# 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:** 358
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7141 "2024-08-19T19:09:29Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Oh, no. > No, no, no, no, no. > No-no-no. No. No-no-no. > No. . Hey, it’s not MY fault! Smapti was the one who said Lindell would “pull a Borat”…how could anyone _help_ picturing…you know. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7142 "2024-08-19T19:17:45Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Oh, no. > > No, no, no, no, no. > > No-no-no. No. No-no-no. > > No. Come on, take one for the team! Can you imagine anything else that would so perfectly cement the “These guys are weird” narrative? ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7143 "2024-08-19T19:33:02Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > That is his high road. Which is why I expect something more crass than simply pooping in a planter. It’s Chicago, who’d even notice? ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7144 "2024-08-19T19:33:17Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I don’t think she’ll endorse Harris. Not out of disagreement with her, just smart business. Right, just like she stayed out of politics in the 2020 Presidential race. I mean, it’s not like she posted a Pic on social media with herself and a Biden/Harris cake, or stated she was voting for them. Oh wait, that’s totally what she did. And she has now commented she wishes she had endorsed Hillary in 2016. Swift is an outspoken supporter of LGBT issues, abortion rights, and women’s rights, and outspoken against entitled male assholes. She has already entered the political fray on behalf of Democrats, drawing the ire of MAGA. I think she’s saving up her endorsement for a surprise convention appearance. That’s not even a wild prediction, my wild prediction is that Swift is the one that introduces Harris. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7145 "2024-08-19T19:39:37Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Oh, no. > > No, no, no, no, no. > > No-no-no. No. No-no-no. > > No. _Nobody can do the shing-a-ling like I do Nobody can do the skate like I do Nobody can do boogaloo like I do Nobody can do philly like I do_ ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7146 "2024-08-19T20:11:39Z")
What with Mike Lindell’s Snidely abiltity to be a master of disguise (losing the moustache), I guess the only way he’ll be spotted is if we see someone dropping their duds and bending over and then defecating in a planter. I’m just hoping he tries to crash the stage. And then get gooned on. Or just dragged out by one foot as he hollers and bellows on about oppressed pillows. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7147 "2024-08-19T20:17:08Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > I mean, it’s not like she posted a Pic on social media with herself and a Biden/Harris cake, or stated she was voting for them. Oh wait, that’s totally what she did. And she has now commented she wishes she had endorsed Hillary in 2016. Ok, I was totally unaware of this stuff. I knew she encouraged people to vote. Ok, I still wouldn’t show up at the DNC if I were her for security reasons, but maybe she’ll Zoom in. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7148 "2024-08-19T20:32:27Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Oh, no. > > No, no, no, no, no. > > No-no-no. No. No-no-no. > > No. Just cover it with a pillow. Do not let me tell you where to put it. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7149 "2024-08-19T20:41:08Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Calling this weak sauce is an insult to weak sauces. You mean, like, sauces made with a four ounce can of mild chili peppers? Yeah, that’s a lot stronger than anything the Republicans have. And I think that at least two of those “Swifties for Trump” pictures are real: They show the same woman, wearing the same shirt, with legible text, from two different angles, consistently: That’s a tall order for AI. Which still doesn’t prove anything beyond that they got someone to put on a T-shirt and pose for a couple of pictures in exchange for being told that she’d get paid. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7150 "2024-08-19T23:18:49Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > Mike Pillow is apparently planning to pull a Borat in order to sneak into the Democratic Convention. > > He’s going to take a dump in a planter outside the convention hall? I studiously avoid Borat so this is meaningless to me. Can someone catch me up? ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7151 "2024-08-19T23:21:26Z")
The premise of the Borat movies is that Sacha Baron Cohen disguises himself as a Khazakstani journalist, among other things, and has unscripted interactions with right-wingers in order to get them to say embarrassing things they wouldn’t say if they knew what was really going on. For example, in June 2020 he crashed an anti-locdown rally here in Olympia, WA, posing as a country musician, and got the audience to sing along with a song about infecting mask-wearers with “the Wuhan flu”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/O5ryIztqI5g/maxresdefault.jpg "Sacha Baron Cohen sing along") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ryIztqI5g) By saying “pull a Borat” I meant that Mr. Pillow intends to put on a costume and try to sneak in by pretending to be someone else. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7152 "2024-08-19T23:54:51Z")
Thanks. But what’s that about a planter? ---
**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:** [August 20, 2024, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7153 "2024-08-20T00:33:14Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > But what’s that about a planter? It is just a random dig at Rudy, suggesting that that is the kind of thing he would do when he is **not** drunk (not sure what year _that_ was). And, it could also be seen as a sly allusion to Four Seasons Total Landscaping. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7154 "2024-08-20T00:48:10Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > > [@Shoeless](#): > > > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > > > Mike Pillow is apparently planning to pull a Borat in order to sneak into the Democratic Convention. > > > > He’s going to take a dump in a planter outside the convention hall? > > Just so he doesn’t take a dump in the tuba or the saxophone. [Robin Williams] Oh my god…he said _SIT_ in with the band! [/Robin Williams] ---
**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:** [August 20, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7155 "2024-08-20T01:03:13Z")
Oh, Alex, will you ever learn? (Morgan Freeman narration: He would not.) [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVYjmc6WQAAd_D6?format=jpg&name=large) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVYjmc6WQAAd_D6?format=jpg&name=large) ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7156 "2024-08-20T01:03:31Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > > [@Ellecram](#): > > > > > [@Shoeless](#): > > > > > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > > > > > Mike Pillow is apparently planning to pull a Borat in order to sneak into the Democratic Convention. > > > > > > He’s going to take a dump in a planter outside the convention hall? > > > > Just so he doesn’t take a dump in the tuba or the saxophone. > > [Robin Williams] > > Oh my god…he said _SIT_ in with the band! > > [/Robin Williams] LOL! Yes I was referencing an old Robin Williams joke from many years ago! Happy someone caught it! ---
**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:** [August 20, 2024, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7157 "2024-08-20T01:14:02Z")
I love that he prefaces it with “This is not even satire!”. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7158 "2024-08-20T02:03:47Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [@Shoeless](#): > > > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > > > Mike Pillow is apparently planning to pull a Borat in order to sneak into the Democratic Convention. > > > > He’s going to take a dump in a planter outside the convention hall? > > I studiously avoid Borat so this is meaningless to me. Can someone catch me up? There’s a scene in the first Borat movie when he first comes to America and takes a dump in a planter in front of Trump Tower. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OXSay_GyfWM/maxresdefault.jpg "Borat Shits Before Trump Tower") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXSay_GyfWM) ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7159 "2024-08-20T02:26:00Z")
This is a guy that is super well-known for peddling proven fake conspiracy theories and is now being made fun of for falling for more stupid shit. The guy is a grade-A certified maroon. Go ahead and make fun of him, but make fun of all the other dipshits circling his orbit. It is dipshits all the way down. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2024, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7160 "2024-08-20T02:32:32Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I only got to this line “The nearly yearlong inquiry by Republicans stops short of alleging any criminal wrongdoing by the president”. Sounds like total exoneration to me. Biden should post “TOTAL EXONERATION” on Truth Social (he has an account). Someone on Harris’ excellent social media team should suggest that. It would be a great troll. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=357) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=359)