# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018 "2022-02-07T00:52:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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:** [February 12, 2022, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/181 "2022-02-12T04:46:14Z")
Rand Paul says he hopes that a truck convoy would come to Washington and shut the city down. “The thing is, it wouldn’t shut the city down because the government workers haven’t come to work in two years anyway, so I don’t know if it’d affect D.C.” > **['I hope they clog up cities': Sen. Rand Paul hopes Canada trucker protest...](https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2022/02/11/rand-paul-supports-freedom-convoy-trucker-coronavirus-protest-america/6752105001/)** > > In a Daily Signal interview, Sen. Rand Paul said he would support protests in the U.S. similar to those taking place in Ottawa over vaccine mandates. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2022, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/182 "2022-02-12T04:52:46Z")
What about all the support personnel? Hospitality workers? The man is a fucking asshole with a total lack of empathy. He understands less about the real world than a mouse does of quantum mechanics. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2022, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/183 "2022-02-12T04:53:33Z")
Hear that BLM et al? Rand Paul has given you permission! ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/184 "2022-02-12T05:10:54Z")
Rand Paul kind of defines the word Clog. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2022, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/185 "2022-02-12T06:08:23Z")
I was wondering how he manages to feed himself. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2022, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/186 "2022-02-12T06:26:42Z")
Republicans in 2020: We should be able to run over protestors if they block the street Republicans in 2022: HONK HONK HONK ---
**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:** [February 12, 2022, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/187 "2022-02-12T06:40:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Rand Paul says he hopes that a truck convoy would come to Washington and shut the city down. Gee, I wonder if there’s some reason that Republicans might want to shut down Washington and disrupt the supply chain the same week that Russia is likely going to start a war. Must be a coincidence. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2022, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/188 "2022-02-12T06:41:57Z")
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/189 "2022-02-12T07:16:06Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > I was wondering how he manages to feed himself. Are you sure he does? Somehow these Rs survive despite all manner of indications that suggest they should not have. Stupidity has a worrying lack of lethality to it. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2022, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/190 "2022-02-12T08:35:19Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Republicans in 2020: We should be able to run over protestors if they block the street > Republicans in 2022: HONK HONK HONK   Have those laws passed anywhere, that make it okay to run down protesters? Might be some occasion to test those laws. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2022, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/191 "2022-02-12T08:44:23Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Somehow these Rs survive despite all manner of indications that suggest they should not have. They are members of the Air Fern family. > **[Air fern](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_fern)** > > The air fern (Sertularia argentea) is a dead and dried colony of hydrozoans, a species of marine animal in the family Sertulariidae related to corals and jellyfish. > Air ferns are typically dyed green and sold as a curiosity, as a decorative "indoor plant"; the same skeletons of former colonies of hydroids are sold in their natural dried state as the sea fir and Neptune plant as underwater decorations for aquariums. > Despite a superficial resemblance to plants, air ferns are actually animal ske... ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/192 "2022-02-12T14:24:57Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > They are members of the Air Fern family. IIUC, those things are harmless – can you say that about Republicans? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/193 "2022-02-12T17:31:19Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > I looked up groveling sniveling spineless toad in the dictionary… My dictionary listed Messr.s Cruz and Graham on that one. From Vice article on qanon freeak trying to run for Ohio SOS: > [@](#): > > When [lawyer Sidney Powell asked the Supreme Court](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/ex-trump-lawyer-powell-asks-high-court-to-nullify-two-biden-wins) to overturn the 2020 election results in December that year, as part of her [widely derided Kraken lawsuits](https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7wnyn/sidney-powell-finally-admits-that-perhaps-the-kraken-is-not-real), she cited an anonymous source described as “a private contractor with experience gathering and analyzing foreign intelligence.” The anonymous source claimed knowledge of a plot to rig the election by a foreign entity. Weeks later, [the Washington Post unmasked Terpsehore Maras as that source](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/sidney-powells-secret-intelligence-contractor-witness-is-a-pro-trump-podcaster/2020/12/24/d5a1ab9e-4403-11eb-a277-49a6d1f9dff1_story.html), revealing that the sum total of her military experience amounted to a single eight-month training stint in the Navy that ended in August 1997. Nothing like brainzzzz behind the brainzzzz. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/194 "2022-02-12T17:39:49Z")
Even the zombies wouldn’t be interested. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/195 "2022-02-12T18:14:12Z")
“Do you think I’m stupid?” “I think you wouldn’t know where to feed yourself if you didn’t flap your mouth so much. Yes, I think you’re stupid.” –Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer, _Kiss Kiss Bang Bang_ ---
**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:** [February 12, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/196 "2022-02-12T19:13:06Z")
Two news stories about Melania today. Melania is selling meet and greet access, the money allegedly going to charity. But no charity organizations have any record of the existence of the charity. > **[Melania Trump being investigated for skirting charity laws in Florida: report](https://www.rawstory.com/melania-trump-2656643233/?s=04&fbclid=IwAR0oYrRV7OLaDGzE3tqObLOoirvm_eFI7fe1ES3oylORaVnxCfcvtVKwZNE)** > > (Editors note: see update below)In a deep dive into how Donald Trump has turned his four years as president into a money-making machine cashing in on his renewed celebrity, the New York Times notes that Melania Trump is being scrutinized for selling... And, ok, forgive me because I don’t understand NFTs, but Melania was selling NFTs of a hat she wore to greet the President of France. But apparently nobody was interested, so she bought it herself. > **[Melania Trump Buys Melania Trump NFT for $170k](https://www.yahoo.com/now/melania-trump-buys-melania-trump-080507472.html)** > > NFT trading activity has slumped in February. News suggests that the Melaniatrump NFT platform is also struggling. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/197 "2022-02-12T19:35:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > the money allegedly going to charity. But no charity organizations have any record of the existence of the charity. She’s got a tough puppy life, her being the beneficiary of charity is only fair. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2022, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/198 "2022-02-13T05:01:23Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Rand Paul says he hopes that a truck convoy would come to Washington and shut the city down. It is a sad day when Republicans are cheering for protestors. Next thing you know, Democrats will start voting. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2022, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/199 "2022-02-13T14:42:39Z")
🤔 Hmmm… I wonder how Republicans would react if large crowds of Democrats, with many of them being women, people of color, LGBTQ, etc., started parading in the streets and chanting carrying banners that read, **“Republican lives matter!”** Exploding heads, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/200 "2022-02-13T15:21:36Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The pillow guy says he’s going to hack Fox News and take over Sean Hannity’s show so he can broadcast his conspiracy theories. Are we sure that Pillow man doesn’t know [Max Headroom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=11)