# 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:** 86
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1701 "2023-10-21T17:57:42Z")
So the MAGA crowd is likely to see it as a catastrophe? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1702 "2023-10-21T18:53:28Z")
> **[The Naked Gun - Bingo!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqAyz1coj44%2F)** ---
**Author:** ![Guapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@Guapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guapo)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2023, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1703 "2023-10-22T12:14:14Z")
If you ignore abortion, it’s true that the platforms of the two main parties in the US are identical. Well, except for gay rights. And oh, maybe taxation. And I guess immigration, voting rights, education, foreign policy, tuition loan forgiveness, universal healthcare, minimum wage, and global warming. But aside from that… ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2023, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1704 "2023-10-22T13:02:12Z")
“What have the Romans done for us?” ---
**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:** [October 22, 2023, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1705 "2023-10-22T13:25:24Z")
Candles? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2023, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1706 "2023-10-22T13:53:19Z")
This makes a lotta sense. 🤦🏽‍♀️ > **[Fox has decided airing Trump live is too dangerous, but making him president...](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/21/2200781/-Fox-has-decided-airing-Trump-live-is-too-dangerous-but-making-him-president-again-is-A-OK?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=)** > > None of us has a crystal ball—though you could argue that Jim Jordan still had two of them before Friday. That said, it’s looking increasingly likely that Donald Trump will be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024. And there’s essentially... > …And there’s essentially zero chance Fox News will back President Biden’s reelection. So we will very likely be treated to the otherworldly spectacle of a network that believes its favored candidate is too reckless and irresponsible to appear in live interviews but somehow isn’t too reckless and irresponsible to be president of the United States. > > Apparently, if you’re the type of person who gets your news from Fox—which is a little like snacking on lead paint chips for the fiber content—you’ve noticed that Trump hasn’t been interviewed live on the network for many moons. > > Why? Because you can’t trust him to tell the truth—or at least to avoid telling [demonstrably false, and potentially slanderous, stories](https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/media/fox-dominion-settlement/index.html)—so they simply can’t platform him without first editing out his fusillade of fibs. Because irresponsible, democracy-undermining lies are just fine until they affect your bottom line, right? > … ---
**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:** [October 23, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1707 "2023-10-23T20:32:10Z")
WA state senator gets arrested in Hong Kong after “accidentally” packing his gun in his carryon. > **[WA state senator arrested in Hong Kong](https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-state-senator-arrested-in-hong-kong/)** > > State. Sen. Jeff Wilson, R-Longview, was arrested in Hong Kong Friday for possessing a firearm not licensed there, a spokesperson confirmed Monday. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2023, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1708 "2023-10-23T20:51:09Z")
> ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1709 "2023-10-23T21:25:57Z")
Irony is dead, dismembered, covered in lime and buried in root cellar. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1710 "2023-10-23T21:58:10Z")
At least he can now spell two-letter words… > **[Biden-Harris HQ (@bidenharrishq) on Threads](https://www.threads.net/@bidenharrishq/post/CywR9rGvouN)** > > Trump: You know how you spell ‘us,’ right? You spell us u-s. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that before? I just picked that up. A couple of days, I’m reading, and it said ‘us’ ---
**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:** [October 23, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1711 "2023-10-23T23:47:56Z")
Hey, we should always encourage people to expand their literary horizons! Hopefully one day he can make it to words of more than one syllable ---
**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:** [October 23, 2023, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1712 "2023-10-23T23:58:58Z")
Shades of the time when he realized in the middle of a bill-signing that The Apprentice - you know, the show he was on for a decade - was about apprenticeships. > **[Trump just realized The Apprentice was about apprenticeships: 'I never...](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/trump-just-realized-apprentice-apprenticeships-never-actually-put-together-just-now/)** > > President Donald Trump seemed to have a moment of realization when he said the word "apprenticeships" today during a signing ceremony for skills training. "Today 23 companies and associations are pledging to expand apprenticeships. That's an... ---
**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:** [October 24, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1713 "2023-10-24T00:03:04Z")
Gym Jordan thinks it’s a bad thing that Biden is better at arresting terrorists than Loser Donald. > ---
**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:** [October 24, 2023, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1714 "2023-10-24T02:12:27Z")
Dark Brandon can use that in his ads. A Fox endorsement!!! Same as when Marge accused the Biden and the Dems of helping people - thanks for the boost - Marge. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2023, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1715 "2023-10-24T02:17:38Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Gym Jordan thinks it’s a bad thing that Biden is better at arresting terrorists than Loser Donald. My dumass rep, Ron Estes, posted this on FB tonight: > The Biden administration released new border encounter data for September over the weekend hoping few people would notice – but who can ignore a record setting month of 269,735 enforcement encounters at the southern border? I pointed out that a border encounter is either apprehension or expulsion, according to DHS. I asked Estes to comment, but he has thus far declined. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2023, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1716 "2023-10-24T03:06:23Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > WA state senator gets arrested in Hong Kong after “accidentally” packing his gun in his carryon. How did you like his [blame shifting](https://www.opb.org/article/2023/10/23/washington-state-senator-jeff-wilson-arrested-gun-in-carry-on-hong-kong/)? > In an interview with OPB, Wilson tried to make the case that U.S. airports should have caught the gun. > > “I should have never been out of security in America,” Wilson said. The statement later added that “baggage screeners failed to note” the pistol in his briefcase while going through security in Portland. And I liked this bit of optimism (same source as just above): > “We’re hopeful that I will successfully adjudicate this and look for a conclusion within a week, no problem,” he said. Well, let’s see what you’re facing, shall we, Senator? [Barron’s](https://www.barrons.com/news/us-state-senator-granted-bail-in-hong-kong-over-gun-possession-3a3f77fc) tells me: > Possession of arms or ammunition without a licence in Hong Kong carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in jail and a HK$100,000 ($12,800) fine. Aren’t you pubbies the “law and order” folks? Shouldn’t you be locked up for the full 14 years, then? Regarding _Smapti_’s link: Yeah, that Tan the Conman can bleat how great he thinks a real president was–FDR’s “A day that will live in infamy” is great wordcraft–but Tan will never be able to erase his own mocking of the disabled. And FDR was disabled. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1717 "2023-10-24T12:25:55Z")
We should be more concerned that his gun went through security on US side. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1718 "2023-10-24T14:31:41Z")
I wonder if he went through “VIP” screening that mostly isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1719 "2023-10-24T15:06:05Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > We should be more concerned that his gun went through security on US side. In many situations, a gun in checked baggage is perfectly legal. Would they be obligated to tell him it wouldn’t be legal where he was landing? Particularly if it wasn’t a direct flight? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1720 "2023-10-24T15:08:26Z")
Except this was in a carry on bag. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=85) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=87)