# 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:** 240
**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 11, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4781 "2024-04-11T02:47:22Z")
> [@](#): > > This decision cannot stand. “But I will not act to un-stand it.” Gotta love 'em. ---
**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 11, 2024, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4782 "2024-04-11T03:17:32Z")
Seth Meyers just did a particularly angry monologue about this: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/i4vb-sfvzJw/maxresdefault.jpg "Panicked Trump Desperately Backpedals on Abortion After Shock Arizona Ruling: A Closer Look") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4vb-sfvzJw) ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4783 "2024-04-11T04:06:48Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Y’all remember how today’s Republicans seem to love shouting how it was the Democrats who caused the Civil War? Ah, interesting bit that. Didn’t those Democrats of old say they were holding to the idea of State’s Rights? We should lean into that. Start calling the Confederate Battle Flag the “Democrat” flag. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4784 "2024-04-11T06:32:58Z")
My read on the situation is that the best of the bad options available to the GOP is to loudly repudiate their anti-abortion position, complete with “Sister Souljah moments” of telling the most vocal representatives of the antiabortion faction that their opinions are irrelevant because they’re gonna have to suck it up and vote Republican anyway to keep the Democrats out of power. Something that dramatic might fool (c’mon, you didn’t think I was suggesting they they would be _sincere_, surely?) enough of the suburban voters they’re losing while still holding on to a majority of the Talibornagainst (who do, in fact, have no option other than voting Republican unless they want to let the Democrats run things unobstructed). That won’t happen, of course, because nobody who still has influence in the GOP has enough of a notochord or enough of a neural cluster at the front end of it to conceive or execute such a strategy. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2024, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4785 "2024-04-11T10:53:58Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > My read on the situation is that the best of the bad options available to the GOP is to loudly repudiate their anti-abortion position, complete with “Sister Souljah moments” of telling the most vocal representatives of the antiabortion faction that their opinions are irrelevant because they’re gonna have to suck it up and vote Republican anyway to keep the Democrats out of power. Something that dramatic might fool (c’mon, you didn’t think I was suggesting they they would be _sincere_, surely?) enough of the suburban voters they’re losing while still holding on to a majority of the Talibornagainst (who do, in fact, have no option other than voting Republican unless they want to let the Democrats run things unobstructed). Isn’t that how we got to where we are now, but with the details reversed? Republicans have promised for decades to eliminate abortion, to get the anti-abortion vote, but didn’t do much about it. Those voters just got more and more angry. Trump finally catered to them, but anger is the only political motivation they know, so they’re sticking with it. A strategy like you suggest is only going to piss off a new group, making things, eventually, worse not better. Although, politicians aren’t know for their long-term thinking. Whatever they have to promise to get voters this year is fine; by the time they’re frothingly angry the politicians will have to think of something new to promise them. ---
**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 11, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4786 "2024-04-11T15:26:24Z")
Clearly, everyone around Trump is a class act. > **[Trump Media director accused of 'hacking' files in attempted corporate...](https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-media-director-accused-hacking-files-attempted-corporate-coup-la-rcna147289)** > > Two firms in a federal civil lawsuit accuse Trump Media board member Eric Swider of plotting a "coup" to oust the then-CEO of Digital World Acquisition Corp. ---
**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 11, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4787 "2024-04-11T15:47:00Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > I’m sure that the governor and everybody else are going to bring it back into reason and that’ll be taken care of, I think, very quickly.” > > From this word salad we are, apparently, meant to conclude that Trump Will Fix It I’m pretty sure he’s explicitly saying that it’s “everybody else” who are responsible for fixing it, which really is in character for Trump. All successes are his alone, all failures are someone else’s; “I take no responsibility!” ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4788 "2024-04-11T16:36:36Z")
Only The Best People[tm]! > **[Trump attorneys subpoena wrong ‘Jeremy Rosenberg’ for hush money trial](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-hush-money-trial-jeremy-rosenberg-subpoena-b2526304.html)** > > Mr Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche made the embarrassing mistake when he was trying to subpoena former District Attorney Supervising Rackets Investigator Jeremy Rosenberg in March The response from the “Jeremy Rosenberg” who got the subpoena: > “I don’t have any files for you,” the apparently bemused Brooklynite wrote back, according to a filing from the former president’s legal team. > He added: “PS - The phone number you provided was disconnected. > “PPS - I’m keeping the fifteen dollars,” he added, referencing the money Mr Trump’s lawyers had sent him to help pay for sending the documents. ---
