# 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:** 191
**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:** [February 21, 2024, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3801 "2024-02-21T08:57:01Z")
Meanwhile in Das Floridareich - “Hey, parents, there’s a measles outbreak in your kid’s school right now, but we’re not gonna TELL anyone to keep their sick kids home 'cause **FREEDOM**.” [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GG1ExscaYAABbqz?format=jpg&name=large) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GG1ExscaYAABbqz?format=jpg&name=large) ---
**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:** [February 21, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3802 "2024-02-21T15:26:23Z")
The Freedum to harm others. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3803 "2024-02-21T15:27:11Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Didn’t a pregnant woman claim her unborn child, under her state’s law, was legally a person and thus should count as one person for the purpose of driving in the HOV lane? Yes, that’s what I was thinking of. If a fetus is an extra passenger, why not embryos? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3804 "2024-02-21T16:02:54Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > One of these days it’s going to turn out that the water pressure at Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago is shit because Loser Donald is a cheapskate who refuses to pay for basic maintenance, and that’s why he can’t stop ranting about showers and faucets and how dishwasher CEOs are coming up to him with tears in their eyes and saying “Sir, we’re not allowed to use water”. Something is up at Mar-A-Lago. We have a newish dishwasher that works great. I installed new low-flush toilets that work great, I would say better than the 60 year old toilets they replaced that used many, many gallons of water each flush. We’ve had low-flow shower heads for many, many years and I’ve never had an issue cleaning myself. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2024, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3805 "2024-02-21T16:07:20Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > We’ve had low-flow shower heads for many, many years and I’ve never had an issue cleaning myself. Trump’s just jealous of showers because he has to wash himself with a rag on a stick. (he hasn’t actually done that for years anyway, which is why he smells like a combination of armpit, ketchup, ass and makeup) ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3806 "2024-02-21T16:09:30Z")
I’m guessing that is true. 🤮 ---
**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:** [February 21, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3807 "2024-02-21T18:37:18Z")
> **[Trump allies prepare to infuse ‘Christian nationalism’ in second administration](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/20/donald-trump-allies-christian-nationalism-00142086)** > > Spearheading the effort is Russell Vought, president of The Center for Renewing America, part of a conservative consortium preparing for Trump's return to power. > Vought has promoted a restrictionist immigration agenda, saying a person’s background doesn’t define who can enter the U.S., but rather, citing Biblical teachings, whether that person “accept[ed] Israel’s God, laws and understanding of history.” ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3808 "2024-02-21T19:53:06Z")
Riddle me this – what’s tan-colored, powdery, and sits on top of a table saw? Why, cocaine, of course! > **[Hunter Biden lawyers say prosecutors confused photo of sawdust for cocaine](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/21/hunter-biden-sawdust-cocaine-photo)** > > President’s son claims use of picture shows prosecutors’ evidence against him shouldn’t be taken at face value ---
**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:** [February 21, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3809 "2024-02-21T20:00:32Z")
I saw that a while ago and started to post it ([from here](https://www.thedailybeast.com/hunter-bidens-lawyers-say-feds-mistook-lines-of-sawdust-for-cocaine)), but I have a feeling that even though the cocaine is actually sawdust, the “scale weighing grainy white rocks”, is probably, actually, crack. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3810 "2024-02-21T20:39:06Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Meanwhile in Das Floridareich - “Hey, parents, there’s a measles outbreak in your kid’s school right now, but we’re not gonna TELL anyone to keep their sick kids home 'cause **FREEDOM**.” Although its hard to tell, I’m not sure that that is the proper reading of that note. It does say that children who have measles symptoms should stay at home, and also that unvaccinated children are in danger and should stay home. What it is not doing is shutting down the entire schools just because some enough dipshits didn’t get their kids basic preventative care that herd immunity failed. Vaccinated students can come to school or not come to school at their parents discretion. Now they are making a mistake by not making it mandatory for unvaccinated kids to stay home, but given that its Florida, home of the Anti-Vax [surgeon general](https://www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2024/01/20240103-halt-use-covid19-mrna-vaccines.pr.html), they would probably get their funding slashed for suggesting it. ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3811 "2024-02-21T21:13:33Z")
Well, I believe that WAS the idiot SG writing the letter, and I read that **89%** of the students in that school are un-vaxxed. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3812 "2024-02-21T21:13:52Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > but I have a feeling that even though the cocaine is actually sawdust, the “scale weighing grainy white rocks”, is probably, actually, crack. And? Is there a law against having a picture of grainy white rocks? Even if it was crack, is having a photo of crack admissible as evidence that you, at any time, even possessed crack? What kind of shitty prosecutor would even enter garbage like this into evidence? ---
**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:** [February 21, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3813 "2024-02-21T21:26:04Z")
> [@Tride](#): > > Well, I believe that WAS the idiot SG writing the letter, 🤦‍♂️ You’re right, I didn’t read the signature > [@Tride](#): > > and I read that **89%** of the students in that school are un-vaxxed Not that I doubt you, but do you have a cite for that? Because [theoretically](https://www.floridahealth.gov/programs-and-services/immunization/children-and-adolescents/school-immunization-requirements/index.html) all students are supposed to be vaccinated against measles before they enter elementary school in Florida. I guess belonging to the MAGA death cult counts as a religious exemption. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3814 "2024-02-21T21:30:41Z")
A golden quote from one of Hunter Biden’s lawyers on the subject: “Mistaking sawdust for cocaine sounds more like a storyline from one of the 1980s _Police Academy_ comedies than what should be expected in a high-profile prosecution by the US Department of Justice,” the filing reads. ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3815 "2024-02-21T21:46:00Z")
Oops–I got it backwards. [Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-elementary-school-rocked-by-more-cases-of-measles) My RO got the better of me. Apologies. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3816 "2024-02-21T21:51:05Z")
So 11% unvaccinated. Still way too high, but at least the crazies haven’t entirely overwhelmed the sane. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2024, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3817 "2024-02-21T22:28:21Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Now they are making a mistake by not making it mandatory for unvaccinated kids to stay home, but given that its Florida, home of the Anti-Vax [surgeon general](https://www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2024/01/20240103-halt-use-covid19-mrna-vaccines.pr.html), they would probably get their funding slashed for suggesting it. They shouldn’t make it mandatory for unvaccinated children to stay home. They should take those children away from their abusive parents, and put them in homes with foster or adoptive parents who will give their children basic medical necessities, so they can still go to school, and also not risk being killed by entirely preventable causes. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3818 "2024-02-21T22:39:20Z")
Not sure I’d go that far (not sure I wouldn’t), but I completely agree that parental discretion that is legally permitted should NOT include decisions that are objectively harmful to their children. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2024, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3819 "2024-02-21T23:14:23Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > So 11% unvaccinated. Still way too high, but at least the crazies haven’t entirely overwhelmed the sane. Because it’s a public school. If it had been a private “Christian” school, 89% unvaccinated would likely be correct. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/3820 "2024-02-21T23:24:02Z")
I wondered what the hell that picture was! I thought it must be some in joke I didn’t get. Turns out, I was right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=190) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=192)