# 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:** 433
**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:** [December 1, 2021, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8676 "2021-12-01T14:23:21Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > …saying the quiet part out loud… Whoa! 🤯 I guess his next thing will be that Black people need to be waitresses, maids, shoe shine boys [sic] and not bother with education beyond high school. Asians can stick to laundry and nail salons, and Hispanics/Latinos can pick crops and do yard work. When lesser beings aspire above the station where God put them, they inevitably fail to achieve and it just makes them uppity and hard to control. That’s the problem with society today, by damn! There is a Natural Order of Things (and People) and it’s up to White Men to make sure everything stays in its rightful place. Damn! I think I just wrote the Republican Party Platform. 🤓 ---
**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:** [December 1, 2021, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8677 "2021-12-01T14:38:04Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Damn! I think I just wrote the Republican Party Platform. Sorry, you’re about 14 words short. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8678 "2021-12-01T14:58:14Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > How “medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome” do women need to be? Sounds like they need to be a lot more so with people like him around. Medicated? I get why an ignorant bigot like that would consider independent women to be “meddlesome and quarrelsome”, they call him out on his bullshit and try to put a stop to it, but medicated? ---
**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:** [December 1, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8679 "2021-12-01T15:03:04Z")
He certainly gives _me_ a headache. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8680 "2021-12-01T15:03:43Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Damn! I think I just wrote the Republican Party Platform. “I don’t see how that’s a Party?” In either sense of the word. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8681 "2021-12-01T15:38:32Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > … I guess his next thing will be that Black people need to be waitresses, maids, shoe shine boys [sic] and not bother with education **beyond high school**. … (Bolding added) At least in parts of the Jim Crow South, Black “high schools” stopped at the 11th grade, thus preventing “them” from receiving a diploma and possibly going on to higher education and uppityness. This would no doubt appeal to Yenor and his ilk — as would a return to the 1950’s Catholic concept of girl’s high schools, where they could be taught womanly skills without risking their purity by association with boys. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8682 "2021-12-01T16:08:43Z")
> [@Steve\_McQwark](#): > > Medicated? I get why an ignorant bigot like that would consider independent women to be “meddlesome and quarrelsome”, they call him out on his bullshit and try to put a stop to it, but medicated? On the pill? I was thinking maybe uppers/tranquilizers also, but “mother’s little helper” were popular in the 50s and 60s so maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8683 "2021-12-01T16:10:12Z")
I can guarantee you that SunWife (BS & MS in EE + 25 years experience in her field) knows a hell of a lot more about what it takes to be an engineer than some two-bit poli sci professor at some freshwater school who probably doesn’t know a sine from an integral. I’m sure Yenor has tenure, but I hope he likes Boise State and cheese trays, because he’s gonna be at the former for the rest of his career and doing nothing more in his department than ordering the latter for every symposium, talk and recruiting visit from now until emeritus status. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8684 "2021-12-01T16:17:29Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > > [@Steve\_McQwark](#): > > > > Medicated? I get why an ignorant bigot like that would consider independent women to be “meddlesome and quarrelsome”, they call him out on his bullshit and try to put a stop to it, but medicated? > > On the pill? I was thinking maybe uppers/tranquilizers also, but “mother’s little helper” were popular in the 50s and 60s so maybe not. I didn’t think about the pill, that’s a good suggestion. A woman on the pill can make her own reproductive choices, and I’m sure a woman making her own choices would be considered quarrelsome to that guy. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8685 "2021-12-01T16:25:39Z")
This is just so incredibly sick. Yenor has a late predecessor in Montreal named Marc Lepine. He was the shooter who killed 14 female engineering students because they were, in his words, “feminists”, in Dec 1989. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8686 "2021-12-01T16:39:13Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > some two-bit poli sci professor at some freshwater school who probably doesn’t know a sine from an integral I was thinking of the old adage, _Anything with “science” in the name isn’t._ ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8687 "2021-12-01T16:39:15Z")
I’ve been a mechanical engineer for nearly 15 years, and I’ve been fortunate to have only encountered one guy who was this vocal about women in engineering (or women near any tools that aren’t kitchen implements; he threw a tantrum one year at a Christmas luncheon when the nice receptionist lady won a tool set in the raffle). And sadly, I think this Yenor fella has more than tenure; some of the comments on the university’s Facebook page indicate that he’s some kind of department head. Given that most engineering programs include a requirement for some humanities courses, he’s in a position to academically harm female students. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8688 "2021-12-01T16:47:29Z")
When my wife was in school, she had a Saturday exam for Chem 101 or something. Her professor condescendingly asked her whether she had other things to do on a fine Saturday morning. She replied, “Yes I do, but this is when you scheduled the exam, so here we are.” ---
**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:** [December 1, 2021, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8689 "2021-12-01T19:13:58Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Lara Logan compares Doctor Fauci to Mengele. In one of those “people are saying” statements. People have been saying that Lara Logan wears the skin of dead babies on her face when she sleeps. It’s just something that people are saying. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8690 "2021-12-01T19:17:33Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Damn! I think I just wrote the Republican Party Platform. For a second, I thought poster starvingartist was back from banishment. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8691 "2021-12-01T19:50:24Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > some two-bit poli sci professor at some freshwater school who probably doesn’t know a sine from an integral. In fairness, I can’t tell a sine from \int cos \, x \, dx ---
**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:** [December 1, 2021, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8692 "2021-12-01T20:12:14Z")
Doctor Oz, who lives in New Jersey and used his sister’s Pennsylvania address to register to vote, has announced that he’s running for the Senate from Pennsylvania as a “conservative Republican”. I wonder how many people who would vote for a conservative Republican will vote for a guy named Mehmet. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8693 "2021-12-01T20:14:59Z")
They’ll see him as Dr. Oz and think his real last name looks weird. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2021, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8694 "2021-12-01T20:18:16Z")
Mehmet is his first name, ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/8695 "2021-12-01T20:19:43Z")
And his last name is Öz. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=432) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=434)