# 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:** 228
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4542 "2022-09-15T05:14:05Z")
Great use of taxpayers’ money. Republican fiscal responsibility, ladies and germs. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4543 "2022-09-15T05:15:10Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Biden is already dead. It just made him more powerful. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4544 "2022-09-15T05:16:12Z")
Who the hell is this – Criswell’s love child? “Future events like these will affect us- - in the future!” ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4545 "2022-09-15T05:20:33Z")
If the mermaid is dark-skinned, she is supposed to have a little appendage arching out from the middle of her forehead, with a bioluminescent bulb on the tip. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4546 "2022-09-15T05:24:37Z")
Also, Prince Eric should mate with her by biting her abdomen and fusing himself to her circulatory system, gradually atrophying over the course of several years until he becomes nothing more than a pair of testes to auto-fertilize her eggs. I believe that among deep sea fish that’s known as “traditional family values”. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4547 "2022-09-15T10:40:35Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Republican fiscal responsibility, ladies and germs. Better than the Republican fish-cal values. I liked the tweet that noted that the live-action Ariel seems to have the tail of a mahi-mahi, not a cod. More wokeness! ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4548 "2022-09-15T10:44:47Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I liked the tweet that noted that the live-action Ariel seems to have the tail of a mahi-mahi, not a cod. More wokeness! [Authoritative like an orca, but sensual as a grunion.](https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200309#.YyMBsbfMKUk) ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4549 "2022-09-15T10:58:04Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Also, Prince Eric should mate with her by biting her abdomen and fusing himself to her circulatory system, gradually atrophying over the course of several years until he becomes nothing more than a pair of testes to auto-fertilize her eggs. How will we know it has happened? ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4550 "2022-09-15T11:48:49Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Matt Walsh takes to TV to explain why it’s unscientific for a magical half-fish half-human fairy tale creature to not be Caucasian, because the animated movie for preteen girls makes his dick sad. To quote him: > [@](#): > > MATT WALSH (HOST): Also, by the way, with _The Little Mermaid_ – can we also just mention that, from a scientific perspective, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to have someone with darker skin who lives deep in the ocean. > > I mean, if anything, not only should the Little Mermaid be pale, she should, actually, be translucent. If you look at deep sea creatures, they’re, like, translucent. They have no, kind of, pigmentation whatsoever. And they’re just, like, these horrifying – they look like skeletons floating around in the ocean. That’s what the Little Mermaid should look like. She should be totally pale and skeletal where you can see her skull through her face. Yeah, like the Humpback Anglerfish: > **[Deep-sea fish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-sea_fish#/media/File:Humpback_anglerfish.png)** > > Deep-sea fish are fish that live in the darkness below the sunlit surface waters, that is below the epipelagic or photic zone of the sea. The lanternfish is, by far, the most common deep-sea fish. Other deep-sea fishes include the flashlight fish, cookiecutter shark, bristlemouths, anglerfish, viperfish, and some species of eelpout. > Only about 2% of known marine species inhabit the pelagic environment. This means that they live in the water column as opposed to the benthic organisms that live... or the Pelican Eel > **[Pelican eel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelican_eel#/media/File:Eurypharynx_pelecanoides.jpg)** > > Gastrostomus pacificusMacropharynx longicaudatusGastrostomus bairdiiEurypharynx richardiLeptocephalus pseudolatissimus > The pelican eel (Eurypharynx pelecanoides) is a deep-sea eel. It is the only known member of the genus Eurypharynx and the family Eurypharyngidae. It belongs to the "saccopharyngiforms", members of which were historically placed in their own order, but are now considered true eels in the order Anguilliformes. The pelican eel has been described by many synonyms, yet nobody has... or…the Stoplight Loosejaw > **[Deep-sea fish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-sea_fish#/media/File:Malacosteus.JPG)** > > Deep-sea fish are fish that live in the darkness below the sunlit surface waters, that is below the epipelagic or photic zone of the sea. The lanternfish is, by far, the most common deep-sea fish. Other deep-sea fishes include the flashlight fish, cookiecutter shark, bristlemouths, anglerfish, viperfish, and some species of eelpout. > Only about 2% of known marine species inhabit the pelagic environment. This means that they live in the water column as opposed to the benthic organisms that live... actually, if The Little Mermaid were based on Deep Sea fish, she’d likely have long needle-like teeth and be bioluminescent (which would be cool). But mermaids seem to be shallow-water dwellers, which means all bets are off. Myself, I’ve long wondered if Ariel and her kin really ought to be like Lovecraft’s Deep Ones from _The Shadow over Innsmouth_ > **[The Shadow over Innsmouth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_over_Innsmouth#/media/File:The_Shadow_over_Innsmouth.png)** > > The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in November–December 1931. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using > its motif of a malign undersea civilization, and references several shared elements of the Mythos, including place-names, mythical creatures, and invocations. The Shadow over Innsmouth is the only Lovecraft story that was published in book form during his lifetime. > The narrator is a student conducting an antiquarian tour of New England. ... ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4551 "2022-09-15T12:51:50Z")
