# 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:** 89
**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 11, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1766 "2020-11-11T12:30:33Z")
They wonder why we think some of them are stupid. [https://a.msn.com/r/2/BB1aUoou?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare](https://a.msn.com/r/2/BB1aUoou?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare) (This is linked from an MSN news aggregator, so it might not be paywalled.) ---
**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 11, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1767 "2020-11-11T13:33:40Z")
If at first you don’t secede… ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1768 "2020-11-11T17:42:24Z")
What is he so mad about? Texas is still red. My vote and any other Texan blue voters didn’t count, as usual. ---
**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 11, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1769 "2020-11-11T18:12:28Z")
I believe the answer is found in my bolded part in this statement: > “Patrick, **the state’s leading supporter of President Donald Trump** , echoed many of the Republican chief executive’s as-yet-unsupported allegations of irregularities and partisan chicanery in last week’s presidential election.” IOW “The president _lurves_ me the bestest of all!” Patrick is a toady, flatterer, flunky, sycophant, lickspittle, bootlicker, suck-up. ---
**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 11, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1770 "2020-11-11T19:35:29Z")
And gunning for higher office. Where is this, “up to one million dollars” coming from? A grant from the Trump foundation? Eric’s piggy bank? Deutsche Banc? ---
**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:** [November 11, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1771 "2020-11-11T19:36:56Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Where is this, “up to one million dollars” coming from? Taxpayers, I would assume. ---
**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 11, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1772 "2020-11-11T19:41:27Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > Texas is embarrassing itself again: > > [Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick offers up to $1 million in bounties for voter fraud convictions](https://www.dallasnews.com/news/elections/2020/11/10/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-offers-up-to-1-million-in-bounties-for-voter-fraud-convictions/) That site appears to be paywalled. Is there any indication of what fine print there might be in that offering? Such as: _This bounty will be paid out only if the conviction is for voter fraud on a large enough scale to change the outcome of the Presidential election_, or _This bounty will be paid out only if the conviction involved voter fraud that benefited a Democratic candidate_. Also, is there any indication of where the money for any putative payouts is to come from? I wouldn’t think he has the authority to offer it out of anyone’s purse but his own. ETA: I see that I’m not the only one with that last question. Does the linked story address it? ---
**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 11, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1773 "2020-11-11T19:54:01Z")
This Texas Tribune article isn’t paywalled (I think). > **[There’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud, but Dan Patrick is encouraging...](https://www.texastribune.org/2020/11/10/texas-dan-patrick/)** > > The Republican lieutenant governor's crusade for proof of election problems in Texas comes as members of his own party dominated up and down the ballot. > Patrick said that anyone who provides information that leads to a conviction will receive at least $25,000. The money will come from Patrick’s campaign fund, according to spokesperson Sherry Sylvester. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1774 "2020-11-11T20:12:03Z")
Word to the wise–anyone who’s run their research proposal past an IRB knows that a disproportionate reward for participation endangers your findings, and sometimes your participants. ---
**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 11, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1775 "2020-11-11T20:35:57Z")
Indulge a non-academic – because such disproportionate rewards incentivize shoddy research/cherry-picked data/hastily-designed clinical trials? Also, what does IRB stand for (I presume it’s some sort of Review Board)? ---
**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 11, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1776 "2020-11-11T21:28:23Z")
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio claim that Biden talking to foreign leaders since his election is the same as Michael Flynn’s dealings with Russians. [As Biden talks to foreign leaders, GOP tries to create a controversy](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/biden-talks-foreign-leaders-gop-tries-create-controversy-n1247409)? ---
**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 11, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1777 "2020-11-11T22:01:57Z")
A local Miami television station did a report on unaffiliated and unidentified candidates who caused disruptions in the voting in their local area, hinting possible dirty tricks > **[Evidence suggests several state Senate candidates were plants funded by dark...](https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/11/11/evidence-suggests-several-state-senate-candidates-were-plants-funded-by-dark-money/)** > > The race for a state senate seat is going to a recount, with the candidates separated by just 31 votes, but there is a lot more to this intriguing political race. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1778 "2020-11-12T00:07:12Z")
