# 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:** 220
**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:** [March 25, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4381 "2024-03-25T02:12:33Z")
In particular, it’s the kind of wheat featured in the classic Star Trek episode Trouble with Tribbles. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4382 "2024-03-25T02:24:52Z")
This is not necessarily accurate. Typically when a seat in the House becomes vacant the congressional staff stays in place. They will be able to assist constituents with pretty much anything they need. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2024, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4383 "2024-03-25T03:06:31Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > As it turns out, Christians don’t give a fuck about what Jesus said. I want that on a t-shirt. Or maybe a bumper sticker. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2024, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4384 "2024-03-25T03:23:56Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I though quadrotriticale was a kind of wheat? - Triticale is a real thing, a hybrid of wheat and rye. I remember finding bread in the grocery store (70’s) that included triticale. It had a distinctly different flavor than whole wheat. > **[Triticale to rise in the world of baked deliciousness](https://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/news/hegarty-triticale-rise)** > > Craft bakers love adding a little triticale to breads for its subtle blend of nutty and earthy flavors and its moist, slightly chewy texture. Farmers love the grain mainly for forage: It produces bigger yields with less water and fertilizer compared... ---
**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:** [March 25, 2024, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4385 "2024-03-25T03:50:44Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > I had hoped that the COVID crisis would be such a moment for him What is ironic is that if he’d acted the least bit presidential when the crisis started he would have won the 2020 election in a walk. ---
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> [@Shoeless](#): > > > [@bobot](#): > > > > As it turns out, Christians don’t give a fuck about what Jesus said. > > I want that on a t-shirt. Or maybe a bumper sticker. I like the bumper sticker that says: **JESUS LOVES YOU** Everyone else thinks you’re an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4387 "2024-03-25T15:23:11Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > As it turns out, Christians don’t give a fuck about what Jesus said I’m reminded of a quote misattributed to Gandhi about how it would be nice if Christians were more like their Christ. > [@Smapti](#): > > Margarine Failure Groane I’d just like to say that this is my favorite name for her. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4388 "2024-03-25T18:42:02Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > > > So many sins in one sentence . . . but Donny is a good Christian in their eyes? > > As it turns out, Christians don’t give a fuck about what Jesus said. Well, _Christians_ do. People CALLING themselves “Christians” are another matter entirely. Their ‘Prosperity Gospel’ preachers have been teaching them to despise Jesus since that branch of “theology” arose. After all, Jesus walked around in sandals instead of being carried everywhere in a solid gold litter. What a loser! > [@Smapti](#): > > (quote from Newsweek story:) “Donald Trump “aggressively pursued” Princess Diana following her divorce from Prince Charles in 1996 and claimed, after her death, he could have “nailed her if I wanted to,” according to a new biography.” Kind of surprising. She was well past her teen years by the nineties. > [@JRDelirious](#): > > And yet as we’ve discussed, tens of millions of Americans are convinced that there’s no problem with that kind of a person being in charge, and even that that’s the kind of person we really need. Yes, this is the true horror. Trump we expect to be revolting and awful. That his fans are so numerous continues to be hard to take. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4389 "2024-03-25T18:50:23Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Well, _Christians_ do. People CALLING themselves “Christians” are another matter entirely. There are other groups that believe the same thing about your particular group, so as far as I am concerned you are all “calling yourselves Christian”. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4390 "2024-03-25T18:54:07Z")
Can you expand on that? Are you saying that the Trumpites calling themselves Christian believe that those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus are non-Christian? Or what? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4391 "2024-03-25T18:57:58Z")
They probably feel they are following the teachings of Jesus…as relayed by religious figures that know what to say to keep them in the pews. I’m sorry, but the exact rules to be a “real” Christian are not set in tablet. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2024, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4392 "2024-03-25T19:02:57Z")
Yeah, reasonable people can disagree about what it means to ‘be a Christian.’ We’re not really talking about that level of disagreements, though. The Trumpites enthusiastically embrace and celebrate Trump’s adultery, greed, gusto in exploiting and cheating others, lack of respect for the law (Caesar’s law, as it were), and love of violence. I don’t see how all that could be considered a ‘reasonable’ view of how to be a Christian. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4393 "2024-03-25T19:06:43Z")
