# 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:** 127
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2521 "2025-12-16T18:20:32Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > political theater This. I came to just say one word: _performative._ ---
**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 16, 2025, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2522 "2025-12-16T19:22:51Z")
All I know is I’d keep doing my official docs in Calibri, or arial, or comic sans. “Oh, I forgot. next time!” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2523 "2025-12-16T22:45:05Z")
All this talk of fonts (typefaces) makes me think of how much I miss @Colibri. ☹ ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2524 "2025-12-17T04:27:38Z")
Utterly off topic, on my Android, I typed in “Times New Roman” into Google… and got all the results in Times New Roman, instead of the expected Roboto (default for Android) I think Google is making a subtle dig at the Orangutan in Chief. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2525 "2025-12-17T04:37:56Z")
Whatever you do, don’t type Colibri into Google. A squad of ICE goons will show up and throw your family into a black SUV. ---
**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 17, 2025, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2526 "2025-12-17T04:39:43Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > Utterly off topic, on my Android, I typed in “Times New Roman” into Google… and got all the results in Times New Roman, instead of the expected Roboto (default for Android) It does that for lots of fonts. Try it with comic sans, for instance. ---
**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 17, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2527 "2025-12-17T20:35:37Z")
City councilwoman in Lincoln, CA claims her daughter was turned gay by “trauma” she experienced as a child, then claims AI made her say it. > **[California councilmember blames daughter becoming a lesbian on sexual trauma](https://www.advocate.com/politics/california-councilmember-lesbian-daughter)** > > Lincoln councilmember Holly Andreatta said her daughter became a lesbian because of "trauma as a child." ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2528 "2025-12-17T20:43:54Z")
I watched her speak. There was an awful lot of “I love her, but…” statements. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2529 "2025-12-17T20:46:37Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > City councilwoman in Lincoln, CA claims her daughter was turned gay by “trauma” she experienced as a child, So she’s saying, she abused her daughter? ---
**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 17, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2530 "2025-12-17T20:50:39Z")
Past tense, present tense. What’s the difference with these animals? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2531 "2025-12-17T23:40:36Z")
" “Club America,” a chapter of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA that targets minors." Are we really not doing “phrasing” any more? ---
**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 18, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2532 "2025-12-18T03:41:18Z")
Pete Hegseth says the chaplain corps needs to stop administering to the spiritual and psychological needs of servicemembers and instead spend their time telling them they’re going to Hell for being woke. > **[Hegseth to overhaul chaplain corps, toss ‘unacceptable and unserious’ Army...](https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2025-12-17/hegseth-military-chaplains-20119952.html)** > > Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered sweeping changes to the U.S. military’s chaplain corps. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2533 "2025-12-18T07:44:58Z")
I wonder how long the editors at Stars and Stripes are going to be getting away with continuing to call Hegseth Secretary of Defense instead of Secretary of War. ---
**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 18, 2025, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2534 "2025-12-18T08:08:22Z")
According to Wikipedia, Stars and Stripes has independent ombudsman appointed by Congress, so they’re not under Hegseth’s editorial control. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2535 "2025-12-18T08:09:49Z")
I wonder how long it will be before the Chaplain Corps tells Hegseth that the spiritual and psychological needs that are discussed with servicemembers are protected by confidentiality. ---
**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 18, 2025, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2536 "2025-12-18T09:04:18Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > protected by confidentiality. And the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, the reason the Chaplain Corps exists. ---
**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 18, 2025, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2537 "2025-12-18T09:52:23Z")
Trump judicial nominee, under questioning from Senator John “Leghorn” Kennedy of all people, acknowledges having said that disabled people shouldn’t be allowed to get married ‘cause they can’t fuck hard enough. > **[Trump Judicial Nominee Has Some Complicated Thoughts About Disabled People...](https://ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/justin-olson-senate-judiciary-committee-hearing/)** > > This is probably not how Justin Olson hoped his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing would go. > [@](#): > > Kennedy asked Olson about a sermon he gave in August 2015 in which Olson asserted that marriage was not intended for all people, including—here, Kennedy emphasized that he was quoting Olson directly—“our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.” > > Kennedy turned back to Olson. “Did you say that?” he asked. > > “I think I did, senator, yes,” Olson replied. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2538 "2025-12-18T09:54:11Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Pete Hegseth says the chaplain corps needs to stop administering to the spiritual and psychological needs of servicemembers and instead spend their time telling them they’re going to Hell for being woke. Hegseth quote: > Our chaplains are chaplains, not emotional support officers Uh… I don’t think he understands how “ministering” to the faithful works. I also fully expect he’ll try to get rid of anything not his variety of Christian. _Maybe_ keep a token rabbi or Catholic priest around. I’m sooooo tired of this shit-show and it hasn’t even been a year yet. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2539 "2025-12-18T09:59:41Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trump judicial nominee, under questioning from Senator John “Leghorn” Kennedy of all people, acknowledges having said that disabled people shouldn’t be allowed to get married ‘cause they can’t fuck hard enough. There’s a part of me that wants to go on a ten thousand word rant about this sort of bullshit, but there’s another part of me that is saying no, don’t waste your energy on this, you need it for living your life. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2540 "2025-12-18T10:06:37Z")
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