# 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:** 43
**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:** [September 28, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/842 "2021-09-28T15:30:31Z")
[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/idaho-covid-insanity-shows-how-much-worse-the-gop-can-get/ar-AAOU8ez?li=BBnb7Kz](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/idaho-covid-insanity-shows-how-much-worse-the-gop-can-get/ar-AAOU8ez?li=BBnb7Kz) As [the morgues and ICUs in Idaho overflow with COVID patients], Republican Governor Brad Little said he would fine businesses with over 100 employees if they enacted a mask mandate. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/843 "2021-09-28T17:17:11Z")
Under what law, I’m wondering. Did the Idaho legislature pass a _Stay open or else_ statute. ---
**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 28, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/844 "2021-09-28T18:58:07Z")
When are we going to get to the point where Republican politicians actively pass laws to ban hospitals and health care? Only procedures approved by The State will be allowed, including bleach injections, bleeding and demonic purification. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/845 "2021-09-28T19:01:24Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > > [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > > > I Want to donate to Adam Kinzinger. I searched but found 3 sites taking donations. Chances are at least 2 of them are a scam. Anyone know the true donation site? > > His [official House of Representatives webpage](https://kinzinger.house.gov/) has contact information for his office, so I imagine you could find out a donation site through there. Country 1st dot com is his official PAC. ---
**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 28, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/846 "2021-09-28T19:03:52Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Only procedures approved by The State will be allowed, including bleach injections, bleeding and demonic purification. Don’t give them any ideas! ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/847 "2021-09-28T21:32:33Z")
They would but since their hospitals so overrun with COVID patients that they’re having to ration healthcare anyway, there’s no need. Sometimes I think doctors and healthcare workers should just go on strike in some of these damn red states where COVID has gone out of control. Wanna ban mask mandates? Wanna go anti-vax? Fine, we stop working. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/848 "2021-09-28T22:18:21Z")
Here in NY, some heath care workers are stopping work **because** of vax mandates. There is a mandate that went into effect on the 27th, and the last number I head was some 45,000 workers are refusing to get the vax and will be getting, well not fired, but put on furlough with no pay. ---
**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 28, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/849 "2021-09-28T22:39:52Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > 45,000 workers are refusing to get the vax and will be getting, well not fired, but put on furlough with no pay. I’d rather not be treated by a medical professional that doesn’t believe in vaccinations anyway. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/850 "2021-09-28T22:45:09Z")
Do they also object to washing their hands after going to the bathroom and then injecting people? ---
**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:** [September 28, 2021, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/851 "2021-09-28T22:54:54Z")
[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maga-insiders-admit-trump-was-lying-in-new-book/vi-AAOTayj](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maga-insiders-admit-trump-was-lying-in-new-book/vi-AAOTayj) Republicans are evil people. ---
**Author:** ![TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thegunismightierthanthepen/32/2981_2.png) [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGunIsMightierThanThePen)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/852 "2021-09-29T04:10:41Z")
Huh, you’d think that out of all people, _healthcare workers_ should be the ones who are hardened against this epidemic of stupidity. Well, I’m not going to be shedding any tears for them if they can’t make rent and end up on the streets. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/853 "2021-09-29T19:34:20Z")
Republicans are pieces of shit [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-rep-ronny-jackson-tried-to-blame-isis-k-attack-on-the-militarys-woke-social-experiment-baselessly-tying-the-deadly-bombing-to-critical-race-theory/ar-AAOY4pW?li=BBnb7Kz](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-rep-ronny-jackson-tried-to-blame-isis-k-attack-on-the-militarys-woke-social-experiment-baselessly-tying-the-deadly-bombing-to-critical-race-theory/ar-AAOY4pW?li=BBnb7Kz) ---
