# 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:** 181
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3601 "2024-02-10T23:26:47Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Have any of his purported offspring ever had a paternity test? Sad to say, all 3 male spawn look like him. And at least 2 of them share his sparkling personality and rapier wit. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2024, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3602 "2024-02-10T23:27:06Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > but I wonder how many times his various wives and mistresses just closed their eyes and thought about grocery shopping instead. Not grocery shopping. Jewelry, designer shoes, President Macron. ---
**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 10, 2024, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3603 "2024-02-10T23:30:55Z")
Raper wit, not rapier. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2024, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3604 "2024-02-10T23:32:35Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Raper wit, not rapier My bad! ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3605 "2024-02-11T00:12:39Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Sounds like Mr. Ed. Hey now. (Hay now? 😛 ) No slandering one of my childhood crushes!! ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3606 "2024-02-11T01:22:24Z")
> [@saje](#): > > Hey now. (Hay now? 😛 ) No slandering one of my childhood crushes!! - Of course! ---
**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 11, 2024, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3607 "2024-02-11T01:52:37Z")
More from Loser Donald: vote for me and I’ll surrender Europe to the Czar. > Also, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say there’s zero chance that “the president of a big country” called him “sir”. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2024, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3608 "2024-02-11T02:34:06Z")
It’s [been](https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/politics/sir-trump-telltale-word-false/index.html) [established](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/its-easy-to-fact-check-trumps-lies-he-tells-the-same-ones-all-the-time/2018/11/15/5effb25c-e874-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html) that when Trump tells a story about what someone asked him, when he says they used the word “sir”, he’s bullshitting. Lying in other words. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2024, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3609 "2024-02-11T02:50:54Z")
I don’t know, there’s no one rapier than Donald Trump, wouldn’t you say? ---
**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 11, 2024, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3610 "2024-02-11T05:22:41Z")
CNN seems to be continuing its descent into becoming Fox News Lite. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGAtIwvWwAADm6C?format=jpg&name=900x900) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGAtIwvWwAADm6C?format=jpg&name=900x900) ---
**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 11, 2024, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3611 "2024-02-11T06:19:33Z")
“Count Dooku’s interview with Darth Sidious shows that the Sith are open to a peace agreement, while it is Jedi Council warmongers who want to prolong the war. That’s why I’m voting to stop 60 BILLION MORE of our Republic credits to this conflict.” [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GF-hB9HWUAAi3vO?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GF-hB9HWUAAi3vO?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3612 "2024-02-11T15:10:27Z")
You people are all assuming Trump was talking about a _full size_ refrigerator. Those little dorm room fridges are _much easier_ to hide down your pants. ---
**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 11, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3613 "2024-02-11T18:29:39Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Also, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say there’s zero chance that “the president of a big country” called him “sir”. He probably figured “asshole” means “sir” in whatever furrin language he was talking in. I mean, if it isn’t ~~English~~ American, who cares? ---
**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 11, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3614 "2024-02-11T19:19:31Z")
> **[Donald Trump Says He Made Taylor Swift Lots of Money, Likes Travis Kelce](https://www.tmz.com/2024/02/11/donald-trump-taylor-swift-travis-kelce-lot-money-music-modernization-act/)** > > Donald Trump says he'd be shocked if Taylor Swift endorsed President Joe Biden again ... 'cause Donald says he made her a ton of money -- and implied he expects some loyalty. ---
**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 11, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3615 "2024-02-11T20:02:43Z")
Are they wrong, though, in as far as public perception goes? ---
**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:** [February 11, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3616 "2024-02-11T20:06:58Z")
Actually, the New York Times ran an [article](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/us/politics/biden-trump-aging.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Uk0.XeNf.Sybjso1o7L6q&smid=url-share) (gift link) on why people seem more worried about Biden’s age and mental and physical fitness than that of Trump, despite the fact that both are about the same advanced age. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3617 "2024-02-11T20:33:53Z")
[From the Biden Presidency thread:](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/689) FWIW, from the New York Times (gift link) [Why the Age Issue Is Hurting Biden So Much More Than Trump](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/us/politics/biden-trump-aging.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Uk0.0i31.6DCulo0bo1Zn&smid=url-share) Both Donald J. Trump and President Biden are over 75. But voters are much less likely to worry that Mr. Trump is too old to serve. Re recent public gaffes by both Biden and trump- > … > Some of it comes down to basic physical differences. > > Mr. Biden’s voice has grown softer and raspier, his hair thinner and whiter. He is tall and trim but moves more tentatively than he did as a candidate in 2019 and 2020, often holding his upper body stiff, adding to an impression of frailty. And he has had spills in the public eye: falling off a bicycle, tripping over a sandbag. > > Mr. Trump, by contrast, does not appear to be suffering the effects of time in such visible ways. Mr. Trump often dyes his hair and appears unnaturally tan. He is heavyset and tall, and he uses his physicality to project strength in front of crowds. When he takes the stage at rallies, he basks in adulation for several minutes, dancing to an opening song, and then holds forth in speeches replete with macho rhetoric and bombast that typically last well over an hour, a display of stamina. > > “It is the perception of how you communicate,” said Carol Kinsey Goman, a speaker and coach on leadership presence. “When Trump makes those kinds of faux pas, he just brushes it off, and people don’t say, ‘Oh, he’s aging.’ He makes at least as many mistakes as Joe Biden, but because he does it with this bravado, it doesn’t seem like senility. It seems like passion.” > > With Mr. Biden, Ms. Goman said, “it looks like weakness.” > … ---
**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:** [February 11, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3618 "2024-02-11T23:09:24Z")
From the NYT article linked above: > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “Mr. Biden’s voice has grown softer and raspier, his hair thinner and whiter. He is tall and trim but moves more tentatively than he did as a candidate in 2019 and 2020, often holding his upper body stiff, adding to an impression of frailty.” This is true. There are multiple witnesses to Biden demonstrating stamina and insight in White House meetings. But that doesn’t seem to translate into public appearances. Now I hear that White House advisors think the answer is to put Biden out in front of the public more often. The theory is that people will ‘get used to’ seeing Biden being kind of quavery and that this will retire Age as a consideration. The logic escapes me. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2024, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3619 "2024-02-11T23:11:24Z")
People are worried that Biden might go senile. But it’s not an issue for Trump, because he already has. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3620 "2024-02-11T23:26:29Z")
As mentioned before in many threads: agitation and aggressiveness gets seen as strength and power by those lack either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=180) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=182)