# 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:** 282
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5621 "2024-06-06T12:40:17Z")
When you use a placeholder in a document, it should be something that’s really obviously a placeholder, like with a big red X over it or something, so you can notice when you still haven’t replaced the placeholder yet. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Undeposable\_Hand](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_undeposable_hand/32/8502_2.png) [@The\_Undeposable\_Hand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Undeposable_Hand)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5622 "2024-06-06T13:32:05Z")
My mother grew up in San Antonio in the 1950s and I too know the story of the Dago Salad menu item. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5623 "2024-06-06T14:05:02Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > When you use a placeholder in a document, it should be something that’s really obviously a placeholder, like with a big red X over it or something, so you can notice when you still haven’t replaced the placeholder yet. This. Our agency puts FPO (for position only) in big pink block letters over any placeholder images. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5624 "2024-06-06T14:09:51Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > But she made me aware of the use of “Guido” as a slur. I’d never known. I know a guy whose first name is Guido. He’s also a Jr. so there’s at least one more out there. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5625 "2024-06-06T14:12:53Z")
[![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbYmrPslLKs4RTK3oFY7_oD-jEdI4orQyUrHTl9XZhUvyBVPpw4tF7i6XySBs_0giKC7p0QXI1qVw6diSbaE5PhrsMchMZEHxqkW45XdwB_jen21aSXtSklAfcwy4JDt4NyulDGCp4LUs/s1600/sarduccisfc.jpg) ](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbYmrPslLKs4RTK3oFY7_oD-jEdI4orQyUrHTl9XZhUvyBVPpw4tF7i6XySBs_0giKC7p0QXI1qVw6diSbaE5PhrsMchMZEHxqkW45XdwB_jen21aSXtSklAfcwy4JDt4NyulDGCp4LUs/s1600/sarduccisfc.jpg) ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5626 "2024-06-06T14:19:14Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > Why would it even have been used as a placeholder? > > Outsourcing to a Vietnamese web design outfit? That’s my assumption. I would guess if you lived in Vietnam/Asia and google ‘city skylines’ that’s probably a likely result. Picture’s of Milwaukee’s skyline aren’t exactly difficult to come by. Even if they use that as a placeholder until they get a picture they have the rights for, it’s better than accidentally\* publishing a picture of Vietnam, especially when tying to tell businesses to move to/stay in the states. \*This happens ‘accidentally’ often enough that I have to wonder if they’re really accidental. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5627 "2024-06-06T14:25:10Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > \*This happens ‘accidentally’ often enough that I have to wonder if they’re really accidental. I think this one was actually accidental. Pretty much all of their other “accidents” involved “accidentally” using Nazi and White Power imagery. I said some time ago that if they were really accidents, why do they never go the other way, and “accidentally” use Communist imagery? Hey, maybe it wasn’t an accident after all, maybe they’re trying to make the others look like accidents…😃 ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5628 "2024-06-06T14:31:25Z")
[![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbYmrPslLKs4RTK3oFY7_oD-jEdI4orQyUrHTl9XZhUvyBVPpw4tF7i6XySBs_0giKC7p0QXI1qVw6diSbaE5PhrsMchMZEHxqkW45XdwB_jen21aSXtSklAfcwy4JDt4NyulDGCp4LUs/s1600/sarduccisfc.jpg) ](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbYmrPslLKs4RTK3oFY7_oD-jEdI4orQyUrHTl9XZhUvyBVPpw4tF7i6XySBs_0giKC7p0QXI1qVw6diSbaE5PhrsMchMZEHxqkW45XdwB_jen21aSXtSklAfcwy4JDt4NyulDGCp4LUs/s1600/sarduccisfc.jpg) People, they saya my name is a slur. They say, Guido, howacome youra name is a slur? Whya you talk like a stereotype? I say [drags on cigarette] my mamma dinna raise no slurs! It’s a yous, draggin my godgiven name into the mud. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5629 "2024-06-06T20:51:52Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > > [@carrps](#): > > > > But she made me aware of the use of “Guido” as a slur. I’d never known. > > I know a guy whose first name is Guido. He’s also a Jr. so there’s at least one more out there. Yes, but he is Guido. He is not _a_ Guido. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5630 "2024-06-06T21:29:43Z")
MAGAchuds block traffic in NYC, holding up a massive flag reading “LAW AND ORDER”, and chant “fuck the blue!” when they get arrested; > ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5631 "2024-06-06T21:39:41Z")
Well waddaya know? The Qanon shaman has attracted a cosplayer. (1:16 in the above video). ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5632 "2024-06-06T21:41:59Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > The Qanon shaman has attracted a cosplayer. (1:16 in the above video). Plus, he’s shouting “They can do this to any one of us!!” as the cops are quite obviously not doing it to him. “She turned me into a newt!” “A newt?” “…I got better.” ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5633 "2024-06-06T21:48:55Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > “They can do this to any one of us!!” He may as well be shouting “You can’t arrest me! I’m white!” since we all know it’s what he’s thinking. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5634 "2024-06-06T22:06:55Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Having heard Tim’s take on atheism you coulda shortened that to, > _So Tim Allen is just…dumb. (Surprise, surprise.)_ Perhaps out of an unfortunate tendency toward masochism, I searched ‘atheism’ and ‘Tim Allen.’ Yeah: dumb guy. (His argument: if you don’t believe in something [God], that disbelief _proves that it exists._ And he’s a guy who played Santa Claus!) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5635 "2024-06-06T22:41:38Z")
…Is this some even stupider version of the Ontological Argument? “Well what is it that you don’t believe in, if the thing you don’t believe in doesn’t exist?” ---
**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:** [June 6, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5636 "2024-06-06T23:48:04Z")
_Last night I saw upon a stair_ _A little god who wasn’t there …_ ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5637 "2024-06-06T23:58:16Z")
So perfection is contingent on non-existence… well, that settles it. I am going to miss sleeping in on Sundays, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5638 "2024-06-07T00:37:01Z")
> [@FordPrefect](#): > > So perfection is contingent on non-existence… Not to hijack, but that is kind of philosophically correct. Existence demands imbalance (imperfection). Once a perfect state is attained, there can be no further progress, unless it is into imperfection, so, really, perfection is death. This also correlates to creation: how could somethingness arise out of nothingness? It does because it _has_ to: nothingness is a perfect equillibrium, which is naturally unstable and will collapse into something all on its own. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5639 "2024-06-07T01:19:22Z")
Texas Republican representative Troy Nehls is coming under bipartisan condemnation for stolen valor after he wore an unearned Combat Infantry Badge on his lapel on the floor of Congress. > A CBS News investigation in early May found Nehls’ Combat Infantryman Badge had been revoked from his service record in March 2023 because he served as a civil affairs officer and it was mistakenly awarded. > **[‘It’s Really Shameful’: House Republicans Accuse Rep. Troy Nehls of Stolen...](https://www.notus.org/congress/troy-nehls-combat-infantry-badge-pin-revoked)** > > A May investigation found Nehls’ Combat Infantryman Badge was revoked in 2023. He still wears the pin. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2024, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5640 "2024-06-07T01:33:51Z")
Hey! That’s my Representative! He was so corrupt, the police department for the next town over fired him. Later managed to get elected Sheriff for the county but a few years later “chose” not to run again (his almost equally worthless brother holds that post now). He’s got gerrymandering to thank for his Congressional seat, though he’s squeaked by the last couple times. Here’s hoping we finally see the back of that no account bastard! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=281) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=283)