# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/141 "2025-03-04T16:55:28Z")
Right. Get rid of the “smart”, and only modifier left for that network is “ass”. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/142 "2025-03-04T17:50:48Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Hmmm, how much are they offering? ^ This. You mean I could get paid for what I’d do for free? Sign me up! ---
**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:** [March 4, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/143 "2025-03-04T17:56:08Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > This reminds me of Mao’s initiative to get the people to smelt their own steel. The result was that the vast majority of these “folk furnaces” produced unusable steel and the productivity lost in the meantime crippled the country. > > In this case I’m guessing that a lot of people may purchase chickens which will promptly die because chickens do that if you don’t know how to care for them. So a lot of money will be spent and the return will be a lot of dead chickens (and not in an edible way). Either dead chickens or folks will find out that just about every wild critter wants to eat your chickens. You’ll have raccoons and coyotes eating the chickens, snakes eating the eggs and chicks, the occasional hawk or other predatory bird, plus any other predators in the vicinity, and perhaps the occasional neighbor looking to get really fresh chicken for their own eating purposes. That’s over and above the various diseases chickens are prone to (including but not limited to flu), issues with temperature, and so on. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/144 "2025-03-04T17:58:24Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > I’m confused. I thought Trump was going to bring down egg prices on Day One. Why do we need our own chickens to get cheap eggs? Can I tell my apartment manager Trump wants me to keep my own chickens? They also revoked a $500,000 grant that was to help Community Supported Agriculture, so they don’t want people to buy food from abroad or locally. > **[Federal DEI cuts kill Wisconsin nonprofit's $500,000 grant to boost CSA farms](https://www.tmj4.com/news/state-capitol/federal-dei-cuts-kill-wisconsin-nonprofits-500-000-grant-to-boost-csa-farms)** > > The USDA revoked a grant to Madison-based FairShare which would have funded research into CSA business models. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/145 "2025-03-04T19:10:43Z")
Believe it or not, it is legal to raise chickens in all five boroughs of New York City! Here is a guide: [A Guide to Chicken Ownership in New York City - CitySignal](https://www.citysignal.com/chicken-ownership-in-new-york-city/#:~:text=New%20York%20City%20has%20historically) ---
**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:** [March 4, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/146 "2025-03-04T22:22:05Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > In this case I’m guessing that a lot of people may purchase chickens which will promptly die because chickens do that if you don’t know how to care for them. So a lot of money will be spent and the return will be a lot of dead chickens (and not in an edible way). The upside is that the small claims court shows are going to get some interesting cases…….dogs killing the neighbor’s chickens, kids stealing the neighbors eggs, chickens getting loose and causing havoc in the cul de sac……good TV! ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/147 "2025-03-05T00:12:33Z")
My sister has three chickens, which produce a sufficiency of eggs. In the past they have lost hens to foxes, neighbors’ dogs, hawks and other chickens. ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/148 "2025-03-05T00:14:58Z")
Real Americans live in cities too, but Republicans hate that fact. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/149 "2025-03-05T01:36:09Z")
> [@Mikkel](#): > > If there still is a bird flu epidemic in USA, it is a really bad idea. A hell of a lot small time chicken holders won’t be checked as easy as bigger chicken farms. Also it leads to a much larger pool of people who are in contact with Chickens. While currently hundreds of thousands of chickens can be taken care with contact with only a few dozen people, now the chicken to human ratio will be close to parity. That will massively increase the number of transmissions to people and with it the chance that it might mutate into something that can go from human to human. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/150 "2025-03-05T01:45:44Z")
My mom (who lives in a city) keeps chickens. The eggs she sells to neighbors (for cheaper than the grocery store charges) are enough to cover the ongoing costs of raising them (and that’s not even all of the eggs-- She keeps some for herself, my uncle, and me, without payment). Caring for them isn’t all that difficult, either, though it does require action every day (mostly, refilling their water-- they drink a lot). ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/151 "2025-03-05T01:48:01Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > they drink a lot. The water in those eggs has to come from somewhere. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/152 "2025-03-05T02:13:46Z")
