# 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:** 78
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1546 "2020-10-31T23:54:23Z")
Not so fun living in a country without the rule of law, is it? Quelle ironie. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2020, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1547 "2020-11-01T00:04:24Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post is tweeting that a small band of Trump supporters is gathered near Bill Barr’s house to protest about him not doing enough to arrest Joe Biden. > > The only crime in the current GOP is disloyalty. Photo here: > My guess is that Billy Boy is working very, very hard on measures that will work much more subtly than an overt arrest of Trump’s rival would, to achieve the goal the protesters want (keeping Trump in power). But the tragedy for Billy Boy is that Trump’s troglodytic followers, including those protesters, will fail to understand either the subtlety or the extent of the deformation of the rule of law needed to ensure the result desired. Poor Billy Boy! He is destined to be unappreciated!! ---
**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 1, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1548 "2020-11-01T00:26:04Z")
Barr and the head of the FBI will be gone on Wednesday. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1549 "2020-11-01T00:36:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Barr and the head of the FBI will be gone on Wednesday. . Christopher Wray fired—yes, I think your prediction is correct. But Barr may be able to show Trump–or more likely, the kids–that his ongoing efforts are necessary to shepherd through all those hundreds\* of courts, nationwide, all those cases intended to throw out Democratic ballots. So I’m guessing he’ll get a reprieve–at least until things look dark enough for the coup-efforts that Donald just gives up. At that point, Donald will take enormous pleasure in firing Barr. (He’ll wait until Barr has flown on a government plane somewhere from which it will be hard to get home on publicly-available flights, then gleefully tweet that Barr is fired.) . . . . \*I’m assuming—maybe wrongly–that some of the lawsuits are at the county level. Possibly all Barr’s efforts are at state level, in which case “dozens” would be the better word. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2020, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1550 "2020-11-01T01:37:11Z")
I"m hoping that Barr enjoys his time under the bus. Remember; Everything Trump touches turns to shit. ---
**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 1, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1551 "2020-11-01T01:38:03Z")
In fairness, Barr started out that way. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1552 "2020-11-01T01:40:25Z")
Barr begged for this job. I hope it was worth it. I suspect he’s backed way off from doing Trump’s bidding now. The ghost of John Mitchell likely looms large in his Halloween dreams. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1553 "2020-11-01T01:50:31Z")
Tweet I just came across: > [@](#): > > [ > VoteVets (Text VOTEVETS to 88424) > ](https://twitter.com/votevets) > > Trump can make fun of Biden for holding rallies with cars all he wants, but at least Biden supporters have a ride home. ---
**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 1, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1554 "2020-11-01T04:18:35Z")
The Texas GOP’s reaction to the harassment of the Biden bus. It’s all the leftists’ fault. > ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1555 "2020-11-01T04:47:50Z")
It should be noted that the TX GOP chairman who authorized that tweet is former Representative Allen West, he of the court-martial for firing a gun beside an interogatee’s head to make him think he was being executed, and the man who was actually too crazy for Florida to return to Congress. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1556 "2020-11-01T04:48:33Z")
More on the incident, from the Texas Tribune, for background: > **[Biden camp cancels multiple Texas events after a "Trump Train" surrounded a...](https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/31/biden-trump-texas-bus/)** > > The highway skirmish came as Democrats close ground in a state that is polling competitively in the race for president. Recent polls indicate the presidential race in Texas between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden is tight, with some national... ---
**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:** [November 1, 2020, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1557 "2020-11-01T05:01:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Texas GOP’s reaction to the harassment of the Biden bus. It’s all the leftists’ fault. > [https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1322724403579396096/photo/1](https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1322724403579396096/photo/1) I find myself unable to read that tweet. Any other sources? TIA ---
**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 1, 2020, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1558 "2020-11-01T05:07:36Z")
Try this: > **[Statement Regarding 'Biden Bus' Incident](https://texasgop.org/statement-biden-bus-incident/)** > > Abby Livingston from The Texas Tribune reached out today and asked a question about a Biden campaign bus incident. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2020, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1559 "2020-11-01T05:09:32Z")
500 Internal Server Error. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1560 "2020-11-01T05:29:54Z")
Below is Chairman Allen West’s response: _“Three Trump supporters have been executed, one in Portland, one in Denver, and one Milwaukee. A leftist mob attempted to storm the house of the McCloskeys, threatened to burn their house down, rape Mrs. McCloskey, and then kill them both._ _Where is the liberal corporate media’s concern about that real violence? Additionally, none of what your question implies is accurate. It is more fake news and propaganda._ _Prepare to lose…stop bothering me. Maybe Soros can cut y’all another check in 2022.”_ ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1561 "2020-11-01T11:49:42Z")
Ooh I know this one!! Too cocky? Tu quowue? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1562 "2020-11-01T11:53:49Z")
BTW, lest anyone has forgotten the name, Re-meet the McCloskeys, [![](https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/11420/production/_114088607_4134eab6-8c47-491b-9969-589fd046adb4.jpg) ](https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/11420/production/_114088607_4134eab6-8c47-491b-9969-589fd046adb4.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1563 "2020-11-01T13:46:56Z")
They were a big hit this year for Halloween. > ---
**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 1, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1564 "2020-11-01T14:52:09Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Below is Chairman Allen West’s response: > > _“Three Trump supporters have been executed, one in Portland, one in Denver, and one Milwaukee. A leftist mob attempted to storm the house of the McCloskeys, threatened to burn their house down, rape Mrs. McCloskey, and then kill them both._ On the lies per inch scale; he’s in DumpsterFire’s neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1565 "2020-11-01T15:11:51Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > “Three Trump supporters have been executed, one in Portland, one in Denver, and one Milwaukee. A leftist mob attempted to storm the house of the McCloskeys, threatened to burn their house down, rape Mrs. McCloskey, and then kill them both. “Someone stepped on our lawn, get your pistol, I’ll get the the AR” IMHO, you should be able to stand on your porch with guns. But very, very bad form. Inciting violence comes to mind. Sort of what Trump does every day. Really nothing compared to the trumpists trying to run a Biden campaign bus off the road. Why have these people not been arrested for vehicular assault? I mean come on. Attacking a bus that is supporting a Presidential candidate? These people are not in jail? Yeah, Texas. We are looking lawlessness in the face. These people will totally lose there shit come about November 4th. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=77) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=79)