# 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:** 166
**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:** [November 6, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3302 "2025-11-06T19:50:14Z")
Forget it Jake, it’s Abbotstown. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3303 "2025-11-06T20:52:57Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > He’s trying to sound like Trump He succeeded. He sounds like a complete and utter moron. Well done I say. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3304 "2025-11-06T21:05:24Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > But aren’t these people fleeing the Islamic Socialist hellhole of NYC and escaping to the Utopia of Texas? I guess it’s typical GOP logic to tax these folks. A pretty common right-wing canard is that liberals will ruin their home states by voting for liberal policies, then move to red states and enact the same policies that made their home state unlivable. Abbot’s just playing into that existing ring-wing sentiment. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3305 "2025-11-07T06:54:03Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > A pretty common right-wing canard is that liberals will ruin their home states by voting for liberal policies, then move to red states and enact the same policies that made their home state unlivable. Pretty much standard right wing projection, that is. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3306 "2025-11-07T17:15:10Z")
(old joke) Every time a New Yorker decides to move to Texas the average IQ of both states goes up. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3307 "2025-11-12T13:33:42Z")
How’s this for evil? A Senate provision in [a major spending package](https://rollcall.com/2025/11/10/senate-passes-spending-package-in-key-step-to-end-shutdown/) to end the partial government shutdown has rattled House Republicans and given new political ammunition to Democrats seeking to defeat the measure. A provision in the fiscal 2026 [Legislative Branch spending bill](https://rollcall.com/2025/11/10/gao-library-of-congress-avoid-cuts-in-legislative-branch-bill/), which is part of the package, would allow senators to sue for at least $500,000 each when federal investigators search their phone records in a judicially sanctioned probe without notifying them. It would also apply retroactively, meaning at least 10 senators whose records were searched by former special counsel John L. “Jack” Smith in his probe of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol would automatically be entitled to big payouts. The eleventh-hour discovery of the provision, which apparently caught House leaders by surprise, became a new flashpoint on the eve of a critical House vote scheduled for Wednesday that could effectively end the longest partial shutdown in history. From Here: > **[Senate payouts unnerve some in House GOP ahead of shutdown vote - Roll Call](https://rollcall.com/2025/11/12/senate-payouts-unnerve-some-in-house-gop-ahead-of-shutdown-vote/)** > > A Senate provision in a major spending package to end the partial government shutdown has rattled House Republicans and given new political ammunition to Democrats seeking to defeat the measure. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3308 "2025-11-12T17:09:36Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > It would also apply retroactively, meaning at least 10 senators whose records were searched by former special counsel John L. “Jack” Smith in his probe of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol would automatically be entitled to big payouts. Could that be considered an ex post facto law? Those are specifically prohibited by the Constitution. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3309 "2025-11-12T18:05:52Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > Could that be considered an ex post facto law? Those are specifically prohibited by the Constitution. I don’t think so, since no individual is being punished by the law. Functionally, I think it’s basically the same as paying reparations to victims of Japanese internment. (Morally and ethically, of course, they’re on entirely different planets). But the underlying principle of, “The government did something that, at the time, was legal, but we now recognize should not have been. Here’s some money to make up for it,” is legally sound, I think. IANAL, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3310 "2025-11-13T02:21:49Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > A provision in the fiscal 2026 [Legislative Branch spending bill](https://rollcall.com/2025/11/10/gao-library-of-congress-avoid-cuts-in-legislative-branch-bill/), which is part of the package, would allow senators to sue for at least $500,000 each when federal investigators search their phone records in a judicially sanctioned probe without notifying them. Well sure. I mean the President is going for over$250 Million, they figure they might as well cash in too. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2025, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3311 "2025-11-16T00:21:36Z")
Looting of the Treasury continues unabated. [![](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/ac3ee5db-bddb-4c63-b174-286809530de3) ](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/ac3ee5db-bddb-4c63-b174-286809530de3) ---
**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:** [November 16, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3312 "2025-11-16T02:06:24Z")
Trump Rx, TrumpCare, two weeks. [![](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/1844b582-c649-4bb8-a29a-83192148e14c) ](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/1844b582-c649-4bb8-a29a-83192148e14c) ---
