# 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:** 263
**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 30, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5241 "2026-07-30T20:17:15Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Not quite yet, ICE would need retraining. Not really. Their existing MO of simply shooting anyone & anything they see moving will work just as well as it ever has. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2026, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5242 "2026-07-30T20:43:28Z")
They might create a taskforce based off of _Magnus, Robot Fighter_. [![](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/valiantcomics/images/0/01/Magnus_Robot_Fighter_Vol_1_0.jpg) ](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/valiantcomics/images/0/01/Magnus_Robot_Fighter_Vol_1_0.jpg) Clean-shaven white guys in hot pants and muscle shirts punching stuff. I can’t see what the Republicans wouldn’t like about it. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2026, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5243 "2026-07-30T20:47:56Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > simply shooting anyone & anything they see moving The vacuum accelerated towards me! The shooting was justified. (MAGA) Don’t try to rundown people and you won’t be killed. FAFO! ---
**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 30, 2026, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5244 "2026-07-30T20:53:14Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > They’re coming for your Roomba. Not quite yet, ICE would need retraining. - > > [The US government just banned Roombas | The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/policy/972312/us-robot-ban-sweep-up-chinese-vacuums) Now how are they supposed to sweep everything under the rug? ---
**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 30, 2026, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5245 "2026-07-30T20:59:02Z")
Poor Hegseth will be totally heartbroken that the new anti-robo ICE division doesn’t work for him. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2026, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5246 "2026-07-30T21:17:13Z")
Cue the end credits to The Carol Burnett Show. ---
**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 30, 2026, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5247 "2026-07-30T21:32:54Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > He wisely chose not to let them goad him into making any remarks that they could then turn into an indictment. Instead, what they got was a man quietly defending his 5th amendment rights and not allowing them to gain any traction other than “what kind of innocent person uses the 5th amendment?”, which is weak sauce. I think/hope this obvious attempt to distract from Trump and to try to make this an election year issue is going to backfire badly. I hope so. It was a genuinely-repulsive display of lies and fake outrage by a lot of men who have worked very hard to avoid dealing with the economy, Trump’s war, Epstein accountability, and everything else that matters to most Americans. The hope, apparently, is that this sort of vicious treatment of an elderly public servant will Thrill the Base enough to get them to bother to vote (Republican) in November. Of course Fauci’s decision to take the 5th was wise (and shame on every media outlet that was breathless over How Many Times he took it). There was every chance of this kind of exchange: > [@](#): > > RAND PAUL: What color is your tie? > FAUCI, looking down: Red. > RAND PAUL, face purple with outrage: Your tie is plainly SCARLET, and you have just LIED TO CONGRESS. A grand jury will be empaneled and you will be indicted within the week. As always in Trumpland, the point is to make anyone Donald dislikes go to the expense and trouble of hiring lawyers. Donald’s DOJ might find a grand jury that would indict Fauci for saying ‘red’ instead of ‘scarlet,’ but plainly they’d have less luck finding a jury that would convict him of having lied to Congress. But meanwhile he’d have had to go to great expense and stress and upheaval—as an object lesson to all who might, like Fauci, say anything Donald doesn’t like. ---
**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 30, 2026, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5248 "2026-07-30T22:36:20Z")
CO gubernatorial nominee Victor Marx is selling a $99 course on how to battle “gay demoms”. [https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/gop-candidate-sells-99-course-on-how-to-battle-gay-demons-people-get-set-free-from-it-all/](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/gop-candidate-sells-99-course-on-how-to-battle-gay-demons-people-get-set-free-from-it-all/) ---
**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 30, 2026, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5249 "2026-07-30T22:42:31Z")
If he raises enough money through book sales he can afford to go to a reprogramming scam to battle his own “gay demons”. I forget if it was Jesus’s John or Paul who was a total sex fuckup. But if that bastard had been killed by a mule kick to the head before he met Jesus, the entire sexual history of the Abrahamic world would’ve been vastly more healthy. And fun. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2026, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5250 "2026-07-31T02:37:01Z")
