# 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:** 395
**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:** [September 17, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7881 "2024-09-17T23:24:52Z")
I may be certifiably paranoid, but I totally think it was fake. And the first one, too. trump had his “send money” email out before the smell of gunpowder cleared the air. And if trump was actually shot the first time, we’d never hear the end of it. And he’d be selling pictures of his ear. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7882 "2024-09-17T23:51:17Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > No. I didn’t think to bring them up. He’s very convinced that there is a conspiracy of some sort regarding the fact that there has not been an attempt on Harris or Walz. …People are conspiring to not shoot them? ---
**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:** [September 17, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7883 "2024-09-17T23:53:45Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > He’s very convinced that there is a conspiracy of some sort regarding the fact that there has not been an attempt on Harris or Walz. A conspiracy to not assassinate the president? I’d like to hear that opening statement from the prosecutor. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7884 "2024-09-17T23:57:39Z")
I’m not sure that is your boss’s decision to make. By being the boss they’re forcing their political views on others. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7885 "2024-09-18T00:13:22Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I’m not sure that is your boss’s decision to make Unless _his_ boss says otherwise, either directly or through some kind of corporate policy, I’m pretty sure it _is_ his boss’ decision to make. We can debate whether it _should be_ his decision, or whether he is making a _good_ decision, but I don’t think it’s really questionable that it _is_ the boss’ decision. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > By being the boss they’re forcing their political views on others. And unless yet another layer of boss, or corporate policy, forbids this - it is not illegal (in most states, afaik, ianal, etc) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7886 "2024-09-18T01:02:55Z")
The problem is that since political affiliation isn’t an EEOC protected class, you can’t determine that pushing a political view is creating a hostile work environment. Now, if that right wing view involved racism, misogyny, homophobia, and so on, that’s a different story. But insisting on kooky RWNJ conspiracy shit in general is probably not gonna be actionable. You’re in a “live with it or quit” situation. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7887 "2024-09-18T01:16:09Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I may be certifiably paranoid, but I totally think it was fake. And the first one, too. I’d agree except that the shot was just too close to being fatal. There’s no way that kid could have successfully grazed him or have been sure that he shot him nonlethally. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2024, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7888 "2024-09-18T01:18:21Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > There’s no way that kid could have successfully grazed him I mean, I don’t think he was shot at. His “injury” was fake. Too bad about the actual dead guy, though. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2024, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7889 "2024-09-18T01:21:36Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > mean, I don’t think he was shot at. His “injury” was fake. And the blood cane from where, then? ---
**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:** [September 18, 2024, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7890 "2024-09-18T01:23:50Z")
Alt-right Twitter chuds are circulating a photo of Kamala Harris with Sean Combs, in an attempt to smear her by association with a man who’s just been arrested for sex trafficking. There’s one small problem, though - the man in the photo is Montel Williams. > > > JOSH DUNLAP @JDunlap1974 > **[Montel Williams trashes MAGA fan after they confuse him with Sean 'Diddy' Combs](https://www.rawstory.com/montel-williams/)** > > A MAGA fan on the social media site X claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris was linked to Sean "Diddy" Combs, who was arrested on multiple federal charges, including sex trafficking, this week.The problem, however, is that the video shared by... ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7891 "2024-09-18T01:29:17Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Then I remembered he is my boss and toned things down by agreeing with him that there is more to the story regarding Epstein. > > I managed to keep my job! There may be a bit of intimidation going on here, don’t know. Do you know who _might_ know? Your union (if you belong to one), and your State Employment Relations Department if you don’t. We may have our opinions here, but their opinions count…and asking is free. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7892 "2024-09-18T01:54:44Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > And the blood cane from where, then? Are you being funny, or serious? ---
**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:** [September 18, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7893 "2024-09-18T02:03:32Z")
Serious. I don’t buy that Trump faked getting shot at because that would require him to present himself as less than omnipotent and immortal, which his ego would never allow. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2024, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7894 "2024-09-18T02:07:16Z")
Then where did the injury go? You don’t take a .223 to the ear and not leave a mark. He’s lying, he always lies. At best he got hit by a piece of glass, but I really don’t think he was injured at all. This is a guy who can’t tell the truth about anything. This is a guy that brags he “aced” a mental acuity test. He might actualy believe he was shot. Who is going to tell him different? ---
**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:** [September 18, 2024, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7895 "2024-09-18T02:50:22Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Then where did the injury go? You don’t take a .223 to the ear and not leave a mark. He’s lying, he always lies. At best he got hit by a piece of glass, but I really don’t think he was injured at all. Most likely he was just barely grazed, or struck by a fragment of the bullet or some glass from the prompter. Considering his known aversion to the sight of blood there’s no way he would willingly make himself bleed, and I doubt he’d have the presence of mind to reach for a hidden blood pack while being shot at and tackled by the Secret Service. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2024, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7896 "2024-09-18T03:32:23Z")
Newt Gingrich accuses Kamala Harris of (checks notes) thinking of things that she wants to say and then remembering to say them later on. > I guess when your God-King is a blithering old dotard who can’t stay on message for ten seconds without shouting whatever thought crosses his mind at that instant, being able to stay on message must seem like cheating. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7897 "2024-09-18T03:38:59Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > … and I doubt he’d have the presence of mind to reach for a hidden blood pack while being shot at and tackled by the Secret Service. A _ketchup_ packet, on the other hand … ---
**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:** [September 18, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7898 "2024-09-18T03:55:06Z")
Surely someone can find that picture of him before the gunfire at an angle where you can just see the ketchup packet tucked behind his ear. It _must_ be out there. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7899 "2024-09-18T04:00:42Z")
And if you can’t find it, that’s just more evidence of the coverup! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7900 "2024-09-18T04:15:09Z")
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