# 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:** 238
**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, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4741 "2024-04-09T16:47:59Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Goggles are just masks for the eyes. I love this phrase. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4742 "2024-04-09T17:01:28Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Goggles are just masks for the eyes. “They want you to wear an Eye Diaper, because then _the only thing you can see is the Sun!_ You won’t see all those dastardly migrants running around committing crimes and trafficking children!” ---
**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 9, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4743 "2024-04-09T18:21:16Z")
Biden told you not to stare at the sun, so dammit, we’re going to stare right at the sun to own the libs! ---
**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, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4744 "2024-04-09T18:24:54Z")
“It’s a liberal Sun, but a MAGA moon! The eclipse is proof we’re gonna win!” ---
**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:** [April 9, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4745 "2024-04-09T18:31:08Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > MAGA moon I think someone [already made that movie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Sky). ---
**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, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4746 "2024-04-09T18:37:57Z")
_Say it’s only a MAGA moon_ _Sailing over a sea of liberal tears_ _But it wouldn’t be fake news_ _If you just voted for me_ ---
**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:** [April 9, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4747 "2024-04-09T18:39:57Z")
_MAGA moon, you saw me standing alone_ _Without a hate in my heart_ _Without a gun of my own_ _MAGA moon, you knew just what I was there for_ _You heard me saying a prayer for_ _Someone I really could go to war for_ ---
**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 9, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4748 "2024-04-09T20:48:27Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > [Fox News] also had a little chart down in the corner, noting how solar power generation was going to drop off precipitously during the eclipse. > > Remember, folks, solar power is unreliable during eclipses! Fossil fuels are the way to go! This is hilarious. It also shows the power of motivated reasoning: you can hear the Fox News hosts tell you time and time again that there won’t be another total eclipse covering a lot of the USA for two more decades—but at the same time you can think ‘_solar power really IS unreliable given that it might go out for three minutes twenty years from now_.’ On the other hand, right-wing stupidity truly IS an infinitely-renewable resource. ---
**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 9, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4749 "2024-04-09T21:15:58Z")
> **[US Senate candidate Eric Hovde questions whether nursing home residents...](https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/09/senate-candidate-eric-hovde-questions-voting-by-nursing-home-residents/73261198007/)** > > Hovde, who is running against Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin, drew national attention over remarks seeming to question voting in nursing homes. This pretty much sums it up: > A Hovde campaign spokesman on Tuesday said the candidate’s comments did not imply that elderly people should not vote. I wonder what this was supposed to imply. > "Well, if you’re in a nursing home, you only have five, six months life expectancy. Almost nobody in a nursing home is in a point to vote… ---
**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:** [April 9, 2024, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4750 "2024-04-09T21:24:26Z")
Maybe that’s the life expectancy in red-state nursing homes. ---
**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 9, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4751 "2024-04-09T21:31:44Z")
Republicans _HATE_ when people vote! ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4752 "2024-04-09T22:14:53Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I wonder what this was supposed to imply I imagine he never knew his paremts, having hatched from some kind of reptilian egg and having to fend for himself thereafter. So he has little empathy for those of us who do actually care about our parents (and grandparents). ---
**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 9, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4753 "2024-04-09T22:33:27Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I imagine he never knew his paremts, I think it might have something to do with “his promises to cut Social Security and raise the retirement age”. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4754 "2024-04-09T22:39:04Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Republicans _HATE_ when people vote! I’ve said it before: They don’t want to win elections. They want to come to power specifically undemocratically, because they don’t think it counts as power unless it’s forcing things people don’t want on them. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4755 "2024-04-10T00:12:07Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Or, they could, as Jon Stewart suggested yesterday, just…wait until night time. Yeah, Colbert had the same line. Great minds. You know who doesn’t have great minds? Fox News. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4756 "2024-04-10T00:15:22Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > … they don’t think it counts as power unless it’s forcing things people don’t want on them. If the current trend continues much longer Orwell will join the ranks of the Biblical Prophets\*. > He paused, and for a moment assumed again his air of a schoolmaster questioning a promising pupil: ‘How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?’ > > Winston thought. ‘By making him suffer,’ he said. > > ‘Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.’ \* Yes, I know that predicting the future wasn’t really the Prophets’ role. I just renewed my poetic license and was itching to use it. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4757 "2024-04-10T00:16:42Z")
That’s Plank #3 of the 2024 Republican Platform. ---
**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 10, 2024, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4758 "2024-04-10T01:09:27Z")
A bill under consideration in the Florida Reichstag would mean you can be charged with assaulting a police officer if he has a panic attack near you. > **[Medical experts: Senate bill increasing penalty for fentanyl exposure...](https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/24/doctors-bill-that-ups-penalties-for-fentanyl-exposure-first-responders-unnecessary-florida-senate/72326294007/)** > > Exposures of First Responders to Fentanyl (SB 718) would make it a second-degree felony to “recklessly” expose a first responder to fentanyl. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4759 "2024-04-10T01:16:21Z")
Is there a way to expose a first responder to fentanyl with reasonable care? ---
**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:** [April 10, 2024, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4760 "2024-04-10T01:43:26Z")
In a world where the police were sane? Sure. “Hey, officer, I found this baggie of powder in my buddy’s locker, and I’m worried it might be drugs. Could you have it tested?” In our world, I’m not sure it’s possible to have any interaction at all with the police with reasonable care. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=237) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=239)