# 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:** 447
**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:** [March 30, 2023, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8927 "2023-03-30T14:37:36Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > The Governor did not “pass” such a law, he merely put his signature on a measure that was passed by the legislature. Presumably, you know what I meant. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2023, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8928 "2023-03-30T14:56:42Z")
Really the whole “lame duck” period in US politics is a uniquely American flaw in how the government is run. Why in hell would you even risk letting the loser of an election pass more laws before they leave office? Maybe this made sense 200 years ago when the fastest means of travel was by horseback, but these days, it’s utterly nonsensical. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8929 "2023-03-30T15:03:30Z")
How would you suggest this be changed? Have the loser immediately stripped of office or what? ---
**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:** [March 30, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8930 "2023-03-30T15:06:30Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Have the loser immediately stripped of office or what? In parliamentary governments, the legislature is put into recess before election day, and doesn’t reconvene until after the new legislature is sworn in. People like Prime Ministers and the cabinet members still have authority over routine day-to-day government operations, and emergency powers, but they don’t enact any new policies. This works well in lots of other 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:** [March 30, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8931 "2023-03-30T15:06:33Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > How would you suggest this be changed? Have the loser immediately stripped of office or what? What if they were no long allowed to sign bills into law that would limit the powers of the incoming governor? ---
**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:** [March 30, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8932 "2023-03-30T15:08:06Z")
Both of those ideas work for me. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2023, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8933 "2023-03-30T15:29:33Z")
> **[All the Texts Fox News Didn’t Want You to Read](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/all-the-texts-fox-news-didnt-want-you-to-read.html)** > > A new court filing reveals messages from Rupert Murdoch saying the network went “too far” and Tucker Carlson saying he hates Trump “passionately.” ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2023, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8934 "2023-03-30T16:02:25Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > This works well in lots of other countries. But but but… American Exceptionalism! ---
**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:** [March 30, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8935 "2023-03-30T16:47:04Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > This works well in lots of other countries. Yeah, but those are [_ThelmaLou holds nose and makes a face_] _S-s-s-socialist_ countries. By definition, whatever works for them can’t possibly work here in God’s country. [Slo-mo ninja…] ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8936 "2023-03-30T17:53:15Z")
While we’re at it, no executive pardons in the lame-duck period, either. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8937 "2023-03-30T21:15:51Z")
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**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:** [March 30, 2023, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8938 "2023-03-30T23:36:01Z")
Darth Santis is now claiming he won’t assist in extraditing Inmate 1 because SOROS BAD. > ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8939 "2023-03-31T00:08:45Z")
Query: Given George Soros’s $32+ billion of donations to the Open Society Foundation so far, is there any Democrat in elective office anywhere in the US who can’t be described as to some extent “Soros-backed”? It’s like calling a Republican office-holder “Koch-funded”. AFAICT, at this point that’s basically just a synonym for “Republican”. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2023, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8940 "2023-03-31T00:41:32Z")
If Ron is smart, he’s let Donald know that he’ll block the extradition only so long as Trump pulls out of the election, and doesn’t tell anyone about the deal. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2023, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8941 "2023-03-31T00:57:40Z")
Fighting the extradition to Manhattan would be about the dumbest thing Trump could do. At best, he’d be able to delay the Manhattan arraignment until the FBI moves on Trump for a real arrest, complete with frogmarch, handcuffs and orange jumpsuit, for documents/January 6th cases. Trump will have demonstrated with Bragg’s case that he can’t be trusted to appear when he says he will, so Jack Smith won’t offer him any courtesies. Bragg’s case will wait until the Feds are done with him, but they’ll just turn him over when they’re ready. And Trump will have amassed a whole lot more charges from Manhattan by then. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2023, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8942 "2023-03-31T01:39:09Z")
Meanwhile, in what I’m sure is a complete coincidence, the FL legislature introduced a bill today that would repeal the requirement for the governor to resign before running for another office. > ---
**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:** [March 31, 2023, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8943 "2023-03-31T02:48:09Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > …complete with frogmarch, handcuffs and orange jumpsuit, for documents/January 6th cases… Don’t _tease_ like that! 🥳 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8944 "2023-03-31T14:40:49Z")
My comment on that in another thread: [Ron DeSantis 2024 - #244 by JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-2024/851592/244) ---
**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:** [March 31, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8945 "2023-03-31T18:04:34Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/kD0px8b.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/kD0px8b.png) ---
**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:** [March 31, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8946 "2023-03-31T18:15:27Z")
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