# 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:** 85
**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:** [November 6, 2020, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1686 "2020-11-06T02:50:15Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Trump-loving end-times pastor claims Covid-19 is God’s punishment for pre-marital or extra-marital sex. The same dies of the same. Wait, all I have to do to bring down Trump-loving end-times pastors is to engage in non-marital sex? -BRB! ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1687 "2020-11-06T03:17:01Z")
Well he’s not the only one. > **[Five people have won election to Congress, despite being dead](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/01/five-people-have-won-election-to-congress-despite-being-dead/)** > > Among them, a prominent Senate candidate's father. > There don’t seem to be examples of people who have died, been on the ballot themselves, and lost. In other words: Dead people appear to be batting 1.000 in their Congressional races. Nonetheless, we do not recommend it as a campaign strategy. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1688 "2020-11-06T03:27:40Z")
To be fair, Mel Carnahan won a Senate race in Missouri against John Ashcroft a month after he died in 2000. To quote Robin Williams on the mindset of the voters in Missouri: “Sorry, John. The dead guy scares me less than you do!” ---
**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 6, 2020, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1689 "2020-11-06T04:46:59Z")
Steve Bannon calls for Doctor Fauci and the FBI head to be beheaded and their heads stuck on pikes. [Steve Bannon Account Banned From Twitter After Musing About Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Beheading](https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-muses-about-beheading-dr-anthony-fauci-and-fbi-director-chris-wray-in-podcast)? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1690 "2020-11-06T05:09:48Z")
Not me. But the WA side of the border where I live is like the splash-zone around the pub bathroom toilet. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2020, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1691 "2020-11-06T09:22:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Steve Bannon calls for Doctor Fauci and the FBI head to be beheaded and their heads stuck on pikes. > [https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-muses-about-beheading-dr-anthony-fauci-and-fbi-director-chris-wray-in-podcast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-muses-about-beheading-dr-anthony-fauci-and-fbi-director-chris-wray-in-podcast)? But…but burning cities! How’s that federal fraud court case coming along, Steve? ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1692 "2020-11-06T13:27:47Z")
And now he has been banned from Twitter: > **[Steve Bannon banned by Twitter for calling for Fauci beheading](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/06/steve-bannon-banned-by-twitter-for-calling-for-fauci-beheading)** > > Former Trump adviser falls foul of Twitter rules with ‘heads on pikes’ comments ``` //i\\ ``` ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1693 "2020-11-06T14:06:17Z")
Maybe Bannon can pick up a few spare dollars on the side by selling lollipops in the shape of Pelosi and Fauci heads. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1694 "2020-11-06T15:05:46Z")
Isn’t he going to jail? ---
**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 6, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1695 "2020-11-06T15:22:06Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Trump-loving end-times pastor claims Covid-19 is God’s punishment for pre-marital or extra-marital sex. The same dies of the same. > > > The ministry did not disclose how Baxter became infected with the deadly virus. It’s a kinder, gentler smiting. Lightning bolts are _so_ old testament. ---
**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 6, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1696 "2020-11-06T15:54:31Z")
I don’t know. Lightning is at least quicker. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1697 "2020-11-06T15:57:55Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I don’t know. Lightning is at least quicker. - Where’s the fun in that? ---
**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 6, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1698 "2020-11-06T15:59:35Z")
Well, I meant for me, not that jackass pastor. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1699 "2020-11-06T16:24:24Z")
Sour Grapes Department: > [@](#): > > **Fox News instructs anchors not to call Biden ‘President-elect’** > > Fox News, the cable channel that has been one of President Trump’s most important supporters, has instructed its anchors not to call Joe Biden the “President-elect” when the network calls the race, according to two memos obtained by CNN Business. > > The memos said that Fox should “stay away” from using the description, and instead say something Biden has “enough electoral votes to win the presidency.” > > The memos emphasized that the network should report moves by Trump’s legal teams to challenge the results, despite legal analysts having dismissed potential challenges as having little to no merit. > > “We will report both sides until there is further guidance,” one memo said. > Fox [referred to Trump as the “President-elect” the day after the 2016 election](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-wins-presidency-defeats-clinton-in-historic-election-upset) and it is common for news organizations to use such language after an election as been called. [https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/06/media/fox-news-election-projection-plan/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/06/media/fox-news-election-projection-plan/index.html) ---
**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 6, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1700 "2020-11-06T16:33:33Z")
AMPAS started it. "And the presidency goes to … " ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1701 "2020-11-06T18:09:40Z")
**Kevin McCarthy has been taken over by the Pod People** > [@](#): > > Plenty of leading Republican lawmakers have offered Trump support this week; only one has said Trump actually won the election. > > … > > “President Trump won this election,” McCarthy falsely claimed to Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Thursday night. He followed up his on-air comments with a tweet proclaiming: “Republicans will not be silenced. We demand transparency. We demand accuracy. And we demand that the legal votes be protected.” > **[Kevin McCarthy goes further than most to echo Trump's worst claim](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/kevin-mccarthy-goes-further-most-echo-trump-s-worst-claim-n1246771)** > > Plenty of leading Republican lawmakers have offered Trump support this week; only one has said Trump actually won the election. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1702 "2020-11-06T18:18:49Z")
An explanation for the vote gap between Biden and downballot Democrats has come over my transom from somewhere in the depths of the Derp Web: > The only way to account for the bizarre fact that Trump and a red wave of conservatives won on Election Day, while Biden and that same red wave of conservatives won the day after the election, is to accept that all those day-after Biden votes are fraudulent. The people committing the fraud don’t have time to fill out an entire ballot. They’re just filling in the circle next to Biden’s name and letting the rest go. ---
**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 6, 2020, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1703 "2020-11-06T18:57:10Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > An explanation for the vote gap between Biden and downballot Democrats has come over my transom from somewhere in the depths of the Derp Web: > > > The only way to account for the bizarre fact that Trump and a red wave of conservatives won on Election Day, while Biden and that same red wave of conservatives won the day after the election, is to accept that all those day-after Biden votes are fraudulent. The people committing the fraud don’t have time to fill out an entire ballot. They’re just fiIling in the circle next to Biden’s name and letting the rest go. Ow, my poe head! (can’t really tell if that’s satire) ---
**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:** [November 6, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1704 "2020-11-06T19:37:31Z")
The Republican National Committee has set up a hotline to report voter fraud: > The responses they’ve been getting… are not quite what they had in mind. > **[The RNC Promoted A Voter Fraud Hotline On Twitter And It Totally Backfired](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rnc-donald-trump-voter-fraud-hotline-backfires_n_5fa50159c5b66009569895a2)** > > “The call is coming from inside the house," one person replied to the Republican National Committee's post. The Republican National Committee promoted a voter fraud hotline on Twitter Wednesday. But it was soon swamped with replies from people claiming to have reported President Donald Trump for election misconduct… - You’d think they would have learned their lesson after the last time they tried something like this: > **[Trump's immigrant crime hotline trolled with calls about aliens and UFOs](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39731085)** > > The US government line was set up for victims of crimes "committed by removable criminal aliens". ---
**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 6, 2020, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1705 "2020-11-06T21:20:24Z")
Isn’t Project Veritas the O’Keefe thing? We already know he fakes videos. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=84) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=86)