# 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:** 484
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9661 "2025-01-16T12:57:32Z")
Yes, I believe there are lots of videos depicting teacher/student interactions in the classroom. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9662 "2025-01-16T13:08:05Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Sam Alito wants to know if Pornhub has essays by Gore Vidal like Playboy used to. “I go to PornHub, but only for the articles…” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9663 "2025-01-16T13:09:16Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > “Pourin’ hub? Is that a place to talk about your favorite kinds of tea?” _Kavanaugh’s smile lowers after he hears the word ‘tea’_ ---
**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 18, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9664 "2025-01-18T00:09:43Z")
Rand Paul suggests fighting wildfires in California with the same idea I would’ve thought of when I was 5 years old. > **[California firefighters should've 'sucked the water out of the Pacific...](https://www.rawstory.com/rand-paul-california/)** > > Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) thinks he knows how California firefighters should have contained the devastating fires that destroyed neighborhoods on the outskirts of Los Angeles: just suck up the Pacific Ocean and dump it on them. > > Paul made the comments... You’d think a man from a state that regularly gets snow would know what happens when you coat everything with salt. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9665 "2025-01-18T00:43:18Z")
I’m pretty sure firefighting planes have already been scooping up seawater and dumping it on the fires. ---
**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 18, 2025, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9666 "2025-01-18T02:22:12Z")
Republican runs unopposed for open seat in the WV legislature, wins, gets asked questions by his future coworkers after he gets caught lying about being a doctor and veteran, tells the legislature that the angel Moroni has ordered him to kill them, gets expelled before he can even take his seat. > **[West Virginia legislature vacates lawmaker's seat after his arrest for...](https://www.rawstory.com/west-virginia/)** > > In one of the most chaotic developments in a state legislature in months, the West Virginia House of Delegates has vacated a seat of a newly-elected Republican state legislator — and due to a bizarre series of events, Democrats may get to appoint his... ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9667 "2025-01-18T02:54:52Z")
It’s almost as it we aren’t sending our best and brightest to the legislature. I wonder if we increased the pay rate, would we attract a better class of representative? ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9668 "2025-01-18T04:29:44Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > …gets caught lying about being a doctor and veteran, tells the legislature that the angel Moroni has ordered him to kill them… Suspiciously like the current Republican program nationwide; lies and murder regarding immigrants, Democrats, and _others_ 😨 ---
**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:** [January 19, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9669 "2025-01-19T02:30:54Z")
Sucking is not the answer for _everything_, Mr. Paul. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9670 "2025-01-19T20:59:19Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Republican runs unopposed for open seat in the WV legislature, wins, gets asked questions by his future coworkers after he gets caught lying about being a doctor and veteran, tells the legislature that the angel Moroni has ordered him to kill them, gets expelled before he can even take his seat. It’s telling about our times, that the part where he switched himself to Democrat in between the election and the inauguration, is what is most confusing. > [@Alessan](#): > > pretty sure firefighting planes have already been scooping up seawater and dumping it on the fires. I believe he somehow thought it would be a simple matter to have huge reservoirs of seawater in the hills just ready to be used for firefighting. At least I hope that was his idea and not that they’d have the Pipe to End All Pipes and the Pump to End All Pumps (powered by the whole electric grid) ready to stick into the sea. This is the sort of thing someone who has never lived near the actual sea or worked with actual seawater would think of. Remind every town in Kentucky downstream from a dam to never have a big fire. This guy may have ideas on how to put it out. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9671 "2025-01-19T21:07:29Z")
_Are_ there any bodies of fresh water anywhere near L.A.? ---
**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:** [January 19, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9672 "2025-01-19T21:11:56Z")
No natural ones of any major significance, that’s why Mulholland had to rape Owens Valley all the way in the Sierras to enable the expanding city to have a drinking water supply. ---
**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 19, 2025, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9673 "2025-01-19T21:35:09Z")
Yep: Los Angeles was famously built in a desert. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9674 "2025-01-19T22:01:45Z")
Well, it used to have a river. ---
**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 19, 2025, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9675 "2025-01-19T22:05:38Z")
A few days out of the year, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9676 "2025-01-20T02:52:06Z")
Hey! We got one now that runs down the corner from my condo! Been dry for almost a decade, but… ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9677 "2025-01-20T04:12:55Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Yep: Los Angeles was famously built in a desert. Perhaps it’s famous, but it’s wrong. Los Angeles gets about 14 inches of rain per year. Deserts get less than 10. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9678 "2025-01-20T06:46:15Z")
Not recently. 😁 I live about 7 miles from Pallisades fire. Alerts every 15 minutes. It’s just too dry right now. Last year, that fire probably wouldn’t have happened. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9679 "2025-01-20T10:01:25Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Perhaps it’s famous, but it’s wrong. Los Angeles gets about 14 inches of rain per year. Deserts get less than 10. Except for some years, when the LA area really is that dry. I couldn’t find a definitive number for 2024, but since 2000 the following years had less than 10 inches of rain in the LA area: 2001 – 4.42 inches 2003 – 9.24 2006 – 3.21 2008 – 9.08 2011 – 8.69 2012 – 5.85 2013 – 6.08 2014 – 8.52 2015 – 9.65 2017 – 4.79 2020 – 5.82 _Source: [Los Angeles Almanac Total Seasonal Rainfall 1877-present](https://www.laalmanac.com/weather/we13.php)_ LA might not officially be a desert but it certainly does have years when it is desert dry. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9680 "2025-01-20T21:37:18Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > LA might not officiallyNo be a desert but it certainly does have years when it is desert dry. Agree. Not really important what it’s scientifically called; distinction without a difference in this case. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=483) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=485)