# 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:** 80
**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 2, 2020, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1586 "2020-11-02T00:55:03Z")
An interesting Twitter thread, today, includes: > [@](#): > > The entire game for Republicans is to slow the counting of early votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin-- then pretend that counting these legal votes is somehow cheating because they take a long time to count. and > The thread has some choice comments on the way the media gets played by the Republicans, too. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1587 "2020-11-02T02:41:15Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > When I read about this, my first thought was that if I were one of those poor voters, I’d have dropped everything and gone and voted a provisional ballot on the chance that my original drive-up vote would be invalidated. Which I’m sure that some of them did. (the ones who follow election news scrupulously). But I’m also guessing that some of those voters have no idea that this is going on. They responded to one or more reminders to go vote, they voted, they’ve now tuned out of political news until the results begin to show up Tuesday night. And some of those voters are aware that there’s a problem, but they lack the means to go back and re-vote. I know that these people have no morals, no integrity, and no shame. What is wrong with them that they would look back at the vote suppressors and think that the literacy testers and poll taxers are the heroes of the stories and the ones to be emulated? ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1588 "2020-11-02T03:06:48Z")
Not Battlestar Galactica fans, I guess [Count Iblis | Neo Encyclopedia Wiki | Fandom](https://neoencyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Count_Iblis) ---
**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 2, 2020, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1589 "2020-11-02T03:30:57Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > Which I’m sure that some of them did. (the ones who follow election news scrupulously). > But I’m also guessing that some of those voters have no idea that this is going on. They responded to one or more reminders to go vote, they voted, they’ve now tuned out of political news until the results begin to show up Tuesday night. > And some of those voters are aware that there’s a problem, but they lack the means to go back and re-vote. > > I know that these people have no morals, no integrity, and no shame. What is wrong with them that they would look back at the vote suppressors and think that the literacy testers and poll taxers are the heroes of the stories and the ones to be emulated? Absolutely agree with every word you said. This blatant effort by Republicans to suppress the vote, not even any longer pretending there is some purpose to it, is flies utterly in the face of democracy and faith to the Constitution they are sworn to uphold. As the Lincoln Project has wisely counseled us, we should learn their names, and never, ever let them hold power again. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1590 "2020-11-02T03:31:47Z")
The stupid idea here is improperly using scissor lifts as towers to hold a flag up. > Thankfully it looks like no one was hurt. ---
**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 2, 2020, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1591 "2020-11-02T04:47:20Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > As the Lincoln Project has wisely counseled us, we should learn their names, and never, ever let them hold power again. Just in case anyone missed it, here’s the video Aspenglow refers to: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-vZp3FAQZvU/maxresdefault.jpg "Names") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vZp3FAQZvU) ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1592 "2020-11-02T08:05:11Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Not Battlestar Galactica fans, I guess [https://neoencyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Count\_Iblis](https://neoencyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Count_Iblis) Or they watched it and their thought process was “Lazy Adama failed bigly to stop the Cylon caravans and our great Fleet is worse than it’s been in many yahrens. Count Iblis will MAKE CAPRICA GREAT AGAIN!” ---
**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 2, 2020, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1593 "2020-11-02T09:13:08Z")
Besides WI and PA, the states where mail-in ballots can’t be processed until Election Day are Mississippi and Alabama. It would be awesome if poll workers in those two states, as neutral functionaries (as they — we — must be when doing our duties) — deliberately took their time processing them. Knowing that Trump wants to irresponsibly “declare victory” before anything close to all of PA and WI’s ballots are counted, poll workers across Miss. and Ala. should take their sweet time, responsibly verifying the validity of each ballot with deliberate slowness. This would teach Trump a lesson in basic democracy, if he had to wait for results to “put him over the top” (not) after all. But more importantly, it could actually prevent a real crisis — real violence. (Again, not over the eventual tally itself, but stemming from deliberately premature claims of “victory” clashing with the facts of that eventual tally). ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1594 "2020-11-02T11:51:33Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Knowing that Trump wants to irresponsibly “declare victory” before anything close to all of PA and WI’s ballots are counted… > > [SNIP] > > But more importantly, it could actually prevent a real crisis — real violence. (Again, not over the eventual tally itself, but stemming from deliberately premature claims of “victory” clashing with the facts of that eventual tally). I think it’s cute that you still think something as trivial as not having won the election will stop Trump (or his supporters) from declaring victory. Have you just not been paying attention for 4 years? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1595 "2020-11-02T12:36:54Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Standing on the front porch with your gun in hand is fine. Pointing your gun toward anyone is another matter entirely. Completely agree. ---