Suddenly throwing the word “reasonable” into the “Real Christian” conversation does not help, since “reasonable” is even specific than “Christian”. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4394 "2024-03-25T19:13:21Z")
It’s very much a classic ‘No True Scotsman’ However ‘reasonable people’ is defined - and that’s a nebulous term indeed, there’s a significant number of people who consider themselves Christian. That may not fit _your_ definition of ‘reasonable’ but they are _de facto_ Christians because they consider themselves to be so and there’s enough of them that it is ridiculous not to accept their claimed label for themselves. Likewise, I’m sure they feel that way about others they disagree with who call themselves Christian, and they are also ridiculous for trying to deny that label to others. Several wars have been fought over such distinctions just within Christianity (much less other religions), so it’s also a very human trait to want to claim or deny membership in a particular in-group over such grounds. Maybe they will have a ‘come to Jesus’ moment (heh) and repent the beliefs/practices that contradict yours but that’s neither here nor there as to whether or not they should be considered _real_ ™ Christians ---
**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 26, 2024, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4395 "2024-03-26T02:17:51Z")
Today on Trump Vs. Reality; [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJeJ-CTa4AA_xqV?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJeJ-CTa4AA_xqV?format=jpg&name=medium) > ---
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Minnesota Republican votes against gun safety bill for fear that requiring locks or safes would put farmers at risk from homicidal cows. > **[Minnesota Republican cites fear of cows in voting against new gun safety bill](https://www.rawstory.com/guns-cows/)** > > A Minnesota Republican justified his opposition to new gun safety legislation this week by raising the specter of cows trampling unarmed Americans "into dust."Heartland Signal reports that Republican Minnesota State Sen. Warren Limmer recently said... [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DO4mprw5yVU/hqdefault.jpg "Cows Eat People!!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO4mprw5yVU) ---
**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 26, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4397 "2024-03-26T12:33:45Z")
[Here’s the bill](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?session=ls93&number=HF4300&session_number=0&session_year=2023&version=list). If I’m reading it correctly, it looks like it’s changing “you can’t leave your gun laying around in a place where kids might find it” to “if you’re not carrying your gun, lock it up”. And, if you don’t have kids and don’t lock up your gun, no one’s going to know. It’s not like the cops are going door to door to check on this. Just like how I can leave a loaded gun on my kitchen table and, even if that’s completely illegal, it’s not like the cops are magically going to know it’s there and show up at my house to arrest me. To be honest, I am surprised there isn’t a carve out for farmers, but less about defending themselves against rogue cows and more about defending their livestock from predators. Something along the lines of allowing people with farms to keep an unloaded long gun in an accessible place. Do other states have any type of carve outs for farms WRT firearms laws? ---
**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 26, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4398 "2024-03-26T13:30:49Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > To be honest, I am surprised there isn’t a carve out for farmers,… Then you’d hae to define a “farm”. ---
**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 26, 2024, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4399 "2024-03-26T14:06:28Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Then you’d hae to define a “farm”. Yes, we would, and I understand that, but it seemed well beyond the scope of this thread. I had actually started to add some of that detail in, but it didn’t seem worth the trouble for a hypothetical carve out. Also, Minnesota is, what, half farmland, so it’s likely safe to assume they already have legal definitions for farms, different types of farms, different sizes of farms, ownership structures etc. The definitions they have in place could probably be adapted to close up loopholes that might, for example, allow every homeowner to keep a handgun by their front door as long as they have a few tomato plants growing somewhere on the property. ---
**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 26, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4400 "2024-03-26T14:36:26Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Yes, we would, and I understand that, but it seemed well beyond the scope of this thread. I had actually started to add some of that detail in, but it didn’t seem worth the trouble for a hypothetical carve out. I didn’t mean you, specifically; but whoever writes the law governing gun handling would have to define a farm. I suspect that’s where the legal chicanery would take place. “I’m allowed to carry this gun on my farm, officer; I have two begonias growing in a windowbox.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=219) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=221)