**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:** [November 22, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3313 "2025-11-22T13:45:35Z")
“Potential resistance to policy?”!!! OPM officials told agency HR leaders Tuesday that President Trump has Article II constitutional authority to remove tens of thousands of career federal workers in jobs over potential “resistance to policy.” > **[Final Schedule F regulations to describe civil service protections as...](https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/11/final-schedule-f-regulations-describe-civil-service-protections-unconstitutional-overcorrections/409616/)** > > OPM officials told agency HR leaders Tuesday that President Trump has Article II constitutional authority to remove tens of thousands of career federal workers in jobs over potential “resistance to policy.” ---
**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:** [November 22, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3314 "2025-11-22T15:36:13Z")
“resistance to policy.” meaning “obeying the Constitution” ---
**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:** [November 22, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3315 "2025-11-22T16:10:37Z")
And not just resistance to policy, but potential resistance to policy. It doesn’t even matter what you’re doing, just what they think you might hypothetically do. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3316 "2025-11-23T21:28:18Z")
[“The Minority Report”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minority_Report) was supposed to be a work of fiction. > In a future society, three mutants foresee all crime before it occurs. Plugged into a great machine, these “[precogs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precognition)” allow a division of the police called Precrime to arrest suspects before they can commit any actual crimes. When the head of Precrime, John Anderton, is himself predicted to murder a man whom he has never heard of, Anderton is convinced a great conspiracy is afoot. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3317 "2025-11-24T22:39:41Z")
Natalie Greene was a staffer working for Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew. Last July, Greene and a friend (whose name has been withheld) were hiking in a park. The friend called the police and reported that Greene had been attacked by three men. They said it was a political attack. They reported the men threatened them with a gun, tied Greene up, repeatedly cut Greene with a knife, and wrote “TRUMP WHORE” and “(redacted) IS RACIST” on Greene’s body after partially undressing her. A shocking crime. So everyone will be glad to hear the people responsible have been arrested and charged. The people responsible turn out to be Natalie Greene and her friend. There were no three men. Greene got the scars from the supposed knife attack done at a body modification shop. Greene and her friend then went to the park. The friend tied up Greene, wrote the messages on her body, and then called the police. It’s not clear when Greene stopped working for Van Drew. A spokesman for Van Drew said _“We are deeply saddened by yesterday’s news, and while Natalie is no longer associated with the Congressman’s government office, our thoughts and prayers are with her. We hope she’s getting the care she needs.”_ > **[Employee of a Federal Official Charged with Conspiracy to Falsely Report...](https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/employee-federal-official-charged-conspiracy-falsely-report-violent-attack-and-giving)** > > A New Jersey woman was charged with conspiring and falsely reporting to law enforcement that she had been violently assaulted with a firearm due to her employment with a federal official. [https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/media/1419086/dl?inline](https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/media/1419086/dl?inline) > **[Lawmaker's former staffer staged violent political attack, police say](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2e2p823rlo)** > > A former congressional staffer was accused of faking a political attack that included hiring someone to slice her body. > **[Former congressional staffer accused of faking politically motivated attack](https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-congressional-staffer-accused-faking-politically-motivated-attack/story?id=127712467)** > > Natalie Greene, 26, allegedly paid a body modification artist to scar her, before pretending to be assaulted in a politically-motivated crime. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3318 "2025-11-24T23:30:29Z")
Ah yes, was also mentioned earlier in the “stupid idea” thread. Jussie Smollet shakes his head and says, “girl, no, too extreme”. > “(…)Greene had paid a body modification and scarification artist to deliberately cut the lacerations on her face, neck, upper chest, and shoulder, based on a pattern that she had provided beforehand," the U.S. attorney’s office said in the statement [Hamilton]Everything’s legal in ‘Jersey…[/Hamilton] ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3319 "2025-11-24T23:33:23Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Ah yes, was also mentioned earlier in the “stupid idea” thread. As is often the case with what Republicans are doing nowadays, there’s a big overlap between stupid and evil. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3320 "2025-11-25T06:52:46Z")
Well, the libtards aren’t doing their part to gin up outrage so a girl’s got to do _something_. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/3321 "2025-11-25T10:41:38Z")
The real guilty party here are the Democrats, for forcing this brave Republican to have to attack herself by their refusal to attack her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=165) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=167)