# 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:** 93
**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:** [October 23, 2025, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1841 "2025-10-23T12:15:32Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I’m not a believer, but if I can look up from purgatory to see this guy locked out of the “Holy Gates”, I will accept my eternal suffering. I have commented that there are some so-called Christians who are not only cocksure they’re going to heaven and you’re not, they’ll have ringside seats looking down into the pit so they can watch your torment. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1842 "2025-10-23T16:21:59Z")
My, but the spirit of “Christian Charity” knows no bounds. Such fine people they are. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1843 "2025-10-23T16:47:43Z")
Either they look down on all those they love but will never join them…or their minds are manipulated so that they don’t care. Which one is the “heaven” I should strive for? ---
**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:** [October 23, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1844 "2025-10-23T16:58:39Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > they’ll have ringside seats looking down into the pit so they can watch your torment. What they don’t realize is, that they are in hell, too. Just a different part. They can never leave, never talk to anyone not already there, never get to play harp on a cloud bank, never do anything but watch. After a while they’ll realize they are like the trees on the plains of suicides. Just a different type of eternal suffering. And the seats have no padding. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1845 "2025-10-23T17:12:15Z")
Are their minds Tiffany twisted, by any chance? ---
**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:** [October 23, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1846 "2025-10-23T17:48:17Z")
They are all prisoners there of their own device. They just don’t realize it. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1847 "2025-10-23T18:01:05Z")
And until they all check out, we can’t leave. Aye, there’s the rub. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1848 "2025-10-27T01:15:47Z")
The Republicants never check their pictures. Nazi flags in the background, Kegsbreath with Russian tie, US posters with Russian jets … here’s another: [![](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/fc3d2deb-8e99-4a83-bb4a-ebc786899b4d) ](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/fc3d2deb-8e99-4a83-bb4a-ebc786899b4d) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1849 "2025-10-28T21:28:21Z")
[![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/bafkreiflk6oetllruwfc4fz6gqc6lte27nkzo4nmwaqujbhddqepmfaazu@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/bafkreiflk6oetllruwfc4fz6gqc6lte27nkzo4nmwaqujbhddqepmfaazu@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1850 "2025-10-28T22:46:21Z")
“Tell me what to do Sean! I’m confused.” ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1851 "2025-10-28T23:11:20Z")
If trump should shuffle off this mortal coil before 2028, Hannity or Bannon will be the MAGAFascist nominee. You read it here first. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1852 "2025-10-28T23:23:41Z")
There will be a lot of infighting with them and others. It will be a joy to watch them eat each other. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1853 "2025-10-29T00:33:01Z")
Lest anyone think it’s a joke, _People_ reached out to Graham, and rather than deny it, he leaned into it. Anything that gets him attention is welcome, I guess. > **[Lindsey Graham Whispers to Siri in Capitol Hallway. She Loudly Replies,...](https://people.com/lindsey-graham-whispers-siri-calling-sean-hannity-mobile-11838960)** > > South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham's Siri accidentally revealed what he was whispering into his phone in the Senate on Tuesday, Oct. 28 > Graham directly addressed the moment in a statement to PEOPLE, saying, “Siri: Tell my friends at PEOPLE to watch more Fox News. Why was I calling Sean Hannity? Breaking news: I like his show and I’ll be a guest tonight! Tune in.” ---
**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:** [October 29, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1854 "2025-10-29T00:49:47Z")
I mean, that’s like the least embarrassing thing that’s happened to a Republican this decade. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2025, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1855 "2025-10-29T05:53:24Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > There will be a lot of infighting with them and others. It will be a joy to watch them eat each other. Although I read it decades ago Clavell’s [_King Rat_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Rat_(Clavell_novel)) made quite the impression on me, the ending particularly. > **Spoilered last paragraph of the Wiki summary.** > > King decides he and his friends should breed rats to sell for food. His comrades, though nearly starving themselves, are repelled by the idea of eating rat meat, so King comes up with the plan of only selling the meat to officers without telling them the true source. A group of officers who stole money from their underlings are later seen greedily enjoying a meal of what they are told is [mouse deer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_mouse-deer) (_rusa tikus_ in Malay), not knowing they are actually eating rat meat. When the camp is ultimately liberated, most of the soldiers have trouble adjusting to freedom. King loses his power and is shunned by the others. Grey ironically thanks King on the grounds that his hatred of King was the only thing keeping him alive. At the end the rats are abandoned in their cages when the camp is abandoned. The final scene has the rats consuming each other one by one, with the final survivor becoming “king of the rats”. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1856 "2025-10-29T14:30:39Z")
The only thing that ever changes is the size and opulence (or lack) of the cages. And the number of players. Viewed through the right lens, biology itself is just an ugly pyramid scheme. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1857 "2025-10-29T15:06:46Z")
They don’t exist in a bubble, and there is a verry good chance many innocent bystanders would get “eaten” in the process. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1858 "2025-10-30T20:16:11Z")
Republican college students dress up as ICE agents for Halloween. > **[UW-Eau Claire College Republicans under fire for 'distasteful' ICE agent...](https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2025/10/30/uw-eau-claire-republicans-criticized-for-ice-agent-halloween-costume/86966111007/)** > > The costume featured an individual in a black vest with "ICE" lettering putting handcuffs on another individual in a bandana and white tank top. > “I unequivocally stand with the UWEC College Republicans and their freedom of speech,” Penfield wrote. “They have done nothing against policy and their actions are protected under the first amendment.” Penfield works for Turning Point Action. Randall Munroe: "I can’t remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you’re saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it’s not literally illegal to express. " ---
**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:** [October 30, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1859 "2025-10-30T20:25:02Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Randall Munroe: "I can’t remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you’re saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it’s not literally illegal to express. " True. I mean, if someone is threatening _legal action_, it seems warranted to cite the First Amendment, but if someone is just calling you out for doing something reprehensible, citing it means that you really have no legitimate way to defend yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1860 "2025-10-30T22:22:59Z")
I think we just found the GOP’s tagline for 2028! > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m4gorvwuyy2d)** > > JD Vance: "The suffering is going to get a lot worse." [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:cf26plxwia7dxpm6plry3sj2/bafkreibdqfnr4275su4gjsasiavps3tprdqma5tdjik74gweabkrqcqn24@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:cf26plxwia7dxpm6plry3sj2/bafkreibdqfnr4275su4gjsasiavps3tprdqma5tdjik74gweabkrqcqn24@jpeg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=92) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=94)