# 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:** 61
**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:** [September 22, 2023, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1201 "2023-09-22T11:29:46Z")
The best line was in your fist link, via Jon Stewart: > Clearly David Brooks is a man of the people who knows Obama would never fit in at an Applebee’s salad bar, or the McDonald’s beer garden, or a Wal-Mart observatory. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1202 "2023-09-22T11:33:12Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > I think the phrase “David Brooks burger” to describe the combination of an unremarkable ordinary meal with an expensive abundance of likkerdrinkin needs to become a standard idiom. > > “He was supposed to be in court all afternoon but went out for a David Brooks burger at lunch and didn’t show up till 3:30.” It’s David Brooks o’clock somewhere. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2023, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1203 "2023-09-22T11:58:36Z")
Why would he post such an idiotic thing? I seriously don’t get how he didn’t know how stupid and ridiculous this post is. :banging my head against a wall until I’m dead so I don’t have to deal with this kind of stupid fucking shit anymore: ---
**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:** [September 22, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1204 "2023-09-22T14:53:05Z")
Hey, at least he wasn’t sipping a latte like those ivory tower elites! ---
**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 22, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1205 "2023-09-22T15:06:45Z")
The rubes will only see, Biden/Obama inflation, $78 hamburger in their cult feeds. No explanation, no background, no questioning - just fear. ---
**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 22, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1206 "2023-09-22T15:13:18Z")
If I received a $78 bill for a hamburger I’d be afraid too. I’d be wondering if it was topped with gold or something. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1207 "2023-09-22T15:19:19Z")
The last time we flew, I got a check for our two breakfast sandwiches for $96. I initially thought we were given the wrong check, but my gf had placed the order for our drinks. Two black coffees and four bloody marys, doubles, with their good vodka. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2023, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1208 "2023-09-22T15:21:28Z")
Maybe he was just too drunk from the $50.00 worth of booze. I just think some of his followers might see a response from someone else that at least makes them go check a menu or something. FFS. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1209 "2023-09-22T15:43:29Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I just think some of his followers might see a response from someone else that at least makes them go check a menu or something. You’d hope that, wouldn’t you? I mean, with some of the culture wars stuff, you can understand why someone might be ignorant, like they’ve literally never met a transgender person, or something. But goddamn it, unless you’re literally a hermit, you _have_ to have gone to a restaurant a few times, right?!!?! You have to know that booze adds up way faster than burgers, right? _Right?!?!?!_ Okay, maybe not Mormons, but _everyone else_, right? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1210 "2023-09-22T15:49:14Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > The last time we flew, I got a check for our two breakfast sandwiches for $96. I initially thought we were given the wrong check, but my gf had placed the order for our drinks. Two black coffees and four bloody marys, doubles, with their good vodka. Heck of a breakfast. That’ll perk you right up before putting you down hard ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1211 "2023-09-22T15:54:59Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Heck of a breakfast. We like to start vacation running hard. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1212 "2023-09-22T16:03:25Z")
Yeah talk about your Breakfast Of Champions 🤪 ---
**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 22, 2023, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1213 "2023-09-22T18:24:23Z")
> **[Republican lawmakers seek to withdraw Wisconsin from group that has caught...](https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/09/22/wisconsin-republicans-seek-to-leave-eric-voter-data-consortium/70929354007/)** > > ERIC comprises 25 states and has become a target of Republicans since former President Trump launched a baseless effort to discredit election systems. I’m not familiar with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), but it’s (one of it’s?) jobs is to catch people that have voted in more than one state. Republicans, who are super duper against that kind of stuff want Wisconsin to leave ERIC. Their reasoning is that, according to them, ERIC has “placed more of a priority on registering voters as opposed to ensuring the accuracy of voter registration lists”. We’ll leave that whole discussion alone since I don’t believe it’s the actual reason. You’d think a group meant to find people voting twice would be supported by the R’s, however, they’re trying to get rid of it and the Left is trying to keep it. My prediction is that they’re trying to get rid of it, to make it _easier_ for people to vote twice. As we’ve found in the past, the vast majority of people that cast multiple votes are republicans. ---
**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 22, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1214 "2023-09-22T18:29:24Z")
> **[Electronic Registration Information Center](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Registration_Information_Center?useskin=vector)** > > The Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that is operated and financed by state elections agencies and chief elections officials. > At least every 60 days, each ERIC state submits their voter registration data and motor vehicle licensing data to ERIC. ERIC's technical staff matches that data against data from all the other member states and Social Security death data. ERIC identifies voters who have moved, voters who have died, and vote... From their wiki: > Participating states are required to mail notifications to people identified as eligible to vote but not registered > At least every 60 days, each ERIC state submits their voter registration data and motor vehicle licensing data to ERIC. ERIC’s technical staff matches that data against data from all the other member states and [Social Security death data](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Master_File). ERIC identifies voters who have moved, voters who have died, and voters with duplicate registrations within a state’s database > Follow-up research in some states concluded that 10% to 20% of those contacted had later registered to vote, a high response rate for direct mailings. That rate suggests 2.6 million to 5.2 million of the 26 million people notified became voters So maybe it really is because they’re registering (or correcting registrations for) so many people. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1215 "2023-09-22T19:09:44Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > My prediction is that they’re trying to get rid of it, to make it _easier_ for people to vote twice. As we’ve found in the past, the vast majority of people that cast multiple votes are republicans. Ron DeSantis wants Florida to leave ERIC too. I firmly believe it is to allow people to vote in two places. Especially Floridians who spend a large part of their year up north. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1216 "2023-09-22T19:16:03Z")
I lean a bit more towards “It informs people that they’re eligible to vote.” ---
**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:** [September 22, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1217 "2023-09-22T19:28:32Z")
Although I’m sure they have no problem with a few people double voting (as long as they’re the _right_ people), the fact that ERIC has only identified “scores” of people doing it means it can’t really be a serious strategy for changing election outcomes. But voter suppression can be, and has been, for decades. Republicans are a minority of the population, and their numbers are shrinking. Any effort that increases registration generally will increase the number of registered Democrats and independents more than Republicans. Republicans realized long ago that they can only win by suppressing the number of people who vote. They consistently oppose Get Out the Vote efforts everywhere. ERIC requires member states to reach out to eligible non-registered citizens, which would tend to register more Democrats. This is why Republicans want to pull out of 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:** [September 22, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1218 "2023-09-22T19:29:43Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/LUEYzJs.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/LUEYzJs.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1219 "2023-09-22T20:52:19Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > The last time we flew, I got a check for our two breakfast sandwiches for $96. I initially thought we were given the wrong check, but my gf had placed the order for our drinks. Two black coffees and four bloody marys, doubles, with their good vodka. Pretty standard for us. When my wife and I go out to eat (even just lunch), I always expect to drop $80 + tip. But then we live in a very expensive place. The NICE thing is, when we go to an expensive place, like Key West, or Hawaii, there is no sticker shock. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1220 "2023-09-22T22:37:35Z")
Other reasons that they may oppose it is that if it does a better job of actually identifying who is or is not a duplicate then it will be harder to justify the purposefully inaccurate mass [voter purges](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/19/georgia-governor-race-voter-suppression-brian-kemp) that they did in the past. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=60) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=62)