# 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:** 97
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1921 "2025-11-05T00:24:22Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > They don’t have the first fucking clue about what a tariff is. At this point, it’s just become some kind of magic talisman. [![](https://i.imgflip.com/ab5eec.jpg) ](https://i.imgflip.com/ab5eec.jpg) ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1922 "2025-11-05T04:46:21Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > The money would be better spent debating whether it’s assault with a ‘deli weapon’ or a 'breadly weapon. My vote would be towards the former as a sandwhich is the archetype Deliweapon. A breadly weapon would be something more like this. > **[Crazy French Count Blew Up German Factory With Baguettes Filled With...](https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/baguettes-filled-with-explosives.html)** > > In 1938, 15-year-old Count Robert Jean-Marie de La Rochefoucauld went to pay Hitler a visit in Bavaria. The German Chancellor gave Rochefoucauld a (probably apocryphal but a fun read ) ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1923 "2025-11-05T10:41:56Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I think Republicans have this fantasy that a tariff is a right wing superpower they can use on anyone at any time for any reason. > > Like, some guy takes a parking spot you wanted to pull into, you’re going to institute a 30% tariff, that’ll show him. > > It’s a magic curse that comes from bigotry, like the Dark Side of the Force. [![](https://preview.redd.it/thats-a-paddlin-v0-oxnx2ln89n8b1.jpg?auto=webp&s=e0fce11ccc3a04d56520dde2848a73528de36754) ](https://preview.redd.it/thats-a-paddlin-v0-oxnx2ln89n8b1.jpg?auto=webp&s=e0fce11ccc3a04d56520dde2848a73528de36754) “You bet that’s a tariff.” > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > The prosecution seems to be focused on the fact it was a meat sandwich. Thrown at “point blank range” Not a vegan one. A MEAT sandwich. So he struck them with a club? ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1924 "2025-11-05T10:57:05Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > The prosecution seems to be focused on the fact it was a meat sandwich. Thrown at “point blank range” Not a vegan one. A MEAT sandwich. Conservatives have figured out that nothing angers liberals more than calling them hypocrites, and in their mind, any liberal who isn’t a vegan _has_ to be a hypocrite, right? ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1925 "2025-11-05T13:06:13Z")
Note the “MEAT" sandwich part was a post/joke here, not something from the article or trial itself. Must be tough working for Pirro. Being told to try 3 times to get a grand jury to sign off on felonious assault by sandwich and having to still try to make it stick as a misdemeanor. Who wants that kind of BS on their CV? Then again, they all know what they were signing up for, so I hope the paycheck is worth it. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1926 "2025-11-05T14:21:50Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Must be tough working for Pirro. Being told to try 3 times to get a grand jury to sign off on felonious assault by sandwich and having to still try to make it stick as a misdemeanor. Maybe they should have tried indicting the sandwich. I hear it’s easy to get grand juries to do that. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1927 "2025-11-05T14:22:09Z")
It’s a little weird that they’re going to court over a misdemeanor. How often does that happen, especially at the federal level? ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1928 "2025-11-05T14:23:18Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Maybe they should have tried indicting the sandwich. I hear it’s easy to get grand juries to do that. Only ham, for some reason. Try to indict a Reuben and they’ll laugh you out of court. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1929 "2025-11-05T14:43:37Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > It’s a little weird that they’re going to court over a misdemeanor. How often does that happen, especially at the federal level I suspect that, under normal circumstances, the vast, vast majority plead out well before this point, but with three failed indictments on the felony change, why would anyone make a guilty plea? The odds of this guy beating this charge are way, way higher than you’d expect with a typical, competent prosecution. And this is the other way regular people can resist Trump: Don’t plead out, ever. Make them do the work, even for their kangaroo kourts. Tie them up, tire them out, because they just don’t have the resources to prosecute tens of thousands of BS cases. Force them to either stop the stupid shit, or to take the next step, and eliminate actual trials. Make it clear that they’re taking that next step, just so they can toss people in prison over stupid shit. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1930 "2025-11-05T16:28:00Z")
Oh Jesus Christ. [Lauren Boebert racially charged costume.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/lauren-boeberts-racially-charged-halloween-230918760.html?from_auth=1&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9sb2dpbi55YWhvby5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMmPda8R1e5BpWK83gzhGjvjxcrBdqfjWJh0rwGGB8NsSTyMyzqagYYOM8HN5E-Y-CabPyAbxB71KNd-ZytEhEP5ZHjdvKyuOIpZ2vFrVkmj-ZRaE4bIVsubTsd1vLFOP9CTSfJennblPLd5QsfeP1TGezxNitBx24p3uUDFpaDJ) Colorado’s idiot in congress, decided to go to a Halloween party dressed as a Mexican woman, and her boyfriend dressed as an ICE agent. She is so tone deaf because she only has bats in her belfry. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1931 "2025-11-05T16:38:11Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > dressed as a Mexican woman …and carrying a sign making fun of Spanish accents. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1932 "2025-11-05T17:07:39Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > her boyfriend dressed as an ICE agent It’s a piss-poor costume. He’s not masked and tac-ed up to the gills. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1933 "2025-11-05T17:08:01Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > …and carrying a sign making fun of Spanish accents. I’m so terribly embarrassed for the people of Colorado. I’m not in her district by about 200 feet. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1934 "2025-11-05T17:15:15Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > It’s a piss-poor costume. He’s not masked and tac-ed up to the gills. He also didn’t ship her off to a prison in El Salvador. People just don’t commit to the costume anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1935 "2025-11-05T19:04:16Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Then again, they all know what they were signing up for, so I hope the paycheck is worth it. Most of them probably didn’t sign up for it, assuming the great purge/replacement hasn’t gotten very far. They could always resign instead of complying, but that’s a fairly big ask in this economy. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1936 "2025-11-05T20:46:53Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > It’s a piss-poor costume. He’s not masked and tac-ed up to the gills. Yeah, if you can see his face and/or identify him it’s not authentic Trumpgestapo. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1937 "2025-11-05T21:12:22Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Colorado’s idiot in congress, decided to go to a Halloween party dressed as a Mexican woman, and her boyfriend dressed as an ICE agent. Let’s count our blessings they didn’t do the “Sexy \_\_\_\_\_” version of the costumes. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1938 "2025-11-05T21:17:23Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Let’s count our blessings they didn’t do the “Sexy \_\_\_\_\_” version of the costumes. I don’t even want to make an image of that in my head. Whatever image that may be, not going there. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1939 "2025-11-05T21:26:53Z")
“…And there was nothing on the marker to explain to Mrs. Pearcy why her only son had dated a known bigot and troll, a woman of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition.” ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/1940 "2025-11-06T02:41:36Z")
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