# 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:** 39
**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 26, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/761 "2025-04-26T00:47:53Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > And isn’t the hair kind of long, and that bloated out belly in those drapes… > > Is that a [PREGNANT JESUS](https://www.craiyon.com/image/maoXQQddRh6aTOVhkKLMwA)? It often happens with AI-generated images that parts of the prompt bleed over into other parts of the image where they don’t belong. And yes, Rep. August, the charge that federal agents are arresting judges is, indeed, deeply troubling. ---
**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 26, 2025, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/762 "2025-04-26T07:07:20Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > This is a good political litmus test for people. > > Is your first reaction, “the federal government is out of control”? Or is it, “look another left-wing activist judge”? I predict circa 50% of the US choose the latter. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/763 "2025-04-26T14:13:54Z")
I just came across this video: [Study: Conservatives Hate Science (All Of It)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf8_AMD8Tm4) Here’s the article the commenter is referencing: [Political ideology and trust in scientists in the USA](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02147-z) It’s paywalled, but this is the abstract: > Trust in scientists is a key predictor of compliance with science-based solutions to societal challenges. Although liberals in the USA generally trust scientists more than conservatives do, it is not clear how these ideological differences vary across different scientific occupations and whether they can be mitigated. Here, in this Registered Report (including 7,800 US participants), we demonstrate that, even though the strength of the relationship between political ideology and trust varies across scientific occupations, liberals (compared with conservatives) show higher trust in most scientists. Moreover, following motivational accounts of scientist distrust, **the study tested five theoretically grounded intervention strategies to improve conservatives’ trust in scientists. None of the interventions were successful,** suggesting that trust in scientists reflects relatively stable attitudes that require more elaborate and time-intensive interventions. **[my bold]** Not surprising. It’s well-known that reality and nature have a woke, liberal bias. ---
**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 26, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/764 "2025-04-26T14:51:06Z")
Economists and archaeologists (to name only two) persist in telling conservatives things they don’t want to hear. That those things generally turn out to be true is especially galling. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/765 "2025-04-26T14:52:47Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > > [@mnemosyne](#): > > > > For fucks sakes America, fix your shit. > > > > What a terrifying nation you’ve become. > > Try living here, it’s even more terrifying. My anxiety levels and blood pressure have increased noticeably and I don’t know if I can survive this. Terrifying is just part of the equation. ---
**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 26, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/766 "2025-04-26T16:29:15Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Accountability is not optional? “Optional” is not quite the same thing as “selective”. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/767 "2025-04-27T14:58:56Z")
Huh. TIL that “the hardest person to be right now in America is white males” and President Trump just wants Americans “to treat each other with respect and love”. [Bunni Pounds Says That White Males Are ‘At The Bottom Of The Food Chain’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rzwuQ1ONfg) I’d never heard of Bunni Pounds before, but it appears she’s, IMHO, a Christian nut job. She has a ton of videos that come up in a YouTube search, but I don’t know how popular or influential she is. ---
**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 27, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/768 "2025-04-27T15:12:04Z")
> Let’s go back to to just seeing each other the way the founders decided we should see each other as equal. I see Bunni skipped American history class. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/769 "2025-04-27T15:26:10Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > I see Bunni skipped American history class. Now, now. It may just be that she was forced to take some woke, anti-American history class that the liberals forced down her school’s throat where the US is evil, up-is-down, and black-is-white. Wait a minute: black-is-white. OMG! It all makes sense, now. It’s the white men that are being discriminated against and are at the bottom of the social ladder. It’s the minorities that are getting all the undeserved priviledge. Connect the dot, sheeple! ---
**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 27, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/770 "2025-04-27T19:35:02Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > I’d never heard of Bunni Pounds before I think I have, which Bond movie was she in again? ---
**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 27, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/771 "2025-04-27T19:38:53Z")
_Goldfinger._ She was the administrative assistant to Pussy Galore. ---
**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 27, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/772 "2025-04-27T22:41:03Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > It’s the white men that are being discriminated against and are at the bottom of the social ladder. It’s the minorities that are getting all the undeserved priviledge. Sounds like a real Burden for the White Man. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/773 "2025-04-27T22:53:30Z")
It’s not like we’re sending forth the best we breed. Certainly not to Washington. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/774 "2025-04-28T05:23:37Z")
When I tried pounding a Bunni I broke it. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2025, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/775 "2025-04-28T07:03:32Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > You can’t have a NAKED Jesus! Or even one in just underwear. At one time, mystical writings of the Catholic hue were downright pornographic. Why not the icons? > [@Joey\_P](#): > > The FBI has begun arresting judges I just posted the following on one of the _Yahoo!_ stories on this situation: > [@](#): > > I wonder how long it will take before the republicans in congress realize they are not safe from Trump’s dictatorial machinations. ---
**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 28, 2025, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/776 "2025-04-28T08:46:03Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I just posted the following on one of the _Yahoo!_ stories on this situation: > > > [@](#): > > > > I wonder how long it will take before the republicans in congress realize they are not safe from Trump’s dictatorial machinations. They won’t realize it until nearly all the rest of us have been arrested/deported/jailed. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/777 "2025-04-28T09:02:09Z")
I don’t think they’ll realize it even after they’re on the rockets to Venus. ---
**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 28, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/778 "2025-04-28T13:23:18Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I don’t think they’ll realize it even after they’re on the rockets to Venus. They’ll march right into the ships willingly. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/779 "2025-04-28T13:24:41Z")
Morons. ---
**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 28, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/780 "2025-04-28T13:39:44Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > They’ll march right into the ships willingly. And then find out it’s a cookbook. Someone was gonna say it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=40)