# 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:** 85
**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:** [September 29, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1681 "2025-09-29T22:02:40Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Apparently being a fascist requires you to be an anti-Semite. I operate under the assumption that would-be fascists try to follow in the footsteps of other fascists, and in finding that they are anti-Semites, they do the same thing in the hopes of finding similar success. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1682 "2025-09-29T22:08:45Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I operate under the assumption that would-be fascists try to follow in the footsteps of other fascists, and in finding that they are anti-Semites, they do the same thing in the hopes of finding similar success. Success? You mean… dancing in air at the end of a rope or shooting oneself in the head in a bunker? Then again, these folks may not be best at truly long term planning and/or anticipating consequences. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1683 "2025-09-29T22:11:35Z")
Well, the things Greene is saying themselves come from a powerful foreign government, so it’s only natural for her to assume that her enemies must be agents of foreign governments, too. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1684 "2025-09-29T22:13:30Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > would-be fascists try to follow in the footsteps of other fascists, and in finding that they are anti-Semites, they do the same thing in the hopes of finding similar success. So… a cargo cult? ---
**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:** [September 29, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1685 "2025-09-29T22:13:31Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Success? You mean… dancing in air at the end of a rope or shooting oneself in the head in a bunker? Ah, but you see, _they_ are going to be the ones who avoid that, because they are so much smarter. You’ll see, you’ll **all** see! [![](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/211115192052-02-bannon-1115.jpg?q=w_2500,h_1667,x_0,y_0,c_fill) ](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/211115192052-02-bannon-1115.jpg?q=w_2500,h_1667,x_0,y_0,c_fill) > [@DesertDog](#): > > So… a cargo cult? In a sense, sure. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1686 "2025-09-30T03:21:42Z")
Criminy, Atamasama, that image didn’t show till I clicked on it, and then WHAMMO. Damn glad I was not eating or drinking when it loaded. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1687 "2025-09-30T04:17:39Z")
The Trump Maladministration is [commencing](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/climate/trump-coal-revival.html) a [war on clean air](https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/trump-officials-announce-plan-boost-coal-output-2025-09-29/): \*Opening 13.1 million acres of public land to coal mining \*Offering $625 million to keep aging coal-burning power plants open. Aah, capitalism! 🙄 \*Emergency order to keep a coal-burning power plant in Michigan operating, though neither the plant owner nor the local electric distribution utility asking for it. 🤨 \*And the gift that keeps on giving: the “Environmental Protection Agency” will repeal regulations that curb carbon dioxide, mercury and other pollutants from coal plants, and will revise a regulation limiting wastewater pollution from power plants. Dirty air! Dirty water! Dirty land! It’s a fucking trifecta! All in furtherance of a “philosophy” that prosperity comes from clouds of choking coal dust and buildings covered in soot, which we thought we left behind in the 1950s. But that’s par for the course for the Trump “Make America 1890 again” maladministration, relitigating decades-dead issues is their thing. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2025, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1688 "2025-09-30T10:36:58Z")
> **[FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to...](https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/30/world/fbi-kash-patel-gave-new-zealand-officials-3d-printed-guns-intl-hnk)** > > On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Zealand law enforcement agencies told The... > [@](#): > > On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Zealand law enforcement agencies told The Associated Press. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1689 "2025-09-30T13:26:26Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Just in case anyone isn’t aware, > Charlie Kirk’s best buddy Candace Owens is spreading a conspiracy theory that the ~~Jews~~ Israelis killed Kirk. > > Apparently being a fascist requires you to be an anti-Semite. That explains a conversation I had with a coworker last week. He was suggesting not only that Israel murdered Kirk (because he questioned the timeline of Israel’s response to the October attack) but that Israel has basically been in control of the US govt since who knows when. (Apparently Israeli Secret Service is so good they have blackmail material on pretty much everyone in the US govt and use that to control them.) I’m pretty sure he has told me in the past that he listened to both Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk’s podcasts. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1690 "2025-09-30T13:38:38Z")
Charlie Kirk was hugely popular in Israel because of his speeches and debates in support of the country. I’d be surprised if 5% of his Israeli fans knew about his positions on other issues, though. I only knew myself because of the SDMB. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1691 "2025-09-30T14:00:39Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > (Apparently Israeli Secret Service is so good they have blackmail material on pretty much everyone in the US govt and use that to control them.) _This_ government? I’m sure Israel, Russia, China, North Korea and every other country up to and including that one island inhabited solely by penguins probably has blackmail material on the majority of the Republicans in all three branches. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1692 "2025-09-30T14:10:08Z")
Well, TBF, if the news reported that Marj was unexpectedly vaporized by some sort of space laser, maybe I’d start looking into that angle. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1693 "2025-09-30T14:17:47Z")
According to my coworker, it’s been this way since before Obama or Dubya. Israel has been controlling the US govt for _decades_ through blackmail. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1694 "2025-09-30T14:37:39Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > According to my coworker, it’s been this way since before Obama or Dubya. Israel has been controlling the US govt for _decades_ Hell, if you keep probing he’ll tell you it’s so since BEFORE there was an Israel… ---
**Author:** ![Frilly\_Heck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90ced4/32.png) [@Frilly\_Heck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frilly_Heck)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1695 "2025-09-30T20:30:37Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Charlie Kirk was hugely popular in Israel because of his speeches and debates in support of the country. I’d be surprised if 5% of his Israeli fans knew about his positions on other issues, though. I only knew myself because of the SDMB. Just a general reminder for whoever needs it that folks like Charlie Kirk only support Israel because they think it plays a critical role in kicking off Armageddon. They don’t expect or want Israelis to live in peace and safety. They believe that once the Armageddon gets going, Jews will be forcibly converted or killed. I have in-laws who live in Israel. I tend to bring this up a lot, because they aren’t strongly aware of it, to my frustration. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1696 "2025-09-30T21:29:14Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > According to my coworker, it’s been this way since before Obama or Dubya. Israel has been controlling the US govt for _decades_ through blackmail. Then it suddenly stopped with 45 only to pick up again only, only to be stopped (again) by 47? Or is his presumed hero helpless in the grip of the Zionists? ---
**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:** [September 30, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1697 "2025-09-30T21:34:38Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Well, TBF, if the news reported that Marj was unexpectedly vaporized by some sort of space laser, maybe I’d start looking into that angle. Space Force strikes again! ---
**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:** [September 30, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1698 "2025-09-30T23:11:34Z")
Take a look at the [U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development](https://www.hud.gov/)’s page. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1699 "2025-09-30T23:30:17Z")
It’s the Hatch Act violation to end all Hatch Act violations. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1700 "2025-09-30T23:46:01Z")
That’s amazing! I didn’t know that the radical left had taken over control of the federal government from the Republicans! Maybe something will finally get done. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=84) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=86)