# 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:** 462
**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:** [November 30, 2024, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9221 "2024-11-30T05:07:14Z")
> **[Elon Musk’s DOGE partner Vivek Ramaswamy says they’ll scrutinize $6.6 billion...](https://fortune.com/2024/11/29/vivek-ramaswamy-elon-musk-doge-tesla-rivian-biden-federal-government-loan-trump/)** > > Critics advise the incoming Trump administration to pull the plug on 'corporate-welfare loans handed out for political reasons'. Here is a great headline to a story I cannot seem to read. Elno is going to scrutinize a large loan the government made to electric vehicle maker Rivian. No conflict of interest there, no, no, no. ---
**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:** [November 30, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9222 "2024-11-30T17:23:38Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > It’s been eight years and Obama is STILL living rent-free in Laura Loomer’s head. Now _there’s_ a low-rent district. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9223 "2024-11-30T18:07:29Z")
Cheryl Hines is over on twitter selling some kind of bathing product. Her husband is showering behind her. Her stupid head is blocking the naughty bits. I’m surprised one of his girlfriends wasn’t in the shower with him. She certainly doesn’t seem to have any pride at all. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9224 "2024-12-01T23:35:46Z")
I have no idea if this is a widespread belief or just one man’s delusion, but today on my commute to work I overheard a man on the bus telling another passenger that he voted for Trump because Trump is going to create a nationwide mass transit system that will take you anywhere in the country for free. I don’t know how we’re meant to compete with this level of ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9225 "2024-12-02T03:18:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I don’t know how we’re meant to compete with this level of ignorance. ISTM that we have reached a weird, tragic point at which there is a critical mass of people who explicitly and unabashedly lie, and there is a critical mass of people who have no problem with this, and there is not a sufficiently critical mass to call out the offenders. I have no idea how civilized society can exist when absolute factual truths are now considered to be opinion that is approved only by the approval of uneducated, non-critical thinking, people. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2024, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9226 "2024-12-02T04:30:42Z")
> [@velomont](#): > > I have no idea how civilized society can exist when absolute factual truths are now considered to be opinion that is approved only by the approval of uneducated, non-critical thinking, people. The first time I saw _Family Feud_, I thought, “This is ricidulous; it’s rewarding stupidity!” Then I realized it’s rewarding how well the contestants can guess just how stupid _other people_ are. And now I know the show was a training ground to survive the 2020s. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2024, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9227 "2024-12-02T04:35:22Z")
If anyone has the ass to pull it out of, it is Trump. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2024, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9228 "2024-12-02T06:46:30Z")
Is “crasshole” a word? ---
**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:** [December 2, 2024, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9229 "2024-12-02T06:59:22Z")
If not, it should be. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2024, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9230 "2024-12-03T00:52:57Z")
Unelected federal bureaucrat proves irony is dead, film at 11; > > > Elon Musk @elonmusk ---
**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:** [December 3, 2024, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9231 "2024-12-03T01:17:32Z")
Noted felon Dinesh D’Souza admits that his “documentary” about election fraud was all a bunch of lies. > **[Pardoned felon Dinesh D'Souza apologizes for election conspiracy movie](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/dinesh-dsouza-apologizes-false-claims-150554547.html)** > > Months before the MAGA filmmaker apologized to a Georgia voter for wrongly accusing him of election fraud, his widely debunked film and book was pulled by the publisher as part of a defamation lawsuit settlement. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2024, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9232 "2024-12-03T01:23:54Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Noted felon Dinesh D’Souza admits that his “documentary” about election fraud was all a bunch of lies. Oh well, no harm done. (Take a sip of wine as the flames get closer.) ---
**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:** [December 3, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9233 "2024-12-03T19:04:26Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Noted felon Dinesh D’Souza admits that his “documentary” about election fraud was all a bunch of lies. Oddly there is no mention of this retraction on Fox news. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9234 "2024-12-04T16:47:47Z")
Insert “Yager Bomb” joke here. > **[Authorities confirm Sen. Ken Yager arrested for DUI in Georgia](https://www.newschannel5.com/news/authorities-confirm-sen-ken-yager-arrested-for-dui-in-georgia)** > > Georgia authorities confirm state Sen. Ken Yager was arrested for driving under the influence after a hit-and-run crash. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9235 "2024-12-04T17:55:05Z")
Party of law and order rides again! Put him in trump’s cabinet as secretary of partyin’ down! ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9236 "2024-12-04T18:31:27Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Put him in trump’s cabinet as secretary of partyin’ down! Secretary of Transportation, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9237 "2024-12-04T20:20:41Z")
[![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThngmpo3ebT-Iy9XmCiocBUJjIzYcgSK-_Iw&s) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThngmpo3ebT-Iy9XmCiocBUJjIzYcgSK-_Iw&s) ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9238 "2024-12-04T21:00:51Z")
You left out the part where he fell down and pissed himself during the sobriety test. > **[Watch: Tennessee GOP lawmaker appears to urinate on himself during DUI field...](https://www.rawstory.com/ken-yager-dui/)** > > The Georgia Department of Public Safety confirmed that Tennessee state Sen. Ken Yager (R) was arrested for driving under the influence after a hit-and-run crash on Tuesday.According to WTVF, Yager was driving a Ford Edge SUV with Tennessee... ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9239 "2024-12-04T21:28:36Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Put him in trump’s cabinet as secretary of partyin’ down! Sorry, his drunkenness suggests that he might be qualified for such a position, and so under Trump’s criteria that makes him ineligible. DWI puts him for in for the Transportation secretary as Railer13 suggested, or maybe ATF. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9240 "2024-12-04T21:34:02Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > he might be qualified for such a position, and so under Trump’s criteria that makes him ineligible. D’oh! So obvious! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=461) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=463)