# 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:** 136
**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 25, 2023, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2701 "2023-12-25T17:39:47Z")
Plus I expect someone who thinks himself an alpha male not to need the external validation. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2702 "2023-12-25T17:49:18Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > He’s attractive in a Ralph Wiggum sort of way. Yes, but given his views, I’m sure that no Lisa (or Susan or Linda or Andrea, etc.) would “choo-choo-choose” him. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2023, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2703 "2023-12-25T17:50:19Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Just by describing himself as “alpha male” he kills all possibility of being taken seriously by anyone who counts. - I’ll bet if you slapped him in the face, he’d cry. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2704 "2023-12-25T18:31:51Z")
I bet if you made solid eye contact with him, he’d cry. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2705 "2023-12-25T18:33:42Z")
True . . . but that’s only because of how much he loves Trump. ---
**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 25, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2706 "2023-12-25T20:07:16Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > _White-male-hetero-Christian_ people’s choices about their bodies ARE important. > > And if they want to shit their pants in public, then by god no one, no government, can stop them! Freedom! Live Free or Diarrhea! Or both! ---
**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 25, 2023, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2707 "2023-12-25T21:17:07Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Cleans my plate. > Takes out the garbage, without being asked. > Walks the dog. > Shaves once a week. > Has a newspaper route. > Looks great in my dad’s suit. … Incel ---
**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:** [December 26, 2023, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2708 "2023-12-26T00:27:06Z")
What, is he like the 2020s version of Ben Shapiro? ---
**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 26, 2023, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2709 "2023-12-26T03:34:18Z")
Failed Texas congressional candidate sez it’s Biden’s fault he spent $300 on a 16-lb USDA Prime 7-rib roast. > **[Texas man's $313 beef post sparks mockery, support](https://www.newsweek.com/texas-man-313-beef-post-sparks-mockery-support-1855251)** > > "You and your 'Bidenomics' can suck it, you liars," former Republican Congressional candidate Jason Nelson said in the social media post. ---
**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 26, 2023, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2710 "2023-12-26T03:35:31Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > What, is he like the 2020s version of Ben Shapiro? > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I bet if you made solid eye contact with him, he’d cry. > [@Spoons](#): > > Yes, but given his views, I’m sure that no Lisa (or Susan or Linda or Andrea, etc.) would “choo-choo-choose” him. > [@JRDelirious](#): > > Just by describing himself as “alpha male” he kills all possibility of being taken seriously by anyone who counts. > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > He looks like the poster child for “I need a wedgie!” I never thought it was possible for a 17-year-old to have divorced dad energy, but here we are. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2023, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2711 "2023-12-26T05:42:36Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > He’s attractive in a Ralph Wiggum sort of way. I think even Ralph doesn’t shit his pants. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2023, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2712 "2023-12-26T11:49:44Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Plus I expect someone who thinks himself an alpha male not to need the external validation. And if you’re simping for Trump, you’re admitting you’re not an alpha male anyway. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2023, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2713 "2023-12-26T13:27:05Z")
And he’s ‘Wildly Successful’… at 17 yo. You want fries with that kid? ---
**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:** [December 26, 2023, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2714 "2023-12-26T13:37:21Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > You want fries with that kid? ‘I’ll have you know that running the Fry-o-later is considered to be the most important job one can have at McDonalds!’ ‘They tell me that every day.’ Your friend, Josh ---
**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 26, 2023, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2715 "2023-12-26T13:46:04Z")
OK, ok, now, whoa — yeah it’s kind of satisfying to have a big chorus of “oh, you dumb kid, can’t wait to see you meet the Clenched Fist of Reality”, but let’s not incidentally crap on the many responsible, nice young hard workers who daily strive to produce our meal deals. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2023, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2716 "2023-12-26T15:24:08Z")
For those who are familiar with the comic strip “Cul de Sac”, I think this young man is the living embodiment of Ernesto Lacuna and thus, probably imaginary. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2717 "2023-12-26T16:27:15Z")
He reminds me of a guy who was a year below me in highschool. He and his crazy mom pretended to be rich. I suppose by community standards, they were above average. He did often wear suits to school, and he carried a briefcase. His mom would swan into the office and demand special treatment for him. They often got their way. I think it’s because if was easier than arguing with the crazy. I hadn’t heard a thing about him in decades until several years back he made the news. He’d married a woman younger than him and prettier than one would expect. She liked expensive things including horses. Very expensive horses. He liked expensive things too, and they had a huge mansion. He opened some sort of tech business with lots of servers. I don’t recall the details or what exactly the business did, but he had lots of investors and customers. It seems that all the “servers” were dummy boxes that had nothing but blinking lights in them. He owed people hundreds of thousands of dollars, and was criminally charged with something. Anyway, he holed up in his mansion with a gun that his lovely mother bought him a couple days before and shot himself in the head. No one was surprised that he was a con, though the pure size and ballsyness of the con shocked us. We were also shocked by his death by suicide. I don’t remember details, but I think his wife went to prison for a bit; his mother was charged and convicted, but I think she was allowed out because of her advanced age. I think they should have let her rot. She was a horrible person; she made him what he was, and she helped him kill himself. Don’t get me wrong, I never liked the guy, and he put himself in the situation, but he was never, ever taught better. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2718 "2023-12-26T19:16:45Z")
Maybe don’t shop at Publix, they are incredibly overpriced and I suspect they jack up the prices because they need to send Trump lots of money to fund insurrections. > **[Publix heiress offered $3 million for ‘rally’ on Jan. 6. Did she get what she...](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article270342927.html)** > > In late December of 2020, the heiress to the Publix grocery store chain was eager to volunteer millions of dollars in support of a rally in the nation’s capital on the day that Congress was to certify the results of the presidential election,... ---
**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 26, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2719 "2023-12-26T22:11:46Z")
WV congressional candidate posts photo of Democrats hanging from nooses on an Xmas tree. > **[GOP candidate deletes post showing Christmas tree ornaments of Dems hanging...](https://www.rawstory.com/gop-congressional-ornament-apology/)** > > A GOP congressional candidate is apologizing after he posted an image to social media showing Democratic lawmakers hanging in nooses, The Messenger reported. Former West Virginia state lawmaker Derrick Evans shared and then quickly deleted the image... To be fair, he seems to have realized this was a stupid idea and has taken it down and apologized. Of course, the capacity for shame renders him a filthy RINO, so his career is probably over. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2023, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/2720 "2023-12-27T01:00:46Z")
I wouldn’t cut him too much slack. I think he thought it would slide. When it didn’t he fell back to what a good Christian, family man he is. After all, he spent time in jail for the insurrection, but he was only in there for like 10 min. 🙄 🙄 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=135) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=137)