# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 4)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678
**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:** 5
### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/81 "2025-02-28T01:44:34Z")
“Before putting handcuffs on a suspect, make sure to grab them, pull them to the ground, and punch them in the groin for about 30 seconds.”
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### Author:  [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/82 "2025-02-28T02:09:17Z")
> [@Atamasama](#):
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> and punch them in the groin for about 30 seconds.”
Now, if he could get [Master Ken](https://www.youtube.com/@EnterTheDojoShow) to train them, then I might be impressed.
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/83 "2025-02-28T12:41:32Z")
> [@Atamasama](#):
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> “Before putting handcuffs on a suspect, make sure to grab them, pull them to the ground, and punch them in the groin for about 30 seconds.”
So the next time the FBI raids Mar-A-Lago…
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/84 "2025-02-28T13:32:42Z")
> [@Smapti](#):
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> Kash Patel wants the UFC to train the FBI, because apparently he thinks he lives in a '40s detective movie and the agents solve crimes by punching things.
Gawd. Never thought I would quote the movie Point Break about how the FBI does things -
**“Do you know how we nail the bad guys? Do you know how we nail 'em? By crunching data. Good crime scene work, good lab work, and most importantly, good data-based analysis.”**
Very few cage matches.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/85 "2025-02-28T15:58:41Z")
> [@enipla](#):
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> Very few cage matches.
“The military has the Pentagon? Well, now we have the Octagon!”
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/86 "2025-02-28T16:04:01Z")
“That’s three more gons!”
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/87 "2025-02-28T16:14:42Z")
🎶 ‘Cause I’m already gon’ 🎶
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### Author:  [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/88 "2025-02-28T16:39:32Z")
🎵 One way or another
I’m gon’ na find ya
I’m gon’ na getcha getcha getcha getcha 🎶
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/89 "2025-02-28T17:06:29Z")
> [@Gyrate](#):
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> "That’s three more gons!”
Ome might say that they’re gon fishin’.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/90 "2025-02-28T17:42:40Z")
> [@Atamasama](#):
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> “The military has the Pentagon? Well, now we have the Octagon!”
In Robert Sheckley’s 1962 novel _Journey Beyond Tomorrow_ (AKA _The Journey of Joenes_) in the future the Pentagon is replaced by the Octagon
> **[Journey Beyond Tomorrow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_Beyond_Tomorrow)**
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> Journey Beyond Tomorrow, reprinted with the title Journey of Joenes, is a 1962 science fiction/satire novel by American writer Robert Sheckley, first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in two parts October and November 1962, and the following month by Signet Books.
> Sphere science fiction London 1962 published the first full edition of the novel.
> The book's introduction is written by a fictional editor and compiler working at a future time after 3000 AD, narrating the adven...
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/91 "2025-02-28T17:45:31Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> In Robert Sheckley’s 1962 novel _Journey Beyond Tomorrow_ (AKA _The Journey of Joenes_) in the future the Pentagon is replaced by the Octagon
That’s hilarious and disturbingly prescient.
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/92 "2025-02-28T17:54:27Z")
> [@Atamasama](#):
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> “The military has the Pentagon? Well, now we have the Octagon!”
> [@Gyrate](#):
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> “That’s three more gons!”
[Somebody tell Tommy Tuberville.](https://www.al.com/politics/2025/02/tuberville-forgets-triangles-exist-while-advocating-for-pentagon-cuts-we-need-to-make-a-trigon.html)
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### Author:  [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/93 "2025-02-28T18:26:21Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> In Robert Sheckley’s 1962 novel _Journey Beyond Tomorrow_ (AKA _The Journey of Joenes_) in the future the Pentagon is replaced by the Octagon
Phillip Wylie wrote _The End of the Dream_ in which a throwaway line from a general implies that the Pentagon has been replaced by “the Decagon”.
Double the 'gons!
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/94 "2025-02-28T18:35:19Z")
> [@garygnu](#):
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> Somebody tell Tommy Tuberville.
Trigon is the demon overlord of the realm of Azarath and father of Raven in DC Comics.
So, maybe he was invoking his Infernal Lord and not just flunking out in basic geometry.
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/95 "2025-02-28T23:37:45Z")
Calgon … take me away.
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### Author:  [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/96 "2025-03-01T00:33:23Z")
Curse you, I was so ready to rush in here and gleefully share that!
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### Author:  [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/97 "2025-03-01T00:54:30Z")
The opportunity is gon now.
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/98 "2025-03-01T01:43:16Z")
Republicans are a bunch of squares anyway.
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### Author:  [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/99 "2025-03-01T01:59:15Z")
I would consider them more spherical. They are equally awful no matter what angle you approach them from.
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/100 "2025-03-01T02:27:08Z")
(Puzzles over why one would want to approach them in the first place.)
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