# 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:** 129
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2561 "2025-12-19T18:34:29Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Which is likely to eventually lead to it becoming kind of meaningless to simply “be mentioned” or to have been seen at the same public event. Fortunately, that isn’t the relevant issue. The issue that that Brooks publicly opining Epstein-Files-Schmepstein-Files without disclosing this obvious conflict of interest puts him into the “Bat Boy Marries Elvis” level of journalistic professionalism. ---
**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 19, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2562 "2025-12-19T21:51:10Z")
Two more Republican congressmen have decided they’d rather not be part of the minority after next year. > > ---
**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 19, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2563 "2025-12-19T21:55:34Z")
Holy fuck, this is Cynthia Lummis’ Twitter avatar. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1899541291400065024/1PoVOxaG_400x400.jpg) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1899541291400065024/1PoVOxaG_400x400.jpg) ---
**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:** [December 19, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2564 "2025-12-19T21:57:06Z")
I object! These are NOT Stupid Republican Ideas! ---
**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 19, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2565 "2025-12-19T22:23:25Z")
They’re women being driven out by MAGA. Yeah, they supported it 100% but the hypocrisy has ground them down. Perhaps they realized that, “perhaps we’re the baddies.” Nah, Steve. They sold their souls. Greater evils will replace them. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2025, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2566 "2025-12-19T22:34:49Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Two more Republican congressmen have decided they’d rather not be part of the minority after next year. And another. This one briefly grew a spine but it was a very fleeting moment. > **[Rep. Dan Newhouse, one of the last remaining House Republicans who voted to...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-dan-newhouse-one-last-remaining-house-republicans-voted-impeach-tr-rcna249676)** > > Newhouse was one of 10 Republicans in the House to impeach Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2567 "2025-12-19T22:36:21Z")
Hardly certain in the current political climate. **All** recent special elections have shown a massive swing to Dems, by as much as 40-50 points. ---
**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 20, 2025, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2568 "2025-12-20T06:29:17Z")
A Chick-Fil-A franchise in Utah made a Facebook post celebrating a newly married gay couple and the weirdos are Big Mad. > **[Conservatives Slam Chick-fil-A for Celebrating Gay Wedding](https://www.metroweekly.com/2025/12/conservatives-slam-chick-fil-a-gay-wedding/)** > > Conservatives say the fast food chain has betrayed its former values after a franchisee celebrated a gay wedding. ---
**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 20, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2569 "2025-12-20T17:31:26Z")
> Conservatives say the fast food chain has betrayed its former values after a franchisee celebrated a gay wedding. They’re right, they have. And that’s a good thing. Because it’s former values were bigoted. What a lovely couple too, they look so happy. ---
**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 21, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2570 "2025-12-21T00:48:04Z")
Ken Paxton wants you to photograph people in public restrooms to make sure they have the right genitals. > **[Texas Wants Citizens to Take Pics and Tattle on Trans People Using the Bathroom](https://www.them.us/story/texas-trans-bathroom-law-tip-line-illegal-ken-paxton)** > > Taking photographs of people in the bathroom is possibly illegal in the state. ---
**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 21, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2571 "2025-12-21T00:52:54Z")
_Ken Paxton, Privates Investigator_ ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2572 "2025-12-21T01:01:12Z")
Ahem … _Private Dick_ ---
**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 21, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2573 "2025-12-21T01:13:12Z")
More of a public dick in his case. ---
**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 21, 2025, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2574 "2025-12-21T04:59:55Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > _Private Dick_ Naw, mine was more on the, uh, let’s say nose. ---
**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 21, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2575 "2025-12-21T22:56:35Z")
Congratulations, Rufus Devane King! You are no longer the most racist vice president in our nation’s history. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3majgu6ob3m2l)** > > JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore" > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3maji4zwz2x2c)** > > JD Vance: "Wouldn't you rather lead a movement of freethinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?" > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3maji2i6lwn25)** > > Vance: "We are outraged at the injustice of Tim Walz allowing Somalian immigrants to defraud that program to the tune of billions of dollars. It ought to go to Americans because that's who it's there for." > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3majhb66xdu2o)** > > JD Vance: "Jasmine Crocket -- the record speaks for itself. She wants to be a senator, though her street girl persona is about as real as her nails." > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3majhy3nei62c)** > > JD Vance: "We believe in honoring your father and mother rather than shipping all their money off to Ukraine" > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3majh7bmbik2g)** > > JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan \[sic\] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there." ---
**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:** [December 22, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2576 "2025-12-22T16:10:17Z")
NPR reported on the vice president’s speech at the annual convention of Turning Point USA. He said, “In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.” When exactly was _anyone_ asked to apologize for that? ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2577 "2025-12-22T16:18:43Z")
You clearly don’t understand the mind of a right winger. By wanting diversity, recognition of the reality of racism throughout the history of this country, and doing anything at all to counter it, liberals are demanding that white people apologize for being white. The right wingers know that getting the monetary donations and active voters is greatly helped by telling white voters that they’re victims. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2578 "2025-12-22T16:35:48Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > NPR reported on the vice president’s speech at the annual convention of Turning Point USA. He said, “In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.” When exactly was _anyone_ asked to apologize for that? What he’s dogwhistling is that that you don’t have to apologize for being _white supremacist_ anymore. ---
**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 22, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2579 "2025-12-22T16:36:16Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > He said, “In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.” When exactly was _anyone_ asked to apologize for that? The whole ‘you have to apologize for being white’ has been a RW talking point for years. At least going back to BLM and at least as far back as when I can remember the phrase ‘white fragility’ making the rounds. It’s just turning non-whites into boogeymen. It’s Tucker Carlson Just Asking Questions. It’s Fox telling you that that the left is making you do something you don’t want to do, but not to worry because the right will fix the problem. Currently the right has ‘fixed’ the problem of all the white people having to apologize for being white. I’m so glad Trump finally removed that albatross. No longer will I have to listen to black and brown people demanding an apology from me. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2580 "2025-12-22T16:37:41Z")
I can certainly think of a few white people I’d like to apologize for, although they’re not actually my fault. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=128) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=130)