# 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:** 268
**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:** [August 4, 2026, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5341 "2026-08-04T22:15:45Z")
I would hope so. A picture of you and your brother in the bath last week might be a tad weird. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5342 "2026-08-04T22:17:34Z")
In 1976, when I was 2 years old, my dad took a break from law school and shacked up in a borrowed West Virginia hunting cabin with my mom and me for a couple of weeks. I have a picture hanging in my living room right now of my dad sitting on its ramshackle porch, grinning, a short necked bottle of Bud in one hand and a hunting rifle in the other, and me sitting on his lap, buck naked. The 1970s were a different time. (No visible genitalia, though. I was a chubby kid). ---
**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:** [August 4, 2026, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5343 "2026-08-04T23:02:12Z")
Miller went on CNN today to try and clear his name. It didn’t go well. The entire 20 minutes is worth watching. It’s a glorious trainwreck. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1qeXmJEQ8Aw/hqdefault.jpg "🤯 Max Miller's interview with Tapper is an utter trainwreck 🤯") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qeXmJEQ8Aw) ---
**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:** [August 4, 2026, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5344 "2026-08-04T23:19:04Z")
Some highlights; It was illegal for my ex to take our daughter to the hospital > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3msbwmf5uc225)** > > Rep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared... There was nothing wrong with posting naked pictures of my daughter > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3msbwulazqa2s)** > > TAPPER: One of the files you released was an image of your daughter naked. It was available for a day before it was removed. Your ex-wife's attorney says it could quality as CSAM. That's shockingly reckless behavior > > MAX MILLER: I wouldn't say it's... I have video of my daughter, who is incapable of forming sentences, saying she’s afraid of her mom > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3msbww6y7kk2s)** > > MAX MILLER: She's 2.5 years old. She doesn't have the ability to articulate what you just said. > > > TAPPER: But you just told me that she said she was scared to go to mommy's house. Now you're saying she's not capable of saying "Daddy kill... Everyone is lying except me and I’m not dropping out because Trump > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3msbx3tj56a2v)** > > TAPPER: Do you know what a tall order it is to believe that 3 women who don't know each other made up accusations of you being violent, and you are telling the truth and they are all lying? That's difficult to believe, right? > > > MAX MILLER: No. Not in... I don’t remember how long it’s been since I last used ecstasy and the needles by my bed are fine because Pete Hegseth > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3msbxecl47g2t)** > > TAPPER: The story says when you were picked up for drunk driving, you have ecstasy in your system. When is last time you used illegal drugs? > > > MILLER: I mean, the last time -- I don't know, several years ago? > > TAPPER: Two? 20? > > MILLER: This is... PS, my father-in-law is gay > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3msbwi2qmwr25)** > > whoa -- Max Miller on CNN threatens Sen. Bernie Moreno with "exposing a deeply and personal embarrassing matter" after Moreno called for his resignation ---
**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:** [August 4, 2026, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5345 "2026-08-04T23:47:30Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > It was illegal for my ex to take our daughter to the hospital He was saying that having her that long was a court order violation; don’t know if that’s true or not, but it was completely dodging the question and not at all relevant. His confidence that if the police aren’t investigating him, he _must_ be innocent, that seems like a very poor tactic on his part. > [@Smapti](#): > > There was nothing wrong with posting naked pictures of my daughter Honestly, the guy isn’t articulate enough that I can tell even _what_ he was arguing. He talks like someone who is sleep-deprived, drunk, or on drugs. Or some combination of those things. I sometimes watch police bodycam video of people being pulled over for DUI and explaining themselves to the cops, and he looks like he came right out of those videos. He said it wasn’t a big deal because it was part of the public record (which is bullshit; no way a naked child photo is a “public record”, and Tapper confirmed that it was bullshit) and that it was taken “out of context” (but not how it was) and that it was both horrible and not a big deal. I’m not even going to watch any more. It’s clear that this person is digging a hole for himself in this video. It’s disturbing to watch. It’s easy to believe that this guy is a danger and not fully stable when watching this. And what’s really fucked up is that this is his attempt to do damage control and improve his image; how does he act when he’s **not** doing that?! ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5346 "2026-08-05T00:04:34Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > In 1976, when I was 2 years old, my dad took a break from law school and shacked up in a borrowed West Virginia hunting cabin with my mom Cute! Saucy! 😉 > [@Alessan](#): > > and me 😱 … Oh, okay: “shacked up” in the less common meaning of “to reside temporarily”, with no implication of a sexual relationship. Sorry, all these unsavory Stupid Republican CSA revelations have made me a bit jumpy. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2026, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5347 "2026-08-05T00:22:53Z")
In other news, Trump thinks blue cities have gross trees. [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTayG_cGrnckgFHjm2sJ_Bh9F5Ba-fS8GTn4HJWHtXHeLFLvQeunmyE0pXg&s=10) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTayG_cGrnckgFHjm2sJ_Bh9F5Ba-fS8GTn4HJWHtXHeLFLvQeunmyE0pXg&s=10) ---
**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:** [August 5, 2026, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5348 "2026-08-05T00:22:57Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’m not even going to watch any more. It’s clear that this person is digging a hole for himself in this video. Did you at least make it to Tapper cutting him off because “I’m not done listing the women who’ve accused you of violence”? That was one of the most brutal lines I’ve ever heard from an interviewer. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2026, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5349 "2026-08-05T05:51:11Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > … Oh, okay: “shacked up” in the less common meaning of “to reside temporarily”, with no implication of a sexual relationship. Sorry, all these unsavory Stupid Republican CSA revelations have made me a bit jumpy. I mean, it was literally a shack… ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5350 "2026-08-05T13:44:32Z")
This is kind of a continuing Stupid Kansas Republican idea, but could also maybe go in the Schadenfreude thread. First, some background. Back in 2019 the Kansas Supreme Court decided that abortion was protected under the state constitution. (That’s not the stupid part.) The state legislature then decided that the solution was an amendment to state constitution banning abortion. And just to make sure it passed, they put it on the ballot in the August 2022 primary rather than in the general election, because primary voters usually trend Republican. Unfortunately SCOTUS decided to overturn Roe v Wade that summer, releasing a shitstorm of pro abortion activism. Their amendment proposal went down in flames by nearly 20 points. Fast forward to this year where their strategy now was to revamp how KS Supreme Court judges were chosen. The system now is that the governor selects a new judge from three names submitted by a bipartisan panel. The GOP wanted to have judges elected rather than selected (because of course only the R’s will get elected). And once again they put the proposal on the primary ballot instead of the general election. And once again it went down by nearly the same margins as the abortion amendment four years ago. It’s funny how Republicans say that they respect the will of the voters, but apparently that is only true if voters actually approve what the GOP wants. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5351 "2026-08-05T13:56:55Z")
The Republican Party today has been reduced to two basic principles: 1. People like US can do what ever we want. 2. People like THEM have to do what ever we say. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5352 "2026-08-05T15:27:45Z")
Next door in Missouri, there were two amendments no the ballot: Amendment 4 - to make it basically impossible for a citizen submitted amendment to pass, but legislative initiated ones follow the current rules Amendment 5 - eliminate income tax and reduce/eliminate property taxes, shifting the tax burden to sales tax and away from people like me. The beauty of this one is that the legislature could already do it, so no need for an amendment. Both thankfully got crushed. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5353 "2026-08-05T15:33:52Z")
