# 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:** 326
**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 26, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6506 "2022-12-26T23:01:40Z")
Not a plane to Moscow, a bus! ---
**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:** [December 26, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6507 "2022-12-26T23:33:48Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Interestingly, the word “CAPTCHA” (those online tests to prove you’re not a bot where you have to click on the correct image or enter the correct word from a skewed image of it) stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”. That is So incredibly cool! Thank you for that factoid. 🤩 * * * * * * > [@smithsb](#): > > Not a plane to Moscow, a bus! I vote for this option. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2022, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6508 "2022-12-26T23:38:25Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” Is that like an ATM Machine? Sounds redundant! 😆 ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6509 "2022-12-27T00:24:00Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Not a plane to Moscow, a bus! They’ll just end up in Idaho. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6510 "2022-12-27T01:41:25Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I’m hoping they’ll be remembered in the same way as Benedict Arnold, or Quisling or Petain I’m fairly sure few people in the United States remember Petain and I think fewer and fewer remember Vidkun Quisling. I mean I do - but I’m an aging nerd. Benedict Arnold has been vilified into a general synonym for traitor in the U.S. and has staying power so far. But I suspect Quisling is already drifting into the realm of obscure words used to sound intellectual and fill out Elvis Costello lyrics. Petain is just a figure in history books. ---
**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 27, 2022, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6511 "2022-12-27T02:00:14Z")
A fourth substation near Tacoma has been attacked. > **[4th Washington state electrical substation vandalized](https://apnews.com/article/vandalism-washington-7e5082cdfd6cf711c399abe6ee865b06)** > > TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A fourth electrical substation was vandalized late on Christmas Day in Washington state, leaving homes in Kapowsin and Graham temporarily without power, according to the Pierce County Sheriff's Office. ---
**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 27, 2022, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6512 "2022-12-27T04:28:17Z")
Someone filed papers for Mike Pence to run for president in 2024, but Pence denies it was him. [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mike-pence-run-us-president-2024-sky-news-2022-12-26/](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mike-pence-run-us-president-2024-sky-news-2022-12-26/) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6513 "2022-12-27T07:25:51Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I’m hoping they’ll be remembered in the same way as Benedict Arnold, or Quisling or Petain. As complete shitstains and traitors. > ” Abbot, Cruz and Graham? Those losers _wish_ they were Arnold, Quisling or Petain. They’re not even Joe McCarthy or George Wallace. History will not remember them. . ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6514 "2022-12-27T13:11:25Z")
[https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/26/politics/george-santos-admits-embellishing-resume/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/26/politics/george-santos-admits-embellishing-resume/index.html) Some choice snippets from the article: > GOP Rep.-elect George Santos of New York admitted in two separate interviews on Monday to lying about parts of his resume but claimed that he hasn’t committed any crimes and intends to serve in Congress. > “I’m not going to make excuses for this, but a lot of people overstate in their resumes, or twist a little bit. … I’m not saying I’m not guilty of that,” he said. > > Santos also admitted that he never worked directly for the financial firms Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, as he has previously suggested, but claimed that he did do work for them through his company, telling [the New York Post](https://nypost.com/2022/12/26/rep-elect-george-santos-admits-fabricating-key-details-of-his-bio/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter) it was a “poor choice of words” to say he worked for them. > He also told the Post that he didn’t graduate from any college or university, despite claiming he had degrees from Baruch College and New York University. > > “I didn’t graduate from any institution of higher learning. I’m embarrassed and sorry for having embellished my resume,” he told the Post, adding that he owns up to that and that “we do stupid things in life.” > “I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos told the Post. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’” ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6515 "2022-12-27T13:27:47Z")
