# 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:** 235
**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:** [April 7, 2024, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4681 "2024-04-07T00:51:51Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > No doubt Gym has expectations of being appointed to high office, should the man whose nethers he’s servicing gain the Presidency. > > Democrats should really feature this oaf in their ads, along with the other stellar individuals Trump will likely elevate. As in ‘_is this REALLY who you want being in charge of anything consequential in your life???_’ - And half the country responds with a resounding **“YES!!!”** ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4682 "2024-04-07T01:27:06Z")
Lots and lots of people are perfectly fine with a dictatorship as long as it’s “their” dictator doing the dictating. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4683 "2024-04-07T01:33:17Z")
“As long as the Leopards don’t eat _my_ face…” What else is new? ---
**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:** [April 7, 2024, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4684 "2024-04-07T11:24:50Z")
As a side note, I really dislike those “breathlessly exciting “ titles on videos. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4685 "2024-04-07T15:23:35Z")
The best humorous line I heard about this was on Weekend update. Colin Jost said it was appropriate: > because airports are a lot like Trump. A chaotic nightmare that turns you against your family. I definitely do not want it renamed though. If it happened of course the locals would continue to call it Dulles, or switch to calling it IAD, like a lot of them still call the other one National, or DCA. `//i\\` ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4686 "2024-04-07T15:48:45Z")
Indeed. The Boston Garden sports arena has been through two or three corporate-sponsor names but everyone still just calls it “The Gahd’n.” Locals don’t give a toss for such renamings. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4687 "2024-04-07T20:42:03Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > And half the country responds with a resounding **“YES!!!”** More like a quarter. The rest who vote Trump do so for the tax cuts, not because they adore Gym Jordan and Empty Greene. (Not that this is a lot of comfort, of course.) > [@garygnu](#): > > Lots and lots of people are perfectly fine with a dictatorship as long as it’s “their” dictator doing the dictating. That is undeniably true. However, one Ridiculous Guy at the top can be gotten around given motivated-enough reasoning. But a government completely riddled with Ridiculous People will be harder for even the most autocratically-minded to explain to themselves. How many Trump fans actually _respect_ Gym, Greene, Stephen Miller, and Steve Bannon? Don’t they, instead, simply enjoy their awfulness (because it Makes Libruls Cry) rather than actually revering them as competent, admirable people? (I don’t know the answer. But I suspect the delusional thinking of Trump fans extends to Trump, but doesn’t quite cover the embarrassing reality of Trump’s lieutenants.) ---
**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:** [April 7, 2024, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4688 "2024-04-07T23:49:23Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > How many Trump fans actually _respect_ Gym, Greene, Stephen Miller, and Steve Bannon? Don’t they, instead, simply enjoy their awfulness (because it Makes Libruls Cry) rather than actually revering them as competent, admirable people? I strongly suspect that the majority of MAGAts are only dimly aware of the _existence_ of the aforementioned. They are bit players. Trump sucks up 99.9% of the oxygen in Trump-World. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2024, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4689 "2024-04-08T00:10:36Z")
All around nice guy - and twice elected! Way to take responsibility for your actions. # Documents: Rep. Jon Stone Threatened Mass Shooting and Rape After Investigation "Republican Rep. Jon Stone’s New Hampshire law enforcement career ended when he threatened to kill fellow police officers in a shooting spree, and murder his chief after raping the chief’s wife and children, all while he was already under scrutiny for his inappropriate relationship with a teen girl, according to the internal investigation reports finally released this week. Stone, a twice-elected Republican state representative for Claremont, has been fighting to keep those reports secret for years. Last month, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that Stone could not block their release in response to this reporter’s 2020 right-to-know request, ending years of legal challenges." > **[Documents: Rep. Jon Stone Threatened Mass Shooting and Rape After Investigation](https://indepthnh.org/2024/04/05/documents-rep-jon-stone-threatened-mass-shooting-and-rape-after-investigation/)** > > Rep. Jon Stone’s New Hampshire law enforcement career ended when he threatened to kill fellow police officers in a shooting spree, and murder his chief after raping the chief’s wife and children, all while he was already under scrutiny for his... ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4690 "2024-04-08T01:33:35Z")
Ho. Lee. Crap. Very local for me. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2024, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4691 "2024-04-08T02:18:50Z")
I’m guessing we’ve answered the question of who will be DJT’s VP pick. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2024, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4692 "2024-04-08T03:04:40Z")
Nah. That clown would draw too much attention (aka glory in his mind) from Trump. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2024, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4693 "2024-04-08T03:25:35Z")
Apparently we’ve already reached the point where “DEI” is just Republican slang for “anything I don’t like”. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKmJrxKWgAAkYBj?format=jpg&name=small) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKmJrxKWgAAkYBj?format=jpg&name=small) (BTW, Dom Lucre is the QAnon guy who got banned from Twitter for posting actual child porn, and was then personally unbanned by Elmo.) ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4694 "2024-04-08T03:26:46Z")
Maybe he meant “DUI”? ---
**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:** [April 8, 2024, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4695 "2024-04-08T03:37:28Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Apparently we’ve already reached the point where “DEI” is just Republican slang for “anything I don’t like”. I thought that was their definition of _fake_. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2024, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4696 "2024-04-08T04:04:24Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I thought that was their definition of _fake_. “Fake news” is _so_ 2018. They moved from that to “critical race theory”, then “woke”, now “DEI”. Of course, the euphemism trolley is speeding along so fast that we might have to revisit some old snarl words. Has anyone complained about “creeping Sharia” lately? ---
**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:** [April 8, 2024, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4697 "2024-04-08T04:14:00Z")
I was thinking **OpusDEI** might be an amusing screen name. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2024, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4698 "2024-04-08T04:48:32Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “Fake news” Of all the different names they’ve gone through, “alternative facts” will always hold a special place in my heart. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4699 "2024-04-08T14:56:48Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I was thinking **OpusDEI** might be an amusing screen name. Would this be your avatar? [![](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/31/fa/48/31fa48cd7b551780bb8ce88af4b25fb8.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/31/fa/48/31fa48cd7b551780bb8ce88af4b25fb8.jpg) ---
**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:** [April 8, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4700 "2024-04-08T15:18:38Z")
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