# 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:** 175
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3481 "2024-02-03T18:24:08Z")
Thanks for the ear worm. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3482 "2024-02-03T19:14:26Z")
> **[Ted Cruz wants lawmakers to get security escorts through America’s airports —...](https://apple.news/A2BA0PGA4RTWEJkYXQOohDg)** > > Cruz told POLITICO that his amendment is about ensuring that political VIPs aren’t endangered as they pass through public spaces in airports. Stupid Ted. Maybe there’s a reason you get harassed in airports you sunshine seeker! ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3483 "2024-02-03T20:11:07Z")
Stupid Ted, just get some of your state’s troopers to escort you. All the college football coaches have them. And who’s going to pay, train, and equip all these NEW federal employees, Mr. kiss my ass\*? Party of fiscal responsibility/small government/self-reliance… . ﹡ᵏⁱˢˢ ᵐʸ ᵃˢˢ ⁱˢ ᵗᵉᵈ’ˢ ᵖʳᵉᶠᵉʳʳᵉᵈ ᵖʳᵒⁿᵒᵘⁿ. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3484 "2024-02-03T20:18:47Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Stupid Ted, just get some of your state’s troopers to escort you. All the college football coaches have them. - Priorities. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3485 "2024-02-03T21:50:20Z")
I didn’t realize you also needed escorts to defend fragile egos ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3486 "2024-02-03T21:54:36Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > fragile egos But we’re talking about free range egos that want to travel to Cancún without being noticed. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3487 "2024-02-03T22:03:05Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > My first thought upon reading this: > > > [@](#): > > > > Touchdown: Taylor Swift lands in Baltimore ahead of AFC Championship, jet belches tons of CO2 emissions Here’s the actual (picture of the) tweet. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFC5Am5aIAAQcJi.jpg) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFC5Am5aIAAQcJi.jpg) If you look closely, it says C-zero-2, not C-oh-2. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3488 "2024-02-03T22:46:23Z")
But they won’t make the leap as to why her plane spitting out “C0O2” is bad. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3489 "2024-02-03T23:43:22Z")
Loser Donald is begging people to tell him he looks like Elvis. > **['What do you think?' Trump asks social media if he looks like Elvis Presley](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-elvis-what-do-you-think/)** > > Donald Trump on Saturday made waves by comparing himself to the "King of Rock & Roll," Elvis Presley. > > The former president claimed in a post on his own social media site, Truth Social, that people are constantly comparing him to the legend. He... ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3490 "2024-02-03T23:47:21Z")
Well, perhaps in Elvis’s current condition, sure. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3491 "2024-02-03T23:48:45Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > If you look closely, it says C-zero-2, not C-oh-2. Her plane emits Coke Zero! I can dig it! ---
**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:** [February 4, 2024, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3492 "2024-02-04T00:41:55Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Loser Donald is begging people to tell him he looks like Elvis. Fat and drug-addled? ---
**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:** [February 4, 2024, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3493 "2024-02-04T00:46:03Z")
Failed New Mexico legislature candidate organized drive-bys on the homes of local politicians who refused to overturn an election he lost by 50 points. > **[Republican who lost election paid for drive-by shootings on Democrats' homes:...](https://www.rawstory.com/gunman-says-republican-who-lost-election-paid-for-drive-by-shootings-on-democrats-homes-2667162847/)** > > A New Mexico man recently pleaded guilty to committing several drive-by shootings, saying he was allegedly paid to do so by a failed Republican candidate in a state legislative election.According to the Department of Justice, 42-year-old Demetrio... ---
**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:** [February 4, 2024, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3494 "2024-02-04T02:36:23Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > Loser Donald is begging people to tell him he looks like Elvis. > > Fat and drug-addled? Tell him to lie down on the bathroom floor next to the toilet so we can check it out. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3495 "2024-02-04T21:35:10Z")
A sitting senator has [these brilliant ideas](https://www.yahoo.com/gma/jd-vance-defends-trump-claims-152600113.html): > “If I had been vice president, I would have told the states, like Pennsylvania, Georgia and so many others, that we needed to have multiple slates of electors and I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there,” he continued. “That is the legitimate way to deal with an election that a lot of folks, including me, think had a lot of problems in 2020. I think that’s what we should have done.” Small problem, [Senator Political Science Major](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Vance#Early_life_and_education): > [The Constitution makes no such provisions for this.](https://www.yahoo.com/gma/jd-vance-defends-trump-claims-152600113.html) And let’s talk about his views on how his idol should conduct himself