# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1722
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34422 "2017-06-30T19:26:20Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Alex Jones claims NASA is running a colony of kidnapped child slaves on Mars. > [Alex Jones' Trump-endorsed InfoWars site exposes NASA's Martian slave colony.](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/06/30/alex_jones_trump_endorsed_infowars_site_exposes_nasa_s_martian_slave_colony.html) > > Where will Trump come down on this major issue? With the government agency he runs, or with his good buddy Alex Jones? It feels like Alex Jones is actually running a study, to determine how bat-shit crazy you have to be to lose supporters. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34423 "2017-06-30T19:30:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Alex Jones claims NASA is running a colony of kidnapped child slaves on Mars. > [Alex Jones' Trump-endorsed InfoWars site exposes NASA's Martian slave colony.](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/06/30/alex_jones_trump_endorsed_infowars_site_exposes_nasa_s_martian_slave_colony.html) > > Where will Trump come down on this major issue? With the government agency he runs, or with his good buddy Alex Jones? Pizza gate guy is gonna need to get ahold of Elon Musk if he wants to save those children. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34424 "2017-06-30T19:33:24Z")
Would a parent have the legal right to indenture their children for such a patriotic endeavor? Would there be some sort of compensation involved? Asking for a friend. Also, is there an age limit? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34425 "2017-06-30T19:51:24Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Would a parent have the legal right to indenture their children for such a patriotic endeavor? Yes, of course. > [@](#): > > Would there be some sort of compensation involved? Being a patriot is it’s own reward. > [@](#): > > Asking for a friend. Also, is there an age limit? Podesta, Weiner, Soros and Clinton will personally inspect each one. The great thing about mars is that they will age half as quickly than on Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34426 "2017-06-30T20:20:46Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Pizza gate guy is gonna need to get ahold of Elon Musk if he wants to save those children. Dammit, I was trying to think of something funny like this all day! Nicely done! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34427 "2017-06-30T20:30:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Alex Jones claims NASA is running a colony of kidnapped child slaves on Mars… Sounds plausible. Alt right knuckleheads can believe the science behind climate change: phooey, it isn’t possible. The science behind child slaves on mars: oh yeah, that’s possible, NASA, they can do it. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2017, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34428 "2017-06-30T20:46:05Z")
I need help with this one.[Bad-hair-guy](http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/24/politics/donald-trump-chicago-carnage/index.html) > [@](#): > > has tweeted about violence in Chicago, saying: “I will send in the Feds” if they don’t fix the “horrible ‘carnage’” going on. Why Chicago? Is it worse than other cities? I found [a 2016 list](https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/blog/top100dangerous) of the 100 most violent cities in America: one suburb of Chicago (but not the Chicago itself) appears at #44. Seems like a great deal of the rest of country needs more help. I mean, that one black guy does not even live there right now. Why Chicago? ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34429 "2017-06-30T20:53:39Z")
> [@Iggy](#): > > … > Not surprisingly 9-1-1 funding measures are seen as a critical must-fund measure. This can end up with such bills being padded with other unrelated pet projects - pork barrel spending according to some. > > Among provisions of the bill sent to the governor’s desk is a measure that would allow AT&T to drop landline service. This is seen as likely to have a greater impact on rural and elderly populations. It is opposed by the AARP. > … > Illinois Governor Rauner has requested a clean funding bill at the $1.05 level recommended by the state’s advisory board. I say give it to him. Then if he doesn’t sign it I would say he is a giant prick. Update: [Governor Rauner item-vetoed](http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/rauner-uses-veto-to-remove-phone-tax-ensure-911-funding/) the provisions of the measure permitting shutdown of landline services as well as the 9-1-1 surcharge increases before signing the funding measure into law. There will be no shut down of 9-1-1 services. IMHO Gov Rauner did the right thing. And the idiots in the Democratic controlled state legislature should not have tried to shove through funding increases in excess of what had been requested by the state’s advisory board. Their effort reminded me of Congress forcing through funding for military systems that the Pentagon says they do not want. The linked story also notes that Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel had hoped to divert revenue from the 9-1-1 surcharge to fund pension obligations. He was hoping for a tax increase in disguise. Gov Rauner acted by item-vetoing the funding bill that was before him to meet tonight’s deadline. Last night the General Assembly had been working on a [clean funding bill](http://www.whig.com/20170630/general-assembly-approves-new-911-funding-bill) which Gov Rauner asked for earlier this week. