# 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:** 438
**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 23, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8747 "2023-03-23T18:53:09Z")
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**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:** [March 23, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8748 "2023-03-23T19:00:03Z")
sometimes there just are not words. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8749 "2023-03-23T19:06:52Z")
And sometimes the words come forth like explosive diarrhea. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8750 "2023-03-23T19:09:41Z")
That Soros guy really gets around, doesn’t he, fingers in so many pies. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8751 "2023-03-23T19:22:41Z")
That’s what a quart of scotch, per day, over your entire life does to you. Permanently pickled brain. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8752 "2023-03-23T19:31:22Z")
He drives like Steve McQueen too. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8753 "2023-03-23T20:25:34Z")
Really, they’re just making Soros sound like a badass. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8754 "2023-03-23T21:03:47Z")
Soros 2: The Re-Wokening. It will make Vin Diesel vs. The Rock look like Muppets. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8755 "2023-03-23T21:13:17Z")
There’s a great movie going on in this guy’s head. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8756 "2023-03-23T21:15:41Z")
A 92-year-old badass no less. 🙄🙄🙄 ---
**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:** [March 23, 2023, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8757 "2023-03-23T21:32:04Z")
So when George Soros dies, who are the Republicans going to use as his replacement for all things evil in the world, or are they going to claim that he faked his death and is still pulling the strings? ---
**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 23, 2023, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8758 "2023-03-23T21:35:53Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > There’s a great movie going on in this guy’s head. It’s a shame he doesn’t know what the Oscars are, because it probably deserves one. > **['What a buffoon': Rudy Giuliani ridiculed after proclaiming himself a...](https://www.rawstory.com/giuliani-2659596850/)** > > Former New York City Mayor and erstwhile television defense counsel to Ex-President Donald Trump Rudy Giuliani claimed on a podcast early this week that he is a "biblical scholar" because he watched a couple of movies about Jesus Christ.Giuliani made... > [@](#): > > “Oscar?” Giuliani asked. > > “Oh, the Oscars,” the host replied, to no avail. > > “Oh, it’s the O – oh, it’s a family. What, what are, it’s a gas, it’s a, some big thing happened last night that I am called Oscar,” Giuliani reiterated. > > “It’s called the Oscars. It’s an award show. It’s a big, big to do in Hollywood,” the man stated. > > Giuliani was uninterested, instead pivoting to how he spent that evening. > > “Last night, last night, I, I watched ‘Chosen,’ which I recommend to everyone to watch before Easter. It’s about the life of Jesus Christ. It is – people who are very Orthodox, either Catholic or Protestant, might be somewhat offended by – it’s not being biblically one-hundreds percent accurate, but it is not in any way offensive. It’s not like, you know, ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ or anything like that,” Giuliani opined. > > “And its fictionalism is from my point of view as a, as a moderate biblical scholar – moderate, I say moderate – but uh, but more a religious scholar, which I am, uh, I would say it’s fair interpretation,” he continued. “But in any event, I was watching that and they, they said there was this thing on Oscar, but nobody I knew was watching it.” ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8759 "2023-03-23T21:50:58Z")
Who’s the next richest liberally inclined Jewish person? ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8760 "2023-03-23T23:04:37Z")
OK, that’s sad. Infuriating, but sad. Intervention, anyone? ---
**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:** [March 23, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8761 "2023-03-23T23:56:31Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Yep. What is often missed is that the people in those power circles see the reduction of large parts of the population to peasantry to be a _good_ thing because it restores the proper God-given order. Why should the wealthy have to travel all the way to Bangkok or Jakarta or Kuala Lumpur to get access to …what they need? When it could be _American_ parents desperate enough for a crust of bread who could provide…what the wealthy need? ---
**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 24, 2023, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8762 "2023-03-24T01:54:10Z")
Utah legislator writes law allowing parents to have “pornographic” books removed from school libraries, makes surprised Pikachu face when parent uses it to ban the Bible. > **[GOP lawmaker ‘very sad’ Utah parent used his law to request ‘sex-ridden’...](https://www.rawstory.com/gop-lawmaker-very-sad-utah-parent-used-his-law-to-request-ridden-bible-be-removed-from-school/)** > > Responding to a new law allowing for "pornographic" books to be removed from school libraries, a Utah parent has moved to have "one of the most sex-ridden books around" removed as well, namely, the Bible. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the... ---
**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 24, 2023, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8763 "2023-03-24T02:02:35Z")
From Rep. Ken Ivory (R-West Jordan), the sponsor of that bill: > [@](#): > > “There was a purpose to the bill and this kind of stuff, it’s very unfortunate,” he said. Was the purpose of the bill “You’re an evil idiot”? Because that’s the only purpose it actually serves. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2023, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8764 "2023-03-24T02:53:31Z")
> Rep. Ken Ivory (R-West Jordan), the chief sponsor of the bill, called the parent’s request another example of “antics that drain school resources.” With the primary example being his bill as a whole. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8765 "2023-03-24T04:22:09Z")
If any filth should be removed from libraries, the bible is at the top of the list. What other “book” has lead to more death and awful laws/policies than that book? You can add in other religious books here since there are others that should be in that list. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2023, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8766 "2023-03-24T04:38:06Z")
While I agree with this > [@wguy123](#): > > What other “book” has lead to more death and awful laws/policies than that book? I will argue that it shouldn’t be banned. Reading the bible carefully taught me enough to leave the Catholic faith the same time I left the family home. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=437) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=439)