# 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:** 55
**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:** [September 16, 2023, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1081 "2023-09-16T01:09:06Z")
There’s also a number of non-voting folks who had their registration removed without notification for signature and name matching, their polling place moved or closed, or had the state legislature decide to remove entire categories from voting eligibility. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1082 "2023-09-16T02:03:36Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > You are counting the non-voters, I assume. Most likely around 20~25% of those eligible to vote either DNGAFF or simply lack the motivation/intellect to GAF. Can someone spell out those damned acronyms? ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1083 "2023-09-16T02:12:37Z")
I _think_ the first is Does Not Give A Flying F**k And I _think_ the second is Give A F**k. I could be wrong, but that’s my guess. ---
**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 16, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1084 "2023-09-16T02:21:03Z")
Yes, someone who doesn’t give a fuck is synonymous with someone who’s fine with Trump. I’m not sure what part of that is disputable. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1085 "2023-09-16T02:22:22Z")
Thanks, but we’re all grown-ups here. There’s no reason not to spell out the word. (Fuck for anyone else who was confused.) ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1086 "2023-09-16T02:29:04Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > New video from inside the theater shows Boebert groping her date’s crotch while he paws her breasts Wow, it does. He starts being handsy, she brushes him off a couple times then he goes full boob grab and that’s fine. A sec later she grabs his crotch. During a touring Broadway show. It’s quite something. Boebert apologized, citing her difficult divorce. 🙄 > **[“I simply fell short of my values”: Lauren Boebert issues apology after being...](https://coloradosun.com/2023/09/15/lauren-boebert-apology-beetlejuice/)** > > The Republican congresswoman said “while none of my actions or words as a private citizen that night were intended to be malicious or meant to cause harm, the reality is they did and I regret that” ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1087 "2023-09-16T02:32:44Z")
Translation: “Fuck. There’s video.” ---
**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:** [September 16, 2023, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1088 "2023-09-16T02:42:44Z")
Stick a fork in her, she’s done. She has broken the Second Law of Modern Republicanism. She apologized. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1089 "2023-09-16T02:46:07Z")
I’d like to know more the source for those vids. Do theaters have IR security cameras watching everyone in the audience these days? Were these folks recognizable enough celebs that somebody trained a camera on them specifically? Was that some customer’s mobile recording or something built into the building? etc. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1090 "2023-09-16T02:48:36Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I’d like to know more the source for those vids. > > Do theaters have IR security cameras watching everyone in the audience these days? Were these folks recognizable enough celebs that somebody trained a camera on them specifically? **Was that some customer’s mobile recording or something built into the building?** etc. - From the angle and apparent distance, I’d say ceiling or wall camera. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1091 "2023-09-16T02:51:19Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I’d like to know more the source for those vids. Are you questioning the veracity/provenance ? It looks very much like already released video from that night – same look, same angle. I have no trouble believing it’s from that same camera. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1092 "2023-09-16T02:52:14Z")
Not questioning the veracity at all. I’d just like to know if I can count on being covertly ~~observed~~ recorded in the next dark theater I attend. I’m no celeb, but I don’t much favor being routinely recorded in places with if not exactly an expectation of privacy, at least an expectation of non-observation. ---
**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 16, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1093 "2023-09-16T02:54:22Z")
The governor of South Dakota tells us that [marriage is between one man and one woman, and one other man](https://boingboing.net/2023/09/15/family-values-zealot-kristi-noem-has-been-cheating-on-her-husband-for-years-says-daily-mail.html) and cuckoldry lies at the heart of family values. OK, she did not actually say that, and denies schtupping that Lewandowski guy, despite substantial evidence. Which seems to suggest that “family values” means “dude, whatever”. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1094 "2023-09-16T02:56:41Z")
