# 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:** 315
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6281 "2024-07-14T19:23:17Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > …or follow it here. Many thanks to those Dopers who have greater intestinal fortitude than some of us. . Yes, good point! Seriously, it will be horrific. Between the reverence for the Dear Leader and the self-righteousness and the (only-slightly-veiled) calls for political violence, it will be like watching a Nuremberg rally. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6282 "2024-07-14T23:24:08Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > It’s going to be a combination of ALL HAIL SAINT TRUMP and WE MUST HAVE OUR GUNS READY FOR INEVITABLE DEMOCRAT-VIOLENCE AGAINT US (with plenty of ‘shoot first and ask questions later’ hints). I would approve of the republican convention being fully open carry, with every single person fully armed. Would be… interesting. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6283 "2024-07-14T23:36:41Z")
If the NRA convention won’t do it, and they sometimes don’t, the GOP convention sure won’t. ETA: The NRA did allow guns except at their Leadership Forum when Trump was present. [source.](https://www.factcheck.org/2023/04/posts-mislead-on-rules-for-guns-at-nra-convention-utah-gop-event/) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6284 "2024-07-14T23:44:56Z")
Make it ten-cent beer nights too. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6285 "2024-07-14T23:51:30Z")
Free firecrackers at the door ---
**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:** [July 15, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6286 "2024-07-15T01:16:01Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Yeah. The GOP Convention speakers will be calling for violence in plausibly-deniable terms. Every one of them. Why does anything have to be _plausibly deniable_ for today’s GOP? AFAICT, they deny all kinds of things, no matter how implausible their denials are. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2024, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6287 "2024-07-15T01:18:08Z")
Maybe the convention caterers can dmso acid over everything. ETA: They’ll need gloves. (the caterers) ---
**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:** [July 15, 2024, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6288 "2024-07-15T01:21:21Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Maybe the convention caterers can dmso acid over everything. Does anyone remember the scene in Illuminatus! where the Discordians spike the punch at a Knights of Columbus convention with a drug that simultaneously makes you extremely creative and completely credulous, and within minutes the assembled brothers have renounced Catholicism and embraced geocentrism? I’m not sure I want to know what something like that would do to 2024 Republicans. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2024, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6289 "2024-07-15T09:29:15Z")
Power really makes some people think they’re hot stuff, huh? And no one’s gonna think otherwise or turn ‘em in? I know Biden has 200 other things going on, but I hope he appoints another judge here soon. [https://apnews.com/article/alaska-federal-judge-resigns-impeachment-52544f3a7c9f78b864555df8d7b8609c](https://apnews.com/article/alaska-federal-judge-resigns-impeachment-52544f3a7c9f78b864555df8d7b8609c) ---
**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:** [July 15, 2024, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6290 "2024-07-15T11:32:41Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Maybe the convention caterers can dmso acid over everything. You can skip the dmso: acid in sufficient quantity is itself capable of skin transit (“sufficient” being a pretty small number). ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6291 "2024-07-15T17:01:11Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > Yeah. The GOP Convention speakers will be calling for violence in plausibly-deniable terms. Every one of them. > > Why does anything have to be _plausibly deniable_ for today’s GOP? AFAICT, they deny all kinds of things, no matter how implausible their denials are. I agree that GOP professionals and spokespeople no longer censor themselves much. They know the Supreme Court, at the very least, has their backs—they can say and do just about anything without consequences. However, they do still enjoy baiting Democratic politicians as well as (or especially) the media. So they like to keep their calls for violence JUST this side of overt. That way they not only get the fun of denying they called for violence, they get the cash rewards of complaining to their base that they are being unfairly accused of calling for violence. (Even though they ARE calling for violence.) We’re all wondering if Trump will flirt with “unity” messages this convention, not only himself but from his minions. I expect he’s watching focus groups and flash polls covering that very topic, and will choose accordingly. '_Call for the slaughter of every Democrat, which will thrill the suckers, I mean the Base? Or pretend to be the Uniter and win over some moderate voters? Hmm…’_ ---
**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:** [July 15, 2024, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6292 "2024-07-15T17:14:13Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > However, they do still enjoy baiting Democratic politicians as well as (or especially) the media. So they like to keep their calls for violence JUST this side of overt. That way they not only get the fun of denying they called for violence, they get the cash rewards of complaining to their base that they are being unfairly accused of calling for violence. (Even though they ARE calling for violence.) Nah, still doesn’t matter to them. Some of these folks would say things like “I look forward to brutally murdering all Democrats and watching their warm, red blood seep through my fingers”, and still insist that they’re not calling for violence. What they can deny bears no relationship to plausibility at all. And, of course, the news media will obligingly print headlines saying “Senator Bloodbath denounces violence; denies claims of calling for violence”. