# 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:** 283
**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 12, 2026, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5641 "2026-09-12T21:13:06Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I hope he washed that hand for a very long time afterwards. Yes, that would have been prudent. > [@Chronos](#): > > Oh, so Giuliani is back to admitting that 9/11 happened, again? At this point I doubt that there are many expecting consistency (or even coherence) from Rudy. ---
**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 12, 2026, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5642 "2026-09-12T21:20:44Z")
I doubt there are many expecting sobriety or the ability to walk a straight line from Rudy these days ---
**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 12, 2026, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5643 "2026-09-12T21:26:43Z")
And that would be realistic. (Sadly, the same could be said about Pete Hegseth—yet he’s riding pretty high in Republican esteem.) ---
**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 12, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5644 "2026-09-12T22:11:46Z")
Or at least Trump esteem, which is the only thing that matters among those circles. Rudy lost that a while back ---
**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 12, 2026, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5645 "2026-09-12T22:32:34Z")
I’m often involved in hiring (usually as part of an interview panel) for my state government agency. We have to be **very** careful what we ask. Nobody can prove what is in your head when you make a hiring decision, but they can prove what information you ask. So just don’t ask for information that would be inappropriate for making that decision. Of course, people can volunteer whatever they want. They can show up in a MAGA hat or a Black Lives Matter t-shirt, and an employer could be biased against or toward someone because of it. And again, unless they’re stupid enough to actually admit it, you can’t ever prove they did. The OPM saying it’s okay because it’s optional and they can’t use it for consideration are all bullshit. Just don’t hire people who choose not to answer the “optional” question, or anyone whose answer doesn’t clearly show loyalty to Trump. It seems like a very easy call for this judge. This shit is illegal for a reason. I just wish there could be some real consequences for those making these decisions and not just a judge saying “stop”, but I have stopped expecting to see any of these criminals ever face real justice. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2026, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5646 "2026-09-12T23:28:03Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > gay racist fascists Is my brain the only one that wants this to rhyme? Gay-cist Ray-cist Fay-cists? ---
**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 13, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5647 "2026-09-13T20:09:59Z")
Stupid idea, evil idea, fuck Texas, … too many threads. Speaker Johnson abandons the Constitution, his own religion, any morals at all. House Speaker Mike Johnson defended backing Texas Republican congressional candidate Brandon Herrera despite past remarks in which Herrera called a child a “cum trophy,” goose-stepped to Nazi music and joked about killing older people. Johnson called the remarks “detestable” but said Herrera had been trying to get attention as part of his “persona online.” “He’s now running as a very serious candidate for Congress and a very thoughtful guy,” Johnson said, adding that Herrera had apologized. **He apologized, well that makes everything better. Raping children, killing people, genocide of the Jews - How forgiving of you Speaker Johnson. Your fake religiosity will get you damned to hell (like there’s a hell).** > **[Verifying your browser…](https://xcancel.com/clashreport/status/2099209722650083685)** ---
**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 13, 2026, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5648 "2026-09-13T21:15:35Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Johnson called the remarks “detestable” but said Herrera had been trying to get attention as part of his “persona online.” > > “He’s now running as a very serious candidate for Congress and a very thoughtful guy,” Johnson said, adding that Herrera had apologized. Yet I’m guessing Mike Johnson is less forgiving of comments by Hasan Piker. And that he even goes so far as to attribute Piker’s sentiments to “All Democrats.” Mike rolls that way. ---
**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 13, 2026, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5649 "2026-09-13T21:33:57Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Yet I’m guessing Mike Johnson is less forgiving of comments by Hasan Piker. And even of comments not made by Hasan Piker. ---
**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 13, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5650 "2026-09-13T21:42:24Z")
But attributed to him? Yes, that seems not unlikely. Mike is quite possibly due to have an even more prominent role in US history in less than four months. All he has to do is replace the current House clerk with one more explicitly MAGA—and then on January 3, said clerk will decline to read the names of Democrats elected on November 3. This will mean that only Republicans will be seated in the House, constituting the 120th Congress. No doubt Mike can frame this to himself as being God’s Will. ---
**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 13, 2026, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5651 "2026-09-13T22:12:42Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > But attributed to him? Yes, that seems not unlikely. Yup, including ones attributed to him by nobody but Mike Johnson, and including on occasions before the actual Piker was born. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2026, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5652 "2026-09-13T22:23:55Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Yet I’m guessing Mike Johnson is less forgiving of comments by Hasan Piker. And that he even goes so far as to attribute Piker’s sentiments to “All Democrats.