including at least twice on video. Once was during ["National Pro Bono Week,](https://www.ktnv.com/on-air/interviews/legal-aid-center-talks-about-national-pro-bono-week)" the other as presenter of the [20th annual Pro Bono Awards](https://youtu.be/eMeIEyABKZw), where Malgeri personally recognized one lawyer whose work specifically focused on asylum cases.** re: bolded aaaa who cares about a (quite sudden) 180-degree about-face. We all change our minds at some point or another, don’t we? 🙄 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=455) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=457)