# 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:** 73
**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:** [October 22, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1446 "2020-10-22T21:37:51Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Isn’t the governor in a wheel chair? - He is. Could you imagine, say, ever having a President like that? ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1447 "2020-10-22T22:00:33Z")
“One of the first things school children in Texas learn is how to compose a simple declarative sentence without the word ‘shit’ in it.” - Unknown ---
**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:** [October 23, 2020, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1448 "2020-10-23T00:38:57Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > “One of the first things school children in Texas learn is how to compose a simple declarative sentence without the word ‘shit’ in it.” - Unknown - A lesson at which, apparently, only a select few succeed. They keep passing them to higher grades anyway until they graduate (or not). ---
**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:** [October 23, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1449 "2020-10-23T00:44:28Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > > [@SwissMan](#): > > > > The House GOP is in the process of trying to find the new Benghazi. Nothing has stuck so far; expect a few more of these to crop up before this is all over. > > These guys remind me of those old Domino’s Pizza “Noid” commercials. Giuliani even kind of looks like the Noid. _Avoid the …_ corrupt old liar, I guess. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1450 "2020-10-23T13:46:03Z")
True dat. I just question how much I would trust the word of a $45 supporter. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1451 "2020-10-24T18:12:01Z")
Madison Cawthorn, the rising star golden boy of the Republican Party, says a critic of his worked for the benefit of “non-white males”. Just like Corey Booker. > **[Rising Star Republican Candidate Denounces Critic Over Past Support for...](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/madison-cawthorn-racist-attack-by-republican-congressional-candidate.html)** > > One of the party's hand-picked wunderkinds complains that Black men are trying to replace white men in office. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1452 "2020-10-24T18:13:23Z")
Republicans are accusing Democratic Senate candidate from Arizona Mark Kelly of dressing as Hitler at a party several years ago. Every friend of his whom they contacted said it was not him, but they published the story anyway. > **[Mark Kelly classmates say report on yearbook photo by right-wing media site...](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/23/senate-candidate-mark-kelly-says-wasnt-him-dressed-adolf-hitler-yearbook-photo/6013268002/)** > > According to Kelly’s campaign, the story injects a false but new line of attack against Kelly by allies of his Republican opponent. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1453 "2020-10-24T18:56:25Z")
Fox minion blames his router failing on the Biden campaign. > **[Fox News Legal Analyst Links His Downed Wi-Fi To Biden, Gets Mercilessly Mocked](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-analyst-wifi-claim-mocked-twitter_n_5f93d24cc5b69b2ad5aaeb68)** > > Twitter users ridiculed Greg Jarrett's apparent insinuation that the Democratic nominee was somehow to blame for his internet problems. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1454 "2020-10-24T19:01:51Z")
^^ Obviously, it was Obama’s fault. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1455 "2020-10-24T20:36:07Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Republicans are accusing Democratic Senate candidate from Arizona Mark Kelly of dressing as Hitler at a party several years ago. Every friend of his whom they contacted said it was not him, but they published the story anyway. Desperation time. Coming soon, baby cannibalism, god murder, christmas hornets; projection - it’s a drug. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1456 "2020-10-25T00:17:33Z")
Lisa Murkowski pretended to be opposed to the nomination of Barrett this close to the election, but she’s going to vote for her anyway. What a surprise. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1457 "2020-10-25T14:15:00Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Desperation time. Coming soon, baby cannibalism, god murder, christmas hornets; projection - it’s a drug. I’m seeing ads now accusing Kelly of ‘messing with our healthcare system’ and ‘costing hospitals _billions_’. It is to barf. