# 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:** 201
**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:** [March 1, 2024, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4001 "2024-03-01T02:57:40Z")
My middle nephew was born two months premature and spent the first several weeks of his life in an incubator. The hospital bill, if my sister hadn’t had insurance, would’ve been $1.8 million. And they wonder why people aren’t having as many kids as they used to. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4002 "2024-03-01T03:19:16Z")
Welcome to Real Life, Doc. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2024, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4003 "2024-03-01T05:36:56Z")
Loser Donald says we’re getting migrants “from places unknown” who “don’t speak languages”. > ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4004 "2024-03-01T07:43:23Z")
So that’s what happened to the Dothraki. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4005 "2024-03-01T08:01:12Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > ETA: Also: “Prevent employers from being punished for not paying minimum wage or overtime pay for activities a worker does before or after a worker’s “principal” work activity.” > > Sounds very much like “After work, pick up my drycleaning, take it to my house and then wash my car and mow my lawn. And fuck no I"m not paying you to do that.” Also, “Clock out, and then straighten up the display shelves.” ---
**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:** [March 1, 2024, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4006 "2024-03-01T08:06:08Z")
To be fair, he hardly speaks English, so I suspect linguistics is not _really_ his field. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2024, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4007 "2024-03-01T10:30:45Z")
You don’t understand him? I see someone didn’t graduate from Trump University 🧐. Peon. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2024, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4008 "2024-03-01T14:01:43Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Welcome to Real Life, Doc. TBF, I don’t know a thing about what he was saying about health care costs when he was SG. I can imagine he felt and said that health care costs were unreasonable, despite the fact he was in the Trump administration. I read a few articles and he seems to have not been a Trump Deranged politician, but had sensible statements about health care and the overall health of the nation. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4009 "2024-03-01T14:43:35Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Kinda like flight attendents not being paid until the door is shut on the plane. Complete BS in my opinion. The most work is probably boarding passengers. I always had the impression that that was negotiated by the flight attendants union. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4010 "2024-03-01T14:58:27Z")
> [@mcgato](#): > > I always had the impression that that was negotiated by the flight attendants union. If they are, they aren’t doing a very good job. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4011 "2024-03-01T15:34:58Z")
“We have languages coming in to our country, nobody that speaks those languages” He’s having a hard time finding someone that speaks “Mexican”? ---
**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:** [March 1, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4012 "2024-03-01T15:49:59Z")
Well it’s the insane asylum dialect ---
**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:** [March 1, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4013 "2024-03-01T15:51:06Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > He’s having a hard time finding someone that speaks “Mexican”? I speak American, that’s like, right next to Mexican. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4014 "2024-03-01T16:01:01Z")
How can people who come in speak a language no-one speaks? ---
**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:** [March 1, 2024, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4015 "2024-03-01T16:07:28Z")
They also have diseases no-one has ever heard of. I have to question the competency of doctors and epidemiologists to identify a unique disease but neglect to give it a name. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4016 "2024-03-01T16:14:17Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > How can people who come in speak a language no-one speaks? _The tao that can be told_ _is not the eternal Tao_ _The name that can be named_ _is not the eternal Name._ ---
**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:** [March 1, 2024, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4017 "2024-03-01T17:09:01Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > How can people who come in speak a language no-one speaks? “I’m here-a to heave un anchor bebe, um gesh de bork bork.” ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4018 "2024-03-01T18:23:11Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > And points to the larger Republican strategy of distracting workers with “social” issues like Foreigners, Muslims, Blacks, Trans, Women, Elites, etc. “They” are the ones keeping you from getting a decent wage for honest work. (Ignore the Rich White Man behind the curtain.) [Rich white man behind the curtain](https://starecat.com/rich-man-to-worker-careful-mate-that-foreigner-wants-your-cookie/) ---
**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:** [March 1, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4019 "2024-03-01T19:14:06Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’m here-a to heave un anchor bebe, um gesh de bork bork You missed a bork. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4020 "2024-03-01T19:36:47Z")
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