# 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:** 277
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5522 "2022-10-31T12:10:07Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Stay classy, Donnie. For him, that IS classy. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5523 "2022-10-31T15:29:32Z")
Classy is as classy does. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5524 "2022-10-31T15:50:15Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Republican candidate for US Senate from New Hampshire is still repeating the debunked hoax about schoolchildren peeing in litter boxes. I was at an event last weekend, and heard this line from one guy, about his local schools - in small town Ontario, Canada. This shit is infectious. I called him on it, asking if he’d actually seen a photo of it or not. This is a small enough town that photos of this (rather small and obscure) annual event from a few years ago made the front page of the newspaper, so what chance would there be that this litter box thing wouldn’t make the front page too? But this guy bought it completely. He backed off when I challenged him, but I sensed he was mostly just humoring me. I don’t think he actually changed his mind. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5525 "2022-10-31T16:10:47Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > I don’t think he actually changed his mind. Some of these people are such creeps, they like the idea, and go with it. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2022, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5526 "2022-10-31T17:02:05Z")
Came across this on Twitter. Hope it helps. > **[Vote From Abroad](https://t.co/kS2T9VOgB3)** > > VoteFromAbroad.org -- Absentee Ballots for US Citizens Abroad ---
**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:** [October 31, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5527 "2022-10-31T17:17:36Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Some of these people are such creeps, they like the idea, and go with it. I’ve known this guy for along time, and don’t get a creep vibe off him. Just standard small town conservative. Which I suppose is creepy enough 😃 ---
**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:** [October 31, 2022, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5528 "2022-10-31T23:54:13Z")
A Republican Congressional nominee in Texas is the author of an Anne Frank fanfic in which she converts to Christianity at Auschwitz. > **[Texas Republican writes Anne Frank fan fiction in which she converts to...](https://www.rawstory.com/texas-republican-wrote-anne-frank-fan-fiction-in-which-she-converts-to-christianity-report/)** > > On Monday, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that Johnny Teague, the Republican running for Texas' 7th Congressional District, wrote a novel in which he imagines that Anne Frank converted to Christianity and accepted Jesus Christ as her lord and... > [@](#): > > “‘I would love to learn more about Jesus and all He faced in His dear life as a Jewish teacher,’ Teague’s Anne Frank character muses at one point, saying that her dad had tried to get her a copy of the New Testament. Anne’s father Otto Frank, who in real life did survive the Holocaust, seems to have been spared a tragic fate in Teague’s telling because of his interest in learning about Jesus,” said the report. "Later, Anne does learn about Jesus through other means, reciting Christian psalms and expressing sympathy for Jesus’ plight. By book’s end, Anne is firm in her belief that ‘every Jewish man or woman should ask’ questions like ‘Where is the Messiah? … Did He come already, and we didn’t recognize Him?’ ---
**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:** [October 31, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5529 "2022-10-31T23:59:44Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@Republican fanfic writer](#): > > > > Later, Anne does learn about Jesus through other means, reciting Christian psalms and expressing sympathy for Jesus’ plight. WTF is a _Christian_ psalm? ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5530 "2022-11-01T00:18:55Z")
Oy vey. 🤦🏽‍♀️ That is seriously offensive. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5531 "2022-11-01T00:41:49Z")
Thanks. The issue is that Georgia is pretty, okay, I’ll say it, backwards. There’s no way, given the mail situation from here to there for my ballot to actually get there within the time constraints now required by the law. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5532 "2022-11-01T00:43:30Z")
What the everloving fuck?!?! That’s some serious fornagraphy. And, of course, it completely ignores the simple fact that the Nazis did not recognize conversions away from Judaism. You have a Jewish ancestor? Great, you’re off to the camps. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5533 "2022-11-01T10:16:27Z")
On the downside, she becomes a Jehovah’s Witness and is still stuck in the camp. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5534 "2022-11-01T15:56:29Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > And, of course, it completely ignores the simple fact that the Nazis did not recognize conversions away from Judaism. Although I haven’t read Teague’s revisionist screed, I’m fairly confident that when they say > Anne’s father Otto Frank … seems to have been spared a tragic fate in Teague’s telling because of his interest in learning about Jesus, It isn’t that because after his conversion he is no longer persecuted by the Nazis. No Christian fundamentalist author would suggest that being a Christian would make people less likely to persecute you, The theme is always that Christians are the most persecuted people ever throughout history. I assume that its more likely something like her father witnesses to a Nazi guard who is instantly converted (having never heard of Christ before) and gives up his evil ways, or that by skipping dinner to read his bible her father misses a general purge. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5535 "2022-11-01T17:21:49Z")
Probably the happy ending is that at least she gets to go to heaven if she’s Christian. As a Dutch woman who grew up reading Anne’s diary and additional literature, I’m appalled. This is not only revisionism, it’s hijacking someone’s fate and suffering to make some sick point. Disgusting. Americans are in no way entitled to this story. This is ours, and ours to come to terms with, given that about ninety percent of Dutch Jewry was exterminated because we were a little too organised and cooperative. And yes, her father was the only survivor. All the others in the secret annexe were killed in the camps. That’s how he was able to get her diary published. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5536 "2022-11-01T18:16:49Z")
> [@Drsunflower1](#): > > Probably the happy ending is that at least she gets to go to heaven if she’s Christian. I think they’ve confused Anne Frank with The Little Mermaid somehow. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5537 "2022-11-01T18:40:17Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > they’ve confused Anne Frank with The Little Mermaid But wasn’t Anne Frank white? ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5538 "2022-11-01T18:44:11Z")
“Fan fiction” about an actual person? That seems more than a little weird. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5539 "2022-11-01T18:50:30Z")
Especially since we know most of her story from her own first hand accounts. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5540 "2022-11-01T19:04:47Z")
And we have the stories of the survivors who knew Anne and her sister Margot, from inside the camps. And even before that. The woman who was her best friend before she went in hiding, Hanneli Goslar, has recently passed. They went to school together in Amsterdam and saw each other again in Bergen-Belsen. We have a pretty good idea of what happened. In the 1980s there was a documentary made by Willy Lindwer which gave eyewitness accounts. Hanneli Goslar contributed to that as well. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/5541 "2022-11-01T20:04:21Z")
There is nothing inherently wrong with fan fiction of historical characters, It runs the gamut from “I, Claudius” to "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire hunter. But an to take such an iconic representation of Jewish repression and decide to fix her Jewishness, is absolutely repulsive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=276) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=278)