# 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:** 78
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1542 "2022-04-17T12:58:52Z")
My brain is struggling to reconcile “lavish resort” and “Hendersonville, North Carolina”. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2022, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1543 "2022-04-17T12:58:55Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > The question, “Timmy has 8 apples. After he gives enough apples to Laquanda to make up for historical and contemporary systemic racism, how many apples does Timmy have left?” That would be fine, so long as the Republican Answer, 8, is always correct. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2022, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1544 "2022-04-17T12:58:56Z")
Well, have you heard of any snakes getting COVID, hmmm??? I rest my case. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1545 "2022-04-17T12:59:50Z")
Well, do you have to inject the snake venom? Available in pill form? Magnetic properties? Did the venom come from Amazon [horrors]? Do you gargle it? Swallow? Rectal? So many questions? [like who dumped this on a QAloon board and watched the crazies run with it?] ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1546 "2022-04-17T13:17:19Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > My brain is struggling to reconcile “lavish resort” and “Hendersonville, North Carolina”. And two trips to Chick-Fil-A…. I don’t want to defend this guy, but based on the prices and the description in the article it sounds to me like fairly typical expenses (2 lunches, 1 dinner, conference room rental) for a two day conference for 8-10 people. I’m saving my outrage for the next one. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1547 "2022-04-17T13:24:42Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > > [@k9bfriender](#): > > > > The question, “Timmy has 8 apples. After he gives enough apples to Laquanda to make up for historical and contemporary systemic racism, how many apples does Timmy have left?” > > That would be fine, so long as the Republican Answer, 8, is always correct. No, he said we have to make up for “contemporary systemic racism,” and remedying affirmative action could bump that up to a 9. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1548 "2022-04-17T14:41:39Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > My brain is struggling to reconcile “lavish resort” and “Hendersonville, North Carolina”. That’s just outside Asheville, a very popular tourist destination. (Their minor league baseball team is, in fact, the Tourists.) I don’t know anything about this resort, but you can get a room there next weekend for $150 a night, which is a steal for Asheville. The Grove Park Inn, probably the schmanciest joint in town, starts at about three times that. There are plenty of world-class restaurants in town, with appropriate prices; Papas and Beer is not one of them. Tasty, but the furthest thing from fancy. He could have taken them to the restaurant at the Sierra Nevada brewery near the resort if he wanted to treat them. I hate to defend this choad, but this is an incredibly modest staff retreat by Asheville standards. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1549 "2022-04-17T15:09:25Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > He could have taken them to the restaurant at the Sierra Nevada brewery near the resort if he wanted to treat them. My brain is struggling to reconcile “Sierra Nevada brewery” and “North Carolina”. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1550 "2022-04-17T15:24:29Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Did the venom come from Amazon [horrors]? You mean from THE Amazon, or Amazon? Because if it is the latter, I can get rewards points. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1551 "2022-04-17T16:37:49Z")
_My_ brain is struggling to understand anyone actually wanting to spend time around Cawthorn, no matter where they may be staying. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1552 "2022-04-17T18:00:08Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > This probably belongs more in the ‘Republicans are Evil’ thread, but I think it’s useful to post it here, too. From _New Yorker_ article on the A.A.F.: > [@](#): > > Brian Fallon, the co-founder and executive director of Demand Justice—a progressive nonprofit dark-money group that has become a target of conservative critics, because it scrutinizes the records of right-leaning judicial nominees—told me, “It sounds as if this group is reverse-engineering the process. It’s almost like they’re trying to create the story line as opposed to finding a dry fact”—and then “trying to get people to give voice to the narrative.” His group conducts opposition research, too, but he said that it was “ham-fisted and sloppy” [for the A.A.F.] to post requests for dirt on anonymous message boards or to send mass e-mails to a nominee’s colleagues. “Most opposition researchers on our side would worry about using such tactics,” he said. “Because people are so quick to play the victim, they’d worry about becoming the story.” > [@](#): > > The A.A.F.’s strategy, however, has proved more damaging when deployed on nominees whose hearings receive less attention. Such people are easier to smear because charges against them are often not properly scrutinized. > [@](#): > > The A.A.F. describes itself as **a champion of transparency, but it declines to reveal the sources of its funding**. 🙄 Its official mailing address is a handsome historic building a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol. But when I stopped by there recently, to ask for the group’s basic financial records—which all tax-exempt nonprofits are legally required to produce— **a woman at the lobby’s front desk said there was no such group at that address.** 🧐 Instead, the building is occupied by a different nonprofit group: the Conservative Partnership Institute, which serves as a kind of Isle of Elba for Trump loyalists in exile. It has become the employer of Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows and of Trump’s former ad-hoc legal adviser Cleta Mitchell, both of whom are fighting subpoenas from the House committee investigating the [January 6, 2021, attack](https://www.newyorker.com/tag/capitol-riot/page/2) on the U.S. Capitol. The core-rot is stifling. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1553 "2022-04-17T18:08:40Z")
