# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140 "2020-06-22T07:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 166
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3309 "2021-02-07T05:57:00Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > When he was in the Senate, he commuted by train every day from Delaware. He could do that. They can get **U.S. Car no.1** out of mothballs: > **[Franklin D. Roosevelt's Train Ferdinand Magellan](https://www.whitehousehistory.org/franklin-d-roosevelt-rsquo-s-train-ferdinand-magellan)** > > Before U.S. Air Force One there was U.S. Train Car Number One, designed for the specifications of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and also used by three other presidents.... (What, you guys thought the U.S. President _didn’t_ have his own private rail car?) ---
**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:** [February 7, 2021, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3310 "2021-02-07T07:10:43Z")
> **[Brad Parscale urges Trump to run again as a 'martyr'](https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/06/brad-parscale-trump-2024-466519)** > > “If they only impeached you twice, you need to run again. Because to change the system you have to kick it in the a#$,” Trump's former campaign manager wrote. I’m perfectly okay with ShitGibbon running as a Martyr. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2021, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3311 "2021-02-07T07:26:00Z")
Hell, imagine how he’d win after being impeached a half-dozen times. I’m sure we could come up with at least that many offenses. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3312 "2021-02-07T13:46:14Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > If he’s going to take the train, they’d have to beef up a car (or several) similarly just for him. They already have one. I cite _XXX:State of the Union_ - Ice Cube and Sam J would never lie to me. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3313 "2021-02-07T14:12:49Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Before U.S. Air Force One there was U.S. Train Car Number One, designed for the specifications of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and also used by three other presidents… > > (What, you guys thought the U.S. President _didn’t_ have his own private rail car?) Anyone else picturing James West’s customized train cars? [Oh, looks like he had an entire train…](http://wanderer.jamesfouchard.com/All_Aboard_The_Wanderer%21/TV_TRAIN.html) ---
**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:** [February 7, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3314 "2021-02-07T14:35:08Z")
> **[What Biden and the Democrats have planned for the USPS](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/business/usps-performance-whats-next-biden/)** > > Democrats have already begun discussions on major legislation — and forcing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy from office. > The nation’s mail service is slower and more erratic than it’s been in generations, via the confluence of an abrupt reorganization and pandemic-era anomalies that has fueled demands for reform and fundamentally different ideas on how to achieve it. > > On one side is Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who, with the backing of the U.S. Postal Service’s governing board, is expected as soon as next week to outline a new vision for the agency, one that includes **more service cuts, higher and region-specific pricing, and lower delivery expectations**. > > But congressional Democrats are pressing President Biden to install new board members, creating a majority bloc that could oust DeJoy, a Trump loyalist whose aggressive cost-cutting over the summer has been singled out for much of the performance decline. The fight over the agency’s future is expected to be fraught and protracted, leaving Americans with unreliable mail delivery for the foreseeable future. > … My bold. When you’re fucking up, then the only way to go is to cut service, raise prices, and lower customer expectations, amirite? Win-win! So much shit is broken thanks to that motherfucker Donald J. Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3315 "2021-02-07T16:46:13Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > In what way does participating in “Black History Month” infringe their civil rights? I think it’s the classic “You must be tolerant of my intolerance” argument. They think that they have a RIGHT to teach their children that black people have no rights. [Karl Popper had some thoughts on this.](https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691210841/the-open-society-and-its-enemies) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3316 "2021-02-07T16:56:06Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > When you’re fucking up, then the only way to go is to cut service, raise prices, and lower customer expectations, amirite? Win-win! Can’t wait for DeJoy’s next brilliant idea; Make all letter carriers attach 30 pound weights to their ankles. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3317 "2021-02-07T17:35:04Z")
What, you want them to blow away in the wind? Why are you against the “Letter Carrier protection from Heavy Gusts Act?” ---
