# 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:** 493
**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:** [January 29, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9878 "2022-01-29T20:48:50Z")
So he’s already decided that this hypothetical woman is not as qualified as a hypothetical (presumably male, white) applicant. Nice that he can see into the future. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9879 "2022-01-29T22:30:54Z")
He doesn’t need to be able to see into the future, he only has to look at the past. We have a long history in this country of applying tests to see who is qualified and who isn’t. The simplest, of course, being the paper bag test. If your skin is lighter than a brown, paper bag, then you are a qualified individual. If your skin is the same color as, or darker, than a brown, paper bag, you only got to where you are through affirmative action. Easy-peasy, no thinking required. In fact, thinking is actively discouraged. Poe’s disclaimer: The preceding post is intended as sarcasm and does not represent the views of the poster. ---
**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 29, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9880 "2022-01-29T23:15:48Z")
An Arizona lawmaker has introduced a bill that eliminates absentee voting, requires vote counting to finish within 24 hours of the polls closing, and empowers the legislature to nullify the results if they don’t like them. > **[Arizona bill would allow legislature to overturn election results](https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/591597-arizona-bill-would-allow-legislature-to-overturn-election-results/)** > > An arch conservative member of Arizona’s state House of Representatives has proposed a mammoth overhaul of the state’s voting procedures that would allow legislators to overturn the results of a pr… ---
**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 30, 2022, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9881 "2022-01-30T01:13:21Z")
> [@from Smapti's Link](#): > > “We should have voting in my opinion in person, one day, on paper, with no electronic means and hand counting that day. **We need to get back to 1958-style voting** …” and certainly not be letting the negroes and mexicans be doing any, just like back then ---
**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:** [January 30, 2022, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9882 "2022-01-30T01:51:39Z")
> [@Steve\_McQwark](#): > > We have a long history in this country of applying tests to see who is qualified and who isn’t. The simplest, of course, being the paper bag test. If your skin is lighter than a brown, paper bag, then you are a qualified individual. If your skin is the same color as, or darker, than a brown, paper bag, you only got to where you are through affirmative action. Yes, that’s how the right has long seen the process of appointments, hirings, and higher-education enrollment. “ **Meritocracy** ” is defined as “_all jobs, appointments, and enrollments go to straight white Christian males_” with the corollary “_who are clearly the best-qualified in all cases_.” Anyone who fails the Straight White Christian Male test on any count, obviously got their job/appointment/enrollment through affirmative action. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9883 "2022-01-30T02:29:47Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Georgia is home to several movie studios. The Walking Dead and parts of Marvel movies have been filmed there. Same for the TV shows hosted by Steve Harvey. “Family Feud” and “Judge Steve Harvey” are both taped in Georgia. ---
**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 30, 2022, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9884 "2022-01-30T14:25:33Z")
There’s some seriously stupid stuff here… 🤦🏽‍♀️ > **[‘Threats’ shut Valley butterfly center - San Antonio Express, 1/30/2022](https://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/odn/sanantonioexpressnews/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=SAEN%2F2022%2F01%2F30&entity=Ar00300&sk=C9CC5AC6&mode=text)** > > San Antonio Express - 1/30/2022 > The National Butterfly Center on the Rio Grande in Mission, long a target of far-right conspiracy theories, closed this weekend after receiving “credible threats” against staff. > > Marianna Wright, the center’s executive director, made the decision after a recent confrontation with a Republican congressional candidate from Virginia. Wright told police that Kimberly Lowe visited the center, demanding to see “illegals crossing on rafts,” echoing baseless conspiracy theories linking the butterfly sanctuary to sex trafficking. > > Wright said she fears more of the same would occur if she were to keep the center open during this weekend’s “We Stand America” rally in neighboring McAllen. The event will “focus on border law enforcement and the direct connection to election integrity from a biblical worldview,” with featured speakers including former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, who was convicted of lying to the FBI. > > “The playbook is to incite violence,” Wright said. “We simply can’t risk our lives or those of our members and visitors, knowing that this hate speech, domestic terrorist organization is planning their national midterm kickoff rally in McAllen.” > > Wright has fended off conspiracy theorists for years, after the center filed suit against the Homeland Security Department in 2017 over former President Donald Trump’s plans to build a border wall through the 100-acre nature preserve. > > On any given day, hundreds of species of butterflies flit through the nonprofit sanctuary, which is part of the North American Butterfly Association. Birders from across the country visit the refuge to observe and photograph birds unique to the Rio Grande Valley, and thousands of local schoolchildren take field trips to the center each year. > > Meanwhile, since 2019, right-wing social media trolls have falsely claimed there were dead bodies and a “rampant sex trade” at the center. Some have threatened Wright. > … Read on. It gets worse. