# 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:** 236
**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, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4701 "2024-04-08T15:46:44Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > Would this be your avatar? Maybe with a netherly-placed band-aid? ---
**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 8, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4702 "2024-04-08T16:51:20Z")
Biden is urging people to stay safe, and not look directly at the sun during today’s eclipse. I wonder how many MAGAts will defiantly stare directly at the sun and suffer eye damage? “Biden can’t tell me what to do!” ---
**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, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4703 "2024-04-08T17:22:53Z")
Google Trump squinting into the sun. A Moran. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2024, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4704 "2024-04-08T17:24:54Z")
And you know that had to be immediately following being told not to. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4705 "2024-04-08T17:40:49Z")
Best glasses puter oner ever! [![](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Trump-Eclipse-AP-380.jpg) ](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Trump-Eclipse-AP-380.jpg) ---
**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, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4706 "2024-04-08T17:41:31Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I wonder how many MAGAts will defiantly stare directly at the sun and suffer eye damage? If they suffer significant vision loss, we can offer to help them with the ballots that they cannot read. ---
**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, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4707 "2024-04-08T22:21:55Z")
I guess nobody told Trump that “abortion should be left up to the states” was just a lie Republicans were using to try to sound reasonable while they worked on a nationwide ban, because he’s endorsed it as his official position and the cultists are flipping out on him. [https://www.meidastouch.com/news/anti-abortion-activists-rip-trump](https://www.meidastouch.com/news/anti-abortion-activists-rip-trump) ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4708 "2024-04-08T22:24:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > the cultists are flipping out on him. But I’m gonna take a wild-ass guess and make the prediction that they will still vote for him. ---
**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 8, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4709 "2024-04-08T22:27:26Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > But I’m gonna take a wild-ass guess I’m going to guess that Trump will flip-flop and make 4 different policy statements on abortion, all of them contradictory. And his supporters will just pick the one they like the best and vote for him. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4710 "2024-04-08T23:53:23Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > going to guess that Trump will flip-flop and make 4 different policy statements on abortion, all of them contradictory. And his supporters will just pick the one they like the best and vote for him That checks out. And it’s what many of us have already been expecting even before he announced an announcement. ---
**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 9, 2024, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4711 "2024-04-09T04:28:49Z")
Fox Newz sez that at the end of Loser Donald’s second term he would “leave office just like he did the last time”. You know, when he tried to overthrow the government. > **[Fox News host vows Trump will leave office 'just like he did the last time'](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2667722029/)** > > Fox News host Jesse Waters's attempt to put to rest the notion that Donald Trump might refuse to leave office should he be reelected was foiled Monday by an ominous choice of words.Watters drew inspiration from the solar eclipse to rebut the concerns... ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4712 "2024-04-09T07:18:04Z")
Finally, someone tells the Truth about earthquakes! > Speaking on his show, Giuliani said: “We were in the communist state of New York and then we were in Connecticut and we just escaped all the earthquakes then we got to Massachusetts which probably had some earthquakes and we got to New Hampshire where there were no earthquakes which is telling me that somebody’s sending us a message.” > “The communist states are getting earthquakes. Look at California. You can’t have more earthquakes than California. You want to figure out why?” > ---
**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 9, 2024, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4713 "2024-04-09T07:38:38Z")
That just testifies to how much of a master planner God is. He knew at the dawn of time that Communism would one day become a thing, so he created a fertile land where major tectonic plates meet and then ensured that the ancestors of the people who would eventually become Communists would settle there so that the earthquakes would warn them to change their ways. One might ask why he didn’t simply prevent the invention of Communism, or whether he’s even opposed to Communism at all seeing that Jesus told people a rich man cannot enter heaven and his disciples shared all they owned among themselves, but that’s just part of the plan. Hari Seldon’s got nothin’ on YHVH, baby. ---
**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 9, 2024, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4714 "2024-04-09T08:09:56Z")
And don’t forget Seldon’s ultimate successor created the _Zeroth Law_. You can’t be more communist than that! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4715 "2024-04-09T08:19:35Z")
So God creates earthquakes to punish “communist” states. Cool. But doesn’t He also send tornadoes against God-fearing conservative heartland states? Are earthquakes from God and tornadoes from Satan? But that goes against the standard iconography of God being in the sky and Satan being in the bowels of the earth. So what gives? ---
**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 9, 2024, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4716 "2024-04-09T08:26:12Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Are earthquakes from God and tornadoes from Satan? But that goes against the standard iconography of God being in the sky and Satan being in the bowels of the earth. So what gives? You know who else lives in the heavens? Ishtar! And, as we all remember from a few months ago, YHVH banished Ishtar from our dimension thousands of years ago, but she was able to return in the late '60s because of **GAY** , which means that all tornadoes, hurricanes, torrential downpours, and high pollen count incidents of the last 55 years or so are definitely her fault. [https://www.art-critique.com/en/2023/11/littleton-new-hampshire-home-of-demonic-rainbow-portals/](https://www.art-critique.com/en/2023/11/littleton-new-hampshire-home-of-demonic-rainbow-portals/) > [@](#): > > Jonathan Cahn is a New York novelist and Messianic Jewish rabbi who, since 2011, has produced a body of fiction revolving around his belief that America is descending into doomsday due to its divergence from biblical values. Espousing a dogmatic return to Judeo-Christian tenants, Cahn’s debut work _The Harbinger_ paints the events of 9/11 as a mystically paralleled happening to the destruction of ancient Israel. He claims rainbows to be a symbol of demonic forces and has vocally derided Biden for lighting the White House in such colours for pride events, and believes that the Stonewall Riots opened a hellish portal for Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar to emerge into our world. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4717 "2024-04-09T08:32:12Z")
That looks insane. Especially the thing about rainbows. While the bible is vague about most natural phenomena, it explicitly says that rainbows are a sign from God - specifically, a sign of the covenant between God and Man, and a promise that the world will not be destroyed again like it was in the flood. There is no possible interpretation of Genesis that doesn’t say that rainbows are a good thing. ---
**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 9, 2024, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4718 "2024-04-09T08:34:50Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > While the bible is vague about most natural phenomena, it explicitly says that rainbows are a sign from God - specifically, a sign of the covenant between God and Man, and a promise that the world will not be destroyed again like it was in the flood. There is no possible interpretation of Genesis that doesn’t say that rainbows are a good thing. Which just allows me to cite one of my favorite tweet-and-reply pairings of all time, because gays _stole_ the rainbow from God and it’s theirs now and they won’t give it back. 🙂 > > > Rev. Bryan Fischer - Host, Bryan Fischer Podcast @BryanJFischer ---
**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 9, 2024, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4719 "2024-04-09T09:41:10Z")
That would be an amazing heist film. ---
**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 9, 2024, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4720 "2024-04-09T11:24:09Z")
Migrants are like ninjas, just waiting to infiltrate under cover of darkness. > **[Fox News Uses the Solar Eclipse to Fearmonger About Migrant ‘Invasion’](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-uses-the-solar-eclipse-to-fearmonger-about-migrant-invasion)** > > Fox warns that the eclipse will hide something more nefarious than the sun—it’ll provide cover for smugglers and cartels to “come right in.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=235) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=237)