# 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:** 194
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3861 "2026-03-25T15:25:54Z")
Yes we do! And so’s my wife! ---
**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:** [March 25, 2026, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3862 "2026-03-25T15:28:04Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > So instead of stupid ideas coming from Republicans, this thread demonstrates how opponents of Republicans prefer to argue among themselves. We prefer the phrase “Discuss vehemently.” Please readjust your brain to the new morality as I see it. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3863 "2026-03-25T16:04:44Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The point is that the president cannot arbitrarily declare a state of emergency where none exists and doing so does not give him the power to take control of elections. I think what some folks are trying to get across is that yes, you’re correct that this is not legal. However, legality takes a back seat when there is no enforcement, or if the court process is not fast enough. eg. Trump Declares (illegal) emergency Some states/areas obey, some don’t,confusion is everywhere Legal briefs are filed. Lower courts in emergency sessions declare this invalid. Federal government appeals to higher court - emergency session declares this invalid. Federal government appeals to Supreme court… The process has now taken days/weeks. Meantime, the (illegal) state of emergency has accomplished it’s desired outcome; Confusion, some polls open, some not, some votes counted, others held awaiting counts.. etc. The election is in a complete shambles. Supreme court meets - declares the emergency that wrecked the election illegal, agreeing with lower courts. Meanwhile, nobody knows who actually won. This is where the PR campaign kicks into high gear, and the message is that things are so confusing, it’s just best if Trump stays on as president "until this whole confusing mess can be sorted out. Will probably be done in “two weeks”. Or so. Or maybe longer. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3864 "2026-03-25T16:17:10Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > We prefer the phrase “Discuss vehemently.” “They had a frank and open exchange of views.” Translation: “The cleaning staff mops up the blood in the morning.” ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3865 "2026-03-25T16:18:58Z")
Piddle, twiddle, and resolve. ---
**Author:** ![billy-jack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@billy-jack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billy-jack)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3866 "2026-03-25T18:36:34Z")
I am quite Conservative, but Trump and MAGA are liberal. I have never trusted Trump and never voted for him. This time around, I’m not voting for any politician who supports Trump or is MAGA. I may end up voting a straight Libertarian ticket this year. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3867 "2026-03-25T18:52:23Z")
You’re so cute! Calling Trump and MAGA liberal. How cutting edge! Vote Libertarian. Better yet, go buy foreign land and create your own libertarian paradise. Those always work out. ---
**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 25, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3868 "2026-03-25T19:03:30Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > it’s just best if Trump stays on as president "until this whole confusing mess can be sorted out. There exists no authority in any branch of government to extend a presidential term past its constitutionally-ordained end point. A presidential term is four years, not “until the next president is sworn in”. ---
**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 25, 2026, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3869 "2026-03-25T20:32:28Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Better yet, go buy foreign land and create your own libertarian paradise. Those always work out. I think there’s room in Sealand. ---
**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 25, 2026, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3870 "2026-03-25T20:41:57Z")
So, you’ve provided a cite that Trump does, in fact, do things that the court tells him he isn’t allowed to do. > [@billy-jack](#): > > I am quite Conservative, but Trump and MAGA are liberal. Trump is simultaneously the least liberal and least conservative President we’ve ever had. > [@Smapti](#): > > There exists no authority in any branch of government to extend a presidential term past its constitutionally-ordained end point. Yes, we know that. What’s the relevance? Authority isn’t at issue here; power is. ---
**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 25, 2026, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3871 "2026-03-25T20:46:57Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Authority isn’t at issue here; power is. And after Trump’s term expires he will have neither, and if somehow his successor’s election hasn’t been certified by that point, Acting President Jeffries will order the Secret Service to remove that trespasser from his house. Your belief that a senile, dying 82-year-old who’s hated by two-thirds of the country is going to be able to execute a flawless coup, dissolve the Union, and impose permanent authoritarian rule has no basis in fact or reality. ---
**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 25, 2026, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3872 "2026-03-25T21:13:33Z")
And your belief that a ruthless fascist who already came within literal inches of executing a coup won’t ever do it again is even more divorced from fact and reality. