### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4622 "2022-09-18T04:33:15Z")
Lauren Boebert’s mother filed multiple paternity suits against her cousin, professional wrestler Stan Lane, claiming he is Boebert’s biological father. The one DNA test that was run proved that he was not the father, but the person who ran the test was found in another case to have lied about the results because of receiving money from the alleged father. So all of the tests that she performed had to be run again, but Boebert’s was never rerun.
> **[Stan Lane | Personal life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lane#Personal_life)**
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> Lane married Maria Burnette on June 30, 2007 on Siesta Key Beach in Sarasota, Florida.
> The mother of Congresswoman Lauren Boebert filed multiple paternity suits between 1987 and 1990 alleging that Lane is Boebert's father. A paternity test Lane took in 1990 ruled him out as the father, and the suit was dismissed. In 2012 Boebert's mother sent the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation a letter asking for further investigation, but there is no record that the bureau took any action. Social ...
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4623 "2022-09-18T05:38:29Z")
Jim Cornette took a question about this on his podcast last year. He knew about the paternity suit but didn’t know about the connection to Boebert, and he doesn’t think it’s true, but the timeline works out and it’s certainly possible.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RtL6ktlDas)
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4624 "2022-09-18T07:34:07Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> Lauren Boebert’s mother filed multiple paternity suits against her cousin, professional wrestler Stan Lane, claiming he is Boebert’s biological father.
I mean, instinctively one wants to believe that. It makes a lot of sense. But I am not seeing anywhere where it says “cousin”.
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4625 "2022-09-18T13:26:35Z")
Man I’d hate to be JD Vance. And not just because of this. Too funny.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4626 "2022-09-18T13:37:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> Lauren Boebert’s mother filed multiple paternity suits against her cousin, professional wrestler Stan Lane, claiming he is Boebert’s biological father. The one DNA test that was run proved that he was not the father…
It’s pretty obvious that she is the offspring of visiting aliens who left the embryo in an old beer can where she was raised to adulthood by angry wasps.
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### Author:  [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4627 "2022-09-18T14:38:30Z")
“Thank you sir, may I have another?”
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4628 "2022-09-18T17:03:33Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> It’s pretty obvious that she is the offspring of visiting aliens who left the embryo in an old beer can where she was raised to adulthood by angry wasps.
Or, mad WASPs?
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4629 "2022-09-18T17:25:39Z")
The MAGAts at Individual 1’s rally last night were doing a salute eerily reminiscent of a Nazi salute.
> **[Creepy, One-Finger Salute At Trump Rally Evokes 'Heil Hitler' Gesture](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/raised-finger-heil-hitler-trump-ohio-rally_n_6326b54de4b046aa02401709)**
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> Acolytes stood with hands raised over their heads as Trump recounted the evils of the world in a kind of dirge with music.
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### Author:  [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4630 "2022-09-18T18:25:05Z")
Nahhh. If you’re going to spank Rubio, do it with a little panache.
E.g.: _Dear Senator Rubio,_
_We already have deadlines, and they are set by our editors, one of which you are not. You may either resign your position and come work for a living, or you can cease and desist with the 'tude and button your lip._
_Regards, Business Insider._
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4631 "2022-09-18T18:25:59Z")
> [@eschereal](#):
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> Or, mad WASPs?
[Bald-faced WASPs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolichovespula_maculata).
> Their aggressive defensive nature, though, makes them a threat to humans who wander too close to a nest or when a nest is constructed too close to human habitation. They vigorously defend the nest, with workers stinging repeatedly, as is common among social bees and wasps. The bald-faced hornet has a unique defense in that it can squirt or spray venom from the stinger into the eyes of [vertebrate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrate) nest intruders.
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### Author:  [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4632 "2022-09-18T18:32:24Z")
I’m glad to hear that. Being not as hip to the LGBTQ culture as I once was (despite my Queer son trying to keep his old dad somewhat in the loop) I wasn’t sure what was going on in the drag shows these days. (Mind you, I was always leery of Vienna sausage… Just sayin’).
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4633 "2022-09-18T18:46:25Z")
Republican mayor of Lafayette, Louisiana says the city should charge the media $100 a page for copies of public documents.
