# 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:** 91
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1801 "2023-10-29T11:50:53Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Jesus Christ. And this is the person the republican voters want to put back in the White House? If Trump is in the White House, Republicans will be able to do whatever the hell they want. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2023, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1802 "2023-10-29T17:29:36Z")
Because companies that support inclusiveness “hate you and what you stand for”. Sure, that totally makes sense. [![](https://i.imgur.com/bR6pVPy.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/bR6pVPy.jpeg) [Moderating: Removed copyright material] ---
**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 29, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1803 "2023-10-29T21:47:13Z")
Loser Donald: Big strong men are sneaking across the border so they can play women’s sports. > ---
**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:** [October 29, 2023, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1804 "2023-10-29T22:31:26Z")
How does anyone like this guy?? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1805 "2023-10-29T22:39:54Z")
A question for the ages. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2023, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1806 "2023-10-29T22:54:28Z")
Oh up here in Canada there’s nowhere near enough men in women’s sports and so _crossing fingies_ we can syphon off a whole bunch of those young strong men from you stupes and $$$CAPITALIZE$$$! (It’s just the stable genius thing rubbing off, that’s all.) ---
**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:** [October 29, 2023, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1807 "2023-10-29T22:57:30Z")
I err; as a Canadian, we try to hew, more often than not, to the Brit. spellings, ergo $$$CAPITALISE$$$! ---
**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:** [October 29, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1808 "2023-10-29T23:05:31Z")
When I hear of Canadians hewing, my first thought is lumberjacks. And that’s OK. ---
**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 29, 2023, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1809 "2023-10-29T23:15:55Z")
Uh-oh. Another immigrant group to worry about at the Mexican border. > **[CBP memo sounds alarm on Hamas, Hezbollah fighters potentially using southern...](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cbp-memo-sounds-alarm-hamas-hezbollah-fighters-potentially-using-southern-border-enter-us)** > > A memo sent by border officials is warning that Hamas and Hezbollah fighters could soon be attempting to make their way into the U.S. via the southern border. > … > In a Friday memo by the agency’s San Diego Field Office’s intelligence unit, obtained by Fox News, the agency warns that individuals “inspired by, or reacting to, the current Israel-Hamas conflict may attempt travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle East via circuitous transit across the Southwest border.” > > “Foreign fighters motivated by ideology or mercenary soldiers of fortune may attempt to obfuscate travel to or from the US to or from countries in the Middle East through Mexico.” > … ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1810 "2023-10-29T23:32:03Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Loser Donald: Big strong men are sneaking across the border so they can play women’s sports. He also mentioned that the men who attacked Israel are coming into the US. Who knew that the tunnels under Gaza are wormholes? Well, trump knew. But the media won’t recognize genius. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2023, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1811 "2023-10-29T23:34:37Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And that’s OK. Great, thanks for the earworm! > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Uh-oh. Another immigrant group to worry about at the Mexican border. Given the sources, there, I poked around to see if there might be a more familiar one, and bascially came up with this [demurring](https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvxz3/cbp-hamas-southern-border) from Vice, from last Wednesday. Or maybe you were joshin…shrugsies, whatevs. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1812 "2023-10-30T01:11:56Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “Foreign fighters motivated by ideology or mercenary soldiers of fortune may attempt to obfuscate travel to or from the US to or from countries in the Middle East through Mexico.” Foreigner fighters motivated by ideology may be trying to make it to Canada. I believe there’s some history of that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1813 "2023-10-30T02:12:30Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Because companies that support inclusiveness “hate you and what you stand for”. Sure, that totally makes sense. [Moderating] Please do not post the entirety of articles under copyright. No warning issued. [/Moderating] ---
**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 30, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1814 "2023-10-30T02:15:46Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Or maybe you were joshin… I wasn’t joshin’ … it was those scamps at FAUX News doin’ the joshin’. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1815 "2023-10-30T02:42:26Z")
I kind of like this quote in the linked vice article: > Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene also published a video on X, asking, “Is America Being Invaded By Terrorists?” I thought: "No marge our country is being governed by wanna be terrorists/fascists. That chick is the gift that keeps on giving. ---
**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 30, 2023, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1816 "2023-10-30T02:50:25Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > Who knew that the tunnels under Gaza are wormholes? Well, trump knew. That’s becaused he is, after all, a worm. > [@Sylvanz](#): > > That chick is the gift that keeps on giving. You misspelled _insanity_ and _insanitying_. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1817 "2023-10-30T02:55:23Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Another immigrant group to worry about at the Mexican border. > > [CBP memo sounds alarm on Hamas, Hezbollah fighters potentially using southern border to enter US](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cbp-memo-sounds-alarm-hamas-hezbollah-fighters-potentially-using-southern-border-enter-us) If Hamas are coming from Mexico on paragliders, doesn’t that make building a wall seem rather foolish? That money could have been invested in the Jewish Space Laser program. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1818 "2023-10-30T02:55:23Z")
Why yes, yes I did. How sloppy of me. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1819 "2023-10-30T03:21:11Z")
In the 2nd bit, Donald does a convincing impression of someone with [Wernicke’s Aphasia](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK441951/#:~:text=Wernicke%20aphasia%20is%20characterized%20by,lobe%20of%20the%20dominant%20hemisphere.) > Wernicke aphasia is characterized by impaired language comprehension. Despite this impaired comprehension, speech may have a normal rate, rhythm, and grammar. ---
**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 30, 2023, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1820 "2023-10-30T04:05:47Z")
Hey, public speaking is hard, what with having to remember what state you’re in and all. > [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=90) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=92)