# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 4) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 22, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678 "2025-02-22T21:08:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 112
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2221 "2025-11-26T03:08:50Z")
How has that “Don’t worry your pretty little head about Trump” bandwagon been working out for you the last few years? ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2222 "2025-11-26T03:14:20Z")
Pretty well, thanks. How’s the “Trump is going to invade Canada and cancel all elections and have Democrats executed in the streets and sell Alaska to Putin and shut down the SDMB and make it legal to hunt gay people for sport and impoe nationwide martial law and his reign of terror will never end” bandwagon going? ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2223 "2025-11-26T03:20:04Z")
You’ll have to find (or create) your own strawman for that fantasy conversation, I’m afraid. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2224 "2025-11-26T03:25:51Z")
We already had the “Trump can do anything he wants” thread which covered all of that, and probably doesn’t need to clutter this thread. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2225 "2025-11-26T03:28:14Z")
Is true. I’ll back off ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2226 "2025-11-26T04:20:40Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Unless he’s still sort of alive and someone plays the Edith Wilson role. I can’t see Melania trying to do that, can you? Far more likely to bug out to New York, or somewhere posh overseas, as soon as trump is too far gone to make it worth her while to stay around. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2227 "2025-11-26T04:25:12Z")
To be honest, the approach taken when Woodrow Wilson was incapacitated wouldn’t work today, when we expect to see the president regularly. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2228 "2025-11-26T04:34:33Z")
But hasn’t he been out of public view for a week or so at a time lately? ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2229 "2025-11-26T04:47:17Z")
And it prompted massive online rumors about him being dead. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2230 "2025-11-26T05:11:46Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > > Unless he’s still sort of alive and someone plays the Edith Wilson role. > > I can’t see Melania trying to do that, can you? Stephen Miller in a long wig. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2231 "2025-11-26T10:14:12Z")
The big question is whether Project 2025ism will survive trump & trumpism. They are not synonymous projects. There’s a bunch of overlap where Project 2025’s agenda is being accomplished by overreaching executive orders coming from someplace [Heritage Foundation?] that trump is happy to uncomprehendingly sign. And there’s a bunch of performative (but quite real) police-state & klepto-state evil being perpetrated for trump’s personal entertainment and enrichment. Which is presumably at his (or his very inner trumporg / family circle’s) personal behest. The latter of which sells real well to the MAGA crowd. If trump keels over next week, can / will Vance keep Project 2025ism going at least for the remainder of the 2024-2028 term? Will we see police-state overreach increase, decrease, or stay the same? Who among trumporg has wormed themselves and their businesses deeply enough into the federal trough that they can’t be easily dislodged? Will there be any effort to dislodge them? And what of the hard-right loyalists increasingly packing the upper ranks of every federal agency, most perniciously DoJ & DoD? A decidedly nasty, mean, and corrupt style of RW government might take a generation to dislodge and a century to clean up after even if trump has died by Christmas 2025. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2232 "2025-11-26T10:20:56Z")
Now international visitors will [pay significantly more than US residents](https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/trump-face-new-national-park-passes-outrage-21208431.php) to enter US national parks. Oh, and US residents will be admitted for free on Trump’s birthday. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2233 "2025-11-26T14:05:19Z")
> [@Chad\_Sudan](#): > > Oh, and US residents will be admitted for free on Trump’s birthday. I’d rather pay twice the standard fee. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2234 "2025-11-26T14:12:52Z")
There’s yet another date that will live in infamy. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2235 "2025-11-26T19:04:09Z")
As to the falling-out between MTG & trump … I popped this into another thread but it fits here too: > [@The current second Trump administration: a compendium of horrors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2627): > > I saw an interesting political comment today. It was a pic of MTG looking pensive with the words … Marjorie Taylor Greene has been hated by the left for years and never feared for her life. She’s been hated by the right for two days and had to hire security. So much for the tolerant … right? ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2236 "2025-11-26T22:58:08Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > There’s yet another date that will live in infamy. The first Continental Union flag was adopted on December 3, 1775. Some enterprising member of Congress should sponsor a bill to change Flag Day to December 3. June 14 can officially be declared Oppose Fascism Day. That could be a nice celebration. But the main celebration day should be December 3. > **[Continental Union Flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Union_Flag)** > > The Continental Union Flag (often referred to as the first American flag, Cambridge Flag, and Grand Union Flag) was the flag of the United Colonies from 1775 to 1776, and the de facto flag of the United States until 1777, when the 13 star flag was adopted by the Continental Congress. It was a variant of the British 'Red Ensign.' > The Continental Union Flag was so called because it combined the British Union flag (denoting the kingdoms of England and Scotland) with thirteen stripes (representin... ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2237 "2025-11-26T23:16:01Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Some enterprising member of Congress should sponsor a bill to change Flag Day to December 3. > > June 14 can officially be declared Oppose Fascism Day PERFECT!! ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2238 "2025-11-26T23:23:35Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > PERFECT!! Donald’s birthday, from this day hence, should always be commemorated with giant photos of his mug shot with a barred-circle ( 🚫 ) superimposed. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2239 "2025-11-26T23:28:43Z")
Well, Tulsi Gabbard is telling some real whoppers. > ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2240 "2025-11-26T23:36:09Z")
Nevermind - I think she is actually saying La Diabla. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=111) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=113)