# 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:** 252
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5021 "2024-05-02T01:16:03Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > But that never stopped anyone in, oh, the last 2000 years from blaming the Jews. Didn’t Pope Benectdine XVI state that Jews are not responisble for Christ’s death? ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5022 "2024-05-02T01:36:53Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Didn’t Pope Benectdine XVI state that Jews are not responisble for Christ’s death? Sounds woke to me. Must be one of those CINOs. I’ve never understood why “the Jews killed Jesus” is supposed to be a bad thing considering that Jesus dying is supposedly the only reason anyone gets out of eternal torment in the afterlife. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5023 "2024-05-02T01:49:32Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Didn’t Pope Benectdine XVI state that Jews are not responisble for Christ’s death?. Well sure, but as one of them Cat-o-lics, he’s not a REAL Christian like Marge. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5024 "2024-05-02T02:11:29Z")
Whiplash shift from Christ to Cruz (Cancun Teddy). Ted and some other senators (to be fair - a couple of Dems) think compensating passengers for being screwed over by airlines is bad for business. Screw the passenger who just got screwed. > **[Ted Cruz Doesn't Want You To Get An Automatic Refund When Your Flight Is...](https://jalopnik.com/ted-cruz-doesnt-want-you-to-get-an-automatic-refund-whe-1851448997)** > > Way to look out for your constituents, ole Teddy boy. “The Department of Transportation announced a new final rule last week that would require airlines to [automatically refund passengers whose flights are canceled](https://jalopnik.com/airlines-now-have-to-pay-you-for-their-screwups-1851433126) or significantly delayed. There are some exceptions, but in general, it’s a huge win for passengers who are tired of [airlines giving them the runaround](https://jalopnik.com/airlines-are-blaming-weather-for-flight-cancelations-bu-1850585959). As with anything that benefits normal people, though, this new DOT rule has reportedly upset [Senator Ted Cruz](https://jalopnik.com/senator-ted-cruz-forces-amendment-into-faa-bill-to-give-1851372324) enough that [the New Republic reports](https://newrepublic.com/post/181143/ted-cruz-friends-airlines-money-refund) he’s proposed legislation to put a stop to this whole “consumer protection” nonsense.” ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5025 "2024-05-02T02:16:48Z")
In the name of consistency, I’m sure he’ll immediately withdraw that other bill of his that establishes personal security details for congressmen at the airport. > **[Ted Cruz, US senator mocked for flight to Cancún, seeks airport police escorts](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/28/ted-cruz-cancun-airport-security)** > > Republican senator, who flew to Mexico as Texas faced deadly cold snap, complains of ‘serious security threats’ to lawmakers ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5026 "2024-05-02T02:20:23Z")
The airlines must have offered him tickets to Cancun for life. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5027 "2024-05-02T02:28:41Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Well sure, but as one of them Cat-o-lics, he’s not a REAL Christian like Marge. I really woudln’t be surprised a bit if she were to use the term _papist_. > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > The airlines must have offered him tickets to Cancun for life. Too bad they didn’t offer him a one way ticket. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5028 "2024-05-02T02:30:49Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > > > The airlines must have offered him tickets to Cancun for life. > > Too bad they didn’t offer him a one way ticket. My thoughts exactly. “Send Ted Cruz to Cancún for life”? I’ll donate to that cause. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5029 "2024-05-02T03:56:27Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I really woudln’t be surprised a bit if she were to use the term _papist_. “You mean like the papist-machay they made us do in school?” ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5030 "2024-05-02T04:50:42Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > My thoughts exactly. “Send Ted Cruz to Cancún for life”? I’ll donate to that cause. I can think of no better way to get Mexico to join forces with the cartels against us than sending them that asshole to deal with ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5031 "2024-05-02T05:22:05Z")
JD Vance sticks his foot in his mouth on live TV. > > ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5032 "2024-05-02T05:31:54Z")
