# 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:** 113
**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, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2241 "2025-11-26T23:41:27Z")
So we’re doing blood libel now, then? > **[Blood libel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel)** > > Blood libel or ritual murder libel (also blood accusation) is an antisemitic trope which falsely accuses Jews of murdering Christians in order to use their blood in the performance of religious rituals. Echoing very old myths of secret cultic practices in many prehistoric societies, the claim, as it is leveled against Jews, was rarely attested to in antiquity. According to Tertullian, it originally emerged in late antiquity as an accusation made against members of the earl Blood libels often c... ---
**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 27, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2242 "2025-11-27T00:27:19Z")
Yep. The Reactionary Wacko Traitors have adopted blood libel as their latest attack on the forces of sanity. ---
**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 27, 2025, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2243 "2025-11-27T08:02:05Z")
The ShamWow guy is running for Congress to fight woke because it’s what Charlie Kirk would have wanted. > **[Why the ‘ShamWow Guy’ Is Running for Congress](https://time.com/7336887/shamwow-guy-congress-house-race-texas/)** > > Offer Vince Shlomi tells TIME why he's running for Congress. > Shlomi was working on a skit called “Woke Busters,” a parody on the movie _Ghostbusters_ about people “who destroy the ideology—the false ideology—of wokeism,” when he learned that Kirk had been killed, he says. The video criticizes diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and transgender rights, among other policies. At one point in the skit, Shlomi can be heard singing, “If you see a thong that has a shlong, who can you call? Woke busters.” > > “He is a woke buster,” Shlomi says of Kirk. “I felt like I have Charlie Kirk’s spirit in me, in a sense—or near me. It’s drawn me to do this.” > > “I guess I’m becoming the woke buster myself,” Shlomi continues. > > Shlomi admits that he still has to “work on” the specifics of his platform. The main tenet of his campaign, though, is combating “wokeism” in America, which he claims “is based on misinformation or false ideas in order to control people” and blames for creating “hate and fear” in society. If elected, he wants to tackle the suppression of conservative views that he believes is occurring on some social media platforms. He says he wants “kids to be happy,” and suggests that they learn about LGBTQ+ identities “later.” And he proposes implementing “video monitoring systems in the schools so parents can see what’s going on.” ---
**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 27, 2025, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2244 "2025-11-27T08:27:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The main tenet of his campaign, though, is combating “wokeism” in America, which he claims “is based on misinformation or false ideas in order to control people” and blames for creating “hate and fear” in society. So “wokeism” means MAGA then. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2025, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2245 "2025-11-27T09:12:45Z")
> [@Chad\_Sudan](#): > > 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. He really is trying to keep as many foreigners as possible out of the US, isn’t he? Now, I have another reason not to visit. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2246 "2025-11-27T10:19:08Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Shlomi was working on a skit called “Woke Busters,” a parody on the movie _Ghostbusters_ about people “who destroy the ideology—the false ideology—of wokeism,” when he learned that Kirk had been killed, he says. The video criticizes diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and transgender rights, among other policies. At one point in the skit, Shlomi can be heard singing, “If you see a thong that has a shlong, who can you call? Woke busters.” Trans people live rent-free inside every conservative’s head. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2025, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2247 "2025-11-27T10:43:32Z")
They think a _lot_ about trans people’s genitals. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2248 "2025-11-27T11:11:30Z")
> [@Chad\_Sudan](#): > > 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. That is the case in Zimbabwe and South Africa - locals pay much, much less than foreigners. I think the same in Namibia and Mozambique OTOH, these are poor third world countries, whereas the USA is supposedly the biggest economy in the world, notwithstanding it also having the biggest debt. (Should I have said biglyest?) ---
**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:** [November 27, 2025, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2249 "2025-11-27T20:42:33Z")
And it’s Candace on full batshit alert. She’s being canceled , for security I guess. The latest glurge below: Maybe don’t read it on a full stomach! [![](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/34d043b4-86ee-4a7f-ad79-38f6eab288a7) ](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/34d043b4-86ee-4a7f-ad79-38f6eab288a7) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2250 "2025-11-27T20:53:14Z")
The French Foreign Legion assassinated Charlie Kirk. Is there an awards ceremony held somewhere, where little gold statues of Lyndon Larouche are handed out every year? ---
**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:** [November 27, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2251 "2025-11-27T22:32:59Z")
> [@Candace Owens](#): > > For all of you who doubted my claims, you can now look to the President of the United States and our intelligence communities to issue a statement to confirm whether I am telling the truth. Well, it’s been two days and not a word from any of them. What’s the holdup Candace? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2252 "2025-11-27T23:48:06Z")