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3873 "2026-03-25T21:16:31Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Acting President Jeffries will order the Secret Service to remove that trespasser from his house. And at that point, it will depend on who has more troops at their disposal. Let’s hope it does not ever come to this. Instead, let’s prepare as best we can for the rat-fuckery that we KNOW that the Republicans are going to attempt. We have to think about all the ways they are going to try to screw things over, in order to prepare for them. That’s the point - think about it first, so we can prepare counter measures. It does no good to just HOPE that things won’t happed because they are not legal. Of course they are not legal. The Republicans will try them anyway, and hope they can ignore the law and get away with it. To repeat: We need to think of everything in order to prepare counter measures beforehand. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3874 "2026-03-25T21:17:52Z")
Claiming to vote for the Silly Party? Nobody is buying that nonsense anymore. ---
**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 25, 2026, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3875 "2026-03-25T21:33:39Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > a ruthless fascist who already came within literal inches of executing a coup Yes, he tried it before. And it failed spectacularly, miserably, and embarrassingly. What makes you think he’s gotten any smarter or more capable since then? ---
**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 25, 2026, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3876 "2026-03-25T21:39:32Z")
If he had been even slightly luckier, with no greater intelligence or capability required, his army would have breeched the Capitol chambers, murdered all of the Democrats in Congress, and the remaining Congressmembers would have decided how to deal with that situation. Having gotten that close, the rational response is not “Oh, well, he failed once, and therefore he’s guaranteed to fail every time he ever tries it again”. The rational response is “That was way too close, and the next time we might not be so lucky”. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3877 "2026-03-25T21:44:50Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > What makes you think he’s gotten any smarter or more capable since then? He’s got a much more evil, capable and ruthless team at his back 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 25, 2026, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3878 "2026-03-25T21:54:44Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > He’s got a much more evil, capable and ruthless team at his back now More capable? Which one? The cage fighter with CTE, the alcoholic TV host, Vince McMahon’s token wife, or the lawyer who can’t manage to indict a ham sandwich? > [@Chronos](#): > > If he had been even slightly luckier, with no greater intelligence or capability required, his army would have breeched the Capitol chambers, murdered all of the Democrats in Congress, An unorganized mob of rednecks vs. the Capitol Police was NEVER going to be successful in any reality. > [@Chronos](#): > > and the remaining Congressmembers would have decided how to deal with that situation. And in the real world, those Republicans voted overwhelmingly to certify the election of Joe Biden. > [@Chronos](#): > > “That was way too close, and the next time we might not be so lucky”. It was never “close”. It was a cockamamie, half-assed, disorganized and lazy attempt based on pseudolaw which was rejected by Trump’s own vice president, the Republican leadership in Congress, the entire Supreme Court, and every single Republican secretary of state. But hey, last time he only had the MyPillow guy on his side. This time he’s got Dr. Oz AND Kid Rock! ---
**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 25, 2026, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3879 "2026-03-25T21:58:30Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Having gotten that close, the rational response is not “Oh, well, he failed once, and therefore he’s guaranteed to fail every time he ever tries it again”. The rational response is “That was way too close, and the next time we might not be so lucky”. Yes. “He’s guaranteed to fail” is guaranteed to be delusional. He will fail _only if we are prepared_----by, among other things, looking at what is Possible; not what is “Authorized”, or “Constitutional,” or “The Way it’s Always Been”. > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > That’s the point - think about it first, so we can prepare counter measures. It does no good to just HOPE that things won’t happed because they are not legal. Of course they are not legal. The Republicans will try them anyway, and hope they can ignore the law and get away with it. To repeat: We need to think of everything in order to prepare counter measures beforehand. This, very much. And: > [@Chronos](#): > > Authority isn’t at issue here; power is. The attempt to reframe this sort of preparation as “pessimism” isn’t working. And it’s unproductive. As the creation and subsequent punching of Strawmen always is. ---
**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 25, 2026, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3880 "2026-03-25T22:01:02Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > An unorganized mob of rednecks vs. the Capitol Police was NEVER going to be successful in any reality. There was one door left, and they were already in the process of breaking that door down. That is, in fact, really close. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=193) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=195)