# 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:** 256
**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:** [July 17, 2026, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5101 "2026-07-17T22:22:31Z")
The next policy change is going to be that all uniforms are being replaced.with the Spartan costumes from _300_. [![](https://miro.medium.com/v2/1*TV7H4FMywp8P-jBZat9Fmw.png) ](https://miro.medium.com/v2/1*TV7H4FMywp8P-jBZat9Fmw.png) ---
**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:** [July 17, 2026, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5102 "2026-07-17T22:30:44Z")
Nope. You’re forgetting about the cost-cutting drive. The next policy change is the military goes into battle adorned like the Gaesatae tribe of Celts. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5103 "2026-07-18T00:00:17Z")
Here is a blast from the ancient and innocent past, 2003. Which was/is amazingly prescient about the path forward for whatever is left of our newly improved T-augmented white male only DoD. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qzllUFTxMa8/hqdefault.jpg "The Adventures of Hercubush - by BangZoomTV (2003)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzllUFTxMa8) ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5104 "2026-07-18T00:18:55Z")
What, that beardo? ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5105 "2026-07-18T16:51:57Z")
OMG, I’ve never seen that. It’s great. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5106 "2026-07-18T16:57:51Z")
[https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/2078227817305944173/video/1](https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/2078227817305944173/video/1) Hegseth’s Testosterone Number. Sorry, it’s a Twitter link, it’s the only place found it. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5107 "2026-07-18T17:00:53Z")
I assumed Hegseth wanted the troops to look like an Abercrombie & Fitch photo shoot. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5108 "2026-07-18T17:01:55Z")
Care to summarize, for those of us without an X account? ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5109 "2026-07-18T17:05:04Z")
It’s an animated video of a song with lyrics like, “Testosterone. It’s the juice that makes you more burly. Testosterone. You’ll no longer feel so girly.” and “So stand and shout and whip it out … Testosterone!” All presented as a WWII training film. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5110 "2026-07-18T17:08:05Z")
And I was able to watch it despite not having a Twitter account. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5111 "2026-07-18T17:34:47Z")
Hm, I was too, eventually. Trying to press the start button just gave me a popup to log in or sign up, but somehow (either from clicking fast or just waiting) it started on its own. Still couldn’t turn on the sound. The controls weren’t visible while it was playing, and while it was stopped, the unmute button just gave the same popup. But I got the gist. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5112 "2026-07-18T20:27:06Z")
This could go here or in the Fuck Texas thread. There’s a good picture in the linked article. > At least 120 giant border buoys weighing about one ton each are floating uncontrolled and dislodged down the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass, Texas, toward the South Texas border town of Laredo after flooding in the region. > > Laredo Mayor Victor Treviño declared an emergency on Friday warning the 260,000 residents in his town of the unusual debris headed their way. He expects the buoys to arrive downstream Saturday evening. [https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/border-buoys-dislodged-and-floating-down-rio-grande-toward-laredo-texas/](https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/border-buoys-dislodged-and-floating-down-rio-grande-toward-laredo-texas/) ---
**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:** [July 18, 2026, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5113 "2026-07-18T21:03:16Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Paratroopers must also play “It’s Raining Men” on loudspeakers during all drops. It’s remarkable how reliably ALL of Hegseth’s opinions and actions tend to point in the direction of him being ardently non-heterosexual. Which is fine; we’d all benefit from his learning to be honest about it, though. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2026, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5114 "2026-07-19T10:24:05Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > It’s remarkable how reliably ALL of Hegseth’s opinions and actions tend to point in the direction of him being ardently non-heterosexual. You’re certainly not the first to notice, and at least one lawmaker agrees: > **[Democratic congresswoman calls out Pete Hegseth’s ‘intense, homoerotic...](https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/pete-hegseth-testosterone-macho#toggle-gdpr)** > > Vermont Democrat Becca Balint compared the defense secretary’s “rugged macho man” persona to the hypermasculine figures drawn by gay erotic artist Tom of Finland. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5115 "2026-07-19T16:13:42Z")
Been meaning to bring up Tom of Finland IRT Kegsbreath\* for a while now. Probably has a stash of the comics somewhere. \*as well as fucker Carlson’s ball-tanning wierdness. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2026, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5116 "2026-07-19T16:22:16Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > [https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/border-buoys-dislodged-and-floating-down-rio-grande-toward-laredo-texas/](https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/border-buoys-dislodged-and-floating-down-rio-grande-toward-laredo-texas/) 🎶 The bouys are back in town… 🎶 ---
**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:** [July 19, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5117 "2026-07-19T21:41:43Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > You’re certainly not the first to notice, and at least one lawmaker agrees: It’s impossible to miss. Note that it was said of “Nazi culture” (the general visual presentation, as well as what obsessed them) that homoeroticism was a vital if unacknowledged component. And Hegseth does seem to have taken at least some cues from the Nazi look-and-feel. There’s a lot of speculation about the Nazi obsession, though not everyone agrees, as in this Variety review of a documentary on Hitler’s sexuality: > [@](#): > > … like Italian Fascism’s obsession with faux-Roman design, the Nazi aesthetic is as imbedded in imperialist romantic nostalgia as it is in a grand view of excessive maleness. > **[The Hidden Fuhrer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler’s Sexuality](https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/the-hidden-fuhrer-debating-the-enigma-of-hitler-s-sexuality-1200532046/)** > > Was Hitler gay? Ever since German scholar Lothar Machtan pondered the question in his 2001 book, the matter has shadowed much recent discussion about the dictator. Documakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato provide both a filmed book report on... Whatever it is, Pete has it bad. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5118 "2026-07-19T22:56:49Z")
Alec Neel Vance was born today (7/19/26). I already reported a post on MSNOW’s Facebook page for being disrespectful. Folks, he’s a BABY. > **[JD Vance becomes first sitting vice president in more than 150 years to...](https://www.wlky.com/article/jd-vance-usha-vance-fourth-child-baby-alec-neel/73180813)** > > JD Vance becomes the first sitting vice president in more than 150 years to welcome a newborn. Here's what we know about their baby boy. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5119 "2026-07-20T01:31:41Z")
[You lazy bastards!](https://www.rawstory.com/maga-senator-ridiculed-for-saying-people-should-work-7-days-a-week-on-fox-news-interview/) “Americans work five days a week, the minimum we ought to work is seven days a week,” Scott said. “I’m a business guy. Business people have to work every day. We need to work every day to get this stuff done.” ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5120 "2026-07-20T02:45:47Z")
The minimum? Does he think the song “Eight Days A Week” describes an alternative calendar? Or is he just a hateful moron? Hmm… And if he thinks it’s less work to NOT be a Congressman, by all means go ahead and not be one [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=255) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=257)