# 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:** 80
**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 19, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1582 "2022-04-19T17:51:34Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > They’re worried that trigonometry textbooks will lead the kids to sin. You don’t want a kid to be working with their slide rule alone, in their room, for hours… ---
**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:** [April 19, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1583 "2022-04-19T17:53:01Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > They’re worried that trigonometry textbooks will lead the kids to sin. I hope this doesn’t go off on a tangent. ---
**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 19, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1584 "2022-04-19T17:57:36Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > You don’t want a kid to be working with their slide rule alone, in their room, for hours… But if they’re not alone, it might lead them to co-sin! ---
**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:** [April 19, 2022, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1585 "2022-04-19T18:28:09Z")
They’re just trying to protect the little ones from the Demonrat paedophiles who are secant them out. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1586 "2022-04-19T19:47:25Z")
They are just doing the angles work. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1587 "2022-04-19T20:06:30Z")
Considering it’s a Republican-generated moral panic, it should seem more than a bit… hyperbolic. ---
**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 19, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1588 "2022-04-19T20:19:49Z")
Except that we seem to keep going round and round. ---
**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 19, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1589 "2022-04-19T20:22:13Z")
…on parallel tracks that may or may never meet. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1590 "2022-04-19T20:42:48Z")
You mean their slip stick. ---
**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 19, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1591 "2022-04-19T21:59:35Z")
Ron DeSatanis wants to punish Twitter for not selling to Elon Musk. > ---
**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 19, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1592 "2022-04-19T22:05:23Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Ron DeSatanis wants to punish Twitter for not selling to Elon Musk. Of course, that flies right in the face of their professed love of freedom and large corporations. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1593 "2022-04-19T22:05:58Z")
Ah, you beat me to it. (Quoting DeSantis) > [@Smapti](#): > > We’re gonna be looking at ways the state of Florida potentially can be holding these Twitter board of directors accountable for breaching their fiduciary duty. The answer is: 1) they didn’t “breach their fiduciary duty”, they just refused to sell to a rich guy who wanted to make it his personal playground; 2) I believe Twitter is incorporated in Delaware so Florida as a state can do fuck-all; 3) Florida as a shareholder can try what they like but even with nearly a million shares they’re not big enough to dictate terms; and 4) Florida may want to consider what fucking around for nonsensical partisan political purposes with a block of shares that are part of their pension fund might cause to happen to the value of said fund if they make things more toxic and chaotic at Twitter board 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:** [April 19, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1594 "2022-04-19T22:07:39Z")
You are way, way, way more steps ahead in the thought process than the Gov. ---
**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 19, 2022, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1595 "2022-04-19T22:09:28Z")
Ron DeSantis has never found a culture war he doesn’t want to jump into with both feet, on the wrong side. ---
**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 19, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1596 "2022-04-19T22:11:06Z")
He’s mad at Disney and Twitter. That’s the Governor and his priorities. God Damn I’m glad my state doesn’t have a knucklefuck like him at the helm. ---
**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 19, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1597 "2022-04-19T22:14:29Z")
He was also among the first governors to start directly causing the death of old people and immunocompromised people from the coronavirus pandemic by doing fuck-all with mask mandates and vaccine assistance. I truly fear for my Dad and her boyfriend, living in that godawful state. ---
**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 20, 2022, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1598 "2022-04-20T00:20:24Z")
Ted Cruz said that he thinks that Disney is opposed to the Don’t Say Gay law because they’re planning on making hard core p\*rn. > **[Ted Cruz Warns Disney Programming Will Soon Depict Mickey and Pluto F--king](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/ted-cruz-mickey-pluto-disney-dont-say-gay)** > > The senator from Texas thinks the company’s opposition to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law means it’s going to introduce X-rated content featuring animated characters “going at it.” ---
**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 20, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1599 "2022-04-20T00:26:36Z")
Texans elect that guy. In Texas, the majority of voters LIKE that guy. ---
**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 20, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1600 "2022-04-20T01:27:28Z")
Back to Florida Math (not to be confused, you know, with Math): > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > They’re worried that trigonometry textbooks will lead the kids to sin.   > [@SunUp](#): > > Considering it’s a Republican-generated moral panic, it should seem more than a bit… hyperbolic. It’s all this and so much more! On Monday, they released the list of banned math textbooks. Dana Milbank of Washington Post reviewed one, _Precalculus With Limits_, and was mortified by the atrocities he found there! [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/19/florida-math-textbooks-critical-race-theory/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/19/florida-math-textbooks-critical-race-theory/) > [@](#): > > At a time when DeSantis is trying to restore the traditional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman, “Precalculus With Limits” has endless references to “sin” and “polynomials” — even “multiplying polynomials.” On Page 318, for example, it tells children to believe that “sin x takes on its full range of values.” Valuing sin! On Page 734, incredibly, it orders children to “sketch the graph of the degenerate conic.” Disgusting. > > At a time when Florida is banning the acknowledgment of gender fluidity or any identity outside male and female, this subversive textbook unabashedly tells suggestible children that such things exist as “reciprocal identities,” “cofunction identities,” “additive identity property” and even “multiplicative identity property.” > > [. . .] > > I am not being hyperbolic. Or even parabolic. It’s all there! Radicals. Regression. Eccentricity. Latus rectum. Plotting points for translating the parent function. Classifying by discriminant. Who knew math was so subversive? Well, it’s good to know that kids in Floridland won’t be learning _that_ subject any more! ---
**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 20, 2022, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/1601 "2022-04-20T01:37:29Z")
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