# 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:** 444
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8867 "2023-03-28T18:19:05Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Of course, De-Volution is Just a Theory, amirite? Unintelligent Design? ---
**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 28, 2023, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8868 "2023-03-28T18:27:06Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > De-Volution is Just a Theory, amirite? Are we not men? We are GOP,oh! ---
**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 28, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8869 "2023-03-28T18:28:05Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Republicans seem to have de-volved into a different species. Of course, De-Volution is Just a Theory, amirite? I guess the early MAGA red hats looked a bit different. [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOTFjNDE1NzgtMjgzMi00OWI5LTg3YTctYjFhZmY3MzE2Y2RlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjUxMjc1OTM@._V1_.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOTFjNDE1NzgtMjgzMi00OWI5LTg3YTctYjFhZmY3MzE2Y2RlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjUxMjc1OTM@._V1_.jpg) ---
**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 28, 2023, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8870 "2023-03-28T23:43:03Z")
A Wisconsin school district banned a first-grade class from singing a Dolly Parton song at an assembly because it has the word “rainbow” in the title, and tried to ban them from singing “The Rainbow Connection” for the same reason. > **[Wisconsin school district bans Miley Cyrus-Dolly Parton duet with 'rainbow'...](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/28/entertainment/rainbowland-ban-miley-cyrus-dolly-parton-wisconsin-cec/index.html)** > > Students were also set to perform "Rainbowland," a 2017 duet by Miley Cyrus and her godmother, Dolly Parton, but the school district had the song removed because its lyrics "could be deemed controversial" according to a school board policy. ---
**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 29, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8871 "2023-03-29T00:03:41Z")
I guess _The Wizard of Oz_ has already been banned for all kinds of reasons… a wizard, witches, drugs (poppies, don’tcha know), violence (melting someone, dropping a house on someone else), odd religious overtones, not to mention the questionable vibe between Dorothy and the Scarecrow. So, no more “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”? ---
**Author:** ![TheTooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@TheTooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTooth)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8872 "2023-03-29T00:13:26Z")
But their wearers are happier than you and me. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2023, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8873 "2023-03-29T00:29:15Z")
Well, you know about being “a friend of Dorothy.” ---
**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 29, 2023, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8874 "2023-03-29T08:24:07Z")
[Republican Senator blocking promotions](https://us.yahoo.com/gma/austin-confronts-gop-senator-blocking-231016153.html) because he doesn’t want women to have choice over their own bodies. Now that’s not a quote, but it’s what I glean from this: > Tuberville has been blocking military nominations since last month, over a Pentagon [policy](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/military-provide-leave-travel-expenses-troops-seeking-abortions/story?id=91819648) that covers the travel costs of service members seeking abortions in states outside of where they are stationed if their base is located in a state that bans the procedure. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2023, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8875 "2023-03-29T11:54:53Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > violence (melting someone, dropping a house on someone else) Both of those were witches, so they’re fine. ---
**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 29, 2023, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8876 "2023-03-29T12:15:37Z")
> **[Republicans Face Setbacks in Push to Tighten Voting Laws on College Campuses](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/us/politics/republicans-young-voters-college.html?unlocked_article_code=xlIRw5ygfQKbveJKU9OFPBtplvEIOiKD0zPwp2RwWb_A2tgsd4SNtqr8ZNgE58NG05oggH-nE1pyC6uMXgGna68ca2d-TBadi_iJX8L5vVOv0aFBrrmtfroDHpq3Xf2yWtadw2na3M7ApFTgiS3d8Y00OvwkG-_qOb4ANZvZCli_HGCGIH0ok2X1berjq8UZyulsYfSMoiD-6AGCJ8hjZ7MZxKBZD-DEX9iyEM5-rj6d7996s5lZQmUhghLkTsdCijAljWY-TmHeJ5VQGBa0GRj3Ns5JfWterJBAQjfeEASP-ga0F1lH4im1Z3lUXBgHQdiNQWwvTCXiI9xNAaXPGkQ0hz5HCdmyELNp5g9-&smid=url-share)** > > Party officials across the country have sought to erect more barriers for young voters, who tilt heavily Democratic, after several cycles in which their turnout surged. > Alarmed over young people increasingly proving to be a force for Democrats at the ballot box, Republican lawmakers in a number of states have been trying to enact new obstacles to