# 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:** 256
**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:** [October 10, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5102 "2022-10-10T17:09:58Z")
Todd Rokita, the Attorney General of Indiana, not only defended Kanye West’s anti-Semitic comments, but called them “independent thinking”. > **[Indiana AG DEFENDS Kanye's 'independent thinking' after outburst](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11299481/Conservative-Indiana-AG-DEFENDS-Kanye-Wests-independent-thinking-anti-semitic-outburst.html)** > > West, 45, has been accused of antisemitism after posting online. Republican Rokita has defended his actions, praising his 'independent thinking' and 'opposed thoughts from the norm'. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5103 "2022-10-10T17:11:15Z")
The Republican candidate for Nevada Secretary of State says he is working with other Republicans to guarantee that Individual 1 gets reinstated in 2024. > **[Nevada GOP secretary of state candidate promises to make Trump president in 2024](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/10/nevada-marchant-2024-trump/)** > > Elections deniers could run elections in key states in the next presidential race. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5104 "2022-10-10T17:16:14Z")
Marge Greene blowing a dog whistle about Great Replacement. > ---
**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:** [October 10, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5105 "2022-10-10T17:19:33Z")
On the one hand, the Great Replacement Theory is Trumpshit crazy conspiracy nonsense. On the other hand, I look at the sort of people and cultures it would “replace” and think: “Fuck it - roll on, replacement”. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5106 "2022-10-10T17:21:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Republican candidate for Nevada Secretary of State says he is working with other Republicans to guarantee that Individual 1 gets reinstated in 2024. Preordained, dare I say even anointed? They really _do_ want to shit-can democracy in order to keep in power. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5107 "2022-10-10T17:23:41Z")
Lindsey Graham threatened to end a meeting with the mother of the Capitol -police officer who was killed on 1/6 unless she stopped saying bad things about Individual 1. > **[Sen. Lindsey Graham threatened to end a meeting with the mother of a late...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-lindsey-graham-threatened-end-181328559.html)** > > Ex-DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone's book says Graham snapped at the mom of a late Capitol officer during a meeting, Politico reported. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5108 "2022-10-10T18:14:36Z")
Former FOX anchor jumped on trumpie’s coattails, now running for governor of Arizona. Only in 'Murica. > **[Trumpism Has Found Its Leading Lady](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/10/kari-lake-arizona-governor-trump-2022-election/671679/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share)** > > The Republican candidate for Arizona governor not only won Trump’s endorsement but has emerged as his most talented emulator. Is Kari Lake the new face of the MAGA movement? > As election returns rolled in on the evening of November 3, 2020, a local news host in Phoenix was starring in an intensely awkward broadcast. The Fox 10 anchor Kari Lake was refusing to call Arizona for Joe Biden—even though her network had already done so. “If [voters] wake up tomorrow or two days later and it flips,” she insisted, her pendant earrings swinging, “there’s distrust in the system.” Lake’s co-anchor, John Hook, lost patience. “Well, we’re taking our cues from Fox, the mothership,” he interrupted. “That’s kind of what we do.” > > A few weeks after the election, Lake went on leave. In March 2021, the 51-year-old announced that she was quitting TV altogether. What happened next was a political rise that not even Lake herself could have anticipated. > > That June, she declared a bid for governor of Arizona. Unlike other Republicans, Lake said, she would kowtow to nobody and nothing—not the would-be election fraudsters of the Democratic Party, not the federal government’s mandates, and certainly not the radical left. She quickly earned Donald Trump’s endorsement, began paying visits to Mar-a-Lago, and started speaking alongside the former president at rallies—he’s joining her on the stump in Mesa today. By August of this year, Lake had [defeated all of her GOP primary opponents](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/08/arizona-republican-primary-antidemocratic-slate/671041/). Now Lake is one election away from the governor’s office. > … > > A few moments later, Lake spoke to the rest of the audience, her voice low but forceful. “God placed us here for a reason,” she said. “The very same God who parted the Red Sea, the very same God who moved mountains, is with us right now as we take back our country and save this republic.” This is a long and thoroughly disheartening article. 🤢 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5109 "2022-10-10T19:24:14Z")
Assuming for simplicity’s sake that the law is as it is now stands in 2024, if this guy is elected, could these statements be used against him in any action legislators or voters take against hypothetical attempts to actually circumvent vote totals or some such? ---
**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:** [October 10, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5110 "2022-10-10T22:12:33Z")
Mike Pompeo tweeted yesterday that he had a major bombshell he was going to release today. The only news reports I hear about him dated today are that he went on Fox to complain that Biden isn’t doing enough for Ukraine. That’s a bombshell that needed a day’s notice? ---
