# 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:** 274
**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:** [October 27, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5462 "2022-10-27T17:52:07Z")
Oh, Jesus Christ, Republicans are trying to rewrite history. Yes, Republicans were the good guys in the Civil War. But the party platforms switched in the 1960s, and only idiots don’t know that. ---
**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 27, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5463 "2022-10-27T17:53:05Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > But the party platforms switched in the 1960s, and only idiots don’t know that. Right, but that includes the Republican party leaders and its voters. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5464 "2022-10-27T18:01:52Z")
As always, some people don’t understand because they’re idiots and some don’t understand because it’s not in their best interests to understand. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2022, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5465 "2022-10-27T18:28:25Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > So, because many major corporations found the actions of Republicans on Jan 6 reprehensible and decided to quit donating to GOP campaigns, they should be investigated? Am I understanding that right? Investigated for _what_? Thinking about this some more, and it gets even worse. These were the guys who were pushing the “Money = Speech” theory, so as to allow unlimited political donations. And now, they’re complaining because some companies are now exercising that “freedom of speech” by cutting off their money. ---
**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 27, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5466 "2022-10-27T18:30:54Z")
They complained when the owners of Dr Seuss IP exercised their freedom of speech to stop publishing a couple books that had some dated ideas in them. It’s not inconsistent at all. They just hate freedom. ---
**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 27, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5467 "2022-10-27T19:06:30Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > No, you can’t look. The Book is only for Republicans. Protected but not bound vs. bound but not protected all over again. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5468 "2022-10-27T22:07:52Z")
> **[Graham: Democrats fear Walker win because it would mean GOP is ‘not racist’](https://thehill.com/homenews/3708107-graham-democrats-fear-walker-win-because-it-would-mean-gop-is-not-racist/)** > > Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) suggested Democrats are fearful GOP candidate Herschel Walker will win the Senate election in Georgia because it would poke a hole in their assertions that the Republic… That’s not the reason, ya cracker. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5469 "2022-10-27T22:19:18Z")
“Look! We got a black guy! Now who’s racist?? Ha-HA!” ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5470 "2022-10-27T22:37:44Z")
Don’t tease me, bro. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5471 "2022-10-28T00:35:31Z")
But she’s in favor of teaching about the Tulsa Massacre! Checkmate, libs! ---
**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 28, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5472 "2022-10-28T00:36:13Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > So, because many major corporations found the actions of Republicans on Jan 6 reprehensible and decided to quit donating to GOP campaigns, they should be investigated? Am I understanding that right? Investigated for _what_? What laws are they breaking? > > ETA: I know, trying to make sense of anything coming out of Marjorie Traitor Greene’s pie hole is pointless. > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Republican candidate for Governor of Michigan says the Democrats are trying to overthrow the government and re-enslave people out of revenge for losing the Civil War. > [https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/27/politics/kfile-tudor-dixon-conspiracy-democrats-topple-america/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/27/politics/kfile-tudor-dixon-conspiracy-democrats-topple-america/index.html) I’m aware that the corporate owners of most main-stream media are pulling hard for a GOP takeover of both the House and Senate, and that therefore the reporters and on-air-talent are pushing the idea that ‘Democrats are going to lose.’ I hope they’re wrong. But if they aren’t: do we REALLY have to be governed by people who are both malicious and stupid??? Really, really truly?? (I realize I should be more upset about the “malicious” than about the “stupid,” but somehow it’s the latter that rankles.) ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5473 "2022-10-28T03:18:40Z")
Depends. People keep saying that DeSantis is worse and more dangerous than Trump because he’s smarter. If you agree, then you might prefer the stupid ones in general as well. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5474 "2022-10-28T03:26:27Z")
DeSantis is also more conniving than Tan the Conman. ---
**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 28, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5475 "2022-10-28T17:37:12Z")
Somebody has attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer in their home in San Francisco. He was looking for Nancy, but she was in Washington, so there was no security at their home. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5476 "2022-10-28T22:56:18Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > so there was no security at their home. There will be now. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5477 "2022-10-29T01:39:42Z")
Fortunately the Pelosis can afford it. But what about all the elected officials who don’t have the wealth to hire 24/7 security? To maintain a staff of bodyguards to accompany them? And let’s not forget, President Reagan had a complement of Secret Service agents and he still got shot. We’re going to see more attacks, and deaths. ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5478 "2022-10-29T02:05:31Z")
Newsmax anchor blames the attack on Pelosi’s husband on Pelosi. But only after suggesting that the attack was staged. > **[Newsmax Host Deletes Bonkers Tweet Suggesting Pelosi Staged Attack](https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmax-host-greg-kelly-deletes-bonkers-tweet-suggesting-pelosi-staged-attack)** > > After first questioning whether the attack was staged, Greg Kelly said another explanation was that “she can’t secure her home or office.” Ronna McDaniel calls for Pelosi to be fired after her husband was attacked. > ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5479 "2022-10-29T02:10:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Newsmax anchor blames the attack on Pelosi’s husband on Pelosi. But only after suggesting that the attack was staged. I am sure there will be consequences for spreading such dangerous lies on Twitter. ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5480 "2022-10-29T02:17:11Z")
You’re funny. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5481 "2022-10-29T05:17:29Z")
We still cannot get a handle on stochastic terrorism. I mean, yeah, Alexwars got his ass in over his head, but look how long that took and what a stupid asshole he had to be for it to get done. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=273) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=275)