# 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:** 490
**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:** [January 27, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9818 "2022-01-27T15:46:07Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > There’s always that Jerry Lewis movie. Or the first half of the movie _Life is Beautiful_. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9819 "2022-01-27T15:48:59Z")
_The Pianist_ might be family friendly, for certain types of families. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2022, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9820 "2022-01-27T17:25:05Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > It’s not that we object to schools teaching about the Holocaust, they need to teach both sides, that’s all There were very fine people on both sides, worthy of study. ---
**Author:** ![Drsunflower1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drsunflower1/32/12711_2.png) [@Drsunflower1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drsunflower1)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9821 "2022-01-27T17:39:33Z")
Dear Og. We are all aware, I hope, that when we start burning/banning books, we’ll end up burning/banning people? (paraphrasing Heinrich Heine). Maus is one of my absolute favorite graphic novels (we’ve got both parts First Edition, I’ve read them multiple times) . As far as I’m concerned, this is really the Dark Ages taking over. I wish you guys luck, you’re gonna need it. Heck, I’m gonna read them again just because. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9822 "2022-01-27T18:00:39Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > No, and some people actually think the recent propensity to appoint only judges to the Supreme Court has made it a bit too myopic. On CNN the other night a couple of the guest commentators were saying they’d like to see a justice not from Harvard or Yale for a change. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9823 "2022-01-27T18:05:20Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Just in time for Holocaust Memorial Day too. Don’t’cha know the Holocaust never happened and they deserved it anyway? ---
**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:** [January 27, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9824 "2022-01-27T18:05:41Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > On CNN the other night a couple of the guest commentators were saying they’d like to see a justice not from Harvard or Yale for a change. “Let’s see who we’ve got from Elmer’s Tire Repair, Bait Shack and Argument Clinic.” ---
**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:** [January 27, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9825 "2022-01-27T18:13:34Z")
> [@Drsunflower1](#): > > Dear Og. We are all aware, I hope, that when we start burning/banning books, we’ll end up burning/banning people? (paraphrasing Heinrich Heine). Maus is one of my absolute favorite graphic novels (we’ve got both parts First Edition, I’ve read them multiple times) . As far as I’m concerned, this is really the Dark Ages taking over. I wish you guys luck, you’re gonna need it. Heck, I’m gonna read them again just because. I can’t find the video of it anymore, but a student at one of these school meetings reminded their school board that in every instance that books were banned, history has not judged those responsible kindly. Which I suspect they’d know if they weren’t busy literally banning the history that would teach them that. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9826 "2022-01-27T18:13:42Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > > [@eschereal](#): > > > > The logical problem with giving Kamala a seat on SCotUS is that she is the Senate tiebreaker, which means that once she is no longer VP, the Ds will be fully unable to pass thing 1. But, no point in mentioning that to the RWIdiocrats. Best to keep them all tizzed out. > > I’m… pretty sure that they’d find someone to replace Harris as VP. As noted, > [@Chronos](#): > > > [@eschereal](#): > > > > The logical problem with giving Kamala a seat on SCotUS is that she is the Senate tiebreaker, which means that once she is no longer VP, the Ds will be fully unable to pass thing 1. > > Including confirming a new Vice President. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9827 "2022-01-27T18:15:11Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > history has not judged those responsible kindly. “Well, then, we aren’t going to be all that kind to history, now are we?” ---
**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:** [January 27, 2022, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9828 "2022-01-27T18:52:55Z")
Or a Catholic, for that matter. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9829 "2022-01-27T18:54:38Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Probably because Biden promised to nominate a woman of color to the court and she is the only black woman they know. There’s always Diamond and Silk. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9830 "2022-01-27T19:10:06Z")
> [@Drsunflower1](#): > > …As far as I’m concerned, this is really the Dark Ages taking over. **I wish you guys luck,** you’re gonna need it. My bold. Where do you live? 🥺 I want to go to that place. (Channeling Liz Lemon) ---
**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:** [January 27, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9831 "2022-01-27T19:35:25Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > Probably because Biden promised to nominate a woman of color to the court and she is the only black woman they know. > > There’s always Diamond and Silk. They have heard of that Owens woman. ---
**Author:** ![Drsunflower1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drsunflower1/32/12711_2.png) [@Drsunflower1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drsunflower1)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9832 "2022-01-27T20:01:04Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Where do you live? 🥺 I want to go to that place. (Channeling Liz Lemon) Holland. We’re probably going to be drowning somewhere in the near future, but until then we’re good. Shitty weather though. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9833 "2022-01-27T20:50:58Z")
Nikki Haley apparently believes Nancy Pelosi should be president. > **[‘Calls for Pelosi to become president’: Nikki Haley mocked – this time for...](https://www.rawstory.com/calls-for-pelosi-to-become-president-nikki-haley-again-mocked-this-time-for-demanding-biden-and-harris-resign/)** > > Former Trump-era UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is being mocked after she called for both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to resign."If Joe Biden loved our country, he would step down and take Kamala Harris with him because the... ---
**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:** [January 27, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9834 "2022-01-27T21:22:19Z")
I’d like Grace Jones on SCOTUS. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9835 "2022-01-27T22:18:52Z")
Yeh – especially the Grace Jones from that Conan movie! Just picture her dealing with Thomas and Alito… ---
**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:** [January 27, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9836 "2022-01-27T22:39:36Z")
Before my time, but didn’t there used to be a poster here named MeanOldLady? Her, then? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9837 "2022-01-27T23:32:51Z")
Snowflakes gotta whine… [https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/27/politics/pat-mccrory-duke-segregration-kfile/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/27/politics/pat-mccrory-duke-segregration-kfile/index.html) > Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said last year that not receiving an offer to teach at Duke University upon leaving the governorship was “blacklisting” and comparable to the refusal to serve Black Americans at lunch counters in the 1960s during segregation… 🙄 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=489) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=491)