# 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:** 49
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/962 "2022-02-11T20:44:48Z")
It’s been a while since I’ve watched a superbowl, but I do remember that they had half the space for national ads, then half for local. The local ads are still expensive for a local ad, well into the tens of thousands for a 30-second spot, but significantly less than the millions for a national ad. You will likely see some ads for some local car dealerships as well. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/963 "2022-02-11T20:59:14Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > You will likely see some ads for some local car dealerships as well. Used cars? After airing ads for Republicans, the stations could use something to class things up a bit. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/964 "2022-02-11T22:40:06Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > I can’t believe that this ad will be aired during the Super Bowl. It won’t. But he can claim he tried to place it, but the lamestream media wants to silence him, so he’s posting the video online. He’ll get a bit of free publicity and a bunch more eyes on the video, for a lot less money than the Superbowl spot would have cost. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/965 "2022-02-17T23:05:27Z")
Probably one of Samantha Bee’s best-ever segments, where (avec clothespin!) she deep dives into book-banning and how it’s become such an effective weapon for the right. _Well_ worth the 16 minutes to sit back and enjoy both parts. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/jJQ8R8dQErY/maxresdefault.jpg "How Conservative Book Bans Don’t Protect Kids Part 1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJQ8R8dQErY) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cm-ODKx0M4o/maxresdefault.jpg "How Conservative Book Bans Don’t Protect Kids Part 2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm-ODKx0M4o) ---
**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:** [February 21, 2022, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/966 "2022-02-21T06:55:13Z")
Well, here’s a new face for descanting the insalubrious on the commonweal - Republican house candidate [Christian Collins,](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/christian-collins-college-young-people-leftists_n_6212d534e4b08ee35ee42e0f) backed by Cruz, Hawthorn, and MGT (the latter - with their vaguely equine jaw and maxillo-structure - likely wanting to jump him). > [@](#): > > “We know how important the youth are to our future because you can raise them the right way. You can work your butts off every day to put food on the table, send them off to college, and then what ends up happening?” said Christian Collins, a Republican candidate for Texas’ 8th Congressional district, at [a rally just north of Houston](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Rep-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-headlines-rally-for-16917799.php) at the Grace Woodlands church. “They go off to college not knowing what they believe sometimes, and their teachers, their professors, try to deconstruct everything that you’ve taught them. And they go off with the college that you paid for and come out radical, leftist, hating-America atheists, and they don’t have any usable skills to get employed. And then they’re even more cynical.” For the love of Toppie Smellie there’s a photo I can’t find now where the fascist turkey is sitting back in a chair and giving the most gimlet-eyed look that would make Lee Von Cleef shart until he was dumping out both pant legs. Great, so, this is a? the? young new face of the Republican party, making it nice and clear that…well…fuck post-secondary education with a dunce-cap on top, while Betsy DeVos probably would’ve been fapping away to the tweet in the article (oh has time to _read_, right?). 😒Looking forward to more up and comers like this. Fine standing. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2022, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/967 "2022-02-21T07:19:20Z")
Missed edit window on total nitpick, but not sure when Lee became German. 🤷‍♂️ (Actually - one third, despite “Van” spelling.) ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/968 "2022-02-21T13:04:25Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > And they go off with the college that you paid for and come out radical, leftist, hating-America atheists, and they don’t have any usable skills to get employed. And then they’re even more cynical.” I was an atheist from about 5th grade onward. Perhaps he needs to close down the entire public education system. Of course, I became an atheist while taking catechism classes because I started seeing huge holes in logic and rationality I was being told to believe was incontrovertible fact so, y’know … ---
