# 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:** 162
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3221 "2024-01-26T11:24:41Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [x.com](https://twitter.com/z_tarot/status/1750760257570111951/photo/1) No, no, no. They launched their dinghy into the North Pacific Gyre back in 2018 so that they could assault La Jolla from the north. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3222 "2024-01-26T12:32:47Z")
Yeah, but it’s California. Woke Central. I mean, someone has to help rebuild the ruin that is San Franciso! /s ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3223 "2024-01-26T12:40:35Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > > > altruism, cheerfulness, cleanliness, compassion, dignity, diligence, faith, forbearance, honesty, industry, loyalty, moderation, prudence, reliability, temperance and self-reliance.” > > But but but…. Those are all WOKE! It’s also remarkably close to the Boy Scout Law “A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.” ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3224 "2024-01-26T14:34:24Z")
Even as a kid, I thought that whoever[\*] came up with “clean” clearly didn’t know very many Boy Scouts. [\*] Sir Robert Baden-Powell, I’d imagine ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3225 "2024-01-26T16:44:11Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > How soon before this becomes his campaign theme song? > > _Ding ding ding ding ding ding > Okay misslie launch missile launch > Ding ding ding ding ding ding whoosh boom_ Close, but I think they’re going with this one ( **NSFW lyric** (curse word)): > **[Donald Trump's Let's Indict The MF (Bing Bong) REMIX - The Remix Bros](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTSZIYV4pro%2F)** > > Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/album/6uOdjqFy37wYp9Gm4QYvHi?si=KwcnGR1jTB6aw9vsiXsA-wApple Music:https://music.apple.com/us/album/lets-indict-the-mf-bing-b... ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3226 "2024-01-26T16:52:11Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Anyone else here remember any of the others? I do not have this committed to memory but remembered there was something in there,        _No refuge could save the hireling and slave_        _From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,_        _And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave_        _O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave._ (3rd stanza) which seems to have just a small touch of cog-dis going on. I also seem to recall a verse that starts out “_To Anacreon in Heav’n …_” but I am not sure – I might have been a little tipsy at the time. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3227 "2024-01-26T20:27:39Z")
Isn’t there a verse about one big pile of garbage being preferable to two smaller ones? ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3228 "2024-01-26T20:29:34Z")
That’s _America the Beautiful._ ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3229 "2024-01-26T20:31:56Z")
🤣 [Discourse] ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3230 "2024-01-26T20:41:10Z")
The “Liam Nissan” account has been suspended again on Xitter and is currently twitting under the handle “Abraham Lincoln Navigator.” ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3231 "2024-01-26T22:21:50Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > That’s _America the Beautiful._ “Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.” ― George Carlin ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3232 "2024-01-26T23:22:40Z")
I did see that. It probably won’t be long before that one gets suspended too. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3233 "2024-01-26T23:52:12Z")
Oh, absolutely. Part of his game is coming up with new ones to entertain the troops. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2024, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3234 "2024-01-27T00:18:03Z")
Let me know when he gets to Ernie Hudson Hornet. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3235 "2024-01-27T14:11:58Z")
This one’s stupid and evil, but I decided to post it here: A convoy of hundreds of people, calling themselves “Take Our Border Back,” plans to head to the Texas border to stop migrants crossing into the country from Mexico. As [one article](https://l.smartnews.com/p-GqPvA/CclWkP) puts it: The convoy is due to begin on Monday, starting at Virginia Beach, Virginia and three rallies will be held in San Ysidro, California, Yuma, Arizona, and Eagle Pass, Texas on February 3. They claim they’re going to protest peacefully, but also that they’ll be armed and work with sympathetic law enforcement. That’s their rather threadbare figleaf. Revealing among their twisted brethren what they actually intend, one of their organizers also said: “That’s what Green Berets do. Unconventional warfare is our bread and butter. Now we’re doing domestic internal defense.” “What gets us to the enemy quickly is to find, fix, and finish, exploit, analyze, and disseminate,” referring to a military process. “That’s what we did in Syria when we took out ISIS really quick.” _We’re_ talking about desperate poor people, many families with children, trying to escape horrible circumstances and willing to be productive members of society if we let them. Just like the forebearers of these lunatics did as immigrants, before the “golden door” went from mostly open to nearly shut in the 1920s. But these psychopaths, adhering to cargo-cult Americanism that worships the trappings but opposes the actual substance of what this nation stands for and aspires to, refer to being “besieged on all sides by dark forces of evil.” Evil? EVIL?! A bunch of people who want no more than generations of immigrants before them, to be taxpaying useful workers and eventually citizens, to have a place to raise a family and live in peace! Fuckers! You’re not “God’s Army”! Your Christianity is as cargo-cult as your Americanism! You clearly didn’t absorb the lessons from either the Old Testament that “When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.” or the New Testament that “I was a stranger and you invited me in.” Your efforts aren’t “biblical”, you damn well aren’t “peacemakers”, and your efforts should be damned for all time, not “blessed”! ---
**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:** [January 27, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3236 "2024-01-27T14:21:07Z")
And why is “temperance” before “self-reliance”? ---
**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:** [January 27, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3237 "2024-01-27T14:50:29Z")
On the one hand, if nothing becomes of this, it’s just more GOP fear mongering about ‘convoys’ heading to the border. On the other hand, if it actually happens, it’ll be one of the few times the GOP said a convoy is headed for the border and it actually happened, only, it’ll be all right wing extremists. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3238 "2024-01-27T15:41:30Z")
If this convoy leaves Virginia, I predict it will break down, get distracted, run out of money, or have some kind of unforeseen problem that will prevent them from reaching the border, because this is the most incompetent cult ever assembled. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3239 "2024-01-27T15:44:42Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > because this is the most incompetent cult ever assembled. - Next cult in line says “Hold my beers.” ---
**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:** [January 27, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3240 "2024-01-27T16:48:48Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > If this convoy leaves Virginia, I predict it will … end up at Warroad MN. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=161) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=163)