# 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:** 29
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/561 "2025-04-04T20:16:42Z")
Thanks ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/562 "2025-04-04T23:38:01Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Can penguins have tears in their eyes? Little ice cubes. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/o5BVq8fgkWc/maxresdefault.jpg "Bugs Bunny and Playboy Penguin (Frigid Hare ending)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5BVq8fgkWc) ---
**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:** [April 5, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/563 "2025-04-05T00:18:18Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > The bill would also require the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to set up a system allowing residents to report “suspected geoengineering activities” and directing the FDEP to investigate those claims. So, can people report anyone producing excess carbon dioxide? ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/564 "2025-04-05T00:33:04Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > So, can people report anyone producing excess carbon dioxide? Someone should report Trump for all the other gases he produces at Mar-a-Lago like methane, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and various other sulfur-containing compounds. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/565 "2025-04-05T00:34:16Z")
I think everyone should report contrails. Continuously. They’ll regret this move. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/566 "2025-04-05T00:38:44Z")
You think they would have learned by now that opening public tip lines is just asking for abuse. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/567 "2025-04-05T00:44:56Z")
Sean Duffy is too much of a scaredy-cat to ride the subway. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3llzkrafoll2c)** > > Sean Duffy: "The truth is, transit across America is dangerous. And these liberals -- liberal mayors -- they want everybody out of cars and into trains but they made the trains unsafe so nobody really wants to ride them ... even big men don't want to... Funny how these so-called alpha male manly men are the softest wusses on the planet. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/568 "2025-04-05T00:46:15Z")
No one rides the trains anymore. They’re too crowded. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/569 "2025-04-05T02:56:13Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Penguins ain’t got no culture. > > When you say Dylan to a penguin > He thinks you’re talking about Dylan Thomas > Whoever he was I lost my harmonica, Ernest ---
**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:** [April 5, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/570 "2025-04-05T04:30:54Z")
No, they won’t. They will use the volume of reports to “prove” that the problem is real. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/571 "2025-04-05T16:57:52Z")
[![](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/q_70,fl_lossy,dpr_3,h_76,w_100,c_scale/v200/2b4c27b0-009a-444a-9afe-4a72aa91dedd) ](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/q_70,fl_lossy,dpr_3,h_76,w_100,c_scale/v200/2b4c27b0-009a-444a-9afe-4a72aa91dedd) ---
**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:** [April 5, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/572 "2025-04-05T19:23:04Z")
Milo Yiannopolis (remember him?) says that Real Men long to work in the sweatshops. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q325ug6pkcr6crqhe5lvhomr/bafkreig3mhenpib73dcjsq42ctkpljoac7y32mkwqbqnozs6lmzi6nrz6y@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q325ug6pkcr6crqhe5lvhomr/bafkreig3mhenpib73dcjsq42ctkpljoac7y32mkwqbqnozs6lmzi6nrz6y@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/573 "2025-04-05T19:30:43Z")
So what’s this wanker’s “job”? BS internet idiot? ---
**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:** [April 5, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/574 "2025-04-05T19:37:39Z")
It must pay well, they’re lining up to take the job. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/575 "2025-04-05T19:47:26Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > So what’s this wanker’s “job”? He serves as Secretary of Irony-Impairment. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/576 "2025-04-05T20:03:06Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > So what’s this wanker’s “job”? BS internet idiot? He was an editor for Breitbart and a writer of self-published books. Now he appears to have resigned from his position at Yeezey Apparel. So “unemployed writer and loudmouth fool” appears to be his current position. Maybe he is “stressed and addicted and broken” because he’s into underage boys. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/577 "2025-04-05T20:55:27Z")
I worked in jobs where the value of what I did was measured by how willing I was to beat up my body. Physical labor, groundskeeping, cleaning, moving furniture, etc. I have an “email job” that Britler would sneer at, and I’m valued for my problem-solving skills, knowledge, and experience. It’s so much more satisfying. I am much happier than I was killing myself to survive. Milo is nothing more than a misanthrope. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/578 "2025-04-05T23:15:36Z")
The only surprise is that it took them so long: > **[Exclusive | Congress to grill reclusive White House doctor on Biden’s mental...](https://www.aol.com/rep-ronny-jackson-says-house-160708131.html)** > > Former White House doctor Kevin O’Connor will be among those grilled by House Republicans for hiding President Biden’s cognitive decline from the American public, Rep. Jackson (R-Texas)… > Former White House doctor Kevin O’Connor will be among those grilled by House Republicans for hiding President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline from the American public, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) told The Post. > > “ **Dr. Kevin O’Connor will absolutely, positively be implicated in the cover-up of this**. He is a massive, massive part,” said Jackson, a physician by trade who served in the White House Medical Unit under three presidents before being elected to Congress, where he now chairs the House Intelligence Committee’s subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations > > “I guarantee you Kevin O’Connor has medical information that the American people don’t have,” Jackson went on. “ **He was probably putting President Biden on lots of medications that we have no clue of — in efforts to try to treat his cognitive decline**.” > > “I’ve known him for a long time; **he’s part of the Biden family. He would do or say anything to cover up and protect that family, regardless of what it meant professionally for him** ,” he added. “This could not have been covered up without him — and Jill Biden — in particular.” Nice **well-poisoning** there (though he slipped up and didn’t say “crime family”). Obviously anything Kevin O’Connor\* says in rebuttal to the “cognitive decline” meme will be a bald-faced lie. As for Biden’s dropping out of the race shortly having been declared in “excellent” physical health, I suspect that had far more to do with his political health. Which is not to say that there was no cognitive deterioration, but whatever may have been pales in comparison to the Orange Peril. \* A suspicious name, don’cha think? Sounds like one of them papists. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/579 "2025-04-05T23:41:39Z")
Isn’t Jackson the guy who said that if Donald Trump had eaten healthier over the past 20 years, he might live to be 200? That’s his _professional_ medical assessment, as the actual White House doctor? I think he’s hardly one to talk. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/580 "2025-04-05T23:59:46Z")
Yeah, I’m unusually slow on the uptake (even for me) today, but the name finally clicked. He was also WH physician during a time when controlled substances were, according to numerous reports, floating around the place like jellybeans in the Reagan era. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=28) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=30)