# 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:** 466
**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:** [January 6, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9338 "2022-01-06T20:32:42Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A fourth resident The Villages, Florida retirement community has been charged with illegal voting, and six more residents are being investigated. I saw this earlier, and now I’m thinking - at what point do we start investigating this as an actual conspiracy? What are the odds that so many people in one neighborhood all had the same bad idea at the same time, and then actually acted on it? ---
**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:** [January 6, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9339 "2022-01-06T20:34:08Z")
Lesbian Gay Bi Token for Qanon-ers Inculcating Ayn-randism, I think. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9340 "2022-01-06T20:53:54Z")
You ever consider I was affirming your statement rather than criticizing it? Sounds like you are someone who was born and raised in one of those states 🙂 ---
**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:** [January 6, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9341 "2022-01-06T21:24:34Z")
I felt a little sorry for him at first, until he began to whine about cancel culture and agreed to sponsor LGB coin. LBG coin is the ultimate endgame of right wing grift. This scheme cuts out the part where the grifters sell a low value item or pretend to support a conservative cause. It’s _literally_ nothing but “exchange your real money for our worthless money and OWN THE LIBS”. No wonder NASCAR refused to approve it. I made a longer post about the scam that is LGB coin in another thread. > [@Let's go Brandon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/119): > > The 15 minutes isn’t up because there is now money to be made. LGB coin. The ultimate grift. You know those collectible coins, those overpriced tacky gold or platinum clad coins adorned with pictures of Elvis or Trump or some other fanboy of the gullible? That was a pretty good grift, but the grifters had to actually expend some effort and a small fraction of their haul to produce and ship cheap POS coin. But the LGB coin has solved that problem for the grifters, because it’s a virtual colle… ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9342 "2022-01-06T22:16:14Z")
> [@BlinkingDuck](#): > > You ever consider I was affirming your statement rather than criticizing it? Sounds like you are someone who was born and raised in one of those states Actually, no. I didn’t consider that you were affirming my statement. If you were, you didn’t word it very well. And, yes, I was born in raised in Kansas and still live here. And damn proud of it. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9343 "2022-01-07T01:04:27Z")
> **[Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene To Retrace Hallowed Footsteps Of Capitol...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-gaetz-proud-of-jan-6-capitol-attack-footsteps_n_61d7182ee4b061afe3afd563)** > > "We’re actually going to go walk the grounds that patriotic Americans walked," Gaetz said. > [@](#): > > “We’re ashamed of nothing,” Gaetz said on the show. “We’re proud of the work we did on Jan. 6 to make legitimate arguments about election integrity. So we’re going to make those arguments today,” he said, plugging the press conference he and Greene planned for the afternoon. > > Gaetz continued: “And we’re actually going to go walk the grounds that patriotic Americans walked from the White House to the Capitol who had no intent of breaking the law or doing violence.” > [@](#): > > Gaetz said he and Greene planned “to get to the truth behind Jan. 6,” spinning the attack as a noble tragedy that has been politicized by the other side. > > “Democrats wanted to seize this day, they want to own this day, and they want to use it as a political cudgel not just against Republicans in Congress but against a patriotic, pro-America, God-fearing America First movement all over this great land,” Gaetz declared. > > At their press conference, Gaetz and Greene alleged that the federal government may have had a hand in planning the Capitol riot and played clips of the attack that supposedly raised unanswered questions, but ultimately offered very little evidence. > > “What if the FBI was involved?” Greene asked members of the media. 🙄 ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9344 "2022-01-07T01:06:50Z")
[On a related note (and using the same $5 word):](https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1479098783879340033) > [@Lindsey Graham](#): > > What brazen politicization of January 6 by President Biden. > > I wonder if the Taliban who now rule Afghanistan with al-Qaeda elements present, contrary to President Biden’s beliefs, are allowing this speech to be carried? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9345 "2022-01-07T01:28:55Z")
Cripes, what kind of blackmail pix do Donnie and Vladdy _have_ of Lindsey?? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9346 "2022-01-07T01:33:11Z")