**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 2, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1596 "2020-11-02T13:03:04Z")
Heh. Point taken. Although it’s interesting that, according to a headline (I haven’t read more yet), Trump walked back his intention to possibly declare victory prematurely. Doesn’t change the horror of what he and millions still want to make happen, but at least he seems to have noted the optics of telegraphing that one is a loser. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1597 "2020-11-02T13:26:34Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > As the Lincoln Project has wisely counseled us, we should learn their names, and never, ever let them hold power again. > [@Senegoid](#): > > Just in case anyone missed it, here’s the video Aspenglow refers to: I’ve watched dozens of Lincoln Project ads and _Names_ is far and away the best that I’ve seen. It’s nice to see if get a shout-out here, for certain values of ‘nice’. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1598 "2020-11-02T14:01:05Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > This would teach Trump a lesson in basic democracy… 🔉 I’m just going to give you a small _BEEP_ for implying that DJT is capable of learning anything, particularly from experience. We’re all wearing down and hope springs eternal, etc., yaddayaddayadda. With a nod to @Zakalwe. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1599 "2020-11-02T14:22:57Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Standing on the front porch with your gun in hand is fine. Pointing your gun toward anyone is another matter entirely. So is having your finger on the trigger, unless you are meaning to fire _right now_. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1600 "2020-11-02T15:42:13Z")
IIRC, Friday is the deadline for counting the mail-in ballots in PA. And we have far more this year than ever before. The Republicans, of course, squashed any chance of extending that deadline, and they’re busy with multiple lawsuits trying to get early votes thrown out uncounted. ---
**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 2, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1601 "2020-11-02T15:55:04Z")
Beep well deserved. Thank you sir, may I have another! 🙂 ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1602 "2020-11-02T16:24:07Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Beep well deserved. Thank you sir, may I have another! - 🙂 Now, now. If you’re a glutton for punishment, you may have more coming. ---
**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 2, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1603 "2020-11-02T17:15:43Z")
> [@Borborygmi](#): > > > [@Aspenglow](#): > > > > As the Lincoln Project has wisely counseled us, we should learn their names, and never, ever let them hold power again. > > > [@Senegoid](#): > > > > Just in case anyone missed it, here’s the video Aspenglow refers to: > > I’ve watched dozens of Lincoln Project ads and _Names_ is far and away the best that I’ve seen. It’s nice to see if get a shout-out here, for certain values of ‘nice’. At the risk of seeming flippant, learning their names sounds like a lot of work, especially when I can accomplish the same thing by just remembering the (R ) that comes after. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1604 "2020-11-02T17:19:42Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > [@Borborygmi](#): > > > > > [@Aspenglow](#): > > > > > > As the Lincoln Project has wisely counseled us, we should learn their names, and never, ever let them hold power again. > > > > > [@Senegoid](#): > > > > > > Just in case anyone missed it, here’s the video Aspenglow refers to: > > > > I’ve watched dozens of Lincoln Project ads and _Names_ is far and away the best that I’ve seen. It’s nice to see if get a shout-out here, for certain values of ‘nice’. > > At the risk of seeming flippant, learning their names sounds like a lot of work, especially when I can accomplish the same thing by just remembering the (R )that comes after. I’m with you. But remember who the Lincoln Project is – anti-Trump Republicans. They actually think the party may be viable going forward if they just get rid of everyone who supported Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1605 "2020-11-02T18:13:23Z")
Even if it’s the goal of the Lincoln Project to save the GOP or conservatism in general, the people in it have burned their bridges with a Republican Party which will be dominated by Trumpism for a minimum of a couple more cycles. What Dems need to do is to make sure that anyone affiliated with enabling DJT and Trumpism is branded by it going forward. The best those people should be able to do is to become a small part of an ever decreasing minority in the halls of power. Remember the story a few years back about young Trumpers in DC complaining that they were having trouble finding dates because of their association with Donald? We need to make that kind of thing universal. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=79) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=81)