# 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:** 387
**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:** [September 6, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7721 "2024-09-06T21:42:57Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > The way he put it, the worm ate part of his brain and died. Maybe he thought that would make him sound like some sort of badass, i.e. his brain was so kickass that even parasites couldn’t handle it. It’s not like we needed more evidence to show his brain’s toxic. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7722 "2024-09-06T22:07:16Z")
From the golden age of British TV… 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 6, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7723 "2024-09-06T23:54:20Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > The way he put it, the worm ate part of his brain and died. Maybe he thought that would make him sound like some sort of badass, i.e. his brain was so kickass that even parasites couldn’t handle it. ISTM that it’s more likely that it starved to death. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7724 "2024-09-07T00:05:58Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Ah, ha! This might explain RFK Jr.'s anti-vax crusade. Maybe his worms are controlling his brain, like Fry in that Futurama episode\*: > > [TWiP 242: Worms impair COVID vaccines](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAQp7iAJBcM) > > TWiP = This Week in Parasirology > > > TWiP reviews a study showing that intestinal helminth infection impairs vaccine-induced T cell responses through an IL-10 pathway, which compromised protection against antigenically drifted SARS-CoV-2 variants. It was a study about this that prompted the whole Ivermectin-for-covid thing. Basically, parasites like those common in the Third World result in worse covid outcomes, so if you have Third World parasites, it helps to get an antiparasitic medicine along with your covid medicine. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7725 "2024-09-07T00:16:24Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Personally, when the topic of RFK Jr’s brain worm comes up, I always think of the fact that we know about this because he brought it up in a deposition when he was divorcing his wife. Because he thought it would save him from having to give her—and their four minor children—any financial support. > > What an asshole. Yep. Never been verified by medical records. Either has his pretend mercury poisoning from the same deposition - supposedly from eating lots of tuna (when he wasn’t eating whale heads and roadkill). ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7726 "2024-09-07T02:20:25Z")
Sean Hannity says Republicans should boycott Disney if ABC isn’t nice to Big Baby Donald at the debate, which comes as some surprise, as I thought they were already boycotting Disney because of WOKE or something. > > ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7727 "2024-09-07T04:54:17Z")
Double Secret Disney Boycott! ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7728 "2024-09-07T19:14:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Sean Hannity says Republicans should boycott Disney if ABC isn’t nice to Big Baby Donald at the debate This is taking being a cry baby to a whole new level. Before the debate, whining about being fair when the debate hasn’t even happened. Wah-wah-wah. Can someone shove a binkie in Hannity’s pie hole and get him to his safe space? ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7729 "2024-09-07T20:47:22Z")
\*From **smapti** ’s link: > [@](#): > > I would assume that you want conservaties to patronize your theme parks Given the way conservatives have been acting of late and what they celebrate/reward, I’d think a theme park’s management absolutely would not want the bathroom police lurking in the park’s public loos. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7730 "2024-09-07T21:16:04Z")
Not to mention the assumption that the CEO of Disney will micromanage every aspect of one show on one of his subsidiary companies. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7731 "2024-09-07T21:27:28Z")
Isn’t this like the 50th time they’ve called for a boycott of Disney? Who can even keep track anymore? ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7732 "2024-09-07T21:32:55Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Not to mention the assumption that the CEO of Disney will micromanage every aspect of one show on one of his subsidiary companies. I expect Hannity would be content if Disney/ABC muted Harris’s mic for the entire evening (not just when Donald is speaking). And it would be even better if they played mocking music (a la Benny Hill) during her responses. And maybe used a filter to change her head to that of a rat or cockroach or such. Hey, there’s no limit to the ways Disney/ABC could make Hannity happy, if they just put their minds to it! ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7733 "2024-09-07T21:36:25Z")
Oh no need to go so far. I’m sure he’d be satisfied if they just put the debate on Fox News using their hosts as moderators and just rebroadcast the event on ABC. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7734 "2024-09-07T21:38:26Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Oh no need to go so far. I’m sure he’d be satisfied if they just put the debate on Fox News **using their hosts as moderators** and just rebroadcast the event on ABC. . Oh, so Hannity was just trying to drum up some career-boosting business for himself. Makes sense. (My bolding in the quote.) ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7735 "2024-09-07T21:39:03Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > And maybe used a filter to change her head to that of a rat or cockroach or such. Or a kitten, like that attorney did by mistake. To reference barren cat ladies. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7736 "2024-09-07T21:40:29Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Or a kitten, like that attorney did by mistake. To reference barren cat ladies. . I like the idea, though I suspect it’s too subtle in its series of linked references. (That attorney video is hilarious, for sure.) ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7737 "2024-09-07T22:58:08Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Oh, so Hannity was just trying to drum up some career-boosting business for himself. Makes sense. Hasn’t career-boosting defined his entire career? ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7738 "2024-09-07T23:28:22Z")
Republicans want to cause a government shutdown weeks before the election, because they never ever learn. > **[GOP unveils stopgap funding plan pushing 'manufactured' issue of non-citizen...](https://www.rawstory.com/gop-unveils-stopgap-funding-plan-pushing-manufactured-issue-of-non-citizen-voter-fraud/)** > > Leading U.S. Senate Democrats on Friday accused House Republicans of "wasting precious time catering to the hard MAGA right" as House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a stopgap funding bill tied to a proposal that would require proof of citizenship in... ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7739 "2024-09-07T23:29:21Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > And it would be even better if they played mocking music (a la Benny Hill) during her responses They should do that. It would go along perfectly with his facial expressions while someone other than him is talking. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2024, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/7740 "2024-09-08T04:20:22Z")
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