# 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:** 138
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2024, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2742 "2024-05-09T13:07:03Z")
Funny, I guess…but too soon! (Like RFK Jr., I lost a father when I was a child…so, actually, not so funny. Okay, fine, maybe a _little_ funny.) ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2743 "2024-05-09T13:44:44Z")
I give him credit for punching up instead of down. (Presidents and presidential candidates are always fair game.) ---
**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:** [May 9, 2024, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2744 "2024-05-09T14:47:00Z")
Too wordy. It needs to be a little tighter, like “It’s not like RFK Jr is the first Kennedy with a hole in the brain”. Could also have gone with “RFK needs a [X] like he needs a hole in the head, oh wait…” ---
**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 9, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2745 "2024-05-09T16:48:46Z")
Johnson County, Kansas, sheriff Calvin Hayden, who’s been trying to investigate (nonexistent) voter fraud, admits that the search warrants he supposedly had in hand were not signed by a judge and therefore were not valid. The backstory is that the county was planning to shred old ballots as required by law, but the sheriff asked that the ballots not be destroyed because of his ongoing investigation, which supposedly included a search warrant. > At the April 13 forum, Hayden said, “As we stand here today we had a search warrant in hand and had talked with the district attorney and we were working on getting the documents needed when they decided in a hurry to destroy the records.” The ballots were destroyed as required. Hayden has been campaigning for re-election using voter fraud as one of his talking points. Johnson County is the most populous (and richest) county in the state. > **[Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden admits his election search warrant was...](https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2024-05-08/johnson-county-sheriff-calvin-hayden-admits-his-election-search-warrant-was-not-valid)** > > The sheriff's admission that no judge signed his search warrant for old election ballots came in the middle of a Republican candidate forum. For years, Hayden has claimed he is investigating voter fraud, but his probe has not yielded any charges or... ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2746 "2024-05-09T19:20:33Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Republicans: “What do you mean, you don’t think conservatives have a good sense of humor? We totally know how to tell jokes!” Conservative humor, such as it is, seems to mostly consist of insulting people they don’t like. That’s not humor. You can insult somebody while making a joke, but the joke _needs_ to land. If you don’t you just come off looking like an idiot. ---
**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 10, 2024, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2747 "2024-05-10T11:44:22Z")
Am I 100% sure that the people who passed this are Republicans? No. But it’s fairly evil in my book. Not “fishhook in the dog treats” evil, but evil. “We believe that revisiting this decision is essential to honor our community’s heritage and respect the wishes of the majority,” > **[Virginia school board votes to restore names of Confederate leaders to schools](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/virginia-school-board-vote-restoring-names-confederate-leaders-schools-rcna151458)** > > In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in northern Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools. Four years later, the board approved a motion to restore the names. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2748 "2024-05-10T11:49:27Z")
Shenandoah may technically be “northern” Virginia but it’s pretty small and rural. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2749 "2024-05-10T18:21:37Z")
Hey, you’ve had four years, surely all the racism is gone now. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2750 "2024-05-11T13:52:16Z")
NY Times headline today: “Will You Accept the Election Results? Republicans Dodge the Question.” Ten years ago, fifty years ago, this would have been a mindblowing observation. The Overton window has shifted so far, and in the wrong direction. Bolivia, Uganda, etc. etc. have cruised right past the USA, leaving us where they were decades ago. I know I’m stating the obvious, but it bears repeating once in a while. The new normal is _not_ normal. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2024, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2751 "2024-05-12T00:18:11Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Ten years ago, fifty years ago, this would have been a mindblowing observation. The Overton window has shifted so far, and in the wrong direction. I expect that within my lifetime, the Republican Party will have transformed into full blown terrorists who kidnap, murder and shoot up shopping malls as political acts. ---
**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, 2024, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2752 "2024-05-12T00:26:14Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I expect that within my lifetime, the Republican Party will have transformed into full blown terrorists who kidnap, murder and shoot up shopping malls as political acts. Isn’t that exactly what they were trying to do on January 6, 2021, shooting up congress, kidnap, and murder the targets fo their hatred? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2753 "2024-05-12T00:31:55Z")
I don’t think they’ll ever do that officially or publicly, but if stochastic terrorism counts (and I suspect it does for you), they’re already there, and have been since the 90’s. ---
**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, 2024, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2754 "2024-05-12T10:18:09Z")
_(The link below is to Xitter.)_ I’ve mentioned it quite recently–and I guess I will continue to mention it until it finally dies the death it deserves, but, yeah, [Trump supporters are still touting the Birther bigotry](https://twitter.com/PecanC8/status/1789399549783515521), not to mention malinging Michelle Obama at the same time. Also it also alludes to anti-Muslim bigotry. ---
**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, 2024, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2755 "2024-05-12T11:16:29Z")
Well, that’s efficient of them, isn’t it? /s ---
**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, 2024, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2756 "2024-05-12T11:58:21Z")
I am a tad disappointed in them though. They left out the usual “globalist” or other anti-Semitic codewords or even just outright anti-Semitism. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2024, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2757 "2024-05-13T11:19:16Z")
I’m going to post this in both the “Stupid” and “Evil” Republican threads. Former Trump WH Aide Johnny McEntee made a TikTok video bragging about how he gives counterfeit money to homeless people in hopes they’ll get arrested. The Secret Service are notified of his freely-given admission of criming: > **[Secret Service notified as Trump aide brags about 'causing innocent people to...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mcentee-secret-service/)** > > Donald Trump's former White House aide is under fire after a video showed him claiming to distribute fake money to homeless people so that they will be arrested when they spend it. > > Johnny McEntee, formerly the White House Presidential Personnel... ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2758 "2024-05-13T11:33:19Z")
Only the best. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2759 "2024-05-13T14:45:09Z")
I get the feeling that pussy doesn’t really do that because he’d probably piss in his pants the minute a homeless person got within ten feet of him. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2760 "2024-06-09T01:39:04Z")
Christians laugh and cheer when Rudy Giuliani calls Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis a “ho”. > ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2761 "2024-06-09T02:31:50Z")
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