**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:** [February 7, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3318 "2021-02-07T17:52:29Z")
C,mon…you know the name of any conservative bill has to reflect the _exact opposite_ of what it does. The bill would be called the “LIGHTEN THE LOAD” act, and it would talk about how all 50 doctors of The Patriot Medical Association are concerned that the excessive weight borne by postal workers is concentrated on their upper bodies. Their commission performed studies and the solution is to mandate that postal workers wear equivalent weights on their lower bodies to keep them from falling over, because mailmen that don’t tip over are more efficient. Although there has never been a reported case of a postal worker tipping over and being unable to do their job, it’s a hidden epidemic. This tragic issue has gone unreported by the biased liberal media who are unconcerned about the health of postal workers because they’re elitists who never carried a mailbag and don’t realize that you need counterweights to carry one efficiently. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3319 "2021-02-07T18:14:59Z")
Okay, you win, you’re much better at this than I am. 😀 ---
**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:** [February 7, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3320 "2021-02-07T19:34:09Z")
Seems to me that he is appropriately named, though, given the English word formations using the “de-” prefix, like “deformed”, “degraded”, “demented”. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3321 "2021-02-07T20:06:25Z")
Lest we forget, DeVos; former loser un-education secretary. Seem like the name goes with de-evolution like “Wayne” goes with mass murderers. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2021, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3322 "2021-02-07T21:57:08Z")
ShitGibbon’s rent boy, national disgrace, and indicted Texas AG Paxton is shocked, shocked I tell you, that President Biden is issuing Executive Orders. How such a black hole can project so much should be studied by physicists everywhere. Sorry about the Fox site. > **[Biden 'ignoring' federal law with sweeping executive orders, Texas AG Paxton...](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-executive-orders-immigration-texas-border)** > > President Biden is 'ignoring' federal law with sweeping executive orders on immigration he has signed since taking office, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Sunday, creating a "huge risk" for his state. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3323 "2021-02-07T22:28:04Z")
This is the same AG who brought a complaint to SCOTUS and had no standing, right? I would say his grasp of the law is a bit… tenuous. Of course, _my_ state AG signed the same letter so his is little better. I intend to bring this up when he faces reepection in two years. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2021, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3324 "2021-02-08T06:18:32Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > (What, you guys thought the U.S. President _didn’t_ have his own private rail car?) Still nothing on [Kim Jong Un’s train](https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-kim-jong-uns-personal-train-luxurious-and-bulletproof-2018-3#it-also-has-a-red-carpeted-ramp-on-which-the-supreme-leader-can-board-the-train-7) > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I think it’s the classic “You must be tolerant of my intolerance” argument. > > They think that they have a RIGHT to teach their children that black people have no rights. > > [Karl Popper had some thoughts on this.](https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691210841/the-open-society-and-its-enemies) Also probably think its discriminatory that there is a black history month but no white history month 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3325 "2021-02-08T09:14:30Z")
“You are oppressing my children by educating them!” ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3326 "2021-02-08T12:41:58Z")
Well duh! The pursuit of happiness is in the declaration of independence, and “Ignorance is bliss” so clearly it is against what the framers of the constitution intended. `//i\\` ---
**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:** [February 8, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3327 "2021-02-08T16:11:14Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Also probably think its discriminatory that there is a black history month but no white history month To say nothing about gay pride but no straight pride. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/3328 "2021-02-08T22:45:50Z")
Looks like the “questions and concerns” of the racist fucks have been addressed. I guess they didn’t care much for the Racist Spotlight. “We are grateful that families that initially had questions and concerns have willingly come to the table to resolve any differences and at this time no families are opting out of our planned activities and we have removed this option,” the statement said. > **[Utah parents drop Black history curriculum opt out request - WTOP News](https://wtop.com/national/2021/02/utah-parents-drop-black-history-curriculum-opt-out-request/)** > > NORTH OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Parents who sought to opt out their children from learning Black History Month curriculum at a charter school in northern Utah have withdrawn their requests. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=165) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=167)