> “Let me tell you, I wish it was $100 a page because some of these media – I’m serious – I wish every media outlet had to pay $100 a page. You put me on the record with that,” Guillory said on the radio Thursday.
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> “All these media outlets, they pry and they pry. They take our directors – I’m going to get bricks thrown at me – not the public. I wish the public had it for free. But I wish these media outlets (were charged) $100 a page because they take our directors away from people to pry and pry and make up things,” he added.
> **[Want to know what's going on in Lafayette city government? It'll cost you](https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/local/2022/09/16/guillory-raises-the-price-for-transparency-with-new-fee-for-documents/69494335007/)**
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> Josh Guillory has raised the price of transparency at LCG with a new fee for public records that appears to violate the Home Rule Charter.
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4634 "2022-09-18T19:05:13Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> The Republicans (including the New York Post) are claiming that because the immigrants were moved from Martha’s Vineyard to the military base on Cape Cod, they have been “deported”.
> The chairman of the Texas GOP posted a video of a mariachi band, claiming it was Martha’s Vineyard. He clearly doesn’t know the difference between Mexico and Venezuela.
The saddest thing (not by much for the Republicans) is that Venezuelans are indeed escaping a country that is being mismanaged by an immature Maduro that ignores that command economies are even dumped by the likes of China. Most of the Venezuelans coming to the US are then more in tune with the conservatives in the US, and many times they do have connections with the Cuban exiles thanks to ideological similarities about why they left their original countries.
Not likely that they or their descendants would eventually become Republicans when they are being lied by the ones that claim to be their “real” friends or played as pawns in their political games.
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4635 "2022-09-18T20:12:34Z")
Ted Cruz is whining about the “rich liberals” on Martha’s Vineyard, while he and his Goldman-Sachs wife live in $2 million mansion on her $500,000 salary.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4636 "2022-09-18T20:21:29Z")
> [@DesertDog](#):
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> Their aggressive defensive nature, though, makes them a threat to humans who wander too close to a nest or when a nest is constructed too close to human habitation. They vigorously defend the nest, with workers stinging repeatedly, as is common among social bees and wasps. The bald-faced hornet has a unique defense in that it can squirt or spray venom from the stinger into the eyes of [vertebrate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrate) nest intruders.
How do they know if you’ve got a backbone?
What if you’re Lindsey Graham?
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### Author:  [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4637 "2022-09-18T20:41:53Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> Ted Cruz is whining about the “rich liberals” on Martha’s Vineyard, while he and his Goldman-Sachs wife live in $2 million mansion on her $500,000 salary.
See, it’s OK to be rich if you’re a Republican because Republicans support the system that makes people rich. But it’s hypocritical to be a rich liberal because liberals want to take everyone’s wealth away and give it to people who aren’t straight, white Christians.
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2022, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4638 "2022-09-18T20:43:13Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> What if you’re Lindsey Graham?
I would imagine they’re pretty rough on gormless worms as well.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2022, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4639 "2022-09-19T01:37:39Z")
Remember the praying Bremerton, WA high school football coach who won his Supreme Court case against the school district?
The district says they’ve tried to rehire him as ordered by the Court, but he isn’t answering their calls and is just working the right-wing grifter circuit instead.
> **[The story of the praying Bremerton coach keeps getting more surreal](https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/the-story-of-the-praying-bremerton-coach-keeps-getting-more-surreal/)**
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> The school district says it’s trying to rehire the former coach — after being ordered to do so — but he’s on the political circuit and hasn’t called them back, writes Danny Westneat.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2022, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4640 "2022-09-19T01:39:38Z")
Lots more $$$ there than working at a school. I predict he’ll soon run for Congress.
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4641 "2022-09-19T01:46:15Z")
To me that doesn’t resemble the Nazi salute; it’s more like the “Jesus is the One” salute I’ve seen at some revivals.
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> The Republicans (including the New York Post) are claiming that because the immigrants were moved from Martha’s Vineyard to the military base on Cape Cod, they have been “deported”.
Wait, what? First we have morons asserting US military bases overseas are American soil when they, in fact, are not. Now we have morons asserting that US bases _in the United States_ are not American soil? The GOP cult is really out of control.
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