# 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:** 244
**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:** [June 22, 2026, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4861 "2026-06-22T05:17:04Z")
I guess I’m boring. I figured it was an in-patient substance abuse facility. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2026, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4862 "2026-06-22T07:08:58Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I was thinking conversion therapy. Me too! ---
**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:** [June 22, 2026, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4863 "2026-06-22T08:09:29Z")
But he didn’t use that word. That’s why I went with _his **transitioning** _. ---
**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 22, 2026, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4864 "2026-06-22T09:18:22Z")
Or just plain ol’ drying out, alcohol or other recreational pharmaceuticals. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4865 "2026-06-22T12:22:30Z")
So we will find out where he’s been in a number of weeks? That number of weeks wouldn’t by any chance corresponded to around say Nov. 4th or later. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2026, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4866 "2026-06-22T12:31:34Z")
I don’t think it’s drug or alcohol rehab. Politicians like to talk about going into rehab, because it offers an excuse for bad behavior and makes them look humble and repentent. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2026, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4867 "2026-06-22T14:39:50Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Politicians like to talk about going into rehab, because it offers an excuse for bad behavior and makes them look humble and repentent. But not if it’s some trashy street drug. Booze or coke? Sure. But maybe it was meth? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4868 "2026-06-25T04:38:21Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > the very engaging book, _[Shady Characters; The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks](https://www.amazon.com/Shady-Characters-Punctuation-Symbols-Typographical/dp/0393349721)_, recommended by @Exapno_Mapcase in another thread. Sigh. As if my TBR pile weren’t already greater than what I could get through in what remains of my lifetime… ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4869 "2026-06-25T11:35:48Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > As if my TBR pile weren’t already greater than what I could get through in what remains of my lifetime… If you want to justify it anyways, consider reading books and buying books to be two separate hobbies. ---
**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 25, 2026, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4870 "2026-06-25T22:05:49Z")
Anna Paulina Luna is holding up must-pass House legislation to try to force the Senate to pass Trump’s unconstitutional voter suppression bill that doesn’t even have 50 votes, let alone 60. > **[Mike Johnson runs to Trump as MAGA Republican seizes 'control' of Congress:...](https://www.rawstory.com/luna-johnson-trump/)** > > Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) ran to President Donald Trump for help with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) after she hijacked the House and derailed his agenda.Luna has frozen all floor votes until the Senate passes the Safeguard American Voter... ---
**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:** [June 25, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4871 "2026-06-25T23:11:44Z")
The story doesn’t expand on this. How exactly does she manage this? ---
**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 25, 2026, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4872 "2026-06-25T23:40:27Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > The story doesn’t expand on this. Sure it does. She just goes directly to Trump, and since the Republicans are spineless babies needing Daddy’s approval, they are afraid to do anything. > “The speaker talks to the president a lot. But Luna talks to him more,” one House Republican told the outlet, speaking anonymously. > > During a fight over a cryptocurrency bill last year, Luna walked out of a Treasury Department meeting, went straight to the White House, and into the Oval Office. Trump [brought the whole group in](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/24/house-discharge-petitions-mike-johnson-00666557) and handed hard-liners a concession, the report said. > > “Luna has more operational control around here than most anyone,” a second House Republican said anonymously. > > “It’s not my job to play trust games with the Senate when they’ve actively betrayed our trust multiple times,” Luna told the outlet. “Plus, the president’s on my side.” ---
**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 26, 2026, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4873 "2026-06-26T04:58:17Z")
Who is the “our” in “our trust”, I shudder to ask… ---
**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:** [June 26, 2026, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4874 "2026-06-26T17:54:45Z")
It says she has frozen all House votes. Trump certainly has that power, sadly, and to the extent they’re in agreement, she mirrors the president’s expectations. But I’m still not getting how she has frozen all House votes. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4875 "2026-06-26T18:39:18Z")
Trump has the power to prevent the House from voting? WTF? ---
**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:** [June 26, 2026, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4876 "2026-06-26T18:50:31Z")
That sounds unlikely. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2026, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4877 "2026-06-26T18:58:36Z")
Well, he has bully power. ---
**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 26, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4878 "2026-06-26T19:19:12Z")
Jim Jordan thinks they play hockey at the World Cup. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mp77v4ckdi2m)** > > Jim Jordan on the World Cup: "Look at the UFC fight where the American beat the Spanish guy in the main event. We're on a roll so let's hope the hockey team can do the same." > > (The World Cup isn't a hockey event ...) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4879 "2026-06-26T19:38:39Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > Well, he has bully power. This is what I will never understand. They should laugh in his face and walk away. ---
**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 26, 2026, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/4880 "2026-06-26T19:40:00Z")
Jim Jordan is an idiot and a thoroughly disgusting person. He’s also a former NCAA champion wrestler and college wrestling coach, and I assume has a greater knowledge and interest in sports in general than the average person. My guess is that he meant to say “soccer”, and it’s an easy verbal flub to make considering it is similar to the word “hockey”, and both are second-tier sports in the US where they don’t have as much of an overall following as they do in other nations. Getting them mixed up is understandable. Not to mention that most politicians who kiss Trump’s ass probably know all about the World Cup since Trump has made such a big deal about it (as he and FIFA are in cahoots). So, I think he knows that it’s soccer, but it’s still embarrassing, and his failure to correct himself or for the show hosts to correct him certainly make them all look like idiots. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=243) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=245)