# 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:** 266
**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 19, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5301 "2024-05-19T00:05:44Z")
I just saw [this YouTube short from David Parkman](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o4I5DAA5saA). He’s right and so am I. It’s a cult and they’re in North Korea style adulation of their idol. The upshot is the magaflatearther cult believe their idol is better than Moses. He’s even called “prophet and liberator”. Of course, there’s a ritual reference to the Big Steal. ---
**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 19, 2024, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5302 "2024-05-19T02:08:25Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > get being puzzled as to why there’s a Samurai in a game about sneaking around Asassin’s Creed really hasn’t been a stealth game for awhile. As far back as AC: Brotherhood (2010) the easiest way to carry out an assassination was to ride right up to your target on horseback, shoot him in the face, and then gallop away in a sort of 16th century drive-by. IIRC, the same game had you besiege one of the Borgia’s fortresses in a steam-powered tank built by Leonardo da Vinci, so it’s not like they were ever striving for full historical accuracy. ---
**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 19, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5303 "2024-05-19T15:38:40Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Asassin’s Creed really hasn’t been a stealth game for awhile. As far back as AC: Brotherhood (2010) the easiest way to carry out an assassination was to ride right up to your target on horseback, shoot him in the face, and then gallop away in a sort of 16th century drive-by. I remember watching a good analysis of how stealth was a significant part of the design of the original assassin’s creed and how the franchise has been harmed by the move away from it, but… …googling around trying to find that video I just hit a wall of “Ubisoft went woke!” videos, and they’re all plastered with “jokes” about george floyd or black people being illiterate or whatever (yet youtube frequently deletes my benign comments). So now I’m down the right-wing rabbit hole. And I’ll probably be served this crap for a while. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5304 "2024-05-19T17:02:08Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > IIRC, the same game had you besiege one of the Borgia’s fortresses in a steam-powered tank built by Leonardo da Vinci, so it’s not like they were ever striving for full historical accuracy. Right, and let’s not forget the fact that the historical portions of AC are not meant to be “real”. For those who don’t know the central conceit of the games is that you are a modern-day descendant of historical figures and you place yourself inside a Sci-Fi machine that allows you to live through your ancestors memories. It allows the developers to play around with all kinds of virtual reality, fake reality, and alternate history tropes. I think it was _Unity_ where you play as an assassin during the French revolution, but there was one portion of the game where your sent through time and you find yourself stomping around medieval Paris and WWII era occupied Paris as well. Also, to all of this “AC is woke” garbage, the first game has you playing as a 12th century Muslim fighting against crusaders in the middle east. That’s the hero! AC was woke before woke was a thing. It’s just more people ignoring and rewriting the past to justify their own disgusting racism. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5305 "2024-05-19T18:01:38Z")
Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2024, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5306 "2024-05-19T19:31:53Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > The upshot is the magaflatearther cult believe their idol is better than Moses. And some (virtually all?) refuse to acknowledge that they are in a cult, choosing instead to cry “TDS”\* at those trying to point out their cult membership status. \*Trump Derangement Syndrome. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5307 "2024-05-20T11:52:52Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > \*Trump Derangement Syndrome. It’s ironic because it’s the MAGA’s that have TDS. They are certainly deranged. ---
**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 20, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5308 "2024-05-20T19:20:19Z")
nevermind ---
**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 20, 2024, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5309 "2024-05-20T19:31:07Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > And some (virtually all?) refuse to acknowledge that they are in a cult, choosing instead to cry “TDS”\* at those trying to point out their cult membership status. Last night I watched part of a street interview where the reporter was asking an ordinary person why she thought Trump was still President, a direct statement she had made. “Part of” because it was painfully obvious she had not given much, if any, thought why she believed that, too painful to see her struggle to answer. ---
**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 20, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5310 "2024-05-20T19:34:20Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > too painful to see her struggle to answer. That’s the same reason I don’t watch the Jordan Klepper stuff. I’m okay with him doing it, I’m okay with people laughing at some of the stupid things they’re saying, but, personally, I don’t like watching the reality version of cringe comedy. ---
**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 20, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5311 "2024-05-20T21:12:25Z")
To paraphrase some one (no, [_not_ Lincoln](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/535688/origin-of-the-saying-god-must-love-the-poor-because-he-made-so-many-of-them)), Og must love stupid people; he made so _many_ of them. ---
