# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2224
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44471 "2020-05-29T17:56:21Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Sure, but so long as they do business in the U.S. and derive revenue here the U.S. government can fine them or sue them or whatever. That’s why Twitter and the other big tech companies are also complying with the new EU data privacy rules, even though they’re not headquartered in Europe. True, but what will the US do if Twitter just didn’t pay? Block Twitter in America? ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44472 "2020-05-29T18:01:34Z")
Twitter’s response: [blocked another of Trump’s inciting tweets](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/tech/trump-twitter-minneapolis/index.html). Notably, with a message that the tweet may be in the public’s interest, so it could be clicked to view the original. ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44473 "2020-05-29T18:08:52Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Out of curiosity, can’t Twitter just move it’s HQ or where it’s registered as a company to some other country and then tell the US Government to go to hell? I guess one reason would be that it’s easier to not move its HQ and still tell the US Government (or at least Trump) to go to hell. It’s not like there’s some legal sanction the administration can unilaterally apply here. ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44474 "2020-05-29T18:25:55Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > And the couple of right-wingers I have as friends on FB are being whipped up to oppose mail voting as an obvious attempt at stealing the election via harvesting or stuffing or something. Tell them that voting in person makes it easier for the deep state to put them in a FEMA camp(whatever that is) where Hilary will harvest their organs for illegal immigrants. ---
**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:** [May 29, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44475 "2020-05-29T18:46:05Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > My apologies for being so presumptuous. Allow me to clarify my understanding of the statement. > > The number [of people] who claim absentee ballot eligibility based on fear of CoVID-19 will be so large as to comparatively overwhelm the number [of people] whose eligibility is based on currently delineated reasons. That is, one number overwhelms the other number, by virtue of being so much larger. The court said the definition as interpreted by the Texas Democratic Party, which had filed lawsuits in both state and federal court on this matter, would be overly broad and enable things like “being too tired to drive to a polling place” to count as a physical condition. “It would swallow the other categories of voters eligible for mail-in voting,” the opinion states. “We agree, of course, that a voter can take into consideration aspects of his health and his health history that are physical conditions in deciding whether, under the circumstances, to apply to vote by mail because of disability. We disagree that lack of immunity, by itself, is one of them.” That’s not my reading of his statement. Based on the context of the article, I think that he’s saying that if we extend the definition of disability to contain lack of immunity that definition would cover (swallow) a whole host of other excuses, such as “being too tired to drive to a polling place”. But I may be wrong. In any case, IMHO, fear of death should be sufficient to allow for mail in voting. Regardless of disability or lack there of. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44476 "2020-05-29T18:48:03Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Twitter’s response: [blocked another of Trump’s inciting tweets](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/tech/trump-twitter-minneapolis/index.html). Notably, with a message that the tweet may be in the public’s interest, so it could be clicked to view the original. I would like to see this continue - put pressure on Trump and the GOP to overreact. I seriously doubt they want to abandon Twitter, as it’s the most effective medium out there to spread invective. Twitter is not banning Trump, just putting disclaimers on some of his more extreme posts. Complaining about Twitter is, in some ways, like complaining about Fox News. They don’t even have to do this with every extreme tweet - just a few here and there. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44477 "2020-05-29T18:51:38Z")
And for once, a bit of good news: [‘Rich Mitch’: Republican group that infuriated Trump takes aim at Senate leader in new ad](https://news.yahoo.com/rich-mitch-republican-group-infuriated-185146284.html) > [@](#): > > A campaign group formed by anti-Trump Republican operatives has launched a TV commercial against the party’s leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, who is up for re-election this November. > > Deriding him as “Rich Mitch”, the ad is being broadcast in the senator’s home state of Kentucky. It is the work of the Lincoln Project, an operation founded by veterans of various Republican campaigns united in their disgust for Donald Trump, as well as for their party’s acquiescence to him and his agenda. Some Republicans decry Trump’s takeover of the party, but for the most part just sit on the sidelines and hope their party will return to normal. It won’t. The never Trump and moderate GOP have to side with Democrats in the same way that Eisenhower had to take down Joe McCarthy and in the same way that Goldwater had to tell Nixon to pack his bags. It’s the only way to deal with this cancer. They can’t just beat Trump; they have to beat his enablers, too, and it starts with Mitch McConnell. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44478 "2020-05-29T18:58:21Z")
> [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](#): > > I guess one reason would be that it’s easier to not move its HQ and still tell the US Government (or at least Trump) to go to hell. It’s not like there’s some legal sanction the administration can unilaterally apply here. Good point. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44479 "2020-05-29T19:38:17Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > And the couple of right-wingers I have as friends on FB are being whipped up to oppose mail voting as an obvious attempt at stealing the election via harvesting or stuffing or something. Devin Nunes says the only way he can win is by ballot harvesting. > ---