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34430 "2017-06-30T21:07:20Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Why Chicago? Is it worse than other cities? Chicago supposedly has more illegal guns than anywhere else so the ATF is stepping in to help stem the tide. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34431 "2017-06-30T21:18:11Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Chicago supposedly has more illegal guns than anywhere else so the ATF is stepping in to help stem the tide. Chicago is run by a Democrat who is a friend of the Clintons. Trump’s voter suppression committee is headed by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Kobach has asked all of the states to send him detailed information about all registered voters in the country. As Secretary of State of Kansas, Kobach is denying his own request. > **[Trump's voter suppression vice chair will refuse his own demand for personal...](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/30/1676832/-Trump-s-voter-suppression-vice-chair-will-refuse-his-own-demand-for-personal-voter-data)** > > What the … > > > > This is quite a development in the saga of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, in his role as vice chair of Donald Trump’s voter suppression commission, asking every state to provide him voter registration information including... ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34432 "2017-06-30T22:28:24Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Chicago is run by a Democrat who is a friend of the Clintons. > … And President Obama calls Chicago home. Hillary Clinton is from here. And Trump gets a royally shitty reception on the few occasions he is dumb enough to come here. He hates Chicago. Good. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34433 "2017-06-30T22:29:29Z")
Then perhaps Trump should go there to make any sort of major announcements about it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34434 "2017-07-01T03:58:36Z")
> [@](#): > > The Multnomah County Republican Party voted this week to [use far-right milita groups as private security at events](http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/06/30/multnomah-county-republican-party-approves-oath-keepers-and-three-percenters-as-private-security/). Shades of Altamont. I guess hiring off-duty police officers wasn’t intimidating enough. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34435 "2017-07-01T14:10:10Z")
I look forward to seeing him and his local party sued into oblivion at the first incident. Unfortunately, it will no doubt involve someone’s death or permanent injury. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34436 "2017-07-01T14:37:35Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Chicago supposedly has more illegal guns than anywhere else so the ATF is stepping in to help stem the tide. The traceable ones of which come from right next door in Indiana, where they couldn’t be easier to get. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34437 "2017-07-01T16:55:03Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The traceable ones of which come from right next door in Indiana, where they couldn’t be easier to get. Build a wall. ---
**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 1, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34438 "2017-07-01T17:01:11Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Build a wall. There is a lake right there. They would just start using boats. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34439 "2017-07-01T17:25:17Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > There is a lake right there. They would just start using boats. That’s fine. Every gun owner I have ever heard of that went boating lost their guns in a boating accident. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34440 "2017-07-01T20:44:17Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Alt right knuckleheads can believe the science behind climate change: phooey, it isn’t possible. The science behind child slaves on mars: oh yeah, that’s possible, NASA, they can do it. > [@jsc1953](#): > > It feels like Alex Jones is actually running a study, to determine how bat-shit crazy you have to be to lose supporters. Out of morbid curiosity I googled “Alex Jones claims NASA is running a colony - alt right messageboards” to see if there were actually any peabrains out there somehow trying to cheerlead this cause. There was a google entry from Infowars but my unfamiliarity with the strange set up of their messageboards made it difficult to navigate to anything about NASA and interstellar child slaves. So even the alt right folks are like “I’m not going anywhere near this”, then? How can even then most inbred, dumb-as-a-post bubble-dweller swallow this? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34441 "2017-07-01T20:54:07Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > … messageboards made it difficult to navigate to anything about NASA and **interstellar** child slaves. Interplanetary, not interstellar. “Interstellar” would just be silly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1721) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1723)