# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018 "2022-02-07T00:52:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 215
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4282 "2022-08-29T13:30:34Z")
Was that one of those books that the RNC buys all the copies of to make it look like it’s a bestseller? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4283 "2022-08-29T13:37:43Z")
Looks like they learned from L. Ron Hubbard. Or Mad Magazine’s “New York Times Tactical Buying Squad” from their “Paperback Publisher of the Year” interview. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4284 "2022-08-29T13:58:00Z")
Not to mention the fact that being a Senator probably makes it a bit easier to find a publisher willing to take on your manuscript. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4285 "2022-08-29T14:02:54Z")
So a member of the ruling class says the system is set up to benefit the ruling class? I guess he’s honest, at least. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4286 "2022-08-29T21:02:54Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Is this the one that involves a live elephant trunk and some of that what you call your kentucky jelly? People are saying that what you speak of is merely the way to gain entrance to the facility to participate in the ritual. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4287 "2022-08-29T21:13:07Z")
Does the ritual itself involve a goat and a straw? ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4288 "2022-08-29T21:15:24Z")
People are saying that you are quite correct! ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4289 "2022-08-29T21:29:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Ted Cruz warns that student debt forgiveness will drive slacker baristas to put down their bongs and vote for Democrats . [https://scontent-atl3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/302052597\_525583846280286\_8721721698530608208\_n.jpg?stp=cp1\_dst-jpg&\_nc\_cat=100&ccb=1-7&\_nc\_sid=8bfeb9&\_nc\_ohc=Mz5DEZtPTsUAX9ob9-q&\_nc\_ht=scontent-atl3-2.xx&oh=00\_AT\_aiUsiNrxZNass60zoNO4X-b52O231gLDJTNfVwGgfmQ&oe=631134F7](https://scontent-atl3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/302052597_525583846280286_8721721698530608208_n.jpg?stp=cp1_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=Mz5DEZtPTsUAX9ob9-q&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-2.xx&oh=00_AT_aiUsiNrxZNass60zoNO4X-b52O231gLDJTNfVwGgfmQ&oe=631134F7) ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4290 "2022-08-29T21:32:10Z")
I can understand someone dropping out of high school. From there, I can understand someone taking the GED. And I can even understand someone failing the GED, once. But then, once they realized the level of difficulty and effort involved, I would expect them to either get themselves in gear, and make a concerted effort to prepare for the test the next time. And I can’t understand how anyone who made an effort to prepare for the GED could fail it. How does one even fail the GED four times? It’s not even stupidity: If she were genuinely just stupid, then she would have special ed accommodations. She’d have to be deliberately tanking it, or something. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4291 "2022-08-29T21:47:53Z")
She really can be that stupid. Have you had the misfortune of hearing her speak? Here I’ll let Chelsea Handler comment… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pgGEwldM8js/maxresdefault.jpg "Guest Host Chelsea Handler on the Awfulness That is Melania Trump, Lauren Boebert & Ginni Thomas") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgGEwldM8js) ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4292 "2022-08-29T23:35:19Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > Ted Cruz warns that student debt forgiveness will drive slacker baristas to put down their bongs and vote for Democrats . > > [https://scontent-atl3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/302052597\_525583846280286\_8721721698530608208\_n.jpg?stp=cp1\_dst-jpg&\_nc\_cat=100&ccb=1-7&\_nc\_sid=8bfeb9&\_nc\_ohc=Mz5DEZtPTsUAX9ob9-q&\_nc\_ht=scontent-atl3-2.xx&oh=00\_AT\_aiUsiNrxZNass60zoNO4X-b52O231gLDJTNfVwGgfmQ&oe=631134F7](https://scontent-atl3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/302052597_525583846280286_8721721698530608208_n.jpg?stp=cp1_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=Mz5DEZtPTsUAX9ob9-q&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-2.xx&oh=00_AT_aiUsiNrxZNass60zoNO4X-b52O231gLDJTNfVwGgfmQ&oe=631134F7) I’m enjoying the picture that sprang immediately to mind on reading this (of Ted Cruz crouched in the back room, sobbing). In real life Ted is much more likely, if he found himself magically teleported into a Starbucks barista job, to tear off his name badge and angrily demand at full volume “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM???” But I still like that first mental picture. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4293 "2022-08-29T23:58:23Z")
Another RepubliQuack backpedaling on birth at conception [at least on his website, down deep, he’s still into owning women’s bodies]. Seems to be sucking him down the drain polling badly. Also, what’s with the spastic haircuts? > **[Another Republican Scrubbed His Support for Total Abortion Ban on Website...](https://jezebel.com/another-republican-scrubbed-his-support-for-total-abort-1849468223)** > > Tom Barrett of Michigan walked back his "life from conception" language in a move from Blake Masters' playbook. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4294 "2022-08-29T23:59:41Z")
…Sir?.. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4295 "2022-08-30T00:01:25Z")
That something, no doubt, is simply never preparing for it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4296 "2022-08-30T00:14:21Z")
If Ted Cruz thinks giving people money (stent loan forgiveness) gets votes, why doesn’t he sponsor a bill to forgive all student debt? Promoting universal health care? Other things the majority likes? Then Republicans would get all the votes. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4297 "2022-08-30T00:24:17Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > That something, no doubt, is simply never preparing for it. OK, I can even comprehend (not agree with, of course, but comprehend) someone taking the GED test the first time, failing, and concluding “Well that test is just way too hard to be worth it; I’m not wasting any more of my time”. Such a person would, of course, not prepare to take it again… but they also wouldn’t take it again. It still doesn’t explain why any person, or any even vaguely person-like thing, would take and fail the test repeatedly without ever preparing for it. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4298 "2022-08-30T01:11:23Z")
It’s rather simple, just like how simple the person under discussion is. She believes that she’s smart, smart enough to prove to those America-hating liberal radical communist socialists who created the GED program in the first place that she doesn’t need to prepare for their silly little test. The repeated failures, of course, were not her fault; they were the fault of the aforementioned libs. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2022, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4299 "2022-08-30T05:06:44Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Does the ritual itself involve a goat and a straw? As long as there is no squid. Squid+Goat is copyrighted. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4300 "2022-08-30T06:30:27Z")
Are there any cites for the multiple GED failures? As near as I can tell, that’s just made up, possibly because she took a “four course review” before she passed the GED at 34. She’s still a dim bulb, but I like to keep my facts straight. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2022, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4301 "2022-08-30T11:35:10Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > She believes that she’s smart, smart enough to prove to those America-hating liberal radical communist socialists who created the GED program in the first place that she doesn’t need to prepare for their silly little test. The repeated failures, of course, were not her fault; they were the fault of the aforementioned libs. I will now share my story of the Kansas written motorcycle test. I moved from Minnesota, where I had a motorcycle endorsement. When I went to get my KS license, they asked if I wanted to get a motorcycle endorsement there, also. I didn’t have a bike or plans to get one, but thought “sure, why not. Plus, I’m an ace test taker and how hard can it be?”. Hard enough that I failed it, and I think maybe badly (it’s been 35+ years). They said I could retest in a week, and, not one to let some stupid standardized test defeat me, I took the offered pamphlet, went home, scanned for the questions that were on the test (good memory for that sort of thing), went in to retest and the bastards have (at least) two version of the test. Yeah, failed it again. Went home, studied the damn pamphlet and got 100%. Haven’t driven a motorcycle since, but I did move the endorsement over to Missouri when I moved here (no test there, apparently they don’t care). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=214) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=216)