# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588 "2023-07-04T21:42:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 218
**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 23, 2024, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4341 "2024-03-23T16:04:02Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > As a result, in rare moments of clarity, he’s terrified. I think we’re seeing, in real-time, reality finally catching up to him. He’s spent so much of his life spinning lies, without any real consequences, that now, when he’s finally run up against something that won’t just accept his lies, he’s becoming unhinged. I had hoped that the COVID crisis would be such a moment for him, the reality of a disease simply not acquiescing to his bullshit, but he was propped up by millions of followers who did believe his bullshit, and so, as bad as COVID was, it wasn’t _bad enough_ to break through his reality filter. But now, we’ve found what _is_ bad enough. Him, _ **personally** _, losing everything. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4342 "2024-03-23T17:04:21Z")
This Monday cannot come soon enough. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4343 "2024-03-23T18:07:21Z")
Meh. I get it. It would be good if this were like a fairy tale and the bad guy on some level understood his villainy. But this is the real world. We’re all the heroes of our own story, and some people are fundamentally incapable of understanding conventional morality. That doesn’t absolve any responsibility. Our legal system doesn’t (thank Og!) require perpetrators possess any sort of moral compass, even ones that point the wrong way. So, while it would be cathartic that we could see that moment when he is faced with the full understanding of his own terrible misdeeds and his part in them, that’s just not how the real world works. If it ends with ‘merely’ his personal downfall and a few years where we can arrest or perhaps reverse some of the damage, then fine. That’s more than most people through history have ever gotten. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4344 "2024-03-23T18:22:02Z")
It’s my opinion (man) that any version of “yeah, but” in response to Trump’s deliberate, intentional lying is a defense of the lying fuck. Even a small one, which that grown ass liar is not deserving of. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2024, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4345 "2024-03-23T19:40:27Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > Satan uses golf balls. Donald hates it when somebody follows his cry “Fore!” with “Closure!”. > [@Smapti](#): > > Loser Donald’s lawyers have spent this week in court arguing that the fine he’s running out of time to post a bond for is excessive and he can’t possibly pay it. > > Which isn’t an easy argument to make when their client is posting about how he has lots of money like a whole lot of money you wouldn’t even believe how much money I have. He reminds me of those morons who file bogus personal-injury lawsuits and then post to social media about their weekend performance in a marathon followed by a weight-lifting demonstration followed by a night of bedspring-breaking sex. Come to think of it, the whole “bone spur” thing is an even closer analog to that. ---
**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 24, 2024, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4346 "2024-03-24T00:50:54Z")
Loser Donald, who says that presidents have full immunity from prosecution for life “even if they cross the line”, says that President Biden has crossed the line and should be prosecuted. Even some of his cultists seem to have noticed this one. > **[Trump appears to undercut his own defense in new rant: 'So you don't want...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-undercuts-immunity-truth-social/)** > > Donald Trump may have just undercut his own legal defense with a posting on Truth Social, and the site's users were quick to point it out on Saturday. > > Trump, who is currently petitioning the Supreme Court for full presidential immunity even in... [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEIPjnmWMAAfF3_.jpg) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEIPjnmWMAAfF3_.jpg) [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53606903133_0d032b66d8_o.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53606903133_0d032b66d8_o.jpg) ---
**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 24, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4347 "2024-03-24T00:57:45Z")
![](https://c.tenor.com/O7FjyreIUNYAAAAC/tenor.gif) ---
**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:** [March 24, 2024, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4348 "2024-03-24T01:04:20Z")
“As do various highly respected legal scholars” People, not people here, but people out in the world, If you ever believe something that Trump says, that makes you a fucking moron. ---
**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 24, 2024, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4349 "2024-03-24T05:44:05Z")
As much as Loser Donald’s lawyers are complete scumbags who deserve whatever they get, you do have to feel a little sorry for them. They spend all this time grasping at strings trying to come up with legal arguments to justify their client’s behavior, spend time they’ll never get back litigating it, and then said client snorts a line of Adderall and goes on Fake Twitter and completely blows it up by giving in to his id and posting an all-caps rant that completely negates the work they’ve done. I wouldn’t wish that job on anyone. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2024, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4350 "2024-03-24T09:31:49Z")
More like a tangerine. You know, looks orange but are little balls. ---
**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 24, 2024, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4351 "2024-03-24T11:03:56Z")
And then they don’t get paid for it. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2024, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4352 "2024-03-24T12:02:46Z")
Nah, the current crop/group is on to him. They know about the NRC piggybank. Don the Con would never sign a check or let go of cash so the billing passes through to the committee who get their cut and then pay up front. They just don’t let Donny boy fondle the money first. ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2024, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4353 "2024-03-24T12:53:07Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I wouldn’t wish that job on anyone. Well, they wished for it, so fuck’em! Feeling sorry for them is like feeling sorry for a mass murderer. Dan ---
**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:** [March 24, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4354 "2024-03-24T14:11:39Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > “As do various highly respected legal scholars” We need some Dopers to sign up for Truth Social, just so they can post “Cite?” ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4355 "2024-03-24T14:31:50Z")
To which some MAGAt would reply, “That’s not how you spell City!” (What am I thinking? MAGAts can’t spell!) ---
**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 24, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4356 "2024-03-24T20:23:31Z")
Fox Newz sez that Princess Catherine is faking her cancer because she isn’t bald. > **['Maybe I'm showing my ignorance': Fox News host doubts cancer unless patient...](https://www.rawstory.com/rachel-campos-duffy-cancer/)** > > Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy expressed doubt about Kate Middleton's cancer because she still has "luscious" hair. > > "You know, one thing, just as a layperson," Campos-Duffy told Dr. Mark Siegel on Sunday. "I'm not a doctor like you, Dr. Siegel,... ---
**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 24, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4357 "2024-03-24T20:42:48Z")
Do they understand that hair loss is a potential side effect of the treatment and not a symptom? I mean, it sure would be a lot easier to diagnose if the moment a cell turned cancerous, all your hair fell out. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4358 "2024-03-24T20:45:17Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Fox Newz sez that Princess Catherine is faking her cancer because she isn’t bald. Well, Fox glories in their own nasty, stinking ignorance once again. Congrats, Murdochs! Of course hair doesn’t fall out immediately when chemotherapy begins. It takes weeks, and in some cases, months. Depends on the chemicals involved and on the person. (I’m wondering what polling has convinced the Murdochs that their viewership craves attacks on the UK royals. Or is it personal?) ---
**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 24, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4359 "2024-03-24T20:49:04Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Of course hair doesn’t fall out immediately when chemotherapy begins. It takes weeks, and in some cases, months. Depends on the chemicals involved and on the person. For that matter, my mother had to undergo chemo in 2018 for lymphoma and didn’t lose her hair at all. I guess I better break it to her that I know she was faking being too sick to eat or leave her apartment. > [@Sherrerd](#): > > (I’m wondering what polling has convinced the Murdochs that their viewership craves attacks on the UK royals. Or is it personal?) I bet it somehow ties into Loser Donald’s delusion that Princess Diana wanted to fuck him. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4360 "2024-03-24T20:50:12Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I guess I better break it to her that I know she was faking being too sick to eat or leave her apartment. Yeah, that’ll put you in solid. > [@Smapti](#): > > I bet it somehow ties into Loser Donald’s delusion that Princess Diana wanted to fuck him. I’d never heard that, before. His brain has apparently been Swiss-cheesed since before 1997. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=217) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=219)