# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588 "2023-07-04T21:42:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/281 "2023-07-23T02:42:28Z")
> **[DeSantis doubles down on claim that some Blacks benefited from slavery](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/22/desantis-slavery-curriculum/)** > > GOP presidential candidate says the controversial new Florida curriculum has ‘the most robust standards in African American history.’ Quoting one of the comments from the WAPO article: > Meatball Ron forgot to mention how in Nazi Germany Jewish death camp prisoners got to develop their classical music skills while playing for fellow prisoners who were being marched into the gas chamber. So many personal growth opportunities under Fascist rule! (free link: [https://wapo.st/3rBaPyZ](https://wapo.st/3rBaPyZ)) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/282 "2023-07-23T05:02:52Z")
While your song fits better, I prefer Charlie Kelly’s NSFW _[Spider In My Soul](https://youtu.be/hWpKhVf8hyk)._ ---
**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:** [July 23, 2023, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/283 "2023-07-23T05:26:48Z")
Guess what Ben Shapiro thinks of the Barbie movie in four letters or less? > **['Barbie' slammed as 'woke' and 'man-hating' by conservatives](https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/ny-barbie-movie-slammed-by-conservatives-woke-propaganda-20230722-ud4sac7scbc33btae2ejyju37e-story.html)** > > Conservatives aren’t playing with “Barbie,” with many on the right slamming the colorful blockbuster as a “woke ... flaming garbage heap.” To quote a tweet I saw; “They finally made a movie for men who are twelve inches tall and have no genitals, and they STILL aren’t happy about it.” ---
**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:** [July 23, 2023, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/284 "2023-07-23T09:13:25Z")
How many days do you give ol’ guv’nor before he finally comes out and says, “When slavery was legal, most Blacks knew their place”? ---
**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:** [July 23, 2023, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/285 "2023-07-23T10:31:00Z")
[Anti-anti-racism resolution passed](https://sg.news.yahoo.com/school-board-missouri-now-controlled-044458011.html). In the "not even trying to hid it\* category: > **School board in Missouri, now controlled by conservatives, revokes anti-racism resolution** > > O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — In the national reckoning that followed the [police killing of George Floyd](https://apnews.com/hub/death-of-george-floyd) three years ago, about 2,000 protesters took to the streets in a St. Louis suburb and urged the mostly white Francis Howell School District to address racial discrimination. The school board responded with a resolution promising to do better. > > Now the board, led by new conservative board members elected since last year, has revoked that anti-racism resolution and copies of it will be removed from school buildings. > > The resolution passed in August 2020 “pledges to our learning community that we will speak firmly against any racism, discrimination, and senseless violence against people regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, immigration status, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or ability. > > “We will promote racial healing, especially for our Black and brown students and families,” the resolution states. “We will no longer be silent.” Nond of that applies in that town now. And the board members’ justification for it is, well, just whitewash. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2023, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/286 "2023-07-23T12:51:03Z")
Gee, the only upside to this (for Texans) is that Missouri may have just beat Texas in the competition for the Worst POS State in the USA. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/287 "2023-07-23T15:40:53Z")
Look, these are the same people who try to co-opt MLK as supporting them when it’s convenient. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/288 "2023-07-23T22:04:33Z")
Trees, every where, trees. A trillion trees. Roughly covers the continental US. > **[House Republicans propose planting a trillion trees](https://www.lockhaven.com/uncategorized/2023/07/house-republicans-propose-planting-a-trillion-trees/)** > > WASHINGTON (AP) — As Speaker Kevin McCarthy visited a natural gas drilling site in northeast Ohio to promote House Republicans’ plan to sharply increase domestic production of energy from fossil fuels last month, the signs of rising global... But who’s going to rake all those forests? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/289 "2023-07-23T23:27:55Z")
They’ll probably demand they all be planted in deep red states like AZ, NM, ND, TX, & OK. Where they’ll all die from lack of water. Then they can blame the Ds for preventing the rainfall. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2023, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/290 "2023-07-23T23:38:53Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Trees, every where, trees. A trillion trees. Roughly covers the continental US. > [House Republicans propose planting a trillion trees | News, Sports, Jobs - The Express](https://www.lockhaven.com/uncategorized/2023/07/house-republicans-propose-planting-a-trillion-trees/) > > But who’s going to rake all those forests? - [This site](https://a-z-animals.com/blog/how-many-trees-are-in-the-world/) estimates there’s 3.04 trillion trees now. I doubt anyone in the GOP ran the numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/291 "2023-07-24T02:50:47Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > deep red states like AZ, NM, ND, TX, & OK. Hey! We may be surrounded by assholes, but NM is blue. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/292 "2023-07-24T03:15:43Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > They’ll probably demand they all be planted in deep red states like AZ, NM, ND, TX, & OK. Where they’ll all die from lack of water. There are forested areas in all of those states. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/293 "2023-07-24T03:23:31Z")
Nitpick: Not enough to support a net increase on the order of a trillion in the tree population, though. (Yes, I know that the “Trillion Trees” movement is about eventually increasing the global tree population by that amount, rather than shoehorning them all into ill-conceived Republican pork-barrel planting projects, but I’m not convinced Republican legislators necessarily know that.) ---
**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:** [July 24, 2023, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/294 "2023-07-24T12:36:13Z")
I’m drinking hot coffee here, tone it down. My keyboard looks like a superfund site. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/295 "2023-07-24T13:19:28Z")
Here’s a pretty neat refutation of those claimin thast slaves :“learned skills useful in later life” from slavery: > **[Florida Board fails hilariously at proving "Slavery taught skills"](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/22/2182832/-Florida-Board-fails-hilariously-at-proving-Slavery-taught-skills?utm_campaign=trending)** > > So, in their attempt to defend Florida from the vicious attacks by Vice President Harris, Ron Desantis proclaimed that being an enslaved person “taught skills” which could be used later in life. (Presumably as a free person). Alex Wagner and... ---
**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:** [July 24, 2023, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/296 "2023-07-24T14:43:17Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > They’ll probably demand they all be planted in deep red states like AZ, They’ll all be on golf courses. Hey, I have three trees on my property, one I planted from a sapling that is now 50 feet tall. I’m doing my part. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2023, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/297 "2023-07-25T06:25:14Z")
[Florida Rubeliqan still in love with monuments to traitors](https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-bill-filed-2024-session-204045391.html). ---
**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:** [July 25, 2023, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/298 "2023-07-25T06:32:08Z")
Money quote, > “And not relegating our history, our monuments, our memorials, our symbols to brick and mortar museums that require people to pay an admission,” said Martin. Could you make your love for the Confederacy any clearer? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/299 "2023-07-25T06:33:48Z")
Now, now, the _real_ tragedy here would be for white people to feel bad and consider that silly notion of systemic racism, which of course doesn’t exist. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2023, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/300 "2023-07-25T07:57:03Z")
If he wants American history to be preserved and accessible to the people, he should get all that black history banned for being “CRT” put back in the curriculum. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=16)