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mvftwot7ru2a)** > > Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... " ---
**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 14, 2026, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5653 "2026-09-14T02:29:28Z")
[Giulani shares what he said to Mayor Mamdani during the handshake felt around the world.](https://www.aol.com/articles/giuliani-reveals-said-mamdani-during-211809000.html) > [@](#): > > Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani disclosed what he told [Mayor Zohran Mamdani](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mamdani-new-york-democratic-primary-sanders-b2998198.html) during their viral face-to-face exchange at [Friday’s ceremony](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/9-11-ceremony-mamdani-giuliani-ground-zero-b3048638.html) marking the 25th anniversary of the [September 11, 2001, terror attacks](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/9-11-images-iconic-attacks-pictures-twin-towers-b3045918.html). > > The two men shook hands and briefly exchanged words at the Manhattan ceremony, which drew scores of political figures, including [all living former presidents](https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/george-w-bush-bill-clinton-biden-obama-911-ceremony-b3048664.html). > > Before the event, Giuliani had publicly opposed Mamdani’s attendance and claimed that the city’s first-ever Muslim mayor wants his religion “to dominate us.” > > In a [livestream afterward](https://x.com/RudyGiuliani/status/2098516999102144581), Giuliani, a Republican who was in office during the 2001 terrorist attacks, recounted his interaction with Mamdani, a democratic socialist elected last year. > > “Now, I shook hands with Mamdani,” Giuliani told Tony Carbonetti, his former chief of staff. > > “Did you wash them afterward?” Carbonetti replied. > > “No,” Giuliani said. “I am not, at a ceremony like this…I am not gonna cause any ridiculous anything.” > > Giuliani said he believed he had extended his hand first, though he acknowledged Mamdani may have initiated the handshake. > > “So we shook hands and I said to him, ‘I pray for you,’ and he said ‘thank you,’ and we just went our ways,” he said. Too bad Hizzoner wasn’t raised in Dixie. Then he’d’ve known the correct response to Giulani’s comment is “Bless your heart.” And nice bit of bigotry from Carbonetti. ---
**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 14, 2026, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5654 "2026-09-14T02:37:19Z")
Wow, that actually bears some resemblance to class. Who’da thunk? ---
**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 14, 2026, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5655 "2026-09-14T21:06:11Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > and including on occasions before the actual Piker was born. In that grand Republican tradition of blaming Obama for those of his Presidential decisions that led to 9/11 (etc.). ---
**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 15, 2026, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5656 "2026-09-15T04:00:14Z")
[Give me an N! Give me an A! Give me..well, you know where this is headed.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/exclusive-marched-nazis-charlottesville-now-130012629.html) > [@](#): > > The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives marched alongside neo-Nazis at the deadly 2017 [“Unite the Right” rally](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/documenting-hate-charlottesville/) in Charlottesville, Virginia, a new Talking Points Memo investigation can reveal. > > Marshall Rawson — who won an [upset](https://floridapolitics.com/archives/815095-marshall-rawson-upsets-chase-brannan-in-hd-10-republican-primary/) victory in Florida’s District 10 Republican primary last month — attended the infamous Charlottesville rally, considered the largest white supremacist gathering in a generation, marching with the [League of the South](https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/league-south/), a racist and antisemitic neo-Confederate group that advocates for the secession of southern states from the U.S. > > Video footage reviewed by TPM shows Rawson and his now-wife arriving at the rally and being greeted by name by League of the South members. A photo obtained by TPM, taken at a different point during the violent demonstration, shows Rawson standing near [James Alex Fields Jr.](https://www.npr.org/2019/07/15/741756615/virginia-court-sentences-neo-nazi-james-fields-jr-to-life-in-prison), the neo-Nazi who a short time later drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing a 32-year-old woman and injuring dozens of others. ---
**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 15, 2026, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5657 "2026-09-15T19:43:48Z")
Today Kash Patel defended his bold stance in favor of hiring FBI agents with a history of participating in bestiality: > [@](#): > > When Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) asked Patel about the rule change, Patel explained that before he arrived, the rules “automatically disqualified any individual who participated on either side of it. Obviously we were never going to hire the criminal.” > > “Either side of what? The bestiality?” Kennedy replied. “So you disqualified the animal?” > > “We have great canines, but we’re not going to disqualify the animal,” Patel said. > > Kennedy, understandably, was still confused. Turns out that Kash apparently has some number of applicants who participated in bestiality, but did so _unwillingl_y. So they can now become FBI agents. Huzzah!!! > **[Kash Patel Defends the FBI Welcoming Applicants Who Have Engaged in Bestiality](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/kash-patel-defends-fbi-welcoming-154537955.html)** > > FBI Director Kash Patel defended relaxing the FBI's hiring standards to allow applicants who have engaged in bestiality during a bizarre hearing. ---
**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 15, 2026, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5658 "2026-09-15T19:53:26Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Turns out that Kash apparently has some number of applicants who participated in bestiality, but did so _unwillingl_y. So they can now become FBI agents. I would argue that anyone who is literally forced did not “participate” in anything, and this is a ridiculous and completely false excuse. That’s like saying someone “participated” in a mugging and therefore are not suited for law enforcement if someone held them up at gunpoint and took their wallet. This seems more like a change to allow specific people known to sexually abuse animals into the agency, and he’s making up a bullshit scenario to handwave it away. ---
**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 15, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5659 "2026-09-15T19:56:17Z")
\<90s\>Well, duh\ ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/5660 "2026-09-15T20:01:57Z")
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