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6293 "2024-07-15T17:46:24Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Some of these folks would say things like “I look forward to brutally murdering all Democrats and watching their warm, red blood seep through my fingers”, and still insist that they’re not calling for violence. Sadly, you’re right about that (and about the media playing along). All these people are aware, however, that not every voter—particularly the contested ‘moderates and independents’—will hear the clip of Senator Bloodbath saying “I look forward to brutally murdering all Democrats, and of course I denounce violence” and then to Jake Tapper saying “Senator Bloodbath denounces violence” … and buy it. So that’s at least a teensy check on some of them. Only on those in districts that aren’t fully blood-red, of course. Still, that is a few. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6294 "2024-07-15T17:53:43Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Some of these folks would say things like “I look forward to brutally murdering all Democrats and watching their warm, red blood seep through my fingers”, and still insist that they’re not calling for violence. C’mon, no sitting US Representative, even if they were from, let’s say, Texas, would say something [so ridiculous.](https://www.sacurrent.com/news/san-antonio-us-rep-chip-roy-says-he-wants-to-ethnic-cleanse-white-progressives-34866152) Oops, when he says he wants to ethnically cleanse us white liberals, he’s talking about deporting us to… somewhere. So it’s OK, my apologies. Not violent at all. Just loading us on trains to a convenient gathering point before sending us to our final destination. Really quite benign, when you think about it. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2024, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6295 "2024-07-15T18:25:04Z")
This has been making the rounds on imgur: [![](https://i.imgur.com/a1E5Kp2.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/a1E5Kp2.jpeg) > [@Chronos](#): > > And, of course, the news media will obligingly print headlines saying “Senator Bloodbath denounces violence; denies claims of calling for violence”. And we need to remind the media who these people are: [![](https://i.imgur.com/h03O3Pf.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/h03O3Pf.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2024, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6296 "2024-07-15T18:47:14Z")
> [@](#): > > High-profile [Republicans](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/republican-party) have immediately blamed [Donald Trump](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump)’s near-assassination on Democrats calling him a threat to democracy. > > House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said on Sunday that “when the message goes out constantly that the election of Donald Trump would be a threat to democracy and that the republic would end, it heats up the environment.” > Other [Republicans](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/republican-party) were more explicit. Shortly after the shooting at Trump’s Pennsylvania campaign rally on Saturday, Sen. [J.D. Vance](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/jd-vance) (R-Ohio) [said on social media](https://x.com/JDVance1/status/1812280973628965109) that President [Joe Biden](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/joe-biden)’s rhetoric “led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination,” while Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) [said in his own social media post](https://x.com/votetimscott/status/1812290893312901259), “This was an assassination attempt aided and abetted by the radical Left and corporate media incessantly calling Trump a threat to democracy, fascists, or worse.” So the Republicans are demanding that Democrats stop saying Trump is a threat to democracy? To quote Thomas Jefferson’s lines in the musical **1776** --“King George is a tyrant whether or not we say so. We might as well say so.” > **[Republicans Say Calling Donald Trump A Threat To Democracy Led To...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-trump-threat-to-democracy_n_669434fae4b01c0df9900430)** > > Republican rhetoric against Joe Biden, meanwhile, has been no less apocalyptic. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6297 "2024-07-15T18:49:04Z")
Not to mention thatb Trump has been saying the same thing: > [@](#): > > [In an email just last week](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/07f5cbd4-e3f8-41dc-ae18-03db07d8c058?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ncl_amplify&utm_campaign=240708-crooked_biden_recap_biden_doubling_down_on_dishonesty&utm_content=ncl-DJpuG3Z7Vs&_nlid=DJpuG3Z7Vs&_nhids=yOjnHv9Plg), the Trump campaign used the exact wording Republicans are now decrying in the wake of the assassination attempt: “Biden is a threat to democracy.” ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6298 "2024-07-15T18:53:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > [In an email just last week](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/07f5cbd4-e3f8-41dc-ae18-03db07d8c058?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ncl_amplify&utm_campaign=240708-crooked_biden_recap_biden_doubling_down_on_dishonesty&utm_content=ncl-DJpuG3Z7Vs&_nlid=DJpuG3Z7Vs&_nhids=yOjnHv9Plg), the Trump campaign used the exact wording Republicans are now decrying in the wake of the assassination attempt: “Biden is a threat to democracy.” But, Trump was just joking. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6299 "2024-07-15T23:35:53Z")
Mike Johnson: Joe Biden can’t speak without a teleprompter Also Mike Johnson: Flees the RNC stage for 40 minutes because the teleprompter went out > ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6300 "2024-07-16T01:51:00Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Oops, when he says he wants to ethnically cleanse us white liberals, he’s talking about deporting us to… somewhere. So it’s OK, my apologies. Not violent at all. Just loading us on trains to a convenient gathering point before sending us to our final destination. Really quite benign, when you think about it. It is a solution with a certain finality to it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=314) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=316)