Franklin Graham tells Fox viewers to pray for Putin. then tries to weasel out of it. > **[Preacher Franklin Graham Condemned for Telling Fox News Viewers to Pray for...](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/preacher-franklin-graham-condemned-telling-201805778.html)** > > "It's a WAR, Frankie. Are you that afraid of Putin? What tapes does he have on you?" one Twitter user said ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1554 "2022-04-17T18:23:30Z")
As hard as it is for non-Christians to comprehend, the Bible teaches us that God loves everyone equally, no matter what they’ve done. That doesn’t mean Putin won’t be judged, though. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2022, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1555 "2022-04-17T19:51:18Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > No, he said we have to make up for “contemporary systemic racism,” and remedying affirmative action could bump that up to a 9. Well, I guess I’m just a RINO now! 😃 ---
**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:** [April 17, 2022, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1556 "2022-04-17T19:54:35Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > As hard as it is for non-Christians to comprehend, the Bible teaches us that God loves everyone equally, no matter what they’ve done. > > That doesn’t mean Putin won’t be judged, though. But really, as a matter of messaging, how much harder would it have been to say, “Let’s pray for Putin … to come to his senses and end this pointless war”? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1557 "2022-04-17T20:47:24Z")
Well well well. Nobody saw THIS coming, did we? Or did we? Of course we did. (Did we?) Yesterday it was math textbooks in the Floridland. Today it’s . . . > **[Censorship battles’ new frontier: Your public library](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/17/public-libraries-books-censorship/)** > > The battle that started in schools has spread to public libraries, in what opponents say is a dangerous expansion of secret censorship happening across the country. ETA: > [@](#): > > “It came to my attention a few weeks ago that pornographic filth has been discovered at the Llano library,” wrote Bonnie Wallace, a 54-year-old local church volunteer. “I’m not advocating for any book to be censored but to be RELOCATED to the ADULT section. … It is the only way I can think of to prohibit censorship of books I do agree with, mainly the Bible, if more radicals come to town and want to use the fact that we censored these books against us.” > > Wallace had attached an Excel spreadsheet of about 60 books she found objectionable, including those about transgender teens, sex education and race, including such notable works as “Between the World and Me,” by author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, an exploration of the country’s history written as a letter to his adolescent son. Not long after, the county’s chief librarian sent the list to Suzette Baker, head of one of the library’s three branches. ETA: Is it just me and my computer network connection? Or is the entire Internet acting slow and flaky yesterday and today? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1558 "2022-04-17T21:34:32Z")
Back to Floridland and banning math textbooks: Raw Story is on the story! [**Ron DeSantis transforms Florida’s Education Department into his Ministry of Propaganda in stunning move**](https://www.rawstory.com/florida-education-department/) > **[Ron DeSantis transforms Florida's Education Department into his Ministry of...](https://www.rawstory.com/florida-education-department/)** > > It isn’t every day that a presumably non-partisan state agency issues a press release with a headline reading like this: “FLORIDA REJECTS PUBLISHERS’ ATTEMPTS TO INDOCTRINATE STUDENTS.”But that was the choice of the taxpayer-funded Florida Department... > [@](#): > > It isn’t every day that a presumably non-partisan state agency issues a press release with a headline reading like this: “FLORIDA REJECTS PUBLISHERS’ ATTEMPTS TO INDOCTRINATE STUDENTS.” > > But that was the choice of the taxpayer-funded Florida Department of Education (FDOE) late Friday. The [release](https://www.fldoe.org/newsroom/latest-news/florida-rejects-publishers-attempts-to-indoctrinate-students.stml) – apparently translated from the original Russian – announced that state authorities “found 41 percent of the submitted textbooks were impermissible with either Florida’s new standards or contained prohibited topics.” ---
**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:** [April 17, 2022, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1559 "2022-04-17T23:41:18Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > veneration of everything Male is part of keeping inferior genders in their proper place. > > Gender. There are only two genders, the superior gender and the inferior one. Yeah, I keep forgetting that. > > [@Senegoid](#): > > Nobody from the Florida DOE is saying exactly why these books are banned. They say it’s because of Critical Race Theory, or Common Core, or SEL, but nobody has pointed out any specific items in any of the books. It’s a mystery. It’s secret! My guess as to the solution to the mystery: it will turn out that some Florida Republican will make millions when his (or her) own “textbook company” gets the contract to supply all the thousands of substituted-for-rejected books, statewide. No doubt the quality of those books will be…breathtaking. Also Republicans can use the whole brouhaha to support their claims of Protecting the Children and Parents’ Rights, etc. etc. etc. Claims which will, of course, be completely fact-free–just the way the GOP likes it. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1560 "2022-04-18T04:33:00Z")
So apparently Fucker’s cure for the loss of testosterone is to air your balls out and expose them to the sun? ---
**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:** [April 18, 2022, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1561 "2022-04-18T04:45:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Fucker’s cure for the loss of testosterone is to air your balls out and expose them to the sun? [https://twitter.com/BillCorbett/status/1515544012555530245](https://twitter.com/BillCorbett/status/1515544012555530245) [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQhLPxAWUAABqhY?format=jpg&name=medium](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQhLPxAWUAABqhY?format=jpg&name=medium) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=77) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=79)