Paul was such a misogynist it wasn’t funny. Of course, he also never met Jesus either. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2026, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5251 "2026-07-31T02:47:36Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Instead, what they got was a man quietly defending his 5th amendment rights and not allowing them to gain any traction other than “what kind of innocent person uses the 5th amendment?”, Indeed. > **[Trump invokes Fifth Amendment nearly 450 times in N.Y. AG’s civil probe of...](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-deposed-ny-ag-civil-probe-business-practices-rcna42355)** > > An attorney for Trump said the former president answered only one question, about his name, during the four-hour deposition. ---
**Author:** ![RAWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@RAWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RAWDuke)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5252 "2026-07-31T03:29:51Z")
I wasn’t sure if this should go in the Omnibus Religious Fucks or the Stupid Republican Ideas thread. I figured since this involves a political figure running for Tennessee governor it should land here. > **[Tennessee state representative, candidate for governor plans to ban mosques,...](https://www.wsmv.com/2026/07/29/tennessee-state-representative-candidate-governor-plans-ban-mosques-non-christian-religions-if-elected/)** > > State Rep. Monty Fritts, 63, a Republican candidate for governor, made the remarks in a sit-down interview with four days remaining in the state’s primary early voting period. The article doesn’t explain what he actually means by “banning” non-Christian religions. Burn down the mosques? Deport them? Send in ICE through neighborhoods to see if there’s a crucifix hanging on the living room wall? He argues that the 1st Amendment doesn’t apply to state governments, since it says “Congress shall make no law…” ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5253 "2026-07-31T08:59:05Z")
Although he didn’t mention Jews, I point out statements like “ban non-Christian religions” to my MAGAt Jewish friends as proof that MAGA is not their friends, MAGA just hasn’t gotten to their group… yet. We’re all on The List. The only question is where on The List. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2026, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5254 "2026-07-31T09:13:51Z")
We’re on every list. Anybody who hates anybody, also hates Jews. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5255 "2026-07-31T09:17:44Z")
Although you have a valid point it was not the one I was really making with my closing statements. EVERYONE is on The List. Not just Jews. Not just Blacks or Hispanics or women or gays or… Even if they got their wish and got rid of all of those they perceive as undesirables they’d fall to hating and eliminating each other because they _always_ need a scapegoat, they _always_ need someone to hate. Martin Niemöller really was right. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2026, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5256 "2026-07-31T09:18:40Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > We’re on every list. Anybody who hates anybody, also hates Jews. Cue Tom Lehrer: _Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics, And the Catholics hate the Protestants, And the Hindus hate the Moslems, And everybody hates the Jews._ ---
**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 31, 2026, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5257 "2026-07-31T10:13:42Z")
> [@RAWDuke](#): > > He argues that the 1st Amendment doesn’t apply to state governments, since it says “Congress shall make no law…” He sort of forgot that the idea the federal constitution applies to the states too has been well established constitutional law for WAG 150 years now. More likely he never learned that in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5258 "2026-07-31T10:57:29Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > We’re on every list. Anybody who hates anybody, also hates Jews. ? That seems to imply that Jews themsrlves can’t hate anybody, without being self-loathing. I don’t buy it: I definitely know some bigoted fellow Jews who are not also antisemitic. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2026, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5259 "2026-07-31T11:01:10Z")
I knew some smartass was going to say that. Yeas, I am excluding Jews from my statement. OK? Not because Jews are better than anyone else, but because it’s about hating the outsider, and Jews obviously aren’t outsiders to themselves. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2026, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5260 "2026-07-31T11:02:04Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Not because Jews are better than anyone else, but because it’s about hating the outsider, and Jews obviously aren’t outsiders to themselves. Not so fast - there’s always sectarianism. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=262) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=264)