# 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:** 486
**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 23, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9701 "2025-01-23T02:28:49Z")
The admin has ordered federal employees to snitch on their coworkers who are secretly being DEI. > **['Adverse consequences': Trump threatens federal workers for failing to report...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dei-policies/)** > > Federal employees on Wednesday were put on notice by President Donald Trump’s administration that “adverse consequences” would follow if they failed to report coworkers who refused to sweep out diversity, equity and inclusion policies from their... [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iult5il2rapgk3n5i7oycpan/bafkreicxlnuisnworu27eezcucjjp3bkdrkxhcvyea7oetnofoi6ydds3q@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iult5il2rapgk3n5i7oycpan/bafkreicxlnuisnworu27eezcucjjp3bkdrkxhcvyea7oetnofoi6ydds3q@jpeg) It sure would be a shame if people were to start flooding the email address they’ve set up with spam. I certainly hope nobody around here would do such a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9702 "2025-01-23T02:59:46Z")
Damn - I tried to share thoughts and prayers, but got some enlargement cursor thingy when I tried to click on the second link. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9703 "2025-01-23T03:02:26Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > It sure would be a shame if people were to start flooding the email address they’ve set up with spam. I certainly hope nobody around here would do such a thing. Good idea. I shared the Magnificat. Emphasis on “He has lifted up the lowly; and the rich, he has turned away empty.” ---
**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 23, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9704 "2025-01-23T04:24:48Z")
It begins! [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vevk6lgrt6o4wncrbp7joij3/bafkreiayc4ksmjpxkb6pzlepzdaxdawlxua2wegplmkvy5k7yzxle3wxve@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vevk6lgrt6o4wncrbp7joij3/bafkreiayc4ksmjpxkb6pzlepzdaxdawlxua2wegplmkvy5k7yzxle3wxve@jpeg) ---
**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:** [January 23, 2025, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9705 "2025-01-23T04:54:04Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sfvtky4o5YI/maxresdefault.jpg "Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything | Onion Now: Focus") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfvtky4o5YI) ---
**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 23, 2025, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9706 "2025-01-23T06:33:18Z")
Any sort of summary to what you’re linking to? ---
**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:** [January 23, 2025, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9707 "2025-01-23T07:32:50Z")
It’s _the Onion_. The video title is, “Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything.” I’m sure that’s enough of a summary. ---
**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 23, 2025, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9708 "2025-01-23T08:31:21Z")
At this point the Onion might be the most honest news site on the web. > **[Confused Trump Autographs Swearing-In Bible Before Handing It Back To Justice...](https://theonion.com/confused-trump-autographs-swearing-in-bible-before-handing-it-back-to-justice-roberts/)** > > WASHINGTON—Hampering the chief justice’s efforts to swear him in for a second term, President-elect Donald Trump autographed the inaugural Bible before handing it back to John Roberts, sources confirmed Monday. “There you go—all yours,”  said... > **[Mark David Chapman Decides To Just Go With It After Receiving January 6 Pardon](https://theonion.com/mark-david-chapman-decides-to-just-go-with-it-after-receiving-january-6-pardon/)** > > BEEKMAN, NY—Upon receiving the news that his name had somehow been included in an executive order granting clemency to nearly 1,600 rioters, Mark David Chapman reportedly decided to just go with it Monday when he was pardoned alongside the Jan. 6... > **[Conservative Outraged Tampons Available In Men’s Grocery Stores](https://theonion.com/conservative-outraged-tampons-available-in-mens-grocery-stores/)** > > SPRINGFIELD, IL—Describing the items on the shelf as yet other example of the “woke nonsense” abetting the feminization of American men, local conservative Nick Schwab, 54, told reporters Wednesday he was outraged by the availability of tampons and... > **[JD Vance Sworn In On Stack Of Printed 4chan Greentexts](https://theonion.com/jd-vance-sworn-in-on-stack-of-printed-4chan-greentexts/)** > > WASHINGTON—Placing his right hand on the collection of posts taken from the controversial message board, JD Vance was reportedly sworn in as vice president Monday on a stack of printed-out 4chan greentexts. “I, James David Vance, do solemnly swear... > **[Trump Admits Entire Political Career Has Been WWE Storyline To Set Up Match...](https://theonion.com/trump-admits-entire-political-career-has-been-wwe-storyline-to-set-up-match-with-cody-rhodes/)** > > PALM BEACH, FL—Revealing that the stage was first set in 1999 with his short-lived Reform Party run, President-elect Donald Trump admitted Friday that his entire political career has been a WWE storyline to set up a match with Cody Rhodes.... ---
**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 24, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9709 "2025-01-24T00:02:19Z")
Meanwhile, in Cloud Cuckoo Land (I.e. the Republican-controlled Congress)… [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k7eezr2ybq7cxtptak2q4uhp/bafkreicw327dgd3kywj74g55bjqupwbbudjki4ujcvsohbaak3b2f72e5e@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k7eezr2ybq7cxtptak2q4uhp/bafkreicw327dgd3kywj74g55bjqupwbbudjki4ujcvsohbaak3b2f72e5e@jpeg) ---
**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 24, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9710 "2025-01-24T01:23:56Z")
[Tim Burchett says he believes aliens have underwater bases on earth](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5102361-tim-burchett-aliens-earth/) It’s not really new that he has a stupid idea. I’m pretty sure he’s been stupid his whole life. Tennessee represent! ---
