# 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:** 245
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4881 "2024-04-17T16:00:00Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Come on now, that’s the one thing the Nazis were actually good at! Their outfits were Boss! > [@Spoons](#): > > Can Americans do anything without guns? Y’know go out for a bike ride There’s a yayhoo in my neighborhood that always bikes with a piece on his hip. I have no\* idea why he thinks he needs that. Mine is a really quiet and nice neighborhood. I want to be outside when he goes by, and pop a couple packing balloons. \*he’s probably constantly afraid “some shit will go down”, and doesn’t want to be unprepared. He’s in more danger from being hit by a car pulling out of the gated community down the street. Those idiots never look! ---
**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:** [April 17, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4882 "2024-04-17T16:51:32Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I certainly don’t wander around with a firearm stuck in my underwear. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Buttcha could, ya know? Not recommended. But thank you for the excuse to link to my favorite Cecil column ever: > **[If I fired a pistol and then stuck it in my waistband like on TV, wouldn’t I...](https://www.straightdope.com/21344198/if-i-fired-a-pistol-and-then-stuck-it-in-my-waistband-like-on-tv-wouldn-t-i-get-burned)** ---
**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 17, 2024, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4883 "2024-04-17T16:54:34Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I certainly don’t wander around with a firearm stuck in my underwear. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Buttcha could, ya know? ISWYDT ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4884 "2024-04-17T17:15:38Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Can Americans do anything without guns? Y’know go out for a bike ride, a picnic, a vacation at the lake, without being armed? My son has a neighbor who carries while mowing the lawn. ---
**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 17, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4885 "2024-04-17T17:26:00Z")
After you run over a critter with your lawn tractor, it’s considerate to shoot it in case it’s suffering. ---
**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 17, 2024, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4886 "2024-04-17T17:31:54Z")
Republicans are reaching levels of sycophantry\* not seen outside of Kim Jong’s living generals. I await the operas that Trump will write \*May not be a real word, but should be ---
**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 17, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4887 "2024-04-17T17:46:18Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > run over a critter with your lawn tractor, it’s considerate to shoot it in case it’s suffering What kind of weak-ass tractor are you using? Man, I could kill a grizzly just with my leaf blower! ---
**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:** [April 17, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4888 "2024-04-17T18:01:21Z")
So this happened: > Not only was the person who announced the award for Best Picture Al Pacino, not Kimmel (who hosted), but the Academy hasn’t used the phrase “And the winner is” since about 1988. It’s now “And the award goes to…” ---
**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 17, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4889 "2024-04-17T18:06:21Z")
> **[Don't Use Your Car As A Weapon](https://jalopnik.com/dont-use-your-car-as-a-weapon-1851415975)** > > I dunno, I'm just spitballing here. I think there might be better ways to live your life, no matter what a former U.S. senator says. Tom Cotton rationalizes using your car as a weapon or dragging protesters around. This practice of manhandling other human beings is known in the United States as - “[battery](https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/battery)” (unless you’re in Florida or Oklahoma, where [hitting protesters with your car is totally fine](https://slate.com/business/2021/04/drivers-hit-protesters-laws-florida-oklahoma-republicans.html)) and is perhaps not the sort of thing that a sitting senator should be encouraging." ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4890 "2024-04-17T18:08:15Z")
TBF, some of the old school presenters have done it since out of sheer habit (it was even a specific gag one year). But officially, yeah. (Though Trump would probably deride it as more touchy feely nonsense.) ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4891 "2024-04-17T18:39:47Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > …Last summer when I went camping I do confess we had guns - because it was in bear country. I started to post a reply to this but realized it was too much of a hijack, so I started another thread [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carrying-firearms-for-defense-against-an-aggressive-bear/1000420). ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4892 "2024-04-17T19:46:28Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > [https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/12/21/00/7685284-0-image-a-3\_1545353435745.jpg](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/12/21/00/7685284-0-image-a-3_1545353435745.jpg) Wow! Is he wearing Ronco Spray Hair in the first picture? I was googling for a picture to include in this post, and apparently I’m not the first to make this observation. > **[How spray-on hair does (and doesn’t) work](https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/17/18144716/stephen-miller-spray-hair-loss-toppik-glh)** > > In case Stephen Miller has you wondering. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4893 "2024-04-17T20:12:23Z")
I’m reminded of [this scene](https://youtu.be/oZlQMLXqw0g?t=18) from The Fabulous Baker Boys: ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4894 "2024-04-17T20:17:44Z")
Also it’s “Best Picture”, not “Picture of the Year”. ---
**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 17, 2024, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4895 "2024-04-17T20:30:37Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > My son has a neighbor who carries while mowing the lawn. The only person I know who packs a pistol is a free-range pig farmer, and his advice to me when feeding the pigs (which I have done several times) was “never let a pig get behind you”. Piglets are fine, but not a fully grown sow or boar. He’s never used it on the pigs, but safety is safety. This seems reasonable advice. Pigs can and do harm people. My lawn, however, has never attempted to murder me. Occasionally it has been guilty of “slippery while wet” after a rain shower, but just mowing seems a little benign to think you need to carry your weapon. ---
**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 18, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4896 "2024-04-18T14:12:56Z")
"Marjorie Taylor Greene offers an amendment to make funds from the Israel funding bill available “for the development of space laser technology on the southwest border.” It’s amendment 11 to H.R. 8034 - Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 Empty Greene has assumed, from Michelle Bachmann, the cape of Queen of Shatbit Crazy. Good grief, she’s so dumb she studies for a pap test. ---
**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 18, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4897 "2024-04-18T14:19:59Z")
Here’s the PDF > **[GREENE\_223\_xml240417175751235.pdf](https://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/GREENE_223_xml240417175751235.pdf)** > > 33.65 KB ---
**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:** [April 18, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4898 "2024-04-18T14:20:08Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > "Marjorie Taylor Greene offers an amendment to make funds from the Israel funding bill available “for the development of space laser technology on the southwest border.” Makes perfect sense to me. Everyone knows Jews build the bestest space lasers, so of course some of that Israel funding should support that technology. Heck, Israel could even use the space lasers in Gaza! ---
**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 18, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4899 "2024-04-18T14:24:23Z")
Of all things to flip flop on, Space Lasers, at least so far, must be the stupidest. C’mon Greene, pick a side and stick with it. You either want them or you don’t. I wonder how long it’ll take her (or someone smarter than her) to set up a “Space Laser Research Facility” business to start funneling some of that money out. ---
**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 18, 2024, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/4900 "2024-04-18T14:39:14Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > "Marjorie Taylor Greene offers an amendment to make funds from the Israel funding bill available “for the development of space laser technology on the southwest border.” This HAS to be an article from The Onion. Right? Right? Hello, is this thing on? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=244) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=246)