# 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:** 423
**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:** [October 13, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8441 "2024-10-13T21:00:18Z")
Meanwhile, Loser Donald is begging the military to stop liberals from voting. > **[Trump suggests using military against ‘enemy from within’ on Election Day |...](https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/13/politics/trump-military-enemy-from-within-election-day/index.html)** > > Former President Donald Trump suggested using the military to handle what he called “the enemy from within” on Election Day, saying that he isn’t worried about chaos from his supporters or foreign actors, but instead from “radical left lunatics.” ---
**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:** [October 13, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8442 "2024-10-13T21:26:14Z")
Okay, here’s an idea for Donnie: instead of “exit polls” where you ask people who they voted for, how about _entrance polls_? You ask them who they plan to vote for before the go in, and if it’s anyone but Donnie, you shoot them on the spot. He’ll probably suggest that next. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8443 "2024-10-13T21:29:19Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > > [@BlankSlate](#): > > > > Childless cat’s ladybugs? > > Ladybugs? You really, really, do not want to know. There are no photos, but it is goatse levels of disturbing. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8444 "2024-10-13T22:33:24Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Meanwhile, Loser Donald is begging the military to stop liberals from voting. And this is pinned to the top of his twitter feed. (Check your volume, it’s work safe but it’s clips of R Lee Ermy from Full Metal Jacket doing his R Lee Ermy thing, plus a lot of loud music) > ---
**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:** [October 13, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8445 "2024-10-13T23:05:12Z")
“Let me see your bone spurs.” “Bullshit! You didn’t convince me. Let me see your real bone spurs.” ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8446 "2024-10-14T00:01:14Z")
I’ll never understand how the hell R. Lee Ermey wound up endorsing Trump. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8447 "2024-10-14T00:21:54Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > There was a Pat Bagley cartoon that showed someone – presumably a minister - going up to a Coke machine and saying “Heal!”, and suddenly the Coke machine read “Caffeine-free Coke”. That’s pretty good. > [@](#): > > They also said that BYU started putting in Coke machines after decaffeinated Coke came out. I’m wondering now about the time-line for BYU bringing in the machines. AFAIK, Coca-Cola has long sold non-caffeine drinks, as have other soda companies. > [@](#): > > And, yeah, I know the Word of Wisdom doesn’t say a thing about caffeine. But I’m sure you know the history of popular interpretation of the WoW as well as or better than I do. Thanks. I’m a bit of a collector of both Mormon myths and military myths. My favorite one of the Mormon myths is about the Salt Lake Temple obviously being divinely inspired becaause of the room for elevator shafts in the original design, presumably because it was designed before elevators. The problem with that myth, of course, is the original design was _after_ the advent of elevators in buildings. > [@Smapti](#): > > Meanwhile, Loser Donald is begging the military to stop liberals from voting. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Okay, here’s an idea for Donnie: instead of “exit polls” where you ask people who they voted for, how about _entrance polls_? You ask them who they plan to vote for before the go in, and if it’s anyone but Donnie, you shoot them on the spot. He’ll probably suggest that next. Now you know why he loves Kim Jong Un so much. Also, he’s making a distinction between the National Guard and the military? Yet more proof he thinks of them as the Praetorian Guard and himsel as emperor. > [@Smapti](#): > > I’ll never understand how the hell R. Lee Ermey wound up endorsing Trump. I think it’s fairly obvious. Ermey was quite the conservative IMHO and thus got imself fully ~~radicalized~~ indoctrinated into the “only the Republicans care about the country” ideology. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8448 "2024-10-14T00:55:10Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’ll never understand how the hell R. Lee Ermey wound up endorsing Trump. I had not known this, and I’m sad to have learned 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:** [October 14, 2024, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8449 "2024-10-14T01:14:06Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Ermey was quite the conservative IMHO and thus got imself fully ~~radicalized~~ indoctrinated into the “only the Republicans care about the country” ideology. I mean, you think of the tough-as-nails drill sergeant that Ermey both played on film and was in real life, and you think of Trump, and you’d have to imagine that if Trump was a private in Ermey’s charge, Ermey would have made his life a living hell and he wouldn’t have lasted a week. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8450 "2024-10-14T01:38:28Z")
