### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4742 "2022-09-25T01:35:56Z")
DeSantis gave the contract to fly immigrants to a company that contributes to Republican coffers. He even gave them a million dollars for _not_ flying immigrants to Delaware.
> **[Opinion | Ugly new details about Ron DeSantis’s stunt point to a deeper scam](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/23/ron-desantis-migrants-marthas-vineyard-florida/)**
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> DeSantis's "own the libs" scheme actually owns right wing audiences and Florida taxpayers.
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4743 "2022-09-25T04:27:24Z")
Ted Cruz told a crowd that the solution to school shootings is more police in the schools. The crowd booed him.
> **[Ted Cruz was booed by a Texas audience when he said his plan to end school...](https://www.businessinsider.com/ted-cruz-booed-plan-more-police-schools-combat-shootings-2022-9)**
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> "You guys can instead sing kumbaya with them and hope they'll just stop, but what you're proposing doesn't work," Cruz said to a heated audience.
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4744 "2022-09-25T05:18:23Z")
> **[Ted Cruz said Republicans don't criticize Trump because if they do, 'he turns...](https://www.businessinsider.com/cruz-gop-wont-criticize-trump-he-punches-them-in-face-2022-9)**
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> "When he does things that are good," Cruz said of Trump, "I will praise him, and when he says things I disagree with, I'm just not going to engage."
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> Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said his Republican peers are hesitant to criticize former President Donald Trump because if they do, Trump “turns around and punches them in the face.”
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> Cruz said he witnessed meetings in which “different Republican senators would criticize” Trump, who would then “spend the whole meeting just slamming them with a stick.”
Speaking from experience, Mr. Toffeenose?
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4745 "2022-09-25T07:53:06Z")
According to [this site](https://siswa.blog/f-https-knowyourmeme.com/news/no-angry-conservatives-arent-making-a-malcolm-x-movie-starring-white-conservative-commentator-michael-knowles), the “White Malcolm X” movie is a hoax.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4746 "2022-09-25T08:08:58Z")
The line between satire and reality draws ever thinner with that lot by the day.
Cf. this actual clip of Loser Donald asking his cultists if they know what “the N-word” is.
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### Author:  [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4747 "2022-09-25T11:30:48Z")
So the “Commitment To America” plan uses…[videos of people and places in Russia and Ukraine](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-republicans-commitment-to-america-stock-footage-russia-ukraine_n_632dc7afe4b0d12b5404bab1?hgm).
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4748 "2022-09-25T11:55:39Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#):
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> So the “Commitment To America” plan uses…[videos of people and places in Russia and Ukraine](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-republicans-commitment-to-america-stock-footage-russia-ukraine_n_632dc7afe4b0d12b5404bab1?hgm). -
It’s a GOP tradition. (2016)
> **[New Rubio Ad Apparently Uses Stock Footage of Canada](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/new-rubio-ad-apparently-uses-stock-footage-canada-n519111)**
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> Rubio’s latest YouTube ad features a boat crossing a picturesque harbor as the narrator says, "It's morning in America again." Problem is, it's not.
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### Author:  [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4749 "2022-09-25T12:18:32Z")
> [@SunUp](#):
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> Coulter knows the 19th Amendment isn’t going to get repealed, but if she makes this kind of noise she gets plenty of cred with her fans. They get the useful idiot they want, she gets the attention she wants, and noboby has to lose any rights. Win-win!
Except that’s exactly what a lot of people thought was their strategy surrounding all the noise they used to make about Roe vs. Wade. And then they finally won the power they needed to actually repeal RvW, and they went and did it.
At this point, no one should still be talking about what will “never happen”. With MAGAts in charge, anything is possible, no matter how bad an idea it is.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4750 "2022-09-25T12:56:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> Ted Cruz told a crowd that the solution to school shootings is more police in the schools. The crowd booed him.
Hey, let’s not be so quick to dismiss our Ted’s idea. It just needs a bit of modification. How about we automatically deputize and swear in all students in a school who are at least 11 years old OR taller than 5 feet? Give 'em three weeks training on the shooting range, arm them, and bingo! a special police force right there in the school all day/every day at no extra cost to the city or county. Win-win!
