# The Republican Party is the Party of Evil **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 4, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187 "2021-03-04T17:43:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 102
**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:** [May 1, 2023, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2022 "2023-05-01T12:50:37Z")
Were they illegal immigrants or were they seeking asylum? Still dead and murderous but the Reichwing (and others) tend to lump them together. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2023 "2023-05-01T13:16:57Z")
You can bet if the victims were blonde haired whites the reward would have been higher and the state response would be more robust. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2024 "2023-05-01T13:33:10Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Were they illegal immigrants or were they seeking asylum? I cannot verify this, but if it’s true (and it appears to be), at least one of the victims was here legally. > > > Greg Abbott @GregAbbott\_TX ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2025 "2023-05-01T15:53:31Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > I’m wondering how he managed to convince himself that it was a bad thing for the “illegals” to be killed and thus the killing “illegal” must be punished. > > A bad thing? He announced a $50,000 reward for the guy! Hell, that’s a lot of cash, when you’re used to getting by with your cheap-ass “thoughts and prayers”. Dan ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2026 "2023-05-01T19:54:07Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I’m wondering how he managed to convince himself that it was a bad thing for the “illegals” to be killed and thus the killing “illegal” must be punished. All the flack he got. Why do you think his first post was “all smiles for the weekend”. > [@wguy123](#): > > And fuck a state that has people apparently regularly shooting their ARs in their back yards. Yes, this is crazytown. > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > A bad thing? He announced a $50,000 reward for the guy! Ha ha ha! ---
**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:** [May 11, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2027 "2023-05-11T20:42:53Z")
NOT an Onion piece. Useless old white men (and Nikki Haley) opine on PAB’s guilty verdict. Masters of deceit and deception. > **['Still Love Him': A Round-Up of Wild GOP Responses to the Trump Sexual...](https://jezebel.com/still-love-him-a-round-up-of-wild-gop-responses-to-the-1850424719)** > > One senator said the ruling "makes me want to vote for \[Trump\] twice." One said it's "not a disqualifier" for POTUS. Others pretended they just hadn't seen it. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2028 "2023-05-11T20:45:42Z")
Ohio Republicans flip-flopping on ballot measures and special elections. Moving the goalposts when it looks bad for their crusade to delete women’s rights. > **[Ohio Is Spending $20 Million to Thwart a Statewide Vote on Abortion](https://jezebel.com/ohio-is-spending-20-million-to-thwart-a-statewide-vote-1850428276)** > > Protesters flooded the Statehouse rotunda as Republicans moved to make it harder for an abortion rights ballot measure to pass in November. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2029 "2023-05-11T20:48:42Z")
I do wonder how that’s going to go. Even most of the Republicans I know are planning on voting against it. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2023, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2030 "2023-05-11T20:54:00Z")
Thanks to the GQP law and order stance, > **[Abortion Clinics See Triple-Digit Spikes in Stalking, Burglaries, Bomb...](https://jezebel.com/abortion-clinics-increase-bomb-threats-arson-stalking-1850428319)** > > A new report shows how anti-abortion violence has sharply increased post-Roe, as clinics have had to take on even more out-of-state patients. “… The NAF has tracked [anti-abortion harassment](https://jezebel.com/violence-from-self-proclaimed-pro-lifers-increased-125-1848230259) for five decades and has documented 11 murders, 42 bombings, 200 arsons, 531 assaults, 492 clinic invasions, 375 burglaries, and thousands of other criminal acts directed at patients, providers, and volunteers. Compared to 2021, the NAF found that, last year (the year _Roe_ was overturned), there was a 229% increase in stalking, 231% increase in burglaries, and 100% increase in clinic arsons (from two cases in 2021 to four in 2022) at clinics across the country…” “Law and order Steve, what are you talking about? The Groping Old Publicans want to murder women, doctors, immigrants, people who turn around in your driveway, are non-whites, who try to deliver your packages, or belong to the _WRONG RELIGION_”. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2031 "2023-05-11T22:00:59Z")
I mean, really? > **[Republican senator: Mexico 'would be eating cat food' without the United States](https://www.alternet.org/republican-senator-mexico-cat-food/)** > > United States Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) insulted the population of Mexico while grilling Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Anne Milgram during a Wednesday Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on fentanyl.Kennedy, like many on the... ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2032 "2023-05-12T01:02:06Z")
He must really hate Mexican food. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2023, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2033 "2023-05-12T01:11:05Z")
I would have said: “He must really hate Mexican…………………food.” ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2034 "2023-05-12T08:35:13Z")
> **[Louisiana Republicans Kill Rape, Incest Exceptions to Abortion Ban After...](https://news.yahoo.com/louisiana-republicans-kill-rape-incest-180000016.html)** > > After a truly eyebrow-raising hearing on Wednesday, Louisiana’s House criminal justice committee voted against adding rape and incest exceptions to the state’s abortion ban, one of the strictest in the country. Money quote: > [@](#): > > One Republican representative, Tony Bacala, said he was voting against it because its author, Rep. Boyd, is the product of rape, and she turned out to be a good person. I want to vomit. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2023, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2035 "2023-05-12T10:34:25Z")
Even by Republican standards, that’s extremely disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2036 "2023-05-12T12:31:08Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Even by Republican standards, that’s extremely disturbing. - Republicans don’t have standards. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2037 "2023-05-12T12:38:25Z")
Of course, but even so, I did not have “let’s legitimize rape!” on my GOP-are-evil bingo card. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2038 "2023-05-12T12:40:01Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Republicans don’t have standards. Just standard-bearers. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2039 "2023-05-12T12:40:13Z")
It’s on mine. It’s the free space in the middle. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2040 "2023-05-25T12:55:56Z")
Ohio Repuglicans set up a special election in August (in violation of state law) to make it more difficult to amend their constitution, in a move to block an attempt to add an amendment codifying abortion access. > **[Ohio election officials scramble ahead of August vote on state constitution...](https://www.npr.org/2023/05/25/1177921697/ohio-august-special-election-constitution-abortion-amendment)** > > Ohio Republicans set up an August special election to decide whether to make it harder to amend the state constitution, before voters might see an amendment on abortion access. > Republicans want voters to raise the threshold for approving future amendments to the Ohio Constitution from a simple majority to 60%, before a possible November ballot measure to codify abortion rights in the constitution. A group of doctors and citizens is currently gathering signatures to put an abortion rights amendment on the November ballot. So this is just another ploy from their playbook: Say it’s up to states to decide if abortion should be allowed in their borders, then make it impossible for the citizens of the state to allow it. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2041 "2023-07-07T14:21:23Z")
Crushing hopes and dreams - 2023 and beyond - a GQP core platform. > **[As If Affirmative Action Wasn't Enough, Now Republicans Are Coming for...](https://www.theroot.com/as-if-affirmative-action-wasnt-enough-now-republicans-1850607590)** > > Republican speaker Robin Vos has plans to get rid of grants designated for students of color. It’s the next step following the Gangrenous Conservative Cesspool decision. Logically, a separate minimum wage for non-whites is on the docket. (I kid - whoops, one of the deplorables will run with this). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=101) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=103)