# 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:** 213
**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:** [March 16, 2024, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4241 "2024-03-16T04:21:12Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Bill to provide money to Iowa school districts to arm teachers passes Senate committee. It would also require larger districts to hire private resource officers. Wait, isn’t Iowa one of the states that couldn’t wouldn’t afford lunches for poor children this summer? ---
**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:** [March 16, 2024, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4242 "2024-03-16T04:25:41Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > What if they want to arm their teachers…with knowledge? “Hey, the math teacher got 10X the other day.” “The math teacher? Ten times what?” ---
**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 16, 2024, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4243 "2024-03-16T04:30:00Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > What if they want to arm their teachers…with knowledge? ![](https://media.tenor.com/sFGB4cW82U8AAAAM/jail-right-to-jail.gif) ---
**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 16, 2024, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4244 "2024-03-16T05:33:33Z")
Hugh Hewitt says the governor of Georgia should strongarm Fani Willis into dropping the case against Loser Donald by threatening to pardon him. The governor of Georgia, of course, does not have the power to issue pardons. > ---
**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:** [March 16, 2024, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4245 "2024-03-16T06:13:42Z")
Hugh Hewitt - "In March 2020, after Joe Biden won the South Carolina presidential primary, Hewitt predicted that Biden’s victory would be of little benefit to his campaign and that Bernie Sanders would perform strongly on Super Tuesday; after Biden took the lead on Super Tuesday and eventually won the Democratic nomination, Politico named Hewitt’s predictions among “the most audacious, confident and spectacularly incorrect prognostications about the year”.[21]’ - wiki More in his article - flip flopper on Trump, friend and defender of Scott Pruitt (Mr. Fox in charge of the EPA hen house under Trump), Christian, writes about Georgia but doesn’t live there fired from MSNBC, Faux New guest. ---
**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 16, 2024, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4246 "2024-03-16T10:38:57Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Whoa! That sounds like some woke, pinko, liberal crap Thanks! 😊 ---
**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 16, 2024, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4247 "2024-03-16T11:55:49Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Wait, isn’t Iowa one of the states that couldn’t wouldn’t afford lunches for poor children this summer? “Let them eat lead!” ---
**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 16, 2024, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4248 "2024-03-16T12:46:05Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > “Let them eat lead!” Well, they can wash it down with lead-flavored water as well. ---
**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 16, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4249 "2024-03-16T16:21:44Z")
This _did_ make me laugh right at my desk on this cloudy, rainy Saturday morning. One thing about these guys-- they’re consistent! (Gift link) > **[Opinion | At retreat, the House GOP does what it does best: Fail to show up](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/15/house-majority-retreat-fail-republicans-johnson/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzEwNDc1MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzExODU3NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTA0NzUyMDAsImp0aSI6ImU2NzgxMGFlLTgxNWEtNGJjNS05ZDYyLTA4NTc2YzgyYzliOSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI0LzAzLzE1L2hvdXNlLW1ham9yaXR5LXJldHJlYXQtZmFpbC1yZXB1YmxpY2Fucy1qb2huc29uLyJ9.dpOaisd9CiJTBPVOYVIr0z_Cg4dk4SvjObLShfjNRMg&itid=gfta)** > > This is a shame, because I think this agenda could have solved all their problems. > The House Majority Retreat turned out to be excruciatingly on-brand for the Republican majority. Republicans [could not assemble a majority of the majority](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/15/majority-house-republicans-retreat-their-retreat/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) and so the thing they were hoping to do together wound up not happening. (This has been [a theme of late](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/13/republicans-congress-mcconnell-johnson/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2)!) Some refused to attend on the grounds that “retreat” was something they vowed to their constituents never to do, and that they would not look at a dictionary about it on the grounds that the dictionary was “the largest of books and thus the most deadly.” When told that “retreat” was actually a gathering to figure out how to work together, they said that this was even worse. > … Okay, it’s Alexandra Petri, so may not be factually, literally, hand-on-Bible-true in every respect. But pretty funny anyway. [Here’s CNN’s take.](https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/12/politics/house-gop-retreat) They seem to realize what the rest of us already know: they’re a bunch of stuffy, backward, cranky old killjoys, and spending time with them would be no fun at all. And nothing will get accomplished anyway. ---
**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 16, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4250 "2024-03-16T16:53:06Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > hey seem to realize what the rest of us already know: they’re a bunch of stuffy, backward, cranky old killjoys, and spending time with them would be no fun at all. And nothing will get accomplished anyway. Well, to be fair, there were probably multiple reasons for the non-attendance: - Family friendly? No hookers, no happy ending massage? No thanks. - No cameras? No opportunity to get my face in the media? What’s the point? - I would probably end up punching one of those asshole Freedom Caucus morons in the face, so… no. - Trump told me not to go - Unable to read or comprehend invitation ---
**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:** [March 17, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4251 "2024-03-17T00:42:20Z")
> **[Trump says there will be 'bloodbath' if he doesn't get elected in November as...](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/16/trump-says-there-will-be-bloodbath-if-he-doesnt-get-elected-in-november-as-he-campaigns-for-gops-bernie-moreno-in-ohio.html)** > > Former President Donald Trump warned of a "bloodbath" if he loses in November as he campaigned for Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio. Fuck you, you stochastic terrorist! _Hey, I only meant it figgertible._ Fuck you, you stochastic terrorist! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4252 "2024-03-17T00:48:32Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6EWqTym2cQU/maxresdefault.jpg "AC/DC - If You Want Blood (You've Got It) (Official HD Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EWqTym2cQU) ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2024, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4253 "2024-03-17T02:25:36Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > > Former President Donald Trump warned of a “bloodbath” if he loses in November as he campaigned for Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio. I’m getting more of a [Jonestown](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown) vibe. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2024, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4254 "2024-03-17T02:33:19Z")
If I don’t get that promotion there will be a bloodbath If she won’t go out with me there will be a bloodbath If you don’t give me a full refund there will be a bloodbath How do I level up to where I can shout things like that with impunity? ---
**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 17, 2024, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4255 "2024-03-17T02:58:21Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > How do I level up to where I can shout things like that with impunity? Become a former president. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2024, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4256 "2024-03-17T03:05:59Z")
Yeah that’s completely normal. Can’t wait for the Republicans to come out and say he didn’t mean what he said. ---
**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 17, 2024, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4257 "2024-03-17T03:11:21Z")
More likely, they will claim he didn’t even **say** what he said. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2024, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4258 "2024-03-17T03:18:38Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Become a former president. Nah I don’t think Obama, Clinton or W. could get away with that. You need to become a cult leader. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2024, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4259 "2024-03-17T03:21:44Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > Can’t wait for the Republicans to come out and say he didn’t mean what he said. What’s fascinating (in a sad way) to me is how when it finally dawns on the clown that what he said is pretty horrible, he says he “was just joking”. Really? He has _never_, not even _once_, told a joke. ---
**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 17, 2024, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4260 "2024-03-17T03:29:35Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > He has _never_, not even _once_, told a joke. Are we not counting “I am a very stable genius”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=212) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=214)