# 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:** 473
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9447 "2023-05-15T17:53:01Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > How many different ways can you politely say, “Sir, that’s complete bullshit”… I don’t know. We’ve been doing it for at least 7 years with this bunch. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9448 "2023-05-15T17:54:06Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > God, I would love to have seen that meeting. How many different ways can you politely say, “Sir, that’s complete bullshit”, before you just lose it and start yelling at these idiots? “Fine, Mr. McCarthy. We’ll investigate. We’ll investigate who made up a completely fictitious person, and why exactly they want to waste our time with this garbage.” ---
**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:** [May 15, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9449 "2023-05-15T18:31:30Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > They were just mad they didn’t think of it first. To be fair, I don’t think this is actually an ‘every accusation’ situation as I really doubt they would have thought this far ahead. I think it’s more that Desantis came up with it and probably forgot about the whole death panel thing. > [@Horatius](#): > > God, this story is even stupider than the headline suggests… That’s why I didn’t quote anything from it. I knew the headline would get clicks and I didn’t want to try and find a few ‘good’ quotes without posting just about the entire article. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9450 "2023-05-15T20:16:18Z")
Would you believe … > [@Comer](#): > > “_Remember, these informants are kind of in the spy business, so they don’t make a habit of being seen a lot or being high-profile or anything like that_.” Well, that explains it. I bet 99 knows the informant. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9451 "2023-05-15T20:40:43Z")
It’s probably Agent 13. [![](https://s1.dmcdn.net/v/OZAL-1Zf4v_Hl5hy8/x1080) ](https://s1.dmcdn.net/v/OZAL-1Zf4v_Hl5hy8/x1080) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9452 "2023-05-15T20:43:05Z")
On the conservative side of twitter, everyone is suggesting that Biden has pulled a Clinton, and that’s why no one can find the whistleblower. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9453 "2023-05-15T20:44:24Z")
The invisible and the non-existent often share exactly the same qualities. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9454 "2023-05-15T21:12:04Z")
Sounds like someone’s church needs to lose its tax exempt status. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9455 "2023-05-15T21:15:25Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > On the conservative side of twitter, everyone is suggesting that Biden has pulled a Clinton, and that’s why no one can find the whistleblower. Yet another example of Republican doublethink. The Clintons were master assassins and made people disappear…but everyone knows who they were and that they did it. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9456 "2023-05-15T21:21:17Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The GQP has never really been into the whole “inclusion” thing. Sure they are inclusive, they include everything **and** the kitchen sink into what they define as “woke”. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9457 "2023-05-15T21:22:23Z")
“OK, Mr. McCarthy, just tell us this person’s name, and we’ll get right on tracking them down.” ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9458 "2023-05-15T21:28:06Z")
But that’s part of the mastery, you see. As long as everyone knows it was done by the Clintons, they get the benefit of the intimidation factor with possible future victims. But then, since they’re good enough that there’s no actual, you know, concrete evidence of their having done so, no one can pin those deaths legally on the Clintons. So they get to have it both ways. (Whether the “they” in the preceding sentence refers to the Clintons or those who believe Clinton conspiracy theories is left as an exercise for the reader.) ---
**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:** [May 15, 2023, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9459 "2023-05-15T23:16:53Z")
Speaking of MAGAts defining woke (see other thread), can anyone translate the second paragraph from this article in _The Atlantic_ online today? > Vivek Ramaswamy is a tall man with tall hair. And last week, when he stood in front of a crowd in Iowa wearing a black T-shirt under a black blazer, he looked like Johnny Bravo delivering a TED Talk. > > “We’re not gonna be angry tonight,” Ramaswamy told a few hundred Iowa voters before calmly explaining his theory of how America got to be so politically divided. The country is going through a national identity crisis, he explained, and people are turning toward “racial wokeism” and “radical gender ideology” to fill the emptiness inside. It’s Republicans’ job to fill that void, Ramaswamy said, “with a vision of American national identity that runs so deep that it dilutes the woke poison to irrelevance.” > … Huh? This might or might not be a gift link… > **[A