# 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:** 130
**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, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2581 "2025-12-22T16:38:25Z")
But, I’m guessing, not for their race, but for their behavior. ---
**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, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2582 "2025-12-22T16:42:04Z")
Well yes. ---
**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 22, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2583 "2025-12-22T16:59:01Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > you don’t have to apologize for being _white supremacist_ anymore. But we never really _expected_ them to apologize for that, either. ---
**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, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2584 "2025-12-22T17:19:04Z")
The whole “no longer any need to apologize for being white” is as much bullshit as the DEI boogeyman. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2585 "2025-12-22T17:21:40Z")
We’re also “allowed” to say Merry Christmas again 🙄 ---
**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, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2586 "2025-12-22T17:22:22Z")
Now that I think about it, I recall the whole ‘apologize for being white’ thing becoming popular at the same time the RW decided that schools were teaching Critical Race Theory to grade school aged kids and teaching them to ‘hate themselves for being white’. ---
**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 22, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2587 "2025-12-22T18:40:29Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > 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. I hope the albatross didn’t have to apologize for being white. I mean, that’s what albatrosses do; look really dorky when they initiate flight, and be white. > [@Gyrate](#): > > I can certainly think of a few white people I’d like to apologize for, although they’re not actually my fault. I imagine they’re already apologies for human beings. Poor ones, but still. ---
**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 23, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2588 "2025-12-23T01:07:07Z")
Last night, Bari Weiss axed a 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, minutes before it was supposed to air, supposedly because nobody from the Trump administration would agree to give a comment on camera. (Left unspoken is that she’s therefore essentially giving Trump veto power over CBS’ news coverage.) That didn’t stop the Canadian affiliate from putting the segment online. > **['Astonishing': Internet erupts after canned '60 Minutes' segment leaked](https://www.rawstory.com/60-minutes-2674823138/)** > > The internet erupted into a frenzy on Monday night after a video of a canned "60 Minutes" segment from Sunday was published. On Sunday, CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss scrapped a segment on "60 Minutes" about President Donald Trump's efforts to... > **[WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment](https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment)** > > I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat. ---
**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 23, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2589 "2025-12-23T02:00:33Z")
OK, what is CECOT & why does it matter? ---
**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 23, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2590 "2025-12-23T02:04:28Z")
The concentration camp in El Salvador where ICE has been selling brown people with no criminal record to be tortured to death. The place Trump tried to argue they couldn’t possibly remove Kilmar Abrego from. You may remember Kristi Noem posing for a glamor shot in front of innocent prisoners there. > **[Terrorism Confinement Center](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Confinement_Center)** > > The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, CECOT, lit. 'Center for the Confinement of Terrorism') is a maximum security prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built in late 2022 amid a large-scale gang crackdown in the country. The Salvadoran government opened the prison in late January 2023, and it began housing inmates the following month. > As of 11 June 2024\[update\], CECOT had a confirmed population of 14,532 inmates; in November 2024, priso... ---
**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 23, 2025, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2591 "2025-12-23T05:37:47Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > You may remember Kristi Noem posing for a glamor shot in front of innocent prisoners there. Actually, according to the 60 Minutes story, a team of university researchers proved that the prisoners Noem used as a backdrop were actually Salvadoran gang members, imprisoned by the Salvadoran government, not the mostly innocent Venezuelans the Trump regime had deported without due process. The story reported that human rights groups used the government’s own records to show that only 3% of those deported had any record of committing violent or potentially violent crimes. Most of the prisoners were tortured, beaten, sexually abused, and subjected to 24 hours of bright light (itself considered a form of torture). The story is sickening, and it is horrific that the US government has done this, and is continuing to do this, to innocent people. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2592 "2025-12-23T18:27:27Z")
Bari Weiss thought she’d “twitter filed” it away, ne’er to be seen again, eh? I guess she’s as bad at covering up anti-Trump stories while working for CBS to the same degree as she is bad at cooking up pro-Trump stories while working for Musk. ---
**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 23, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2593 "2025-12-23T18:36:59Z")
It is legitimately remarkable how many people in the Trump orbit have managed to fail upwards. Perhaps one of the life skills they should teach underachievers is how to convincingly engage in abject obeisance and sycophancy. It’s certainly easier and generally more financially rewarding than hard work and talent ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2594 "2025-12-23T18:46:48Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > It is legitimately remarkable how many people in the Trump orbit have managed to fail upwards. Incompetents are more loyal than those with talent or ability, because the incompetent have nothing to fall back on and are compelled to be loyal to the leader. When loyalty is selected for, incompetents move to the front of the line. ---
**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 23, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2595 "2025-12-23T18:49:21Z")
They’re being dragged along, riding the orange behemoth’s massive red tie. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2596 "2025-12-23T19:07:49Z")
They knew who they hired. Bari Weiss is already well known. The goal was to drag CBS’s reputation rightward to fit in with Trump anti-woke/anti-progressive conservatism. Of course that shift takes their main news vehicle (60 minutes) straight through a cesspool. No route or course correction will save it. ---
**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 23, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2597 "2025-12-23T19:42:40Z")
I am currently watching the leaked 60 Minutes story on CECOT, the horrible Salvadoran prison, though I haven’t watched the actual 60 Minutes program in years (perhaps decades). I suspect I’m not the only one. So ironically, by cancelling the story, Bari Weiss might have ensured that more people see the story than had done so otherwise. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2598 "2025-12-23T19:45:43Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I am currently watching the leaked 60 Minutes story on CECOT, the horrible Salvadoran prison, though I haven’t watched the actual 60 Minutes program in years (perhaps decades). I suspect I’m not the only one. So ironically, by cancelling the story, Bari Weiss might have ensured that more people see the story than had done so otherwise. . This is almost certainly measurably true. Some are saying that “the Streisand effect” phenomenon should be renamed “the Bari Weiss effect.” > [@SunUp](#): > > Incompetents are more loyal than those with talent or ability, because the incompetent have nothing to fall back on and are compelled to be loyal to the leader. When loyalty is selected for, incompetents move to the front of the line. All too true (and very well said). ---
**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 23, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2599 "2025-12-23T20:03:48Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > This is almost certainly measurably true. Some are saying that “the Streisand effect” phenomenon should be renamed “the Bari Weiss effect.” He’s got so much to give… [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Barry_White%2C_Bestanddeelnr_927-0098_%28cropped%29.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Barry_White%2C_Bestanddeelnr_927-0098_%28cropped%29.jpg) Wait, sorry, wrong guy. ---
**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 23, 2025, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2600 "2025-12-23T20:19:32Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > So ironically, by cancelling the story, Bari Weiss might have ensured that more people see the story than had done so otherwise. It’s almost certainly true. 60 Minutes might be viewed by a couple million people max on any given week. They’ll probably exceeded that view count by an order of magnitude at minimum. By pulling this nonsense, they have guaranteed that once any version was released, pirated versions will be available in perpetuity. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=129) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=131)