# 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:** 168
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3341 "2024-01-30T03:43:14Z")
AFAICT, the “conservative influencer” “GOP Josh” is 17 years old. I despise his political stances and tacky social-media shilling, but I say we cut the kid a break when it comes to his teenage romantic aspirations and personal appearance. We were all mortifyingly young and awkward once. Mind you, I’m not rooting for him to actually get with any girl(s), as I think they probably deserve better, but I won’t mock his looks or clumsy approach to dating. ---
**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 30, 2024, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3342 "2024-01-30T03:48:35Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > To use their language, if you have to call yourself an alpha, you’re a gamma at best. **ARTHUR** : No, it was these, um, African hunting dogs; and what they’ve got is they’ve got an alpha dog, er, beta dogs and amigo dogs. **MARTIN** : _Amigo_ dogs? **DOUGLAS** : Surely you’ve heard of amigo dogs? Spanish breed; very friendly. Often found in threes. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3343 "2024-01-30T04:04:39Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > I say we cut the kid a break when it comes to his teenage romantic aspirations Not when the approach he has decided to take is toxic macho arrogance, even if it’s obviously pathetic. That _should_ be rewarded by being shunned by any self-respecting young woman. I’d give him a break on _looking_ like a complete wanker, he can’t help that. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2024, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3344 "2024-01-30T05:09:36Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > AFAICT, the “conservative influencer” “GOP Josh” is 17 years old. I move that he be tried as an adult. > [@Riemann](#): > > I’d give him a break on _looking_ like a complete wanker, he can’t help that. That haircut was a choice. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2024, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3345 "2024-01-30T05:19:48Z")
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**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3346 "2024-01-30T05:34:14Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > That haircut was a choice. But probably his mum’s choice. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3347 "2024-01-30T05:47:08Z")
We need more journalists [holding idiot’s feet to the fire when caught lying.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-cannot-really-remember-gop-rep-busted-for-taking-credit-for-bills-she-voted-against/ar-BB1hrB9a?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=908b11f22ba94d8ebd5a9d38cce67892&ei=39) > Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.) on Sunday got called out for routinely taking credit for delivering money to her district — after opposing the bills that provided that money. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3348 "2024-01-30T05:53:13Z")
Her response would probably be quite openly that she supported everything that was in the bills, but that _of course_ she could not vote for them because they were proposed by Democrats. And her base would be fine with that. They might complain that the money is tainted by Satanic rituals, but they won’t turn it down. ---
**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 30, 2024, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3349 "2024-01-30T10:50:12Z")
What about that dreamy Bruce Banner? Isn’t he the ultimate gamma male? As for Taylor Swift, that’s a fight the online MAGA aren’t gonna win, no matter how many pervy deepfakes they create. Hopefully they next decide to piss off K-pop fans again. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2024, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3350 "2024-01-30T10:58:26Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Hopefully they next decide to piss off K-pop fans again. We must keep Taylor Swift and BTS apart at all costs. If they were ever to combine their powers… they would be _unstoppable_. ---
**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 30, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3351 "2024-01-30T11:00:11Z")
What, like Voltron? ---
**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:** [January 30, 2024, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3352 "2024-01-30T11:05:45Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > What, like Voltron? - (dramatically removes eyeglasses) If only we were so lucky. We’re looking at a pop megatour of such all-consuming scale that Madonna, Beyonce, and Britney are the _opening acts._ The survivors may well envy the dead. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3353 "2024-01-30T13:45:10Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Her response would probably be quite openly that she supported everything that was in the bills Her response was apparently that she didn’t remember how she voted on the largest, most publicized bills of the Biden administration. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3354 "2024-01-30T13:54:53Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > What, like Voltron? Voltron would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one which he has never asked to be a part of. > [@Smapti](#): > > We must keep Taylor Swift and BTS apart at all costs. If she learns to moonwalk it’s already over. ---
**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 30, 2024, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3355 "2024-01-30T13:56:58Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Voltron would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one which he has never asked to be a part of. We must all come together as lion robots, or most assuredly we will have to fight the evil giant monsters alone. Ben Franklin (Green Lion) said that! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3356 "2024-01-30T14:27:06Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > We must keep Taylor Swift and BTS apart at all costs. If they were ever to combine their powers… they would be _unstoppable_. > [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > What, like Voltron? Just so long as they don’t form the craptastic cars Voltron, I think we’ll be okay. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2024, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3357 "2024-01-30T15:40:36Z")
I’m so old I thought Voltron was the cream you rub on sore joints. ---
**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 30, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3358 "2024-01-30T15:42:24Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > What about that dreamy Bruce Banner? Isn’t he the ultimate gamma male? I feel like “women like manly / alpha men” is one of those bits of advice that’s true (on average) but really screws you up if you try to follow it. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3359 "2024-01-30T15:52:12Z")
I think it is fairly positive thing for me, when I was trying to find that a 17yr old conservative potential dating partner, who googled, could only find [this](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10795778/)… ---
**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 30, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3360 "2024-01-30T15:58:51Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > I feel like “women like manly / alpha men” is one of those bits of advice that’s true (on average) but really screws you up if you try to follow it. The statistical curve for women who like chocolate has a pretty tall peak pretty far to the right, but making best use of those numbers can be somewhat challenging. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=167) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=169)