# 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:** 202
**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:** [August 18, 2022, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4022 "2022-08-18T18:56:48Z")
> [@Mortimus](#): > > > [@CaptMurdock](#): > > > > As fascinating as this conversation is, I have a dinner party to prepare for. I really must start on the **horse de-overs.** > > I heard a local radio ad where the announcer said “horse de ovaries”. The ad was for one of the **fanciest restaurants** in this ultra red town in the middle of flyover country. - Does the drive-thru have a snooty animatronic Mater Dee take your order? ---
**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:** [August 18, 2022, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4023 "2022-08-18T18:57:44Z")
Wait, I thought horse de ovaries were an amuse-bouche? ---
**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:** [August 18, 2022, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4024 "2022-08-18T19:00:44Z")
I had a book when I was a kid (Mud Pies and Other Recipes?) that had a chapter on hors d’ouevres, and my mom told me how to say it. I was a pretty high-falutin’ kid. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4025 "2022-08-18T19:07:14Z")
I was embarrassing-years-old when I figured out that the word I’d been reading (and pronouncing wrong in my head) were the snack type foods people had been offering me at social functions. I don’t remember for sure when the light turned on, it may have been at a restaurant that had a menu section for them. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4026 "2022-08-18T19:21:53Z")
In today’s Stupid Idea, how about “Let’s lie about something ridiculously easy to disprove”? > **[Liz Cheney releases call to Trump-backed opponent who said she didn’t concede](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/18/liz-cheney-concession-call-trump-harriet-hageman)** > > Cheney releases recording of her call to Harriet Hageman, conceding her loss in the Wyoming US House primary on Tuesday > She said: “I haven’t had any other contact with [Liz Cheney](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/liz-cheney). She made the one effort and all she said was ‘Hello, Harriet.’ And then that was the end of it.” > Hageman repeated her claim that Cheney did not concede and her spokesperson provided Politico with a video of a phone playing a message apparently from Cheney. The website reported: “The message as played on-screen contains only Cheney’s two-word greeting before sound cuts off for more than 10 more seconds.” Lie about it, post obviously altered version of it, get called on it. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4027 "2022-08-18T19:22:42Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > I was embarrassing-years-old when I figured out that the word I’d been reading (and pronouncing wrong in my head) were the snack type foods people had been offering me at social functions. I don’t remember for sure when the light turned on, it may have been at a restaurant that had a menu section for them. Myself, I knew they were called “orderves” - my parents were fairly classy people - it’s just that I was _way_ too old when I realized that they and the “hors d’oeuvres” I had read about in books were one and the same. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2022, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4028 "2022-08-18T19:34:37Z")
I’ve been a foodie for awhile and I used crudités with an acquaintance when I was talking about an event that was coming up. Boy howdy, she gave me so much flack about it that I’ve never used it again. She told me that she didn’t know what that word meant and it was rude for me to use a word like that. I was very embarrassed. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4029 "2022-08-18T20:37:05Z")
Apologies for continuing the hijack. > [@Mortimus](#): > > I heard a local radio ad where the announcer said “horse de ovaries”. The ad was for one of the fanciest restaurants in this ultra red town in the middle of flyover country. When I moved up here from L.A., a Mexican restaurant in Bellingham had TV commercials. The voiceover was done by what sounded like a college student. She wasn’t full-on Valley Girl, as she wasn’t even born then; but I think you know the ‘young pretty girl’ accent. Anyway, she was touting the restaurant’s _arroz con camarones_ – which she pronounced arrows con camma-ronies. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4030 "2022-08-18T20:42:33Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I’ve been a foodie for awhile and I used crudités with an acquaintance when I was talking about an event that was coming up. Boy howdy, she gave me so much flack about it that I’ve never used it again. > > She told me that she didn’t know what that word meant and it was rude for me to use a word like that. > > I was very embarrassed. They were being a bully and you have nothing to be embarrassed about. Just because THEY don’t know a word doesn’t mean that YOU shouldn’t use it. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2022, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4031 "2022-08-18T21:26:51Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > She told me that she didn’t know what that word meant and it was rude for me to use a word like that. > > I was very embarrassed. Yeah, _she_ should have been embarrassed. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4032 "2022-08-18T22:42:46Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Lie about it, post obviously altered version of it, get called on it. Projection yet again. “Well, _I_ wouldn’t have conceded a defeat without innumerable recounts so she wouldn’t have, either. I just didn’t get a clean recording.” ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4033 "2022-08-18T22:43:12Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Dr. Oz is an idiot for many reasons, not just this one. > > Give. It. Up. It’s not the fancy word for me. It’s the idea that - at least in Oz’s world - a crudite is going to include raw asparagus dipped in salsa and served with tequila. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4034 "2022-08-18T23:26:20Z")