I just channel surfed over to Fox a few minutes ago. I’ve been doing this all day - up until after Biden spoke they just didn’t mention January 6th, not at all that I saw. Then after the speech they were all indignant that the mainstream press liked it. But I digress, I just watched a few minutes of The Tucker Tucker Goat Fucker Show and his opening bit was fascinating. It seems that sharp-eyed Tucker noticed something when he viewed the footage of January 6th. There are several people that have climbed a scaffold, including one guy that is exhorting the crowd to storm the Capitol. Now Tucker finds it very suspicious that this guy hasn’t been arrested yet, even though the FBI had time to fly to Alaska and arrest old ladies , because this guy, one of a large group on the scaffold, was obviously directing the entire operation. It’s obvious to Tucker that the entire crowd would’ve remained totally peaceful if not for this one guy yelling at the crowd to storm the Capitol. I didn’t stick around to find out whether Tucker thinks this ringleader of the insurrection was FBI or antifa. But I have so many questions for Tucker. Does he really think the entire crowd of Republicans was dumb enough to be tricked by antifa? Does he really think that a person who exercised his free speech rights to encourage the rioters without otherwise participating in the violence should be held fully responsible for the insurrection? If he thinks antifa or the FBI started it, why does he oppose any investigation? Just how freaking stupid is his audience anyway? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9347 "2022-01-07T01:37:12Z")
The science on that is still incomplete, **Ann**. Testing is, apparently, ongoing. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9348 "2022-01-07T01:37:30Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Just how freaking stupid is his audience anyway? Remember your Einstein. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9349 "2022-01-07T01:42:04Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Cripes, what kind of blackmail pix do Donnie and Vladdy _have_ of Lindsey?? - A hair out of place? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9350 "2022-01-07T01:43:50Z")
To update my post, I found the clip trending on Twitter. > Apparently I missed the first part, in which he accuses a particular _conservative_ activist named Ray Epps of being and FBI plant. He shows a clip of a man alleged to be Epps urging a crowd to storm the Capitol and the crowd yells Fed, Fed, Fed at him…….so I guess if he was an undercover federal agent he wasn’t a very good one. And again, we have a crowd so stupid that they obey him knowing he’s law enforcement. The whole thing is very incoherent. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9351 "2022-01-07T01:53:30Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > And again, we have a crowd so stupid that they obey him knowing he’s law enforcement. The whole thing is very incoherent. Ah, you need a simple, short version without all the garnish? Lemme help you out: “It’s not my/our fault! I’m/We’re the _real_ victim(s) here!” It basically boils down to that, over and over and over again. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9352 "2022-01-07T01:54:27Z")
Maybe the title of this thread should be changed to Ideas.(plural) ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9353 "2022-01-07T02:34:01Z")
Nick Fuentes has been banned from Jason Miller’s GETTR platform. I don’t know what he did, but it probably has something to do with saying bad things about Individual 1. Yeah, GETTR, that “free speech” platform. > **[Jason Miller’s ‘Free Speech’ Social Media Platform Gettr Boots White Nationalist](https://www.thedailybeast.com/jason-millers-free-speech-social-media-platform-gettr-boots-white-nationalist-nicholas-fuentes)** > > The Unite the Right attendee’s Gettr page currently displays an “account suspended” notice. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9354 "2022-01-07T02:42:13Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > And again, we have a crowd so stupid that they obey him knowing he’s law enforcement. The whole thing is very incoherent. Well, they have been saying for years that everyone should just obey the police whenever they pull you over, so… ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9355 "2022-01-07T04:26:41Z")
Ted Cruz went on Fucker Carlson’s show to apologize for saying the attack on the Capitol was a terrorist attack. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9356 "2022-01-07T04:42:21Z")
Are they going to give more tours and maps to insurrectionists/terrorists? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2022, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9357 "2022-01-07T08:07:07Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ted Cruz went on Fucker Carlson’s show to apologize for saying the attack on the Capitol was a terrorist attack. It wouldn’t surprise me, far-fetched though it maybe be, (meh actually in these times, “far-fteched” has become increasingly the norm) that Ted MilksopFace completely bull-shitted when he claimed that the attack on the Capitol was a terrorist attack, so that he could get that the chance, at a later point, to pull a blatant about-face on his position, and spew an apology in retraction, in hopes of normalizing ridiculous flip-flopping on positions as a means of further fostering a climate of disinformation and confusion. It’s all about throwing as many wrenches in the gears with as much confounding bull-shit as heavenly possible, now. Heck of a lot easier than thinkng of any annoying policy shit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=465) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=467)