# 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:** 103
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2042 "2023-07-07T14:33:56Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > 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. That undersells it. They’re not trying to make it harder for an abortion rights ballot measure to pass. They’re trying to make it absolutely impossible to amend the Ohio constitution, at all. Under the proposed amendment, any further amendment would require a YES vote from 60% of the eligible voters in the state (not the actual voters, like literally everything else involving voting). I’ve seen a LOT more opposition to it than support, but that might not mean anything, since I’m in a very liberal area. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2043 "2023-07-07T16:41:35Z")
Yeah, those terms sound absolutely insane. Hopefully, there are a fair number of Ohioans who may not be particularly supportive of reproductive rights but are smart enough to see what an absolute clusterfuck this sort of thing will create for the state in all sorts of legislative areas down the road. ---
**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 7, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2044 "2023-07-07T17:35:29Z")
IME, there aren’t many Ohioians who have even heard of this upcoming referendum. I do worry it will pass because those who are for it are being informed about it, while many of those who would be against it are unaware. ---
**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 13, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2045 "2023-07-13T02:00:38Z")
Tuberville, darling of racist Alabama manages to bipartisanly piss off a bunch of other senators. Add in birther, anti-immigrant, and liar - what a choice voters. ""Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer condemned Tuberville on Tuesday by saying he was just “wrong, wrong, wrong.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell also stated that “White supremacy is simply unacceptable in the military and in the whole country.” Republican whip Sen. John Thune explained to reporters that Tuberville’s remarks were asinine and that Thune was “not sure exactly what he was trying to say there.” > **[Tommy Tuberville Is Full of Sh\*t for Denouncing White Nationalists After...](https://www.theroot.com/tommy-tuberville-is-full-of-sh-t-for-denouncing-white-n-1850632475)** > > As Tuberville continuously proves, once a racist always a racist. ---
**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 13, 2023, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2046 "2023-07-13T02:09:12Z")
Let’s get wannabe VP Gov. Kim Reynolds (Pander - Iowa) in the discussion. She called a special session of the legislature solely to pass a 6 week abortion ban. With a massive GQP majority, it did pass. The session went really well for a cage match. > **[Iowa Passes Near-Total Abortion Ban After 14-Hour Debate](https://jezebel.com/iowa-six-week-abortion-ban-passes-1850628063)** > > “This state is ridiculous,” one resident testified before lawmakers. “You guys are lying to yourselves and you’re offending everyone, including God." ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2023, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2047 "2023-07-13T23:30:56Z")
Just astonishing: Full title: **Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in Georgia — Almost All by Just Six Right-Wing Activists** > **[Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in Georgia — Almost All...](https://www.propublica.org/article/right-wing-activists-georgia-voter-challenges)** > > The recent transformation of the state’s election laws explicitly enabled citizens to file unlimited challenges to other voters’ registrations. Experts warn that election officials’ handling of some of those challenges may clash with federal law. ---
**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 15, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2048 "2023-07-15T20:32:51Z")
The GOP just cannot stop fucking around with voting - one of the few ploys they have left. > **[The Next Big Challenge To The Voting Rights Act Is Coming](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/voting-rights-louisiana-robinson-ardoin_n_64ad98c7e4b0e87d655738a9)** > > Louisiana Republicans are relying on the Supreme Court’s rejection of affirmative action in their bid to dismantle the 1965 law. > [@](#): > > …Louisiana Republicans argued, “the district court should be permitted to address, in the first instance, whether the facts on the ground here similarly warrant a rejection of Section 2 of the VRA, as applied, because it is no longer necessary.” This is a direct challenge to the continued constitutionality of Section 2, the most widely used part of the law to fight racial discrimination in elections. Section 2 forbids the enactment of voting laws, policies and district maps that result in the “denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.” This ban on racial (and language-based) discrimination in elections can be triggered by discriminatory purpose or discriminatory impact. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2049 "2023-07-16T01:59:10Z")
