# 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:** 242
**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:** [April 12, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4821 "2024-04-12T22:42:10Z")
Loser Donald forgets what lies he’s supposed to be telling and admits on camera that Mar-a-Lago isn’t worth $1.8 billion like he’s being criminally charged for saying it is. > ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4822 "2024-04-12T22:59:01Z")
Only knowing who is in charge of the House automatically makes me think these are bad things. Like, I would support a “Refrigerator Freedom Act” that banned internet connectivity. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4823 "2024-04-12T23:24:53Z")
Before today, I never really wondered what kind of asshole would welcome people to his home by telling them how much it costs, but now I know anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4824 "2024-04-12T23:44:58Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Liberty in Laundry Act The republicans want it enshrined in law that they can separate the whites from the coloreds. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4825 "2024-04-12T23:51:47Z")
Okay, that was good. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4826 "2024-04-13T00:05:21Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [A.M.W. is right.](https://twitter.com/AmieMcWayne/status/1778420209117786442) (Not for the faint of eye.) I’m too sex for my flag too sexy for my flag and I don’t brag I’m too sexy for my belt my grand little utility belt I’m the pres and you know what I mean As I do my little grift on the Twitter on the Xitter yeah Send me your cash on the twitter ---
**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:** [April 13, 2024, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4827 "2024-04-13T00:25:20Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Before today, I never really wondered what kind of asshole would welcome people to his home by telling them how much it costs, but now I know anyway. [Minnie Pearl (wiki link)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Pearl) was famous for wearing a hat with a price tag on it. The key thing to note here is she did it as a joke and everyone knew it was a joke. Tan the Conman has never–not even once–in his life told a joke. That’s because to joke requires one to understand and even display this nifty thing known as _human emotion_. > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > The republicans want it enshrined in law that they can separate the whites from the coloreds. I wouldn’t be surprised, at this point in American politics, if it were to happen. > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I’m too sex for my flag too sexy for my flag and I don’t brag > I’m too sexy for my belt my grand little utility belt > I’m the pres and you know what I mean > As I do my little grift on the Twitter on the Xitter yeah > Send me your cash on the twitter You’ve heard of gastric reflux disease, no doubt. I think I just exerienced a similar condition (similar in that it feels like vomit came up to the throat and then receded): _drastic repulse deflection_. ---
**Author:** ![Nightaudit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightaudit/32/17181_2.png) [@Nightaudit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightaudit)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4828 "2024-04-13T00:32:58Z")
Love this part: “ Mr Blanche had complained earlier this week that the man that he believed the former investigator Mr Rosenberg had displayed a “flippant and dismissive approach” to his subpoena “despite ample experience with the criminal justice system that should have instilled in him respect for this process and a criminal defendant’s rights”. 🤣. If I had gotten a wrong subpoena, I would have made a point of showing up in court just to publicly embarrass the idiot lawyers in open court… ---
**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:** [April 13, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4829 "2024-04-13T00:57:36Z")
Reporter: “Are you pro-choice or pro-life?” Loser Donald: (word salad about Ronald Reagan) > ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4830 "2024-04-13T01:37:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Loser Donald forgets what lies he’s supposed to be telling and admits on camera that Mar-a-Lago isn’t worth $1.8 billion like he’s being criminally charged for saying it is. Unlike the many times Trump has said he was being sarcastic to cover something, he was actually being sarcastic here. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2024, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4831 "2024-04-13T01:52:31Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Tan the Conman has never–not even once–in his life told a joke. That’s because to joke requires one to understand and even display this nifty thing known as _human emotion_. Let me expand on this a tad. When someone tells a joke, they’re looking for an emotional reaction from the audience of humans. The joke teller, therefore, is concerned about the audience’s reaction, emotions, and humanity. For 77 years thus far, there is exactly zero evidence that Tan the Conman has any such concern. His only concern, his only adoration, his only respect, his only love is for himself and himself alone. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4832 "2024-04-13T10:01:41Z")
At the rallies, when Trump insults people, he often pauses for the audience to laugh. To people with the absolute lowest moral sensibilities and maturity, or maybe just a more medieval sense of humor, these might be considered “jokes”. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4833 "2024-04-13T13:07:41Z")
Exactly. Fifth Grade “jokes”—“Hey, Billy, your butt stinks!” Comedic genius. One might even say _stable_ comedic genius. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4834 "2024-04-13T13:50:20Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > At the rallies, when Trump insults people, he often pauses for the audience to laugh. > > To people with the absolute lowest moral sensibilities and maturity, or maybe just a more medieval sense of humor, these might be considered “jokes”. I get the impression he actually believes the crap he says and thus he’s waiting for confirmation, recognition of his gloriousness. We’ve already seen his reaction to an audience laughing at something he’s said (at the United Nations). No, that man is not one who know what a joke is. Seriously, I’m finding myself wondering which lawyer 'twas who advised him to say he was joking. It certainly cannot be one of those he’s already fired or who’s left on their own. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4835 "2024-04-13T20:28:20Z")
I think he’s only waiting for a reaction to judge which lines to use again. And again. And again. And… ---
**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 13, 2024, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4836 "2024-04-13T22:08:05Z")
Performative stock buying: [Marjorie Taylor Greene held Trump stock. Now that it's tanking, she won't say what happened to it.](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/marjorie-taylor-greene-held-trump-stock-now-s-tanking-wont-say-happene-rcna147504) Invest in your President! ---
**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 14, 2024, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4837 "2024-04-14T13:37:17Z")
> **[Will Biden be on the ballot in Ohio and Alabama? That's up to Republicans](https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-presidential-race-biden-ballot-access-67a8da6962fabde0af3923409cf8d1b1)** > > Democratic President Joe Biden’s campaign is wrangling with Republican-dominated state governments in Ohio and Alabama to assure he is listed on their fall ballots. > COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is wrangling with Republican-dominated state governments in Ohio and Alabama to assure [he is listed on their fall ballots](https://apnews.com/article/biden-election-2024-ohio-ballot-e674776d8832905986d848b7546d0240), as once-mundane procedural negotiations get caught up in the nation’s fractious politics. > > Both states, which carry a combined 26 electoral votes, **have deadlines for appearing on the ballot that precede the Democratic National Convention** from Aug. 19 to Aug. 22 in Chicago. Lawyers for Biden’s campaign have asked their secretaries of state to accept provisional certifications before the cutoff, which would then be updated once Biden is formally nominated. > > That’s where things have gotten sticky. Election chiefs in both states have identified solutions that are putting Democrats in the tenuous position of asking Republicans for help. Though former President Donald Trump is favored to win both states, any absence of a sitting president from the ballot could sway faith in the electoral outcome. > > It also raises the question: Will the divided parties be able to cooperate for the sake of voters? > … (My bold) Good fucking grief. 🤦🏽‍♀️ ---
**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:** [April 14, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4838 "2024-04-14T21:29:06Z")
Moses Mike goes on Fox News to talk about how he wants to pass a law making it illegal for noncitizens to vote - and Fox puts the text of the law that already does that onscreen with him. > ---
**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 15, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4839 "2024-04-15T00:13:27Z")
I don’t know what his actual plan is, but he said you’ll have to prove you’re a citizen, which to my ears, sounds like a Voter ID law. ---
**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 15, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4840 "2024-04-15T00:30:23Z")
He’s going to legislate that all polling stations must have a brown paper bag stapled to the entrance, and you might be a lighter tone than the bag to be allowed in. [![](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/044/241/skincover.jpg) ](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/044/241/skincover.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=241) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=243)