Internal review board. Over-incentivizing leads to participants lying in order to participate, and leads people not to disengage from the study even when they should or feel too vulnerable. So if I want to run a study where I do blood draws, for example, it needs to pay participants enough to get a good sample for an uncomfortable procedure, but not so much that people lie in order to qualify for the study (say, misrepresent their health or the amount of exercise they get in a week), and not so much that people can’t take the economic hit of discontinuing so they stay in the study, don’t report adverse impacts, or misrepresent something (like exercise). ---
**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 12, 2020, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1779 "2020-11-12T00:10:59Z")
I haven’t seen this mentioned, yet: part of the Trump effort to overturn the election of Biden involves a list of supposedly “fraudulent” votes by legal Nevada residents. And it turns out that the list is made up to a great extent of US military members who legally vote in Nevada (by absentee ballot) while stationed elsewhere: > [@](#): > > … “Our voter registration is in Nevada, our cars are registered in Nevada, our licenses are in Nevada,” one woman whose husband is stationed in California told the Journal after finding their address on the list. “We just don’t live there because the military has told us to move somewhere else.” > > “To see my integrity challenged, along with other members of the military to be challenged in this way, it is a shock. And to be potentially disenfranchised because of these actions, that’s not OK,” the woman, Amy Rose, added to [Military.com](https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/11/10/gop-list-of-alleged-voter-fraud-nevada-contains-hundreds-of-military-addresses.html) in a statement. “It’s pretty obvious that hundreds of military people are on this list. There didn’t seem to be any effort to look at this list before they made their accusations.” … [https://thehill.com/policy/defense/525564-military-voters-included-on-trump-campaign-list-of-improperly-cast-ballots](https://thehill.com/policy/defense/525564-military-voters-included-on-trump-campaign-list-of-improperly-cast-ballots) ---
**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 12, 2020, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1780 "2020-11-12T00:28:00Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > part of the Trump effort to overturn the election of Biden involves a list of supposedly “fraudulent” votes by legal Nevada residents. And it turns out that the list is made up to a great extent of US military members who legally vote in Nevada (by absentee ballot) while stationed elsewhere Hey, who told those suckers and losers they could vote?? ---
**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 12, 2020, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1781 "2020-11-12T01:04:08Z")
The McCloskeys, the St. Louis couple who were photographed waving their guns at protesters, are suing the photographer for ruining their lives. In response, he has sent them at $1500 bill because **they used the photo on their Christmas cards**. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1782 "2020-11-12T04:11:54Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The McCloskeys, the St. Louis couple who were photographed waving their guns at protesters, are suing the photographer for ruining their lives. So they’re suing a photographer for accurately depicting them in a photograph? Yeah, that should work out great. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1783 "2020-11-12T04:41:37Z")
> Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the gun-toting couple who gained recognition after confronting protesters passing by their St. Louis home, have sued a United Press International photographer and the wire service, alleging a photo that has risen to international prominence was taken on their property. > In a lawsuit filed Friday in St. Louis Circuit Court, the McCloskeys accuse UPI photographer Bill Greenblatt of trespassing to capture one of the most iconic images of the confrontation between the McCloskeys and protesters on their way to Mayor Lyda Krewson’s house. ([McCloskeys sue photographer over iconic image of couple confronting St. Louis protesters – Chicago Tribune](https://www.chicagotribune.com/midwest/ct-nw-mccloskeys-sue-photographer-st-louis-20201110-sy3ycx4fynczxewair742cihim-story.html) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1784 "2020-11-12T04:41:53Z")
UPI has been considering issuing the McCloskeys a cease & desist order. > **[Gun-toting St. Louis couple sue news photographer over infamous image](https://nypost.com/2020/11/08/gun-toting-st-louis-couple-sue-news-photographer-over-infamous-image/)** > > The St. Louis couple that shot to viral infamy when they pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters outside their mansion are accusing a news photographer of trespassing to capture a now-iconic … ---
**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 12, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1785 "2020-11-12T09:24:51Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Where is this, “up to one million dollars” coming from? A grant from the Trump foundation? Eric’s piggy bank? Deutsche Banc? [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Drevil_million_dollars.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Drevil_million_dollars.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=88) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=90)