# 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:** 92
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1822 "2023-02-10T18:02:54Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Debt puppies aren’t much fun. Well done. ---
**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 10, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1823 "2023-02-10T18:19:25Z")
One more time for [Roman Hruska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Hruska). ---
**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:** [February 19, 2023, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1824 "2023-02-19T18:47:51Z")
Thank goodness this loon lost her bid for Congress. > ---
**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:** [February 20, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1825 "2023-02-20T04:03:23Z")
As opposed to a Republican in the White House who was the most destructive in living memory. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1826 "2023-02-22T16:57:03Z")
[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/alaska-republican-touts-benefits-of-children-being-abused-to-death/ar-AA17NnfE](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/alaska-republican-touts-benefits-of-children-being-abused-to-death/ar-AA17NnfE) > A [legislator] in Alaska caused outrage after questioning whether the death of child abuse victims could be “a cost savings,” because it would mean they don’t need “government services” later in life… > > Eastman said: “It can be argued, periodically, that it’s actually a cost savings because that child is not going to need any of those government services that they might otherwise be entitled to receive and need based on growing up in this type of environment.” To which the Republican head of the House Judiciary Committee said: > Representative Sarah Vance, the Republican who claims [sic] the House Judiciary Committee, said… "I wished that he asked questions with a little bit more sensitivity to the listeners and how they’re perceived, and I can have that conversation. First: If you don’t want children growing up to need public assistance, maybe offer abortion services instead of letting them be killed? Maybe use some of that oil money to lift people out of poverty? Oh, wait… > Vance later suggested Eastman had been trying to make an argument against abortion, which some consider to be “child abuse.” So ‘We must allow children to be killed so they’re not aborted.’ 🙄 Second: Sara Vance seems to be saying, ‘Well he’s right; but I wish he hadn’t come right out and said it.’ ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1827 "2023-02-23T04:03:29Z")
Well yeah, that’s how these people think. Once that fetus exits the womb and becomes a child it ain’t their problem anymore. 'Cause really, it’s never, ever been about the fetus. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2023, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1828 "2023-02-23T13:31:30Z")
I was thinking about that the other day. The only babies who have actually been born that they seem to care about are the ones that Democrats eat. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1829 "2023-02-23T22:08:09Z")
And Jesus. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1830 "2023-02-24T00:19:47Z")
Catholic Democrats eat baby Jesus wafers. Many people are saying… ---
**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:** [February 24, 2023, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1831 "2023-02-24T08:25:37Z")
George Carlin said it best: > [@](#): > > If you’re pre-born you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked. ETA: in my state, Kentucky, they’re fast-tracking an anti-trans bill that would have physicians risk their licenses for simply calling a trans youth by their preferred pronouns, or using any name other than their deadname. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1832 "2023-02-25T20:23:38Z")
Republican Lance Gooden insinuates that [Congresswoman Chu isn’t “loyal or competent”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3f3LQtlhX8). ---
**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:** [March 1, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1833 "2023-03-01T20:36:09Z")
Abortion pill outlaw case, judge shopping, Federalist society court packing, government by religion, for profit organization sucking up funds from non-profits for CEO self-aggrandizement; it’s all here folks. > **[The Case That Could Ban the Abortion Pill Nationwide Is in the Hands of the...](https://jezebel.com/judge-matthew-kacsmaryk-federalist-society-leonard-leo-1850170444)** > > Matthew Kacsmaryk is a devout Texas Christian with longstanding anti-abortion views and ties to a notorious judicial advocacy group. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1834 "2023-03-02T15:03:57Z")
[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/florida-republicans-introduce-bill-to-literally-cancel-the-state-s-democratic-party/ar-AA186y1C](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/florida-republicans-introduce-bill-to-literally-cancel-the-state-s-democratic-party/ar-AA186y1C) > Republicans, the party that keeps trying to outlaw basic human rights, are at it again. In Florida, Republicans are trying to “cancel” the Democratic party in the state. Yes, the same people who say cancel culture is ruining the country are trying to cancel their political opponents… > > The text of the bill never says they are getting rid of Democrats, but the verbiage would make the cancellation apply only to that party. Basically, the bill would dissolve any party that’s “platform has previously advocated for, or been in support of, slavery or involuntary servitude.” Prior to and during the Civil War, southern Democrats supported slavery. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1835 "2023-03-02T15:17:07Z")
Doesn’t the current Republican party advocate and support forced prisoner labor? The specific justification that they trot out is that the Thirteenth Amendment doesn’t apply to those convicted of a crime, and so forcing them to work against their will is acceptable. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1836 "2023-03-02T15:20:24Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > The specific justification that they trot out is that the Thirteenth Amendment doesn’t apply to those convicted of a crime, and so forcing them to work against their will is acceptable. I said the same thing in another thread. This bill would cancel any party that ever said they supported the US Constitution. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1837 "2023-03-02T16:16:20Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > It’s worth reading the thread, but basically someone just did a search-and-delete to remove all references to fascism in the Virginia state history and social studies curriculum standards. They even left the gaps where the word used to be. Potential motivations for them doing so are left as an exercise for the reader. This is reminiscent of the legendary “cdesign proponentsists” incident. After the _Edwards vs Aguillard_ decision that barred the teaching of creationism in biology classes, some creationists tried to circumvent the ruling by embracing “intelligent design”, insisting that this was entirely different - true science rather than religious myth. But of course it was exactly the same thing. In the creationist textbook _Of Pandas And People_, for the new edition they just searched and replaced “creationism” with “intelligent design” throughout. However, some of the edits had to be handled manually. An attempt to change “creationists” to “design proponents” was mangled and left in as “cdesign proponentsists”. The fabulous irony was that one of the objections to the theory of evolution raised in the book was the claimed absence of transitional fossils - intermediates proving that one form had evolved into another. > **[Of Pandas and People](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Pandas_and_People)** > > Of Pandas and People: The Central Question of Biological Origins is a controversial 1989 (2nd edition 1993) school-level supplementary textbook written by Percival Davis and Dean H. Kenyon, edited by Charles Thaxton and published by the Texas-based Foundation for Thought and Ethics (FTE). The textbook endorses the pseudoscientific\[a\] concept of intelligent design – the argument that life shows evidence of being designed by an intelligent agent which is not named specifically in the book, A third ... ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1838 "2023-03-02T16:29:45Z")
> **[Florida Republicans Introduce Bill to Literally 'Cancel' the State's...](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/florida-republicans-introduce-bill-to-literally-cancel-the-state-s-democratic-party/ar-AA186y1C)** > > The party that decries cancel culture is hard at work trying to cancel everything that they don't like. The sub-heading in the article is kind of stupid. It’s obviously not hypocrisy, it’s irony. The Republicans are not seriously expecting to cancel the Democratic Party. They are trolling - it’s supposed to be a _reductio ad absurdum_ of what they see as cancel culture. Their point is wrong, but if their point _were_ correct this is certainly an amusing way to make it. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2023, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1839 "2023-03-02T17:43:18Z")
[Rule #1:](https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/11/autocracy-rules-for-survival/) Believe the autocrat. He means what he says. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1840 "2023-03-02T18:02:08Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Believe the autocrat. He means what he says. That’s a _non sequitur_. I believe that many Republicans want a theocracy, that they are incredibly hypocritical about “cancel culture”, and that they would ban the Democratic Party if they could find a way to do it. Do you think _this_ was an genuine attempt to cancel the Democratic Party that they thought might actually work, or do you think it was trolling? ---
**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:** [March 2, 2023, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1841 "2023-03-02T18:06:49Z")
It can be both. I see no reason to cut the asshole any slack for what he says. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=91) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=93)