# 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:** 189
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3761 "2026-03-20T18:50:47Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > A clown said it. Ha ha ha ha! > [@Horatius](#): > > What kills me is that he seems to think that _surprising your allies_ is the same as _surprising your enemy_. Yes. Typical Trump me-me-me, he needs a good comeback, so the best his addled brain can come up with is a WWII reference that makes no sense in context. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3762 "2026-03-20T19:12:39Z")
Not just was he born 5 years after the attack, but she was born _20_ years after it happened. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3763 "2026-03-20T20:19:39Z")
And he wondered what the whole Pearl Harbor memorial was about. Ummm… ---
**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:** [March 21, 2026, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3764 "2026-03-21T01:42:51Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The head of FEMA’s rapid response office claims he once involuntarily teleported to a Waffle House I have been teleported to a similar establishment, but it was about 3 a.m, and I believe the teleportation mechanism was very drunken legs. I don’t recall the planning and walking part, but I was in a bar and suddenly I was in a cheap 24 hour diner! Miracles do happen… ---
**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:** [March 21, 2026, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3765 "2026-03-21T05:43:06Z")
On that small point, similar things happened during my college career, usually a Denny’s. I was more self-aware of my destination travels. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2026, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3766 "2026-03-21T22:44:45Z")
So the Trump Regime is reduced to hiring people who are likely prospects for involuntary commitment. You just can’t get good fascist help, anymore!!! ---
**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:** [March 22, 2026, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3767 "2026-03-22T13:06:17Z")
It’s interesting that the Nazis had a problem with lots of their upper hierarchy believing wacky occult shit too. I suppose there’s a connection between depravity and stupidity. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2026, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3768 "2026-03-22T20:11:37Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I suppose there’s a connection between depravity and stupidity. No doubt. But there may also have been “need to deal with guilt” for some of the Nazis. (There must have been a few non-sociopaths within the ranks.) The occult might have offered some opportunities to rationalize and justify the actions they were taking. ---
**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 22, 2026, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3769 "2026-03-22T23:10:52Z")
10/10 self-own from Sean Hannity, no notes. > **[The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mhkafcslcs2e)** > > HANNITY: “I left NYC because I would walk into restaurants and see disdain and disgust on people’s faces just because I was in the room.” ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3770 "2026-03-22T23:44:26Z")
So easy to: a.) imagine his dorky-beyond-imagination voice saying that b.) smile ---
**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:** [March 23, 2026, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3771 "2026-03-23T05:23:38Z")
[lindsey Graham wants the US to take Kharg to…checks notes…that can’t be right…WTF? IT IS?! Yep, to get a peace treaty between Israel and Saudi Arabia before the year is out.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/did-iwo-jima-lindsey-graham-194751583.html) > [@](#): > > Sen. **Lindsey Graham** (R-SC), a longtime hawk on Iran, told Fox News’s **Shannon Bream** Sunday that the U.S. should seize control of Kharg Island, [which has been described as](https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/03/iran-trump-kharg-island/686487/) “the point of departure for approximately 90 percent of Iran’s oil exports.” > > Earlier this month, President **Donald Trump** [bragged about obliterating](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nothing-trump-claims-u-totally-235539313.html) “every military target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island.” > > Trump’s Truth Social post continued, saying, “for reasons of decency, I have chosen NOT to wipe out the Oil Infrastructure on the Island. However, should Iran, or anyone else, do anything to interfere with the Free and Safe Passage of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz, I will immediately reconsider this decision.” > > On Sunday, as the Strait of Hormuz remained essentially shut down due to Iran’s strikes on oil tankers, Trump [threatened the Islamic State:](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-threatens-iran-48-hours-003517827.html) Open the Strait or face U.S. strikes on the nation’s power plants. > > Graham said he told Trump that to permanently incapacitate Iran, he needed to “take Kharg Island, where they have all of the resources they have to produce oil.” & > [@](#): > > “I don’t know if you take the island or you blockade the island, but I know this: The day we control that island, this regime, this terrorist regime, has been weakened and it will die on a vine,” Graham said, adding, “I want to take up and complete what **[Joe] Biden** started. As soon as we get Iran defanged so they can never do another October 7th, I want to start up peace talks between Saudi and Israel. This year, I want a peace deal between Saudi and Israeli normalizing ending the Arab-Israeli conflict — been going on for 2,000 years this year — and you can’t do it with a lethal Iran.” The Israelis and Arabs have been fighting for two thousand years? That’s interesting. Israel declared itself a nation on 14 May 1948. Saudi Arabia was unified on 23 September 1932. And just in case he meant Muslims when he said Arabs, Islam was established around 610 CE. Another nifty fact is Saudi Arabia is not all Arab countries. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3772 "2026-03-23T09:24:26Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > lindsey Graham wants the US to take Kharg to…checks notes…that can’t be right…WTF? IT IS?! Yep, to get a peace treaty between Israel and Saudi Arabia before the year is out. There’s a seed of something logical there. Israel won’t accept a ceasefire with Iran without some victory to show from it, and diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia - which Israel very much wants - could be sold as just such a win. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3773 "2026-03-23T12:20:23Z")
And I’m sure Iran will be juuuust fine with that and there will be no global repercussions. Good plan. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2026, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3774 "2026-03-23T12:45:19Z")
Every plan sounds good … as long as you don’t consider the enemy as being anything but a harmless bot who always does what you want (hope) they’ll do. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3775 "2026-03-23T12:55:22Z")
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the strait. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3776 "2026-03-23T13:21:30Z")
🤣 🤦‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3777 "2026-03-23T20:10:49Z")
Ka$h Patel is just livin’ the dream. > Kash Patel: "I’m living the wildest dream you could possibly imagine, sir. But it’s thanks to you. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhqmntltba2a)** > > Kash Patel: "I'm living the wildest dream you could possibly imagine, sir. But it's thanks to you." ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3778 "2026-03-23T20:17:34Z")
What an unprofessional chucklefuck. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3779 "2026-03-23T20:20:24Z")
If the US doesn’t suffer a major terrorist attack in the next three years, I will be pleasantly surprised. ---
**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 23, 2026, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3780 "2026-03-23T21:15:21Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > If the US doesn’t suffer a major terrorist attack in the next three years, I will be pleasantly surprised. Presumably you mean a foreign one? Got plenty of the domestic variety going on already, much of it instigated by the government itself. > [@Maus\_Magill](#): > > What an unprofessional chucklefuck. You mean Patel? Hard to tell when it describes the entire administration [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=188) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=190)