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9885 "2022-01-30T14:50:38Z")
Afraid of a butterfly sanctuary. And they call Democrats ‘snow flakes’. ---
**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 30, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9886 "2022-01-30T16:45:28Z")
IIUC, in Spanish, the word for butterfly is vernacular for a homosexual man, so it is really just homophobia. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9887 "2022-01-30T17:46:24Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Anyone who fails the Straight White Christian Male test on any count, obviously got their job/appointment/enrollment through affirmative action. Unless they failed the test by being female. Then they slept they way to any job/appointment/enrollment they were given. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9888 "2022-01-30T18:30:31Z")
What’s the word? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9889 "2022-01-30T18:33:44Z")
“Mariposa.” ---
**Author:** ![Ziberian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/919ad9/32.png) [@Ziberian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ziberian)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9890 "2022-01-30T21:19:27Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Probably because Biden promised to nominate a woman of color to the court and she is the only black woman they know. I can’t believe Michelle Obama hasn’t been mentioned yet. She is a lawyer & the reaction from the right would be beyond fabulous. ---
**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 30, 2022, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9891 "2022-01-30T22:23:49Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to kick the $9.5B Hollywood movie industry out of Georgia and said, “I don’t think we should have invited those people here to begin with.” 40,000 jobs, and 17,000 small businesses involved in the Georgia film industry. And MTG wants them out. I’d suggest the Dems run with that for the next election but that would require the Dems to be remotely competent. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9892 "2022-01-30T23:45:24Z")
Lots of people on Twitter have mentioned Michelle, along with suggesting Anita Hill. IIRC, however, both Michelle and Barack have said that they are not at all interested in serving on the SCOTUS. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9893 "2022-01-30T23:51:09Z")
Anita Hill would be _sweet_. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9894 "2022-01-31T00:32:55Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > Anyone who fails the Straight White Christian Male test on any count, obviously got their job/appointment/enrollment through affirmative action. > > Unless they failed the test by being female. Then they slept they way to any job/appointment/enrollment they were given. True. Of course nothing stops the right from claiming _both_ ‘affirmative action’ and ‘sluttiness’ as explanations of females getting any particular job (that more properly belongs to a Straight White Christian Male). ---
**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:** [January 31, 2022, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9895 "2022-01-31T03:16:16Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Of course nothing stops the right from claiming _both_ ‘affirmative action’ and ‘sluttiness’ as explanations of females getting any particular job c.f. Kamala Harris ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9896 "2022-01-31T03:22:07Z")
Trouble is, most of those jobs are in the Atlanta area - and we know what Marjorie Taylor Greene’s constituents think of the Atlanta area, and the people who live and work there! In her district, she’ll probably pick up some votes. Hopefully some Democrats running in the Atlanta suburbs can make electoral hay with it. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2022, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9897 "2022-01-31T05:27:57Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > What’s the word? > [@silenus](#): > > “Mariposa.” Mural on a retaining wall in Mariposa, California: [![](https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/colorful-butterflies-mural-small-town-mariposa-california-usa-retaining-wall-ca-167394922.jpg) ](https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/colorful-butterflies-mural-small-town-mariposa-california-usa-retaining-wall-ca-167394922.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=492) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=494)