The administration has ceased shielding relatives of serving military personnel from deportation, breaking a long-standing policy. Yeah – deport the relatives of people in your armed forces. That’ll be great for morale. Trump’s people are evidently stupid for a living. > **[Trump's Immigration Crackdown Has Detained More Than 50 Military Spouses And...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-military-spouses-parents-detained_n_6a733c42e4b095f52301223a?origin=home-latest-news-unit)** > > For decades, families of service members were largely shielded from deportation under bipartisan consensus. Now, they’re being detained for months. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5354 "2026-08-05T15:48:30Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > This is kind of a continuing Stupid Kansas Republican idea Being a Kansan, I decide which way to vote by looking at what the republicans support and voting opposite. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2026, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5355 "2026-08-05T16:29:41Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > And once again it went down by nearly the same margins as the abortion amendment four years ago. I was shocked at the margin of victory by the NO vote. I expected a close race, with YES winning. I was elated to see that the AP called the race an hour after the polls closed last night. > [@Shoeless](#): > > It’s funny how Republicans say that they respect the will of the voters, but apparently that is only true if voters actually approve what the GOP wants. I’ll just add that since the right-to-life amendment was voted down in 2022, the super-majority Kansas GOP legislature has continually passed bills that whittle away at a woman’s right to choose. Fortunately we’ve had a Democratic governor who has vetoed all those attempts. We can only hope that another Democrat, Cindy Holscher, gets elected in November. She’s running against Trump-endorsed MAGAt Ty Masterson, who won fairly handily in a crowded GOP primary yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5356 "2026-08-05T16:46:20Z")
As long as I have been living in Kansas, the pattern has been alternating Republican male and Democratic female governors. (Not counting the guy who filled out Sebelius’ term after Obama tapped her to run HHS.) Here’s hoping Holscher can break the cycle, because the GOP governors have just gotten worse and worse. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2026, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5357 "2026-08-05T17:12:40Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > (Not counting the guy who filled out Sebelius’ term after Obama tapped her to run HHS.) Or the guy who filled out Brownback’s term after Trump tapped him to be the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. Whatever that is. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5358 "2026-08-05T19:16:44Z")
Here’s something wonderfully repugnant – they want to send “bounty hunters” out to collect fines _from people who have already been deported from the US_ > Using the infinite amount of cash at its disposal, Customs and Border Patrol has come up with one of the most morally repugnant options for a government contract imaginable: hunting down people who’ve been deported and **[demanding](https://www.projectsaltbox.com/p/us-border-patrol-wants-a-contractor)** they pay civil immigration fines. > … > The Trump administration hopes to track down some of the 66,387 deportees who ostensibly owe $423 million to the United States. These aren’t fines attached to any criminal act or consequence. Instead, they apply to anyone who stays after a deportation order has been issued or after signing a voluntary departure agreement. > > And they run a comical, unattainable $998 per day. > … > It isn’t at all clear how, exactly, this would work even if the world’s worst people take on this contract, in no small part because these fines can only be paid through the U.S. government portal at [pay.gov](http://pay.gov). > Can’t wait to find out the plan for somehow having random debt collectors demanding people in other countries install the administration’s crappy app to pay a staggering civil fine to a country from which they were forcibly removed. > **[Trump team plots to keep terrorizing people after they’re deported](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/8/5/800079734/world/trump-team-plots-terrorizing-people-after-deported/)** > > Customs and Border Patrol is hunting down people who’ve been deported and demanding they pay up. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2026, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5359 "2026-08-05T19:23:20Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > The administration has ceased shielding relatives of serving military personnel from deportation, breaking a long-standing policy. > > Yeah – deport the relatives of people in your armed forces. That’ll be great for morale. Not just for morale; if one’s spouse is being deported, who is there to parent any children one might have? I have _no_ idea how things work in the military, but I can imagine that the service members might need to petition for a hardship discharge. What’s that going to do for staffing levels? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5360 "2026-08-05T20:09:08Z")
Well, thread is for stupid ideas. The need to consider children and morale and so on assumes they think of anybody else as actual human beings and not soulless meat puppets who never question the idea their only value lies in their utility to their masters [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=267) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=269)