# 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:** 284
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5661 "2024-06-07T13:33:08Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > > [@eschereal](#): > > > > Once a perfect state is attained, there can be no further progress, unless it is into imperfection, so, really, perfection is death. > > Reminds me a bit of the adage: > > What explains everything, explains nothing. IOW … Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5662 "2024-06-07T14:24:34Z")
The right have finally crossed the line that should never be crossed. They’ve come for Dolly. WE RIDE AT DAWN. > **[There's Nothing Loving About Dolly Parton's False Gospel](https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/06/theres-nothing-loving-about-dolly-partons-false-gospel/)** > > Dolly's right that all should be treated with love and kindness, but when we refuse to label sin a sin, we’re doing more harm than good.  ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5663 "2024-06-07T14:28:49Z")
Hooray! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5664 "2024-06-07T14:50:18Z")
Talk about a self-inflicted wound. Taking on Dolly is like stepping on your dick while wearing golf cleats. That’s gonna leave a mark. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5665 "2024-06-07T15:00:19Z")
Not only that, but if you read the article the things the author complains about Dolly doing are literally things the Bible says to do, and the things she complains Dolly isn’t doing is stuff that the Bible says not to do. So Dolly comes out looking good and the author and publication look like they don’t understand the Bible they are so keen to tout. Which they clearly don’t. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5666 "2024-06-07T15:31:53Z")
You have to understand, these are people who say the late Reverend Fred Rogers was a damaging influence that helped raise a generation of “everyone’s special” softboys. … Dolly has gone put of her way to NOT take partisan political sides in everything she does. And they hate **that**. Remember how much we used to ridicule the late Jack Chick’s tracts? One of the consistent themes in his glurge was that that the nice, generous, loving, kind, upstanding decent person who was however not the right kind of fundie would wind up in the lake of fire, while the hateful scumbag who just heard of Jesus in page 2 had hit the cosmic jackpot. That is how they are. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2024, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5667 "2024-06-07T16:18:36Z")
> when we refuse to label sin a sin If 1)betting were permitted here and 2)anyone here were stupid enough to cover such a bet, I’d wager that the author has, twice with the intention of making it thrice, voted for the orange physical embodiment of all Seven Deadly Sins. (To be fair, I wouldn’t call him a violator of all Ten Commandments, as I very much doubt he has the artistic talent to make even a crude graven image.) ---
**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:** [June 7, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5668 "2024-06-07T16:21:58Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > They’ve come for Dolly. Whaaa? I had to check to make sure this wasn’t from The Onion. What utter garbage. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5669 "2024-06-07T16:24:14Z")
But he has surely paid for several. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2024, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5670 "2024-06-07T16:30:28Z")
Oh I doubt that very much. He got _other people_ to pay for them. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5671 "2024-06-07T16:42:01Z")
True, but in any case he is the prime instigator, surely the sin is his. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5672 "2024-06-07T17:58:00Z")
Wenge is better, if only to trigger the homophobes… ---
**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:** [June 7, 2024, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5673 "2024-06-07T18:23:42Z")
I don’t get it. Does “wenge” sound similar to a slang term for “gay”, in some dialect? ---
**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:** [June 7, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5674 "2024-06-07T18:29:50Z")
[Wenge.](https://www.wood-database.com/wenge/) ---
**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:** [June 7, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5675 "2024-06-07T18:34:21Z")
Right, I was able to look up information on the wood easily enough. But how would it trigger homophobes? ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5676 "2024-06-07T18:45:28Z")
It’s dark tropical hardwood and the name sounds vaguely gay?? I assume it was just a joke and people are not triggered by wood, though who knows… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5677 "2024-06-07T18:50:38Z")
Well, not in _that_ way. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5678 "2024-06-07T19:43:53Z")
Re: Wenge FWIW I was curious enough to do a quick search. I searched for “Wenge lgbtq” and all I turned up were some jewelry/decorative items that happened to use wenge wood. > **[Genuine PRIDE LGBTQ Healing Crystal Gemstone Bracelet, Amethyst, Lapis...](https://www.thesproutingspirit.com/listing/1228781288/pride-lgbtq-healing-crystal-gemstone)** > > Pride Bracelet ~ LGBTQSix stones to represent the colors in the pride flag; amethyst, lapis lazuli, genuine malachite, citrine, carnelian, and red tiger eye and 8 mm Wenge Wood beads.Love is LoveLove is All that MattersLove is A Human RightLGBTQ... My impression is that any kind of appropriate wood could have been used in these things and that the Wenge didn’t carry any specific significance. I assumed that it was just a joke that I didn’t have the context for. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5679 "2024-06-07T19:53:22Z")
It’s rather obvious: “wenge” sounds like “when gay”. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5680 "2024-06-07T22:07:43Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Well, not in _that_ way. We should start a sarcasm club. But it might be hard. Sorry I just came from my pun club meeting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=283) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=285)