# 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:** 128
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2542 "2022-06-08T14:39:23Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@eschereal](#): > > > > Just saw a photo someone took through their windshield of a pickup with white paint smeared on the tailgate in the shape of “biden is a trader”. > > Does that mean he’s Trader Joe? This is why we _need_ up arrows. 👍 ---
**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:** [June 8, 2022, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2543 "2022-06-08T17:54:51Z")
UFC wrestler says the Uvalde shooting was perpetrated by the government. He’s probably had a lot of head trauma. > **[Rising UFC star Bryce Mitchell believes the government was involved in Texas...](https://sports.yahoo.com/rising-ufc-star-bryce-mitchell-115810218.html)** > > No. 9 ranked UFC featherweight Bryce Mitchell is an undefeated rising star on the UFC roster. He's talented, but perpetuates conspiracy theories. His most recent conspiracy theory is that the government was involved in the horrific Robb Elementary... ---
**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:** [June 8, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2544 "2022-06-08T18:14:29Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > UFC wrestler says the Uvalde shooting was perpetrated by the government. He’s probably had a lot of head trauma. > [Rising UFC star Bryce Mitchell believes the government was involved in Texas school shooting](https://www.yahoo.com/sports/rising-ufc-star-bryce-mitchell-115810218.html) Yes, and what’s Yahoo Sports’ excuse? Other than a single sentence at the beginning (“He’s talented, but perpetuates conspiracy theories.”) they offer up his idiocy without commentary, correction or any sort of indication that he’s an unmitigated loon. IOW, a free platform for a conspiracy theorist to spout unfiltered paranoid nonsense, presented as nothing more than “interesting things a rising star has to say.” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2545 "2022-06-08T18:57:52Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > UFC wrestler says the Uvalde shooting was perpetrated by the government. He’s probably had a lot of head trauma. Obviously, he’s undefeated because his trainer bribed the officials to let him win, and the promoters of the sport have all conspired to give him matches against weak opponents. See, Bryce, two can play that game. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2546 "2022-06-08T19:12:42Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Obviously, he’s undefeated because his trainer bribed the officials to let him win, and the promoters of the sport have all conspired to give him matches against weak opponents. Well, I believe you. Because you have just as much evidence for your theory as he has for his. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2547 "2022-06-08T20:34:51Z")
Well, if a guy makes his living enacting scripted violence, he might start to believe that all public violence is scripted enactments. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2548 "2022-06-08T21:03:45Z")
Does it seem like there are more anti-Biden and conservative T-shirts around than there used to be? ---
**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:** [June 8, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2549 "2022-06-08T21:36:03Z")
Lauren Boebert claimed 38,000 miles in personal travel expenses during the 2020 campaign. > **[Lauren Boebert faces fraud probe after claiming she drove farther than...](https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-fraud/)** > > Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is under investigation for possible fraud.The first-term Colorado Republican allegedly inflated her mileage totals in 2020 and then used more than $20,000 in campaign reimbursements to pay off years worth of tax liens on... ---
**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:** [June 8, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2550 "2022-06-08T21:45:04Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Does it seem like there are more anti-Biden and conservative T-shirts around than there used to be? I don’t know. I live in a blue area and almost never see any (although a neighbor has a Let’s Go Brandon bumper sticker). I saw the Traitor Joe’s shirt while exploring the red wilderness in Iowa. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2551 "2022-06-08T21:48:02Z")
“{…} then used more than $20,000 in campaign reimbursements to pay off years worth of tax liens on her restaurant {…}” Remember kids, the Republicans are the party that follow all the laws. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2552 "2022-06-08T21:51:09Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > the party that follow all the laws. As long as they make ‘em, sure. ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2553 "2022-06-08T23:09:11Z")
At 60 MPH that would be 633 hours of driving–about a third of the average work year. Possible? Yes. Likely? No. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2554 "2022-06-08T23:39:00Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Ben Carson, whose Seventh-Day Adventist faith Cite that Ben Carson worships anyone other than himself? ---
**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:** [June 8, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2555 "2022-06-08T23:46:47Z")
Carl Paladino, who is running for Congress and is endorsed by Elise Stefanik, the number three Republican in the House, posted that the Buffalo and Uvalde shooters were brainwashed by the CIA to commit their crimes. He says the reason for the shootings is to take people’s guns away from them, and claimed that New Zealand and Australia took people’s guns away from them so they could put people in concentration camps during the covid outbreaks. He now claims that somebody who he doesn’t know posted on his Facebook page and he doesn’t even know how to use Facebook. He also sent it out on his campaign mailing list. He now admits that he did post it, and he was lying when he said he didn’t do it. In 2016, he said that he hoped that Barack Obama would die from mad cow disease, and that Michele revert to being a man and live in a cave with a gorilla. He was on the Buffalo School Board at the time, and 6 members of the 9 member board demanded his resignation. He refused, so he was removed under the state law which allows the state’s State Education Secretary to remove members of school boards. > ---
**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:** [June 8, 2022, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2556 "2022-06-08T23:53:18Z")
The spokeswoman for De Santis has registered as a foreign agent for the country of Georgia, for whom she’s been working since 2018, but she only registered because the Justice Department contacted her. > **[DeSantis spokeswoman belatedly registers as agent of foreign politician](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/08/christina-pushaw-desantis-foreign-agent-saakashvili/)** > > Christina Pushaw’s disclosure of work for Mikheil Saakashvili came after contact from the Justice Department, her attorney said. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2022, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2557 "2022-06-09T00:06:52Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Carl Paladino {…} Lest anyone forget, > **[Carl Paladino Watches Bestiality Videos - Slideshow - Daily Intel](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2010/04/carl_paladino_watches_bestiali.html)** > > The best leaked e-mails ever. View the Slideshow. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2558 "2022-06-09T00:34:29Z")
Not sure where to post this since there isn’t a “NEW hypocritical Republican Idea of the Day”, so I’m posting here. Apparently, thoughts and prayers are good enough for our school children, but our Supreme Court Justices require a bit more. Can’t the Republicans just pass a “Thoughts and Prayers for I LIKE BEER!” bill? > **[McConnell slams House Democrats for blocking Supreme Court security bill](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mcconnell-senate-kavanaugh-man-arrested-weapon)** > > Sen. Mitch McConnell criticized Democrats for blocking a Supreme Court security bill after an armed man was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2559 "2022-06-09T01:45:36Z")
There’s a part of me that says that if Kavanaugh wants extra security he should get one of his conservative sugar daddies to pay for it. Maybe he can get an endorsement from Coors to make the extra cash. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2022, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2560 "2022-06-09T02:15:04Z")
I’m sure Daniel Defense and the evangelicals would help sponsor that endorsement. As long as he keeps protecting their well regulated militia and attempts at outlawing abortion, he’ll have plenty of sponsors. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/2561 "2022-06-09T02:56:42Z")
Supreme court justices should simply wear their sponsors logos on their robes, much like the cars in NASCAR do. It would simplify matters. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=127) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=129)