# 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:** 281
**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:** [September 6, 2026, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5601 "2026-09-06T21:45:54Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > we’ll have all these incredible stories and incredible memories. > > “And yours will be right at the top of it all,” Witkoff told Putin. Creep. Money-grubbing immoral skulking stinking thug. > [@Sherrerd](#): > > it’s its 😳 ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2026, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5602 "2026-09-08T07:26:14Z")
Why you can’t reach the MAGAnauts. Which is more dangerous, Drag shows or guns? > **[Jason Selvig on Instagram: "Which is more dangerous?"](https://www.instagram.com/jasonselvig/reel/Dc_svt5JnZ9/)** > > 132K likes, 8,343 comments - jasonselvig on September 7, 2026: "Which is more dangerous?". ---
**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:** [September 9, 2026, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5603 "2026-09-09T20:44:04Z")
We have now reached the point at which the owner of The Onion is having to publicly state that they are not responsible for certain events. Like, for example, Tucker Carlson promoting the view that algebra is a Jewish plot. No, seriously. > **[Ben Collins (@bencollins.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3mv3ymztgbk2n)** > > A lot of people asking me how this isn't the New InfoWars and guess what maybe it is? > [@](#): > > Guys, I can’t stress this enough: We had nothing to do with this. Tucker’s team cut this up like this. They are 100% serious. These people really are this stupid. If you watch the video in that post, I very much encourage you to watch it right to the end to get the full effect. Yes, that guy really says that. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2026, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5604 "2026-09-09T20:58:29Z")
That’s a very Conservative (big C) viewpoint. If I don’t understand something, the problem isn’t my ignorance, the problem is that the thing I don’t understand must be wrong and anyone behind it has some nefarious scheme in play. And since they’re grasping to fit everything into a narrow, twisted viewpoint, to comfort themselves in a world they are too stupid to understand, let’s just dump it into the box of antisemitism. This is the same kind of thought process that led the Inquisition to arrest Galileo for questioning a geocentric view of the cosmos, and forced him to be imprisoned at home until his death (after making him recant his beliefs). 400 years later and some people haven’t learned a fucking thing. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2026, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5605 "2026-09-09T21:19:57Z")
Eh, Galileo’s house arrest was mostly about the fact that Galileo was an epic asshole. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5606 "2026-09-09T21:24:27Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > 400 years later and some people haven’t learned a fucking thing. And they never will. Stupid people are angry that a) someone might expect them to put in effort to learn something, and b) someone might despise them for declining to put in that effort. It’s the appeal of MIGHT MAKES RIGHT–if you can hit the smart person hard enough, the smart person goes down and you are at the top of the status hierarchy. This will never change so long as human brains don’t change. Asimov’s famous 1980 quote: > [@](#): > > “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge” … expresses the belligerence behind the mindset. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5607 "2026-09-09T21:26:57Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Galileo’s house arrest was mostly about the fact that Galileo was an epic asshole. However, [Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2iLAubras) ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5608 "2026-09-09T21:38:45Z")
Good song but highly inaccurate. Women in particular routinely described Picasso as such. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5609 "2026-09-09T23:06:02Z")
But girls could not resist his stare! ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5610 "2026-09-09T23:49:09Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Like, for example, Tucker Carlson promoting the view that algebra is a Jewish plot. No, seriously. Remember ~~goys~~ kids, it’s the Democrats that are the anti-Semites. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2026, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5611 "2026-09-10T00:25:29Z")
David Maloney, a Republican state legislator in Pennsylvania, apparently lives his life by the principle “WWDTD”. He has started a resolution to rename Lake Erie to Lake Pennsylvania. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2026, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5612 "2026-09-10T00:28:47Z")
Why does he hate America? ---
**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:** [September 10, 2026, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5613 "2026-09-10T02:33:07Z")
[Yet another pubby not embarrassed whatsoever to mouth the racist mantra.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/back-where-came-nyc-councilwoman-184102287.html) > [@](#): > > New York City Councilwoman **Vickie Paladino** (R) slammed streamer **Hasan Piker** for branding people like her “racist” for demanding NYC Mayor **Zohran Mamdani** (D) [skip the 9/11 memorial ceremony](https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/nyc-councilwoman-erupts-over-zohran-mamdani-showing-up-at-9-11-ceremony-he-does-not-belong-there/), with Paladino telling Fox News it has nothing to do with race and everything to do with “radical Islam.” > > She also urged Piker to “go back” to where he came from, but there is one problem for Paladino: Piker was born in the US. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2026, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5614 "2026-09-10T13:16:47Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > She also urged Piker to “go back” to where he came from, but there is one problem for Paladino: Piker was born in the US. Short trip, then. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2026, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5615 "2026-09-10T13:18:42Z")
The same folks who tell Native Americans to go back to where they came from just might be racist? Color me shocked! ---
**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:** [September 10, 2026, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5616 "2026-09-10T17:04:02Z")
Another one for the “I can’t believe I live in this timeline” pile. So someone thought it would be a good idea to put this picture of current resident of right-wing heads Hasan Piker up on the big screen at the Republican National Convention: [![](https://preview.redd.it/hasan-piker-appears-on-the-big-screen-at-the-republican-v0-jbarrrsz0loh1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=2c85797bc32c02845046322bbde707ee454d03a1) ](https://preview.redd.it/hasan-piker-appears-on-the-big-screen-at-the-republican-v0-jbarrrsz0loh1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=2c85797bc32c02845046322bbde707ee454d03a1) Piker is still processing this: [![](https://preview.redd.it/hasan-piker-appears-on-the-big-screen-at-the-republican-v0-a5wptntedloh1.jpeg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f9568018bf6553e285219c66022ff0cb83542799) ](https://preview.redd.it/hasan-piker-appears-on-the-big-screen-at-the-republican-v0-a5wptntedloh1.jpeg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f9568018bf6553e285219c66022ff0cb83542799) > **[Hasan Piker reacts to RNC showing NSFW photo of him](https://www.newsweek.com/hasan-pikers-underwear-photos-displayed-at-rnc-12424148)** > > The political streamer expressed disbelief after an image of him in his underwear appeared on screens at the GOP event in Dallas. The intent appears to be part of a smear campaign against Piker but it seems to have backfired a bit. I am also reminded of the stories about Grindr crashing whenever the RNC or CPAC are in town… ---
**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:** [September 10, 2026, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5617 "2026-09-10T17:12:20Z")
They’re all so deep in the closet they’ve already had a lecture from a Jesus allegory lion ---
**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:** [September 10, 2026, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5618 "2026-09-10T17:31:00Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I am also reminded of the stories about Grindr crashing whenever the RNC or CPAC are in town… Oddly enough… [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HRz13UNXwAs_Hij?format=webp&name=large) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HRz13UNXwAs_Hij?format=webp&name=large) ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2026, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5619 "2026-09-10T18:20:45Z")
I’ve actually heard the theory that it’s really leftist lunatics that are intentionally DDOSing and attacking Grindr when there are GOP conventions to make them look bad. And gay. Yeah, insanity. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5620 "2026-09-10T20:19:00Z")
> [@Airbeck](#): > > I’ve actually heard the theory that it’s really leftist lunatics that are intentionally DDOSing and attacking Grindr when there are GOP conventions to make them look bad. And gay. Yes, it’s the same Antifa folks who went undercover on January 6 to cause all the problems for the brave, patriotic Americans peacefully protesting the election steal. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=280) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=282)