# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018 "2022-02-07T00:52:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 27
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/522 "2022-02-25T02:31:50Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > He’s Shrodinger’s president. Until you open the box, you don’t know if you can criticize him for being weak or being a powerful dictator. Man, it must be nice having the brand name Schrodinger’s President! Up here in Canada we’re stuck with the low-rent knock off Schrodinger’s Prime Minister, who is either a disaster or a tyrant. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/523 "2022-02-25T02:33:00Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Tommy Tuberville says Russia is invading Ukraine to steal their farmland, because Russia is a Communist country and therefore can’t feed its people. …and that’s the closest to a sensible take we’ve seen from any Republican yet. Think about it. ETA: Oh my fucking god, did they bury the lede on that story: > “I’m tired of hearing about ‘we need to change our military to where they’re woke,’” Tuberville said. " **To where they need to listen to the federal government** Holy fucking hell, he thinks the military shouldn’t have to listen to _ **the federal fucking government?!?** _ ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/524 "2022-02-25T02:37:44Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > No, I don’t. Please provide a cite > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > What you are recalling is Republicans _accusing fictional Democrats_ of doing this. > The reason you can’t find a cite is because it didn’t happen. OK, you might be right that I’m misremembering this. I do recall thinking some comments may have crossed that line, but my memory may have been influenced by GOP accusations which I have no doubt were exaggerated. (I may also be thinking of things I heard from friends and acquaintances.) But even if no Democrat ever said anything like this, it’s a fact that Republicans were quite public about it being a bad thing (even if fictional). Now they’re openingly doing it themselves. Wow, total hypocrites, whoda thunk? ---
**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 25, 2022, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/525 "2022-02-25T02:40:31Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Schrodinger’s Prime Minister, who is either a disaster or a tyrant. So true. It’s nice that our poster **Rickjay** has finally toned down his Tucker Carlson impersonation about how TRUDEAU. IS. A. TYRANT. I guess he’s getting ready to return to our regularly scheduled program of TRUDEAU. IS. A. WIMP. ---
**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 25, 2022, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/526 "2022-02-25T02:41:46Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Wow, total hypocrites, whoda thunk? Yes, we are shocked, SHOCKED that there is gambling going on at Rick’s ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/527 "2022-02-25T02:44:43Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > So true. It’s nice that our poster **Rickjay** has finally toned down his Tucker Carlson impersonation about how TRUDEAU. IS. A. TYRANT. > > I guess he’s getting ready to return to our regularly scheduled program of TRUDEAU. IS. A. WIMP. Well, Trudeau’s goons only arrested about 170 people over the course of two days, Putin’s goons arrested 1700 people in a few hours! Wimpy-assed tyrant! ETA: We’ll have to find a unit of measure for this. Trudeau is 0.5 deciPutins. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2022, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/528 "2022-02-25T13:15:38Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > It’s nice that our poster **Rickjay** has finally toned down his Tucker Carlson impersonation about how TRUDEAU. IS. A. TYRANT. > > I guess he’s getting ready to return to our regularly scheduled program of TRUDEAU. IS. A. WIMP. Now I have a mental image of a MAGAtroid being repeatedly thwacked on the head and alternating between “BIDEN IS A TYRANT!” _(thwack!)_ “BIDEN IS A WIMP!” _(thwack!)_, like Professor McElroy / King Tut on the Adam West “Batman” show. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/529 "2022-02-25T16:49:39Z")
Or Faye Dunaway in _Chinatown_. ---
**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 25, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/530 "2022-02-25T17:10:47Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > What you are recalling is Republicans _accusing fictional Democrats_ of doing this. Well, Democrats _did_ criticize Bush, and they _did_ criticize the decision to invade Iraq, and the Republicans _did_ call that rooting for Bush to fail. When I asked what Iraq had to do with 9/11, I was called a terrorist sympathizer. ---
**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 25, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/531 "2022-02-25T17:13:49Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Now they’re openingly doing it themselves. Wow, total hypocrites, whoda thunk? Only anyone who has paid attention to them over the last decade or so. Republicans only see hypocrisy as a weapon with which to accuse others, not something that they should avoid themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/532 "2022-02-25T17:59:40Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Lauren Witzke, Republican candidate for Senate from Delaware, talks about how she identifies more with Putin’s Russia than with Biden’s America. > > [https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1496937857839153168](https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1496937857839153168) As in, Joe Biden the observant Catholic who goes to weekly and holy day Mass regularly? You (i.e., you Lauren Witzke) think Vladimir Putin is more “Christian” than Biden? Oh right, but [Putin’s the one trying to weaponize Christian institutions in the service of international theocratic authoritarianism.](https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a39212527/russia-ukraine-orthodox-christianity-crusade/) Yeah, I guess you would prefer that to Biden’s SOCAS-respecting version of personal Christian faith and practice. > [@](#): > > In [her Substack shebeen](https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/next-year-in-kyiv?r=45vbf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=url), religious