# 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:** 42
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/821 "2025-05-03T16:45:08Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Oh no, the scary brown people are invading with their delicious food! What a mega-putz this guy is -can’t even get his bigotry right enough to shout at the “right” people. Or perhaps I missed where Pakistan was involved in the Crusades. Racist asshole: they’re Muslim, that’s all that matters. Steak 'n Shake wasn’t forced out by the new restaurant. They have been closing stores all over to stave off bankruptcy. And the new restaurant also sells hamburgers. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/822 "2025-05-03T16:50:17Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Racist asshole: they’re Muslim, that’s all that matters. One must wonder what would happen to Mike’s ‘’‘brain’‘’ should he be informed that halal food is also kosher. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/823 "2025-05-03T17:08:50Z")
Of course you would post this on Saturday. As I understand it, kosher food is halal, but the reverse is not necessarily true. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/824 "2025-05-03T17:15:13Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@Gyrate](#): > > > > Have we covered this yet? Arkansas is stopping truck drivers and giving them English tests. - > > How will they know who passes? 🤣 Oh, thanks, I needed a laugh. (My apologies to decent, educated Arkansans… but you just know the idjits given those tests won’t be the cream of the crop.) ---
**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:** [May 3, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/825 "2025-05-03T17:18:28Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > One must wonder what would happen to Mike’s ‘’‘brain’‘’ should he be informed that halal food is also kosher. [nitpick] No, it’s not. I mean, sure, there’s overlap what with the “no pork” rule but halal allows things like meat+cheese combos and kosher does not, as just one of several examples. If halal is not available most Muslims will take kosher in a pinch because its rules are even more strict, but the reverse is not true. They are not interchangeable [/nitpick] > [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > Of course you would post this on Saturday. That’s OK - I’m from the Reform branch and we’re allowed to do SD sentry duty on Saturdays. 😉 ---
**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:** [May 3, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/826 "2025-05-03T17:21:33Z")
And ya know that in Mike’s little ‘’‘brain’‘’ those distinctions boil down to ‘Jews are MUSLIMS!!!’ Pro Tip: Don’t make subtle religious jokes before coffee. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2025, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/827 "2025-05-03T22:57:42Z")
Steak N Shake are also the folks who recently decided to go full MAGA, which I’m sure has done wonders for their bottom line. But yes, [WaPo reports](https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/03/13/steak-shake-maga-beef-tallow/): > [@](#): > > As of last year, the company had shed 200 locations from a peak of 626 in 2018, according to an annual report by Biglari Holdings, Steak ’n Shake’s parent company, which also owns the Western Sizzlin chain of restaurants, Maxim magazine and several insurance, oil and gas businesses. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/828 "2025-05-03T23:28:57Z")
I’d say I would no longer go there, but I’m not sure I’ve ever been to one. Just something that’s never happened. And it looks like existing locations are already dealing with the consequences of their customer base’s declining financial situation (thanks in no small part to the first term of the Grifter in Chief). So, the status quo seems to be just fine with me. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/829 "2025-05-04T01:17:28Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Her ads appearing on YouTube every ten minutes only say that she has been endorsed by Trump, nothing else. Now that’s interesting. Because lil Andy Biggs, current congressman from CD05 and head of the freeDUM caucus, is also running. He’s like the biggest trump ass kisser ever, but he gets treated like the ugly stepson. I don’t think trump even knows his name “Randy Riggs? never heard of him”. That’s gotta sting.“Daddy, why don’t you like me?” ---
**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:** [May 4, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/830 "2025-05-04T02:04:34Z")
So which one has Trump endorsed? Yes, yes, I know that the original comment was that Karrin Taylor Robson was saying that Trump endorsed her. The question remains. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/831 "2025-05-04T02:07:19Z")
We all love Texass AG Ken Paxton ever so much. He is now [going after](https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/health/fluoride-toothpaste-texas-investigation#:~:text=The%20Texas%20attorney%20general%20announced,ways%20that%20are%20misleading%2C%20deceptive%2C) Colgate-Palmolive and P&G for bad business practices > [@](#): > > … Paxton says that toothpaste manufacturers “flavor their products and deceptively market them in ways that encourage kids to ingest fluoride toothpaste and mislead their parents to use far more than the safe and recommended amount of fluoride toothpaste.” “Ingest”? He is suggesting that children are swallowing toothpaste? ---
**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:** [May 4, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/832 "2025-05-04T02:20:31Z")
I know I swallowed some as a kid. It’s not like mom let me sit there and suck down an entire tube, but it tasted good and I didn’t know any better. But I very much doubt that was something P&G ever intended or encouraged. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/833 "2025-05-04T02:24:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Paxton says that toothpaste manufacturers “flavor their products and deceptively market them in ways that encourage kids One must wonder what Texass AG Ken Paxton’s views are on vapes. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/834 "2025-05-04T02:45:08Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > That’s gotta sting.“Daddy, why don’t you like me?” All true. One would think after all these years all these ass-kissers would have learned that Trump doesn’t give a goddam about anything or anybody besides Donald J Trump. Not his children, not his wives, not the rest of his family. What makes them think they will fare any better? ---
**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:** [May 4, 2025, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/835 "2025-05-04T03:23:04Z")
Nm, it’s late and I confused Colgate Palmolive with P&G ---
**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:** [May 4, 2025, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/836 "2025-05-04T04:31:17Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > … Paxton says that toothpaste manufacturers “flavor their products and deceptively market them in ways that encourage kids to ingest fluoride toothpaste and mislead their parents to use far more than the safe and recommended amount of fluoride toothpaste.” Crafty kids, misleading their parents and strong arming them into administering lethal amounts of toothpaste. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/837 "2025-05-04T09:37:59Z")
In the book _[Hey, I’m Alive!](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1380372.Hey_I_m_Alive)_, Yukon plane crash survivor Helen Klaben wrote that she ate toothpaste, figuring that you usually swallow some anyway, so it couldn’t be too bad. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2025, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/838 "2025-05-04T11:47:57Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > So which one has Trump endorsed? Both. > **[Trump endorses both Republican candidates in Arizona governor's race](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-endorses-both-republican-candidates-arizona-governors-race-2062329)** > > President Trump announced on Monday that he is backing both GOP hopefuls in the swing state. That way no matter who wins the primary he can say it was due to his endorsement. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/839 "2025-05-04T12:26:36Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > That way no matter who wins the primary he can say it was due to his endorsement. And pointing out that Trump endorsed the loser would be Fake News, I suppose, even if true. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/840 "2025-05-07T09:02:28Z")
JD Vance: Come for the Soccer, stay for the ICE abuse! > **[JD Vance Jokes About Deporting Tourists Attending 2026 World Cup](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-jokes-about-deporting-tourists-attending-2026-world-cup_n_681a7b3ee4b0c2b15d969c4b?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main)** > > The vice president warned people attending the five-week tournament next year not to overstay their welcome, or there would be consequences. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=41) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=43)