# 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:** 398
**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:** [October 23, 2021, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7973 "2021-10-23T17:55:25Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > There already is a Port of Entry in Newport RI, so that’s kind of redundant among with all the many other things wrong with the idea. Dang! You mean Ted just blew this idea out of his ass and didn’t research it thoroughly first?? 😲 ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7974 "2021-10-23T18:22:01Z")
Okay, let’s close all of the Texas ports. Every single one. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7975 "2021-10-23T18:27:20Z")
I don’t know if this is the right thread . . . this is to file under “Republican constituents are, by in large, nonsensical, delusional, and don’t even understand the meaning of most of the words that come out of their mouths.” I heard [this story about the Virginia governor’s race](https://www.npr.org/2021/10/22/1048492648/virginia-governor-hopeful-glenn-youngkins-delicate-dance-with-the-gop-may-be-wor) yesterday, and the following bit stood out to me: > [@](#): > > PAVIOUR: Youngkin moves breezily through the crowd at a rally on Tuesday in northern Virginia. Many people here, like Annette Sudbeck, harbor doubts about the last election, which experts said was free and fair. But Sudbeck gives other reasons for supporting Youngkin. > > ANNETTE SUDBECK: It’s those conservative values - right? - freedom of speech, our right to vote, free enterprise. To hear anyone claim with a straight face that freedom of speech is a “conservative value” that is somehow upheld by conservative politicians is moronic, though I understand how the rhetoric can easily lean someone that way. But to claim that the right to vote is a conservative value (ie, not a liberal value)? I mean . . . I cannot think of a single thing a conservative politician has done or said in the last 5 years that even comes close to standing up for the rights of all Americans to vote, and in fact they have explicitly done the opposite, up to and including blocking debate on a voting rights bill. They care so much about voting rights that they refuse to allow it to be talked about. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7976 "2021-10-23T18:52:20Z")
Don’t ports of entry have to, you know, be ports? ---
**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:** [October 23, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7977 "2021-10-23T18:56:12Z")
Apparently the new right wing chant is “Let’s go, Brandon.” Brandon refers to NASCAR racer Brandon Brown. When he won his first race a couple of weeks ago, the reporter interviewing him said that it sounded like the crowd was chanting :“Let’s go, Brandon” (even though nobody really chanted that). And somehow, it’s become a right wing chant because it has the same number of syllables as “Fuck Joe Biden”. Congressman Bill Posey said it on the floor of the House the other day. > **[The Story Behind “Let’s Go Brandon,” the Secretly Vulgar Chant Suddenly...](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/lets-go-brandon-meaning-nascar-republicans-joe-biden.html)** > > As with many things in America, it all began at NASCAR. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7978 "2021-10-23T18:56:22Z")
In the “why buy it if you can steal it” category, > **[Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software...](https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740354/trump-truth-social-network-spac-mastodon-license-software-freedom-conservancy)** > > It could face a lawsuit otherwise. because “Freedom!” means not having to pay for anything or abide by any rules. Curiously, the software is called “Mastodon” – a name unusually fitting to today’s R Party. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7979 "2021-10-23T18:59:31Z")
There’s a song. Ugh ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7980 "2021-10-23T19:17:43Z")
Presumably if their end-run around Roe gets upheld, the next move will be to let people sue anyone who’s gay-married. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7981 "2021-10-23T19:20:56Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > I cannot think of a single thing a conservative politician has done or said in the last 5 years that even comes close to standing up for the rights of all Americans to vote That’s because you are parsing it wrong. They are standing up for the _right_ Americans to 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:** [October 23, 2021, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7982 "2021-10-23T20:00:51Z")
I think you spelled “white” wrong. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7983 "2021-10-23T21:53:20Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Apparently the new right wing chant is “Let’s go, Brandon.” Brandon refers to NASCAR racer Brandon Brown. When he won his first race a couple of weeks ago, the reporter interviewing him said that it sounded like the crowd was chanting :“Let’s go, Brandon” (even though nobody really chanted that). And somehow, it’s become a right wing chant because it has the same number of syllables as “Fuck Joe Biden”. **Congressman Bill Posey said it on the floor of the House the other day**. Typical level of emotional maturity, there. The recruiting slogans write themselves: > [@](#): > > _Join the Republican Party, where acting like a third-grader is not only okay—it’s **expected**!!!_ (my bolding in the quoted post) ---
**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:** [October 23, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7984 "2021-10-23T21:55:59Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Typical level of emotional maturity, there. The recruiting slogans write themselves: > > > [@](#): > > > > _Join the Republican Party, where acting like a third-grader is not only okay—it’s **expected**!!!_ - > > (my bolding in the quoted post) Required. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7985 "2021-10-23T22:07:14Z")
Indeed. Interesting comments about J. D. Vance being a dick (on Twitter) about the death of the cinematographer at the New Mexico movie set: > [@](#): > > … For the last several months, Vance has been locked in battle with Republican rival Josh Mandel in which both have seemingly competed to write the most outrageous statements on Twitter. > > Mandel on Thursday significantly upped the ante when he channeled militia rhetoric and urged his followers to “keep the freezer stocked and firearms at the ready,” while also writing of Democrats that “we will outlast these monsters and we will thrive for generations to come after God brings them down.” > > Mandel then encouraged his followers to invest in Bitcoin. … Apparently there’s an actual “race to the bottom” to attract the interest of deplorable voters, who demand ever-increasing levels of cruelty, viciousness, and indecency in their preferred candidates. > **[Republican JD Vance gets profanely chewed out for joking about tragic Alec...](https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-alec-baldwin/)** > > Republican Ohio Senate hopeful J.D. Vance on Friday cracked a joke about a tragic film set accident in which actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a crew member with a prop gun.Writing on Twitter just hours after news of the accident broke, Vance implored... ---
**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:** [October 23, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7986 "2021-10-23T22:33:49Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > There already is a Port of Entry in Newport RI, so that’s kind of redundant among with all the many other things wrong with the idea. I’m assuming Boston (of which Cambridge is effectively a part) is also already one. And honestly, anyone swimming from Mexico to North Hero, VT ought to get automatic citizenship and an immediate spot on the US Olympic Squad. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7987 "2021-10-23T23:13:14Z")
At this point I’m ready to saw Texas off the country and set it adrift. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2021, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7988 "2021-10-23T23:15:19Z")
I’m willing, if you can find foster homes for us Texas Democrats (and our pets). ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7989 "2021-10-23T23:24:00Z")
Say the word and we’ll rehome all of you. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7990 "2021-10-23T23:44:41Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Join the Republican Party, where acting like a third-grader is not only okay—it’s **expected**!!! I mean, we’ve been seeing that since the OP of the original SRIotD thread, where the Republicans were angry at Michelle Obama on the grounds that “School lunch is yucky!” ---
**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:** [October 24, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7991 "2021-10-24T00:01:23Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I’m willing, if you can find foster homes for us Texas Democrats (and our pets). It’s possible there could be some Florida or Arizona dopers here reiterating your request. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2021, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/7992 "2021-10-24T00:20:15Z")
I think the legal theory behind this argument is, “Now that we have a 6-3 majority in the Supreme court the constitution says whatever we say it does.” I actually don’t think it will work, while its conceivable that Obergefell might be reversed, there is (I hope) no way that they would go so far as to say that the 14th amendment doesn’t apply to the states. But as far as Texas is concerned they won’t know how far the supreme court is willing to let them get away with unless they push the boundaries to the limit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=397) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=399)