# 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:** 412
**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:** [February 27, 2023, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8227 "2023-02-27T02:16:23Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > And they expect him to keep his word? I recall that, in the first GOP debate preceding the 2016 primaries, Trump was the only one who would not commit to supporting the eventual candidate. He did later sign a pledge to do so. > **[Trump Clashes With Rivals, Fox Moderators In First GOP Debate](https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/06/430153100/the-trump-show-begins)** > > With the very first question, Donald Trump says he won't pledge that he will support the eventual GOP nominee and leaves open the possibility of running as an independent. ---
**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 27, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8228 "2023-02-27T02:21:36Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > They were serious, too. Just to be clear, Gohmert wasn’t actually serious. Instead he was claiming that climate change was caused by solar flares, and variations in the earth and moons orbit. So that unless they could change the orbits of the moon we shouldn’t bother trying to do anything about it. So stupid, but not quite that stupid. ---
**Author:** ![fordgt100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fordgt100](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fordgt100)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8229 "2023-02-27T02:25:37Z")
The term Stupid Republican is a double negative. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8230 "2023-02-27T04:06:24Z")
> [@Mortimus](#): > > > [@JaneDoe42](#): > > > > I’ve taken up Tai-chi and the classes are indoors for now. Tai-chi involves a lot of stretching and reaching motions, so you need a lot of room to be able to get a good workout. I’ve let it be known that not only have I had 5 COVID jabs, I’ve also had got my flu shot AND shingles shots last year. > > > > As a result, there are only two other people who are willing to work out in my side of the room, the other 10-12 are all crowded together in the other side of the room to avoid any possible vaccine shed or whatever is going on in their little pea-sized brains. > > > > I’m just fine with that and I hope their behavior keeps up when we are ab > > Wait… whut?! MAGAts do Tai-chi? Isn’t that some sort of commie thing? What would their lard-ass lord and saviour have to say about that? FWIW The Chinese Falun Gong group (some say cult) is a dissident group and anti-CCP. They incorporate tai chi exercises into their practices and philosophy. They are also ardently pro-Trump, their official media outlet is The Epoch Times, and the English language version is one of the biggest pro-Trump propaganda outlets around. Cults love Trump. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8231 "2023-02-27T04:39:27Z")
He truly does have the merde touch. For what it is worth, I am getting a lot out of the classes. I’m never going to be able to tai-chi someone into submission, but I use my cane for that anyhow. The instructor always provides tea and healthy snacks afterwards but I don’t partake because I don’t really want to hear what they are saying. ---
**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 27, 2023, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8232 "2023-02-27T04:55:58Z")
Ken Paxton wants an Individual 1-appointed judge to declare the law that would keep the government running until September unconstitutional. > **[Texas asks a Trump judge to declare most of the federal government...](https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/2/26/23611826/texas-trump-judge-hendrix-government-shutdown-proxy-voting-omnibus-supreme-court)** > > Ordinarily, this lawsuit would be laughed out of court. But you never can tell with Trump’s judges. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8233 "2023-02-27T08:59:09Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > The Chinese Falun Gong group (some say cult) is a dissident group and anti-CCP. They incorporate tai chi exercises into their practices and philosophy. They are also ardently pro-Trump, their official media outlet is The Epoch Times, and the English language version is one of the biggest pro-Trump propaganda outlets around. I’ve seen links to Epoch before and knew they were a bunch of nutjobs, but I didn’t know about the Falun Gong connection. Thanks for the info. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2023, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8234 "2023-02-27T09:54:36Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ken Paxton wants an Individual 1-appointed judge to declare the law that would keep the government running until September unconstitutional. Well, it would drag the rest of the country down to the level of Texas. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2023, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8235 "2023-02-27T09:59:12Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > The Chinese Falun Gong group (some say cult) is a dissident group and anti-CCP. They incorporate tai chi exercises into their practices and philosophy. They are also ardently pro-Trump They are also responsible for the [Shen Yun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong_outside_mainland_China#Arts_and_culture) performers you may well have seen advertised. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8236 "2023-02-27T14:26:59Z")
It’s just a variation on “I won’t accept the result of the election unless I win.” “I won’t pledge to support the nominee unless it’s me.” ---
**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 27, 2023, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8237 "2023-02-27T14:40:59Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > And they expect him to keep his word? The GOP has _really_ gone off the deep end. “I didn’t break _my word_, I broke _their pledge!_” Come on, in a world where people bent over backwards to defend the “fine people” comment, you know a lot of them would buy this argument. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8238 "2023-02-27T15:08:00Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > And they expect him to keep his word? The GOP has _really_ gone off the deep end. I think they forgot that the whole ‘no repercussions’ thing works both ways. That is, he can get away with a lot of crap because he knows (or assumes) the left won’t actually do anything about it. However, the right has spent all this time spoiling him and he will happily walk all over them because they let him. They don’t seem to understand that they handed him so much power (and/or lack of repercussions when he abused it) that he can use it against them now. It’s the exact same thing that’s happening with DeSantis. If his own state allows him to create/expand a statewide Florida Guard, they don’t get to complain when they’re being dragged out of their houses on his orders. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8239 "2023-02-27T15:28:59Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Cults love Trump. IIRC, the Unification Church of (the late) Reverend Sun Myung Moon operates the ~~Moonie~~ Washington Times thingie, which is deep into RW territory. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8240 "2023-02-27T18:01:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ken Paxton wants an Individual 1-appointed judge to declare the law that would keep the government running until September unconstitutional. From the linked article: > [@](#): > > Earlier this month, Texas’s Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit claiming that the $1.7 trillion spending law that keeps most of the federal government — including the US military — operating through September of 2023 is unconstitutional. Why does Texas hate the military? ---
**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:** [February 27, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8241 "2023-02-27T19:33:14Z")
Don’t forget, this is the same guy filed a lawsuit because he didn’t like the way Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin ran their elections. I think his grasp on what the Constitution says is tenuous. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8242 "2023-02-27T19:39:22Z")
Well, it is the American military. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2023, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8243 "2023-02-28T03:30:39Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > It’s the exact same thing that’s happening with DeSantis. If his own state allows him to create/expand a statewide Florida Guard, they don’t get to complain when they’re being dragged out of their houses on his orders. The 'pub voter won’t have the slightest problem seeing their darker-skinned neighbour being the ones getting dragged out of their houses on RD’s orders. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8244 "2023-02-28T03:53:45Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > The 'pub voter won’t have the slightest problem seeing their darker-skinned neighbour being the ones getting dragged out of their houses on RD’s orders. But what will he say when they come for him? What will they do when Ron’s seizing their house by eminent domain for a vaguely named “Upcoming Public Works Project”? I’m just saying the 'pub voter has no right to complain when the cheetahs start eating their faces too. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2023, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8245 "2023-02-28T04:14:32Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > But what will he say when they come for him? What will they do when Ron’s seizing their house by eminent domain for a vaguely named “Upcoming Public Works Project”? First they came for the SJWs, and I did not speak out… ---
**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:** [February 28, 2023, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8246 "2023-02-28T04:15:55Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > But what will he say when they come for him? I’m saying that under RD’s watch, he’ll see it to that _right ones_ will never get kicked out into the streets. quasi-ninjaed by seconds by Smapti [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=411) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=413)