# 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:** 233
**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:** [April 3, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4641 "2024-04-03T22:42:49Z")
Don’t forget to make it an annual subscription service as well. They’ll have to buy a code when they replace the battery, and the thing starts beeping annoyingly if they don’t. Bonus points if you make it the [Konami Code](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code), and wait until some Conspiracy Theorist notices. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4642 "2024-04-03T22:43:12Z")
You will rake in dollars with methamphetamine all over them! ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4643 "2024-04-03T23:16:24Z")
That’s easy. Start a casino, do the laundry there with money, or something. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4644 "2024-04-03T23:43:49Z")
Trump: “Mail-in voting is corrupt.” Lara Trump: “Trump is now “very much embracing early voting.” > **[Republicans pushing to embrace mail-in voting encounter widespread resistance](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna145599)** > > Trump's repeated attacks on mail-in voting have made it tougher for Republicans who see a desperate need for the GOP to encourage more ways to cast ballots. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4645 "2024-04-04T00:15:04Z")
Messaging discipline seems to be a foreign concept for the Trump party. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4646 "2024-04-04T02:50:10Z")
Even better: > Discipline seems to be a foreign concept for the Trump party. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2024, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4647 "2024-04-04T09:21:23Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Trump: “Mail-in voting is corrupt.” > > Lara Trump: “Trump is now “very much embracing early voting.” “We have always been been at war with Eastasia.” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4648 "2024-04-04T09:36:02Z")
Plus the Trump family have been voting by mail in the last few elections themselves. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2024, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4649 "2024-04-04T10:05:14Z")
When they change the war banners, not everyone gets the news at the exact same time. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4650 "2024-04-04T10:08:07Z")
Somebody should let them know that they can use the internet for more than just spreading propaganda. And tell them to stop using smoke signals and messenger pigeons. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4651 "2024-04-05T13:55:55Z")
> **['I want a drug test': Trump floats idea President Biden is using cocaine](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-biden-cocaine/)** > > Former President Donald Trump floated the possibility that President Joe Biden was using cocaine when he delivered his State of the Union address this year. > > In a Thursday interview, Hugh Hewitt asked the former president about debating Biden ahead... While I _think_ he’s trying to use Joe’s ‘cocaine habit’ as an excuse for why Sleepy Joe never seems to be all that sleepy, and it won’t surprise me if he floats the idea that Hunter is probably his dealer and needs to be investigated. My theory is that someone is about to come forward with proof of his drug usage. Last time he accused Joe of doing cocaine (when they found some in the basket people empty their pockets into), we found out the White House was running a pill mill during his [Trump’s] administration. If Trump brings this up in a more formal setting (ie debates), Biden should say “I’ll take a drug test, right now, and release the results to the media, if you do the same thing.” I can’t speak to Biden, but I’m quite sure Trump would fail it assuming he doesn’t currently (hence the ‘right now’ part) have a prescription for all the adderall he’s taking which will show up as amphetamines, just like meth or speed. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4652 "2024-04-05T15:48:03Z")
I tried cocaine a couple times. My experience suggests that ShitGibbon’s accufession is without basis. Coke lasts for about 20 minutes, then you feel like shit and need another boost. I did not watch the SotU, but I understand that Joe the President spoke for quite a bit longer than one would normally be up on coke and did not show signs of the come-down. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4653 "2024-04-05T15:58:34Z")
He had one of those insulin auto-injection thingies under his shirt only it was loaded with coke. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4654 "2024-04-05T16:01:25Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > ['I want a drug test': Trump floats idea President Biden is using cocaine - Raw Story](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-biden-cocaine/) I agree, this is pretty much all the proof we need to know that Trump is using drugs to amp himself up for speeches. Every Accusation Is A Confession. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4655 "2024-04-05T16:52:54Z")
Yes, do let’s fight among ourselves ahead of a major election, after we’ve had so much trouble getting things done. > **[Marjorie Taylor Greene pushes unfounded 'blackmail' conspiracy about Speaker...](https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/marjorie-taylor-greene-mike-johnson-blackmail-rcna146425)** > > The Georgia representative is now targeting the Republican speaker of the House with innuendos in an effort to bring him to heel. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4656 "2024-04-05T16:55:38Z")
The Sniffler is accusing others of drug use? Pull the other one. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4657 "2024-04-05T16:56:12Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > If Trump brings this up in a more formal setting (ie debates), Biden should say “I’ll take a drug test, right now, and release the results to the media, if you do the same thing.” No, neither of these things needs to happen, neither a debate nor Biden engaging with trump over trump’s stupid ideas. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4658 "2024-04-05T17:01:48Z")
I see that MTG is using the old tried and true “People are asking” trope. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4659 "2024-04-05T17:31:35Z")
People are saying that MTG is actually five raccoons wearing a skinsuit they found in a rancid dumpster behind Taco Bell. I’m not saying I believe that, but I’ve definitely read it somewhere. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4660 "2024-04-05T18:17:30Z")
I’ve definitely read that, so we have confirmation. Here is the [citation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4659). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=232) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=234)