**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:** [February 22, 2022, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/969 "2022-02-22T03:59:55Z")
No Qanon thread, and (R.) so fucking completely owns this shit, so here it goes… Couple days ago saw on PBS Newshour an odd piece on how the yoga community is getting infiltrated by Qanon. > **[Wellness Influencers Are Calling Out QAnon Conspiracy Theorists for Spreading...](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/qanon-wellness-influencers-seane-corn-yoga-1059856/)** > > Influencers like Seane Corn have decided to take a stand against the mainstreaming of QAnon conspiracy theories on Instagram. > [@](#): > > Many QAnon supporters have coopted the aesthetics of platforms like Instagram to share misinformation, a phenomenon researcher Marc-André Argentino refers to as “[Pastel QAnon](https://twitter.com/_MAArgentino/status/1303053412456640518).” The beliefs central to QAnon, such as a distrust of the establishment and alternative ideas around health care, are particularly attractive to members of the yoga and spirituality communities, who often have countercultural views. It makes sense to Algeo why so many people in his community would latch onto QAnon. “Spirituality is a belief in the unseen. There’s this sort of mystical curiosity. These are people who are open to unseen worlds, unseen spiritual practices,” he says. Even the motto, WWG1WGA (“where we go one, we go all,” a QAnon slogan) appeals to those in the wellness space. “The idea in yoga is all about unity and oneness, so there is this seeded language that people in the spirituality community were suddenly grabbing onto,” says Corn. There is even a term, “conspirituality,” that applies to people in the spirituality space who are also attracted to conspiracy theories. For the time being conspirituality will be my favourite new word, even though it’s been around for, what, a year? Do keep up, Guest. Really wanted to link that LA Times piece but paywalled. > **[The wellness world’s conspiracy problem is linked to Orientalism](https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22577558/wellness-world-qanon-conspiracy-orientalism)** > > East and South Asian medical traditions have been appropriated and misinterpreted in the West, sometimes for political gain. > [@](#): > > Media coverage has largely centered on these New Age-type influencers as peddlers of a libertarian, anti-science ideology that refuses masks, social distancing, and vaccines. “California’s yoga, wellness and spirituality community has a QAnon problem,” read a recent [Los Angeles Times headline](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-23/covid-adds-to-california-yoga-wellness-qanon-problem). “Wellness influencers are spreading QAnon conspiracies about the coronavirus,” declared [Mother Jones](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/wellness-qanon-coronavirus/). In March, the [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/03/29/qanon-new-age-spirituality/) wrote about “QAnon’s unexpected roots in New Age spirituality.” Actually this article goes on to concentrate more (hey, interestingly!) on the misappropriation of Orientalism. Everything bloody else has cookies/adblocker stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/970 "2022-02-22T04:57:55Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Actually this article goes on to concentrate more (hey, interestingly!) on the misappropriation of Orientalism. Nitpick: “Orientalism” is a term usually used nowadays to refer to ingrained Eurocentric/racist/etc. assumptions about “exotic” Asian cultures and their “mysterious wisdom” or “inscrutable” attitudes and so on and so forth. It’s not Orientalism per se but specific Asian cultural practices that are being “misappropriated” and exploited by ill-informed westerners. (Yes, it’s true that “Orientalism” originally referred to the serious study by European scholars of Asian intellectual and cultural traditions in their own contexts. And no, I’m not claiming that any westerner who likes yoga or martial arts classes, etc., is necessarily “misappropriating” something that belongs to Asian people.) ---
**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:** [February 22, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/971 "2022-02-22T05:02:54Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > …specific Asian cultural practices that are being “misappropriated” and exploited by ill-informed westerners. Ah, sigh, if I’ll ever be able to put things as well as you. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/972 "2022-02-22T05:19:02Z")
Aw you’re sweet, thanks. (curtsey) ---
**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:** [February 22, 2022, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/973 "2022-02-22T05:41:10Z")
YEAH! **Kimstu** just curtsied me! WOO-HOOOOOOOOOOO! 🍾 ::stupidly high fives the air:: yeah I’ll skulk along… ---
**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:** [February 22, 2022, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/974 "2022-02-22T06:44:33Z")
No need to skulk, I’d celebrate too. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2022, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/975 "2022-02-22T07:35:45Z")
Hey, one has to sieze upon every little scrap and morsel that’s thrown their way these days. 🙂 Should’ve mentioned earlier that despite the age of these articles, I’m surprised this completely went under my radar first time around, and apologies if this is old news. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/976 "2022-02-22T15:20:38Z")
