# 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:** 225
**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 29, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4481 "2024-03-29T00:27:46Z")
Comments from The Onion - America’s Finest News Source + a regular source > **[South Carolina has $1.8 billion but doesn't know where the money came from or...](https://apnews.com/article/south-carolina-missing-money-treasurer-comptroller-85ae9a632712477b0f8e354aee226d11)** > > South Carolina has collected about $1.8 billion in a bank account over the past decade and accountants are trying to figure out where the cash came from and where it was supposed to go. South Carolina Government Finds $1.8 In Unaccounted Funds Published 5 hours ago Investigative accountants in South Carolina are struggling to explain the existence of an account belonging to the government containing $1.8 billion in cash, with no clear explanation as to where the funds came from or what they were supposed to be allocated for. What do you think? “Sounds like someone’s police department is about to get an armored tank.” MILO REEVE, YAM SALESMAN “Too bad South Carolina’s educational, healthcare, infrastructure, and justice systems are already well funded.” TALHA MORRISON, FORENSIC BARBER “Since when does a windfall cash pile require an explanation?” GARRETT MORSE, SYSTEMS ANALYST ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4482 "2024-03-29T00:31:37Z")
I misplaced $1.8B, it’s probably mine. Just send me a billion, we’ll call it even. ---
**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 29, 2024, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4483 "2024-03-29T00:33:28Z")
I was wondering where I left that. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4484 "2024-03-29T00:42:44Z")
_ **Monorail!** _ ---
**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 29, 2024, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4485 "2024-03-29T03:04:39Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > The only state to put their Yelp rating on their flag. > > “Texas - the One Star State.” If you don’t mind, I’m quoting that far, wide, and often! > [@Smapti](#): > > Chicagoans seem pretty fond of their flag. Well, duh. It’s got four stars. ---
**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 29, 2024, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4486 "2024-03-29T06:12:03Z")
Nevermind, I fucked it up ---
**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 29, 2024, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4487 "2024-03-29T10:12:53Z")
“Maddock responded to one X user pointing out that it was the Gonzaga basketball team saying “Sure kommie. Good talking point." ---
**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 29, 2024, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4488 "2024-03-29T10:21:05Z")
That’s what I was referring to when I mentioned in another thread his doubling down. Damn republicans and their stupidity and evilness are monopolizing The BBQ Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4489 "2024-03-29T12:53:29Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@Akaj](#): > > > > And, for that matter, what other region needs a flag to show pride in their “heritage”?\* > > Chicagoans seem pretty fond of their flag. > [@Monty](#): > > Well, duh. It’s got four stars. So there! 😜 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4490 "2024-03-29T13:25:04Z")
Damn! Washington D.C.'s flag only has three [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag\_of\_Washington,\_D.C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Washington,_D.C). > **[Flag of Washington, D.C.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Washington,_D.C.#/media/File:Flag_of_Washington,_D.C.svg)** > > The flag of Washington, D.C. consists of three red stars above two red bars on a white background. It is an armorial banner based on the coat of arms granted to Lawrence Washington (George Washington's 3rd great-grandfather) of Sulgrave Manor Northamptonshire, England, in 1592. This coat of arms was used privately by the president in his home at Mount Vernon. In heraldry, the stars are called mullets and the coat of arms is blazoned as argent two bars gules, in chief three mullets of the secon... ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4491 "2024-03-29T13:27:25Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > It was in fact the Gonzaga men’s basketball team en route to their March Madness game. Was coming to post about this moron but you beat me to it. Here is the local paper take, including the original tweet and reader added context. I don’t know how any sane, smart person can still associate with the right. Their elected leaders are all dumbshits. Trump, this moron, MTG, Boebert, Gym Jordan, Gaetz, Cruz, etc, etc. > **[Michigan legislator misidentifies Gonzaga basketball buses as 'illegal invaders'](https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/mar/28/michigan-state-rep-misidentifies-gonzaga-basketbal/)** > > Gonzaga University’s men’s basketball team has been called a lot of things during its 25-year stretch of greatness. But “illegal invaders?” ---
