# 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:** 28
**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:** [August 10, 2020, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/545 "2020-08-10T01:40:10Z")
Have you ever looked at Trump’s face? Perfect match. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/546 "2020-08-10T01:41:28Z")
The color tone is all wrong. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/547 "2020-08-10T02:53:07Z")
They’d have do do a remake of North By Northwest with a scene of the chase across the faces…and someone losing control of their bowels all over Trump’s smarmy mug ---
**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:** [August 10, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/548 "2020-08-10T03:07:44Z")
Ok, so when it’s clear he’s going to lose the election, and he takes off (for Sochi) in a Russian Mig, he can get the pilot to strafe Mt. Rushmore on the way… ---
**Author:** ![Mickyfinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@Mickyfinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mickyfinn)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/549 "2020-08-10T12:28:14Z")
Well it would take great skill to sculpt a comb over. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/550 "2020-08-10T12:38:12Z")
Plenty of furry animals around there to take up residence on the head, just like the dead marmoset one the real one. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/551 "2020-08-10T15:19:57Z")
Trump could easily get his face on Mount Rushmore - all it would take is a strategic push during an Air Force One fly-by… (The above statement is purely for humorous purposes and does not in any way actually advocate pushing the President of the United States out of an airplane or performing any other acts of violence on him. The author of the above statement wishes President Trump a long and healthy sentence upon completion of his term.) ---
**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:** [August 10, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/552 "2020-08-10T22:03:22Z")
> **[Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says local governments can't stop or delay...](https://www.texastribune.org/2020/08/07/texas-evictions-coronavirus-ken-paxton/)** > > The nonbinding opinion comes as housing experts and advocates fear that the COVID-19 recession will prompt a surge in evictions across the state. > Texas Attorney General [Ken Paxton](https://www.texastribune.org/directory/ken-paxton/) advised Friday that local Texas governments’ attempts to delay evictions for renters grappling with the COVID-19 recession amounted to rewriting state law — something they can’t do, he said in [nonbinding legal guidance](https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/opinion-files/opinion/2020/kp-0324.pdf). > > “While local officials do possess certain emergency powers … statewide eviction procedures far exceed the requirement that those powers be exercised ‘on an appropriate local scale,’” Paxton said in a letter. “Government Code does not authorize local governmental entities operating under a declared disaster to independently rewrite state law as it applies to their jurisdiction to prohibit, delay, or restrict the issuance of a notice to vacate.” > … Can anyone explain to me whom this stance by the AG is supposed to benefit?? It looks to me like lose-lose-lose all around. But some nuances escape me. 😠 ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/553 "2020-08-10T22:22:53Z")
Isn’t the point of that “stance” to acknowledge the legal powers available to the state? It’d be nice if Trump did that from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/554 "2020-08-10T22:46:28Z")
The cruelty is the point. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/555 "2020-08-11T00:03:57Z")
I would guess that the ostensible reason would be that he’s trying to protect landlords who rely on rent money coming in, without actually proposing or favoring any legislation to temporarily fund landlords. Because kicking out poor people makes some people, call them right wingers, happy. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/556 "2020-08-11T02:52:08Z")
Plus if you have no address, you can’t vote. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/557 "2020-08-11T02:55:10Z")
Bingo! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/558 "2020-08-11T03:10:20Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Plus if you have no address, you can’t vote. And that could be a nationwide thing, not just in Paxton’s Texas. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2020, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/559 "2020-08-11T04:47:27Z")
Fucker Carlson: “if we don’t stop the “demographic shift” of the country we will return to the “broke, dirty, and dangerous” cities of “50 years ago”” > ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/560 "2020-08-11T06:38:32Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Who could have guessed what, exactly, the Jewify filter did? > CMC I thought it just automatically circumcised dick-pics. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/561 "2020-08-11T13:07:25Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Fucker Carlson: “if we don’t stop the “demographic shift” of the country we will return to the “broke, dirty, and dangerous” cities of “50 years ago”” My dog acts like he just heard something. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/562 "2020-08-11T15:01:11Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Fucker Carlson: “if we don’t stop the “demographic shift” of the country we will return to the “broke, dirty, and dangerous” cities of “50 years ago”” Is he proposing some kind of solution for this demographic shift? Some kind of final one? ---
**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:** [August 11, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/563 "2020-08-11T15:02:49Z")
I assume that he, like Trump, wants to see more Norwegian immigrants and fewer brown ones. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/564 "2020-08-11T15:49:20Z")
Interesting tension between their obvious desire for fewer brown folks and their push on the pro-life front to convince those brown folks that abortion (and birth control) is all about genocide by the left. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=29)