voting for college students. > > In Idaho, Republicans used their power monopoly this month to ban student ID cards as a form of voter identification. > > But so far this year, the new Idaho law is one of few successes for Republicans targeting young voters. > … > > “When these ideas are first floated, people are aghast,” said Chad Dunn, the co-founder and legal director of the [UCLA Voting Rights Project](https://latino.ucla.edu/votingrights/). But he cautioned that the lawmakers who sponsor such bills tend to bring them back over and over again. > > “Then, six, eight, 10 years later, these terrible ideas become law,” he said. > … 🤔 If only there were a way to make it illegal for Democrats to vote _at all_… Working on that… ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8877 "2023-03-29T12:26:20Z")
Not that I’m not against it, but what effect would not allowing school IDs really have? I feel like it’s a safe assumption that the overwhelming majority of people that have a college ID also have government issued ID that could be used for voting. The only thing I can think of is that they’re working on the assumption that dems will feel this way as well (what difference would it make) and choose not to push back this clearing the way for them to keep chipping away. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2023, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8878 "2023-03-29T12:37:18Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Not that I’m not against it, but what effect would not allowing school IDs really have? I feel like it’s a safe assumption that the overwhelming majority of people that have a college ID also have government issued ID that could be used for voting. Because your government ID may have your address in a different precinct or even different state. Most college students don’t register their college address with the BMV, so they have no ID that shows that they live in the voting area except their college ID. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2023, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8879 "2023-03-29T12:41:10Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > **Because your government ID may have your address in a different precinct or even different state**. Most college students don’t register their college address with the BMV, so they have no ID that shows that they live in the voting area except their college ID. - Wouldn’t that disqualify them from voting locally then? ---
**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 29, 2023, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8880 "2023-03-29T12:44:44Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Wouldn’t that disqualify them from voting Yes, that’s the point. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2023, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8881 "2023-03-29T12:45:21Z")
Only if their college ID isn’t accepted. Technically, they _should_ update their address with the BMV, but that’s between them and the BMV, and has nothing to do with voting. You vote where you live, not where the BMV thinks you do. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8882 "2023-03-29T12:47:31Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Only if their college ID isn’t accepted. - Is college ID usually used to establish residency for voting or do you also have to change address and DL? ---
**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:** [March 29, 2023, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8883 "2023-03-29T12:51:35Z")
Outside of the changes that Republicans are making, college ID has pretty much been accepted for establishing residency for voting purposes. The changes the Republicans are making will make them no longer so. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8884 "2023-03-29T12:51:50Z")
Maybe I’m weird, but when I was in college, I got an absentee ballot from my home district and voted that way. The idea of voting in the city where I was going to college never even occurred to me. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2023, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8885 "2023-03-29T12:54:49Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > Maybe I’m weird, but when I was in college, I got an absentee ballot from my home district and voted that way. You _can_ do that, too. Many precincts will allow college students to vote that way. But when you were in college, where did you spend the majority of your year? You _should_ be voting where you live. > [@MrAtoz](#): > > The idea of voting in the city where I was going to college never even occurred to me. You lived there for four years, you had an investment in the community, why shouldn’t you have a say in how it is run? ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/8886 "2023-03-29T12:56:58Z")
I probably should have, if I had been a more responsible citizen at the time. But I didn’t. Certainly I didn’t have much investment in, or knowledge of, how the mayor was doing back in my hometown, and yet I still voted for that office. Like I said, maybe I’m weird. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=443) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=445)