I guess that CNN’s microphones weren’t strong enough to pick up Vance’s next utterance in both instances: Vance: Oh, shit. [Aside: @Smapti : Thanks for posting all the X Twitter posts that you have been doing. I’d never see them otherwise, and I certainly appreciate them.] ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5033 "2024-05-02T12:02:08Z")
> [@](#): > > He just did two events tonight. Barf, he was in my area for one of those events: [![](https://i.imgur.com/sD1bZvi.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/sD1bZvi.jpg) > [@Spoons](#): > > Vance: Oh, shit. Did he? I didn’t notice it in the clip? That would be great if he did. Hopefully getting caught knowingly lying will go viral for a few days. Or, rather, getting caught reacting to being called out for knowingly lying, will go viral. Like when your local news/facebook shows a picture of someone that was caught stealing something, but the picture is of them looking straight into the security camera. Also, another reminder that Biden (or anyone else) didn’t launch a trial to interfere with a campaign, Trump launched a campaign to interfere with a trial. And lets not forget about how wishy-washy he was about even running. He kept hinting at it, but ISTR, it was clear that if he was never indicted, he would never have run. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5034 "2024-05-02T12:11:04Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > My thoughts exactly. “Send Ted Cruz to Cancún for life”? No, Permanent Cancun is too good for him. I propose the “Cancel every flight that Ted Cruz tries to get on” act. So he’ll pay for flights, never get to take them, and never get his money back. And he’s hated enough that everyone else on the cancelled flight will probably be okay with taking one for the team. The alternative would be sharing a flight with Ted Cruz, after all. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5035 "2024-05-02T15:09:47Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’ve never understood why “the Jews killed Jesus” is supposed to be a bad thing considering that Jesus dying is supposedly the only reason anyone gets out of eternal torment in the afterlife. As a child, I wondered why Judas was considered bad. He was only fulfilling his role. I guess that’s partly why, though I was raised Catholic, “the teachings did not take”. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5036 "2024-05-02T15:24:58Z")
You can’t believe mutually contradictory concepts at the same time? Tsk tsk. They clearly did a bad job in Sunday school. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5037 "2024-05-02T20:00:10Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Margarine Failure Groane says she voted against a bill to combat antisemitism because it would deny her the right to believe that the Jews killed Jesus. Matt Gaetz offered the same reason for voting against the bill, leading a Kevin McCarthy ally to label him an antisemitic pedophile. Beautiful. [https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/01/mccarthy-ally-goes-for-gaetzs-jugular-00155605](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/01/mccarthy-ally-goes-for-gaetzs-jugular-00155605) ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5038 "2024-05-02T23:01:50Z")
[Florida Bans Lab Grown Meat](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/florida-bans-lab-grown-meat-adding-to-similar-efforts-in-four-states/ar-AA1o3hDJ) OK, I think this is silly because protein is protein, right? It’s mostly about the presentation, IMHO. But what really makes me shake my head is this comment from the governor: > “Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals,” DeSantis said. “We will save our beef.” Really? Sounds pretty pedestrian for elite authoritarians. I thought they’d be much more evil. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5039 "2024-05-02T23:04:23Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > Sounds pretty pedestrian for elite authoritarians. I thought they’d be much more evil. Yeah, I mean, whatever happened to Soylent Green? Sheesh. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5040 "2024-05-02T23:07:38Z")
> [@](#): > > “Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals,” DeSantis said. “We will save our beef.” For context, > **[How a conspiracy theory about eating bugs made its way to international politics](https://www.npr.org/2023/03/31/1167550482/how-a-conspiracy-theory-about-eating-bugs-made-its-way-to-international-politics)** > > A conspiracy theory that claims governments are trying to enslave people and force them to eat bugs has made the leap from online message boards to national politics in at least two countries. “global elites”? Ron? You can just say ‘Jews’, your ‘dog-foghorn’ ain’t hiding what y’all mean anymore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=251) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=253)