# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588 "2023-07-04T21:42:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 127
**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:** [December 9, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2521 "2023-12-09T20:45:28Z")
Tumorville folds (mostly) and now GQP Senator Eric Shit (Idiot-Missouri) has taken up the mantle to sit on some promotions. > **[Another Republican senator is blocking a handful of military promotions, now...](https://www.businessinsider.com/another-gop-senator-is-blocking-military-promotions-2023-12)** > > The holds are due to the officers' "stances or actions relating to" DEI programs, Eric Schmitt's office said. And his reasoning (far-fetched to actually call it that): “Senator Schmitt has placed a hold on a handful of promotions relating to concerns that he has regarding those nominees’ stances or actions relating to divisive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in the military,” the unnamed press secretary said." ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2522 "2023-12-09T21:29:09Z")
And this is Missouri’s _good_ senator. Okay, he’s not as bad as the other. How’s that? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2523 "2023-12-09T22:22:29Z")
It’s like a relay race. But what sort of baton are they holding? The mind recoils. “DEI has no place in our military, which has long been the world’s greatest meritocracy," he said.” You don’t know Jack, Schmitt. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2524 "2023-12-10T00:16:21Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I’d ask if the MAGA folks don’t have better things to do than worry about football, but…. Yeah, come on, this is starting to get disturbingly HUACy. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2023, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2525 "2023-12-10T02:11:43Z")
He did describe inclusion as divisive, so (R) checks out, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2526 "2023-12-10T02:25:56Z")
Are you saying that the GQP are a bunch of HUACjobs? I had a riff on “Old MacDonald” ready to go, but restrained myself. You should be grateful. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2023, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2527 "2023-12-10T03:20:38Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Yeah, come on, this is starting to get disturbingly HUACy. And just like the last time, it’s the Russians behind it all. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2528 "2023-12-10T21:58:34Z")
Yes, of course Russian operatives (as well as those of other USA-foes) will be attempting to gin up outrage among Americans, distracting said Americans from topics that might actually affect their lives. And anti-democracy operatives of all origins are no doubt delighted with the GOP Congress-members’ attempts to normalize interference in private enterprises (such as the College Football Playoff committee). It’s the Fascist way, after all! ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2529 "2023-12-11T22:16:12Z")
Marjorie Taylor Chamberlain has a plan to achieve peace in our time. > ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2530 "2023-12-11T22:25:01Z")
Answer: No one trusts Putin further than they could throw his horse. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2531 "2023-12-11T22:53:49Z")
Ya know…Russia itself tried that not that long ago with a guy named Hitler. Didn’t work so well for them. Of course, they didn’t expect he’d live up to it permanently and were thinking of backstabbing him eventually, too, but who studies history these days anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2532 "2023-12-11T22:58:39Z")
Or, you know, we could choose not to dry up the money. Might even be able to get this thing finished more quickly. But if we can somehow get Putin to agree to not continue his invasion, and instead pull out of Crimea and Donbass, then I think that would be acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2533 "2023-12-11T23:00:37Z")
Sure, yes, if he agrees to that but it seems really unlikely he would do so. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2534 "2023-12-11T23:45:31Z")
Good ol’ Empty Greene, gonna be Secratary of States in the next Trump administration. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2535 "2023-12-11T23:59:19Z")
But only _some_ of the States. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2023, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2536 "2023-12-12T00:41:40Z")
Gym Jordan is trying to give pedophiles a break in the FISA bill. > ---
**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:** [December 12, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2537 "2023-12-12T02:00:30Z")
Thing is, there’s **two** competing FISA reauthorization/reform bills, one from Jordan’s Judiciary Committee and one from Turner’s Intelligence Committee, and unsurprisingly for this House, they did NOT do the normal thing which would be to merge them into a substitute bill but instead are letting both go out there and compete against each other. So this is probably only one of _many_ mismatches, and I can see something like that happening in the course of revising FISA just because there **is** and has always been disagreement as to what is it that you are supposed to use FISA for: is it a national security law or is it a catchall “way to screw anyone we want to crack down on” law? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2538 "2023-12-12T02:09:24Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > they did NOT do the normal thing which would be to merge them into a substitute bill but instead are letting both go out there and compete against each other. So it’s Thunderdome? Which is Mel Gibson? I’ll root for the other one. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2539 "2023-12-12T02:21:52Z")
The Texas GOP is suing a lawyer who told several losing candidates in Harris County that she could prove there was voter suppression in the county. News flash–she couldn’t prove shit. > The suit, filed Friday in Mitchell County, stems from a spate of election contests filed by Harris County Republican candidates who lost the 2022 general election. Most of those were dismissed without going to trial > The new complaint alleges attorney Elizabeth Alvarez lied to 17 candidates that her firm had prepared a “data model” that would have shown that “more than 40,000 voters were suppressed.” [https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/article/gop-election-lawsuit-18537211.php](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/article/gop-election-lawsuit-18537211.php) ---
**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:** [December 12, 2023, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2540 "2023-12-12T03:06:29Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Marjorie Taylor Chamberlain has a plan to achieve peace in our time. How much is Putin paying her, and can someone not try to look into this? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=126) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=128)