# 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:** 195
**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 25, 2024, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3881 "2024-02-25T22:55:23Z")
The Hill claims that Biden is genetically predisposed to crime because his great-great-grandfather, a veterinarian, got into a knife fight with a Union army cook during the Civil War (for which he was pardoned by President Lincoln). > ---
**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 25, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3882 "2024-02-25T23:15:10Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > …there something you wanna tell us, Junior? Is that real? Is it a reference to something or just a drive-by comment? ---
**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 25, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3883 "2024-02-25T23:20:58Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Is it a reference to something or just a drive-by comment? We take in the R context of _every accusation is a confession_. ---
**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 25, 2024, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3884 "2024-02-25T23:21:30Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The Hill claims that Biden is genetically predisposed to crime because his great-great-grandfather, a veterinarian, got into a knife fight with a Union army cook during the Civil War (for which he was pardoned by President Lincoln). > > [x.com](https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1761831607218962701/photo/1) The concept that Jonathan Turley was once considered by a few to be a respectable public figure is mind-blowing. . . > [@Monty](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > (Is it SA and not sa? > > Likely _za_. If you’d said “xa” I’d have assumed you meant Elon was fancifully re-naming South Africa as X Africa, as if he were SO important a figure that his homeland would re-name itself to match his company. Which sounds like something Elon WOULD advance as a ‘great idea’. But otherwise: I’m lost. ---
**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 25, 2024, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3885 "2024-02-25T23:23:08Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Is that real? It’s real. > > > Daily Mail US @DailyMail ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3886 "2024-02-26T00:00:05Z")
Pfft. Jonathan Turdley. As the kids used to say, nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3887 "2024-02-26T02:39:27Z")
I’m just glad it wasn’t as out of the blue as it looked at first. ---
**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 26, 2024, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3888 "2024-02-26T02:39:38Z")
It’s STILL profoundly weird that he wants to talk about Biden’s junk because of an article he saw in a sleazy tabloid. ---
**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 26, 2024, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3889 "2024-02-26T03:05:06Z")
The “Sound of Freedom” guy has been excommunicated from the Mormon church. > **[New court filings detail Tim Ballard's discipline with LDS Church](https://www.fox13now.com/news/fox-13-investigates/new-court-filings-detail-tim-ballards-discipline-with-lds-church)** > > New court documents filed in a lawsuit against Tim Ballard have revealed new details about his standing with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3890 "2024-02-26T04:17:58Z")
Hey, you won’t hear about anyone in the _Trump_ family getting into a brawl during _their_ military service! So there! ---
**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 26, 2024, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3891 "2024-02-26T04:30:16Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The “Sound of Freedom” guy has been excommunicated from the Mormon church. Just a fun bit of pedantry here. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints no longer excommunicates people. The current terminology is [_Withdrawal of Membership_](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/general-handbook/32-repentance-and-membership-councils?lang=eng) (see Section 32.11.4). ---
**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 26, 2024, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3892 "2024-02-26T05:28:08Z")
Speaking of fun, BJA\* Boebert Xit [this](https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1306238422764474369) on Xitter: > I’m living the American dream. I came up from welfare, standing in line waiting for government cheese, to now running for Congress. > > Let’s keep radical socialists out of government so that people can be empowered to lift themselves out of poverty, rather than wait on government. And said BJA\* apparently thinks she’s making a different point than the one she actually made there. \*Beetlejuice aficianado (heheheh) ---
**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 26, 2024, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3893 "2024-02-26T05:45:15Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Beetlejuice That’s the second time I’ve read the…that word\*, in the last thirty seconds. \*almost got me. ---
**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 26, 2024, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3894 "2024-02-26T05:45:30Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > apparently thinks she’s making a different point than the one she actually made there Every time I think she can’t hit a new moronic low, she manages to do so. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2024, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3895 "2024-02-26T06:07:33Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m living the American dream. I came up from welfare, standing in line waiting for government cheese, to now running for Congress. I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but aren’t you already _in_ Congress? ---
**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 26, 2024, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3896 "2024-02-26T06:08:16Z")
Yes, but for a _different_ district, the damn carpetbagger. ---
**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 26, 2024, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3897 "2024-02-26T06:10:27Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > apparently thinks she’s making a different point than the one she actually made there > > Every time I think she can’t hit a new moronic low, she manages to do so. She’s the political equivalent of a groundfish. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2024, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3898 "2024-02-26T09:35:12Z")
All I can say about this complete idiot being interviewed on a subject he knows nothing about (he blames Pelosi & the Democratic Party for the Jan 6 events) is that I really want his t-shirt. It is a modern design marvel. > ---
**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 26, 2024, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3899 "2024-02-26T10:11:19Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > And said BJA\* apparently thinks she’s making a different point than the one she actually made there. She certainly makes a strong case about the dangers of helping people like her up. One day they might end up in Congress! ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3900 "2024-02-26T10:30:13Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The Hill claims that Biden is genetically predisposed to crime because his great-great-grandfather, a veterinarian, got into a knife fight with a Union army cook during the Civil War (for which he was pardoned by President Lincoln). When that story first broke, I made a joke about the long established history of the Biden Crime Family, because of course someone was going to go there, but seriously. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=194) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=196)