# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 4) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 22, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678 "2025-02-22T21:08:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 157
**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 4, 2026, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3121 "2026-02-04T15:43:17Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Hold on, you’re NOT supposed to rub your open wounds on a public toilet seat? Now you tell me. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3122 "2026-02-04T17:07:40Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > Then, when you’re done, WASH YOUR GODDAMN HANDS. > > We invented soap for a reason. Use it. This. And if the seat looks disgusting, grab some toilet paper as a barrier, then toss it in the bowl before you flush. From my perspective, my hands are already going to be gross anyway from relieving myself, and touching a seat is not going to be much worse. I was already going to wash my hands. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3123 "2026-02-04T17:10:20Z")
Well, aren’t we all lah-di-dah around here. Next thing, you’ll tell me we should bathe regularly and avoid eating raw chicken ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3124 "2026-02-04T17:11:03Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Next thing, you’ll tell me we should bathe regularly and avoid eating raw chicken If the bath is hot enough you can have chicken soup. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3125 "2026-02-04T17:29:20Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > We invented soap for a reason. Use it. Are you crazy? Who knows how many grubby hands have touched that soap dispenser before me. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3126 "2026-02-04T17:47:27Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Well, aren’t we all lah-di-dah around here. Next thing, you’ll tell me we should bathe regularly and avoid eating raw chicken Wait, what? There goes this weekend’s plans. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2026, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3127 "2026-02-04T18:35:32Z")
RFK Jr., that you? ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3128 "2026-02-04T18:37:15Z")
Raw chicken is like raw milk only it’s poultry based. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3129 "2026-02-04T18:42:03Z")
How else are you nancy boys gonna build up immunity to salmonella? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3130 "2026-02-04T21:41:29Z")
I read somewhere that some of the most sought after patents in the USA were for newfangled toilet designs. God knows what people have been coming up with, but would a foot pedal to raise and lower the seat on public toilets be such a bad idea? ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3131 "2026-02-04T23:28:06Z")
Just everyone sit down. Penis people, non-penis people, other-identifying-people. What even are you doing to get toilet seats so messy?Just. Sit. Down. Then we wouldn’t have to worry about any of this. Heck, I’d rather wipe up a drop of pee than even think about someone’s _shoe_ having been in the seat. If you wouldn’t sit your naked ass down on the bathroom floor, then don’t put your shoes from that floor onto the seat! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3132 "2026-02-04T23:34:10Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > Just everyone sit down. I’m even one more step: in places like, say, restaurants, gas stations, where there are currently uniquely M/F identified bathrooms, just make them both ungendered. A lot of businesses don’t even put urinals in the men’s room, so WTF cares? Just make them both accessible to everyone. But then, that would cut a major source of RW outrage. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3133 "2026-02-04T23:46:46Z")
In my workplaces, there are single-occupancy bathrooms that have signs indicating they’re for use by any gender. ---
**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 5, 2026, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3134 "2026-02-05T00:19:54Z")
Nancy Mace has a chatbot auto-responding to any social media comments with her name and the word “drugs” in them. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oimylb2jzdnpjaprzidyalyb/bafkreia2xziy42qjvwsyca734lejkbzpdwaaecviaj23nj4xgckxxj743q@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oimylb2jzdnpjaprzidyalyb/bafkreia2xziy42qjvwsyca734lejkbzpdwaaecviaj23nj4xgckxxj743q@jpeg) [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/bafkreier53wz74duympzthdhk47thugci74c4zwkz67q26ji3a3tjotgku@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/bafkreier53wz74duympzthdhk47thugci74c4zwkz67q26ji3a3tjotgku@jpeg) [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oimylb2jzdnpjaprzidyalyb/bafkreibre4r6qr3otglhbys7zt55amujahr4ooyqf6xpkckwdxst7htdam@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oimylb2jzdnpjaprzidyalyb/bafkreibre4r6qr3otglhbys7zt55amujahr4ooyqf6xpkckwdxst7htdam@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3135 "2026-02-05T00:31:49Z")
She has reportedly been using social media bots for a long time. These articles are from more than 8 months ago. > **[Nancy Mace used former staffers to bolster online profile, new report alleges...](https://qnotescarolinas.com/nancy-mace-social-media-burner-accounts/)** > > Report: Rep. Nancy Mace allegedly used burner accounts and bots to boost her image online using staff time and taxpayer resources. > **[Nancy Mace's Ex-Staffers Claim She Asked Them to Make 'Burner Accounts' on...](https://people.com/nancy-mace-former-staffers-burner-accounts-11744359)** > > Former staffers of South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace anonymously spoke out against her for a new WIRED report, claiming she asked them to make burner social media accounts so that they could say positive things about her online. Mace's office dismissed... > Some of the former workers alleged to _WIRED_ that the Republican lawmaker would frequently monitor her image on social media, even creating bots to post in support of her. And her social media obsession is repeated in a recent article. > **[Nancy Mace Made Staff Upvote Reddit Posts About Her Being the ‘Hottest' Woman...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nancy-mace-made-staff-upvote-191432671.html)** > > Former staffers also say she made them bring her bottles of tequila at 2 a.m., according to New York Magazine. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3136 "2026-02-05T06:35:08Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I’m even one more step: in places like, say, restaurants, gas stations, where there are currently uniquely M/F identified bathrooms, just make them both ungendered. A lot of businesses don’t even put urinals in the men’s room, so WTF cares? Just make them both accessible to everyone. The natural history museum where I volunteer used the Covid shutdown to convert its two smallest bathrooms to “family bathrooms” by putting locks on the door, the kind that say _Occupied_ when thrown. Being formerly gendered one has two toilets and the other just one and a urinal. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3137 "2026-02-05T15:45:16Z")
Fucking Republican (didn’t catch who) was saying on CNN that the problem with Democrats dealing with undocumented aliens is that that want to extend Constitutional rights to the “illegal aliens”, but they aren’t citizens, so the Constitution doesn’t apply to them. Mother-fucking ICEhole, the Constitution applies to the US government. Of course it applies to undocumented aliens. It applies to anyone in this country because it is a limit on government power. It is the document that establishes how the government functions and how it treats _people_. Your stupid proposal on interpretation would mean federal agents could kill undocumented aliens instead of detaining and deporting them, without repercussions. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3138 "2026-02-05T16:00:32Z")
They’ve been told that they have [federal immunity](https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2011213308968538361). > To all ICE officers: You have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. Anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop you or tries to obstruct you is committing a felony. You have immunity to perform your duties, and no one—no city official, no state official, no illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist—can prevent you from fulfilling your legal obligations and duties. The Department of Justice has made clear that if officials cross that line into obstruction, into criminal conspiracy against the United States or against ICE officers, then they will face justice. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3139 "2026-02-05T16:28:28Z")
Who said that? If it’s anyone connected directly with the current maladministration, well we know their Constitutional scholarship is sketchy at best. ETA: Didn’t notice the embedded link. DHS, of course. All hail fatherland. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3140 "2026-02-05T16:30:20Z")
More precisely, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=156) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=158)