# 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:** 427
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8527 "2023-03-15T05:47:34Z")
Fun Fact: George Santos invented Gatorade while researching Gatoraid. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2023, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8528 "2023-03-15T06:19:59Z")
Some of the responses to Santos’ tweet are gold; > > > > > ---
**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:** [March 15, 2023, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8529 "2023-03-15T06:22:16Z")
> [@jshore](#): > > Yes…Faced with the choice of > > (1) The banks failed because regulations that would have required them to be more careful and have more oversight were repealed in 2018. > > AND > > (2) the banks failed because they were too “woke”. > > apparently Republicans are overwhelmingly choosing (2). It’s not apparent; it’s happening. On a RWNJ message board that I follow, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed because of “wokeness.” Seems that SVB’s website mentioned that it supported “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies. From that simple statement, the RWNJs there concluded that SVB was too “woke” to appeal to Real Americans™, who, as we all know, are the majority of Americans. (End sarcasm.) So, they sold their stock in SVB, and withdrew their deposits, and SVB failed. They use the same logic on such things as Disney. Disney didn’t like Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, so DeSantis revoked Disney’s quasi-government in the Reedy Creek area, and now Disney’s stock price is falling because Real American™ investors won’t support a “woke” company. Besides, what’s with all these non-white Disney princesses: Moana, Pocahontas, Jasmine–the list goes on. Frankly, I think these people have little to no knowledge of the stock market, or how it works; or indeed, how the banking or entertainment industries work. All they know is that they’ve been told that “Falling stock prices are a Bad Thing, and signal that a company is in trouble.” Well, I don’t think Disney is in any trouble. As the RWNJs so often repeat, “Go Woke, Go Broke.” But really, companies’ stock prices can fall for many reasons, not just DEI policies, or whether they disagree with the policies of their jurisdiction’s government. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2023, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8530 "2023-03-15T06:27:36Z")
Meanwhile, here’s what happens when you ask them what “woke” actually means; > ---
**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:** [March 15, 2023, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8531 "2023-03-15T06:34:44Z")
Great find, @Smapti . Yep, she might as well be one of those RWNJs on that message board. They have equal difficulty defining the term, just as she did. If her “ums” and “ahs” could be accurately depicted on a message board, they’d be doing just that. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8532 "2023-03-15T07:31:36Z")
I think I, a liberal, could come up with a more coherent and reasonable-sounding-to-the-relatively-uninformed definition of “woke.” In fact, I’m surprised that some enterprising conservative hasn’t come up with one and just fed that to everyone as the line to parrot when asked this really basic question. It’s pathetic. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8533 "2023-03-15T07:37:38Z")
I couldn’t last the entire 52 seconds of her nonsense. She did get one thing right: “This is one of those moment’s that will go viral”. Yep, the hateful sod’s stupidity in full display on stage deserves to go viral. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8534 "2023-03-15T13:29:47Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I think I, a liberal, could come up with a more coherent and reasonable-sounding-to-the-relatively-uninformed definition of “woke.” In fact, I’m surprised that some enterprising conservative hasn’t come up with one and just fed that to everyone as the line to parrot when asked this really basic question. It’s pathetic. Definitions are… um… _by definition_, WOKE. The word is getting plenty of airtime with no definition. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2023, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8535 "2023-03-15T13:44:59Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Seems that SVB’s website mentioned that it supported “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies. Virtually any company of any size now mentions DEI on their website. (It’s often no more meaningful than the “equal opportunity employer” statements of a generation ago.) So if a DEI statement causes banks to fail the entire economy will soon be a smoking crater. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2023, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8536 "2023-03-15T15:11:07Z")
> [@jshore](#): > > (1) The banks failed because regulations that would have required them to be more careful and have more oversight were repealed in 2018. This option requires them to figure out who was in charge in 2018. Maybe it was aliens. Or ghosts. Or something _not_ orange, at any rate. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8537 "2023-03-15T15:13:20Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > here’s what happens when you ask them what “woke” actually means Well, geez, you don’t expect them to explain the _actual_ meaning (which is “I don’t have the nerve to say ‘uppity’”), now do you? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8538 "2023-03-15T19:54:44Z")
It looks like the Gnome of Tallahassee’s strategy for the nomination will be blathering about woke, pc, drag queens, grooming, woke, woke, pc, and woke. And the right wing slobs will eat it up, no doubt. Still, I’m hoping for all out war between the two Florida camps. Fun for the whole family. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8539 "2023-03-15T20:15:48Z")
Rooting for injuries. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8540 "2023-03-15T20:41:16Z")
The beauty of “woke” is that, like Nixon’s “silent majority,” it doesn’t have to be defined. In fact, it works better if it _isn’t_ defined, other than that it’s “bad.” That way the recipients can conflate it with their particular bugaboos — BLM, trans, abortion rights, gun seizures, what have you — and then the use of a single word pushes the “froth” button for multiple populations. It also makes attempts to define the word futile: the target audience already know what it means, though they probably can’t articulate the definition because it’s implanted below the conscious level. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2023, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8541 "2023-03-15T20:55:34Z")
Here’s a youtube commentary from a dude I respect. He talks about this interview, and another she did on Faux. His take is that the WOKE! BS is a grift with the only real gripe being having to have the unfortunate, occasional awkward conversation when one misgenders another. 14 minutes long if anyone has a little time to kill. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qVolrgzByb4/maxresdefault.jpg "Anti-Woke Author Short-Circuits When Asked To Define ‘Woke’") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVolrgzByb4) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8542 "2023-03-15T21:12:00Z")
Speaking of DEI, Florida Republicans have introduced a bill to ban programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion in colleges and universities across the state. > House Bill 999, or the [Public Postsecondary Educational Institutions](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/999/BillText/Filed/PDF), bans colleges from financially supporting “any programs or campus activities that espouse diversity, equity, or inclusion or Critical Race Theory rhetoric.” > > The language has led to concerns that Black fraternities and sororities will be barred from Florida campuses under the proposed legislation. > **[New Florida bill would ban diversity, inclusion programs on university campuses](https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3900186-new-florida-bill-would-ban-diversity-inclusion-programs-on-university-campuses/amp/)** > > A new Florida bill would ban programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion in colleges and universities across the state.  House Bill 999, or the Public Postsecondary Educational … ---
**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:** [March 15, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8543 "2023-03-15T21:14:45Z")
Meanwhile, a majority of Americans consider being called “woke” a compliment. > **[Most in new poll view ‘woke’ as positive term](https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3890296-most-in-new-poll-view-woke-as-positive-term/)** > > A majority of Americans in a new poll have a positive association with the term “woke,” understanding it to mean “to be informed, educated on, and aware of social injustices.” The USA Today-Ipsos p… ---
**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:** [March 15, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8544 "2023-03-15T21:16:42Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Meanwhile, a majority of Americans consider being called “woke” a compliment. Sure, the _woke_ ones. There ya go! Proof! ---
**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:** [March 15, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8545 "2023-03-15T21:22:39Z")
Because we all know that big bankers are the epitome of left-wingers, right? ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8546 "2023-03-15T21:40:38Z")
From one of the top Republican state senators in Minnesota: he doesn’t know anyone who is hungry. > **[GOP state legislator opposed to free school lunch proposal says he's never met...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/state-gop-senator-says-never-met-hungry-minnesotan-rcna74969)** > > But the measure's Democratic author says almost 1 in 6 Minnesota children don’t know when and where their next meals will be available — if at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=426) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=428)