if re-elected: > Stephanopoulos also asked Vance about a September 2021 podcast interview where he said that if Trump is reelected in 2024, he would advise the former president to “fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people” Oh, and let’s not worry about that bothersome Supreme Court either, shall we? > – and, if and when the courts tried to stop him, “stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did, and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’” Okay, those are a bit aged, but he’s resurrected it with this nonsense: > “The Constitution also says the president must abide by legitimate Supreme Court rulings, doesn’t it?” Stephanopoulos pressed. “The Constitution says that the Supreme Court can make rulings … but if the Supreme Court said the president of the United States can’t fire a general, that would be an illegitimate ruling,” Vance said. So, we’re yet again listening to a leading republican (I’ll have to say someone currently in the United States Senate should be considered a leading member of their party; after all, there are only 100 US senators) who cares not a whit about the constitution of the United States of America even though it’s said constitution that created his job. I wonder if the Powers That Be at Ohio State University can revoke his degree. He obviously learned nothing about how the United States government. Oh, let’s not forget his take on victims of sexual abuse: > “I think it’s actually very unfair to the victims of sexual assault to say that somehow their lives are being worse by electing Donald Trump for president when what he’s trying to do, I think, is restore prosperity,” Vance told Stephanopoulos when asked to respond to the argument that backing Trump meant tacitly supporting abusers. WHAT THE FUCK? “You got raped, but you should be okay with that because with a rapist in the White House, your life will be better.” How the fuck does someone come up with that bullshit? Well, since Tan the Conman is his idol, maybe Vance will soon say that he was only joking. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3496 "2024-02-04T21:45:13Z")
And we also have [Governor Noem threatening civil war](https://www.yahoo.com/news/kristi-noem-warns-possible-civil-195231587.html) because she doesn’t think the governor of Texas needs to abide by United States Supreme Court rulings: > On Sunday, South Dakota Gov. [Kristi Noem](https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Kristi%20Noem) (R) suggested if President [Joe Biden](https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Joe%20Biden) tries to federalize Texas National Guard forces — as some Democrats have [urged](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13006371/Democrats-tell-Biden-CONTROL-border-Texas-immigration-war-state-offered-ranchers-razor-wire-define-Supreme-Court-ruling.html) — it could lead to a civil war. > “If he’s willing to do that and take away my authority as governor as commander-in-chief of those National Guard, boy, we do have a war on our hands,” said Noem. > > Under Gov. [Greg Abbott](https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Greg%20Abbott) (R), the Texas National Guard and state law enforcement officials have [blocked](https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/22/texas-border-supreme-court-immigration/#:~:text=U.S.%20Supreme%20Court%20says%20Texas,authority%20to%20enforce%20border%20security.) federal Border Patrol agents from accessing the border area to remove the razor wire, which federal agents say has impeded their operations. Texas has been blocking access to a border area near where a woman and two children [reportedly drowned](https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/15/us/what-we-know-about-the-drownings-of-3-migrants-in-eagle-pass-texas/index.html) in the Rio Grande. > > The Supreme Court has sided with the federal government, [ruling](https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-immigration-texas-razor-wire-9daef6bd316211b6633ece718e505187#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20A%20divided,the%20state%20over%20immigration%20enforcement.) Jan. 22 that federal agents can remove the razor wire. They really don’t care about the consitution. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2024, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3497 "2024-02-04T21:47:25Z")
Send in the 101st Airborne. It worked for Eisenhower. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2024, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3498 "2024-02-04T22:25:45Z")
Swift Derangement Syndrome has lead the cult to start cheering for San Francisco. > ---
**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:** [February 4, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3499 "2024-02-04T22:27:35Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > WHAT THE FUCK? > > “You got raped, but you should be okay with that because with a rapist in the White House, your life will be better.” > > How the fuck does someone come up with that bullshit? > > Well, since Tan the Conman is his idol, maybe Vance will soon say that he was only joking. No, he means: “You got raped, but you should be okay with that because with a rapist in the White House, **my** life will be better.” ---
**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:** [February 5, 2024, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3500 "2024-02-05T00:47:37Z")
I thought San Fran was full of godless hippies and gays and whatnot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=174) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=176)