# 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:** 186
**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:** [March 19, 2026, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3701 "2026-03-19T00:03:18Z")
I could easily picture a Mullin vs. Lewandowski. or vs. Patel. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3702 "2026-03-19T00:08:08Z")
I’d like to see them all vs. Godzilla. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2026, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3703 "2026-03-19T00:13:12Z")
Actually I was also gonna mention Navarro, considering he’s been (well, at least verbally) scrappy. In China (his favourite place) he got into a profanity-laced screaming altercation with Steve Mnuchin - in front of what I’d guess were their taken aback hosts. Maybe Mullin vs Mnuchin? mmmm a little odd, maybe. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2026, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3704 "2026-03-19T00:23:45Z")
Scrape whatever is left out of a giant footstep with a shovel. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3705 "2026-03-19T00:32:10Z")
Trump administration introduces new mascot to promote burning more coal. > The administration’s new mascot, kitted out with a helmet, boots and gloves, was introduced in a seemingly artificial intelligence-generated picture posted online by Doug Burgum, Donald Trump’s interior secretary. > > “Mine, Baby, Mine!” Burgum wrote on X, adding that Coalie will act as a “spokesperson” for Trump’s “American Energy Dominance Agenda”. > **[‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/trump-administration-coalie-mascot-fossil-fuels)** > > Cartoon lump of coal with giant eyes was spotlighted by US interior secretary in X post saying: ‘Mine, Baby, Mine!’ ---
**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:** [March 19, 2026, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3706 "2026-03-19T00:44:24Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Trump administration introduces new mascot to promote burning more coal. Coalie looks like he could be Mr. Hankey’s cousin or something. [![](https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.5347187855.2808/bg,f8f8f8-flat,750x,075,f-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.jpg) ](https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.5347187855.2808/bg,f8f8f8-flat,750x,075,f-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3707 "2026-03-19T00:56:14Z")
Or the thing that shows up when you say “I hope I never see another coal as long as I live!” ---
**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:** [March 19, 2026, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3708 "2026-03-19T01:16:17Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Coalie looks like he could be Mr. Hankey’s cousin or something. Or Towelie. I thought for sure that was an Onion article. Nope. The Guardian. FUCK!!! ---
**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:** [March 19, 2026, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3709 "2026-03-19T02:39:00Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Maybe Mullin vs Mnuchin? We could sell PPV tickets under the name _Dumb and Dumber_. Sure to be a profitable hit for us. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3710 "2026-03-19T07:05:32Z")
[Turberville doubles down on the dumbassery.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tuberville-defends-remarks-linking-mamdani-161433645.html) > [@](#): > > Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) on Tuesday gave a vague defense of his [social media post linking](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/democrats-rip-tuberville-over-vicious-212647109.html) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks while downplaying whether the remarks were offensive. > > DC News Now’s Reshad Hudson asked the senator to [explain his Thursday post](https://x.com/SenTuberville/status/2032087973810901496?s=20) on the social platform X. Tuberville shared another post showing photos of the exploding World Trade Center in New York City on 9/11 alongside Mamdani holding Ramadan iftar in City Hall, with the caption, “The enemy is inside the gates.” > > Tuberville chuckled to Hudson before saying, “I just go by his rhetoric.” > > “He’s made a lot of statements about his stance with Islam and radical Islam, all the things that go along with what he preaches every day,” he continued. “And I’m just kind of repeating what he’s saying.” > > Tuberville added that “we don’t need a division in this country. We need everybody to go with the Constitution, understand we have moral values. And if we all stick with those –– I don’t care if you’re Muslim or Catholic or Baptist, it makes no difference.” > > “We need to make the country better; we don’t need to divide it. That’s what he’s doing in New York,” he claimed without providing an example. > > When asked whether Muslim Americans in Alabama could have found his post offensive, Tuberville said he’s “got some great Muslim friends” and that he spoke to “two Iranians in Alabama this past week about the war. Obviously, they’re Muslim.” > > The Alabama Republican followed this by saying “if you teach and preach Sharia law, if you bow down to the Quran, it teaches death to Americans. That don’t fly with me, OK?” > > The Quran makes no reference to the U.S. or the Americas. The irony is pretty blatant. [Don’t be Trans in Idaho, especially if you need to use the loo.