> **[GOP Candidate Backed by Party Leadership Said Merrick Garland Should...](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/carl-paladino-said-merrick-garland-should-be-executed-1234577462/)** > > Carl Paladino, who is running for Congress in New York with Elise Stefanik's backing, said Merrick Garland should "probably be executed." Probably could’ve gone in ‘evil’ thread. (or crazy GOP candidate thread) The race to the bottom would be fascinating if it wasn’t so, well, scary? > [@](#): > > In Feb. 2021, he[praised Adolf Hitler](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/carl-paladino-praises-hitler-1365057/) as “the kind of leader we need today.” On social media, Paladino boosted posts claiming that the Buffalo and Uvalde mass shootings [were false-flag attacks.](https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/house-candidate-carl-paladino-shared-conspiracy-theories-facebook-buffalo-and-uvalde) In July, he hired a man [convicted on child pornography-related charges][quote](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/carl-paladino-hired-convicted-sex-offender-1382976/) as his new assistant treasurer. He _could_ be taking the cake, this one. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2022, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4035 "2022-08-18T23:38:28Z")
It didn’t appear in the above post. This guy said that Merrick Garland should be executed, and later, when asked what he meant, said he “was just being facetious”. Words have meaning, you fuck. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4036 "2022-08-18T23:43:09Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Rick Scott says that people shouldn’t be applying for jobs with the IRS, because as soon as the Republicans take over, they’re going to defund those jobs. > [Republicans escalate IRS rhetoric as senator warns Americans not to apply for new jobs](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-escalate-irs-rhetoric-senator-warns-americans-not-apply-ne-rcna43411) So all Rick Scott claimed was that job seekers who hired on with the IRS would end up losing those jobs? He didn’t add that those hired could expect, in the GOP-triumphant world that will exist post-November 8, to be prosecuted, deported, or at least _audited_? What a lapse. Clearly Rick Scott lacks _every_ quality the Republican Party seeks in its Presidential candidates. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4037 "2022-08-18T23:49:48Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Clearly Rick Scott lacks _every_ quality the Republican Party seeks in its Presidential candidates. Plainly. He once had the audacity to propose a plan for governing. (The problem being that the GOP doesn’t want to actually spell out how odious their plans actually are) > **[Income Taxes for All? Rick Scott Has a Plan, and That’s a Problem. (Published...](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/us/politics/rick-scott.html)** > > The “Plan to Rescue America” is dividing the party and cheering Democrats, and its author, Senate Republicans’ top campaign official, won’t stop talking about it. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4038 "2022-08-18T23:52:38Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > Plainly. He once had the audacity to propose a plan for governing. > > (The problem being that the GOP doesn’t want to actually spell out how odious their plans actually are) - Oh, yeah, there had to have been a HUGE amount of GOP angst floating around when Scott spilled the beans like that. Dems are still using it against them, too–and rightfully so. It IS what the Republicans plan to do, after all. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2022, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4039 "2022-08-19T00:42:26Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > [Carl Paladino Said Merrick Garland Should Probably Be 'Executed'](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/carl-paladino-said-merrick-garland-should-be-executed-1234577462/) How the fuck can they leave Carl ‘The Palomino’ Paladino’s love for horse porn off that list? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4040 "2022-08-19T01:18:36Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I had a book when I was a kid (Mud Pies and Other Recipes?) that had a chapter on hors d’ouevres, [irrepressible brief hijack] OMG I had that book, it was great! Left-Handed Mudloaf! Right-Handed Mudloaf! Fried Water! (Wonder if that maybe couldn’t be republished nowadays due to potential liability issues from kids trying to actually eat the “dishes”.) [/ibh] ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4041 "2022-08-19T01:25:16Z")
Hold on, hold on, make sure you post it befor…_ **AHHHHH HA HA HA HA!** _ [**McConnell says Republicans may not win Senate control, citing ‘candidate quality’**](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/mcconnell-says-republicans-may-not-win-senate-control-citing-candidate-rcna43777) Sorry, couldn’t hold it in… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=201) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=203)