# 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:** 150
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2981 "2026-01-24T16:18:04Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I wonder why the administration likes to share AI generated images. - Reality is AI, AI is reality. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2982 "2026-01-24T17:03:16Z")
The real ones are too disgusting. [![](https://cdn.abcotvs.com/dip/images/18370449_010726-wls-ravi-mn-ice-shooting-10p-vid.jpg) ](https://cdn.abcotvs.com/dip/images/18370449_010726-wls-ravi-mn-ice-shooting-10p-vid.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2026, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2983 "2026-01-25T21:28:20Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Whoever runs the White House Twitter account thinks there are penguins in Greenland Slumming on [Fox news](https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trumps-penguin-breaks-internet-sends-left-frenzy) I learned that we on the left (who apparently are losing our minds about this) are wrong to say that this indicates that Trump doesn’t know that Penguins aren’t in Greenland. Instead the origin of this image is a right wing meme > For days, [TikTok](https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/tiktok) and Instagram have been flooded with a clip of a solitary penguin trudging toward distant mountains. The footage comes from Werner Herzog’s 2007 Antarctic documentary “Encounters at the End of the World.” In the film, Herzog shows a lone penguin peeling away from the safety of its colony and heading inland — toward certain death, according to Herzog. > > But the online right saw something else. Users (mostly male) saw the penguin as a powerful rebuke of secular modernity. They interpreted the penguin not as lost, but as a free thinker. To them, he was rejecting the colony. In today’s terms, that means rejecting [secular postmodern orthodoxy](https://www.foxnews.com/category/faith-values) and marching toward a greater purpose. So the real message of the post is that in an insane rejection of conventional wisdom Trump and all who follow him are marching towards certain death. OK, I accept the correction. ---
**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 25, 2026, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2984 "2026-01-25T21:35:10Z")
Take a look at those footprints… Apparently, Trump has smaller feet than the penguin. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2026, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2985 "2026-01-25T21:53:02Z")
Small hands, small feet and a small dick. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2026, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2986 "2026-01-25T22:52:22Z")
And yet he manages to step on it constantly. ---
**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 25, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2987 "2026-01-25T23:09:45Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Take a look at those footprints… “Trump said, ‘Lord, when I decided to follow you, you promised you’d be with me all the way. Why is there only one set of footprints in the sand at the times when I needed you the most?’ “And the Lord said, ‘Are you fucking kidding me with this shit you’ve been pulling? You’re on your own., fuckface.’” ---
**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 25, 2026, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2988 "2026-01-25T23:26:13Z")
Just to be clear, here: The Lord is the penguin? ---
**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 25, 2026, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2989 "2026-01-25T23:51:19Z")
It’s a riff on the Christian prose poem. > **[Footprints (poem)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footprints_(poem))** > > "Footprints", also known as "Footprints in the Sand", is a popular modern allegorical Christian poem. It describes a person who sees two pairs of footprints in the sand, one of which belonged to God, and another to themselves. At some points, the two pairs of footprints dwindle to one; it is explained that this is where God carried the protagonist.\[citation needed\] > This popular text is based in Christian beliefs and describes an experience in which a person is walking on a beach with God. They... ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2026, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2990 "2026-01-25T23:57:48Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Just to be clear, here: The Lord is the penguin? I just saw a comic with the penguin and trump walking away from us, and then the penguin walking back alone, with a flag in one wing and a shovel in the other. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2026, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2991 "2026-01-26T00:56:18Z")
And in the caption, the penguin says: It’s Done. ---
**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 26, 2026, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2992 "2026-01-26T22:43:13Z")
DHS official speaking anonymously to CNN doesn’t know the word “sycophant”. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hx6d55znvrhk4j6mqmed6bbf/bafkreigmzkhng4hflvphqdshy3vkuhv5mmuwkcpvlnp3umjwtt3h24vjr4@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hx6d55znvrhk4j6mqmed6bbf/bafkreigmzkhng4hflvphqdshy3vkuhv5mmuwkcpvlnp3umjwtt3h24vjr4@jpeg) ---
**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:** [January 26, 2026, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2993 "2026-01-26T22:46:10Z")
Is “sicko fan” what the person actually said or wrote, or is it what a CNN reporter heard and wrote, or is it what AI captions wrote? ---
**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 26, 2026, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2994 "2026-01-26T22:52:17Z")
Either works, really. ---
**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 26, 2026, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2995 "2026-01-26T22:59:30Z")
My assumption is the latter. Because phonetically it sounds pretty much the same, and AI probably isn’t sophisticated enough to infer properly from context. ---
**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 26, 2026, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2996 "2026-01-26T23:03:59Z")
It’s not really a stupid republican idea, though, because the unnamed official is speaking out against Noem. And to be fair, she is a sicko fan. ---
**Author:** ![Frilly\_Heck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90ced4/32.png) [@Frilly\_Heck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frilly_Heck)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2997 "2026-01-26T23:11:00Z")
[![](https://www.enworld.org/media/sickos-gif.167921/full) ](https://www.enworld.org/media/sickos-gif.167921/full) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2998 "2026-01-28T02:23:16Z")
[This](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republicans-sharia-law-attacks-ahead-150816914.html) is more of a recycled stupid Republican idea than a new one. > [@](#): > > Anti-Muslim rhetoric has emerged as a potent ingredient in the looming Texas Republican primary while candidates compete to raise fears about the spread of Sharia law in the state and portray themselves as the toughest option to stand against it. > > From the state’s white-hot GOP Senate primary down to local races, Republican candidates are pledging to fight the hardest against a proposed residential development of 1,000 homes centered around a Mosque north of Dallas, while issuing dire warnings about the supposed threat of Islam and questioning their opponents’ commitment to the cause. > > Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and his top primary opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, have sparred in attack ads and on the trail over that project and Afghan refugee resettlement program, at times veering into inflammatory anti-Islamic rhetoric. Cornyn called for a federal investigation into the project; Paxton launched several probes and in December sued the development over alleged securities fraud. And what kind of campaign performances are they treating the locals to? > [@](#): > > Texas is a heavily diverse state, with non-Hispanic whites representing less than two fifths of its total population — a flashpoint for years on the right. The state’s relatively small but fast-growing Muslim population has become a charged issue for Republicans seeking to distinguish themselves in competitive races. This year’s GOP ads – which vary from condemning terror attacks to burning the Quran – represent an escalation of rhetoric the party has long used to rally its voters. Honestly, I had to flip a coin to decide if to put this post in this thread or the one for evil mfers. ---
**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 28, 2026, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2999 "2026-01-28T02:58:54Z")
For sure just about everything the Rs have been up in recent decades are simply evil. Especially the TX Rs. ---
**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 28, 2026, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3000 "2026-01-28T03:50:39Z")
Chuck Grassley: ICE? Never heard of it. I’m just a naive farm boy ignorant of such high-falutin’ big city matters. > **[Top Republican sparks outrage after playing dumb about Trump's ICE: 'Coward'](https://www.rawstory.com/chuck-grassley-2675052631/)** > > Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), sparked outrage on Tuesday after he seemed to play dumb about whether some of the actions of President Donald Trump's immigration forces are legal. Igor Bobíc, senior politics reporter at HuffPost, posted on X that he... > Igor Bobíc, senior politics reporter at HuffPost, posted on X that he tried asking Grassley whether it is appropriate for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to enter an American citizen’s home without a judicial warrant. Last week, the Associated Press reported that ICE officers have been told they have the legal authority to enter people’s homes without a warrant, sparking outrage from legal experts. > > “Ask a constitutional lawyer,” said Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I’m a farmer.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=149) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=151)