# 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:** 62
**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:** [May 26, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1222 "2022-05-26T18:50:54Z")
It may be satire, but it’s stunningly accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1223 "2022-05-26T19:30:10Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > The Onion has been in a decline for many years now, because we’re largely beyond satire at this point. Sometimes, satire is just what is called for. > **[Commentary: Why the Onion's take on the Uvalde shooting captures every...](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-05-25/uvalde-school-shooting-onion-homepage-parents)** > > The image of the yellow police tape on the Onion's front page today is the color of every parent’s worst nightmare: that their child’s school became the target of yet another mass shooting. (Bold added:) > [@](#): > > This morning, the Onion devoted its entire home page to dozens of images from mass shootings dating back to 2014, accompanied by the same devastating headline: “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.” > > The picture at the very top is the one of Robb Elementary in Uvalde, with the yellow tape circling a schoolyard that should have been filled with joyful kids. The image made the rounds across Twitter and trended rapidly. **The Onion has a history of cutting to the chase when it comes to moments of extreme national tragedy in the way that only razor-sharp satire can.** No one looking at it was laughing, though. Especially not parents, for whom that specific set of signifiers has a particularly horrific resonance. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2022, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1224 "2022-05-26T22:16:51Z")
The NY Daily News should repeat their epic cover from Dec 2nd 2015, after the San Bernardino shooting > **["God isn’t fixing this": The Daily News on why prayers aren't enough after...](https://www.vox.com/2015/12/2/9838968/daily-news-san-bernardino-cover)** > > Politicians could curb shootings. Instead, they tweet platitudes. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2022, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1225 "2022-05-26T23:41:44Z")
Republican senators are now fully ON SIDE with right wing domestic terrorism. I guess they know where their voting support comes from. It was a nice country while you had it. > **[Senate Republicans block domestic terrorism prevention bill in key vote | CNN...](https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/senate-domestic-terrorism-bill-vote/index.html)** > > Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a bill designed to combat domestic terrorism from advancing in a key vote. The vote comes as lawmakers are under intense pressure to take action in the wake of multiple recent episodes of horrific gun violence. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1226 "2022-05-26T23:47:11Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.” But that’s just the thing - the Onion has been posting this exact headline for mass shootings for years. It’s sort of meta-satire, where they’re admitting, nothing every changes, so why change the headline? ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1227 "2022-05-27T15:50:21Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Clarence Thomas wrote in his opinion that the federal court should not be allowed to override the state’s “core power to enforce criminal law.” Oh flying blashemy! > [@wguy123](#): > > Slimeball Ken Paxton, Texas AG and all around felonious grifter, still hasn’t gone to trial seven years after being charged with a felony. And, he keeps getting re-elected. Republicans sure do love their criminals. Party of law & order my ass! Oh that’s fine, he’s white. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1228 "2022-05-29T15:51:07Z")
More evidence that the rotten apple doesn’t fall far from the stunted tree: [Don Jr. claims the Texas shooter could have used a bat.](https://news.yahoo.com/don-trump-jr-suggests-uvalde-041919176.html) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1229 "2022-05-29T16:18:01Z")
What a complete moron. My memory may be failing me, but I recall Gloria from All In The Family talking to Archie about all of the gun deaths in modern society, and I recall him replying: “Would you prefer they was pushed out of windows?” ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1230 "2022-06-02T15:33:00Z")
> **[Tapes Expose Republicans’ Plan to Takeover Democratic-Majority Polls](https://www.theroot.com/tapes-expose-republicans-plan-to-takeover-democratic-m-1849007223)** > > The plan is to train party recruits as poll workers and work with lawyers to potentially block vote counts. BAsically involves GQP plants as poll workers backed up by lawyers to get in on the ground floor challenging votes/voting/gumming up the works - because “election integrity”. I don’t think they know what that phrase means. Also, more projection than a 35 screen movieplex. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1231 "2022-06-02T15:37:14Z")
All they want is for voting to be fair, and it isn’t fair that black people get to vote. And brown people get to vote. And women. And white people who are Democrats. And… ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1232 "2022-06-02T16:45:05Z")
TLDR version: It isn’t fair if the Republican doesn’t win. Sometimes it isn’t fair if the _right_ Republican doesn’t win, e.g. the statements of the third place candidate in the recent Georgia Republican gubernatorial primary. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1233 "2022-06-08T02:21:08Z")
Yes, they’re making nonsense arguments, but they don’t care. Because it just might work. What we should be doing is trying to take action to stop them, not making fun of their reasoning. Because they don’t care about their reasoning; they just care about the result. It’s pointless pointing out their hypocrisy, because _they don’t care_. Using rational arguments against them just plays into their game. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1234 "2022-06-08T12:04:49Z")
Fox News is NOT airing live coverage of the Jan 6 Committee’s Hearing which starts Jun 9 at 8:00 Eastern. The better to keep brainwashing the masses. > **[Fox News Not Airing Jan. 6 Hearing Is 'Suppression of Truth': Ex-FBI Head](https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-january-6-hearing-coverage-frank-figliuzzi-comments-1713468)** > > Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant director at the FBI, said the network's coverage decision shows "fear that facts will threaten their false narrative." ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1235 "2022-06-08T13:49:10Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Fox News is NOT airing live coverage of the Jan 6 Committee’s Hearing … Censorship! ---
**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:** [June 8, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1236 "2022-06-08T14:06:15Z")
But, but, Fox Business, which, like, _everyone_ watches, will be carrying it. I’m sure those 1,382 viewers should be well enlightened. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1237 "2022-06-08T14:39:37Z")
Blake Masters is a Republican running for Senator in Arizona. He has been endorsed by Donald Trump. Masters, in turn, supports Trump’s claim that he won the 2020 presidential election. But that’s old news. The hot topic now is gun violence. And Masters explained its causes in a public interview: “It’s gangs. It’s people in Chicago, St. Louis shooting each other. Very often, you know, Black people, frankly. And the Democrats don’t want to do anything about that.” So Democrats don’t want to do anything about Black people? What does Masters think should be done about Black people? ---
**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 8, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1238 "2022-06-08T14:54:25Z")
Blake Masters is too stupid to work a McDonald’s kiosk. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1239 "2022-06-08T15:36:52Z")
But definitely not too stupid to be a Republican Congresscritter. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1240 "2022-06-08T15:56:08Z")
I guess that supply chain problems have caused all the dog whistles to be on back order. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2022, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1241 "2022-06-08T16:25:02Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > But definitely not too stupid to be a Republican Congresscritter. He’s also not too stupid to work for the Trump administration. Which he did. He’s also smart enough to sell NFT’s (which he does) and not buy them (which his supporters do). I guess this is the new version of being faster than the bear. A Republican candidate only has to be smarter than a Republican voter. And make sure there are no Democratic voters. And on that note, Masters has said “election integrity” will be his top issue. (The Republican version of election integrity, which says the outcome of the election should have been Trump winning.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=61) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=63)