**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:** [October 6, 2021, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/854 "2021-10-06T13:49:19Z")
Double-posting this: This one is both stupid and evil: > **[Arizona can't use COVID money for anti-mask grants, feds say](https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-doug-ducey-arizona-health-education-eeef3cfa74d609eecddc71d6cc2cdd3c)** > > The Biden administration on Tuesday ordered Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to stop using the state’s federal pandemic funding on a pair of new education grants that can only be directed to schools without mask mandates. > [@](#): > > In a letter to Ducey, the Treasury Department said the grant programs are “not a permissible use” of the federal funding. It’s the latest attempt by the Biden administration to push back against Republican governors who have opposed mask mandates and otherwise sought to [use federal pandemic funding to advance their own agendas](https://apnews.com/article/immigration-coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-mexico-29667c751c761cf712b6af00d8832885). > > Ducey, a Republican, [created the grant programs](https://apnews.com/article/health-arizona-coronavirus-pandemic-f4c807150376d4a1dc1ea88b3aecce7c) in August to put pressure on school districts that have defied the state’s ban on mask mandates. > He launched a $163 million grant program using federal funding he controls, but he made it available only to schools without mask mandates. [He also established a $10 million program that offers vouchers](https://apnews.com/article/business-health-education-coronavirus-pandemic-school-choice-efe85ad624d092b6eff700b635103a02) to families at public schools that require masks or that tell students to isolate or quarantine due to COVID-19 exposure. > In the letter, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said the conditions “undermine evidence-based efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19.” He asked the state to explain how it will “remediate” the problem within 30 days. Here’s the money quote: > C.J. Karamargin, a spokesperson for Ducey, said it’s “baffling” why anyone would oppose the grant programs. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2021, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/855 "2021-10-07T02:56:04Z")
[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-children-suffer-when-kids-of-color-are-taught-that-they-belong-connecticut-republican-says/ar-AAPdIjn?ocid=Peregrine](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-children-suffer-when-kids-of-color-are-taught-that-they-belong-connecticut-republican-says/ar-AAPdIjn?ocid=Peregrine) > A Republican school board campaign manager in Guilford, Connecticut, said she chose her words poorly when she said, “Helping kids of color to feel they belong has a negative effect on white, Christian, or conservative kids.” I guess you weren’t supposed to expose your honest feelings. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/856 "2021-10-07T03:47:22Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > the last number I head was some 45,000 workers are refusing to get the vax Where’d you see the 45,000 number? Last I heard, [New York State’s largest healthcare employer, Northwell Health, had fired about 1400, or less than 2%, of its 76,000+ employees for vaxx refusal](https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/10/04/new-yorks-largest-healthcare-provider-fires-1400-employees-who-refused-to-get-vaccinated/?sh=5345d7795dc4). If there are [about 1.2 million healthcare workers in New York State](https://www.chwsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Full_CHWS_NY_Tracking_Report-2018b-1.pdf), and as many as 2% of them are refusing to get vaxxed, that’s only 24,000 workers, not 45,000. Maybe that number is from an earlier prediction that underestimated the number of healthcare workers that when push comes to shove would in fact rather get vaxxed than fired. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/857 "2021-10-07T06:01:19Z")
In at least a moral victory, a judge in Texas has [blocked the abortion ban](https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/06/politics/texas-abortion-ban-federal-judge-order-block/index.html) from taking effect, saying that it’s “contrived” and blatantly unconstitutional. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/858 "2021-10-07T11:34:19Z")
Unfortunately, it turns out the judge is a [Gay Democrat nominated by Obama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Pitman#Federal_judicial_service), so this will likely be overturned on appeal to a Proper, Texas Republican judge. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/859 "2021-10-07T12:09:25Z")
I _did_ say a moral victory, if nothing else. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/860 "2021-10-07T17:10:38Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Unfortunately, it turns out the judge is a [Gay Democrat nominated by Obama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Pitman#Federal_judicial_service), so this will likely be overturned on appeal to a Proper, Texas Republican judge. What possible interest could a gay judge have in women having babies? He must have been bought – look for a check with Planned Parenthood’s fingerprints on it. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/861 "2021-10-09T13:17:17Z")
Here’s a name to remember: > **[GOP doc dispenses sketchy medical advice on virus immunity](https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-pandemics-congress-7466507d8f33fbc94a4c5bf0f329f6a2)** > > TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Roger Marshall won't let people forget he's a doctor, putting “Doc” in the letterhead of his U.S. Senate office's news releases. But when he talks about COVID-19 vaccines, some doctors and experts say the Kansas Republican sounds... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=42) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=44)