# 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:** 303
**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 25, 2024, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6041 "2024-06-25T11:19:45Z")
If you don’t think, you can’t ever be wrong. Infallible! ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6042 "2024-06-25T13:18:11Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > [posted quote] > With a $100,000 grant from the influential [Heritage Foundation](https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981), the goal is to post 100 names of government workers to a website this summer to show a potential new administration who might be standing in the way of [a second-term Trump agenda](https://apnews.com/article/trump-policies-agenda-election-2024-second-term-d656d8f08629a8da14a65c4075545e0f) — and ripe for scrutiny, [reclassifications, reassignments or firings](https://apnews.com/article/biden-2024-government-regulations-democrats-6badc3b424b9eff3ba51e0ec35a8d824). “I have in my hand a list of 100 members of the communist party working in the government!” Sounds like Joe McCarthy. Mmm… I wonder if there is any person who’s a direct link between McCarthy and Trump? ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6043 "2024-06-25T13:25:31Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > I wonder if there is any person who’s a direct link between McCarthy and Trump? Satan. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6044 "2024-06-25T13:39:27Z")
Satan needs his ass kicked. ---
**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 25, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6045 "2024-06-25T13:49:37Z")
How far did this guy think he was gonna get? And what dumbass plan did he have if he got away? > **[Arizona election worker arrested after allegedly stealing security fob for...](https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/politics/arizona-election-worker-arrested-maricopa-county/index.html)** > > A temporary election worker in Arizona was arrested Saturday after allegedly stealing a security fob and keys from the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center, according to court documents obtained by CNN. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6046 "2024-06-25T13:55:12Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > How far did this guy think he was gonna get? And what dumbass plan did he have if he got away? Now now, there’s no indication that this stupid idea was perpetrated by a Republican. (But that’s sure the way I’d bet.) ---
**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:** [June 25, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6047 "2024-06-25T14:03:46Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > How far did this guy think he was gonna get? He believed the lies about poor election security. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6048 "2024-06-25T14:07:22Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > Satan. Not bad: [DEAL WITH THE DEVIL](https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2017/8/deal-with-the-devil) _Vanity Fair_, August 2017 > In 1973, a brash young would-be developer from Queens met one of New York’s premier power brokers: Roy Cohn, whose name is still synonymous with the rise of McCarthyism and its dark political arts. At 27, Donald Trump took the ruthless attorney as his sometime guide, learning many of the tactics that would inexplicably propel him to the White House. MARIE BRENNER untangles the symbiosis that bound them until Cohn’s death from AIDS in 1986 ---
**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:** [June 25, 2024, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6049 "2024-06-25T18:13:24Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Sounds like Joe McCarthy. Mmm… I wonder Tailgunner McDrunkyface has defenders. I have seen instances of RWs arguing that there _were_ communists within the US government and they have evidence of it. Of course, we know the movie industry is an arm of the government, so that was the place to start. ---
**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 25, 2024, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6050 "2024-06-25T19:30:31Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Tailgunner McDrunkyface I’m sorry, who? This is why I’m not a fan of all the nicknames. Not just here, all over the internet. A nickname that makes perfect sense and is beyond obvious to one person is meaningless to another. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6051 "2024-06-25T19:34:01Z")
McCarthy was a Tail Gunner in WWII and was an alcoholic. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2024, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6052 "2024-06-25T19:38:54Z")
Joseph McCarthy. He falsely claimed to be tail gunner in WWII. The term Tail Gunner Joe was used derisively, and was the title of a biopic starring Peter Boyle. McCarthy was also known to have an alcohol problem. ---
**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 25, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6053 "2024-06-25T19:39:49Z")
Good lord, if this is what Trump is like on alertness medications, imagine how he’d be sober! And is the Ronny Jackson who’s spending Congressional campaign funds in Texas the same Ronny Jackson who’s doping up Trump? EDIT: To answer my own question, yes, they’re the same person. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6054 "2024-06-25T19:43:14Z")
I thought he really was one, but it looks like while technically he played in that position it was just basically on friendly games, so to speak: > [@wikipedia](#): > > He volunteered to fly twelve combat missions as a gunner-observer. These missions were generally safe, and after one where he was allowed to shoot as much ammunition as he wanted to, mainly at coconut trees, he acquired the nickname “Tail-Gunner Joe”. Some of his claims of heroism were later shown to be exaggerated or falsified, leading many of his critics to use “Tail-Gunner Joe” as a term of mockery.[[6]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy#cite_note-Garraty,_John_1989_p._24-6)[[7]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy#cite_note-O'Brien,_Steven_1991_p._265-7)[[8]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy#cite_note-The_Comics_Journal-8) ---
**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 25, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6055 "2024-06-25T20:01:51Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > McCarthy was a Tail Gunner in WWII and was an alcoholic. > [@commasense](#): > > Joseph McCarthy. He falsely claimed to be tail gunner in WWII. The term Tail Gunner Joe was used derisively, and was the title of a biopic starring Peter Boyle. > > McCarthy was also known to have an alcohol problem. Thanks > [@Chronos](#): > > Good lord, if this is what Trump is like on alertness medications, imagine how he’d be sober! As someone that’s been on Adderall for more than half my life, my WAG is that the Trump we saw in Merchan’s courtroom is un-medicated Trump, or close to it. Not so much the falling asleep part\*, but the general not paying attention, fidgeting, flipping through papers, doodling etc. I think if he was loaded up on amphetamines during court, the pictures we’d see would show him scowling to the point of being disruptive, constantly trying to interrupt, making comments under his breath etc. More than he was anyway. \*I’ll bet he has sleep apnea that’s contributing to that. Also, it honestly wouldn’t surprise me if his lawyers preferred him dozing off instead of micromanaging everything. ---
**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 25, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6056 "2024-06-25T20:27:54Z")
The True Believers have decided Trump isn’t MAGA enough for them and are plotting to throw the convention into chaos. > **[MAGA infighting in state primaries puts the GOP into disarray](https://www.salon.com/2024/06/25/from-virginia-to-colorado-maga-infighting-during-primaries-puts-the-into-disarray/)** > > Far-right Republicans in Arizona threaten revolt against Donald Trump for being too "deep state" ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6057 "2024-06-25T21:20:50Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And is the Ronny Jackson who’s spending Congressional campaign funds in Texas the same Ronny Jackson who’s doping up Trump? AKA Dr. Ronny Johnson, according to cognitive test Acer Donald Trump. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6058 "2024-06-25T21:35:48Z")
This is great - I love it! How do we enhance this infighting? Maybe suggest one group of MAGA fruitcakes is planning to “rig” the nomination. The Democrats have been successful in getting Republicans to nominate crazy and weak candidates around the country that end up getting trounced - how to keep these “factions” fighting with one another? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6059 "2024-06-25T21:40:16Z")
Mike Flynn. Jesus Christ. I’d actually vote for Trump before voting for HIM. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2024, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6060 "2024-06-25T23:42:05Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Acer Donald Trump As annoying as I find maple trees (genus _acer_), I have to report that they object to having any association with Agent Orange. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=302) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=304)