I’ve been writing about conspirituality for about a year now, although I think I started using the word sooner. > [@7 Jan 2021 and beyond - the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/1134): > > There is also particular type of bad decision making that is related to magical thinking, and frequently causes financial problems. The most common one that I’ve seen is substituting prayer or appeals to the universe or whatever for critical thinking. People that weren’t sure their business idea was workable, but they prayed on it and God told them to “go for it.” People that overcame their “resistance” (ie justified doubts) and started some venture because a psychic told them it was their des… > [@What are exceptionally weird left wing conspiracy theories you've seen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-exceptionally-weird-left-wing-conspiracy-theories-youve-seen/931268/151): > > Thank you, that’s the point I keep trying to make. These theories were called “fringe” for a reason, they were outside of the fabric of mainstream politics even if they might be tangentially connected. That was always the case until the right wing began to weaponize conspiracy theories, then the right wing began to unravel and became mostly fringe, The people on the outside saw this happening, those on the inside, not do much. That frustrated my conspiritual friends. They actually claim tha… ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/977 "2022-02-22T15:38:20Z")
Missed the edit window What I do object to is the prevalent idea that since the conspiritualists aren’t conservative, they’re liberals. Tie-dye and crystals don’t make you a liberal. My friends never voted - because it didn’t matter they’re all the same they’re all in on it together - and were _vehemently_ not Democrats. Their fellow conspiritualists were the same way……they talked about in their meetings. Yes, they had meetings. Which I attended partly because I could at least challenge some of the bullshit, and partly because I have a very dark sense of humor. This was before Trump and Q. No one gets to use them as the counterpoint in both sides. There were also, as I came to realize, not very smart. They were both very attractive and personable so people tended to look past it. But the wife was a vocal believer in “pseudoscience”, she always talked about her love of pseudoscience, because she didn’t realize the word was pejorative. I didn’t fill her in because I have a dark sense of humor. And she seriously thinks she channeling a spirit, because, according to her, sometimes she just says stuff that’s so freaking wise it couldn’t come out of the mouth of real human, so that’s the only possible explanation. To me, it sounds like the same stupid stuff she always says, only in a fake Italian accent. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/978 "2022-02-22T15:54:59Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > What I do object to is the prevalent idea that since the conspiritualists aren’t conservative, they’re liberals. So, how would you describe them? Did they support any candidates for office, or were they entirely apolitical? Where did they stand on the typical “culture wars” issues? Or did they just ignore those questions as well? ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/979 "2022-02-22T16:24:24Z")
They believed that all first world governments were controlled by a secretive cabal. They believed that no matter what a candidate said or promised, once they were elected they would be blackmailed and controlled by the cabal. It didn’t matter whether they were Democrat or Republican, it was all the same. And they didn’t vote or support candidates, they thought the whole system was a rigged charade. In terms of cultural beliefs, it was a mixed bag. They were strongly against racism and in favor of equality. They were also strong believers in gun rights and had an anti- government mentality, they were strongly against governmental regulations of all kinds - which isn’t surprising since they believe the government murdered school children in cold blood in order to create an atmosphere of fear in order to pass laws they didn’t like. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/980 "2022-02-22T16:26:07Z")
Yeah, okay, I can see how that can be confusing. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/981 "2022-02-22T18:08:29Z")
Rick Scott’s manifesto isn’t even a thinly-veiled declaration that he wants to turn the US into a theocracy based on white supremacy. If you click the link to the 11-point plan in the article, you get to download and read a PDF of his plan, that includes such gems as: > We will protect the integrity of American Democracy and stop left-wing efforts to rig elections. Today’s Democrat Party is trying to rig elections and pack the courts because they have given up on Democracy. They don’t believe they can win based on their ideas, so they want to game the system and legalize voter fraud to stay in power. In true Orwellian fashion, Democrats refer to their election rigging plans as “voting rights”. We won’t allow the radical left to destroy our democracy by institutionalizing dishonesty and fraud. > **[Rick Scott pushes own GOP agenda as McConnell holds off](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/22/rick-scott-gop-agenda-00010431)** > > The first-term senator's plan includes a mix of longtime Republican positions as well as culture war politics that define many GOP voters in Trump’s wing of the party. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=48) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=50)