# 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:** 253
**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, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5041 "2024-05-02T23:10:36Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > “global elites”? Ron? You can just say ‘Jews’, your ‘dog-foghorn’ ain’t hiding what y’all mean anymore. Is vat-grown meat even kosher? ---
**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, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5042 "2024-05-02T23:17:57Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Is vat-grown meat even kosher? I suppose you’d have to butcher the initial protein properly before culturing it, in the presence of a rabbi. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5043 "2024-05-02T23:18:13Z")
Depends on how it’s made: [https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/lab-grown-meat-can-be-kosher-halal-experts-say-2023-09-11/#:~:text=Lab-grown%20meat%20can%20be%20labeled%20kosher%20and,of%20experts%20commissioned%20by%20the%20nascent%20industry](https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/lab-grown-meat-can-be-kosher-halal-experts-say-2023-09-11/#:~:text=Lab%2Dgrown%20meat%20can%20be%20labeled%20kosher%20and,of%20experts%20commissioned%20by%20the%20nascent%20industry). ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5044 "2024-05-02T23:19:41Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > For context, > > [How a conspiracy theory about eating bugs made its way to international politics : NPR](https://www.npr.org/2023/03/31/1167550482/how-a-conspiracy-theory-about-eating-bugs-made-its-way-to-international-politics) Every time I think they can’t get any stupider… ---
**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 3, 2024, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5045 "2024-05-03T00:09:15Z")
[WTeverlovin’F?](https://twitter.com/TrumpluvsObama/status/1786033227804934548) (Link is to Bob Lawrence’s Xitter page showing the following picture.) > These are not people with whom you can reason. ---
**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 3, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5046 "2024-05-03T00:14:25Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > These are not people with whom you can reason. Being in a cult tends to do that. As I just said in another thread, even if they’re doing this in support of him, they’re still wearing diapers. Honestly, while it’s embarrassing for him (and his base) and I’m certainly glad it isn’t Biden, it’s not like it’s uncommon for someone that’s almost 80 years old to have incontinence issues. Granted, Trump would just deny he was wearing them, but there’s no reason his supporters couldn’t use that explanation. But if you want to wear a diaper, go ahead, I guess. ---
**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 3, 2024, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5047 "2024-05-03T00:16:35Z")
Profezsional boxer says he only tested positive for steroids because he supports Trump and now the Global Pedophile Cabal is after him. > **['Crazy': Star boxer claims his own failed drug tests were orchestrated...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-s-conspiracy-theories/)** > > A star boxer who claimed he failed a drug test as part of an orchestrated attack on former President Donald Trump faced public ridicule Thursday. Ryan Garcia, a professional fighter who once held the World Boxing Council interim lightweight title,... One too many blows to the head if you ask me. ---
**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 3, 2024, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5048 "2024-05-03T00:21:02Z")
Yep. He lost track of the narrative; otherwise, he would’ve said “global _elite_ pedophile cabal”. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2024, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5049 "2024-05-03T05:20:27Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > He lost track of the narrative; otherwise, he would’ve said “global _elite_ pedophile cabal”. I am merely part of the global amateur pedophile cabal, will steroids help me get into the elite bracket? ---
**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 3, 2024, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5050 "2024-05-03T06:37:31Z")
Don’t know. But let’s not ever forget who “globalist” and “global elite” are code words for. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2024, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5051 "2024-05-03T06:38:54Z")
I take it, circumcision might help? ---
**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:** [May 3, 2024, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5052 "2024-05-03T06:58:26Z")
If the authoritarians succeed in their dastardly plan to force everyone to eat vat-grown meat and bugs, what are they going to do with the children they’ve been stockpiling in pizza parlor basements and on Mars? ---
**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:** [May 3, 2024, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5053 "2024-05-03T08:11:57Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > what are they going to do with the children they’ve been stockpiling You have a point there. I’m not going to eat a child who is past its sell-by date! Imagine trying to eat a teenager. Full of bitterness, peirced in ways that might damage my knife, difficult to manage in captivity. Probably diseased, too, now sex-ed is no longer accepted. Just not going to do 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:** [May 3, 2024, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5054 "2024-05-03T08:15:02Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Is vat-grown meat even kosher? Not only is it kosher, last year the Chief Rabbi of Israel ruled that it might technically not even be meat: [https://www.timesofisrael.com/kosher-cheeseburgers-chief-rabbi-rules-some-cultured-meat-may-not-be-fleishig/#:~:text=Lau%20determined%20that%20the%20cultured,such%20as%20vegetables%20or%20fish](https://www.timesofisrael.com/kosher-cheeseburgers-chief-rabbi-rules-some-cultured-meat-may-not-be-fleishig/#:~:text=Lau%20determined%20that%20the%20cultured,such%20as%20vegetables%20or%20fish). ---
**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:** [May 3, 2024, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5055 "2024-05-03T09:49:50Z")
I don’t eat meat, not for health or religious reasons, not because I don’t enjoy it, but because I strongly oppose the cruelty of factory farming. I can’t wait for lab-grown meat. Why can’t the “Oh my god, GMOs and lab-grown meat are part of an unholy plot!” tribe just mind their own fucking business and eat whatever they want, and let me do the same? ---
**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 3, 2024, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5056 "2024-05-03T11:11:58Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > Why can’t the “Oh my god, GMOs and lab-grown meat are part of an unholy plot!” tribe just mind their own fucking business and eat whatever they want, and let me do the same? Because they’re convinced you and I are out to force them to eat exactly like we do. It really doesn’t matter if we don’t even say a word. They’ll pretend we did and get it wrong and then freak out. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2024, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5057 "2024-05-03T11:28:21Z")
Because bugs. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5058 "2024-05-03T11:33:03Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > 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. At 68, I no longer trust my memory as much as I used to. Can you remind us of what made you think he wasn’t going to run in 2024? I never doubted he fully intended to avenge the “stollen” election. Weren’t “Trump 2024” signs already visible in late 2020? ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5059 "2024-05-03T11:42:40Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Because they’re convinced you and I are out to force them to eat exactly like we do. It really doesn’t matter if we don’t even say a word. They’ll pretend we did and get it wrong and then freak out. Yep it’s ironic that the people who talk most about taking away freedoms are the ones actually doing it. Just as with trans, say, where it is framed as trans people trying to force kids to be trans, or something…rather than the reality of trying to force everyone to be binary as assigned at birth and stigmatize / harass adults for their free choice. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2024, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5060 "2024-05-03T12:00:03Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > > “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. Y’all understand, in reality this has jackshit to do with protein source, it’s pandering to cattle/poultry-industry donors (who in turn _do_ help propagate the bug-feeding global conspiracies, to grab votes from people other than those whose jobs depend on it) and the politicians from the counties where the ranches and processing plants are. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=252) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=254)