This guy is astounding. _Talented Mr. Ripley_ meets _Catch Me If you Can_. Of course his thousand blatant lies are more than enough to disqualify him, morally and functionally, from taking the oath of office. And of course he effectively committed election fraud — yet again, a Republican doing what they (falsely) accuse others of. But I’m sure he also IS a criminal, in several ways: 1. The check fraud he was caught doing in Brazil, and admitted to to authorities there. 2. Trashing his rented apartment and refusing to pay the many thousands of dollars in damages. 3. Quite possibly, helping some woman get her green card, by marrying her (for a year) under false pretenses. 4. Yes, that 700 K to finance his campaign had to come from someone — it sure as hell wasn’t the “LinkBridge” “work” or whatever crap he pretended to do afterward. 5. That supposed save-the-puppies charity work was a scam, too (starting with how the woman claims she was never paid). I really thought Hershel Walker would be the low point of the 21st century Republican Party, and they’d start to slowly crawl their way back to some semblance of respectability and regard for truth and democracy. I was very wrong. (And I haven’t even touched on perhaps the worst parts — the claim of Holocaust family survivors, and the claims of victims in 9-11 and in that Florida shooting who were — ahem — “going to be hired by my firm”). ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6516 "2022-12-27T14:34:54Z")
If you want to pit Santos, pit his Democratic opponent and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) as well for not doing the elementary opposition research that would have exposed his lies. His opponent’s after-the-fact justification seems to be, “everybody knew he was a liar anyway.” That’s not how campaigns work. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6517 "2022-12-27T15:16:17Z")
Here’s a [good Vanity Fair article on Santos and his shenanigans.](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/12/house-republicans-george-santos-democrats-ethics/amp) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6518 "2022-12-27T15:33:59Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > f you want to pit Santos, pit his Democratic opponent and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) as well for not doing the elementary opposition research that would have exposed his lies That’s one group which dropped the ball. Another is his Republican primary challenger. Another is traditional media. Speaking of which…several have noted how this probably wouldn’t have happened a few years ago, when local newspapers still had more than a skeletal existence. One local Long Island paper (North Shore News, I think it was?) that usually endorses Republican candidates did note, in August, that Santos’ statements and style were flimsy and untrustworthy, so they endorsed his Democratic opponent instead. ---
**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 27, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6519 "2022-12-27T15:59:51Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > If you want to pit Santos, pit his Democratic opponent and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) as well for not doing the elementary opposition research that would have exposed his lies. His opponent’s after-the-fact justification seems to be, “everybody knew he was a liar anyway.” That’s not how campaigns work. When someone does something wrong, the lion’s share of the blame belongs to the person who did the wrong thing, not on those who failed to stop it. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6520 "2022-12-27T16:27:50Z")
Yeah, I’ll pit the lying liar. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6521 "2022-12-27T16:45:03Z")
Maybe, but you learn more from self-criticism. There’s no point in blaming the enemy for being the enemy. Don’t say, They’re bad - say, What can we do better next time to beat them? ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6522 "2022-12-27T16:58:21Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > When someone does something wrong, the lion’s share of the blame belongs to the person who did the wrong thing, not on those who failed to stop it. In the immortal words of George W. Bush: “Fool me once, shame on . . . shame on you. Fool me – can’t get fooled again.” ---
**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 27, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6523 "2022-12-27T18:00:32Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > And that the fact that the migrants had been entered into the system for being processed as refugees somehow shielded DeSantis and his goons from that. I say fuck it, and charge them anyways. Make them stand up in court and explain _exactly_ how they rat fucked the system to try to make their political opponents look bad. ---
**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 27, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6524 "2022-12-27T18:03:37Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > “I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos told the Post. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’” Oh my god, that bit of stupid wordplay has got to be nominated for some kind of award. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6525 "2022-12-27T18:06:46Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Oh my god, that bit of stupid wordplay has got to be nominated for some kind of award. Right? I was coming in to post something similar, but you beat me to it. The sheer audacity of it made me grin and shake my head. “C’mon guys, I didn’t say I was Jewish, I said I was Jewish.” Un-fucking-believable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=325) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=327)