I like the concept of Trump waddling around the drill area with his pants around his ankles, as did Private Pyle. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8451 "2024-10-14T01:48:07Z")
When you consider that this country is about equal parts Democrat-voters, Trump voters, and nonvoters, it really shouldn’t be any great surprise that any given person known for something other than their politics is a Trump voter. It mostly just means that they vote, and they’re more conservative than average. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8452 "2024-10-14T02:13:35Z")
Dump’s “major malfunction” is fascistic narcissism on top of stupidity and crappy attitude. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8453 "2024-10-14T07:27:30Z")
It looks like they’re not even disguising their methodology now. The following (from [Yahoo](https://www.yahoo.com/news/johnson-additional-hurricane-aid-wait-133237390.html)) shows Johnson’s essentially saying, “We need to see how you vote before we give you any hurricane aid”. > Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday said passing additional hurricane aid for states impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton “can wait” until Congress is back in session after the election. > > CBS “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan asked him why he thinks it’s fine to wait until November for Congress to pass more aid for Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton victims. > > “Well, it can wait because, remember, the day before Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida and then went up through the states and wound up in Senator Tillis’s state of North Carolina, Congress appropriated 20 billion additional dollars to FEMA so that they would have the necessary resources to address immediate needs,” Johnson said. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8454 "2024-10-14T11:21:02Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > It looks like they’re not even disguising their methodology now. The following (from [Yahoo](https://www.yahoo.com/news/johnson-additional-hurricane-aid-wait-133237390.html)) shows Johnson’s essentially saying, “We need to see how you vote before we give you any hurricane aid”. Ho humm. Just a little more extortion. Nothing to see here. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8455 "2024-10-14T12:31:42Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > The state of West Virginia will refuse to recognize the election of the Democrat candidate What does that mean, and what is the practical effect? The President has almost no affect on day-to-day life or the work of a state government. The only thing that comes to mind is a disaster declaration allowing FEMA in, and it seems unlikely they’d do refuse to request that. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8456 "2024-10-14T16:43:12Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > They also said that BYU started putting in Coke machines after decaffeinated Coke came out. > > I’m wondering now about the time-line for BYU bringing in the machines. AFAIK, Coca-Cola has long sold non-caffeine drinks, as have other soda companies. A non-Mormom friend who earned her Master’s at BYU in the mid-80s confirms that there was much rejoicing on campus when caffeine-free Coke was introduced. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8457 "2024-10-14T17:52:44Z")
> **[Suspect arrested after reports of threats toward FEMA operations in North...](https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/14/us/fema-helene-north-carolina-reported-threats/index.html)** > > Aid to several communities impacted by Hurricane Helene was temporarily paused in parts of North Carolina over the weekend due to reports of threats against Federal Emergency Management Agency responders, amid a backdrop of misinformation about... > William Jacob Parsons, 44, was arrested and charged with Going Armed to the Terror of the Public, a misdemeanor, Capt. Jamie Keever said in a news release issued Monday. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8458 "2024-10-14T18:35:20Z")
Was just coming to post about the trucks full of “armed militia” that are out hunting FEMA. WTF? > **[North Carolina hurricane recovery team relocated amid threat of ‘armed militia’](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/14/north-carolina-hurricane-helene-fema-armed-militia-threat)** > > Hurricane Helene federal emergency workers told to evacuate Rutherford county, Washington Post reports ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8459 "2024-10-14T18:38:23Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > WTF? Again, so far, there is no evidence of actual truckloads of “militia”. Only one person has been collected. The real threat does not seem to be real. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/8460 "2024-10-14T18:41:32Z")
I see the CNN article clarifies that it appears to be the one nutjob and there were no truck loads of nuts as previously reported. I guess that is good news 😑 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=422) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=424)