# 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:** 263
**Author:** ![RAWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@RAWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RAWDuke)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5241 "2024-05-16T21:53:25Z")
They just wanted a legal reason to shoot trick-or-treaters ---
**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:** [May 16, 2024, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5242 "2024-05-16T23:12:46Z")
What if you wear it down around your chin like the dumbass MAGAts did during COVID? Are there exceptions for that? Also, what if you wear one just because you like to, not for any health reasons? Isn’t that violating your first amendment rights? ---
**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:** [May 16, 2024, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5243 "2024-05-16T23:40:44Z")
It’s just that masks are terribly comfortable – I think everyone will be wearing them in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5244 "2024-05-16T23:54:49Z")
_\*golf clap\*_ ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5245 "2024-05-17T00:32:00Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Wait a sec … when did Lecter die? Last I saw he was short one hand but otherwise healthy and on his way overseas. > **[Un-silence of the lambs: Donald Trump (again) praises fictional cannibal...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/13/donald-trump-hannibal-lecter-new-jersey-rally/73668610007/)** > > "The late, great Hannibal Lecter," former President Donald Trump said during a rally Saturday in New Jersey. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5246 "2024-05-17T01:25:56Z")
Turns out Samuel Alito was flying an upside-down flag in front of his house in between 1/6 and Biden’s inauguration. Alito has already thrown his wife under the bus. > **[New York Times: Upside-down US flag flew at home of Justice Samuel...](https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/politics/alito-upside-down-american-flag-house/index.html)** > > An upside-down American flag – a symbol used by some supporters of former President Donald Trump who challenged the legitimacy Joe Biden’s 2020 victory – hung outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after... > [@](#): > > “I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag,” Alito said in an emailed statement to the Times. “It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.” ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5247 "2024-05-17T01:36:32Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.” Wow - does that make _any_ sense to anyone? A “Stop the Steal” flag? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5248 "2024-05-17T01:58:40Z")
Anyone want to guess what the “objectionable and personally insulting” language was on the yard signs? I’m thinking it was “In this household, we believe…”. ---
**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 17, 2024, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5249 "2024-05-17T02:04:18Z")
Wait a minute. We’ve got a fucking Supreme Court justice flying a distress flag in front of his house because he doesn’t like the results of a presidential election? Good fucking gawd. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5250 "2024-05-17T02:31:12Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Anyone want to guess what the “objectionable and personally insulting” language was on the yard signs? Biden won. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5251 "2024-05-17T02:31:40Z")
Congresswoman Vapey McHandjob doesn’t know words so good, and also I think she might be planning to sexually prey upon Trump. > > ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5252 "2024-05-17T02:33:57Z")
“Hands where we can all see them Lauren!” ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5253 "2024-05-17T02:39:13Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > It does smack of relics, doesn’t it. I know this is from a couple of days ago but I wanted to say when I first heard about this I had the exact same thought. “Oh great, so they’re selling relics now. This is all moving so quickly. When do we get to the reformation?” Because come on, you know there’s going to be a schism in MAGA at some point. Probably when the orange one goes to eat at that big old McDonald’s in the sky. I shudder to think what’s going to happen to this movement when that happens. ---
**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 17, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5254 "2024-05-17T02:41:46Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > I shudder to think what’s going to happen to this movement when that happens. They’ll unite in the time-honored tradition of mass murdering people not part of that movement. And I’m not being flippant here. I really do believe that’s the first thing they’ll do when he finally dies. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5255 "2024-05-17T02:58:34Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > I shudder to think what’s going to happen to this movement when that happens. Has anyone heard from those people in Vanuatu who believed Prince Philip was the earthly incarnation of their god? I wonder how they’re doing ever since he passed on. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5256 "2024-05-17T04:25:31Z")
“I haven’t seen Joe Biden even read a telepomp, prompter, proply, properly” > ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5257 "2024-05-17T04:38:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “I haven’t seen Joe Biden even read a telepomp, prompter, proply, properly” - > > [x.com](https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1791287746138612104) Obviously she has two disadvantages compared to Biden. She’s stupid _and_ drunk. ---
**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 17, 2024, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5258 "2024-05-17T05:19:36Z")
The GOP is becoming more a toxic religion than a political party. [And their rituals are wasting taxpayer funds.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/let-trump-speak-act-ban-135807871.html) > Rep. [Andy Ogles](https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Andy%20Ogles) is introducing the “Let [Trump](https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Donald%20Trump) Speak Act” on Thursday to prohibit judges from issuing gag orders to defendants, like former [President Trump](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump), in any criminal or civil proceeding. There’s no chance of this inanity passing the Senate. I hold no hope on the House of Representatives stopping it in its tracks. ---
**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 17, 2024, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5259 "2024-05-17T05:29:33Z")
So Andy basically feels Trump should be allowed to threaten witnesses or numbers of the jury. Nice. ---
**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 17, 2024, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5260 "2024-05-17T05:48:25Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I decided to take the poll, put in all the answers they WEREN’T trying to get me to give, and signed my name as “Hannibal Lecter” in honor of Loser Donald’s late great friend. I did the same thing back around late-2017, answering a Trump poll with all the ‘wrong’ answers and signed the name as Nunya Bizness. The email address was suckmydickdonnie@[mydomain].com which forwards to my real address. I instantly became one of his staunchest supporters and got invited to all sorts of functions and offers to buy Trump-stuff, the usual campaign stuff at first, hats, yard signs, bumper stickers and the like, then crap like pajamas and $18 jars of honey. Then both his elder sons got into the act, stumping for their father – never Ivanka for some reason – then other random Republican candidates wanting campaign contributions, and finally a whole bunch of newsletters with names like _Congress Overwatch_ with one or two articles how awful the Democrats in general or Biden in particular are doing, along with a generous dose of ads for dodgy products – I’m waiting for colloidal silver to show up. All told now I’m getting ten to fifteen emails a day to that address. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=262) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=264)