# 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:** 307
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6123 "2022-12-05T17:34:10Z")
I’m going to put this here for the moment. Perhaps it belongs in a different thread, but I’ll request a mod move it to somewhere more appropriate if need be. > **[Trump Owed Hidden Debt While In Office](https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2022/12/04/trump-owed-hidden-debt-while-in-office/?sh=7e6f1bf3b30e)** > > Donald Trump’s business attracted so much scrutiny during his time in office that it would be easy to conclude that all information about its foreign entanglements must be out by now. It is not. > Donald Trump had a foreign creditor he failed to disclose while running for president in 2016 and after assuming office in 2017. This was a 19.8 million dollar loan from a South Korean company with [historical] ties to North Korea. > None of this was apparent on disclosure reports that Trump, whose representatives did not respond to requests for comment, filed with the Office of Government Ethics. “If someone does not disclose a loan, OGE has no way to know,” says Walter Shaub, who ran that agency when Trump took office. Don Fox, who also once headed the office, adds: “The system is kind of predicated upon people actually following a law because they want to follow the law.” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6127 "2022-12-05T18:16:22Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Butch (Bruce Willis) keyed the car. I’ve heard that theory, but it wasn’t really relevant to the point I was making with the quote. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6128 "2022-12-05T19:56:42Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The sheriff of Moore County says he knows the fascists aren’t behind the substation attack because he prayed with their leader, then immediately ended the press conference when asked why he trusted them. Hey, Jim Jones ‘prayed’ with his cultists too. As have many, many others. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6129 "2022-12-05T22:22:29Z")
I’m glad the FBI is now on the case. First question to the good sheriff, “Where were you between the hours of xx and xy?” ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6130 "2022-12-05T22:29:05Z")
Justice Alito attempted to impersonate a comedian during arguments today. He failed. [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/good-grief-justice-samuel-alito-blasted-for-joke-about-black-children-in-ku-klux-klan-outfits/ar-AA14WaiZ?li=BBnb7Kz](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/good-grief-justice-samuel-alito-blasted-for-joke-about-black-children-in-ku-klux-klan-outfits/ar-AA14WaiZ?li=BBnb7Kz) > “And presumably,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor interjected, “that would be the same Ku Klux Klan outfit regardless whether if the child was Black or white or any other characteristic.” > > That’s when Alito decided to make a “joke,” while thousands of Americans were listening to the Court’s live proceedings. > > “You do see a lot of Black children in Ku Klux Klan outfits all the time,” he said, presumably sarcastically. > > He then laughed, and some viewers in the gallery joined with him. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6131 "2022-12-05T22:36:17Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > “Where were you between the hours of xx and xy?” “Are you implying I’m _ **transgendered?!?** _” _\>storms out\<_ ---
**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:** [December 5, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6132 "2022-12-05T22:37:19Z")
Also, could you give me the name of that Fascist leader you prayed with recently? Maybe an address, if ya got it handy. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6133 "2022-12-05T23:52:13Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > “You do see a lot of Black children in Ku Klux Klan outfits all the time,” he said, presumably sarcastically. I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6134 "2022-12-06T00:10:44Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Rittenhouse isn’t a murderer. He wasn’t convicted, and many believe he was acting in self defense. Rittenhouse is a murderer, by virtue of the fact that he murdered. If he ever went to an actual trial, instead of the farce he faced, he would have been convicted. The argument that got him acquitted is that it’s impossible to be guilty of murder if you have a gun, because having a gun creates the risk that someone else will take your gun and shoot you, and therefore any killing by a person with a gun qualifies as self-defense. We really shouldn’t have to point out how absurd that argument is. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6135 "2022-12-06T00:23:35Z")
Ding, ding, ding. This will now be called “The Rittenhouse defense”. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2022, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6136 "2022-12-06T01:05:14Z")