In the news around here last night, and this morning on the Maddowblog – De Santis apparently sent fifty immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, claiming that Massachusetts deserved them as a result of their “open border” policies. > **[Did DeSantis use taxpayer funds to fly migrants to Martha’s Vineyard?](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/desantis-use-taxpayer-funds-fly-migrants-marthas-vineyard-rcna47859)** > > Imagine the message this sends: If you reach the United States, Ron DeSantis might give you a free flight to a lovely coastal town in New England. > **[Migrants on Martha's Vineyard flight say they were told they were going to...](https://www.npr.org/2022/09/15/1123109768/migrants-sent-to-marthas-vineyard)** > > The plane flight carrying dozens of migrants and paid by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is the latest move by Republican officials to send migrants to Democrat-controlled cities. To say that this is an election-year stunt is to state the obvious. As anyone who has arranged any kind of flights like this knows, shipping people to the Boston area is one thing, but getting them to the Vineyard takes extra effort. As the articles cited above make abundantly clear, there’s really no rationale for this, and the given reasons are absurd. This is poaturing, and nothing more. That doesn’t help the fifty immigrants, who had been lied to and told there would be a reception and jobs for them. The Vineyard folks responded beautifully, arranging facilities and shelter for them all, even though they were totally unprepared for this sudden and unannounced onslaught. What’s ironic is that this would probably have been particularly welcome i the Vineyard if it had been earlier in the summer – they’ve been having problems finding enough workers at the resorts. Jeff Jacoby, the Boston Globe’s resident conservative columnist, just had a piece in the paper recently saying that busing immigrants to New England really isn’t a punishment for anyone, and Abbott and DeSantis ought to stop doing it. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4552 "2022-09-15T13:16:29Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > busing immigrants to New England really isn’t a punishment for anyone And next, the comfy chair! ---
**Author:** ![mattgg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@mattgg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattgg)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4553 "2022-09-15T13:19:19Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Jeff Jacoby, the Boston Globe’s resident conservative columnist, just had a piece in the paper recently saying that busing immigrants to New England really isn’t a punishment for anyone, and Abbott and DeSantis ought to stop doing it. The states and/or local aid organizations do incur significant costs to shelter and feed the victims of these stunts. To their credit, every time this happens the people at the destination have taken care of the victims. Imagine if Canadians were sneaking into Martha’s Vineyard illegally and the Vineyard sent them to Texas. They’d receive a much different welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4554 "2022-09-15T13:50:55Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > … actually, if The Little Mermaid were based on Deep Sea fish, she’d likely have long needle-like teeth and be bioluminescent (which would be cool). But mermaids seem to be shallow-water dwellers, which means all bets are off. Seriously. What’s the biological rationale for a mermaid having red hair? Or any hair, for that matter? Or needing a bra? Seems like the neutral buoyancy of living underwater would keep your breasts from sagging or bouncing around too much. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4555 "2022-09-15T13:54:09Z")
Why would a fish have breasts to begin with? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4556 "2022-09-15T14:00:45Z")
heavens to betsy, some people spend way too much time contemplating fictional characters. personally, my very limited thinking on mermaids are that they are marine mammals not fish. therefore to answer silenus, they need mammary glands to nurse young. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4557 "2022-09-15T14:02:07Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Why would a fish have breasts to begin with? - This made me realize something. You know why Ariel is attracted to Eric? Because she realized that [he is an 'alibut.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOonOtyoplY) ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4558 "2022-09-15T14:06:21Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Why would a fish have breasts to begin with? To lure sailors to their doom. Duh! On a slightly more serious side, it’s claimed that manatees and dugongs have prominent breasts, and this is the reason for their being called “sea cows” and for being cited as the inspiration for mermaids. I’ve never seen, however, anything that looks like a breast on a photo of an actual manatee or dugong, even on ones that are supposed to illustrate this feature. This is a balloon, and doesn’t count: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/110/291080887_6acd9bad61_b.jpg "Why does this manatee have boobs?") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/damgaard/291080887) Can’t find any here > **[All About Manatees | Dolphin Discovery](http://blog.dolphindiscovery.com/all-about-manatees/)** > > Learn All About Manatees in this article and be amazed at how incredible they are. The sketch in here (scroll way down) sorta seems to suggest breasts, but they’re not significant, and, still, it ain’t a photograph > **[Myths, Manatees, and Mermaids in the Age of Exploration](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/manatees-mermaids-columbus/)** > > This old case of mistaken identity shows how folklore, myth, and legend can sometimes slow scientific understanding. None of the pictures here show anything > **[Wikiwand - Manatee](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Manatee)** > > Manatees are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. There are three accepted living species of Trichechidae, representing three of the four living species in the order Sirenia: the Amazonian manatee , the... Or these drawings [[Album] Imgur ![](https://s.imgur.com/images/logo-1200-630.jpg?2 "Imgur") ](https://imgur.com/gallery/z5uLK/comment/349685106) ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4559 "2022-09-15T14:09:56Z")
If this shows a young manatee suckling at a manatee breast, then it’s in a very weird place and the sketch in the Snopes article is misleading > **[Sure. A manatee's boobs are by their armpit! Knowledge is power.](https://whisper.sh/whisper/04f5535e1605d0434896514e294cfb7cc82b9a/Sure--A-manatees-boobs-are-by-their-armpit--Knowledge-is-power-)** > > Sure. A manatee's boobs are by their armpit! Knowledge is power. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4560 "2022-09-15T14:12:22Z")
In an amazingly smooth segue…Doper pilots: Is the airport on Martha’s Vineyard staffed 24/7? Can they refuse landing permission to any aircraft? ETA: Disregard the first question, as the plane from Texas landed in the middle of the afternoon. The second question still stands. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/4561 "2022-09-15T14:15:55Z")
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