# 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:** 47
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/921 "2025-05-20T16:52:52Z")
I was just making a general observation on his character. Combined with the fact that I always get amused at the way fuck is used as a general purpose modifier entirely independent of whether the literal meaning of the word is appropriate. Also trying to explain a joke just kills it. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/922 "2025-05-20T16:54:45Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > Combined with the fact that I always get amused at the way fuck is used as a general purpose modifier entirely independent of whether the literal meaning of the word is appropriate. Fun fact: The definition of “fucking” in Scots is, “Watch out! The next word is going to be a noun.” ---
**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:** [May 20, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/923 "2025-05-20T17:13:25Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > Combined with the fact that I always get amused at the way fuck is used as a general purpose modifier entirely independent of whether the literal meaning of the word is appropriate. Ah, I get it now, a pun on “fucking”. That was actually kind of funny. 🙂 ---
**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 21, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/924 "2025-05-21T02:13:45Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Every day he puts more and more distance between himself and Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Camacho was actually a pretty good president. He recognized the biggest crisis facing his nation, he found the best-qualified person available to deal with the crisis, he delegated the task of solving the crisis to that person, and he implemented that qualified person’s advice, with the result that the crisis was solved. That’s how presidentin’ is supposed to work. By comparison with Trump, the biggest crisis facing the nation is himself, and the best-qualified person to deal with it was Kamala Harris. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/925 "2025-05-21T02:19:08Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Camacho was actually a pretty good president. He had a terrible cabinet and the rest of the government wasn’t any better. The whole country was extremely moronic. With a competent group of people around him to implement his goals, Camacho would do pretty well I’d think. Hell, I’d absolutely take him as POTUS over who we have now with no reservations. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/926 "2025-05-21T05:58:01Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > > [@eschereal](#): > > > > Every day he puts more and more distance between himself and Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. > > I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Camacho was actually a pretty good president. He recognized the biggest crisis facing his nation, he found the best-qualified person available to deal with the crisis, he delegated the task of solving the crisis to that person, and he implemented that qualified person’s advice, with the result that the crisis was solved. That’s how presidentin’ is supposed to work. > > By comparison with Trump, Trump, the _unpresidenting_! > [@Atamasama](#): > > With a competent group of people around him to implement his goals, Camacho would do pretty well I’d think. Hell, I’d absolutely take him as POTUS over who we have now with no reservations. Hell, I’m having trouble creating a short list of people I _would not_ take, alive or dead\*, as POTUS over whom we have now. \*That’s how awful whom we have now is. A dead man is better than he is. ---
**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 21, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/927 "2025-05-21T12:18:29Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > A dead man is better than he is He has made it blindingly obvious that apex leadership is simply not a good idea. One person in charge of everything is a recipe for FU’d. It is not working in Russia or UK or SA or anywhere, really. It is probably not even a good business mcdel. We had a modestly stable country, but these periodic 180s are not making it get better. ---
**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 21, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/928 "2025-05-21T14:25:20Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > A dead man is better than he is. I’d vote for an inanimate carbon rod over trump. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FE_SECMVcAAch6F.jpg) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FE_SECMVcAAch6F.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/929 "2025-05-22T03:58:15Z")
An inanimate carbon rod is wishing for the moon to me. I’d vote for a literal steaming pile of dog shit over Trump. ---
**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 22, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/930 "2025-05-22T13:54:36Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I’d vote for a literal steaming pile of dog shit over Trump. It sure would be fun to see the MAGAt repubs kissing up to DST (dog shit trump). Oh sir, you have the best smell. And the nicest shade of brown, no ne else has 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:** [May 22, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/931 "2025-05-22T17:15:00Z")
Let’s get rid of [Spring] Elections: > **[U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden pitches ending spring elections after series of...](https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/05/22/van-orden-pitches-ending-spring-elections-after-republican-losses/83767766007/)** > > Republican U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden proposed eliminating Wisconsin's spring elections after a series of high-profile losses. His reasoning, at least on the surface, doesn’t seem that bad. He wants to roll our spring non-partisan elections into the regular/mid-term elections to reduce the burden on everyone. But, there’s one line that stands out and I have a feeling it’s the driving force behind this: > “Republicans don’t vote. Period. Like, we just don’t vote in spring elections,” Van Orden told reporters No matter how much he wants to say this is just about money and convenience, in the end, it’s because the people on his side of the aisle aren’t bothering to go to the polling place to vote for a judge or superintendent they’ve never heard of and, frankly, don’t really care about. Does anyone actually think he’d be okay if it was young democrats that skipped non-partisan elections. Also, it’s funny that he calls it a non-partisan election while complaining that _republicans_ aren’t voting enough in them. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/932 "2025-05-22T17:59:01Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > It sure would be fun to see the MAGAt repubs kissing up to DST (dog shit trump). Oh sir, you have the best smell. And the nicest shade of brown, no ne else has that! Heh, back in 2016, after observing how fanatical and delusional some Trump supporters were, I made the comment that there were probably a few that would gladly let Trump take a shit in their mouth if it “owed the libs”. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/933 "2025-05-22T21:07:09Z")
I’d prefer the fictional President Snow, who has at least a sort of perverse integrity. Or as [The Incredible String Band](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUdKs2UhbFc) put it, > _Straight from the shoulder, I think like a soldier,_ > _I know what’s right and what’s wrong._ > _(He knows what’s right and what’s wrong.)_ > _I’m the original, discriminating Buffalo-man._ > _And I’ll do what’s wrong as long as I can._ > _(He’ll do what’s wrong as long as I can.)_ ---
**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:** [May 24, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/934 "2025-05-24T13:24:09Z")
I understand that argument is one of the foundations of the internet, but arguing with AI is just stupid. So of course that’s ol’ Margie Green chose to do. > **[Marjorie Taylor Greene gets into X fight with Elon Musk's AI bot](https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-grok-x-ai-fight-2076545)** > > Greene called xAI's Grok "left leaning" after the bot said her actions "contradict Christian values of love and unity." ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/935 "2025-05-24T14:46:02Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I understand that argument is one of the foundations of the internet, but arguing with AI is just stupid. So of course that’s ol’ Margie Green chose to do. I can picture a drunken MTG arguing with “that bitch” in the mirror who just won’t shut up and keeps pointing at her. ---
**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 24, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/936 "2025-05-24T15:12:51Z")
it is like watching a jawa fighting a denebian slime devil ---
**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:** [May 24, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/937 "2025-05-24T15:23:46Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > I can picture a drunken MTG arguing with “that bitch” in the mirror who just won’t shut up and keeps pointing at her. Cue famous Spider-meme. ---
**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 24, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/938 "2025-05-24T16:23:46Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > it is like watching a jawa fighting a denebian slime devil Don;t cross the streams. ---
**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 24, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/939 "2025-05-24T19:33:05Z")
> Greene took issue with Grok’s answer, replying in a subsequent X post: “.@grok the judgement seat belongs to GOD, not you a non-human AI platform. …” Why am I certain that Marj has no problem with folks saying that they are ‘Saved’? ---
**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 28, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/940 "2025-05-28T15:43:15Z")
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