Donald Trump says that Donald Trump is fake news. > **[Trump furiously denies calling for 'termination' of the Constitution in wild...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-terminate-constitution-2658834156/)** > > Former President Donald Trump on Monday angrily denied that he had called for the termination of portions of the U.S. Constitution. Two days after Trump created a firestorm by once again claiming his 2020 election loss was fraudulent and then writing... ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6137 "2022-12-06T01:09:09Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I don’t get it. Did you read the article? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6138 "2022-12-06T01:12:37Z")
I did. Still do not get the joke. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6139 "2022-12-06T01:15:42Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Still do not get the joke. It was a quite lame excuse at humor. I think he tried to make a joke at Sotomayor’s expense. Didn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6140 "2022-12-06T01:33:18Z")
The problem is, he made the joke to try to cover for a stupid point. He was saying, essentially, “okay, so if a white Santa doesn’t want to have a black child sit on his lap how is that any different that a black Santa not wanting to have a baby in a KKK outfit on his lap?” … as though what a person wears is the same as what color a person’s skin is. So he was basically saying, “yeah, it would only be a white baby in a Klan hood.” ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6141 "2022-12-06T01:39:04Z")
So, tone deaf, no sense of humor, and no actual point. Alito, not our esteemed posters. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6142 "2022-12-06T01:39:29Z")
> **[Herschel Walker Quietly Asking Around For D.C. Abortion Clinic Recommendations](https://www.theonion.com/herschel-walker-quietly-asking-around-for-d-c-abortion-1849827215)** > > WRIGHTSVILLE, GA—In a display of confidence ahead of the Georgia Senate runoff, Republican candidate Herschel Walker has begun quietly asking around about recommendations for Washington, D.C. abortion clinics, sources confirmed Thursday. “It needs to... ---
**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:** [December 6, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6143 "2022-12-06T01:50:19Z")
The Oklahoma ADA who was arrested for child porn had particularly egregious examples of the disgusting stuff. > **[Oklahoma Assistant District Attorney Arrested for Allegedly Possessing Over...](https://lawandcrime.com/crime/oklahoma-assistant-district-attorney-arrested-for-allegedly-possessing-over-150-videos-and-images-of-prepubescent-girls-being-sexually-abused/)** > > Kevin Etherington, who was the first assistant district attorney in Payne County, was fired for allegedly possessing more than 150 images and videos of child porn. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6144 "2022-12-06T21:43:04Z")
December 6th, 2022. Tens of thousands of Georgians will go to the poll in the senate runoff and vote for party over country. Herschel Walker, an empty Georgia football shirt of a man will get those votes. Serial sex abuser, serial abortionist, serial out of wedlock children fatherer, threatener of murder to ex-wife with a gun to her head, admitted mental illness, probable brain damage (CTE) from football, serial liar, felony voter in Georgia (not a resident, but an inhabitant), illiterate, on and on - and those are his qualifications!! This abomination finished his campaigning at - of course - a gun range. Why? He’ll be the house Senate N\*\*\*\*\*; do what he’s told, and get paraded around as the latest MAGA mascot like pizza king (RIP), Tim Scott, Diamond and Silk, Clarence Thomas, Candace Owens and others. Mitch McConnell campaigned for him (at least fund raising) after bemoaning the lack of quality candidates. And now we have an endorsement from: > **[Sen. John Kennedy Urges Georgia to Pick Herschel Walker Instead of 'High IQ'...](https://www.jezebel.com/john-kennedy-herschel-walker-obama-high-iq-people-1849854390)** > > The Louisiana senator added his voice to the bizarre chorus that was Walker's final weekend of campaigning. # Sen. John Kennedy Urges Georgia to Pick Herschel Walker Instead of ‘High IQ’ People ## The Louisiana senator added his voice to the bizarre chorus that was Walker’s final weekend of campaigning. As if we need more stupid in Congress. Perhaps Sen. Kennedy is lonely as the lowest dredge of humanity the GQP has dug up. He’s down there with Tuberville, AL and Markwayne Mullin, OK. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6145 "2022-12-06T22:07:56Z")
FWIW: [Warnock has built up an advantage in the early vote, putting Walker in a position in which he’ll need to deliver big on Election Day to win Tuesday’s runoff.](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/live-blog/georgia-senate-runoff-live-updates-rcna58331) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=306) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=308)