# 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:** 31
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/601 "2025-04-08T01:42:41Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Hmm. Tariffs make men more manly? But what will they do to the women? (The tariffs. Not the manly men.) Tariffs like the 19th century when men were men, women were women, and children died of childhood diseases that now have vaccines. Just like God intended! ---
**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 8, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/602 "2025-04-08T04:30:20Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > How people can watch that and not laugh or recoil in bemused disgust. That’s the very excuse Fox News uses when sued for defamation. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/603 "2025-04-08T11:32:06Z")
Good news! You know all those Federal Employees they fired, because they were all some combination of lazy, incompetent, corrupt, fraudulent, and/or literally didn’t exist? Well, those fine people are going to be the workforce for all those new factories Trump is going to coerce companies to build in the US! > **[Treasury secretary wants fired federal staffers to work in factories](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/7/2315166/-Are-you-a-fired-federal-worker-Just-work-at-a-factory-Trump-goons-say?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_5&pm_medium=web)** > > Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the thousands of federal workers President Donald Trump and co-President Elon Musk have fired will become the workforce in factories Trump says will return to America thanks to his new tariff policy.... ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/604 "2025-04-08T12:32:36Z")
Great, so this new production boom that Trump is promising us is based on . . . UNSKILLED LABOR??? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/605 "2025-04-08T13:36:14Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Tariffs like the 19th century when men were men, women were women, and children died of childhood diseases that now have vaccines. Just like God intended! Man, Garrison Keillor’s really gotten dark recently. On the stupid end: just pointless trash talk to make yourself seem tougher. It doesn’t change anything or help anyone. > **[JD Vance: Beijing calls US VP 'ignorant' over 'Chinese peasants' remark](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20zd4k6d36o)** > > The sharp rhetoric comes as Donald Trump's tariffs fuel trade tensions between the US and China. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/606 "2025-04-08T14:19:15Z")
By logical inference Americans that buy US Treasury bonds are peasants, right JD? ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/607 "2025-04-08T14:20:15Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Man, Garrison Keillor’s really gotten dark recently. Nicely done. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/608 "2025-04-08T14:51:02Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Good news! > > You know all those Federal Employees they fired, because they were all some combination of lazy, incompetent, corrupt, fraudulent, and/or literally didn’t exist? > > Well, those fine people are going to be the workforce for all those new factories Trump is going to coerce companies to build in the US! > > [Treasury secretary wants fired federal staffers to work in factories](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/7/2315166/-Are-you-a-fired-federal-worker-Just-work-at-a-factory-Trump-goons-say?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_5&pm_medium=web) I’ve listened to that Scott Bessent clip and, IMHO, every media outlet covering the story completely missed the worst part…………which is that Bessent specifically says that these factory jobs won’t require a college education. Now, he does say that the iPhone screwing ( the specific job that he’s excited about bringing back involves putting screws in iPhones) will be automated, but uneducated Americans will still be needed to fix the AC in the iPhone screwing factories. So, none of you patriots need to worry about losing your children’s college fund to the Trump stock market, because you won’t be needing that! We’ll bring back tons of menial jobs that don’t require education, and as a bonus your kids won’t learn any woke college stuff! My next prediction is that the Pell grant program will be eliminated, because who needs college, college is bad because education makes people liberal! ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/609 "2025-04-08T15:00:16Z")
Does Liberty University accept Pell Grants? ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/610 "2025-04-08T17:33:00Z")
I don’t know which thread these should go in, but 13 UW Students/alumni had their visas revoked for no apparent reason. > **[Trump administration revokes visas for 13 international UW-Madison students](https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2025/04/08/trump-administration-revokes-visas-for-13-uw-madison-students/82989172007/)** > > The terminations affected six current students and seven alumni who received employment extensions of their visas, UW-Madison said. The TLDR version of this article, and probably plenty more in the near future, is: > The Trump administration revoked the student visas of 13 current or former University of Wisconsin-Madison students for reasons unclear It looks like, nationwide, these 13 people were part of a group of 300 students that had their Visas cancelled. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/611 "2025-04-08T18:17:51Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > It looks like, nationwide, these 13 people were part of a group of 300 students that had their Visas cancelled. According to an article in the News & Observer, a number of students at Duke University had their Visas cancelled simply because they were Sudanese. None of them had any sort of criminal records or had been involved in any protests. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/612 "2025-04-08T19:13:14Z")
Just what Americans have always wanted for their children–jobs on the assembly line! ---
**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 8, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/613 "2025-04-08T19:31:23Z")
Man who puts on makeup and sits in front of a TV camera for a living says that computer monitors and being in the presence of lawyers “gives you estrogen”. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mlmouohgzbjofidukcp4pxf2/bafkreided4bnx6jgxz4hwlxkm7mkmuzo3m6w5wmkjhzzs4f2monewbx4nq@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mlmouohgzbjofidukcp4pxf2/bafkreided4bnx6jgxz4hwlxkm7mkmuzo3m6w5wmkjhzzs4f2monewbx4nq@jpeg) I swear these “alpha male” types are the most insecure motherfuckers on the planet. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/614 "2025-04-08T19:31:57Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I don’t know which thread these should go in, but 13 UW Students/alumni had their visas revoked for no apparent reason. I’m going to take a guess that it was because they were foreign, and/or the “wrong kind” of foreign. With this administration it doesn’t have to be any more complicated than that. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/615 "2025-04-08T19:34:40Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I’m going to take a guess that it was because they were foreign Well, they had Visas, so that’s probably a safe bet. ---
**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 8, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/616 "2025-04-08T19:36:25Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > > [@Broomstick](#): > > > > I’m going to take a guess that it was because they were foreign > > Well, they had Visas, so that’s probably a safe bet. - Does the Trump administration only accept Masterracecards? ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/617 "2025-04-08T19:40:36Z")
… 👏 … ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/618 "2025-04-08T21:15:05Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I swear these “alpha male” types are the most insecure motherfuckers on the planet. Yeah. I actually enjoy working with women. I guess I am a “beta cuck” or something like that. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/619 "2025-04-08T21:47:06Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Does the Trump administration only accept Masterracecards? They certainly don’t try to Discover anything new. ---
**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 8, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/620 "2025-04-08T21:51:39Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > Does the Trump administration only accept Masterracecards? > > They certainly don’t try to Discover anything new. - And there’s a strong resemblance to Monkey Wards. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=32)