# 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:** 499
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9961 "2025-02-17T23:56:16Z")
> [@Steve\_McQwark](#): > > I have to object to claiming that the biggest asshole in Texas is the same as the biggest asshole in the world. I say he aspired to the title, not that he won the title. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9962 "2025-02-18T00:12:07Z")
> [@Steve\_McQwark](#): > > I have to object to claiming that the biggest asshole in Texas is the same as the biggest asshole in the world. It’s my understanding that Elon lives in California. I thought he built a compound in Texas outside Austin. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9963 "2025-02-18T01:01:09Z")
I’ve heard he’s built some compounds for his workers, but I don’t know about him personally. If he does live in Texas now, then I withdraw my objection. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9964 "2025-02-18T01:09:21Z")
Might as well post a picture of yourself giving Oranganus a bj. > **[Congresswoman Tenney Moves to Make President Trump’s Birthday a Federal Holiday](https://tenney.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-tenney-moves-make-president-trumps-birthday-federal-holiday)** > > Washington, DC – Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-24) today introduced the Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day Holiday Establishment Act to officially designate June 14 as a federal holiday to commemorate President Donald J. Trump’s Birthday and Flag... ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9965 "2025-02-18T01:13:18Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > [Congresswoman Tenney Moves to Make President Trump’s Birthday a Federal Holiday | Representative Claudia Tenney](https://tenney.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-tenney-moves-make-president-trumps-birthday-federal-holiday) 😡 Dear gawd. My small county agency already gets June 14th off as Flag Day. If they add trump to it I think I will just go to work anyways in protest and take the next day off. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9966 "2025-02-18T01:17:30Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > If they add trump to it I think I will just go to work anyways in protest and take the next day off. Just take off Juneteenth which is a real holiday celebrating something that’s actually historically important. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9967 "2025-02-18T01:20:21Z")
Yes! Good idea! ---
**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:** [February 18, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9968 "2025-02-18T15:19:52Z")
Doug “Trump BJ In PA” Mastriano wants to set up a Keystone State version of DOGE. There’s not a chance in hell of it becoming real, but that doesn’t matter. [https://www.palegis.us/senate/co-sponsorship/memo?memoID=45688](https://www.palegis.us/senate/co-sponsorship/memo?memoID=45688) ---
**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:** [February 18, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9969 "2025-02-18T19:19:52Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > a Keystone State version of DOGE Shit, Kansas is way ahead of PA. The KS Senate already formed a committee called Committee on Government Efficiency, and they have their very own [portal](https://kslegislature.gov/li/kansascoge/) where Kansans can submit ideas on how ‘government could be improved to better serve the public’. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9970 "2025-02-18T19:59:22Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Kansans can submit ideas on how ‘government could be improved to better serve the public’. Fire every Republican? ---
**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:** [February 19, 2025, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9971 "2025-02-19T04:56:47Z")
The CEO of GameStop says it’s fault of WOKE that his technologically obsolete company is going out of business in Canada. > **[GameStop looks to sell its Canadian and French operations — CEO cites...](https://www.thestar.com/business/gamestop-looks-to-sell-its-canadian-and-french-operations-ceo-cites-wokeness-and-dei/article_0a909958-ee2f-11ef-9001-c38fd30692f6.html)** > > “High taxes, Liberalism, Socialism, Progressivism, Wokeness and DEI included at no additional cost if you buy today!”, CEO Ryan Cohen posted on X. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9972 "2025-02-19T14:29:34Z")
The others are vague enough, but was someone forcing him to hire “DEI”? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9973 "2025-02-19T14:47:35Z")
Translation: It’s not my fault as one of an overpopulation of overconfident mediocre dudebros who got just lucky enough to be considered a self-made success despite much evidence to the contrary. It is unthinkable that I’m involved in any sort of failure and I can’t parse it can in any way be attributed to 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:** [February 20, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9974 "2025-02-20T01:22:31Z")
Trump has come up with a brilliant genius idea to fight illegal drugs, a big beautiful idea that nobody has ever thought of before. And that plan is… (Drumroll please) …A TV AD CAMPAIGN TELLING KIDS TO SAY NO TO DRUGS. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3likxxijq272b)** > > Trump: "We're gonna spend hundreds of millions of dollars advertising how bad drugs are so that kids don't use them." ---
**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:** [February 20, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9975 "2025-02-20T01:33:13Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > …A TV AD CAMPAIGN TELLING KIDS TO SAY NO TO DRUGS This may be (D.A.R.E I say it?) the greatest idea anyone has ever had ---
**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:** [February 20, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9976 "2025-02-20T01:43:36Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > The others are vague enough, but was someone forcing him to hire “DEI”? Likely not. Canadian employment law (actually Ontarian, in this case) is very different from American employment law, especially when it comes to hiring. Specifically, at the application stage, employers are not allowed to ask applicants about many things that might play a role in a hiring decision: sex, age, race, specifics of criminal records, etc. That pretty much means the most qualified applicants get an interview, where some of those things can be generally ascertained, but the interviewer is not allowed to ask specifics. Given that, I’d imagine that Cohen is basically interpreting Ontario’s employment law as preventing white males from getting jobs, thus it is DEI. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2025, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9977 "2025-02-20T02:39:02Z")
I don’t know; “Don’t use drugs or you’ll end up like Donald Trump” might scare some kids sober. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9978 "2025-02-20T02:56:19Z")
My mind is blown! If only someone came up with that plan in the 80s, I might not’ve smoked so much pot and dabbled in other stuff. What would be really convincing is if you seize drug dealers sports cars and paint them in splashy ways and bring those into schools to show the downfalls of drugs. [![](https://media.tenor.com/qb1_0VmhyRIAAAAe/drugs-are-bad-mkay.png) ](https://media.tenor.com/qb1_0VmhyRIAAAAe/drugs-are-bad-mkay.png) ---
**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:** [February 20, 2025, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9979 "2025-02-20T08:50:49Z")
“Reefer Madness II, Now with Zombies”. “They come for straight, white males. Run away, run away” Soundtrack by Ted Nugent ---
**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:** [February 20, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/9980 "2025-02-20T12:12:31Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > “Reefer Madness II, Now with Zombies”. > > “They come for straight, white males. Run away, run away” What is “they” referring to here, reefer or zombies? That could have a big impact on whether I run or not. Also, if it’s the shambling-type zombies, I don’t need an answer fast. > [@Horatius](#): > > This may be (D.A.R.E I say it?) the greatest idea anyone has ever had Nice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=498) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=500)