# 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:** 161
**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:** [January 25, 2024, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3201 "2024-01-25T22:45:28Z")
Noted insurrectionist and coward Josh Hawley, who claims to be against socialism, is demanding that Biden nationalize an aluminum plant that the Job Creators have decided to close. > ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3202 "2024-01-25T22:54:10Z")
A bill being proposed in Iowa would require all students to sing one verse of the national anthem every day, and all verses on “patriotic” holidays. As if the typical school day has lots of free time. Students and teachers could choose not to participate _at their peril_ (my viewpoint added). Oh yeah, this applies only to public and charter schools; private schools are exempt. > **[‘O say can you see,’ this bill would require Iowa students to sing the...](https://www.iowapublicradio.org/state-government-news/2024-01-25/o-say-can-you-see-this-bill-would-require-iowa-students-to-sing-the-national-anthem)** > > Singing “The Star Spangled Banner” would become a daily requirement for students in Iowa’s public schools under a bill making its way through the Statehouse. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3203 "2024-01-25T23:03:43Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > A bill being proposed in Iowa would require all students to sing one verse of the national anthem every day, and all verses on “patriotic” holidays. All four verses? Almost no one ever sings anything past the first verse. I’ll bet that most people (me included) even remember the rest. The only good news is that school is not in session on most “patriotic” holidays. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2024, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3204 "2024-01-25T23:03:49Z")
Do the proponents of this bill even know all the verses themselves? I mean, no American other than foreign spies actually know all the verses. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3205 "2024-01-25T23:06:44Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Noted insurrectionist and coward Josh Hawley, who claims to be against socialism, is demanding that Biden nationalize an aluminum plant that the Job Creators have decided to close. Whaddaya bet the ownership of that aluminum plant traces back to Trump’s old friend, Oleg Deripaska, who [opened an aluminum plant for Mitch McConnell in Kentucky in 2019](https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/business/rusal-russia-kentucky-aluminum-mill/index.html)? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3206 "2024-01-25T23:33:48Z")
And Willie Nelson. (I happened to see him sing them all once. I had no idea there were so many verses.) ---
**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:** [January 25, 2024, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3207 "2024-01-25T23:47:34Z")
IIRC, there’s a USSC decision about this nonsense already. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3208 "2024-01-26T00:44:12Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > Noted insurrectionist and coward Josh Hawley, who claims to be against socialism, is demanding that Biden nationalize an aluminum plant that the Job Creators have decided to close. > > Whaddaya bet the ownership of that aluminum plant traces back to Trump’s old friend, Oleg Deripaska, who [opened an aluminum plant for Mitch McConnell in Kentucky in 2019](https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/business/rusal-russia-kentucky-aluminum-mill/index.html)? While I’m not familiar with the aluminum smelting process, this article implies that the plant is closing because it’s too cold to smelt aluminum. [https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/second-largest-us-aluminum-plant-lay-off-most-staff-local-news-2024-01-25/](https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/second-largest-us-aluminum-plant-lay-off-most-staff-local-news-2024-01-25/) I’m not really sure why they can’t just start back up in spring, though. The weather is Biden’s fault, I guess. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3209 "2024-01-26T00:45:15Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > The weather is Biden’s fault, I guess. Huh. I coulda sworn we established a few weeks ago that Nikki Haley controls the weather. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3210 "2024-01-26T01:45:25Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The only good news is that school is not in session on most “patriotic” holidays. It’ll be assigned as homework to be done over Zoom. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3211 "2024-01-26T01:51:33Z")
In the same article they mention another bill that “would have required schools to teach, and to test students’ understanding of, dozens of concepts including altruism, cheerfulness, cleanliness, compassion, dignity, diligence, faith, forbearance, honesty, industry, loyalty, moderation, prudence, reliability, temperance and self-reliance.” That’s deeply weird. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3212 "2024-01-26T02:02:53Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > That’s deeply weird. I’ll say - the Republican party is steadfastly opposed to all of those values. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3213 "2024-01-26T03:48:48Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > All four verses? Almost no one ever sings anything past the first verse. I’ll bet that most people (me included) even remember the rest. (I’m guessing you accidentally left out “don’t” after the parens.) I think this is the last verse, from memory. (Honest to Og, I didn’t look this up before posting.) Oh thus be it ever, when free men shall stand Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation. Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land Praise the pow’r that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto, In God is Our Trust. And the Star Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Anyone else here remember any of the others? FYI, I went to college at [Francis Scott Key’s alma mater](https://www.sjc.edu/annapolis), but that’s coincidental. I memorized this verse before I started there. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3214 "2024-01-26T04:31:50Z")
What about the seizing of the airports? I thought that was in there too. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3215 "2024-01-26T04:53:01Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Anyone else here remember any of the others? Isn’t there a verse about crushing the rebellious Scots? ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3216 "2024-01-26T05:08:37Z")
I think the first letters of those words form some kind of scrambled word puzzle . . . despite the lack of vowels which, of course, are woke. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3217 "2024-01-26T06:41:26Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > altruism, cheerfulness, cleanliness, compassion, dignity, diligence, faith, forbearance, honesty, industry, loyalty, moderation, prudence, reliability, temperance and self-reliance.” But but but…. Those are all WOKE! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3218 "2024-01-26T06:51:54Z")
You beat me to 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:** [January 26, 2024, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3219 "2024-01-26T07:15:43Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > > > altruism, cheerfulness, cleanliness, compassion, dignity, diligence, faith, forbearance, honesty, industry, loyalty, moderation, prudence, reliability, temperance and self-reliance.” > > But but but…. Those are all WOKE! Y’all misunderstand. For the repuglicans (\<–not a misspelling), _every_ day is _opposite day_. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2024, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3220 "2024-01-26T10:10:49Z")
Noted stochastic terrorist Libs of Tiktok is platforming a video that she claims shows a boatload of illegal immigrants landing on the beach in La Jolla, CA. Which, as a native San Diegan, makes me laugh because of how geographically ludicrous that idea is, as explained below… > [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=160) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=162)