# 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:** 57
**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:** [September 18, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1121 "2023-09-18T23:01:53Z")
The woman who showed off Hunter Biden’s dick pics on the House floor is outraged that John Fetterman doesn’t like wearing suits. > ---
**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:** [September 18, 2023, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1122 "2023-09-18T23:07:51Z")
[![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/09/18/multimedia/18dc-senate-dresscode-gcmv/18dc-senate-dresscode-gcmv-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp) ](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/09/18/multimedia/18dc-senate-dresscode-gcmv/18dc-senate-dresscode-gcmv-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp) “Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, exiting the Senate chamber while wearing athletic attire after a vote last year.” ---
**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:** [September 18, 2023, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1123 "2023-09-18T23:09:09Z")
[![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/66DC/production/_131123362_gettyimages-1242348609.jpg.webp) ](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/66DC/production/_131123362_gettyimages-1242348609.jpg.webp) “Senator Richard Burr departs the gallery after a vote, wearing flip flops and shorts on a Saturday in August 2022.” ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2023, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1124 "2023-09-18T23:18:08Z")
Stop being silly. I only matters when a Demoncrat does it. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1125 "2023-09-19T01:31:50Z")
Add the woman who killed Roe v. Wade and thought Donald Trump learned his lesson and would be a good boy after his first impeachment to the list of Republicans being weird about Fetterman’s hoodie. > ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1126 "2023-09-19T02:31:20Z")
> [@Marjorie Wharrgarbl](#): > > … respect for our institutions … Oh. Right. Like collaborating with the criminals who tried to tear down the Capitol on January 6th 2021 _is_ showing respect. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1127 "2023-09-19T13:54:23Z")
When all truth is lies, then all lies are truth. It’s _Arbeit macht frei_ all over again. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1128 "2023-09-19T14:27:09Z")
Here’s a list of some 300 books Florida has removed from school libraries. The bulk of them appear to be related to sexual issues, but some are obviously political, and some are just puzzling James Balwin’s _The Fire Next Time_ Margaret Atwood’s _The Handmaid’s Tale_ and _The Testaments_ Daniel Keyes’ _Flowers for Algernon_ (??) Diana Gabaldon’s _Outlander_ _Ready Player One ? The Kite Runner?_ > **[2223ObjectionList.pdf](https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/5574/urlt/2223ObjectionList.pdf)** ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1129 "2023-09-19T14:32:32Z")
If memory serves, _Flowers for Algernon_ has an almost-rape scene. That might be why. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1130 "2023-09-19T14:42:17Z")
Ready Player One has a female who has a male online avatar, so they’re probably seeing something LGBTQ in that. And I remember some disturbing scenes in The Kite Runner but don’t really want to go back and re-read to refresh my memory. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1131 "2023-09-19T14:46:58Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > If memory serves, _Flowers for Algernon_ has an almost-rape scene. That might be why. Must be in the novel (which I didn’t read). It’s not in the original short story. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1132 "2023-09-19T14:50:13Z")
I remember Charlie getting a real grown-up girlfriend and having sex during his genius time. I don’t remember any rapey stuff, though I haven’t read it in quite a while. I don’t think the sex was too explicit either. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1133 "2023-09-19T14:51:06Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Flowers for Algernon [From Wikipedia:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon) > _Flowers for Algernon_ is on the [American Library Association’s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Library_Association) list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–1999 at number 43.[[6]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon#cite_note-ALA100-6) The reasons for the [challenges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_(literature)) vary, but usually center on those parts of the novel in which Charlie struggles to understand and express his sexual desires.[[36]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon#cite_note-hillcensor-36)[_[better source needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS)_] Many of the challenges have proved unsuccessful, but the book has occasionally been removed from school libraries, including some in [Pennsylvania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania) and [Texas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas).[[37]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon#cite_note-37)[_[better source needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS)_] > In January 1970, the [school board](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_board) of [Cranbrook, British Columbia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranbrook,_British_Columbia), as well as [Calgary, Alberta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary,_Alberta), removed the _Flowers for Algernon_ novel from the local age 14–15 curriculum and the school library, after a parent complained that it was “filthy and immoral”. The president of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation criticised the action. _Flowers for Algernon_ was part of the British Columbia Department of Education list of approved books for grade nine and was recommended by the British Columbia Secondary Association of Teachers of English. A month later, the board reconsidered and returned the book to the library; they did not, however, lift its ban from the curriculum.[[9]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon#cite_note-birdsall-9)[[38]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon#cite_note-38) ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1134 "2023-09-19T14:55:59Z")
That’s pretty weird to me. There were lots of copies of the paperback novel _Flowers for Algernon_ in my Junior and Senior High Schools (It wasn’t long after the movie version, _Charly_, had been released). I’m not sure, but I suspect they were required reading for a class, not just a popular book. Heck, my own junior high reading included the complete _Odyssey_, which has several sex scenes, a huge amount of very gory violence, and scenes of genital mutilation. _Algernon_ couldn’t have been as explicit as 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:** [September 19, 2023, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1135 "2023-09-19T14:56:00Z")
Clay and Martin counties are leading the regressive shitshow. Such bigoted, frightened and backward reviewers. SAD. I just scanned but didn’t see the Bible removed anywhere?! ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1136 "2023-09-19T15:50:06Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Margaret Atwood’s _The Handmaid’s Tale_ Nothing puzzling about this one. Florida is hoping to keep their utopian plan of becoming Gilead under wraps till it is too late. I think their plan is working. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1137 "2023-09-19T16:12:12Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > _The Kite Runner_? Pretty sure there’s a scene of homosexual rape (of a ?teen) ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1138 "2023-09-19T16:26:47Z")
I might be misremembering that part - I just seem to remember Charly getting way too aggressive at one point. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1139 "2023-09-19T16:34:04Z")
This article says that ready player one was removed for mention of drugs and prostitution and using the F-word. Also the petitioner complained that it included “victimhood=CRT” on page 320 (whatever that means). It also includes a few other stupid picks. A story about a lion cub being raised by two men living together even though they it doesn’t say that they are romantically involved, and for some reason a book about pangolins with no reason given for its removal. > **[These 5 books banned from Florida school shelves might surprise you](https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2023/09/11/florida-book-bans-5-surprising-books-pulled-from-school-libraries/70788738007/)** > > According to a list from the department of education, material removed from school libraries include a book about a mammal from Asia and Michelangelo. I always check these list for any of the works by Ayn Rand which are choc full of explicit rapey sex, but which for some reason never appear to be objected to. 🤔 ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1140 "2023-09-19T18:26:43Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > and for some reason a book about pangolins with no reason given for its removal. I heard from a friend’s cousin who said that a guy told her that Pangolins are woke. So that’s probably it [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=56) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588.md?page=58)