**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:** [May 29, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44480 "2020-05-29T19:49:40Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > And for once, a bit of good news: [‘Rich Mitch’: Republican group that infuriated Trump takes aim at Senate leader in new ad](https://news.yahoo.com/rich-mitch-republican-group-infuriated-185146284.html) > > Some Republicans decry Trump’s takeover of the party, but for the most part just sit on the sidelines and hope their party will return to normal. > > It won’t. The never Trump and moderate GOP have to side with Democrats in the same way that Eisenhower had to take down Joe McCarthy and in the same way that Goldwater had to tell Nixon to pack his bags. It’s the only way to deal with this cancer. They can’t just beat Trump; they have to beat his enablers, too, and it starts with Mitch McConnell. They have to disband the party and liquidate and disperse its assets. Preferably to me. Its liabilities and financial obligations they can assign to the America-hating fuckstick. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44481 "2020-05-29T20:27:01Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > They have to disband the party and liquidate and disperse its assets. > > Preferably to me. Its liabilities and financial obligations they can assign to the America-hating fuckstick. The best they can do - not just for the party but for the nation -is to ensure that the worst extreme cannot win a legitimate election and to make it damn hard to win an illegitimate one as well. They have to support moderates like Biden and others and accept that they will lose some of what they want in the process. The alternative is living in a highly unpredictable right wing hybrid authoritarian state that becomes increasingly polarized and unstable. And corporate billionaires who want to stay out of the fray and try to wear fake optimism (hello Warren Buffett, Howard Schultz, etc) need to get fucking real. If they can accept that, they will also be able to make far left alternatives less appealing. But they have to accept that their role in democracy by enriching themselves without regard to the working class has been destructive, and they need to see beyond the stock price - and chances are, the numbers next to their ticker symbols are fake as fuck anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44482 "2020-05-29T20:30:36Z")
I’d like to see Individual 1 pull a Laura Loomer and chain himself to the Twitter headquarters doors. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44483 "2020-05-30T16:42:30Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Also, the machines make it much easier to implement the vote-party-slate option. To be fair, the number of states with straight ticket voting has declined to [just six](https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/straight-ticket-voting.aspx). Far more than STV, paperless voting makes me nervous. You got physical ballots you can recount as many times as you wish. They can be discarded but they can’t be hacked. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44484 "2020-05-30T18:48:25Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I’d like to see Individual 1 pull a Laura Loomer and chain himself to the Twitter headquarters doors. The Onion has you covered. ‘I Will Not Be Censored,’ Yells Trump Chaining Himself To Phone Displaying Twitter Homepage > **[‘I Will Not Be Censored,’ Yells Trump Chaining Himself To Phone Displaying...](https://www.theonion.com/i-will-not-be-censored-yells-trump-chaining-himself-1843759304)** > > WASHINGTON—Screaming into a megaphone and threatening to shut down the “biased” social media site once and for all, President Donald Trump reportedly chained himself to a phone displaying Twitter Friday while yelling that he “will not be censored.”... ---
**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:** [May 30, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44485 "2020-05-30T18:56:27Z")
Also from The Onion: [Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First](https://www.theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351) \*\*Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First \*\* “…Look, we all have the right to protest, but that doesn’t mean you can just rush in and destroy any business without gathering a group of clandestine investors to purchase it at a severely reduced price and slowly bleed it to death…” ---
**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:** [May 30, 2020, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44486 "2020-05-30T18:58:09Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Also from The Onion: [Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First](https://www.theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351) > > \*\*Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First > \*\* > > “…Look, we all have the right to protest, but that doesn’t mean you can just rush in and destroy any business without gathering a group of clandestine investors to purchase it at a severely reduced price and slowly bleed it to death…” \ I scared my dog, laughing at this. Thanks for that! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44487 "2020-05-30T19:39:21Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Also from The Onion: [Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First](https://www.theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351) > > \*\*Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First > \*\* > > “…Look, we all have the right to protest, but that doesn’t mean you can just rush in and destroy any business without gathering a group of clandestine investors to purchase it at a severely reduced price and slowly bleed it to death…” 😃 [_The Onion_ lives!](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_La_libert%C3%A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg) _But reality is closing in on them…_ ---
**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:** [May 30, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44488 "2020-05-30T21:10:32Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Much, much more troubling than merely jiggering the touchscreen voting machines to make it nearly impossible to vote for that other person, when just about every time you touch the screen, it jumps to select the proper candidate. Also, the machines make it much easier to implement the vote-party-slate option. I swear I saw that last part as “vote-party-state option”. Maybe that’s because I live in a one party state or perhaps it’s because the Republicans are doing their utmost to make it so. Sadly, I think the latter is more likely than the former as the reason for that misreading. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44489 "2020-06-02T03:45:47Z")
Matt Gaetz is advocating for “Antifa” to be hunted down as terrorists. Twitter covered up his post for inciting violence. And he’s going at them repeating his threats over and over again, just daring them. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/44490 "2020-06-02T03:50:33Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Matt Gaetz is advocating for “Antifa” to be hunted down as terrorists. Twitter covered up his post for inciting violence. And he’s going at them repeating his threats over and over again, just daring them. Does he happen to explain who Antifa is besides “some looters I saw on TV”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2223) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=2225)