**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:** [October 10, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5111 "2022-10-10T22:24:29Z")
The chairwoman of the Los Angeles City Council resigned after her racist comments surfaced. > **[L.A. City Council member Nury Martinez to take leave of absence](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/10/los-angeles-council-members-racist-remarks-resign-calls)** > > The NAACP is demanding two other L.A. City Councilmembers also step down for making racist remarks. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5112 "2022-10-10T22:31:58Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The chairwoman of the Los Angeles City Council resigned after her racist comments surfaced.   > [https://www.axios.com/2022/10/10/los-angeles-council-members-racist-remarks-resign-calls](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/10/los-angeles-council-members-racist-remarks-resign-calls) Not Republican. The clue is she was elected in Los Angeles. 😉 > **[Nury Martinez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nury_Martinez)** > > Nury Martinez (born July 9, 1973) is an American politician who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council for the 6th district from 2013 until her forced resignation in 2022. A former member of the Democratic Party, Martinez became president of the Los Angeles City Council in December 2019, after serving as the council's president pro tempore. Martinez was the first Latina to become council president. She was a member of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education fr On ... ---
**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:** [October 10, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5113 "2022-10-10T22:37:41Z")
Yeah, good point. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5114 "2022-10-10T22:54:55Z")
You can also tell that she’s not a Republican because after this came out, she resigned, rather than using it as a campaign slogan. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5115 "2022-10-10T23:00:43Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > You can also tell that she’s not a Republican because after this came out, she resigned, rather than using it as a campaign slogan.   Good catch. We should have a thread for democrats who take responsibility for their actions. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5116 "2022-10-10T23:01:36Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > No doubt he thinks they have all the print-outs of Hillary’s E-mails showing, quite clearly as to date, time, and place, that it was someone else other than Tan the Conman colluding with Putin. > > [@eschereal](#): > > There just _have to be_ records of the FBR/CEA special operations focused on manufacturing “evidence” that he was colluding with Russia. _That_ would exonerate him (using words of less than 3 syllables). Both of these are reasonable guesses as to what Donald may be hoping for. It’s also possible that he has no ideas on the subject at all—that he sees his claim purely as an aid to fund-raising. (That occurred to me after I’d posted, yesterday.) ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5117 "2022-10-10T23:45:17Z")
Exactly the point I was trying to make in the Senate thread. Democrats aren’t perfect but they do have a higher likelihood to take responsibility for their actions these days. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2022, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5118 "2022-10-11T03:46:49Z")
Elon Musk says it’s everyone else’s fault but his that his daughter wants nothing to do with him, and that she has been brainwashed by “neo-Marxists” into coming out as trans and changing her last name. [https://nordot.app/952312989673914368?c=592622757532812385](https://nordot.app/952312989673914368?c=592622757532812385) ---
**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:** [October 11, 2022, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5119 "2022-10-11T03:52:39Z")
Maybe I’m remembering my dog whistle slurs wrong but, isn’t “neo-Marxists” yet another code phrase for Jews? ---
**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:** [October 11, 2022, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5120 "2022-10-11T05:13:54Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > isn’t “neo-Marxists” yet another code phrase for Jews? Spoiled rich brat who grew up profiting off apartheid slave labor turns out to be anti-semitic; film at 11. Ironically, though, if you asked him his opinion of the Israel/Palestine situation, his proposal would probably be “the Arabs roll over and let Israel do whatever it wants”. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2022, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5121 "2022-10-11T05:33:03Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Maybe I’m remembering my dog whistle slurs wrong Yes, you are, > **[Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory)** > > "Cultural Marxism" refers to a far-right antisemitic conspiracy theory that misrepresents Western Marxism (especially the Frankfurt School) as being responsible for modern progressive movements, identity politics, and political correctness. The conspiracy theory posits that there is an ongoing and intentional academic and intellectual effort to subvert Western society via a planned culture war that undermines the supposed Christian values\[note 1\] of traditionalist conservatism and seeks to re... I’ll let is go this time since I know you weren’t properly caffeinated when you posted this. Also, the dog whistles change tune so frequently it’s probably what Musk actually meant to imply. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=255) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=257)