# 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:** 205
**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 21, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4082 "2022-08-21T23:49:13Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Right-wingers in general seen to spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about other people’s genitals, … Indeed. It’s puzzling. Something to do with failed toilet training, perhaps? ‘Minding other people’s business,’ in general, seems to thrill the right. No doubt there’s an entry about it in the DSM-5-TR. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2022, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4083 "2022-08-21T23:54:59Z")
(never mind) ---
**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:** [August 22, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4084 "2022-08-22T00:24:09Z")
Individual 1 ragging on Mitch McConnell. Bring out the popcorn. [![](https://i.redd.it/c6pofns3j3j91.jpg) ](https://i.redd.it/c6pofns3j3j91.jpg) ---
**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 22, 2022, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4085 "2022-08-22T01:22:10Z")
Mike Lindell and his people have been doing a 48-hour “War on the Voting Machines” marathon that’s been going on since yesterday. I got home at 1 o’clock today, and I’ve been hearing it from my daffy landlord’s bedroom the entire fucking day. And Lindell is screaming at the top of his lungs right now. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2022, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4086 "2022-08-22T01:35:16Z")
Mike Lindell recording something out in public, in his underwear. > ---
**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 22, 2022, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4087 "2022-08-22T03:28:42Z")
seems hot ---
**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:** [August 22, 2022, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4088 "2022-08-22T08:48:20Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Individual 1 ragging on Mitch McConnell. Bring out the popcorn. > [@Trump](#): > > “helping his crazy wife and family get rich on China” That’ll be the “crazy wife” Trump appointed as his Secretary of Transportation, despite her close family ties to a Chinese shipping company? ---
**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:** [August 22, 2022, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4089 "2022-08-22T09:02:54Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > That’ll be the “crazy wife” Trump appointed as his Secretary of Transportation, despite her close family ties to a Chinese shipping company? He knows nothing about her, he’s never met her, she did very little work in his Great Administration, some very big “names” recommended her, she said many nice things about him, he knew she didn’t have what it takes, he did Mitch a favor by hiring her and he was very disloyal, SAD!, etc. ---
**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 22, 2022, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4090 "2022-08-22T09:14:29Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > That’ll be the “crazy wife” Trump appointed as his Secretary of Transportation, **despite her close family ties to a Chinese shipping company?** - Wadya mean “despite”? ---
**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:** [August 22, 2022, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4091 "2022-08-22T12:01:52Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@Gyrate](#): > > > > That’ll be the “crazy wife” Trump appointed as his Secretary of Transportation, despite her close family ties to a Chinese shipping company? > > He knows nothing about her, he’s never met her, she did very little work in his Great Administration, some very big “names” recommended her, she said many nice things about him, he knew she didn’t have what it takes, he did Mitch a favor by hiring her and he was very disloyal, SAD!, etc. _She may have transported coffee to staffers in the Oval Office._ ---
**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:** [August 22, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4092 "2022-08-22T14:27:55Z")
Biden is building a wall (a fence) at his luxurious (?) beach house in Delaware using YOUR TAX DOLLARS!!! $500,000.00. He (probably Hunter) is personally intercepting YOUR tax payments, ripping them open and cashing YOUR checks. LAMESTREAM MEDIA is ignoring this!!! > **[Biden heads back to Delaware beach house, where he’s building $500K...](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-heads-back-delaware-beach-house-building-500k-taxpayer-funded-security-fence)** > > President Biden is building a taxpayer-funded security fence around his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, with a price tag that has ballooned to nearly $500,000. Am I doing this right? ---
**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 22, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4093 "2022-08-22T15:11:15Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Am I doing this right? You forgot to include the obvious conclusion, “Hey, if walls work in Delaware, they should work in Mexico!!!” ---
**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:** [August 22, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4094 "2022-08-22T15:20:55Z")
I don’t want to give Faux News the additional link. Can you summarize how they’re (I assume) mischaracterizing this (presumably) legitimate expenditure as some sort of shady deal? ---
**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:** [August 22, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4095 "2022-08-22T16:16:06Z")
Secret Service and/Dept. Of Homeland Security are doing the security fence. Enough Reichwing nuts out there to justify. To the cult, it is Biden hammering platinum nails himself. ---
**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 22, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4096 "2022-08-22T16:24:18Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Secret Service and/Dept. Of Homeland Security are doing the security fence. Undoubtedly similar to work done on at Kennebunkport (GHWB), Crawford (GWB), and Bedminster/Mar-a-lago (TFG). I don’t think Clinton or Obama had second homes they spent significant time at? ---
**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:** [August 22, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4097 "2022-08-22T16:27:23Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Secret Service and/Dept. Of Homeland Security are doing the security fence. > [@Folacin](#): > > Undoubtedly similar to work done on at Kennebunkport (GHWB), Crawford (GWB), and Bedminster/Mar-a-lago (TFG). Thanks for the info! ---
**Author:** ![SoToasty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sotoasty/32/2803_2.png) [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4098 "2022-08-22T16:53:36Z")
Looks like a bargain to me. > **[Mar-a-Lago Gets $600,000 Security Upgrade on Taxpayers’ Dime](https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-mar-a-lago-club-in-palm-beach-gets-a-dollar600000-security-upgrade-at-taxpayer-expense)** > > Trump’s gaudy hideaway has been criticized in recent years for its shoddy defenses against everything from intruders to malware to spies. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4099 "2022-08-22T17:09:38Z")
I wasn’t going to go all whataboutism but thanks for that. Also upgraded were Oranganus properties in NYC, NJ. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4100 "2022-08-22T17:12:05Z")
> [@SoToasty](#): > > [Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach Gets a $600,000 Security Upgrade at Taxpayer Expense](https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-mar-a-lago-club-in-palm-beach-gets-a-dollar600000-security-upgrade-at-taxpayer-expense) The Coast Guard, you know the ones that Trump cut the budget on, has been patrolling the Mar a Logo waters for 6 years or so. I’m sure that cost MUCH more than the Security upgrade. Biden may have it too, don’t know. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2022, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4101 "2022-08-22T17:25:59Z")
Fox reported on a survey showing that Herschel Walker is leading in Georgia. The survey is the Phillips Polling. Nobody had ever heard of it. Turns out it’s from Phillips Andover Academy, the elite prep school in New Hampshire that only the extremely wealthy send their sons to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=204) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=206)