historian Diana Butler Bass takes a deep dive into how Christian ethno-nationalism has joined hands across the globe with reactionary Catholicism and, most importantly, with hyper-conservative Russian Orthodoxy to add a little old-time religious filigree to Vladimir Putin’s current depredations. > > > [@](#): > > > > The dream gripping some quarters of the West is for a coalition to unify religious conservatives into a kind of supra-national neo-Christendom. The theory is to create a partnership between American evangelicals, traditionalist Catholics in western countries, and Orthodox peoples under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Church in a common front against three enemies — decadent secularism, a rising China, and Islam — for a glorious rebirth of moral purity and Christian culture. […] > > > > In the United States, Trumpist-religion is most often framed as “Christian nationalism.” It is, indeed, that. But it is also more — it is the American partner of this larger quest for Christian internationalism. No one has articulated this more clearly than [Steve Bannon](https://urldefense.com/v3/ __https:/www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/03/steve-bannon-american-evangelicals-russian-orthodox/519900/__ ;!!Ivohdkk!0FZG-p_Dr3KvrliOMQ36Bt2HO6hn-Rl4wPAOoYNGgF4gc_0K2ISq6DM04SztE1KT%24), who, despite his legal troubles, remains a significant force as a kind of philosophical apostle in [right-wing Christian circles](https://urldefense.com/v3/ __https:/www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/04/16/why-far-right-nationalists-like-steve-bannon-have-embraced-russian-ideologue/__ ;!!Ivohdkk!0FZG-p_Dr3KvrliOMQ36Bt2HO6hn-Rl4wPAOoYNGgF4gc_0K2ISq6DM04WXOfH3G%24) for a [neo-Christendom](https://urldefense.com/v3/ __https:/www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/sinister-history-behind-the-rights-putin-mania-steve-bannon-china__ ;!!Ivohdkk!0FZG-p_Dr3KvrliOMQ36Bt2HO6hn-Rl4wPAOoYNGgF4gc_0K2ISq6DM04XVLHggU%24). […] > > > > The conflict in Ukraine is all about religion and what _kind_ of Orthodoxy will shape Eastern Europe and other Orthodox communities around the world (especially in Africa). Religion. This is a crusade, recapturing the Holy Land of Russian Orthodoxy, and defeating the westernized (and decadent) heretics who do not bend the knee to Moscow’s spiritual authority. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/533 "2022-02-25T18:12:21Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > As in, Joe Biden the observant Catholic who goes to weekly and holy day Mass regularly? **You (i.e., you Lauren Witzke) think Vladimir Putin is more “Christian” than Biden?** - Since Biden is Catholic, she’d likely say “yes”. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/534 "2022-02-25T18:19:55Z")
But from an American Protestant point of view, how are Russian Orthodox any more “Christian” than Roman Catholics? Why, those people even have a whole different Easter!! 😱 Personally, I think it’ll be very interesting and significant to see how this whole “international theocratic authoritarianism” movement shakes out as reflected in evangelical conservatives’ attitudes toward Catholics. When they start trying to explain how the reactionary “trad Caths” count as “Christians” but all the mainstream Catholics who belong to exactly the same church do not… yeah, uh-huh. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/535 "2022-02-25T19:13:40Z")
Laura Ingraham calls the Ukrainian President pathetic. > **[Laura Ingraham Sparks Outrage After Calling Ukraine President's Plea For...](https://www.comicsands.com/laura-ingraham-ukrainian-president-pathetic-2656784158.html)** > > Fox News personality Laura Ingraham sparked outrage after calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's plea for peace "pathetic" just minutes after Russian forces began invading Ukraine. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/536 "2022-02-25T20:24:19Z")
The stupid in that clip hurts! Trump sounds like the drunk old dumbass as the end of the bar. “What, we are sending in an amphibious attack team? Why are we talking about it? SHHH…don’t let them know. Can I get another Keystone Light?” _hic_ ---
**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 25, 2022, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/537 "2022-02-25T20:33:38Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Republicans only see hypocrisy as a weapon with which to accuse others, not something that they should avoid themselves. In other words they are hypocritical with respect to their use of hypocrisy. How very meta. ---
**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 25, 2022, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/538 "2022-02-25T21:51:05Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Trump sounds like the drunk old dumbass as the end of the bar. The drunk old dumbass at the end of the bar at least will be sober in the morning. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/539 "2022-02-25T22:40:30Z")
Fucker Carlson: “Ukraine isn’t a democracy. It’s a State Department client state.” > ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/540 "2022-02-25T23:58:18Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Trump sounds like the drunk old dumbass as the end of the bar > [@k9bfriender](#): > > The drunk old dumbass at the end of the bar at least will be sober in the morning. But not even close to sane. Dan ---
**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:** [February 26, 2022, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/541 "2022-02-26T01:08:07Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > > It’s nice that our poster **Rickjay** has finally toned down his Tucker Carlson impersonation about how TRUDEAU. IS. A. TYRANT. > > > > I guess he’s getting ready to return to our regularly scheduled program of TRUDEAU. IS. A. WIMP. > > Now I have a mental image of a MAGAtroid being repeatedly thwacked on the head and alternating between “BIDEN IS A TYRANT!” _(thwack!)_ “BIDEN IS A WIMP!” _(thwack!)_, like Professor McElroy / King Tut on the Adam West “Batman” show. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Or Faye Dunaway in _Chinatown_. I must admit that in all these years, I’d never figured out that Roman Polanski and writer Robert Towne, in 1974, swiped that ‘sister/daughter’ scene directly from late-60’s episodes of _Batman_. But: yeah. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=28)