# 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:** 90
**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 1, 2022, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1782 "2022-05-01T05:23:45Z")
And this is what the Republicans mean by “election integrity”, right? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1783 "2022-05-01T05:33:22Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Trump Jr. = Owned by Putin, lock stock and barrel. > > That’s basically all there is too it.   AND too plumb rock stupid to keep quiet about it. (Compare with kid brother Eric, who is probably every bit as crooked and corrupt, but smart enough to keep a lower profile.) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1784 "2022-05-01T05:41:17Z")
Well, about 2/3 of the emails I get at suckmydickdonnie begging for money to stop the commie Democrats are from Trump, about 1/3 from Junior. If Eric is grifting he’s being more subtle about it. ---
**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 1, 2022, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1785 "2022-05-01T10:45:41Z")
Living in a Innsmouth attic will teach you subtlety. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1786 "2022-05-01T11:07:09Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Compare with kid brother Eric, who is probably every bit as crooked and corrupt, but smart enough to keep a lower profile. We know Eric is the smart one because he was smart enough to allow himself to be parodied as the dumb one. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd73-sYv90s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd73-sYv90s) ---
**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 1, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1787 "2022-05-01T15:41:25Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The really scary part: The only reason we know so many of Cawthorne’s scandals is that his cronies want revenge for him revealing about the cocaine orgies. If it weren’t for that, we’d only be hearing about as much about him as about any other Republican politician. Which suggests that most of them have just as long a tally as he does. Or, to look at it from another angle: > ---
**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 1, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1788 "2022-05-01T17:42:27Z")
I’ve been mostly talked into the belief that Republican politicians are simply shitty people who do shitty things because of the aforementioned shitty people part. But, as more “comes out” on Cawthorn, I have to wonder about that. It does seem as though they do have some apparatus for collecting embarrassing or incriminating evidence to be used against party members who step out of line. Cawthorn has only been in congress a brief time, and hasn’t even been to one of their famous cocaine fueled orgies, yet, but they already seem to have quite a dossier on him. And it would seem to be hard to embarrass someone who praises Hitler in his vacation home, but somehow they seem to be managing. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1789 "2022-05-01T21:23:03Z")
On a post about Nancy Pelosi visiting Ukraine: GOP candidate for Congress from Nebraska: “She needs to be fired” [https://twitter.com/realjohnglen/status/1520766226590482432](https://twitter.com/realjohnglen/status/1520766226590482432) That’s now how that works, dude. ---
**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 1, 2022, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1790 "2022-05-01T21:28:50Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I’ve been mostly talked into the belief that Republican politicians are simply shitty people who do shitty things because of the aforementioned shitty people part. Talked into it? Me, I just saw that shit with my own eyes. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2022, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1791 "2022-05-01T21:56:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > GOP candidate for Congress from Nebraska I saw his twitter handle, “@realjohnglen”, and my first reaction was, “Nah, man, you’re the shitty knock-off [John Glenn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn).” Even if we give him a pass on the “being-an-astronaut” part, this John is also worse at being in Congress. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1792 "2022-05-01T23:05:09Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > … Cawthorn has only been in congress a brief time, and hasn’t even been to one of their famous cocaine fueled orgies, yet, but they already seem to have quite a dossier on him. > > And it would seem to be hard to embarrass someone who praises Hitler in his vacation home, but somehow they seem to be managing. He does appear to be feeling the heat—today he went full-Christ-level-victim: > Responses on Twitter do _not_ indicate widespread acceptance of the idea that Cawthorn’s suffering is Christ-like. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2022, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1793 "2022-05-01T23:10:31Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Responses on Twitter do _not_ indicate widespread acceptance of the idea that Cawthorn’s suffering is Christ-like. Well, he does see a lot of people looking at him, and saying, “Oh, Jesus Christ!” What else could that mean? ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1794 "2022-05-01T23:11:29Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Well, he does see a lot of people looking at him, and saying, “Oh, Jesus Christ!” What else could that mean? - And he’s just the man to reason it out that way. ---
**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 1, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1795 "2022-05-01T23:13:43Z")
You know, the Devil has been known to quote Scripture for his own purposes, too. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1796 "2022-05-01T23:37:25Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > You know, the Devil has been known to quote Scripture for his own purposes, too. - Those claiming that their own suffering and victimhood make them ‘like Jesus’ do _not_ want to hear your reminder of that quotation from Shakespeare. ---
**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 2, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1797 "2022-05-02T14:59:43Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > On a post about Nancy Pelosi visiting Ukraine: > GOP candidate for Congress from Nebraska: “She needs to be fired” So… Republican does not like Pelosi because he loves Putin more? These people are deranged. ---
**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 2, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1798 "2022-05-02T17:11:07Z")
I mean, I don’t think she should have gone either, but firing her is a silly idea. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1799 "2022-05-02T17:26:10Z")
Both MyPillowGuy and Roger Stone thought that they could get back on Twitter, and Twitter immediately banned them again. > **[MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell Returns to Twitter, Gets Re-Banned](https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-lindell-returns-to-twitter-is-immediately-re-banned)** > > “We need to melt down the voting machines,” the pillow tycoon declared to The Daily Beast following his Twitter ban, which he called “a shame.” ---
**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 2, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1800 "2022-05-02T18:39:54Z")
“I want the freedom to say whatever I want on your private platform, with no consequences for my speech whatsoever. Freedom of speech means you cannot object to anything I say.” ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1801 "2022-05-02T18:58:13Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > GOP candidate for Congress from Nebraska: “She needs to be fired” Actually if you read the tweet he clearly said “She IS needs to be fired” which is a bit more enigmatic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=89) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=91)