I started to write a parody of how they would justify their opposition to the voting rights act, but then I read the body of the article you linked to and my parody turned out to be exactly what they were saying. By singling out race as a specific criterion under which it is not legal to discriminate, this law is treating the race of the person who is discriminated against as an important factor in determining whether the law applies to them. Therefor the law is racist and unconstitutional. This is really some Orwelian logic here. ---
**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 16, 2023, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2050 "2023-07-16T02:16:47Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > …my parody turned out to be exactly what they were saying. _The Onion Paradox_? ---
**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 18, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2051 "2023-07-18T16:50:20Z")
Reptilian Attorneys General ramp up the hate, punishment, and criminalization of women and health care providers over abortion: > **[19 Republican Attorneys General Want Police to Investigate People for Abortions](https://jezebel.com/19-republican-attorneys-general-want-police-to-investig-1850648742)** > > Nearly half of the top law enforcement officers in the country are asking the Biden administration to allow doctors and nurses to report suspected abortions. Consequence of the disembowelment of Roe v. Wade. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2052 "2023-07-18T19:11:38Z")
Wouldn’t that violate HIPPA? At least if they were out of state. It’s like you get privacy unless you are a woman of child bearing age, or trans, or … next group they don’t like? ---
**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 18, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2053 "2023-07-18T19:19:56Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > Wouldn’t that violate HIPPA? Do you honestly think they care? ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2054 "2023-07-18T19:26:41Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > Wouldn’t that violate HIPPA? According to the article > [@Jezebel](#): > > Under current HIPAA rules, [it’s legal](https://jezebel.com/does-hipaa-law-protect-information-about-abortion-1850108057)—though unethical—for healthcare workers and insurance companies to share abortion information with police when they believe a crime has been committed or when they receive a subpoena. The Biden administration wants to make that illegal, but Republican AGs are formally objecting ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2055 "2023-07-18T22:49:11Z")
Who are these people? Holy Shit, I’m glad I’m older, but I sure worry for my grandkids. These people have gone mad. Mad, I tell you! ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2056 "2023-07-19T00:18:35Z")
What a bunch of dicks. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2057 "2023-07-19T21:35:30Z")
After being handed a memorial pin for a Uvalde victim, Lauren Boebert throws it in the garbage while other members of congress are wearing AR-15 lapel pins. First 2 minutes covers that and the rest is a greatest hits of Lauren on 9-11 recordings. MeidasTouch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGczbMkTmA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGczbMkTmA) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2058 "2023-07-19T21:58:40Z")
What a shit human being she is. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2023, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2059 "2023-07-19T22:03:51Z")
Ron Johnson is still around. > **[Sen. Ron Johnson says it's 'certainly possible' that the government was...](https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/19/sen-ron-johnson-embraces-conspiracy-theories-about-jfk-epstein-deaths/70431677007/)** > > Johnson's comments on JFK's death were just one of several conspiracy theories the Oshkosh Republican entertained during the interview with Tommy G, a YouTuber who bills himself as making "the craziest documentaries" on the video streaming website. > **[Sen. Johnson might continue to repay personal campaign loans with cash from...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-johnson-might-continue-repay-123441277.html)** > > The multi-millionaire Oshkosh Republican on May 3 repaid himself $400,000 for prior loans to his campaigns, according to documents filed with the Federal Elections Commission. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2060 "2023-07-19T23:00:35Z")
“Johnson’s comments on JFK’s death were just one of several conspiracy theories the Oshkosh Republican entertained during the interview with Tommy G, a YouTuber…” And from what I’ve seen, Trump likes to Retruth things from “catturd”. I’m starting to wonder if I’m having one of those LSD flashbacks I was told would happen later in life. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2061 "2023-07-19T23:32:02Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > After being handed a memorial pin for a Uvalde victim, Lauren Boebert throws it in the garbage while other members of congress are wearing AR-15 lapel pins. Party of family values. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=102) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=104)