# 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:** 240
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2026, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4781 "2026-06-13T17:27:40Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Gawd there’s nothing more annoying than Latin pedants. Except Latin pendants. It’s a dead language. Get over it. There, there. Even in a dead language, words have meaning, and there’s no need for you to take it personally if others discuss what that meaning is supposed to be. If somebody had said to you _”To the UFC from the White House there is an easy”_, you’d doubtless be wondering about a possible missing word too. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2026, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4782 "2026-06-13T19:54:08Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Was there ever a Caesar struck by lightning while watching a spectacle? Not outside the imagination of Cecil B. DeMille, so far as I know. Of course screenwriters might have liked to show Justice finding a tyrant via ligtning, but until recently such an attempted special effect would likely have been either unconvincing, or downright dangerous. But as you say, it’s overdue for real life to display a bit of Just Deserts in that particular way. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2026, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4783 "2026-06-15T06:34:43Z")
UFC legend Daniel Cormier reveals that Eric “The Dumb One” Trump DMed him on Facebook assuming that UFC is predetermined like wrestling and wanted to know who was booked to win tonight’s White House fights so he could bet on the winners. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:flfa7b6kgjqp3bbh223tmpjk/bafkreibi3jm3t5zdshf3nt6d4gxmmbheyqir5taomiihtfyliwgo3fqx6i) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:flfa7b6kgjqp3bbh223tmpjk/bafkreibi3jm3t5zdshf3nt6d4gxmmbheyqir5taomiihtfyliwgo3fqx6i) ---
**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:** [June 15, 2026, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4784 "2026-06-15T07:49:06Z")
Both Cormier and Trump insist those are fake, but multiple journalists report that they saw the tweet from Cormier in the 15 minutes before it was deleted. > **[Daniel Cormier-Eric Trump post: Fact-checking if former UFC star called out...](https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mma/news/daniel-cormier-eric-trump-former-ufc-star-deleted-tweet/c76d97c87995acc02fd6d0e8)** > > Former UFC star Daniel Cormier seemingly called out Donald Trump's son over a bizarre exchange. > While Trump denies that the conversation ever took place and Cormier appeared to cast doubt on the tweet’s legitimacy, some MMA reporters — including Adam Martin — claim they saw it themselves before it was deleted. > **[Deleted Daniel Cormier Post Claims Eric Trump Wanted Insider UFC White House...](https://www.si.com/fannation/mma/news/deleted-daniel-cormier-post-claims-eric-trump-wanted-insider-ufc-white-house-info)** > > Just hours before “UFC Freedom 250” goes down at The White House, the event has been hit by a potential scandal involving Daniel Cormier and Eric Trump. > The post was only up for roughly 15 minutes before it was taken down, but the screenshots of alleged Instagram messages from Eric Trump to Cormier and the UFC Hall of Famer’s accompanying statement appeared to be damning, to say the least. > Given how quickly the post was taken down, it’s possible that Cormier’s own account was hacked and he acted quickly to recover it once the alleged screenshots went live. There’s also the possibility that Cormier did in fact receive the messages himself and wanted to try and bring the issue to light, only to find out that it was an account posing as the middle son of President Donald Trump. > There is of course a chance that both Cormier’s post and the messages were legitimate and that the former two-division UFC champion was told to take it down shortly after it was posted. It took a bit for Cormier to provide any sort of update after it was deleted, and his follow-up post didn’t exactly provide a clear explanation for the initial one. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2026, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4785 "2026-06-15T07:54:42Z")
Given that Eric Trump is involved, I assume the dumbest possible version of events occurred, which is that the screenshot I posted is accurate. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2026, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4786 "2026-06-16T01:16:06Z")
Trump appointee says that annexing Greenland will allow Red Lobster to bring back Endless Shrimp. > **[Trump appointee pitched Greenland as a way to refill Red Lobster’s shrimp](https://www.rawstory.com/greenland-red-lobster/)** > > One of the Trump administration officials who went all-in on President Donald Trump's far-fetched scheme of taking over Greenland pitched it as a bizarre way to rescue the Red Lobster restaurants, the New Yorker reported on Monday.Trump has been... ---
**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:** [June 16, 2026, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4787 "2026-06-16T03:15:22Z")
Every single Trump voter should be confronted with this and screamed at that this is what they voted for. Invade a sovereign nation to save a casual dining chain. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2026, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4788 "2026-06-16T03:38:58Z")
Some of them would respond: “Oh, did you say Red Lobster? I can’t get enough of their shrimp! And way up north, where all the shrimp in the world are. Great!” ---
