# 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:** 129
**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 5, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2562 "2024-03-05T15:21:28Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > What the hell does that guy’s hat say? It’s gibberish. That’s how you know he’s a Trump supporter. ---
**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 5, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2563 "2024-03-05T15:31:07Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > _If_ Trump is actually 6′ 3″ _then_ how tall is the woman in red??? 6"5’+? Oh sure, Trump lifts up a Black Woman, and all you do is critisize! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2564 "2024-03-05T15:35:31Z")
That is one of the telltales of current AI graphics — when the reference contains an image of text, every subsequent iteration treats it as a colors-and-lines graphic element and keeps redrawing it. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2565 "2024-03-06T01:20:15Z")
Trump’s left hand (the one on the woman’s shoulder) also has something weird going on in the pinky area. Oh, and the fingers on his right hand (at the other woman’s waist) are abnormally skinny. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2566 "2024-03-06T05:27:27Z")
His hand is not on the waist of the woman on his right. It’s on her shoulder. It’s difficult to see because of the False band across the picture. I think your seeing wrinkles on the shirt the woman is wearing. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2567 "2024-03-06T13:20:57Z")
Both the index finger and pinkie appear to have no fingernails! ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2568 "2024-03-06T18:40:55Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > His hand is not on the waist of the woman on his right. It’s on her shoulder. It’s difficult to see because of the False band across the picture. I think your seeing wrinkles on the shirt the woman is wearing. Ah, you’re right. Sure looks like skinny fingers, and I can’t unsee them! ---
**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:** [March 7, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2569 "2024-03-07T16:21:49Z")
I found a better (worse) example: A new law in Tennesee that requires that a mother give permission before a child is immunized. Are you a grandparent, or a social worker for a kid without parents? Tough beans. > **[Tennessee vaccine law pits parental rights against public health](https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/tennessee-vaccine-law-pits-parental-rights-public-health-rcna141897)** > > A law governing childhood vaccinations is among more than a dozen recently passed or pending nationwide that set parental freedom against community and children’s health. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2570 "2024-03-07T17:31:19Z")
And that’s a home schooling for you! “Taught” by morons. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2571 "2024-03-07T20:16:27Z")
The headline is related to football but **the EVIL part is the Missouri Governor.** I’m okay with rehab, contrition but Andy Reid’s son is a many time repeat offender (his other son is a druggie). NO COMMUTATION of the GIRL’S COMA. I guess the Governor is angling for a permanent invite to a luxury suite. > **[Andy Reid's son was released early from his DUI conviction. The little girl...](https://deadspin.com/andy-reid-britt-dui-kansas-city-chiefs-nfl-1851305409)** > > Britt Reid's sentence was commuted by Missouri's governor. Somehow the Chiefs coach has still never addressed any of it ---
**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:** [March 11, 2024, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2572 "2024-03-11T12:04:40Z")
Nancy Mace: “Trump was responsible for Jan 6th!” And yet, Trump’s her guy! I will say that I didn’t watch the show, so if you did, please add context. I’m just going by the story. > **[‘You’re trying to shame me’: Nancy Mace spars with Stephanopoulos over Trump...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/11/nancy-mace-george-stephanopoulos-trump-support)** > > Republican congresswoman, who has spoken about surviving rape, accused ABC host of trying to shame her about her past ---
**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:** [March 11, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2573 "2024-03-11T13:51:20Z")
Oh my god, love George so much. He just kept asking her that same question over and over despite her ridiculous “taking offense”, and she sounded sillier every time. “You’re shaming me for my political choices!” Uh, yeah, you _should_ be ashamed, lady. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2024, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2574 "2024-03-11T22:15:09Z")
> The former GOP leader said people paid donations to bash the Biden at the event, which was highlighted by an appearance by 1970s rocker and conservative firebrand Ted Nugent. > **[Kansas GOP leaders criticized for event in which donors kicked, beat Biden...](https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/03/11/Kansas-GOP-leaders-criticized-event-donors-kicked-beat-Biden-dummy/1061710185547/)** > > A group of Republican leaders in Kansas are objecting to scenes from a fundraiser held by the state's GOP chairman in which party members are seen kicking and beating an effigy of President Joe Biden with a bat. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2024, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2575 "2024-03-11T22:18:15Z")
Normally that would get a very stern visit from the Secret Service but as we’ve learned they’ve been corrupted by MAGA mind too. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2576 "2024-03-11T23:26:53Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Normally that would get a very stern visit from the Secret Service Would it, though? Such an activity, pathetic and tasteless though it may be, appears to be sufficiently distant from “credible threat” status that I’m not sure any official fucks would be given. See also: [Can you shoot an Obama target?](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/08/can-you-shoot-a-target-of-the-president.html) ---
**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:** [March 11, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2577 "2024-03-11T23:48:37Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > which was highlighted by an appearance by 1970s rocker and conservative firebrand Ted Nugent. …which was darkened by an apparition resembling washed up 1970s rocker and pants shitting coward Ted ‘don’t mind the stain or smell’ Nugent… What? Ghoulani was busy, broke, or showed up at a sod farm? **Undistilled hatred** of people trying to do good to and for others. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2578 "2024-03-11T23:58:23Z")
From the link: > [GOP Chairman] Kuckelman wrote. “We are Republicans, and we are better than this.” Obviously not. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2579 "2024-03-12T01:00:19Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Would it, though? Such an activity, pathetic and tasteless though it may be, appears to be sufficiently distant from “credible threat” status that I’m not sure any official fucks would be given. Recall that when, during the 2012 campaign, Nugent said or posted something akin to, “If Obama is re-elected, I’ll probably be dead or in jail within a year”, he did indeed get a visit from the USSS. His post-visit comments were a lot more docile. A la, _“Hey, they left as my friends”._ I see two ways Nugent’s statement could be interpreted: 1) He was opining that Obama was a ruthless dictator who would kill or jail his critics\*\*; and, 2) He was threatening to commit some act that would actually merit his arrest or killing. The first one is protected speech; the USSS seems to have interpreted the statement the second way. \*\* Despite, curiously, not having done so during four years in office. ---
**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 12, 2024, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2580 "2024-03-12T01:31:27Z")
I don’t know about this effigy thing being all bad. I could definitely see a Halloween party with a piñata for every president we’ve had. Why not? The presidential election is just a few days after Halloween. The fillings could be some kind of candy connected with that president’s life. For example, cherry candies for Washington, Baby Ruth candy bars for Cleveland, circus peanuts for Carter, jelly beans for Reagan, a batch of those candy hearts with IOU on them for Trump, etc. Feel free to add your own ideas. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2581 "2024-03-12T01:54:23Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > …Baby Ruth candy bars for Cleveland… Good one! As a baseball history buff, I was embarrassed until ISWYDT. Whiskey miniatures for Grant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=128) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=130)