# 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:** 458
**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 29, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9178 "2021-12-29T19:53:15Z")
Here’s more info on that: > **[Fox News Star Was Up for ‘The View’ Gig Until She Refused to Get Vaccine](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-lisa-marie-boothe-was-up-for-the-view-gig-until-she-refused-vaccines)** > > Lisa Marie Boothe interviewed to replace Meghan McCain as the talk show’s in-house conservative. But conversations ended when she publicly refused to get any vaccines. ---
**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 29, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9179 "2021-12-29T20:07:14Z")
The r/InsanePeopleFacebook subreddit has decided that Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene are too easy and is no longer allowing posts from them in the subreddit. 😃 ---
**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 29, 2021, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9180 "2021-12-29T21:13:06Z")
There’s a bill before the Oklahoma state legislature that would allow a single individual to demand that a book be taken out of a school library, and if it isn’t removed immediately, the school librarian will be fired, not be allowed to work as a librarian for two years, and the person making the demand will get $10,000 a day until the book is removed. > **[Oklahoma bill gives parents the right to have a book removed from a school...](https://www.mcalesternews.com/cnhi_network/oklahoma-bill-gives-parents-the-right-to-have-a-book-removed-from-a-school-library/article_2cd5f468-641c-11ec-9674-475897eac565.html)** > > OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma lawmaker wants to give parents the right to compel public school libraries to remove books that contains objectionable content of a sexual nature or addresses ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9181 "2021-12-29T21:18:38Z")
Only parents can object? Not just any resident or taxpayer or citizen? Will that pass legal muster? ---
**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:** [December 29, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9182 "2021-12-29T21:22:59Z")
Just pandering to the wingnuts who support him. The Oklahoma legislative sessions are full of this crap to make the idiots happy. Some even get enacted, defended in court, before being struck down by the OK Supreme court which, even though very conservative, still acts an adult body. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9183 "2021-12-29T21:23:15Z")
And then in the state just north of Oklahoma… > **[Embattled Kansas lawmaker arrested for second time in month](https://apnews.com/article/crime-arrests-kansas-city-kansas-lawrence-c876d564826fdfeebc29b002a3298492)** > > LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A 21-year-old embattled Kansas lawmaker was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving — his second arrest in less than a month — and is facing fresh calls for his resignation or removal from office. goofy, somewhat irrelevant aside: > [@](#): > > At the time of the arrest, Coleman was already out on bond from an [Oct. 30 domestic battery arrest](https://apnews.com/article/crime-arrests-kansas-city-kansas-cad353ffd3afe3583df3d267ebb535a5). In that case, he allegedly pushed, hit and spit on his 18-year-old brother in a fight that erupted because the brother was going to get baptized, according to court documents. Anyway, get this fucking lush off the streets. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9184 "2021-12-29T21:27:56Z")
Ah, and there’s that War on Christianity, too. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9185 "2021-12-29T21:30:18Z")
Seriously, is Covid affecting brains? These people are fucking nuts. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9186 "2021-12-29T21:31:44Z")
I’ve been wondering the same thing. Or there is a stupid disease out there. It’s crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9187 "2021-12-29T21:37:54Z")
You know he’s a Democrat, right? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9188 "2021-12-29T21:40:17Z")
Mea culpa on that, to be sure. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9189 "2021-12-29T21:45:58Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > There’s a bill before the Oklahoma state legislature that would allow a single individual to demand that a book be taken out of a school library, and if it isn’t removed immediately, the school librarian will be fired, not be allowed to work as a librarian for two years, and the person making the demand will get $10,000 a day until the book is removed. > [Oklahoma bill gives parents the right to have a book removed from a school library](https://www.mcalesternews.com/cnhi_network/oklahoma-bill-gives-parents-the-right-to-have-a-book-removed-from-a-school-library/article_2cd5f468-641c-11ec-9674-475897eac565.html) - You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the Midwest. You know…fucking lunatics. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9190 "2021-12-29T23:21:54Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > You know he’s a Democrat, right? The Kansas Democratic party has been calling for his resignation since he took office earlier this year. > [@running\_coach](#): > > You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the Midwest. > You know…fucking lunatics. As one who was born and raised on a farm in Kansas, I take more than a little umbrage at the broad brush you’re using here. These fucking lunatics put a lot of food on the tables of Americans. Besides, the author of this bill is a pharmacist. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9191 "2021-12-29T23:29:54Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > here’s a bill before the Oklahoma state legislature that would allow a single individual to demand that a book be taken out of a school library, and if it isn’t removed immediately, the school librarian will be fired, not be allowed to work as a librarian for two years, and the person making the demand will get $10,000 a day until the book is removed. So if I have a kid in that school system, I can make them remove any book that doesn’t meet my own specifications? The fucking shelves are gonna be bare, my friend! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9192 "2021-12-30T00:49:19Z")
She has abandoned all pretense of of her oath and her job and democracy in general. [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-it-wise-to-bar-democrats-who-move-to-red-states-from-voting/ar-AASfsGs?li=BBnb7Kz](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-it-wise-to-bar-democrats-who-move-to-red-states-from-voting/ar-AASfsGs?li=BBnb7Kz) ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9193 "2021-12-30T01:01:18Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > > here’s a bill before the Oklahoma state legislature that would allow a single individual to demand that a book be taken out of a school library, and if it isn’t removed immediately, the school librarian will be fired, not be allowed to work as a librarian for two years, and the person making the demand will get $10,000 a day until the book is removed. > > So if I have a kid in that school system, I can make them remove any book that doesn’t meet my own specifications? > > **The fucking shelves are gonna be bare, my friend!** Pretty much the whole idea. (my bolding.) Our gracious overlords, those blessed by The Lord by being born in the top 1% of wealth, know that we masses would be MUCH, MUCH happier if untroubled by information or facts. And far too many books do, indeed, contain information and facts. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2021, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9194 "2021-12-30T01:02:54Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > There’s a bill before the Oklahoma state legislature that would allow a single individual to demand that a book be taken out of a school library, and if it isn’t removed immediately, the school librarian will be fired, not be allowed to work as a librarian for two years, and the person making the demand will get $10,000 a day until the book is removed. And so they’re pretty much modeling an assault on the first amendment on the recent Texas abortion law, exactly as everyone not a compete idiot expected them to do. In the True American Fashion, they’ve decided to outsource governmental oppression to a private, profit-motivated third party. I’m sure this will end well. ---
**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 30, 2021, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9195 "2021-12-30T02:11:51Z")
Peter Navarro says the FBI must have instigated the Capitol riot in order to foil his attempted coup. > **[Peter Navarro suggests FBI incited MAGA riot to stop his coup attempt from...](https://www.rawstory.com/peter-navarro-steve-bannon-2656176559/)** > > The Daily Beast reported on Tuesday that former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro plotted along with other Republican lawmakers to block the certification of President Joe Biden's 2020 election win and pressure Vice President Mike Pence to reject the... ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9196 "2021-12-30T02:21:56Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > I’m sure this will end well. I can see it ending with several whackos putting in for a shitload of $10K bounties, then in anticipation of receiving their windfalls, going on spending sprees, like the villagers in \*The Visit.” _Put it on my account._ Then SCOTUS finds the laws unconstitutional, the bounties uncollectible, and the debts valid. Hilarity ensues. ---
**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 30, 2021, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9197 "2021-12-30T03:22:21Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > There’s a bill before the Oklahoma state legislature that would allow a single individual to demand that a book be taken out of a school library, and if it isn’t removed immediately, the school librarian will be fired, not be allowed to work as a librarian for two years, and the person making the demand will get $10,000 a day until the book is removed. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I can see it ending with several whackos putting in for a shitload of $10K bounties, then in anticipation of receiving their windfalls, going on spending sprees, like the villagers in \*The Visit.” Job creation! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=457) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=459)