# 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:** 33
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/642 "2021-06-27T03:30:50Z")
I agree the votes don’t count. I just said his comment, that he was fulfilling a dying man’s wish was accurate, not that it was moral, legal, or smart. I mean, Republicans are pretty much all stupid assholes now, so they only do moral, legal, or smart stuff by accident at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/643 "2021-06-27T05:03:54Z")
It wasn’t accurate: dead is different than dying. Dying people are still alive and thus may vote. Dead people aren’t even people anymore and non-people can’t vote. No; I’m not at all inclined to indulge any alternate facts here. I don’t feel lenient, like he deserves sympathy or the benefit of the doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/644 "2021-06-27T05:45:18Z")
I didn’t say he deserves sympathy or the benefit of the doubt. You can fulfil a dying man’s wishes after he’s dead. If someone makes a wish while they’re dying, it becomes a, “dying man’s wish” even if he subsequently dies. Like if on your deathbed you say you want your ashes mixed into a brick and that brick to be thrown at Trump’s bedroom window, and I do it, I feel like I can fairly say, “I fulfilled a dying man’s wish.” ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/645 "2021-06-27T10:38:36Z")
That’s semantics; and it’s being used to obfuscate. Dead people are dead. What they wanted while they were alive doesn’t matter, unless they wrote a will. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/646 "2021-06-27T14:58:04Z")
Well yeah, of course it doesn’t matter. If a dying man’s wish is that I rob a bank, it doesn’t make it okay. I’m just taking issue with your issue of the wording. I hope the dude goes to jail. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/647 "2021-06-27T15:09:25Z")
The thing is that once he’s dead, there is no “dying man’s wish”; there is no dying man. He’s twisted the time-line to try and justify his actions. Maybe there _was_ a dying man’s wish but now all there is a corpse. I don’t see a need to help him try and justify his actions or excuse his culpability. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/648 "2021-06-27T15:23:07Z")
And I don’t see any need to let you get away with twisting ordinary, everyday English to make a point. When the people who are otherwise agreeing with you down the line think that your objection makes no logical or semantic sense, maybe you should listen carefully to them. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/649 "2021-06-27T16:04:32Z")
Where would we be here on the SDMB without semantic nit-picking? ---
**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:** [June 27, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/650 "2021-06-27T20:40:39Z")
I agrere, and I dopn’t want this board to be anti-semantic. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/651 "2021-06-28T01:07:02Z")
How about hyper-pedantic? Can we be that? ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/652 "2021-06-28T14:27:50Z")
Can we? We perfected it. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2021, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/653 "2021-06-28T15:19:29Z")
_May_ we. 🧐 ---
**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:** [June 28, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/654 "2021-06-28T15:20:37Z")
I didn’t know you were French. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/655 "2021-06-28T16:17:23Z")
They dying man may have wished to vote for Trump, but the living guy didn’t send the ballot in until after he was dead, therefore the living guy committed voter fraud. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/656 "2021-06-28T16:20:58Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > How about hyper-pedantic? Can we be that? > [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > _May_ we. Now, now, you’re both right. Not only are we allowed to be, we are capable of doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/657 "2021-07-07T22:35:14Z")
[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-congressman-caught-on-video-saying-he-wants-18-more-months-of-chaos-to-stall-democrats-so-republicans-can-retake-congress-in-2022/ar-AALTwyM?li=BBnb7Kz](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-congressman-caught-on-video-saying-he-wants-18-more-months-of-chaos-to-stall-democrats-so-republicans-can-retake-congress-in-2022/ar-AALTwyM?li=BBnb7Kz) What a dick. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2021, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/658 "2021-07-08T03:38:24Z")
How about the chaos caused by a special election in his district because he has been recalled by the voters? ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/659 "2021-07-08T04:07:31Z")
The voters in his district probably agree with him. Seems most Republicans are willing to burn the whole thing down if they can’t be in charge. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2021, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/660 "2021-07-08T05:13:31Z")
Oh, there’s no “seems” about it. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/661 "2021-07-08T15:25:56Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > What a dick. He’s just been caught saying out loud Republican strategy since the 90’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=34)