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4751 "2022-09-25T14:09:40Z")
So, more cops to stand around and do nothing while a shooter is loose in the school? Sure, Ted. That’s a great idea.
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### Author:  [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4752 "2022-09-25T14:55:15Z")
> [@Horatius](#):
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> At this point, no one should still be talking about what will “never happen”. With MAGAts in charge, anything is possible, no matter how bad an idea it is.
Especially since I read an article recently that talked about how the Republicans are only 4 states short of being able to call for a Constitutional Convention. If that happens then all bets are off.
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4753 "2022-09-25T15:21:04Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#):
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> So the “Commitment To America” plan uses…[videos of people and places in Russia and Ukraine](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-republicans-commitment-to-america-stock-footage-russia-ukraine_n_632dc7afe4b0d12b5404bab1?hgm).
Vlad gave a discount for their use, presumably.
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### Author:  [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4754 "2022-09-25T15:32:30Z")
Does anybody know if Putin’s forthcoming “campaign” is going to use the tagline “Commitment to Russia”?
Perhaps the GOP just borrowed Vlad’s entire platform and advertising and slapped some english translation on it.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4755 "2022-09-25T15:47:32Z")
I don’t know about that, but “Make Russia Great Again” has a nice ring to it.
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4756 "2022-09-25T17:09:52Z")
He said nothing when Trump accused his father of being part of the Kennedy assassination. No back bone whatsoever. No wonder he fled to Cancun when Texas got snow.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4757 "2022-09-25T17:17:05Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> He said nothing when Trump accused his father of being part of the Kennedy assassination. No back bone whatsoever. No wonder he fled to Cancun when Texas got snow. -
And blamed his daughters.
Remember when Trump insulted his wife and Teddy fake-raged?
A few months later.
[ ](https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/files/2016/10/CruzSad.png)
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4758 "2022-09-25T19:23:49Z")
> [@Fugazi](#):
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> Republicans are only 4 states short of being able to call for a Constitutional Convention. If that happens then all bets are off.
Before “all bets are off”, the convention has to be actually called. By _ **Congress** _. Congress has to officially recognize the petitions, by some protocol that has never been formalized, _cede their legislative authority_ to a body for which no standard of proceeding has been established, and then submit the resulting goulash to the states for ratification.
There are just so many uncodified points of failure here that the hazard is questionable. Already numerous petitions have been officially floated over the centuries that Congress probably should have called one ages ago – but, do petitions expire every 2 years (with change of leges), and how broadly/narrowly consistent in subject do the petitions have to be for Congress to decide that a convention is warranted?
The whole scheme is broken because the Constitution is decidedly vague on it and Congress never got around to clearing it up.
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### Author:  [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4759 "2022-09-25T20:59:19Z")
> [@eschereal](#):
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> Before “all bets are off”, the convention has to be actually called. By _ **Congress** _. Congress has to officially recognize the petitions, by some protocol that has never been formalized, _cede their legislative authority_ to a body for which no standard of proceeding has been established, and then submit the resulting goulash to the states for ratification.
Thanks for that. Definitely makes me feel better about the odds of it not happening.
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### Author:  [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4760 "2022-09-25T23:49:23Z")
On the other hand, if 8 or 9 more states ratify the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, we could nullify the Electoral College.
> **[Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote](https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation)**
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> One-page explanation (PDF) The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact will guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The Compact ensures that every vote, in...
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2022, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4761 "2022-09-26T12:02:20Z")
However, that would only serve to tie the Democrats’ hands, because the first time it would cause Republican-won states’ electoral votes to flip, their most-likely-Republican led legislature would try to overturn it and the Supreme Court would probably agree with them. There’s even a small chance that the Supreme Court would rule the completely opposite way and rule that states do _not_ have the right to determine their own electors, consistency be damned, in cases where a Republican won the state vote with a blue-controlled legislature who does not fight flipping the electoral vote, but the likelihood of that happening is small and the Supreme Court ruling less clear.
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