# 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:** 13
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/241 "2023-07-21T01:50:29Z")
Royko may have coined it, but IMO/IME it’s long since become part of the general US lexicon. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/242 "2023-07-21T01:53:06Z")
Mr. Royko has contributed greatly to American culture. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/243 "2023-07-21T02:12:24Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > Mr. Royko has contributed greatly to American culture Agreed, even though I now reside in the Land Beyond O’Hare ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/244 "2023-07-21T02:53:59Z")
For Bobert and Greene, how about Thing 1 and Thing 2? I would propose Bitch 1 and Bitch 2 but we’re trying to be polite here. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/245 "2023-07-21T04:09:37Z")
Hey! Thing and his girlfriend (wife?) were adorable in _The Addams Family_. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2023, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/246 "2023-07-21T04:45:09Z")
Don’t associate the ever-lovin’ blue-eyed Thing with those repulse creeps. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/247 "2023-07-21T05:05:00Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > For Bobert and Greene, how about Thing 1 and Thing 2? 'Cause you’ll never get rid of the… No matter what you do ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/248 "2023-07-21T10:09:04Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > How about pos’s? “We will now hear from the POS from Georgia.” “PAB” is also an option, and already in the Congressional record as a gender-neutral term. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2023, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/249 "2023-07-21T12:22:13Z")
It’s an oldie but they’re dusting it off again[: “Hank Aaron was killed by the vaccine!”](https://www.thedailybeast.com/jim-jordan-pushes-bogus-hank-aaron-vaccine-conspiracy-during-rfk-jr-hearing) by RFK Jr. and Gym Jordan. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/250 "2023-07-21T20:41:08Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Jason Aldean recorded a song about lynching BLM protestors and shot the video in front of a courthouse where a black teenager was murdered by a white mob in 1928. > > CMT has pulled the video from rotation, which, as we all know, means they’re now Wokes. > > [Right-Wingers Flock to Jason Aldean's Defense After ‘Pro-Lynching’ Video Pulled](https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wingers-flock-to-jason-aldeans-defense-after-pro-lynching-video-pulled) Liar, the song is definitely NOT about lynching BLM protestors. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/251 "2023-07-21T20:48:54Z")
You’re right . . . it’s clearly about shooting them. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/252 "2023-07-21T21:02:24Z")
And just to show my age, I had started reading Royko when he was writing for the _Chicago Daily News_, then followed him to the _Chicago Sun-Times_ and finally to the _Chicago Tribune_. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/253 "2023-07-21T22:09:00Z")
[And some of the video isn’t even good American violence! It’s Canadian!](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jason-aldean-try-that-in-a-small-town-canadian-protest-video-1234791776/amp/) What happened to patriotism? ---
**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:** [July 22, 2023, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/254 "2023-07-22T00:54:53Z")
God damn, what the world needs now is Mike Royko. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/255 "2023-07-22T01:08:14Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Mike Royko Wow. I haven’t thought about him in ages. I loved his column. Damn. Lots of great journalists of the past are gone. What passes for journalism today is pretty pathetic. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2023, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/256 "2023-07-22T01:15:04Z")
He once said about old man Daley’s communication troubles that he sometimes “slid sideways” into a sentence. What a treasure Royko was. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/257 "2023-07-22T01:38:08Z")
yep. Can you imagine what Walter Cronkite would have to say about the Republicans? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/258 "2023-07-22T01:58:12Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > God damn, what the world needs now is Mike Royko. And Molly Ivins. What they would do to Abbott and Trump… ---
**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:** [July 22, 2023, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/259 "2023-07-22T02:08:10Z")
What about William Buckley? ---
**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:** [July 22, 2023, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/260 "2023-07-22T02:30:40Z")
Margie is now emailing Hunter’s dick pics to her mailing list. Someone wanna tell her the speech and debate clause doesn’t cover fundraisers? > [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=14)