# 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:** 286
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5701 "2024-06-08T21:19:12Z")
Monday’s Headlines: 4 killed, dozens hospitalized by thrown water bottles at CONVICTED FELON’s rally in Las Vegas. “It was hot, so we froze the bottles so the people could have cold water.” said an idiot rally organizer. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2024, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5702 "2024-06-08T21:28:33Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > So naturally Convict Donald is holding an outdoor rally for his devoted legions of mush-brained Boomers without health insurance. Wonder how well the felon will hold up under the heat. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5703 "2024-06-08T21:35:10Z")
This could be his chance for a William Henry Harrison moment. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5704 "2024-06-08T23:02:15Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Monday’s Headlines: 4 killed, dozens hospitalized by thrown water bottles at CONVICTED FELON’s rally in Las Vegas. > > “It was hot, so we froze the bottles so the people could have cold water.” said an idiot rally organizer. Did you post that before or after you read the [news](https://www.yahoo.com/news/multiple-hospitalized-trump-rally-due-235127192.html)? (Link goes to Yahoo.) > Eleven people have been hospitalized while waiting for a rally featuring Donald Thursday in Phoenix, where temperatures climbed to a sweltering 110 degrees and lingered in the triple digits. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5705 "2024-06-08T23:17:46Z")
You must have a seventh sense! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5706 "2024-06-09T00:14:59Z")
After. I’m good but I’m not _that_ good. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2024, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5707 "2024-06-09T00:45:00Z")
> **[U.S. Senator Exposed for Spreading Russian, Iranian Propaganda Against America](https://2paragraphs.com/2024/06/u-s-senator-exposed-for-spreading-russian-iranian-propaganda-against-america/)** > > Large covert operations to influence Americans and American lawmakers are a constant in the digital information war tactics of Iran, Russia, and China. A Washington Post article revealed this week th “…The site, as an alleged purveyor of Russian and Iranian propaganda and disinformation, has had some high-level American assistance in disseminating its stories to the public — sometimes by members of the U.S. government. Senator **Mike Lee** (R-UT), for example, is known to have used Grayzone stories as a prompt to question his own government’s activities, evidently goaded into doing this by Putin propagandists and Iranian covert digital operatives working through fringe news blogs.” ---
**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:** [June 9, 2024, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5708 "2024-06-09T00:50:30Z")
(Never mind) ---
**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:** [June 9, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5709 "2024-06-09T21:10:29Z")
The heat must be getting to Convict Donald’s brain, because he accidentally told his audience the truth today; > ---
**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:** [June 9, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5710 "2024-06-09T21:42:38Z")
Part of his new found love of absentee ballots. “Get’em filled out quick before you croak folks.” and… “Send money, I didn’t get to be a billionaire millionaire spending my own money!” ---
**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:** [June 9, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5711 "2024-06-09T22:36:06Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Part of his new found love of absentee ballots. I like that he’s promoting that. Not only because it’s good for everyone, but also I think it’ll create more infighting as I see RW politicians still pushing back against it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5712 "2024-06-09T22:45:19Z")
He’s already tried to pass that off as “joking”. > **[Trump complains about his teleprompters at a scorching Las Vegas rally](https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/trump-complains-about-his-teleprompters-at-a-scorching-las-vegas-rally/6VYXN3O6HNATBKFN5IMGUQDDNE/)** > > LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former President Donald Trump rallied voters in the scorching heat of Las Vegas, at points telling his supporters to ask for help if needed and appearing irritable with the teleprompters that he said were not working. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5713 "2024-06-09T23:05:07Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > He’s already tried to pass that off as “joking”. Funny thing. In his entire life he has told a grand total of zero jokes. The only times he has said he was joking are when there’s been pushback over his moronic comments. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5714 "2024-06-09T23:53:41Z")
p.s. Heinlein had one of his characters say “humor is something bad that happens to someone else”. For Tan the Convictman, that definition isn’t for humor; it’s his sole goal. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2024, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5715 "2024-06-10T00:03:21Z")
> “I don’t care about you. I just want your vote. I don’t care.” ---
**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:** [June 10, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5716 "2024-06-10T00:05:12Z")
“I don’t care, do you?” [![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/06/22/us/politics/22dc-melania-jacket/merlin_140003229_42fb039a-aeb8-41c6-93cd-72f3810dac4a-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) ](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/06/22/us/politics/22dc-melania-jacket/merlin_140003229_42fb039a-aeb8-41c6-93cd-72f3810dac4a-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5717 "2024-06-10T00:32:01Z")
That was “humor” in the same way that Gerald Ratner’s confession that his products were “total crap” was humor: I’m inclined that it perhaps was an attempt at humor, but was also saying the quiet part out loud at the same time. What got me, though, was the claim that he didn’t want anyone “going on him”. I thought he was into that stuff. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5718 "2024-06-10T00:32:12Z")
Remember when the Republicans tried to claim that Obama’s use of teleprompters was an unforgivable sin? ---
**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:** [June 10, 2024, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5719 "2024-06-10T01:09:47Z")
Wait just a minute here! Are you saying there was government-provided healthcare? How woke! ---
**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:** [June 10, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5720 "2024-06-10T02:12:15Z")
Found on Craigslist; "Looking for someone to attend the Trump rally on Sunday. It would be a marketing promo so we would ask you to wear a shirt of the brand and also carry a sign. Bonus payment ($50) if you end up on broadcast! Picking up shirts / signs + attending event estimated at a total of 3-4 hours of work. $75 flat payment + $50 potential bonus." > **[Paid to attend Trump rally! - event gigs - craigslist](https://lasvegas.craigslist.org/evg/d/las-vegas-paid-to-attend-trump-rally/7754538765.html)** > > Looking for someone to attend the Trump rally on Sunday. It would be a marketing promo so we would ask you to wear a shirt of the brand and also carry a sign. Bonus payment ($50) if you end up on... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=285) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=287)