“Family values” is code for “_Your_ family should live by the values _I_ tell them to”. Always has meant that and nothing else. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2023, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1095 "2023-09-16T03:01:16Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > Do theaters have IR security cameras watching everyone in the audience these days? > > From the angle and apparent distance, I’d say ceiling or wall camera. And these days I think it’s more common for cameras to have IR/Night Vision than to not have it. ---
**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 16, 2023, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1096 "2023-09-16T03:04:06Z")
I am pretty sure her actions matched her values to a t. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1097 "2023-09-16T04:54:03Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > The governor of South Dakota tells us that [marriage is between one man and one woman, and one other man](https://boingboing.net/2023/09/15/family-values-zealot-kristi-noem-has-been-cheating-on-her-husband-for-years-says-daily-mail.html) and cuckoldry lies at the heart of family values. > > OK, she did not actually say that, and denies schtupping that Lewandowski guy, despite substantial evidence. Which seems to suggest that “family values” means “dude, whatever”. This story has been kicking around for a while now, although the Daily Mail now claims to have receipts. But it first surfaced in a Trump propaganda site called American Greatness, almost two years ago. I hate them, but I have to grudgingly give them props for the title. > **[Kristi Noem Shows Why Republicans Can’t Have Nice Things](https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/28/kristi-noem-shows-why-republicans-cant-have-nice-things/)** > > Multiple sources have informed American Greatness that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is having an extramarital affair with adviser Corey Lewandowski, who previously served as a campaign manager… This story broke around the time Lewandowski was arrested for harassing and assaulting Trashelle Odum, the wife of a donor at a campaign event at a Las Vegas Benihana. He [pled out](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/28/lewandowski-cuts-deal-sexual-charges-00059269) to a deal that included counseling, fines and community service. Trump also promised the donor, the husband of the woman that was assaulted, that he’d kick Lewandowski out of MAGA World. He lied, Trump took him back after a couple of months. This was not the first time that Lewandowski was arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery after assaulting a woman at a Trump campaign event. In 2016 he was charged with assaulting Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields. It wasn’t even the second time that a woman called the cops after Lewandowski assaulted her at a campaign event. In 2017 a singer and MAGA acolyte named Joy Villa filed a police report claiming he assaulted her at a campaign event, although it’s not clear what action the police took. Lewandowski has also been romantically linked to Hope Hicks. And he’s been married the whole time. ---
**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 16, 2023, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1098 "2023-09-16T08:59:47Z")
Or “We only value certain families.” One’s that don’t look like “problematic” Cheerios advertising. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1099 "2023-09-16T09:10:04Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > There’s also a number of non-voting folks who had their registration removed without notification for signature and name matching, their polling place moved or closed, **or had the state legislature decide to remove entire categories from voting eligibility.** _From Season 2 of “Galavant”:_ Galavant: So, the butcher gets a vote? Peasant John: Yep! King Richard: The baker gets a vote? John: Yep, and everyone who couldn’t vote before! Peasant #1: Except of course the women Peasant #2: And we won’t let him or him in John: We mean everybody else Peasant #3: Except the poor! John: Then we vote on every pressing public question Either- Peasants: Yay! John: Or- Peasants: Nay! John: Everybody gets to choose Peasant #2: Except the you know whos John + Peasants: As we build a new tomorrow here today! John: If you’d like to make a statement or suggestion Simply stand Peasant #4: Oh! John: And hey! Peasant #4: Every person counts the same Peasant #1: Except of course the lame Peasant #2: …and the lepers! Peasant #3: …and the gingers! Peasant #4: …and the witches! Peasant #5: …and the heathens! Peasant #6: …and the bastards! Peasant #7: …and the gypsies! Peasant #8: …and the commies! Peasant #2: …and the hippies! Peasants: As we build a new tomorrow! Peasant John: A fair and square tomorrow! Peasants: A 'morrow where tomorrow live today! So we all would march together towards the future John: Well not all per se Just the ones who look like me Peasants: It’s called democracy! Peasant #8: The landed! Peasant #3: …and the wealthy! Peasant #5: …and the pious! Peasant #7: …and the healthy! Peasant #1: …and the straight ones! Peasant #2: …and the pale ones! Peasant #1: …and we only mean the male ones! John: If you’re all of the above, then you’re ok! John + Peasants: As we build a new tomorrow here today! ---
**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 16, 2023, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1100 "2023-09-16T09:35:18Z")
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