# 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:** 349
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6961 "2024-08-10T07:02:35Z")
But the drive would take him right past the Crazies. That should make him feel right at home. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6962 "2024-08-10T07:04:01Z")
Hahaha. It is a real story. Trump is just confused about all the details and which black man was with him. (Hey, he’s old and racist.) [The other Black politician who says he was with Trump in that near-fatal chopper crash - POLITICO](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/09/trump-plane-crash-california-00173487) > [@](#): > > The man who almost crashed in a helicopter with Donald Trump told POLITICO Trump confused him with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — despite the former president’s repeated insistence it was Brown. It was Nate Holden, a former city councilman and state senator from Los Angeles, who said in an exclusive interview late Friday that he remembers the near-death experience well. He and others believe it happened sometime in 1990. “Willie is the short Black guy living in San Francisco,” Holden said. “I’m a tall Black guy living in Los Angeles. “I guess we all look alike,” Holden told POLITICO, letting out a loud laugh. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6963 "2024-08-10T07:08:33Z")
The important thing is that Nate Holden spent what he must have thought would be his final minutes on Earth telling Trump horrible things about a then-26-year-old deputy district attorney on the other side of the state that neither of them had ever met. This means Trump gets to sue everyone now because he was right and they were wrong, right? ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6964 "2024-08-10T07:22:29Z")
Lara Trump attempts to criticize Kamala Harris. You know, the woman whose only qualification for her job as RNC chair is the fact that she is married to Eric Trump. > **[Lara Trump's Kamala Harris Attack Turns Into Massive Self-Own](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/lara-trumps-kamala-harris-attack-180338562.html)** > > The RNC co-chair and daughter-in-law of Donald Trump said without irony that, unlike the vice president, she only wants to get a job based on merit. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6965 "2024-08-10T10:48:20Z")
I would not have guessed Jesse Ventura would endorse her. Good for him! In other news, Jesse _Watters_ remains an asshole. > **[‘You Are White, Right? Are You Half?’ Jesse Watters Presses Black Co-Host...](https://www.mediaite.com/tv/you-are-white-right-are-you-halfjesse-watters-presses-black-co-host-harold-ford-jr-to-wear-white-dudes-for-harris-hat/)** > > Watters pressed black Democratic co-host to wear a White Dudes For Harris hat repeatedly insisting that the former congressman was “white.” ---
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6966 "2024-08-10T11:15:05Z")
He remembers it so well, he gives the date of it as “sometime in 1990”? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6967 "2024-08-10T14:54:20Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I would not have guessed Jesse Ventura would endorse her. Good for him! And right-wingers start calling Ventura “transgender” in 3…2…1… Follow-up: Actually I guess the right wing will have disowned Ventura ever since he criticized bans on gay marriage and military service for transgender people? ---
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6968 "2024-08-10T15:24:51Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > In other news, Jesse _Watters_ remains an asshole. And he opens with a “MAGA mech rip-off”, saying that Harris is trying to copy the Red MAGA hat … with a camo hat that says “Harris Walz” on it. So they don’t even understand what “copying” is. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6969 "2024-08-10T18:01:45Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > So they don’t even understand what “copying” is. They certainly didn’t when Melania did it. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6970 "2024-08-10T19:05:57Z")
_How dare Democrats wear hats!_ ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6971 "2024-08-10T19:14:02Z")
I was watching this video (David Packman) [Ex-Trump staffer: “Orange” Trump will “self-emasculate” if he doesn’t debate Kamala](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJjFET9jcsc), and Anthony Scarramucci mentioned this guy, [Curtis Yarvin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin), as someone that JD Vance and Silicon Valley billionaire-types are both fans of. I was unfamiliar with Yarvin, so I looked him up on Wiklpedia. Basically, Trump is their “useful idiot” to use to remake America: > he [Yarvin] argues that American [democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy) is a failed experiment[[5]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#cite_note-Vox-Aug16-MoreThanWarmedOver-5) that should be replaced by an accountable [monarchy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy), similar to the governance structure of corporations.[[6]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#cite_note-6) Yarvin has been described as a “neo-reactionary” and “neo-[monarchist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchist)” who “sees [liberalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism) as creating a [Matrix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix)-like [totalitarian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism) system and who wants to replace American democracy with a sort of [techno](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy)-monarchy”.[[7]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#cite_note-7)[[8]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#cite_note-VoxMonarchist-8)[[9]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#cite_note-:2-9) > … > Drawing on computer metaphors, Yarvin contends that society needs a “hard reset” or a “rebooting”, not a series of gradual political reforms.[[27]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#cite_note-FOOTNOTETait2019197-27) Instead of activism, he advocates passivism, claiming that progressivism would fail without right-wing opposition.