**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 29, 2024, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4492 "2024-03-29T13:42:19Z")
What even drove this idiot to this conclusion? Just the fact that there were buses at the airport? Surely that is and always has been an incredibly common situation. Was there anything else at all about this situation that even vaguely hinted at illegal immigration? What next, “I saw a green traffic light this morning. Clearly the Woke Liberal Socialist Antifa Fascist Agenda is telling illegal immigrants that they’re allowed into our communities!”? ---
**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:** [March 29, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4493 "2024-03-29T13:44:06Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I don’t know how any sane, smart person can still associate with the right. Their elected leaders are all dumbshits. Trump, this moron, MTG, Boebert, Gym Jordan, Gaetz, Cruz, etc, etc. The raving right seems to have a majority in Michigan. > [@A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/3409): > > This weeks episode of “This American Life” about the dysfunction of the Michigan Republican party is worth a listen if you have time., or if you prefer reading there is also a transcript. > > [https://www.thisamericanlife.org/820/believe-in-me](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/820/believe-in-me) > > Basically the crazies decide to elect one of their own as chairman despite having no experience or business contacts for fund raising. When the party eventually finds itself broke, one faction develops that calls for her ouster on the (probably unfounded) grounds that she embezzled the money. Both those in favor and against her ouster blame the other side of being part of a Democrat conspiracy to destroy the party from within, and there is much face eating and schadenfreude to be had by all. > > IMHO here is the money quote: > > > But what’s brought them all together running this party is their lack of trust in any kind of political leadership. They are a very suspicious, conspiracy-minded group. And that’s how they look at everything, including each other. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4494 "2024-03-29T13:46:41Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > What even drove this idiot to this conclusion? Just the fact that there were buses at the airport? Surely that is and always has been an incredibly common situation. Was there anything else at all about this situation that even vaguely hinted at illegal immigration? > > What next, “I saw a green traffic light this morning. Clearly the Woke Liberal Socialist Antifa Fascist Agenda is telling illegal immigrants that they’re allowed into our communities!”? Right? These damn people are going to need to be deprogrammed, if and when we are ever rid of the menace of trump. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4495 "2024-03-29T13:49:09Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > What even drove this idiot to this conclusion? I’d check the state’s water supply, maybe Flint isn’t the only area with problems. 😉 ---
**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 29, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4496 "2024-03-29T13:52:40Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > The raving right seems to have a majority in Michigan. Central Michigan here. And yeah our trumpist scumbags come with the additional seasoning of paranoid militia, wannabe soldier weekend warriors, and a healthy dose of government distrust. When you hate and distrust the government and you insist on your Representatives doing the same why is it so f\*\*\*\*\*\* surprising when the government doesn’t f\*\*\*\*\*\* work? ---
**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 29, 2024, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4497 "2024-03-29T13:59:57Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > What even drove this idiot to this conclusion? Just a wag, but probably many of the team were not white, and they were not wearing coats and ties on the bus. ---
**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 29, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4498 "2024-03-29T14:15:10Z")
I would expect, though, that most of them were not white by virtue of being black. Surely, even the racist idiots can tell the difference between different sorts of not-white? ---
**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:** [March 29, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4499 "2024-03-29T14:19:02Z")
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**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4500 "2024-03-29T14:19:23Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@Chronos](#): > > > > What even drove this idiot to this conclusion? > > Just a wag, but probably many of the team were not white, and they were not wearing coats and ties on the bus. > [@Chronos](#): > > I would expect, though, that most of them were not white by virtue of being black. Surely, even the racist idiots can tell the difference between different sorts of not-white? A quick check of the Gonzaga roster reveals names like Jun Seok Yeo and Joaquim ArauzMoore, so maybe some of the non-whites also looked suspiciously non-American. But still … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=224) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=226)