# 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:** 46
**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:** [October 27, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/902 "2021-10-27T15:24:04Z")
_But Lo seeing that they had renounced the false prophet and turned from their evil ways, he showed mercy towards them and sent forth a vaccine that they might die no more. But there remained those whose hearts were hardened. They would not see his miracles and rejected his gifts, so the lord turned his face from them and they died in the thousands._ ---
**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:** [October 27, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/903 "2021-10-27T15:29:08Z")
Having lost the pillar of business, the righties seem to be ramping up their efforts to regain the pillar of education. A worrisome trend. But I think they are clearly underestimating how tenable their grip on power will be when/if they continue to lose the hearts and minds of young Americans. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/904 "2021-10-27T15:51:25Z")
… that’s why they’re going after education, RW. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/905 "2021-10-27T16:06:32Z")
Of course. But I don’t think it will work the way they think it will. ---
**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 27, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/906 "2021-10-27T16:11:55Z")
What?? But look at how well their _Say No to Drugs_ campaign worked out long-term! ---
**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:** [October 27, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/907 "2021-10-27T16:34:38Z")
I keep saying this here, but [Exodus 32](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2032&version=NIV): _31 So Moses went back to the Lord and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold. 32 But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”_ _33 The Lord replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book. 34 Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”_ _35 **And the Lord struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.** _ [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvRdXTiWgAEHM1B?format=jpg&name=medium) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvRdXTiWgAEHM1B?format=jpg&name=medium) ---
**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:** [October 27, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/908 "2021-10-27T16:49:19Z")
If Trump demanded that his followers get a tattoo of the number 666 on their forehead, how many of them would obey? ---
**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:** [October 27, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/909 "2021-10-27T16:50:41Z")
Put it on a red hat and see. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/910 "2021-10-27T16:52:20Z")
Make sure they know that, if they do get the tattoo, the libs will be really upset. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/911 "2021-10-27T16:57:53Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > And the Lord struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made. Misread “Aaron” as “Anon,” and it made it even better. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2021, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/912 "2021-12-14T02:29:51Z")
> **[Georgia Trump Supporters Replacing Black Elections Officials](https://www.theroot.com/georgia-gop-purging-black-people-from-election-boards-1848204760)** > > Republicans are going full Jim Crow to hold onto power From Reuters But this was an entirely different five-member board than had overseen the last election. The Democratic majority of three Black women was gone. So was the Black elections supervisor. Now a faction of three white Republicans controlled the board – thanks to a bill passed by the Republican-led [Georgia](https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-threats-georgia) legislature earlier this year. The Spalding board’s new chairman has endorsed former president Donald Trump’s false stolen-election claims on social media. The panel in Spalding, a rural patch south of Atlanta, is one of six county boards that Republicans have quietly reorganized in recent months through similar county-specific state legislation. The changes expanded the party’s power over choosing members of local election boards ahead of the crucial midterm Congressional elections in November 2022. The unusual rash of restructurings follows the state’s passage of Senate Bill 202, which restricted ballot access statewide and allowed the Republican-controlled State Election Board to assume control of county boards it deems underperforming. The board immediately launched a performance review of the Democratic-leaning Fulton County board, which oversees part of Atlanta." ---
**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:** [December 14, 2021, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/913 "2021-12-14T03:21:07Z")
Stacy’s pushback on this better be bullhorn loud. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/914 "2021-12-14T15:18:57Z")
It’s not who votes that decides elections, it’s who counts the votes that decides elections. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/915 "2021-12-14T16:15:21Z")
Exactly. And Republicans have learned their lesson from the last election - they are setting themselves up to do the counting next time. They learned they just have to get rid of independent election officials, or even Republican officials with morals. They have realized that they do not need to get the most votes to win. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/916 "2021-12-15T23:36:05Z")
This can also go in the schadenfreude thread [Multiple residents from Florida’s Trump-loving “The Villages” arrested for voter fraud (msn.com)](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/multiple-residents-from-florida-s-trump-loving-the-villages-arrested-for-voter-fraud/ar-AARQTf5?ocid=entnewsntp) Three Republican voters in a Trump-loving Florida retirement community have been arrested on charges of casting multiple ballots. Maybe they are so convinced that there was a steal because only a concentrated steal could overcome their own fraud attempts? ---
**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:** [December 16, 2021, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/917 "2021-12-16T11:46:12Z")
Remember, every Republican accusation is properly understood as a confession. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/918 "2021-12-17T23:52:12Z")
At this point, I would not be surprised to see their next presidential candidate hail from Belarus, and come with an childishly obviously photoshopped birth certificate. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2021, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/919 "2021-12-18T02:11:33Z")
Get ready for LOTS of this type of shit: > **[Republicans resist saying 3 simple words: 'Joe Biden won'](https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-minnesota-presidential-elections-capitol-siege-elections-f6e4f7fb5c8a444cd6d123a173b5bf3a)** > > They are just three little words, but they have become nearly impossible for many Republicans to say: “Joe Biden won.” > [@](#): > > Eleven months after the Democrat’s inauguration, Republican lawmakers and candidates across the country are squirming and stumbling rather than acknowledging [the fact of Biden’s victory](https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-capitol-siege-university-of-kentucky-b7a82e7205634d7f2e9767e1cfa10ccf) in the 2020 presidential election. In debates and interviews, they offer circular statements or vague answers when asked whether they believe Biden won. > > Yes or no? > > In Minnesota this week, five GOP candidates for governor came up with 1,400 other words when asked by conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt for an answer. > [@](#): > > On Wednesday, the discomfort for Republicans played out in full view from the debate stage in suburban Minneapolis. > > One-by-one, five Minnesota Republicans running for governor talked around Hewitt’s question: “Did President Biden win a constitutional majority in the Electoral College.” > > State Sen. Michelle Benson spilled 240 words recruiting Republican poll-watchers and blasting Minnesota’s Democratic secretary of state before Hewitt bluntly asked again: “Did President Biden win?” > > Her answer: “He was certified by Congress as having won the Electoral College.” ---
**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:** [January 11, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/920 "2022-01-11T21:34:24Z")
These are examples of evil, not stupidity: > **[Senate hearing on pandemic gets testy: 'What a moron'](https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-health-infectious-diseases-0321333da21765c52bf590f01f359fad)** > > WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert, angrily accused a senator Tuesday of making false accusations that are leading to threats against him -- all to raise political cash. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/921 "2022-01-11T21:39:44Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [Senate hearing on pandemic gets testy: 'What a moron' | AP News](https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-health-infectious-diseases-0321333da21765c52bf590f01f359fad) From the article: > But later in Tuesday’s hearing, Fauci lost his temper when Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, accused him of hiding financial disclosure forms required of public officials. > > “You’re so misinformed that it’s extraordinary,” Fauci responded, saying those documents are publicly available upon request. As the exchange ended, Fauci could be heard muttering off-camera, “What a moron.” Fauci is, once again, correct. Our less-than-illustrious junior Senator is indeed a moron. As a Congressman, he was a normal, toe-the-party-line GOP guy. Once we elected him to the Senate, he’s become a complete Trumplican with regular asinine appearances on Fox and OAN. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=47)