[[28]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#cite_note-FOOTNOTETait2019197%E2%80%93198-28) According to him, NRx adherents should rather design “new architectures of exit” than engage in ineffective political activism.[[29]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmithBurrows2021149-29) > > Yarvin argues for a “neo-cameralist” philosophy based on [Frederick the Great](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_the_Great) of Prussia’s [cameralism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameralism).[[30]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#cite_note-AtlanticGray-30) In Yarvin’s view, democratic governments are inefficient and wasteful and should be replaced with sovereign [joint-stock corporations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint-stock_company) whose “shareholders” (large owners) elect an executive with total power, but who must serve at their pleasure.[[27]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#cite_note-FOOTNOTETait2019197-27) The executive, unencumbered by liberal-democratic procedures, could rule efficiently much like a CEO-monarch.[[27]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#cite_note-FOOTNOTETait2019197-27) Yarvin admires Chinese leader [Deng Xiaoping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping) for his pragmatic and market-oriented authoritarianism, and the city-state of [Singapore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore) as an example of a successful authoritarian regime. He sees the US as soft on crime, dominated by economic and democratic delusions.[[26]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#cite_note-FOOTNOTETait2019195-26) > … > Yarvin’s ideas have been influential among [right-libertarians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-libertarianism) and [paleolibertarians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolibertarians), and the public discourses of prominent investors like [Peter Thiel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel) have echoed Yarvin’s project of seceding from the US to establish tech-CEO dictatorships.[[36]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPein2018228%E2%80%93230-36)[[37]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#cite_note-FOOTNOTETait2019200-37) Political strategist [Steve Bannon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon) has read and admired his work.[[38]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#cite_note-FOOTNOTETait2019199-38) Might have something to do with how the weirdo Vance ended up as Trump’s VP pick. In this case, Trump seems like a poker player in a game where he doesn’t realize he’s the mark. He’s too preoccupied with grifting for himself. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6972 "2024-08-10T19:16:19Z")
“Self-emasculate”? Is that like what God commanded Abraham to do? 🤔 ---
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6973 "2024-08-10T19:36:46Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Yarvin has been described as a “neo-reactionary” and “neo-[monarchist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchist)” who “sees [liberalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism) as creating a [Matrix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix)-like [totalitarian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism) system and who wants to replace American democracy with a sort of [techno](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy)-monarchy”. God, right-wing chuds absolutely love missing the point of a movie about creating your own identity written and directed by two trans women, don’t they? ---
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6974 "2024-08-10T19:40:53Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > So they don’t even understand what “copying” is. The hat _is_ camouflage, so it’s not their fault. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6975 "2024-08-10T19:56:43Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > should be replaced with sovereign [joint-stock corporations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint-stock_company) whose “shareholders” (large owners) elect an executive with total power, but who must serve at their pleasure.[[27]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#cite_note-FOOTNOTETait2019197-27) Do you want Snow Crash? Because that’s how you get [Snow Crash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash). ---
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6976 "2024-08-10T23:47:59Z")
Local dotard doesn’t know what the vice president’s job is, film at 11. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GUptVsZXoAAwEzP?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GUptVsZXoAAwEzP?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**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:** [August 11, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6977 "2024-08-11T00:08:07Z")
Has she even been complaining about those things? ---
**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:** [August 11, 2024, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6978 "2024-08-11T03:13:45Z")
Does it even matter? Individual-ONE said it. For some people, that is all that counts. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2024, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6979 "2024-08-11T03:41:33Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Local dotard doesn’t know what the vice president’s job is, film at 11. Donald Trump was president for four years. Why didn’t he fix it? ---
**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:** [August 11, 2024, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/6980 "2024-08-11T04:05:42Z")
He did, of course! Everything in summer 2020 was strongly tremendous in a biglier way than anything has ever been in the history of the universe before Biden ruined everything, so saith Dear Leader. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=348) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=350)