# 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:** 478
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9541 "2025-01-04T04:01:18Z")
Most babies’ first word is _mama_. Without a doubt, the tangerine toddler’s first words were _me, me, me_. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9542 "2025-01-04T06:31:09Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Without a doubt, the tangerine toddler’s first words were _me, me, me_. Let me tell you a story about a boy named Jimmy One year old, and his first words were mine, mine, gimme… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nyWbun_PbTc/maxresdefault.jpg "Ren - Money Game Part 3 (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyWbun_PbTc) ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9543 "2025-01-04T07:39:13Z")
I/me/mine are Trump’s preferred pronouns. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9544 "2025-01-04T12:39:26Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Yeah, that twerp ain’t shy at all when it comes to anything untoward and un-American. Seriously, how the fuck does someone who dry humps an American flag on stage rewarded for that misbehavior? Well, the flag was clearly asking for it, so it’s all right with most Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9545 "2025-01-04T12:50:01Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > Yeah, that twerp ain’t shy at all when it comes to anything untoward and un-American. Seriously, how the fuck does someone who dry humps an American flag on stage rewarded for that misbehavior? > > Well, the flag was clearly asking for it, so it’s all right with most Republicans. - Next thing you know, the flag is pulling a train. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9546 "2025-01-05T01:49:23Z")
President Dumbass sees a headline about how an oil company is closing its North Sea operations in response to the UK’s “windfall tax” tweets “get rid of windmills!” [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreicriiccgtmlmddq5j7akv4nyfie6oi7mzwl562i2jvkcuwksw7mea@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreicriiccgtmlmddq5j7akv4nyfie6oi7mzwl562i2jvkcuwksw7mea@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9547 "2025-01-05T02:27:29Z")
Someone should tell him that windmills control hurricanes by grinding the big wind into lots of little winds. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9548 "2025-01-05T14:21:42Z")
From what I’ve read about his first term, this is too long for his attention span. It would need to be reworded to something like: Windmills control (Trump) hurricanes by grinding the (Trump) big wind into lots (Trump) of little winds. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9549 "2025-01-05T21:08:06Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Someone should tell him that windmills control hurricanes by grinding the big wind into lots of little winds. And also that “windfall” =/= “windmill”. Start with the basics before you expect him to be able to delve into meteorology. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9550 "2025-01-05T21:10:04Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > meteorology. Stop trying to make him use metric! ---
**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:** [January 5, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9551 "2025-01-05T21:16:25Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Stop trying to make him use metric! Good thing I hadn’t just taken a sip of my beverage. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9552 "2025-01-05T21:29:49Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > And also that “windfall” =/= “windmill”. And not a single person around him who will tell him he’s wrong. I get that it doesn’t matter that he looks stupid but geez. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9553 "2025-01-05T21:34:08Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > And not a single person around him who will tell him he’s wrong. Or even give him the side-eye. I bet he’s very quick to pick up on that. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9554 "2025-01-06T00:06:02Z")
Don’t forget he’s still mad about the offshore windmills near his golf resort in Scotland. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9555 "2025-01-06T00:25:40Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Don’t forget he’s still mad about the offshore windmills near his golf resort in Scotland. - I don’t blame him. They kept blowing his balls off course. _(Don’t_ say it!) ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9556 "2025-01-06T00:48:16Z")
[![](https://morbotron.com/meme/S05E01/379979.jpg?b64lines=IFdpbmRtaWxscyBkbyBub3Qgd29yawogdGhhdCB3YXkhIEdvb2QgbmlnaHQh) ](https://morbotron.com/meme/S05E01/379979.jpg?b64lines=IFdpbmRtaWxscyBkbyBub3Qgd29yawogdGhhdCB3YXkhIEdvb2QgbmlnaHQh) ---
**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:** [January 7, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9557 "2025-01-07T02:30:30Z")
I just ran across this article… > **[Key Oath Keepers leader revealed as former Las Vegas police detective](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/06/oath-keepers-rightwing-militia-police)** > > Details about Utah-based Robert Kinch, who backed ‘race war’, suggest rightwing militia has retained links with police …and got sidetracked by something: > The orders [not to obeyed](https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/oath-keepers), first laid out by the now-imprisoned founder, reflect the organization’s paranoid view of the federal government, and include “We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people”; “We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps”; and “We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.” That seemed backwards to me as I would’ve thought the Oath Keepers would be thrilled to turn cities into giant concentration camps for (the wrong) American citizens. I wasn’t familiar with what the article called ‘orders not to be obeyed’. Maybe others have heard of this, but I haven’t. From what I’m reading, the Oath Keepers have a [pledge](https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/combating-hate/The-Oath-Keepers-ADL-Report.pdf): > 1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people. > 2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people. > 3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject > them to military tribunal. > 4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state. > 5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty. > 6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant > concentration camps. > 7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any > pretext. > 8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the > American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control.” > 9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and > other essential supplies. > 10. We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably > assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances That didn’t really clarify it for me as, again, those didn’t seem all that radical for a group of far right law enforcement and military people. However: > The list of “orders” the Oath Keepers vow to refuse reveals their extreme conspiratorial mindset, because > the “orders” are not instructions ever likely to be actually handed down by officials; instead, they are > reflective of the anti‐government conspiracy theories embraced by the extreme right. That makes more sense. I’m looking at a number of those vows and thinking they’ll be more than happy to break them on Trump’s command. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9558 "2025-01-07T03:21:29Z")
> 1. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state. > 2. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps. > 3. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext. > 4. We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances I’m guessing these fuckwits have never watched _Outbreak_ or similar movies. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9559 "2025-01-07T13:50:03Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > That makes more sense. I’m looking at a number of those vows and thinking they’ll be more than happy to break them on Trump’s command. The thing to understand is, these guys started during the Obama administration, in 2009. So their list of “No way will we do that!” orders reflects nothing more than the conspiratorial beliefs they had about what the Secret Muslim President was going to do. If you read that list of rules purely in isolation, it doesn’t seem so bad, but in context, it’s clear they considered Obama an existential threat. Trump? Not so much. As you say, they’ll be quite happy being Trump’s boot on the necks of the undesirables. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9560 "2025-01-07T13:59:25Z")
Aren’t the things these vows are against exactly what their idol has promised to do? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=477) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=479)