**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 21, 2024, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5312 "2024-05-21T07:52:15Z")
Trump campaign ad shows news headlines from the second Trump admin, including “creation of a unified Reich”. [https://x.com/JonDeeOz/status/1792750065179828235](https://x.com/JonDeeOz/status/1792750065179828235) [https://x.com/waltywang/status/1792730656465957078/video/1](https://x.com/waltywang/status/1792730656465957078/video/1) ---
**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:** [May 21, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5313 "2024-05-21T15:06:20Z")
Biden jumped right on that. **" Biden campaign seizes on Trump Truth Social repost referencing “unified Reich”** [https://www.axios.com/2024/05/21/trump-unified-reich-video-truth-social-post](https://www.axios.com/2024/05/21/trump-unified-reich-video-truth-social-post) > … > **Why it matters:** Although Trump’s campaign emphasized that this wasn’t a campaign video and a staffer inadvertently reposted it without seeing the words… And probably didn’t recognize the words or the historical significance of them. History is so… _old_, after all. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5314 "2024-05-21T15:20:59Z")
Anyone else surprised they didn’t say “The Fourth Reich”? Or perhaps the “Reich of the 47th”? ---
**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 21, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5315 "2024-05-21T15:22:09Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > And probably didn’t recognize the words or the historical significance of them. History is so… _old_, after all. It’s not as if he’s read _Mein Kampf_, after all. Seen it, yes, but not read. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5316 "2024-05-21T15:39:19Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Biden jumped right on that. > > **" Biden campaign seizes on Trump Truth Social repost referencing “unified Reich”** > > [https://www.axios.com/2024/05/21/trump-unified-reich-video-truth-social-post](https://www.axios.com/2024/05/21/trump-unified-reich-video-truth-social-post) > > > … > > **Why it matters:** Although Trump’s campaign emphasized that this wasn’t a campaign video and a staffer inadvertently reposted it without seeing the words… > > And probably didn’t recognize the words or the historical significance of them. History is so… _old_, after all. And yet they haven’t taken it down… ---
**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:** [May 21, 2024, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5317 "2024-05-21T15:40:15Z")
You really can’t make this stuff up. Gift link. > **[Opinion | Republicans discover a secret elixir that cures dementia with one dose](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/21/gop-magical-dementia-cure-biden/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzE2MjY0MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzE3NjQ2Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTYyNjQwMDAsImp0aSI6ImM4YmFiMDBhLTU3MmUtNDI4NS1iNTQwLTkxZWI5YjlhYzc2NiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI0LzA1LzIxL2dvcC1tYWdpY2FsLWRlbWVudGlhLWN1cmUtYmlkZW4vIn0.eOeHmeJ4JvIwGpXZzoGTSXV_UkyhuYcb5VCZvOQvk_Q&itid=gfta)** > > There is a shot that cures incoherence? How can I get some? > Rep. Byron Donalds’s medical education consists of a bachelor’s degree in finance and marketing from Florida State University. But the Florida Republican played a doctor on TV over the weekend, [telling Fox News host Maria Bartiromo](https://www.mediaite.com/politics/we-have-no-idea-republican-congressman-shut-down-by-foxs-maria-bartiromo-over-wild-biden-speculation/) that, after examining [President Biden](https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/candidates/joe-biden-2024/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2), he suspects the president is receiving a secret medication that makes him appear to be sharp-witted and totally on the ball. > > “The American people need to understand if they’re giving him some injection so that he can actually look like he’s coherent,” Donalds said. > > Dr. Donalds seemed not to have considered the obvious possibility that Biden _looks like_ he’s cogent and clear because he _is_ cogent and clear. Still, the good doctor’s diagnosis raises some key questions that must be considered: > > There is a shot that cures incoherence in one dose? How can I get some? Why has nobody thought to give it to Kevin McCarthy all these years? And why, for that matter, doesn’t Dr. Donalds, who seems to think he should be Donald Trump’s running mate, inject his prospective boss with the stuff? Just last week, Trump’s attempt at saying “carried out by radical Democrats” came out as “[carried owby rgbgb tdai](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/17/trump-trial-courthouse-surrogates-imitators/?itid=lk_inline_manual_7).” > … * * * * * * Aside Wow–just noticed it’s my cake day! Joined 2010. Seems longer. 🤔 I guess I better have some cake at lunch… /Aside ---
**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:** [May 21, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5318 "2024-05-21T16:58:18Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > To paraphrase some one (no, [_not_ Lincoln](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/535688/origin-of-the-saying-god-must-love-the-poor-because-he-made-so-many-of-them)), Og must love stupid people; he made so _many_ of them. Or, as Frank Zappa once said, “God made us all to be just like him. So if we’re dumb, then God is dumb. And maybe even a little ugly on the side.” ---
**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 21, 2024, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5319 "2024-05-21T20:03:40Z")
Reporter: Why didn’t you testify after saying you would? Trump: (wanders off) [https://x.com/Acyn/status/1792982971928195096](https://x.com/Acyn/status/1792982971928195096) ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5320 "2024-05-21T23:10:55Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Wow–just noticed it’s my cake day! Joined 2010. Congratulations! 🎉🍰 > [@Smapti](#): > > Trump campaign ad shows news headlines from the second Trump admin, including “creation of a unified Reich”. Next up: Harrison Butker (or other right-wing dude) giving another graduation speech, in which he complains about how the Left is always Against Unity. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=265) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=267)