# 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:** 403
**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 25, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8041 "2024-09-25T21:45:24Z")
Clay Higgins is going mask-off with the racism. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYV7NcuXIAABA6S?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYV7NcuXIAABA6S?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**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:** [September 25, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8042 "2024-09-25T21:56:19Z")
And on top of the blatant racism, he calls Trump and Vance “our President and VP.” Someone want to tell this dipshit that they’re actually just a private citizen and a senator? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8043 "2024-09-25T22:33:52Z")
And perhaps ask him where ‘they’ are from? Trump is gonna send them back to Venezuela, Vance to Hatia. And WTF is vudu. GOOGLE it you dumb fuck to find the correct spelling of you racist bigot. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8044 "2024-09-25T22:38:12Z")
Emperor Trumpatine: Good! Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you! ---
**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 25, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8045 "2024-09-25T23:05:26Z")
Question for Higgins: And exactly when did Vance become VP? Also, Trump is not our president. ---
**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 25, 2024, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8046 "2024-09-25T23:27:06Z")
> One of the most aggravating things to me is how the media constantly lets Republicans get away with saying “I don’t know” or “I haven’t heard about that” when they’re put on the spot about the terrible shit other Republicans are saying or doing. A responsible journalist ought to follow up such a mealy-mouthed denial with “Don’t you think it’s unfair to your constituents that you’re so ill-informed?” ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8047 "2024-09-26T00:39:18Z")
What’s a slapstick gangster? Are they all walking around imitating Charlie Chaplin or the Stooges while robbing places? Because I’d watch that, probably. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8048 "2024-09-26T00:48:44Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > What’s a slapstick gangster? “Gimme your wallet. Oh, wise guy, eh? Watch this. Woo-woo-woo …” Boink! “Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk! Now hand it over.” ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8049 "2024-09-26T01:14:15Z")
yesterday, my daughter received a pretty low level racist comment at school, the perpetrator was a 14 year old boy, he apologised to her twice yesterday. Was spoken to again by the dean, and a call was made home. This is a 14 year old boy. The comments we are reading about here have come from an elected representative who, by all that democracy is about, should stand for the best that Americans are as a people. If this is who Americans as a people are electing, and are not doing anything about, it really says a lot about American society. We are constantly told that a terrorist doesn’t represent a people. Which is a 100% truth. Here we have someone that DOES represent a people (not all by any means, but enough to win an election). Bearing this in mind, I’d be quite happy if we were to deny entry to our country to anybody that lives in Louisana for as long as this human remains a representative ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8050 "2024-09-26T01:25:49Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > And WTF is vudu. GOOGLE it you dumb fuck to find the correct spelling of you racist bigot. You’d think someone from Louisiana would be more cautious about antagonizing anyone adjacent to that belief system… just sayin’… > [@bengangmo](#): > > If this is who Americans as a people are electing, and are not doing anything about, it really says a lot about American society. Yeah, as Carlin said, the people in office don’t arrive passing through a dimensional membrane, they are the products of our communities and selected by the communities, this IS what the society has to offer. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8051 "2024-09-26T02:12:44Z")
Hey now, he prayed on it and deeply regrets it. Jeez, don’t you believe in redemption? 🙄 ---
**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 26, 2024, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8052 "2024-09-26T07:47:10Z")
He had to fucking pray about it to figure out it’s fucking offensive? ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8053 "2024-09-26T13:18:14Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > Hey now, he prayed on it and deeply regrets it. Jeez, don’t you believe in redemption? 🙄 Oh! Well, that’s all right, then! ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8054 "2024-09-26T15:45:53Z")
I’m guessing his prayer was more along the lines of “please lord deliver me from those who would deign to criticize me and smite them down with your holy wrath.” ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8055 "2024-09-26T17:05:39Z")
So this unseen chat with his supernatural therapist is the supposed contrition: the closest we’re going to get to any kind of apology or condemnation of the disinformation or racism. Oh but it seems Jesus told him to double down: > [@Clay Higgins](#): > > It’s all true. I can put up another controversial post tomorrow if you want me to. > I mean, we do have freedom of speech. I’ll say what I want. > It’s not a big deal to me. It’s like something stuck to the bottom of my boot. Just scrape it off and move on with my life > **[Republican Rep. Doubles Down on Disgustingly Racist Threat to Haitians](https://newrepublic.com/post/186392/republican-representative-higgins-racist-tweet-haitians)** > > Representative Clay Higgins deleted his initial tweet—but promised there’s more to come. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8056 "2024-09-26T18:40:32Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > > [Clay Higgins:] I mean, we do have freedom of speech. I’ll say what I want. Having freedom of speech does **NOT** mean you can say what you want, idiot. ---
**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 26, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8057 "2024-09-26T18:44:28Z")
These idiots think “freedom of speech” means “freedom from any consequences of my speech” ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8058 "2024-09-26T18:53:21Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > > Clay Higgins: > > …I’ll say what I want. Rep. Cartman on line two: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OovxGVd_6as/hqdefault.jpg "Eric Cartman - Whatever, I do what I want") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OovxGVd_6as) ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8059 "2024-09-26T18:55:48Z")
That’s exactly where my mind went too; my brain just directly used Cartman’s voice for that sentence 😂 ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8060 "2024-09-26T19:28:40Z")
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