Bouncy, Fresh Brand of Trumpism](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/05/vivek-ramaswamy-gop-primary-race-trumpism/674063/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share)** > > Vivek Ramaswamy has burst into the Republican primary race with ultra-Trumpy politics and super-tall hair. Here’s another excerpt from that article: > … > On Thursday, Ramaswamy was introduced by a parade of joyful Republican culture warriors, who stood onstage while a loop of Fox News clips played from a projector in the back of the room. The Dallas County GOP chair performatively discarded an empty box of Bud Lite, a brand that’s drawn the ire of conservatives for its partnership with a transgender influencer. And the crowd applauded wildly as former State Senator Jake Chapman checked off a list of successful or in-progress Republican projects: banning obscene material in school libraries; pushing for a statewide bill banning abortion after six weeks; Don Lemon getting the axe over at CNN. The cheers rang loudest for the last. > > Ramaswamy’s stump speech was a plea for people to resist the “cults” of race, gender, and climate—and a call to redefine what it means to be an American. That redefinition would apparently involve a few constitutional amendments and a lot of executive power. As president, he told the crowd, he’d end affirmative action and shut down the Department of Education. He’d boost the national Republican Party by telling Americans to “drill, frack, burn coal, and embrace nuclear.” He’d send the military to patrol the southern border instead of defending “somebody else’s border in God knows where.” He’d shut down the FBI and give a gun to every adult in Taiwan to defend themselves against China. He’d prohibit young people from voting unless they performed national service or passed a citizenship test. He’d ban TikTok for kids younger than 16. > … Call me crazy, but I think his last name might be an obstacle to getting some white folks on board. ---
**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:** [May 16, 2023, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9460 "2023-05-16T00:07:37Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Call me crazy, but I think his last name might be an obstacle to getting some white folks on board. If only his name wasn’t so woke! ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9461 "2023-05-16T00:26:29Z")
You are going to have to specify which church you are referring to. > **[Mormon who left Wall St. to work for charity blows whistle on what he says is...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mormon-whistleblower-ensign-peak-church-investment-fund-allegations-60-minutes-transcript-2023-05-14/)** > > David Nielsen left his job at Ensign Peak Advisors, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' investment firm, and filed an IRS whistleblower complaint. He speaks with Sharyn Alfonsi. ---
**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:** [May 16, 2023, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9462 "2023-05-16T01:04:47Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > David Nielsen left his job at Ensign Peak Advisors, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ investment firm, and filed an IRS whistleblower complaint. A whistleblower, you say? Has anyone asked him if he knows where the informant is? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9463 "2023-05-16T01:06:21Z")
I’m sure Hunter’s laptop holds the keys to this mystery! ---
**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:** [May 16, 2023, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9464 "2023-05-16T01:43:54Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > If only his name wasn’t so woke! Hmmm… maybe we should promote the idea that WOKE is a contraction of > **W** HITE F **O** L **K** (E) That will make them the epitome of the thing they hate. “White folk are WOKE!” ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9465 "2023-05-16T02:31:50Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “White folk are WOKE!” I wish more of us were. ---
**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:** [May 16, 2023, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9466 "2023-05-16T02:48:19Z")
Ramaswamy bribed a Wikipedia editor to rewrite the article on him to remove his having been part of Ohio’s covid task force, his having received a scholarship from the Soros family, and his being Hindu. > **[Wikipedia Editor Says They Were Paid To Change Vivek Ramaswamy’s Page](https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/05/03/wikipedia-editor-says-they-were-paid-to-change-vivek-ramaswamys-page/?sh=3092ef4951a3)** > > Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur vying to be the Republican candidate for president in 2024, allegedly paid to change the Wikipedia page about him, according to a disclosure made on the community encyclopedia. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Vivek\_Ramaswamy#Wikipedia\_manipulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Vivek_Ramaswamy#Wikipedia_manipulation) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=472) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=474)