> [@Zoobi](#): > > Real Americans live in cities too, but Republicans hate that fact. Isn’t their idol a life-long city boy? ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/153 "2025-03-05T03:22:40Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > they drink a lot Have you ever been a chicken? If you had, you would understand. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/154 "2025-03-05T05:38:51Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > It can be a fun hobby No. Just no. My mother kept a flock. They were semi free-range, in that she often let them out into the garden, but aside from eggs, their biggest value was chicken shit. Their coop had raised nesting sites; the floor was covered with hay. So they shit on the hay, and it makes great fertilizer. Except the gate to get in the coop was quite small, and my mother who was, and probably still is, a fan of unpaid labour used to send us kids in to shovel and bag the hay/shit mixture. Not my favourite chore. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/155 "2025-03-05T05:54:37Z")
> [@Mikkel](#): > > If there still is a bird flu epidemic in USA, it is a really bad idea. A hell of a lot small time chicken holders won’t be checked as easy as bigger chicken farms. Are controls in place at all after DOGE? That’s the beauty of it! With no one checking for bird flu, they won’t find any bird flu. Problem solved! /s ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/156 "2025-03-05T12:34:48Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Have you ever been a chicken? If you had, you would understand. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/157 "2025-03-05T12:44:55Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > If I was a smart-ass reporter I’d be asking Secretary Rollins how many chickens she has. My smart-ass question is how does this increase the number of eggs produced? Of course, it doesn’t, it’s just another Republican “solution” that is an incredibly myopic take on a society wide problem. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/158 "2025-03-05T13:13:47Z")
So, Elon’s been meddling in Wisconsin’s upcoming supreme court election. No surprise there, well one surprise, it made it a whole lot easier to figure out which person to vote for in a “non-political” race. I’m going to vote for the person he ran an attack ad against while using a picture of [some other random person](https://www.wispolitics.com/2025/crawford-campaign-shady-musk-group-caught-using-image-of-wrong-susan-crawford/) with the same name. However, he apparently created a group called “Progress 2028” > Progress 2028 is a front group that is underwriting fake digital ads and text messages that are supposedly promoting liberal Supreme Court candidate **Susan Crawford** by tying her to unpopular or controversial political positions or groups, such as **Planned Parenthood**. The goal is to chip away support from Crawford in her race against conservative Waukesha County Judge **Brad Schimel** in the April 1 election. > > How do we know this? > > The same group aired fake ads purporting to support Democratic presidential nominee **Kamala Harris** by lauding her for supposedly taking unpopular or far-left positions, [such as backing gun buyback initiatives](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/progress-2028-not-kamala-harris-project-2025/), in the 2024 campaign against Trump. She did not back that proposal. > **[Bice: Elon Musk-backed political group is posting fake pro-Susan Crawford ads...](https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/03/05/elon-musk-backed-group-is-posting-fake-pro-susan-crawford-ads-wisconsin-supreme-court/81191026007/)** > > Building America's Future, a group backed by Elon Musk, is behind Progress 2028, a group running fake digital ads supposedly backing Susan Crawford. I haven’t looked at the Progress 2028 site yet, but here it is: > **[Progress 2028](https://progress2028.com/)** > > To: Americans Ready for Progress Re: Wisconsin Supreme Court Election: April 1, 2025 – The Future of Wisconsin is on the Line 📣 The Stakes: Why This Race Matters Wisconsin voters have a monumental decision to make on April 1,… Read more › ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/159 "2025-03-05T18:16:16Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Isn’t their idol a life-long city boy? But he’s a country-boy at heart. Or something like that. It’s the same way he’s a good Christian for some and an excellent businessman despite six bankruptcies. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/160 "2025-03-05T18:19:34Z")
Yup, he’s “a guy I’d have a beer with” to a lot of folks he’d rather spit on than share a drink with (not that he drinks beer at all) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=9)