# 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:** 257
**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:** [May 4, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5121 "2024-05-04T22:02:00Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Meanwhile, Dark Brandon is over here hanging out with Luke Skywalker. In the clip I saw, Biden reportedly told Hamill to “call me ‘Joe’.” Hamill replied “can I call you ‘Joe-bi Wan Kenobi’?” ---
**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 5, 2024, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5122 "2024-05-05T18:19:48Z")
I know it’s old, but this article was just sent to me. Really? Kong?: > **[Fox News compares Donald Trump to King Kong](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-king-kong-fox-news-jesse-watters-five-harold-ford-jr-1894032)** > > "What happens with King Kong," said Fox News host Jesse Watters, warning viewers: "it's not going to be good." ---
**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 5, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5123 "2024-05-05T20:13:59Z")
Loser Donald’s new campaign platform; “You people aren’t giving me enough money” > **[Trump complained donors aren't giving him enough cash to get a picture taken...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-donor-cash/)** > > At the same donor luncheon at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Saturday where Donald Trump swore at President Joe Biden, special counsel Jack Smith and attacked his other perceived foes, the former president also complained he wasn't raising enough cash from... ---
**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:** [May 5, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5124 "2024-05-05T21:36:47Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Also, he doesn’t look especially well endowed, saber wise… They should have given it a little mushroom tip. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2024, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5125 "2024-05-06T09:21:14Z")
Ford: “King Kong died.” 😂 ---
**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:** [May 6, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5126 "2024-05-06T15:13:29Z")
Well, Kong did grab women without their permission. When you’re a 40-foot-tall ape, they let you do it. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2024, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5127 "2024-05-06T18:05:57Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Well, Kong did grab women without their permission. When you’re a 40-foot-tall ape, they let you do it. Heck, he didn’t just grab 'em – he pulled their clothes off (Go to 1:40) > [@](#): > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B33GGO3TKgg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B33GGO3TKgg) ---
**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 6, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5128 "2024-05-06T19:17:50Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Well, Kong did grab women without their permission. When you’re a 40-foot-tall ape, they let you do it. And he did it in the middle of Fifth Avenue. ---
**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 6, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5129 "2024-05-06T22:34:32Z")
Rapey McForehead is about to be in for a rude awakening. > ---
**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 7, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5130 "2024-05-07T00:42:57Z")
Fox News accidentally makes the case for why Biden’s second term is going to be awesome. > Please, won’t SOMEONE save us from this nightmarish dystopia of affordable education, energy-efficient vehicles and appliances, bodily autonomy, and legal weed?! ---
**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 7, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5131 "2024-05-07T00:57:37Z")
And let’s not forget about the plant based beer. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5132 "2024-05-07T01:16:56Z")
I think Republicans should campaign very loudly and strongly against marijuana as a moral issue. I think it’d go over well. ---
**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 7, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5133 "2024-05-07T01:48:36Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > And let’s not forget about the plant based beer. You can take the Duff, brewed with cool clear sparkling mountain goat, out of my cold dead hands ---
**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 7, 2024, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5134 "2024-05-07T02:15:45Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > > [@Joey\_P](#): > > > > And let’s not forget about the plant based beer. > > You can take the Duff, brewed with cool clear sparkling mountain goat, out of my cold dead hands. Your beer isn’t truly skanky unless it has real billy goat skank. ---
**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 7, 2024, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5135 "2024-05-07T04:17:57Z")
nm nm ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5136 "2024-05-07T08:14:57Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Your beer isn’t truly skanky unless it has real billy goat skank. But he was shot and rolled into a gravel pit, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5137 "2024-05-07T10:48:18Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > nm nm Clarify, please. Are you telling us to never mind what you were going to post, or are you saying “nom nom” about skanky beer? ---
**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 7, 2024, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5138 "2024-05-07T11:15:03Z")
I misread that line as ‘your beer isn’t truly skunky without real skunk’ and that joke came out before my brain processed what it actually said. > [@Pleonast](#): > > > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > > > > [@Joey\_P](#): > > > > > > And let’s not forget about the plant based beer. > > > > You can take the Duff, brewed with cool clear sparkling mountain goat, out of my cold dead hands. > > Your beer isn’t truly skanky unless it has real billy goat skank. Heineken seems to have figured it out. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5139 "2024-05-07T13:52:38Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Please, won’t SOMEONE save us from this nightmarish dystopia of affordable education, energy-efficient vehicles and appliances, bodily autonomy, and legal weed?! Reminds me of 2016 when Repubs were warning that without a stronger border, there would be a taco truck on every corner. Most people seemed to want a taco truck on the corner. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5140 "2024-05-07T14:47:24Z")
> [@mcgato](#): > > Most people seemed to want a taco truck on the corner. Republicans know they are gassy enough as it is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=256) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=258)