**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:** [January 24, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9711 "2025-01-24T01:26:34Z")
If you read “alien” as “any of those foreigners from outside the US” then it’s true. > **[Chinese ocean research station takes deep dive for long look at seafloor](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3198000/chinese-ocean-research-station-takes-deep-dive-long-look-seafloor)** > > Mobile lab will work with maritime drones to chart sea life and conditions for at least six months. ---
**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 24, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9712 "2025-01-24T01:37:26Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > At this point the Onion might be the most honest news site on the web. > > [Confused Trump Autographs Swearing-In Bible Before Handing It Back To Justice Roberts - The Onion](https://theonion.com/confused-trump-autographs-swearing-in-bible-before-handing-it-back-to-justice-roberts/) Unpossible. Trump would never autograph something for anyone without first getting paid for 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:** [January 24, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9713 "2025-01-24T01:39:41Z")
Hey, I read this book when I was a kid. > **[The Kraken Wakes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kraken_Wakes)** > > The Kraken Wakes is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by British writer John Wyndham, originally published by Michael Joseph in the United Kingdom in 1953, and first published in the United States in the same year by Ballantine Books under the title Out of the Deeps as a mass market paperback. The novel is also known as The Things from the Deep. > The novel is structured as a book within a book. After a short scene-setting introduction, the novel is the book written by the protagonist, radio... ---
**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:** [January 24, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9714 "2025-01-24T01:56:37Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Trump would never autograph something for anyone without first getting paid for it. No see, Trump is doing it for Roberts as a “gratuity”. 😉 ---
**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 24, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9715 "2025-01-24T02:33:27Z")
AZ Congressman introduces a bill to let ChatGPT prescribe drugs. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jwxsicuuri3glqe72ja4cvry/bafkreihn7z57gve7kkjbqcjpetfclbdm2tvrwxbjntswueayigkwj25xeq@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jwxsicuuri3glqe72ja4cvry/bafkreihn7z57gve7kkjbqcjpetfclbdm2tvrwxbjntswueayigkwj25xeq@jpeg) ---
**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 24, 2025, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9716 "2025-01-24T02:47:29Z")
Edit - Nevermind. The link wasn’t a Republican idea, just a Democrat trolling. ---
**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 24, 2025, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9717 "2025-01-24T04:40:16Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > It sure would be a shame if people were to start flooding the email address they’ve set up with spam. > **[The New Republic (@newrepublic.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/newrepublic.com/post/3lghburk2aj2e)** > > The Trump administration’s anti-DEI snitching plan is getting flooded with fake reports after it tried to strong-arm federal workers into ratting out their colleagues. > https://newrepublic.com/post/190576/trump-dei-snitch-plan-federal-workers [![](https://i.imgflip.com/42dddp.jpg) ](https://i.imgflip.com/42dddp.jpg) ---
**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:** [January 24, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9718 "2025-01-24T13:08:02Z")
A [proposed bill](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/mississippi-lawmaker-introduces-contraception-begins-erection-act-rcna188938) in Mississippi ‘_would make it unlawful for “a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”_’ Essentially, it would outlaw choking the chicken. The “[Contraception Begins at Erection Act](https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1795563)” is, in and of itself, not a stupid Republican idea > In a statement to [N](https://www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/mississippi-politician-files-contraception-begins-erection-act/)[B](https://www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/mississippi-politician-files-contraception-begins-erection-act/)[C affiliate WLB](https://www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/mississippi-politician-files-contraception-begins-erection-act/)[T](https://www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/mississippi-politician-files-contraception-begins-erection-act/)of Jackson, (Rep Bradford) Blackmon referred to the high number of state legislative bills introduced in recent years that target women’s access to reproductive health care, specifically abortion and contraception. it is a Democrat trolling R misogyny. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9719 "2025-01-24T14:18:11Z")
never mind ---
**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 24, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9720 "2025-01-24T14:32:54Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > A [proposed bill](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/mississippi-lawmaker-introduces-contraception-begins-erection-act-rcna188938) in Mississippi ‘_would make it unlawful for “a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”_’ Essentially, it would outlaw choking the chicken. You wouldn’t want to make god irate. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fUspLVStPbk/maxresdefault.jpg "Every Sperm is Sacred - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=485) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=487)