They got mixed in with the Epstein files and have to get sorted back out. I think the Venezuelan drug smuggling evidence is mixed in there somewhere, too. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2253 "2025-11-28T00:46:33Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > Well, it’s been two days and not a word from any of them. What’s the holdup Candace? Two weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2254 "2025-11-28T01:57:28Z")
Like we’re going to believe whatever Trump and his “intelligence” community tell us anyway. ---
**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 28, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2255 "2025-11-28T03:20:02Z")
Counterpoint; **if** the White House confirmed her claims, it would be a massive story. As you said, nobody would believe it, but now we’d have the leader of the US claiming that France, Israel, and Canada are involved in assassination of US citizens. It would be a scandal with actual diplomatic consequences rather than the eye roll that has come from his ridiculous ideas about taking over Greenland and Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2256 "2025-11-28T09:57:12Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > And it’s Candace on full batshit alert. I’m sort of wondering why she’s fixated on the French and the Macrons. ---
**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 28, 2025, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2257 "2025-11-28T10:12:50Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I’m sort of wondering why she’s fixated on the French and the Macrons. Well, the Macrons filed a defamation suit against Owens in court recently. > **[Macrons to offer 'scientific' court evidence to prove Brigitte is a woman,...](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg3llj5nxdo)** > > They have filed a lawsuit against US right-wing influencer Candace Owens who claims the French first lady was born male. Some more details: > **[The Macrons v Candace Owens: lawsuit marks new phase in battle against...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/26/emmanuel-brigitte-macron-candace-owens-conspiracy-theory-jean-michel-trogneux)** > > False claim that Brigitte Macron was born a man has roots in pandemic-era France as distrust of politicians peaked This goes back to 2021 and was tied into Covid protests in France. > The false claim that Brigitte was a man first went viral in France in 2021, at a moment when distrust of politicians in was at a high, after the _gilets jaunes_ (yellow vests) anti-government protest movement and the Covid pandemic that killed more than 130,000 people in France. It gets weirder. A “self-taught independent investigative journalist”, whose expertise derives from working for a small company that made essential oils, teamed up with a self-proclaimed “spiritual medium” and they cracked the case. Owens got into this mess in the beginning of the year, after deciding to take this to her YouTube channel last January. Presumably, she needed _something_ to give her audience, and this story was perfect. It was about powerful foreigners, it had general anti-government sentiments, and embraced transphobia. It was like a batshit bigotry trifecta. And once she decided to make this her meal ticket, it became an obsession, sort of like Alex Jones claiming that Sandy Hook was a hoax. > **[Who is Candace Owens, the pro-Trump influencer spreading transphobic fake...](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2025/03/13/who-is-candace-owens-the-pro-trump-influencer-who-is-spreading-transphobic-fake-news-about-brigitte-macron_6739123_117.html)** > > The conspiracy-theorist commentator, a figure of the American far right, has been working relentlessly to revive false information about the president's wife being transgender. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2258 "2025-11-28T22:45:40Z")
The dumb idea here is Trump’s use of the “R word” (a slur against developmentally disabled persons) to describe Tim Walz. Indiana Republican representantive withdraws support for redistricting over Trump’s slur against Tim Walz. > “This is not the first time our president has used these insulting and derogatory references and his choices of words have consequences,” Bohacek said. “I will be voting NO on redistricting, perhaps he can use the next 10 months to convince voters that his policies and behavior deserve a congressional majority.” [https://fox59.com/indianapolitics/indiana-state-senator-to-vote-no-on-redistricting-cites-trumps-use-of-slur-on-social-media/#amp\_ct=1764369492101&\_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17643694873866&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Ffox59.com%2Findianapolitics%2Findiana-state-senator-to-vote-no-on-redistricting-cites-trumps-use-of-slur-on-social-media%2F](https://fox59.com/indianapolitics/indiana-state-senator-to-vote-no-on-redistricting-cites-trumps-use-of-slur-on-social-media/#amp_ct=1764369492101&_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17643694873866&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Ffox59.com%2Findianapolitics%2Findiana-state-senator-to-vote-no-on-redistricting-cites-trumps-use-of-slur-on-social-media%2F) ---
**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 28, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2259 "2025-11-28T23:05:49Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > The dumb idea here is Trump’s use of the “R word” (a slur against developmentally disabled persons) to describe Tim Walz. And vile, considering Tim Walz and his wife have spoken about their son’s neurodivergence, which people may mistake for developmental disability (and certainly seemed to during the Democratic Convention). > [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Indiana Republican representantive withdraws support for redistricting over Trump’s slur against Tim Walz. Hooray! Is there hope for Indiana? ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2260 "2025-11-28T23:17:18Z")
The Indiana House of Representatives (which has a Republican majority) had voted quite clearly against redistricting in recent weeks. Several of the most prominent Republicans who voted against it have been the victims of “swatting” attacks (which is when someone falsely calls 911 in order to trigger a police response to someone’s home). The House has decided to reconvene on December 1 to reconsider the prospect of redistricting. So in short, no, there is no hope for Indiana. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=112) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=114)