**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:** [June 16, 2026, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4789 "2026-06-16T09:12:51Z")
The “Bubba Trump Shrimp Company” joke follows naturally. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2026, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4790 "2026-06-16T19:45:05Z")
Red Lobster reactivated Endless Shrimp on April 26. Talk about firing an arrow then painting a bulls eye around it. It would seem annexing Greenland is unnecessary. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2026, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4791 "2026-06-16T20:28:13Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Every single Trump voter should be confronted with this and screamed at that this is what they voted for. Invade a sovereign nation to save a casual dining chain. Not that it WOULD save that casual dining chain. The world’s shrimp are not concentrated in Greenland. Nor would Red Lobster make the same mistake again (even if they do have current Endless promotions, you can bet they are more restrictive than the old ones). **But Donald is desperate**. More desperate than he’s ever been in his miserable life, I would guess. A promise that ‘_Support me and you will get yummy food and plenty of young attractive sex partners and free transportation and a mansion to live in_’ is no doubt only a few weeks away. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2026, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4792 "2026-06-16T20:34:41Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > "And way up north, where all the shrimp in the world are. Great!” > [@Sherrerd](#): > > The world’s shrimp are not concentrated in Greenland. I was just funnin’. (what a MAGA’d say) ---
**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:** [June 16, 2026, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4793 "2026-06-16T20:39:47Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Not that it WOULD save that casual dining chain. The world’s shrimp are not concentrated in Greenland. Nor would Red Lobster make the same mistake again (even if they do have current Endless promotions, you can bet they are more restrictive than the old ones). Of course it wouldn’t. There are **LAYERS** of stupidity. To put it in language even MAGA might understand, it is like a Taco Bell burrito. It’s stupid on stupid on stupid. All that the _New Yorker_ reporting does is reveal yet more layers than we knew before, and there was already plenty of stupid to go around. It’s like finding out that not only is your burger rotten, and not only is it on a moldy bun, but it was wrapped in a used, dirty wrapper. (More fast-food metaphors for the MAGA crowd.) ---
**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:** [June 16, 2026, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4794 "2026-06-16T20:50:41Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > I was just funnin’. (what a MAGA’d say) No, I knew you weren’t being literal. 👍 I just typed what I did as part of my overall point. > [@Atamasama](#): > > To put it in language even MAGA might understand, it is like a Taco Bell burrito. It’s stupid on stupid on stupid. Very evocative! But Donny-boy is in real trouble. To distract the nation from the fact that even dedicated ‘conservatives’ are calling his Iran “deal” a surrender, Donny is going to have to up the Stupid to a degree human minds have never before contemplated. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2026, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4795 "2026-06-16T21:02:12Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > But Donny-boy is in real trouble. To distract the nation from the fact that even dedicated ‘conservatives’ are calling his Iran “deal” a surrender, Donny is going to have to up the Stupid to a degree human minds have never before contemplated. Stupid is funny and worthy of mockery and dismissal when it’s just some jackass doing it. When they are the President of the Goddamn United States, it is dangerous. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4796 "2026-06-16T21:05:02Z")
Very true. And the US troops sent to Cuba, shortly, will be in a great position to testify to that fact. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2026, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4797 "2026-06-16T21:08:42Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > And the US troops sent to Cuba, shortly Trump won’t send troops into Cuba because he knows there’ll be casualties and his aversion to anything short of a “perfect victory” won’t allow him to countenance that. It’s the same reason he chickened out of invading Kharg Island. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4798 "2026-06-16T21:10:28Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Trump won’t send troops into Cuba because he knows there’ll be casualties Of course. Other peoples deaths (well USA ones) make him look bad. Can’t have that. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2026, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4799 "2026-06-16T21:13:40Z")
At this point I wouldn’t be surpised if Trump just said that any dead people from this would be losers for dieing. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2026, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4800 "2026-06-16T21:14:19Z")
I do hope you’re both right about that. Certainly Donald wouldn’t be deterred by any actual concern for the troops—so if some American analog to Bibi assured him it could be done “Venezuela-style,” he’d be eager to believe. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=239) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=241)