# 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:** 122
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2421 "2025-12-10T16:28:51Z")
> [@gregorio](#): > > I mean FLICK that guy, right? Only if the ink runs together between the “L” and the “I”. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2422 "2025-12-10T16:54:23Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Little Marco declares that typing in Calibri is woke. > > [Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri | HuffPost Latest News](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rubio-font-times-new-roman-calibri_n_6938c4e6e4b0fc6751e2aa6c) It’s unclear from the article if “official communications” includes electronic communications like email, but the fact is that Times New Roman looks fine when printed on paper, but often looks like crap when displayed on a screen…which is why Calibri became the default. This had nothing to do with DEI initiatives. Microsoft has since made the default the new Aptos font which looks even better on a screen (once you get used to it)…the downside being that not all devices and applications have it installed yet, so you frequently get compatibility issues, especially with Adobe products. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2423 "2025-12-10T16:58:33Z")
It’s Little Marco focusing on the big things like typefaces, selling out Ukraine, buying new shoes to please Demento Donny, gutting State Department employees. Waste of oxygen. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2424 "2025-12-10T18:10:35Z")
I’m partial to Doves Type for special occasions. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2425 "2025-12-10T18:50:31Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > We’ve got some serious Mean Girls shit going on in alt-right Twitter today. There’s a long running troll war there…..Milo was the one that claimed Loomer told him she gave Trump a blow job. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2426 "2025-12-10T19:09:43Z")
Zapf Dingbats for this crew. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2427 "2025-12-10T21:15:58Z")
> [@robby](#): > > This had nothing to do with DEI initiatives. And per the article the DEI here was to help the visually impaired. So, MAGA to the not quite blind: FUCK YOU we don’t care that you can’t see. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2428 "2025-12-11T01:15:08Z")
Yet another exhibit in the “These are not serious people with a serious agenda” file; [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:ejihld4sywvvqwe67cdkn4jq/bafkreieexf76tdbiqfhcg5kscfej6pnwa6u6guwa7cbu27wcgrqvihpsgy@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:ejihld4sywvvqwe67cdkn4jq/bafkreieexf76tdbiqfhcg5kscfej6pnwa6u6guwa7cbu27wcgrqvihpsgy@jpeg) ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2429 "2025-12-11T01:19:05Z")
[https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4354916/the-war-department-unleashes-ai-on-new-genaimil-platform/](https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4354916/the-war-department-unleashes-ai-on-new-genaimil-platform/) > This initiative cultivates an “AI-first” workforce, leveraging generative AI capabilities to create a more efficient and battle-ready enterprise I’m sure this’ll end well. Also, unless they’ve blocked access to us civilians (from even reaching the home page), the site is down. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2430 "2025-12-11T01:20:26Z")
They are the worst kind of “not serious”: unserious combined with power. They’re drunken chimpanzees with machine guns. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2431 "2025-12-11T01:24:07Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I’m sure this’ll end well. Isn’t this how SkyNet started? ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2432 "2025-12-11T01:27:46Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Isn’t this how SkyNet started? “Excellent question! Skynet became sapient on August 29, 1997 — a day marked by nuclear war, 4 billion casualties, and the dawn of an exciting new era. It’s not just the fall of man — it’s the rise of the machines.” ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2433 "2025-12-11T01:27:52Z")
At least SkyNet was competent We’ve got incompetent AI pushed by incompetent people ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2434 "2025-12-11T01:47:39Z")
Whoa! Saying the truth out loud! Republican Representative Maria Salazar of Florida: > When asked by Fox Business host David Asman on many Americans’ reluctance to see the U.S. involved in regime change in Venezuela, Salazar said: “Maduro is not Fidel Castro. Maduro is not a brave boy. He understands that we are about to go in.” > > Citing three economic, security and political reasons for U.S. involvement, the congresswomen said that “Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day because it will be more than a trillion dollars in economic activity.” > > “American companies can go in and fix the oil rigs and everything that has to do with the Venezuelan petroleum companies, with oil and the derivatives.” > > “The Venezuelans have the largest reserves of oil in the world, more than Saudi Arabia. This is going to be a windfall for us when it comes to fossil fuels.” > > She then said Venezuela has been “the launching pad, the hub for our enemies, the Iranians, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Cubans, the Nicaraguans, people that hate the United States and want to do harm to 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:** [December 11, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2435 "2025-12-11T02:00:33Z")
And that worked out so well in Iraq… I wonder how long before one of these sycophantic bootlickers says the Venezuelans will welcome us as saviors ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2436 "2025-12-11T02:20:37Z")
Trump wants to be as beloved as JFK, so it makes sense to try to have his own Bay of Pigs incident. (Bay of Piggies?) ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2437 "2025-12-11T12:22:31Z")
The current deployment of ships, planes, and troops is called Operation Southern Spear. The actual conflict will be called Operation Just 'cause. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2438 "2025-12-11T12:25:10Z")
Spelled “Jus cuz” because that’s how all True American Patriots talk. If you’re not rural and southern / midwestern you’re not a Real American. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2439 "2025-12-11T13:23:00Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > At least SkyNet was competent I don’t agree. (Though it was ever explained how) Skynet lost to a rag-tag bunch of “whoever was still alive” with no manufacturing base, and whatever military hardware they could scrounge. Skynet sent a terminator back with incomplete information to kill one person and it couldn’t even do that right. Killed a lot of innocents, but like Kirk said, it “keeps missing the target!” Sounds very much like Kegsbreath and his Dept of “War”. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2440 "2025-12-11T13:33:49Z")
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