# 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:** 478
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9547 "2023-05-23T11:17:18Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > The question is **what, if any, laws did the person that hired them break?** From Smapti’s link: > [@](#): > > The saga of the displaced veterans received national attention when Assemblyman Brian Maher stepped in to denounce the hotel’s actions and grabbed headlines along with an appearance on a conservative tv network to **raise money for the YIT Foundation** , which claims had housed the homeless veterans at the hotel. That’s fraud. It’s basically the definition of fraud, making a statement, which is false, which you know is false, having others believe it is true, and getting those others to give you money based on the false statement. ---
**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 23, 2023, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9548 "2023-05-23T13:01:08Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Isn’t Walmart _the_ local diner? Only if it’s one of the upscale ones that has an in-store McDonald’s. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9549 "2023-05-23T15:44:35Z")
Ours used to have an Auntie Anne’s and I had no idea how great I had it. ---
**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 23, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9550 "2023-05-23T16:18:28Z")
Is that the pretzel place? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9551 "2023-05-23T17:15:50Z")
Yep. We didn’t always go there, but we could smell the pretzels throughout the entire store. Mm-mm! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9552 "2023-05-23T19:58:04Z")
Ewww! You could catch some nasty spine-eating bacteria from 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:** [May 23, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9553 "2023-05-23T20:40:30Z")
Wait…_ **what** _?? I don’t think Elvis’ sweat-towels went for that. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9554 "2023-05-23T20:43:21Z")
It’s the equivalent of buying your own books to boost the NYT listing. Or, she owed him 100k for following her wish to tank the economy over the debt limit. I’d like to see her have to account for the origins of the cash she’ll pay. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9555 "2023-05-23T20:52:45Z")
Or you know, she just had _really_ chapped lips, and the Capitol gift shop was out. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9556 "2023-05-23T22:59:16Z")
She also gets to attend a dinner. > **[Guess who just bid $100K for McCarthy's used chapstick](https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/23/house-gop-auctions-mccarthy-chapstick-debt-talks-00098347)** > > The fundraiser, which Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) won with a $100,000 bid, is set to benefit Republicans' campaign arm. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2023, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9557 "2023-05-23T23:08:32Z")
> [@](#): > > ### [Guess who just bid $100K for McCarthy’s used chapstick](https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/23/house-gop-auctions-mccarthy-chapstick-debt-talks-00098347) Well, if she can’t kiss Trump’s ass directly, this is the next best thing. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9558 "2023-05-24T02:55:02Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Speaker McCarthy denies Schiff and Swalwell seats on the House Intelligence Committee, because ‘Integrity matters more.’ If it really were about integrity, the news Representative Swalwell just released [this statement regarding the Bipartisan Ethics Committee’s finding](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fw2DzTsX0AAswBt?format=jpg&name=900x900) on [his Twitter account](https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1661128912611561473?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email) would get Swalwell reinstated to the committee. I’m not holding my breath. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9559 "2023-05-24T03:46:11Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > The question is what, if any, laws did the person that hired them break? I can’t think of a law that was broken. However, this story was at least partly promoted to raise donations for the YIT Foundation and anybody who donated money to these bozos would have grounds for a class action lawsuit for fraud. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9560 "2023-05-24T07:37:26Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > ### [Guess who just bid $100K for McCarthy’s used chapstick](https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/23/house-gop-auctions-mccarthy-chapstick-debt-talks-00098347) > > Well, if she can’t kiss Trump’s ass directly, this is the next best thing. I think I just chundered a bit! Pictures of McCarthy’s chapstick lubricating Trumps sphincter, and…no, no, no, I shall not go there. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9561 "2023-05-24T08:54:15Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Guess who just bid $100K for McCarthy’s used chapstick When I saw that in my Twitter feed, I immediately posted: > An unkind person might mention why she needed Chapstick so much. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9562 "2023-05-24T09:26:39Z")
How did chapstick even come into the equation? Guy: “Mr. McCarthy, you got anything you’d like to donate for charity?” McCarthy: “I don’t know, let’s see. [fumbles through pockets] Oh here you go. [throws half used Chapstick at guy].” Seriously, who even thinks like that? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9563 "2023-05-24T10:31:34Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Seriously, who even thinks like that? The cuckoos have fled the nest and now they are just shitting on everyone. ---
**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 24, 2023, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9564 "2023-05-24T10:58:12Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > The cuckoos have fled the nest and now they are just shitting on everyone. And pushing out the eggs of normal politicians for their own cuckoo babies. Or something, I’m not a bird-ologist! ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9565 "2023-05-24T18:57:49Z")
Oh my. [https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/texas-attorney-general-sudden-republican-scrutiny-state-capitol-99572107](https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/texas-attorney-general-sudden-republican-scrutiny-state-capitol-99572107) > A Republican-led investigation on Wednesday accused Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of committing multiple crimes in office — including felonies — during an extraordinary public airing of scandal and alleged lawbreaking that plunged one of the GOP’s conservative stars into new political and legal risk. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9566 "2023-05-24T19:41:25Z")
Well, if it’s anything like the other laws he’s been accused of breaking, it’ll be years and years before he sees the inside of a courtroom. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=477) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=479)