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1458 "2020-10-26T16:29:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Republicans are accusing Democratic Senate candidate from Arizona Mark Kelly of dressing as Hitler at a party several years ago. Every friend of his whom they contacted said it was not him, but they published the story anyway. Yes, it’s terrible when politicians have a past history of dressing up in morally questionable costumes… > **[Arkansas Senate candidate dismissed from high school over KKK costume,...](https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/oct/22/arkansas-senate-candidate-dismissed-high-school-ov/)** > > Charles Edward Beckham III, a Republican who is running for the Arkansas Senate, was dismissed from a Mississippi high school he attended 20 years ago for dressing up in Ku Klux Klan regalia during a school-sponsored Halloween event, according to... > [@](#): > > Beckham, who was known as “Bubba” at the time, originally wore camouflage pants and a white T-shirt with fake blood on it for a Halloween costume contest hosted by the school, according to an order produced by the Mississippi State Board of Education, which was later included in the court record. > > After the costume contest, however, Beckham and two other students changed into Klan regalia to go trick-or-treating, according to the order. > > “The costumes consisted of white bed sheets that were sewn into the form of robes with a patch on the chest area and pillowcases that were cut into hoods,” the order stated. “The costumes were worn to school-sponsored Halloween activities that consisted of ‘trick or treating’ in the girls’ dormitory.” > > Bronwen Haskel, who was a senior in the same class as Beckham, recalled this week that the outfits looked more realistic than something put together by teenagers at the last minute. > > “They weren’t sheets, they looked to me to be real robes,” said Haskel, who is white. “I remember seeing a Black classmate and the look of pain on his face.” But tell us again about Mark Kelly, Republicans… ---
**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:** [October 26, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1459 "2020-10-26T19:16:29Z")
Ted Cruz is claiming that Individual 1 never promised to lower the deficit when he was running in 2016. [Ted Cruz Claims Trump Didn't Promise to Cut Federal Debt. Eliminating It Was Key Part of 2016 Campaign.](https://www.businessinsider.com/ted-cruz-trump-federal-debt-eliminate-2016-campaign-national-deficit-2020-10)? ---
**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:** [October 26, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1460 "2020-10-26T19:21:57Z")
“Lying Ted”, DJT called him repeatedly. Who knew that would be his only true statement for the next four years. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1461 "2020-10-26T19:24:47Z")
Am I evil?.. Going to the girls’ dormitory for “tricks” or “treats”? ---
**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:** [October 26, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1462 "2020-10-26T19:27:47Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ted Cruz is claiming that Individual 1 never promised to lower the deficit when he was running in 2016. Actually, I think that’s true. Trump never concerned himself with it. It was something for a later president to worry about. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1463 "2020-10-26T19:32:24Z")
From the 2016 Republican platform: "The Republican path to fiscal sanity and economic expansion begins with a constitutional requirement for a federal balanced budget. We will fight for Congress to adopt, and for the states to ratify, a Balanced Budget Amendment which imposes a cap limiting spending to the appropriate historical average percentage of our nation’s gross domestic product while requiring a super-majority for any tax increase, with exceptions only for war or legitimate emergencies. Only a constitutional safeguard such as this can prevent deficits from mounting to government default. " > **[DRAFT\_12\_FINAL%5B1%5D-ben\_1468872234.pdf](https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/media/documents/DRAFT_12_FINAL%5B1%5D-ben_1468872234.pdf)** Funny there’s no mention of that with a Republican White House and a Republican Senate, after the massive tax cuts. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1464 "2020-10-26T19:43:36Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Actually, I think that’s true. Trump never concerned himself with it. It was something for a later president to worry about. In an interview with the Washington Post, in April 2016, Trump claimed that he would eliminate the whole of the national debt ($19 trillion at the time) in a period of 8 years. While he never specifically talked about the deficit, basically the only way to eliminate that much debt would have been to run a surplus of over $2 trillion per year over the eight-year period, through some combination of spending cuts and revenue raising. > **[In a revealing interview, Trump predicts a ‘massive recession’ but intends to...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-turmoil-or-triumph-donald-trump-stands-alone/2016/04/02/8c0619b6-f8d6-11e5-a3ce-f06b5ba21f33_story.html)** > > The GOP front-runner paints himself as a ‘Lone Ranger’ in controversial stances on the economy as well as his plans for the White House. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2020, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1465 "2020-10-26T20:05:45Z")
Right winger Lauren Chen, who opposes Medicare for all, has started a GoFundMe to pay for her father’s cancer. [https://www.neogaf.com/threads/youtube-political-commentator-lauren-chen-started-a-gofundme-for-her-father-who-is-suffering-from-cancer.1570689/](https://www.neogaf.com/threads/youtube-political-commentator-lauren-chen-started-a-gofundme-for-her-father-who-is-suffering-from-cancer.1570689/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=72) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=74)