# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140 "2020-06-22T07:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 216
**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:** [April 6, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4313 "2021-04-06T19:57:16Z")
Biblical? Kids dis you? They are through - kaput. Husband wearing a cotton/poly blend shirt? Justifiable homicide. Neighbor doesn’t invite you to their clambake? Drag them downtown and stone them. Lose a bet with God? He/she wipes out your children (maybe gives one back!). ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4314 "2021-04-06T20:07:40Z")
Depends whose Bible. The clambake itself is an actionable offense for my people. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4315 "2021-04-06T20:12:17Z")
Louisiana legislator introduces a bill that could potentially punish teachers who teach that sexism or racism exists. > **[La. lawmaker withdraws bill making it potentially illegal to teach about...](https://www.wafb.com/2021/04/06/la-lawmaker-files-bill-making-it-potentially-illegal-teach-about-racism-sexism-says-bill-promotes-equality-education-system/)** > > The bill, which addresses training at K-12 schools and postsecondary education institutions with respect to certain concepts related to race and sex, was voluntarily withdrawn by the author pending further dialogue on the issue. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4316 "2021-04-06T20:24:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Louisiana legislator introduces a bill that could potentially punish teachers who teach that sexism or racism exists. …or evolution or gravity… ---
**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:** [April 6, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4317 "2021-04-06T21:53:43Z")
> It’s specifically stated in there that you can teach about that, but you have to do it from a balanced viewpoint, you can’t do it from one position over another. So you can talk about how whites prevented blacks from riding in the front of the bus, as long you give equal time to talking about how blacks prevented whites from sitting in the back of the bus. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4318 "2021-04-06T22:21:25Z")
Even as the governors of Florida and Texas are banning vaccine passports, the Republican Party is mandating proof of negative covid test in order to attend their spring donors’ retreat. > **[GOP mandating negative COVID test for entry to spring donor retreat in Florida](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/gop-mandating-negative-covid-test-spring-donor-retreat-florida)** > > The Republican National Committee is requiring attendees of the party's spring donor retreat in Florida to get tested for the coronavirus and submit proof of a negative result as a condition for gaining entry to the event. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4319 "2021-04-06T22:25:45Z")
> [@Matt Gaetz as quoted by smithsb](#): > > hiking in the desert with my dog In the desert as opposed to, say, the Appalachian Trail. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4320 "2021-04-06T22:32:22Z")
Certainly not the parts of the Trail that go through the Appalachian _Mountains_ . . . the Appalachian _Foothills_ on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4321 "2021-04-06T22:39:29Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > > [@Matt Gaetz as quoted by smithsb](#): > > > > hiking in the desert with my dog > > In the desert as opposed to, say, the Appalachian Trail. - That’s not very nice calling the 17 year-old a dog. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4322 "2021-04-06T22:48:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Daniel Dale, the fact checker for CNN, has a steady job as long as Republicans continue to speak. > Today, he was dragging Senator Tim Scott for trying to claim that Colorado, where the All Star Game has been moved to, has more restrictive voting laws than Georgia has. Facts _always_ get in the way of what Republicans are lying about. It’s why they created Alternative Facts, you know, bull fucking shit. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4323 "2021-04-06T23:25:04Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > So you can talk about how whites prevented blacks from riding in the front of the bus, as long you give equal time to talking about how blacks prevented whites from sitting in the back of the bus. Or how, by sitting in the back of the bus, blacks _forced_ whites to sit in the front, which is really the dangerous part of the bus if there’s a head-on collision with, say, an 18-wheeler. Furthermore, I guess you can talk about evolution, as long as you give equal time to the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis? ---
**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:** [April 7, 2021, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4324 "2021-04-07T00:47:14Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Furthermore, I guess you can talk about evolution, as long as you give equal time to the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis? I would not necessarily object to covering the first two chapters of Genesis, as long as the study clearly illuminates the way they manifestly conflict with each other. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4325 "2021-04-07T01:04:54Z")
Yes, I’m proud to be an educator and a minister of a religion with two completely contradictory creation stories. And I can’t wait for Louisiana to try to twist the Bible into some sort of history book (and a science text, and a sex education book, and a “Who To Hate And Why That’s Okay” book…) ---
**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:** [April 7, 2021, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4326 "2021-04-07T02:06:39Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > So you can talk about how whites prevented blacks from riding in the front of the bus, as long you give equal time to talking about how blacks prevented whites from sitting in the back of the bus. > In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. _Anatole France_ ---
**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:** [April 7, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4327 "2021-04-07T02:07:10Z")
> [@digs](#): > > And I can’t wait for Louisiana to try to twist the Bible into some sort of history book (and a science text, and a sex education book, and a “Who To Hate And Why That’s Okay” book…) If they try, they will do it and competing viewpoints, no matter how factual, will not be given a chance to be presented. Teachers that try to temper the official religious viewpoint will be disciplined and/or fired. Frankly, I have never been impressed with the “Let them try it!” argument. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4328 "2021-04-07T02:25:19Z")
Well, Evolution is only a “theory.” \ It will be settled when they take the students to the Creation Museum where they can see Adam and Eve (fully clothed, of course) cavorting alongside dinosaurs. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4329 "2021-04-07T02:26:34Z")
I was just kidding, any kind of theocracy would be horrible. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > Frankly, I have never been impressed with the “Let them try it!” argument. I agree with you. Every time I think “THIS’ll show how evil they are and the world will rise up in protest and vote them out.”… well, “they” are shown to be evil, but it doesn’t fix anything. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2021, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4330 "2021-04-07T02:59:36Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Every time I think “THIS’ll show how evil they are and the world will rise up in protest and vote them out.”… well, “they” are shown to be evil, but it doesn’t fix anything. It would seem that you are greatly underestimating the tally of evil people in this country. The Strained Hope: Fighting evil since 73BCE (this is taking longer than we had expected) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4331 "2021-04-07T03:49:33Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Daniel Dale, the fact checker for CNN, has a steady job as long as Republicans continue to speak. > Today, he was dragging Senator Tim Scott for trying to claim that Colorado, where the All Star Game has been moved to, has more restrictive voting laws than Georgia has. Jen Psaki plays this game too. Fox News dude Doocy springs “gotcha” question about similarity of Colorado and Georgia voting restriction laws; gets his ass handed to him. > **[Jen Psaki Destroys Fox News 'Gotcha' Question About Georgia Voting Law](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jen-psaki-steve-doocy-georgia-colorado-voiting-law_n_606ca95ec5b66c4ab6b7ffb7)** > > "The Georgia legislation is built on a lie," the White House press secretary said in response to reporter Peter Doocy's question. > [@](#): > > Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy attempted to get White House press secretary Jen Psaki in a “gotcha” question on Tuesday only to end up humiliated by a pesky little thing called “facts.” > > It happened after Doocy brought up Major League Baseball’s decision to move its 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver in response to Georgia’s new restrictive voting law, which limits the use of drop boxes for absentee ballots and imposes ID requirements on those who vote by mail, among other restrictions. > > “Is the White House concerned that Major League Baseball is moving their All-Star Game to Colorado, where voting regulations are very similar to Georgia?” Doocy asked. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2021, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/4332 "2021-04-07T04:53:21Z")
This appears, perhaps, to be the source of those pasture patties: > **[Colorado voting laws are similar to Georgia's despite decision to move Major...](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/colorado-voting-rules-georgia-major-league-baseball-all-star-game)** > > Major League Baseball announced that they are moving the 2021 All-Star Game out of Georgia in protest of the state's new voting laws — and it now it is reportedly headed to Colorado, which has some rules that are similar, if not... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=215) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=217)