# 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:** 1723
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34442 "2017-07-01T20:57:14Z")
Well, we _are_ stardust. Groovy. ---
**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, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34443 "2017-07-01T21:12:26Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Interplanetary, not interstellar. “Interstellar” would just be silly. They didn’t say _which_ Mars. ---
**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, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34444 "2017-07-01T21:19:49Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > They didn’t say _which_ Mars. See? That’s where they screwed up. The child slaves are working at the Mars candy factory after the CEO watched _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_ and wanted his own Umpa Loompas. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34445 "2017-07-01T21:29:11Z")
Now I get it! MILF means “Martian I Would Love to Fuck”. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34446 "2017-07-01T21:54:50Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The traceable ones of which come from right next door in Indiana, where they couldn’t be easier to get. Does that mean that I and my fellow Hoosiers are deplorables? ---
**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, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34447 "2017-07-01T21:57:43Z")
Are you running guns into Chicago, or otherwise facilitating that? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34448 "2017-07-01T22:22:09Z")
In Austin (Texas), the air smells of tacos and trees — and [city-state conflict](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-austin-the-air-smells-of-tacos-and-trees--and-city-state-conflict/2017/07/01/682eb420-54f7-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?utm_term=.9a7baeab7eb7). Gov. Greg Abbott (R), citing grave worries about \*\*“socialistic” behavior \*\*in the state’s liberal cities, has called on Texas lawmakers to gather next month for a special session that will consider a host of bills aimed at curtailing local power on issues ranging from taxation to collecting union dues. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34449 "2017-07-01T22:39:46Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Chicago supposedly has more illegal guns than anywhere else so the ATF is stepping in to help stem the tide. Yes but, Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that crime in Chicago was [" **driven more by morality** ”](http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/ag-sessions-slams-violence-in-chicago/) than access to guns. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34450 "2017-07-01T23:21:43Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Now I get it! MILF means “Martian I Would Love to Fuck”. You must be confusing it with a MILG. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34451 "2017-07-02T02:06:53Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Chicago supposedly has more illegal guns than anywhere else so the ATF is stepping in to help stem the tide. > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The traceable ones of which come from right next door in Indiana, where they couldn’t be easier to get. > [@k9bfriender](#): > > Build a wall. > [@eschereal](#): > > There is a lake right there. They would just start using boats. Drain the lake (I hear he’s big on draining things) and fill it with acid. ---
**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 2, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34452 "2017-07-02T03:05:10Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Drain the lake (I hear he’s big on draining things) and fill it with acid. Well, yeah, but where would they get it? Owsley Stanley is no longer with us. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34453 "2017-07-02T03:16:10Z")
I should have realized that NASA announcing they don’t have child slave rings on Mars must’ve been fueled by a right-wing loony. And, yeah. If Alex Jones isn’t mentally unbalanced, than I think it must be just seeing what he can get away with. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34454 "2017-07-02T04:40:38Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > And, yeah. If Alex Jones isn’t mentally unbalanced, than I think it must be just seeing what he can get away with. Many years ago, [I did a series of comics on Alex Jones](http://stripgenerator.com/booklet/3025/alex-jones-the-epic-fail-story/), and how he’s boiled his audience down to the people absolutely stupid enough to believe whatever he says. 8 years on, and he’s become even more popular, which means there must be even more stupid people around today. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34455 "2017-07-02T05:42:40Z")
Pizzagate rears its stupid head again. Flyers were put on doors in the neighborhood of the pizza place saying “Pizzagate is real news”. > **[Fliers Claiming ‘Pizzagate' is ‘Real News' Alarm DC's Tenleytown Neighborhood](https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/fliers-claiming-pizzagate-is-real-news-alarm-dcs-tenleytown-neighborhood/20384/)** > > Residents in the Tenleytown neighborhood of northwest D.C. say they are feeling “rage, anger and disgust” after finding fliers on their fences and doors that claim the debunked “pizzagate” myth is real. And John Podesta’s brother is under fire for donating art photos of children in dangerous situations, with somebody on Twitter claiming the kids are part of the Pizzagate conspiracy. > **[Pizzagate Cabal Targets Artist Over Pictures of Her Children | artnet News](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pizzagate-maria-marshall-1011377)** > > Maria Marshall's intentionally provocative photographs and videos of her children have been tied to the absurd Pizzagate conspiracy. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2017, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34456 "2017-07-02T11:43:30Z")
Maybe that’s why the Mars slaves thing was floated, to make pizzagate on Earth more believable. But pizzagate- I thought a good guy with a gun settled that nonsense? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34457 "2017-07-02T12:13:53Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Are you running guns into Chicago, or otherwise facilitating that? Well, I’m…not. I promise. Would I lie to you? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sinaptics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Sinaptics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinaptics)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34458 "2017-07-02T13:35:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Pizzagate rears its stupid head again. > > Flyers were put on doors in the neighborhood of the pizza place saying “Pizzagate is real news”. > [Fliers Claiming ‘Pizzagate’ is ‘Real News’ Alarm DC’s Tenleytown Neighborhood – NBC4 Washington](http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Fliers-Claiming-Pizzagate-is-Real-News-Alarm-DCs-Tenleytown-Neighborhood-432047913.html) > > And John Podesta’s brother is under fire for donating art photos of children in dangerous situations, with somebody on Twitter claiming the kids are part of the Pizzagate conspiracy. > [Pizzagate Cabal Targets Artist Over Pictures of Her Children](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pizzagate-maria-marshall-1011377) We should be using this stuff as a litmus test for mental illness; track down anyone who responds and evaluate them. If you can believe some crazy shit like this, you need help. ---
**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 2, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34459 "2017-07-02T15:04:11Z")
> [@Sinaptics](#): > > We should be using this stuff as a litmus test for mental illness; track down anyone who responds and evaluate them. If you can believe some crazy shit like this, you need help. Not as much as those kids do. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34460 "2017-07-03T00:38:40Z")
Perhaps less stupid than simply contemptuous: [Christie and his spawn](http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/07/christie_pictured_at_island_beach_state_park_durin.html) got Island Beach State Park all to themselves this weekend simply by shutting down the NJ state government. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/34461 "2017-07-03T01:02:34Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Perhaps less stupid than simply contemptuous: [Christie and his spawn](http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/07/christie_pictured_at_island_beach_state_park_durin.html) got Island Beach State Park all to themselves this weekend simply by shutting down the NJ state government. “Run for governor, and you can have a residence there.” - a quip that would have been right at home here at snark-central, but is an actual quote from that load of dicks, Chris Christie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1722) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1724)