**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 11, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4789 "2024-04-11T16:48:21Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > > “PPS - I’m keeping the fifteen dollars,” Clearly, he has learned the most important Trump Lesson. ---
**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 11, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4790 "2024-04-11T18:28:37Z")
Oh, sure, they “stupidly” sent a subpoena to the wrong person… which now will lead them to ask for more time to get it right. (Y’know this is turning into something out of Marvel Comics where the plot takes place across a dozen separate thread titles.) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4791 "2024-04-11T20:11:24Z")
It also evokes clickbait “articles” that never actually include the headline’s contents. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4792 "2024-04-11T21:19:10Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > The response from the “Jeremy Rosenberg” who got the subpoena: Well, they all look alike don’t they? And their names all sound alike, too. ---
**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 12, 2024, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4793 "2024-04-12T00:54:43Z")
[A.M.W. is right.](https://twitter.com/AmieMcWayne/status/1778420209117786442) (Not for the faint of eye.) MAGA–hell, at this point, the entire Republican party is a toxic religion. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4794 "2024-04-12T01:02:28Z")
“Not for the faint of eye” is an understatement. ---
**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 12, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4795 "2024-04-12T01:29:16Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > “PPS - I’m keeping the fifteen dollars,” Quintessential New Yorker 😀 ---
**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 12, 2024, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4796 "2024-04-12T02:08:21Z")
Do they think that depicting Trump in a diaper makes him look strong? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4797 "2024-04-12T02:19:12Z")
Life Lesson: Never insult someone else’s mental acuity in a way that makes _you_ look like an idiot: > **[Newsmax Host Makes Hilarious Blunder While Trying to Drag Biden](https://newrepublic.com/post/180627/newsmax-host-hilarious-blunder-drag-biden)** > > Rob Finnerty was trying to mock the president’s memory. > Newsmax went light on the research on Thursday, airing a segment accusing President Joe Biden of forgetting that Africa was a country while apparently believing that Africa is a country. > > “ **He said that Biden didn’t know that Africa was a country** , he couldn’t remember the year his son died, he didn’t know the last names of staff members, he forgot when he was vice president, all very embarrassing stuff,” said Newsmax host Rob Finnerty, throwing a question to Representative James Comer about special counsel [Robert Hur’s report](https://newrepublic.com/post/178887/trouble-biden-memory-terrible-dates-special-counsel-report) on the president’s mental acuity… > (emphasis added) ---
**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 12, 2024, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4798 "2024-04-12T04:11:42Z")
On the R agenda for this Monday • [H.R. 6192](https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-6192) – Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act • [H.R. 7673](https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-7673) – Liberty in Laundry Act • [H.R. 7645](https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-7645) – Clothes Dryers Reliability Act • [H.R. 7637](https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-7637) – Refrigerator Freedom Act • [H.R. 7626](https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-7626) – Affordable Air Conditioning Act • [H.R. 7700](https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-7700) – Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act ## _Stop making us not waste energy/water!_ ---
**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:** [April 12, 2024, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4799 "2024-04-12T11:49:58Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Do they think that depicting Trump in a diaper makes him look strong? Why does God need two holsters? ---
**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 12, 2024, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4800 "2024-04-12T11:52:48Z")
How dare we re-elect someone to be the president when they had the nerve to say “nation”, when they clearly meant to say “nations”, a decade ago? They’re really reaching at this point. > [@eschereal](#): > > On the R agenda for this Monday I used to remind people that even if global warming is, in fact, a crock of shit and entirely fabricated as a soapbox for the left to use to push their agenda, you have to keep in mind that the right is still saying “I’d prefer if you spend the rest of your life breathing pollution so my friends can make more money”. They’re not even hiding it anymore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=239) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=241)