# 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:** 198
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3941 "2024-02-27T19:58:36Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > And then she threw the letter away and got on with her life. Great. Now I’ll be stuck with “Billy, Don’t Be A Hero” all afternoon. ---
**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 27, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3942 "2024-02-27T19:59:13Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > a secret that once again she’s desperately trying to hide from prying eyes The game was in the City of Sin, right? You know what they say about what happens there. ---
**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 27, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3943 "2024-02-27T20:11:44Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > > And then she threw the letter away and got on with her life. > > Great. Now I’ll be stuck with “Billy, Don’t Be A Hero” all afternoon. - Note: The audio is _just_ a tad out of sync. > **[Bo Donaldson - Billy Don't Be A Hero](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0lKmznjgfQ%2F)** > > Sorry, Audio And Video Out Of Sync During The Upload. I Have Re-Uploaded Another Same Clip. I Hope You Like It Better.'Billy Don't Be A Hero' beat 'Band On T... ---
**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 27, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3944 "2024-02-27T20:16:13Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > > [@Shoeless](#): > > > > a secret that once again she’s desperately trying to hide from prying eyes > > The game was in the City of Sin, right? You know what they say about what happens there. Yep. Although according to the article, they also attended a Chiefs home game last year and were hanging out in the owner’s suite. That one also hasn’t shown up on any financial disclosure statements. ---
**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 27, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3945 "2024-02-27T20:22:53Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > That one also hasn’t shown up on any financial disclosure statements. “Financial disclosure? Why? It didn’t cost **us** _anything!_” ---
**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 27, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3946 "2024-02-27T20:51:42Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Great. Now I’ll be stuck with “Billy, Don’t Be A Hero” all afternoon. My work here is done. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3947 "2024-02-27T21:30:45Z")
"I’m darn confident that securing the border should be our top priority right now. It’s our number one most immediate threat to our national security.” [Roger Marshall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Marshall) (R - KS) [Oh, please. You just oppose whatever Democrats propose.](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4449919-gop-senator-says-border-deal-would-make-matters-worse/) ---
**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 27, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3948 "2024-02-27T21:49:10Z")
Speaking as a Catholic, I didn’t even realize that there was any distinction between Catholic music and Anglican music, and I’d be surprised to find any Anglican hymn that didn’t make its way into a Catholic hymnal (there might be a very small number, relating to transubstation, that are Catholic but not Anglican, but we’d be talking maybe 1% there). ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3949 "2024-02-27T21:50:48Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > It’s our number one most immediate threat to our national security. I kind of think having a President that would topple NATO is a bigger threat to our security, but WTF do I know? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3950 "2024-02-27T21:59:58Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Great. Now I’ll be stuck with “Billy, Don’t Be A Hero” all afternoon. You’re not the only one. ---
**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 27, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3951 "2024-02-27T22:01:54Z")
Candidate for QOP party office in Massachusetts says she wants to exile all Jews and (possibly related) that the covid vaccine gave her brain cancer. > **[Hitler-praising Massachusetts GOP candidate pledges to 'exile all Jews'](https://www.rawstory.com/nazi-republican-candidate/)** > > One of the candidates to represent a Boston-area district in the Massachusetts Republican Party's State Committee is an avowed neo-Nazi who has pledged the mass expulsion of Jews from the United States."Don’t forget I’ll likely get voted into office... ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3952 "2024-02-27T22:04:02Z")
The main differences I see, in my parents Episcipol church, is no pope, women priests, and (depending on the church) a more tolerant view of LGBTQ. ---
**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 27, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3953 "2024-02-27T22:51:14Z")
I’m 99% sure a lot of Trump supporters don’t know we’re in NATO and think it’s all European. ---
**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 27, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3954 "2024-02-27T23:46:17Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I’m 99% sure a lot of Trump supporters don’t know we’re in NATO and think it’s all European Europe can keep their NATO and their Paris Agreement and the Geneva Convention. I work for the people of Pueblo, not the people of Paris. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3955 "2024-02-28T00:08:19Z")
I’ve wondered when we’d see candidates like this that feel free to run without the dog whistles. Her polls could say a lot about her district, and I’m curious to see the results. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2024, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3956 "2024-02-28T00:10:56Z")
Indeed. How many votes does “full brain damage Hitler Lover” get? ---
**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 28, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3957 "2024-02-28T00:32:38Z")
Fellas, is it gay to eat ice cream? > **['I don't think it's manly!' Fox News host mocked for Biden ice cream whining](https://www.rawstory.com/joe-biden-ice-cream/)** > > I scream, you scream, we all scream about President Joe Biden enjoying some ice cream, apparently. Fox News host Jesse Watters took offense at the spectacle of Biden eating ice cream after his late-night interview with comedian Seth Meyers — and... ---
**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 28, 2024, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3958 "2024-02-28T00:33:41Z")
But it’s OK when Trump insists on more ice cream than anyone else, of course. ---
**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 28, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3959 "2024-02-28T00:35:08Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > My work here is done. You are a bad, bad person. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3960 "2024-02-28T00:52:31Z")
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