# 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:** 295
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5903 "2021-06-28T00:44:36Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > ### [Gov. DeSantis plans to send 50 law enforcement officers to Texas border](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gov-desantis-plans-to-send-50-law-enforcement-officers-to-texas-border/ar-AALs7rY) > > Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is sending 50 law enforcement officers to Texas to help with the continuing crisis at the southern border. > > and AZ, allegedly at the request of rabbit and douchey Not one to miss out on the opportunity to pander to the Fox News crowd, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds is also sending 30 Iowa state patrol troopers to the border, to help out at Texas’ request. This comes a few weeks after Reynolds said the border issue “wasn’t Iowa’s problem” when the Biden administration asked states to help resettle migrant children. Suddenly, because another deep-red Trump-loving Republican sees an opportunity to stick it to the Dems, it’s enough of Iowa’s problem that we can afford to send a few dozen state troopers to Texas for two weeks. When the State Patrol is already understaffed by nearly 200 positions. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5904 "2021-06-28T00:57:04Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > The Republican voters lost their way because you **deprived them of your essence** , and fell into despair while gazing at the vacuum … Are you suggesting that mr eddiemunster failed to protect us from fluoridation? ---
**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:** [June 28, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5905 "2021-06-28T02:20:25Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > I love how people are assuming Donald is going to live to 2024. It’s nothing short of whatever the opposite of a miracle is that he’s made it this long. > [@Sherrerd](#): > > I don’t know. It makes logical sense that Donald should be in terrible health and thus not around in 2024. He is the reincarnation of Rasputin. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5906 "2021-06-28T03:30:57Z")
From HuffPost article on Ryan: > [@](#): > > “ **If we fail this test** , **it will be because** the progressive left will have won by default,” he said. “It will be because **the conservative cause … lost its way and followed the left into the trap of identity politics defining itself by resentments instead of by ideals…"** Nope, no pot-meet-kettle on the bolded stuff in the least bit, there. > [@Senegoid](#): > > He is the reincarnation of Rasputin. While not a bad post, yeah - I’ll have to disparage you for the earworm you’ve given me. I think you should be giving me thirty, back straight, only nose hits ground, elbows in. And quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5907 "2021-06-28T03:33:20Z")
Wouldn’t there be jurisdictional issues with Florida or Iowa cops being sent to the border? ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5908 "2021-06-28T03:52:11Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > He is the reincarnation of Rasputin. More than that; by then he’ll have the impact of a dozen Rasputins…! ( Burger, anyone…? ) ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5909 "2021-06-28T03:53:07Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > He and Madison Cawthorn probably studied history together. It’s pretty obvious that they cheated off of each other on exams… ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5910 "2021-06-28T03:55:59Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Jason Miller has been ordered to pay $42 thousand in legal fees after losing a lawsuit against Gizmodo after they reported that he had given a stripper an abortion pill which killed the baby and almost killed the woman. As if he needed bonus points: he was the father & was pressuring her to have an abortion. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5911 "2021-06-28T04:05:16Z")
Missed the edit window —\> ( Cheeseburder, anyone…? ) ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5912 "2021-06-28T07:04:51Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > State Patrol I hate Kim Reaper. Braindead was bad enough but then he left to become the Am b ass ador to China and effed that up _Thanks, Trump_. So she stepped in as [v.gov](http://v.gov) … and my fellow Iowans voted her back in again. No wonder the Delta variant is crawling around since she slurped up Trump’s denial but also got vaccinated ahead of everyone here. I guess Iowa Trumpers can only keep one thought in their heads “fake news” and not “they got vaccinated”. Here I was looking forward to not wearing a mask other than if I needed to (having a cold because the one time I caught a flu… I didn’t go anywhere, plus when my seasonal allergies kick in and I’m coughing… wearing a mask might keep others from thinking I’m a plague bearer :D). ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5913 "2021-06-28T11:16:54Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > He is the reincarnation of Rasputin. While I hear that Saint Peter had the spring-loaded platform for propelling rejected applicants away from the Pearly Gates and toward an array of giant pinball bumpers feeding into a spiral slide to Hades all set up in time for Rush Limbaugh, I understand that he feels the need to to prepare something even more theatrical for His Heinousness. He asks us mortals to be understanding that this necessarily delays his departure from this mortal coil. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5914 "2021-06-28T12:25:40Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Wouldn’t there be jurisdictional issues with Florida or Iowa cops being sent to the border? From what I hear, it’s not so much the out-of-staters will be actually working the border, but that they’ll provide training and support for those who are. And since “those who are” are actually federal Border Patrol agents, this likely means volunteers/militia/general yahoos who want to go out and capture some illegals. In truth, though, it’s all a Fox bat-signal from red-state governors to keep their voters riled up and anxious to vote against the evil communist librul agenda. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5915 "2021-06-28T13:33:08Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > While I hear that Saint Peter had the spring-loaded platform for propelling rejected applicants away from the Pearly Gates and toward an array of giant pinball bumpers feeding into a spiral slide to Hades all set up in time for Rush Limbaugh… Whoa! 🤩 \<_dazzled_\> That does it! I want to see a face-off between @Steve_MB and @Ann_Hedonia trading quips, comments, _bon mots_ (and _mal mots_, too) on the current political scene and any other scenes they care to slice and dice with their rapier wits. I’m making lots of popcorn and dibs on front row seat. Who’s in? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5916 "2021-06-28T13:33:28Z")
That makes as much sense as anything else Florida does. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5917 "2021-06-28T15:26:23Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > While I hear that Saint Peter had the spring-loaded platform for propelling rejected applicants away from the Pearly Gates and toward an array of giant pinball bumpers feeding into a spiral slide to Hades all set up in time for Rush Limbaugh, _1-2-3 **4 5** 6-7-8 **9 10** 11 12! Doo doodoo doo doodoo…_ ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5918 "2021-06-28T15:49:30Z")
Matt Gaetz continues to confound. Yeah, Mattie, I’m sure that Jordan, Magic, and Bird would be in total agreement with your dumb ass. > > > Big (American AF) Teezy @TNSouthernlib ---
**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:** [June 28, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5919 "2021-06-28T15:59:28Z")
Hush. Maybe they’ll all gather in the same room somewhere and something… unfortunate will befall them. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5920 "2021-06-28T16:15:46Z")
That tweet perfectly summarizes the current state of the education system in Idaho. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5921 "2021-06-28T16:48:30Z")
Forget it - he’s rolling. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/5922 "2021-06-28T18:08:32Z")
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