# 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:** 16
**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:** [March 14, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/301 "2025-03-14T23:46:24Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > Perhaps France should start producing and exporting bourbon if geographic name protections are off the table. > > I can’t think of any connection between the word “Bourbon” and France. ISWYDT. (It’s unclear whether **Pleonast** did.) ---
**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:** [March 14, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/302 "2025-03-14T23:51:23Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > [https://www.tmj4.com/politics/president-trumps-first-100-days/usps-to-slash-10-000-jobs-as-outgoing-postmaster-general-partners-with-doge](https://www.tmj4.com/politics/president-trumps-first-100-days/usps-to-slash-10-000-jobs-as-outgoing-postmaster-general-partners-with-doge) > Louis Dejoy wants to cut 10,000 USPS jobs to save money and help the postal infrastructure (that he dismantled). Sure he does. That makes no sense. Dammit, DeJoy, I just now got paired with someone to vacuum my sorting machines! I’m damned if I’ll be a good sport about going back to vacuuming them myself! ---
**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:** [March 15, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/303 "2025-03-15T09:22:29Z")
Ted Cruz channels his inner Kirk van Houten. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/bafkreidwjrsi5drutbz7xozzdds45y5h3ikceu6qwxgrwgh7hejm5syqbu@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/bafkreidwjrsi5drutbz7xozzdds45y5h3ikceu6qwxgrwgh7hejm5syqbu@jpeg) [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bw7mi4td2xx2j5q2thbbpkzo/bafkreiggx7crkedzrvsudwm6ztcfcepe65vvz3xzfzwzhf6tigmcchavea@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bw7mi4td2xx2j5q2thbbpkzo/bafkreiggx7crkedzrvsudwm6ztcfcepe65vvz3xzfzwzhf6tigmcchavea@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/304 "2025-03-15T16:55:02Z")
🎶Look over here, at this nonsense/instead of the real serious damage we’re doing! I guess they came up with a clever acronym and had to make some poor intern wrangle a title for the bill that fits. > **[Gov. Greg Abbott backs bill banning 'non-human' behavior in schools](https://www.kut.org/politics/2025-03-14/furries-texas-school-choice-vouchers?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR182-D45Po7zVaQuJas0kmP8Ih4BHrk9sapXOHvyqnI6jwKea966rgUTa4_aem_TA9aSZQmTjtZtrtVcs0ATw)** > > The bill is based on debunked claims that public schools were encouraging so-called furries. Lawmakers have used the claims to funnel public funds to private schools. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/305 "2025-03-15T20:38:55Z")
When I heard about that, I thought, “I look forward to the epidemic of meowing about to take over all of their high-schools.” Imagine it. “Okay class, today we’re discussing the history of…” “Meow!” The teacher whips arond. “OKAY, RIGHT, WHO SAID THAT?” From another corner of the room, “Meow!” It will be like the “Jehova!” scene from Life of Brian. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/306 "2025-03-15T21:32:25Z")
Or just dealing with elementary school girls. In my experience they all like to pretend to be cats, dogs, horses, dragons, etc. as part of their imagination play. First they came for the kindergarteners… Edit: omg they actually called it the FURRIES ACT!!! ---
**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:** [March 15, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/307 "2025-03-15T21:40:23Z")
‘As long as they don’t ban _Texas Ranger and virgin Mexican at her quinceañera_ role play I’m OK with it.’ ~ Greg ---
**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:** [March 15, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/308 "2025-03-15T22:06:10Z")
Eh, Place of Origin laws only apply to people selling the product, anyway. The rest of us just call all bubbly wine champagne, and nobody cares. There are much bigger things to pin on Trump. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/309 "2025-03-15T22:08:09Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > There are much bigger things to pin on Trump. And they’ll _fit!_ ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/310 "2025-03-15T22:34:56Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > There are much bigger things to pin on Trump. Is this like that game where they blindfold you, spin you around, aim you at Individual-ONE and give you a thing to pin on him? “Pin the verdict on Felon-ONE” ? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/311 "2025-03-16T03:48:10Z")
“Cut that out right meow! I meant now!” ---
**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:** [March 18, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/312 "2025-03-18T23:11:13Z")
Professor Lysenko wants to let bird flu spread unchecked so we can see if natural selection will produce chickens that are naturally immune - a process which will kill billions of animals, devastate the food chain, ruin farmers’ livelihoods, and drive the price of eggs through the roof. > **[RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/health/kennedy-bird-flu.html?unlocked_article_code=1.404.-mRM.bbYOaEyQNFVv&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)** > > The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/313 "2025-03-18T23:19:03Z")
_“Evolution doesn’t work that way!!!”_ Mr. Secretary, X-Men is a comic book… ---
**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:** [March 18, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/314 "2025-03-18T23:33:01Z")
I mean…it does work that way. Sort of. In a vague big picture sense. The issue being the vast disruption to the food chain and people’s livelihoods, since we’re talking a small fraction that would survive who wouldn’t necessarily pass immunity onto all offspring. Breeding sufficient numbers of super chickens resistant to flu would take more generations than we would care to spend. And that’s if there was any genetic diversity in factor farmed poultry to begin with, which there’s not. It would be a great suggestion coming from a 6 year old, so it’s about on par with my regard for his intelligence. Unfortunately, putting a 6 year old in charge of national health policy is contra-indicated by pretty much any measure you would care to use. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/315 "2025-03-18T23:40:22Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Breeding sufficient numbers of super chickens resistant to flu would take more generations than we would care to spend. Plus, we would at the same time be breeding new - and shorter, i.e. faster - generations of flu virus that can evade the immune systems of those superchickens. Rinse and repeat. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/316 "2025-03-18T23:42:00Z")
Hired by … _“So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just a very powerful light — and I think you said that hasn’t been checked because of the testing,” Trump said, speaking to Bryan during the briefing. "And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. He added: “I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”_ I just love that one. Pure comedy gold. Also, couldn’t Trump just negotiate with Bird Flu – say a ten-year moratorium on mutating beyond the capacity of the Robot Chickens’ immune systems to adapt?? Clearly, the chickens would have to abandon any aspirations to join NATO, but … maybe … TOMATO? ---
**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:** [March 19, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/317 "2025-03-19T00:57:10Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Mr. Secretary, X-Men is a comic book… Also, I don’t want chickens that shoot optic beams like Cyclops. Who’s going to gather eggs from **them**?! ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/318 "2025-03-19T01:03:57Z")
> Last year, more people were killed by automobile accidents, heart attacks, lung cancer, and natural causes combined than by any one tomato. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2025, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/319 "2025-03-19T04:37:55Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > than by any one tomato. How about Killer Tomatoes? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/320 "2025-03-19T05:36:29Z")
The quote I provided was one of the spot ads created by MindMakers to quell the Tomato Panic in AotKT — the one and only original, not one of the pathetic sequels. (I was going to apologize for perpetuating a digression, but the MindMakers ad campaign might be a precursor to what we’ll actually see coming out of the malAdministration and therefore merits study.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=17)