# 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:** 149
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2962 "2024-09-25T15:03:24Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Decades ago these urban legends were about cacti full of tarantulas, Rat in a coke bottle. Which I believed the first time I heard it, because, sure, why not? It did happen to the teller’s cousin ('s friend’s barber’s mother) after all. I got better. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2024, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2963 "2024-09-25T15:43:36Z")
I’m old enough to have had the [chocolate chip cookie recipe story](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/neiman-marcus-cookies/) circulated by actual paper mail (I think it was Famous Amos in the version I had). And yes, the right weaponize these stories because they have gaslit their target audience into believing that such things are the way the world works (the cat litter in schools thing - not so much about the cookies). Truth is out; truthiness reigns. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2964 "2024-09-25T18:32:19Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Sometimes, telling these people the real reason you might find a bin full of kitty litter in a school classroom will make them hush. I’m all ears. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2024, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2965 "2024-09-25T18:47:09Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > ’m still curious how the fuck the other poster gets the idea she’s been evasive. I can think of a couple of reasons why someone might argue her answers were evasive: - they have the IQ of a snail and the reading comprehension of a small rock that the snail has taken a shit on. - They are rather desperately flailing about trying to give some sort of cover to the asshole Senator in question. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2966 "2024-09-25T18:57:58Z")
It’s just for puke, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2967 "2024-09-25T19:32:36Z")
or in a lockdown situation for hours on end. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2968 "2024-09-25T19:36:43Z")
Next some smart person will put two lies together and claim that Haitians are grooming children to believe that they’re cats so they can be eaten (the kids, not the Haitians). ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2969 "2024-09-25T19:44:10Z")
It’s used to give the kids a place to relieve themselves during a lockdown. > **[Colorado School District Providing Kitty Litter Buckets for Kids to Use the...](https://time.com/5658266/colorado-district-kitty-litter-buckets-lockdowns/)** > > This is the same district where the Columbine High School mass shooting took place ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2970 "2024-09-25T21:00:46Z")
Ah. Thanks for the splaino. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2971 "2024-09-25T23:30:44Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > They could not be convinced that they were wrong, or that their friend lied to them. They left it at “I’ll ask them if they’re willing to come forward and give you the info firsthand, but I won’t tell you any more details so I don’t break expectations of privacy.” Convince him to go into the girls bathroom, and start taking pictures. “Only way to be sure” ---
**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:** [September 27, 2024, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2972 "2024-09-27T10:29:55Z")
It’s not new, but the damage that this lack of information will do to generations of young people really pisses me off. Any information is power, and sone people need all of the power they can get to avoid a bad end. > **[Florida restricts sex ed references to contraception and consent](https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/florida-sex-ed-contraception-consent-domestic-violence-rcna172900)** > > Florida's guidelines on what schools can teach in their sexual education courses continue a disturbing right-wing assault on the promotion of safe sex. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2973 "2024-09-28T18:15:49Z")
> **[Ohio sheriff deletes online post about Harris supporters and their yard signs...](https://halifax.citynews.ca/2024/09/24/ohio-sheriff-deletes-online-post-about-harris-supporters-and-their-yard-signs-after-upset/)** > > After a public outcry and under threat of litigation, an Ohio sheriff has deleted a social media post in which he said people with Kamala Harris yard signs should have their addresses written down so that immigrants can be sent to live with them.... > [@](#): > > Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski, a Republican running for reelection, took down a Facebook post that likened people in the country illegally to “human locusts” and said that Harris’ supporters should have their addresses noted so that when migrants need places to live, “we’ll already have the addresses of their New families … who supported their arrival!” So, fucknuckle, in tired GOP fashion, then “retracts” after the post was taken down… > [@](#): > > In a follow-up post last week, Zuchowski said his comments “may have been a little misinterpreted??” He said voters can choose whomever they want for president, but then “have to accept responsibility for their actions.” Misinterpreted, um, _how?_ “…have to accept responsibility for their actions.” What - for…voting the way you didn’t want them to vote? And this “responsibility”, then, is essentially preparing for violent consequences? Funky source - thanks, NS! ---
**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:** [September 29, 2024, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2974 "2024-09-29T06:40:30Z")
The standard “Look what you made me do” defense. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2024, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2975 "2024-09-29T09:38:39Z")
I wish I could say that this behavior was surprising or unusual. Threats and violence as part of politics are part of their toolbox, and it’s very disturbing. > **[Florida congressional candidate charged with threatening to kill primary...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/florida-congressional-candidate-charged-threatening-kill-primary-oppon-rcna173144)** > > The Justice Department revealed an indictment Friday that said William Robert Braddock III, of St. Petersburg, Fla., had threatened to kill his opponent in a 2022 primary. ---
**Author:** ![BayLeaves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@BayLeaves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BayLeaves)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2976 "2024-09-29T11:31:35Z")
The strongest issue the Democrats have is to raise taxes for rich people and corporations. I wish they would emphasize that more. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2024, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2977 "2024-09-29T13:06:51Z")
Disagree. Abortion is equally strong. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2978 "2024-09-30T18:08:49Z")
A bit of Republican Evil in my own backyard. > **[Main Line Republican Couple Threatened After Filming Kamala Harris Ad](https://www.phillymag.com/news/2024/09/30/bob-lange-kristina-kamala-harris/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFnxjlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHcK7A-LXJhXV1I0mOg0UN-uuZlpAcnWqjlg22VvW3xbSmQvGHBNe2sLReg_aem_2cD5I0G5gXYl1giKuJIyQA)** > > Things did not go so well for these Main Line farmers. From the article: > Pennsylvania farmers Bob Lange and wife Kristina Chadwick Lange are lifelong Republicans. They’ve never voted for a Democrat for president. […] Bob and Kristina are both voting for Kamala Harris for president. And that’s the exact message they delivered in a Kamala Harris campaign ad, after which things turned ugly. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2979 "2024-09-30T19:05:27Z")
It’s a shame that’s the world we live in now, a difference of opinion automatically means hate email and death threats. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2980 "2024-09-30T21:43:43Z")
It truly is, but this never should have happened (from the linked article): “But it turns out that the Kamala Harris campaign sent out a press release last week that didn’t just use their full names and the name of their businesses — it even linked to their website.” It actually shocks me that in this day and age that someone would actually do that (inadvertently dox supporters in a press release). ---
**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:** [October 2, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/2981 "2024-10-02T16:37:50Z")
> [@velomont](#): > > It actually shocks me that in this day and age that someone would actually do that (inadvertently dox supporters in a press release). Really? Campaigns now have to hide information about their supporters who very publicly campaign for them? You could be right, but if so, how very sad – and I wouldn’t blame the Harris campaign for making such a “mistake.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=148) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=150)