### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4683 "2022-09-22T01:19:02Z")
The Nick Adams Twitter account, which makes me think more and more is a satire account.
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### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4684 "2022-09-22T01:27:22Z")
Too humble:smile:🤣
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4685 "2022-09-22T02:25:34Z")
Loser Donald claims he can declassify things by the power of telekinesis.
> **[Watch: Trump tells Sean Hannity he could declassify documents with his mind](https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-classified/)**
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> Donald Trump on Wednesday argued that a president of the United States can declassify documents without speaking or writing a single word.Trump, fresh off a major defeat in the Mar-a-Lago documents case before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, was...
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### Author:  [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4686 "2022-09-22T03:34:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#):
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> [x.com](https://mobile.twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1569832914954723330)
I haven’t kept up with this thread, so sorry if someone else mentioned this.
I don’t get it. I pronounce “wanton” and “wonton” the same. How do others distinguish them? Is it like “cot” vs “caught” which I also pronounce the same.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4687 "2022-09-22T03:40:34Z")
I don’t pronounce them the same. Wanton sounds more like want’n, the last syllable is de-emphasized. Wonton sounds like wahn-tahn, both syllables have the same emphasis.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4688 "2022-09-22T03:52:26Z")
> [@Pleonast](#):
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> I don’t get it. I pronounce “wanton” and “wonton” the same. How do others distinguish them?
‘‘Wahn-tun’ vs. Whan-tahn’.
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### Author:  [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4689 "2022-09-22T04:03:48Z")
Oh god, he’s trotting out “but her emails”. He is digging deep in the well…it’s only a matter of time till he brings up Obama’s birth cert.
Who could possibly back this crying baby? Don’t they teach their kids not to be sore losers?
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4690 "2022-09-22T04:47:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#):
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> Loser Donald claims he can declassify things by the power of telekinesis.
The Force is weak with this one.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4691 "2022-09-22T13:34:51Z")
> [@Smapti](#):
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> Loser Donald claims he can declassify things by the power of telekinesis.
We want to nip this kind of thing in the bud.
I mean, if there’s one thing science fiction has taught us, it’s that giving people the ability to do things with the power of thinking alone can lead to disastrous results when the unbridled ID can tap into that capability
_Outer Limits_ **The Man with the Power**
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeQ_jwi-Esw)
**Forbidden Planet**
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYFr3UyVpRA)
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2BYyeS-fIU)
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4692 "2022-09-22T13:39:56Z")
A slightly different take
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvjehRajwhc)
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### Author:  [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4693 "2022-09-22T16:56:36Z")
I don’t know of any of them made it into movies, but Black actors regularly play white characters in Shakespeare’s historical plays. For example [Denzel Washington played Richard the Third](https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e06fbde0-c4b1-0131-fcb4-58d385a7bbd0).
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4694 "2022-09-22T17:01:41Z")
How does one one become captain of an interstellar spaceship without knowing the word “id”?
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4695 "2022-09-22T17:04:37Z")
> [@wguy123](#):
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> Don’t they teach their kids not to be sore losers?
Are you kidding me? They are sore _winners_ – I still remember all the YouTube videos in 2016 laughing at Hillary-supporter tears on election night.
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### Author:  [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4696 "2022-09-22T17:13:27Z")
True. Rightly or wrongly, though, I consider Shakespeare’s plays more fiction than historical. Still…it counts.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4697 "2022-09-22T17:13:55Z")
Denzel also played Don Pedro in Kenneth Branagh’s delightful _Much Ado About Nothing_.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4698 "2022-09-22T17:23:54Z")
> [@eschereal](#):
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> How does one one become captain of an interstellar spaceship without knowing the word “id”?
1.) He didn’t do crossword puzzles
2.) he skipped the Psych 101 courses in college
3.) it might be a sneaky way to convey the concept to 1950s audiences that hadn’t encountered Freud before
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### Author:  [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4699 "2022-09-22T17:29:45Z")
> [@DesertDog](#):
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> Are you kidding me? They are sore _winners_ – I still remember all the YouTube videos in 2016 laughing at Hillary-supporter tears on election night.
Not to mention Trump himself whining that he’d have won by even more, if it wasn’t for all that Democratic cheating and fraud.
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### Author:  [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4700 "2022-09-22T17:30:46Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> Denzel also played Don Pedro in Kenneth Branagh’s delightful _Much Ado About Nothing_.
Yes, and Don Pedro was definitely a fictional character.
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### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4701 "2022-09-22T17:42:42Z")
And those meddlin kids
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