# 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:** 142
**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:** [January 14, 2026, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2821 "2026-01-14T00:21:54Z")
RFK is baffled by how Trump is still alive with the way he eats. Perhaps he needs more roadkill bear meat in his diet. > **[RFK Jr. stuns with remarks about Trump's diet: 'I don't know how he's alive!'](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674881180/)** > > Comments Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made about President Donald Trump's diet during a new interview on a right-wing podcast caused the host to burst out laughing. On Tuesday, Kennedy appeared on Katie Miller's eponymous podcast, where... ---
**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:** [January 14, 2026, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2822 "2026-01-14T13:52:11Z")
I’m not sure how either of them are still alive. My guess is pure spite. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2823 "2026-01-14T14:07:46Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > My guess is pure spite. Sorcery. There’s probably a deformed baby being tortured in the basement of trump tower. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2026, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2824 "2026-01-14T15:08:36Z")
The deformed baby unfortunately escaped and won the election. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2026, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2825 "2026-01-14T21:49:12Z")
Let them eat a corn tortilla and a piece of chicken and a piece of broccoli and one other thing! > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mcfyvxmpgu2g)** > > Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer... I swear these idiots are reinventing Soviet economics from first principles. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2026, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2826 "2026-01-14T21:51:59Z")
And how big are those pieces? Is that enough to make a meal of? ---
**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:** [January 14, 2026, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2827 "2026-01-14T22:00:26Z")
Listen, prole, you get an unseasoned chicken and broccoli taco, two pencils, two dolls, and one other thing, and you better be happy with it or we’ll shoot you in the face and call you a terrorist. That’s called FREEDOM. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2828 "2026-01-14T22:01:13Z")
For my doll, can I have Chucky? (I have some ideas…) ---
**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:** [January 14, 2026, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2829 "2026-01-14T22:05:59Z")
Sorry, Chucky is currently busy serving as Vice President. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2830 "2026-01-14T22:10:25Z")
I know when I go to the grocery store, it’s totally possible to get a wholesale rate for individual pieces of chicken, tortillas, and broccoli. Why, it’s almost like they made a bougie assumption that everybody has sufficient access to large grocery stores and sufficient savings to purchase fresh food in bulk and can store it indefinitely in their suburban McMansions ---
**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:** [January 14, 2026, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2831 "2026-01-14T22:23:03Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > sufficient savings to purchase fresh food in bulk and can store it indefinitely in their suburban McMansions Yes, the billionaire class no doubt DO assume that purchasing in bulk with attendant cold storage is available to “everyone.” Well, to everyone who _matters_, 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:** [January 14, 2026, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2832 "2026-01-14T23:22:13Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I swear these idiots are reinventing Soviet economics from first principles. No joke, Republicans want this country to be the USSR. Throw undesirable in camps, secret police invading homes, take over businesses and tell them what they can sell, control the media, invade nearby countries and take them over, control voting and make it a sham version of democracy to keep one party in power. How is that not the USSR?! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2833 "2026-01-14T23:30:01Z")
Stealing. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2026, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2834 "2026-01-14T23:54:15Z")
Putin did not becom the world’s richest man on his KGB salary. Nor his presidential one. He’s trump’s mentor and the man trump wantscto emulate in every way. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2835 "2026-01-15T00:16:23Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Putin did not becom the world’s richest man on his KGB salary. Nor his presidential one. You know [who _else_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_wealth_and_income) became rich in office? ---
**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:** [January 15, 2026, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2836 "2026-01-15T00:19:12Z")
> “We have the highest chronic disease in American history. We’re spending more on our healthcare costs than ever before. $0.90 of every dollar of health care cost goes to a chronic disease issue. And what we have seen is it all goes back to what we’re eating — or at least a lot of it does. So Secretary Kennedy and I, with President Trump’s vision in effectuating that, is really working to change that, especially those kids from marginalized communities, more vulnerable populations that may not have access to the best, healthiest food,” Rollins said. And how, you may ask, are they planning to do this? [Whole milk](https://www.tmj4.com/health/its-just-so-important-agriculture-secretary-on-the-broad-impacts-of-new-school-milk-rules)! They’re putting whole milk back in schools. > Under the new law, schools that are part of the National School Lunch Program can now offer whole and 2% milk in addition to the low- and zero-fat options that were already on the menu. And, apparently, whole milk is going to help make sure kids are ready to join the military as soon as they turn 18. > “What we’re finding is a whole generation of Americans, especially younger Americans, age 18 through 24, three out of four of those are not military-ready,” Rollins said. “They could not pass a military readiness test, the level of obesity, the level of diabetes and prediabetes for that entire generation, research is showing is going back to a diet that focused on processed foods and ultra processed foods — instead of, you know, focusing on whole real food, which is what we’re trying to change here.” And, notice the last line…it seems ‘whole milk’ is one of the things RFK Jr is considering a ‘whole food’. Maybe he just meant foods with the word ‘whole’ in them. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2026, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2837 "2026-01-15T00:26:46Z")
I think RFK Jr. is an ass whole. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2026, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2838 "2026-01-15T00:53:09Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And how big are those pieces? Is that enough to make a meal of? Maybe it depends on what the other thing is? A whole chocolate cream pie perhaps? [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y6emq223yyakhigvzlo6hkdi/bafkreigly7ndlgojahpwnog4wtvjtbw2xuxfupllkcxvsgyh3weliu3dfe@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y6emq223yyakhigvzlo6hkdi/bafkreigly7ndlgojahpwnog4wtvjtbw2xuxfupllkcxvsgyh3weliu3dfe@jpeg) ---
**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:** [January 15, 2026, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2839 "2026-01-15T01:10:31Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > Maybe it depends on what the other thing is? Your choice: unpasteurized milk, roadkill bear meat, or bleach. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2840 "2026-01-15T01:29:57Z")
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