# Underhanded Campaign Ideas **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [December 31, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422 "2023-12-31T21:43:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/1 "2023-12-31T21:43:14Z")
Maybe this belongs in IMHO or MPISMS. I never really know. Anyway, I was thinking of funny ways someone with a few political dollars could troll the other team (let’s not get hung up on what we personally believe, this is just for fun). Someone should have thousands of “Trump For The Border” t-shirts printed up and hand them out to the migrants south of the border. It would be fun to watch heads explode. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/2 "2024-01-01T01:23:46Z")
Owning the libs is like crack cocaine for the MAGAts. Why not have an ad campaign that suggests the evul Demoncrats have rigged the vote process so badly that no one can be sure how their vote will be counted, and in fact they’re vote may get switched from R to D. So, no point in voting and letting the Dems win - just stay home and/or not vote and show them who’s smarter! Essentially, take the whole voting macine conspiracy theory, amplify it, and shove it down their throats. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2024, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/3 "2024-01-01T01:32:25Z")
The problem with any such scheme, of course, is that they’ll only hear of it if Fox or the other lie machines tell them. Which they would have no reason to. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/4 "2024-01-01T09:40:21Z")
Lauren Boebert is moving from Colorado Congressional District 3 to District 4. From reports, she’ll face an array of other candidates in the primary that are at least as MAGA-ish as she, so I’m going to guess she’ll lose. Assuming she does lose that primary, start a guerilla write-in campaign for her in the general election for the 3rd District. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/5 "2024-01-01T14:55:53Z")
Shouldn’t guerilla be pronounced ge-rri-ya? I mean, we don’t say tortilla. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/6 "2024-01-01T15:54:07Z")
You could bug your own offices and then “discover” them so your opponent looks like he’s engaged in dirty tricks. Oh wait. That’s been done. > [@](#): > > Private investigators conducting a surveillance sweep for the campaign of Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Clements late Sunday discovered an eavesdropping bug behind a picture frame in the private office of political consultant Karl Rove. > > Rove said he suspected that the bug was planted by operatives for Gov. Mark White (D). He based his accusation on the fact that White strategists have had access to an unusual amount of information considered confidential from the Clements campaign in recent weeks. The governor’s spokesman, Mark McKinnon, characterized Rove’s claim as “ludicrous and bizarre.” > **[Texas Campaign Office Bugged Aide to GOP Challenger Accuses Governor's Camp...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/10/07/texas-campaign-office-bugged-aide-to-gop-challenger-accuses-governors-camp-of-eavesdropping/2ccaa363-6895-4ff0-b97a-f2b1c2adb0e5/)** > **[Karl Rove in a Corner](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/11/karl-rove-in-a-corner/303537/)** > > Karl Rove is at his most formidable when running close races, and his skills would be notable even if he used no extreme methods. But he does use them. His campaign history shows his willingness, when challenged, to employ savage tactics ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/7 "2024-01-01T17:27:39Z")
The idea that any campaign shenanigans would be considered ‘Underhanded’ these days is somewhat quaint. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/8 "2024-01-01T18:26:41Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Why not have an ad campaign that suggests the evul Demoncrats have rigged the vote process so badly that no one can be sure how their vote will be counted, and in fact they’re vote may get switched from R to D. So, no point in voting and letting the Dems win - just stay home and/or not vote and show them who’s smarter! That’s been done. > **['They have not earned your vote': Trump allies urge Georgia Republicans to...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/02/trump-allies-urge-georgia-republicans-sit-out-senate-runoffs/3800126001/)** > > The remarks underscore the delicate politics that Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue must navigate to turn out their base in Georgia. > Allies of President Donald Trump’s efforts to challenge last month’s election urged Republicans in Georgia on Wednesday to stay at home for the Jan. 5 Senate runoff elections, arguing Trump supporters shouldn’t take part in another “rigged election.” Trump himself urged people to vote while at the same time saying the vote couldn’t be trusted, which was at best a mixed message. > **[Georgia Senate: Trump urges rally to vote in runoff, but complained of rigged...](https://www.ajc.com/politics/trump-tells-gop-to-vote-in-rigged-election/IVGOUWDVBBCXHJU573QB5H5XVY/)** > > Valdosta - President Donald Trump spent Saturday morning trying to overturn the last election in Georgia. He spent Saturday night ripping elections in Georgia and telling his followers in Valdosta to vote in Georgia’s January runoffs anyway. So your scheme has pretty much been proven to work, as both Republicans lost those races. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/9 "2024-01-01T21:33:41Z")
Exactly. If the Republicans already distrust the election process (and the party and Faux News keep beating that drum), why not leverage that ignorance against them? “The best thing you can do in protesting these sham elections is not vote!” 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/10 "2024-01-01T22:22:26Z")
“Don’t vote! It just encourages them!” ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/11 "2024-01-01T22:31:20Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Lauren Boebert is moving from Colorado Congressional District 3 to District 4. Hmmm… She’s not moving her residence so she will stay living in Rifle. So she is running for election in District 4 because of [Ryan Reynolds and Barbra Streisand](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4384160-boebert-faults-ryan-reynolds-barbra-streisand-district-switch/). ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/12 "2024-01-02T16:28:01Z")
$500 and $1000 in donations? What a bargain! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/13 "2024-01-02T21:45:59Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > “Don’t vote! It just encourages them!” Exactly what the kremlin is pushing now, that and “both parties are the same” which is similar. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/14 "2024-01-02T23:35:25Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Why not have an ad campaign that suggests the evul Demoncrats have rigged the vote process so badly that no one can be sure how their vote will be counted, and in fact they’re vote may get switched from R to D. So, no point in voting and letting the Dems win - just stay home and/or not vote and show them who’s smarter! Some republicans are actually saying that. > **[Republicans Threaten To Boycott Election If Trump Is Removed From The Ballot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exhJ71tqNTs%2F)** > > Republican rabble-rouser Laura Loomer is urging Republican voters to boycott the 2024 election if Donald Trump is removed from the ballot, and she even tried... I say we should help them spread the message. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2024, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/15 "2024-01-05T10:52:17Z")
Hell, I’ll support the Pubbies boycotting the election even if the America-hating fuckstick _is_ on the ballot. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/16 "2024-01-07T20:01:04Z")
Biden could say something like: “trump claims that the economy is rebounding because it’s running on his fumes. Yeah, we know all about his fumes”. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/17 "2024-01-07T23:46:00Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Yeah, we know all about his fumes. There is already a narrative that donald smells bad. > **[Ex-GOP lawmaker doubles down on claim Trump smells – ‘of armpits, ketchup and...](https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-smells-kinzinger-armpits-ketchup-b2471229.html)** > > ‘It’s not good. The best way to describe it... take armpits, ketchup, a butt and makeup and put that all in a blender and bottle that as a cologne,’ Adam Kinzinger said It’s spawned a video [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mlIQbW5pyos/maxresdefault.jpg "Trump Smells Ad | " #TrumpSmells " | Full Commercial | Disclosure!!! | #blux") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlIQbW5pyos) ---
**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:** [March 23, 2024, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underhanded-campaign-ideas/995422/18 "2024-03-23T05:27:31Z")
Just today got this missive from the Republican Journal. Do you suffer from embarrassing gas, stinky farts, or a big bulging belly? If the answer is “yes”, the cause might surprise you… Experts are now pointing to a little-known condition… **Called toxic overload.** They’re selling activated charcoal made from coconut shells.