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/idaho-republicans-pass-bill-making-150549152.html) > [@](#): > > The [Idaho](https://www.advocate.com/idaho) House passed legislation that could make it a felony for [transgender](https://www.advocate.com/transgender) people to step foot in a bathroom matching their gender identity. > > The [legislation](https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2026/legislation/H0752/) takes aim directly at trans individuals using the restroom or locker rooms, threatening those who “knowingly” and “willfully” enter facilities designated for the “opposite biological sex” with prison time. A first offense would count as a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. Those caught using the bathroom in repeated offenses, however, could be convicted as felons and face up to five years in prison. > > Idaho Rep. Cornel Rasor, the bill’s [Republican](https://www.advocate.com/republican-party) sponsor, used transphobic rhetoric as he claimed the change in law was necessary to prevent individuals from criminal actions. “It prevents discomfort and voyeurism escalation and assaults, while preserving single-user options and narrow exceptions so no one is denied access for emergency aid,” Rasor said, according to the [_Idaho Capital Sun_](https://www.idahocapitalsun.com/2026/03/16/idaho-house-passes-criminal-transgender-bathroom-ban-in-business-government-buildings/)_._ ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3711 "2026-03-19T08:29:54Z")
This toilet obsession is so fucking weird. I’ve posted elsewhere about encouraging women into the mens toilets at parties because their queue was so long, and men generally use the urinals, not the stalls. I mean, who cares if a woman sees my penis out of sexual context? Even if she is transgender? And similarly, women use closed stalls, I presume, rather than parading around naked beteen the seat and the sink. What is there to look at for the “fake” woman, and really, what would a real transgender woman get out of it, except a chance for urinating… Such an odd thing to make into a political issue. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2026, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3712 "2026-03-19T08:49:25Z")
It’s simple. They are perverts who would spy on women in the toilet if they thought they could get away with it, and like most sociopaths, they assume everyone else thinks the same way they do, so _clearly_ the only reason a biological male would elect to live as a woman is so he could watch little girls pee. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3713 "2026-03-19T09:21:37Z")
I had occasion to use the ladies’ at a pub recently. The Men’s was out of commission, but male patrons still needed to go. So we were directed by staff to the Ladies’, and I must say, the women were most understanding. Me, announcing to the room: “Ladies, a gentleman coming in. The Men’s is broken, can I come in here?” Occupants: "Yeah, we know about the men’s. Help yourself to a stall. A couple of minutes later, “He sounds just like my husband peeing!” Lots of laughter. I washed my hands and left. “Thanks, ladies!, Oh, and I put the seat down.” More laughter. “No problem! If you put the seat down when you’re done, and you washed your hands, then you’re welcome anytime the men’s isn’t working!” Well, I’m not about to test that. Point is, that everybody was okay with _ad hoc_ arrangements that had to be made when the men’s was unavailable. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2026, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3714 "2026-03-19T12:31:22Z")
Ah yes, but _you_ live in a civilized country. Not a whackadoodle frontier powered by some insane clown version of Jeebus mated to Mammon. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2026, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3715 "2026-03-19T12:51:26Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Tuberville added that “we don’t need a division in this country. We need everybody to go with the Constitution, understand we have moral values. And if we all stick with those –– I don’t care if you’re Muslim or Catholic or Baptist, it makes no difference.” Did anyone explain to Tuberville that the guy he worships (no, not Jesus) is the biggest source of division in this country and does not abide by the Constitution and has no moral values? (Of course not, nobody ever does…) ---
**Author:** ![TheTooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@TheTooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTooth)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3716 "2026-03-19T13:36:22Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Ah yes, but _you_ live in a civilized country. Not a whackadoodle frontier powered by some insane clown version of Jeebus mated to Mammon. No, he lives in Alberta. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3717 "2026-03-19T13:47:19Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Trump administration introduces new mascot to promote burning more coal. Cute character…I guess the message is that we should burn him to death and all others of his kind until they are no more? I look forward to collecting the set though, with Emily Emphysema and Black Lung Billy. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2026, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3718 "2026-03-19T13:55:36Z")
“Mine, Baby, Mine!” has always been Trump’s ethos. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2026, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3719 "2026-03-19T14:00:55Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > I guess the message is that we should burn him to death and all others of his kind Catch Phrase: “Well dig me up and cast me in a fire! It’s coaling time!” ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/3720 "2026-03-19T14:19:16Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > “Mine, Baby, Mine!” has always been Trump’s ethos. And you can take that as either a directive or a possessive. Both are appropriate with the Orange Peril. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=185) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=187)