# 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:** 457
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9127 "2023-04-17T16:06:48Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I’ve **sad** it before…I have to defend Bud and Bud light. Very apropos typo - there are few things sadder than Bud Light. > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > To say they are is the height of beer snobbishness. Guilty as charged, and totally unrepentant. Bud Light is an affront to all that is Holy. The fact that AB promptly caved to the Right Wing offenderati makes me shun them even more. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2023, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9128 "2023-04-17T16:16:49Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@Gyrate](#): > > > > because it’s just a terrible beer. > > It’s like making love in a canoe. Fucking near water? ---
**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:** [April 17, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9129 "2023-04-17T16:23:44Z")
This place never disappoints me. ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9130 "2023-04-17T16:23:47Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Fucking near water? Ive heard it as “F-ing close to water” ---
**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:** [April 17, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9131 "2023-04-17T17:11:48Z")
just stick to the sticky bud ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9132 "2023-04-17T17:23:38Z")
Meh, it’s still 4.2% ABV, which wouldn’t have even been legal as-is in Utah until they changed their laws a few years back. If people want to drink it and nobody else is being forced to drink it, it’s none of my fucking business > [@Mikkel](#): > > Ive heard it as “F-ing close to water” Indeed so. I recall the line was even used in a live Monty Python show a while back. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2023, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9133 "2023-04-17T17:39:10Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > I recall the line was even used in a live Monty Python show a while back. Agree. In my mind, I can hear it being said in John Cleese’s voice. ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9134 "2023-04-17T17:50:39Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > If people want to drink it and nobody else is being forced to drink it, it’s none of my fucking business Because you’re not a fuckin’ repub? Dan ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9135 "2023-04-17T17:52:42Z")
Mostly because I try not to be an asshole (and admittedly fail sometimes) But there seems to be a lot of overlap between assholes and the main corpus of Republicans these days at that ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9136 "2023-04-17T17:56:25Z")
HEY!! **I’m** an asshole and I object to being lumped in as “maybe a Republican.” That’s just _mean_. ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9137 "2023-04-17T17:59:25Z")
Didn’t mean to be mean, but gimme a break! One chance in a hundred, right? Anyone have a link to an asshole/party poll? Dan ---
**Author:** ![Norse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9138 "2023-04-17T18:14:16Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Are they really wrong? > > To say they are is the height of beer snobbishness. Guilty as charged, and proud of it. And you’re equally guilty of the _argumentum_ _ad_ _populum_ fallacy ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9139 "2023-04-17T18:29:41Z")
> [@Norse](#): > > And you’re equally guilty of the _argumentum_ _ad_ _populum_ fallacy No, I’m guilty of market research. Well, vicarious market research. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9140 "2023-04-17T18:43:28Z")
TBF, Bud Light is sort of tolerable as a Stadium beer insofar as by the time you leave the game any buzz has subsided. However back sort of on topic, MTG _ **would** _ be the one to decide to just hit Graham from that angle, wouldn’t she? We’ll see next time she’s got some project or appointment in her district that needs to pass the Senate… ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9141 "2023-04-17T18:56:49Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > To say they are is the height of beer snobbishness. Snobbishness? Absolutely. “The height of…”? Not even close. It’s the bottom rung. You have to hate bud light first to even get a chance to learning about the club. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9142 "2023-04-17T19:08:23Z")
> **[Judge: If news taints rape-trial jurors, Trump shares blame](https://apnews.com/article/trump-carroll-rape-lawsuit-90c7d274a2a25193a797cb6e78c30280)** > > A federal judge has rejected Donald Trump's latest attempt to delay his rape trial, saying the former president cannot make public statements to promote pretrial publicity and then claim its prejudicial to him and reason to delay his trial. Judge... > “It does not sit well for Mr. Trump to promote pretrial publicity and then to claim that coverage that he promoted was prejudicial to him and should be taken into account as supporting a further delay,” the judge said, adding that he was also concerned that the request was a “delay tactic by Mr. Trump.” ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9143 "2023-04-17T19:15:07Z")
A truly trumpian tactic, harkening back to the Trump University trial where Donald claimed the hispanic heritage judge was biased because - wait for it - of all the disparaging things he (Trump) had said about hispanics. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9144 "2023-04-17T19:31:53Z")
Wasn’t that one definition of ‘chutzpah’? Murdering one’s parents and begging mercy from the court as an orphan? ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9145 "2023-04-17T19:44:48Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > That leaves moonshine for Red-blooded Republicans. I thought the Repubs drank bleach (to banish of Covid and get whiter whites). ---
**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:** [April 17, 2023, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9146 "2023-04-17T20:29:49Z")
Not sure if this is stupid or evil (or both), but it’s certainly something: > **[Trump says he will make federal workers take political test and fire those...](https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-federal-political-test-b2322516.html)** > > Comes as the former president faces federal investigation > “I will require every federal employee to pass a new civil service test, demonstrating an understanding our constutitional limited government,” he said. > > Mr Trump said that the test would include command of due proceess rights, equal protection, free speech, religious liberty and Fourth Amendment to the Constitution’s protection against unreasonable search and seizure, which led him to mention the FBI searching his Mar-a-Lago estate in August for classified documents. There’s also this bit, which I’m sure won’t be immediately abused by Trump: > Mr Trump has previously called on putting in new requirements for federal employees. In March of last year, he called on passing laws that would make every employee who works under the executive branch fireable by the president. > > “We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States,” he said at the time. “The deep state must and will be brought to heel. It’s already happening.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=456) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=458)