# 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:** 285
**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:** [November 10, 2022, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5682 "2022-11-10T02:08:43Z")
Congresswoman Nancy Kaptur defeated her Republican opponent who was a 2020 denier and participated in 1/6. He actually has conceded. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2022, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5683 "2022-11-10T03:35:02Z")
Oh, you know Flinger O’Catsup will have something kind and generous to say about that. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2022, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5684 "2022-11-10T04:59:54Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > … a stubborn refusal to ignore reality … Is that the word you meant to use? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5685 "2022-11-10T07:29:54Z")
Apologies if this has been mentioned and I missed it, but in August the party faithful primaried Jaime Herrera Beutler (R/WA-3) for having the temerity to support The Leader’s second impeachment. Her anointed replacement was Joe Kent, a True Believer. [Oooopsie](https://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20221108/congressional-district-3-us-representative.html). Officially the race is “too close to call,” but at this point it looks like the aforementioned party faithful have turned a pretty safe red seat blue. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2022, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5686 "2022-11-10T08:20:20Z")
Palm Beach is under a mandatory evacuation order due to Hurricane Nicole, but Loser Donald is refusing to leave. > > > Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather Perhaps he intends to deflect the storm with a Sharpie. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5687 "2022-11-10T08:43:10Z")
So, wouldn’t that mean that there are Secret Service members who would be forced to stay? I’m sure he wouldn’t dream of putting others in danger! Hahaha. I actually just typed that. Hahaha ---
**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:** [November 10, 2022, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5688 "2022-11-10T09:05:46Z")
I have a mental image of Jared and Melania frantically paddling a dinghy while Donald sits in the back, arms folded, complaining that they aren’t paddling hard enough and that he was the first one to say a hurricane was coming. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2022, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5689 "2022-11-10T10:48:00Z")
Posting when you haven’t slept in 36 hours means you miss stuff already said! ---
**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:** [November 10, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5690 "2022-11-10T12:19:31Z")
Ain’t no problem to not use a double negative! ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5691 "2022-11-10T12:43:40Z")
I have this delightful vision of TFG wandering around the empty club, screaming for a diet Coke, and getting redder and redder and redder because he’s alone and there’s no one to run fetch it for him. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5692 "2022-11-10T13:02:13Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Palm Beach is under a mandatory evacuation order due to Hurricane Nicole, but Loser Donald is refusing to leave. I endorse this decision by the former president. 👍🏽 * * * * * * In the _Election Strategies Guaranteed to Win_ Dept.: > [![](https://i.imgur.com/TcY5Ep2.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/TcY5Ep2.jpg) ---
**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:** [November 10, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5693 "2022-11-10T13:40:18Z")
Mine’s about the same, except he is _floating_ around an empty and flooded club. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5694 "2022-11-10T13:52:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I have a mental image of Jared and Melania frantically paddling a dinghy while Donald sits in the back, arms folded, complaining that they aren’t paddling hard enough and that he was the first one to say a hurricane was coming. Just a question that I thought about: have Donald and Melania Trump been seen with each other recently? Like in the last two years? I’m curious. Edit: just checked, and they were together on election day. I’m surprised. Actually I’m surprised that they are still married too. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5695 "2022-11-10T14:32:01Z")
Greed is a powerful motivator. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5696 "2022-11-10T16:15:44Z")
Mar-A-Largo is a big place, her parents and son live there, she spends most of each day at the spa, which is free for her. She has chefs that make her whatever she wants, which is free for her and gets to shop for free whenever she’s not at the spa getting free massages. She probably never even has to see the fat wrinkly old guy she married. It’s a typical life for a trophy wife, except she actually lives at the country club. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5697 "2022-11-10T16:31:18Z")
in my vision he’s standing chest deep in slowly rising water, continuing to claim that the claims of storm surge and flooding is a fake news liberal hoax. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2022, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5698 "2022-11-10T16:33:49Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > in my vision he’s standing chest deep in slowly rising water, continuing to claim that the claims of storm surge and flooding is a fake news liberal hoax. - Didn’t work for King Canute, won’t work for him. Though I’d like to see him goaded into it. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5699 "2022-11-10T16:43:01Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > in my vision he’s standing chest deep in slowly rising water, continuing to claim that the claims of storm surge and flooding is a fake news liberal hoax. …while also claiming that the very terrible Democrat\* governor of Florida is to blame for the hurricane. \*Yes, I know. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5700 "2022-11-10T16:58:25Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Didn’t work for King Canute, won’t work for him. Though I’d like to see him goaded into it. At least _Canute_ knew it wouldn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5701 "2022-11-10T17:05:56Z")
My guess is that Trump is staying at Mar–A-Lago to keep an eye on those classified documents that he _still_ hasn’t turned over to the National Archives. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=284) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=286)