# 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:** 333
**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:** [January 1, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6646 "2023-01-01T21:08:37Z")
I don’t know what, if any, crimes she’s committed. But there’s at least the possibility that she’ll be convicted of something. That’s what has her worried. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2023, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6647 "2023-01-01T23:28:54Z")
The elections commissioner of Rensselaer County, New York is planning on pleading guilty to federal charges of falsely obtaining and filing absentee ballots. > **[GOP County Elections Commissioner To Plead Guilty To Voter Fraud–And Everyone...](https://www.comicsands.com/schofield-plead-guilty-voter-fraud-2659041226.html)** > > Is anyone surprised? ---
**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:** [January 1, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6648 "2023-01-01T23:45:57Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Being the wife of a high government official should make a person especially vulnerable to suchlike restrictions “Happy Wife, Happy Life In Prison.” ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6649 "2023-01-02T01:03:32Z")
We had one in Wisconsin: > **[Former Milwaukee election official charged with election fraud, misconduct in...](https://www.wpr.org/former-milwaukee-election-official-charged-election-fraud-misconduct-public-office)** > > The former deputy director of Milwaukee’s election commission was charged with election fraud and misconduct in public office Friday after she fraudulently requested military absentee ballots and sent them to a state representative last week. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6650 "2023-01-02T01:51:29Z")
Wow. She did it supposedly to show how easy it is to get away with election fraud….then discovered it’s not so easy to get away with it! What a schmuck. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6651 "2023-01-02T04:41:31Z")
Lauren Boebert’s restaurant is being replaced with a Mexican restaurant. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6652 "2023-01-02T05:33:04Z")
I hope they call it the Taco Truck. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6653 "2023-01-02T06:48:36Z")
There was a restaurant near me called “Taco Truck”. Call me pedantic if you like, but something about that bothered me. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6654 "2023-01-02T15:47:37Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > > (But not guns, of course.) > > The gun is good! The penis is evil! The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death and purifies the Earth of the filth of ~~brutals~~ the libs. Go forth, and kill! ~~Zardoz~~ Trump has spoken! Laugh away, but **Zardoz** takes place in 2023. [![](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/AkSQI6R8UZZdTygi24XxNw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtoPTY2Ng--/http://magazines.zenfs.com/resizer/2.0/original/T2ROuhxKL7jehflZGkB4td_tq8U) ](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/AkSQI6R8UZZdTygi24XxNw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtoPTY2Ng--/http://magazines.zenfs.com/resizer/2.0/original/T2ROuhxKL7jehflZGkB4td_tq8U) ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6655 "2023-01-02T16:38:27Z")
[![](https://thatshelf.com/wp-content/uploads//2014/03/Community-App-Development-and-Condiments-Starburns-Zardoz.jpg) ](https://thatshelf.com/wp-content/uploads//2014/03/Community-App-Development-and-Condiments-Starburns-Zardoz.jpg) ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6656 "2023-01-02T17:05:08Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Laugh away, but **Zardoz** takes place in 2023 looks to me like you may be about 27 decades early, there ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6657 "2023-01-02T17:27:13Z")
Kind of a natural progression from _Soylent Green_ (2022). ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6658 "2023-01-02T18:47:59Z")
The incoming Republican head of the House Oversight Committee says that he expects that the House Ethics Committee will be investigating Santos. > **[As His Life of Fantasy Comes Into Focus, George Santos Goes to Washington](https://www.yahoo.com/news/life-fantasy-comes-focus-george-124058513.html)** > > Mr. Santos, under scrutiny for lies about his background, is set to be sworn into Congress on Tuesday even as records, colleagues and friends divulge more about his past. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6659 "2023-01-02T19:08:57Z")
The House Ethics Committee: where scandals go to die. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6660 "2023-01-03T03:01:22Z")
Brazil is reopening its criminal investigation into George Santos, which had been suspended because up until now they didn’t know his whereabouts. > **[Brazilian authorities intend to revive fraud case against George Santos | CNN...](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/02/politics/george-santos-brazil-fraud-case/index.html)** > > Law enforcement officials in Brazil will reinstate fraud charges against Rep.-elect George Santos, the Rio de Janeiro prosecutor's office tells CNN, as the New York Republican officially assumes his role in the US House Tuesday under a cloud of... ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6661 "2023-01-03T03:04:50Z")
Well, the US and Brazil have an extradition treaty between the countries. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6662 "2023-01-03T03:14:23Z")
I’m curious if this case has the potential to result in jail time. Even with everything he lied about, common sense would suggest you pay whatever fines or judgements you need to before running for office. I was just looking at his wiki page and saw this: > His landlady filed for eviction, and he agreed to leave by December 24 and pay her $2,250 in back rent. In mid-January 2016, he told Queens Housing Court, in a statement signed under oath, that he was robbed of the money in [Queensboro Plaza](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Plaza_(Queens)) on his way to pay the back rent to his landlady’s lawyer and that police were unable to take a report at the time, telling him to return later. There is no record he ever did. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6663 "2023-01-03T04:12:19Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > …common sense would suggest… Well, there’s your problem. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6664 "2023-01-03T05:20:24Z")
If George Santos running for Congress results in him getting thrown in a Brazilian prison, we may as well lock the thread, as I don’t think there’s a Stupid Republican Idea out there that could possibly top that kind of own-goal. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6665 "2023-01-03T05:32:55Z")
Andrew Tate, but I’m not sure of his political affiliation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=332) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=334)