# 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:** 95
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2023, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1882 "2023-03-11T03:07:19Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Top Ohio Republicans [found guilty](https://apnews.com/article/larry-householder-corruption-verdict-bribery-trial-ohio-30763b21fc02e62464c20a77609a63ac) in massive bribery scheme. > > One of the defense lawyers called the case **“a big nothingburger”**. > > It has just been served up, hot and tasty. - Someone should congratulate him on a job “well-done”. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2023, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1883 "2023-03-11T05:31:11Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I think people should flood the hotline. > > “My kid is being taught NEW MATH!” > “The story problems treat girls and boys as equals!” > “The history text says we lost the View Nam War. That sounds unAmerican!” > “The biology textbook has obscene pictures of plant reproductive parts!” > “The science textbooks say the earth is billions of years old! And round!” > > Just overwhelm them. “The school is teaching Muslim math!” (Arabic numerals) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2023, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1884 "2023-03-11T05:55:32Z")
Al-gebra! A weapon of Math destruction! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2023, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1885 "2023-03-11T08:19:09Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Al-gebra! A weapon of Math destruction! - If Adam and Eve had been Republicans, they never would have gone forth and multiplied. ---
**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 11, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1886 "2023-03-11T14:59:03Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > The Tet Offensive Going to have to complain about this too, I mean “Offensive” is right in the name! ---
**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 14, 2023, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1887 "2023-03-14T05:49:53Z")
Trumper Judge, court shopping, GQP abortion fetish. > **[Judge Who Could Ban Abortion Pill Doesn't Want the Public to Know When the...](https://jezebel.com/texas-judge-could-ban-mifepristone-hearing-docket-1850220254)** > > It's Wednesday. But Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is trying to keep that off the public docket, since he's afraid of protests. In the hearing on Wednesday, lawyers from the conservative cranks at the [Alliance Defending Freedom](https://jezebel.com/anti-abortion-activists-sue-the-fda-to-reverse-approval-1849802704) (who brought the suit), the Justice Department, and the drug company that manufactures mifepristone will make their case to Kacsmaryk, who was appointed to the bench by former President Donald Trump in 2019. Kacsmaryk could then immediately rule that the Food and Drug Administration was wrong to approve the drug more than two decades ago ([no matter how many times](https://jezebel.com/abortion-pills-now-account-for-more-than-half-of-all-us-1848588631) it’s been used safely since). Even more harrowing, though, is the possibility that Kacsmaryk will issue an injunction to stop the distribution of this drug nationwide, keeping it out of the hands of patients while the case makes its way through the federal judiciary system." Even the Alliance Defending Freedom Organization is peak hypocrisy. ---
**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 14, 2023, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1888 "2023-03-14T06:00:28Z")
# 5 States Are Considering Bills That Would Classify Abortion as Homicide On Friday, the _Guardian_ published a [report](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/10/republican-wave-state-bills-homicide-charges) tracking five different states—[Texas](https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB02709I.htm), [Kentucky](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/hb300/orig_bill.pdf), [South Carolina](https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/prever/3549_20221215.htm), [Oklahoma](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24%20INT/SB/SB287%20INT.PDF), and [Arkansas](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FBills%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1174.pdf)—that are currently considering legislation to prosecute abortion as homicide. "The bills come despite anti-abortion activists and politicians’ (obviously) empty promises that they would govern with compassion in the post-_Roe v. Wade_ era. They wielded posters [promising to adopt babies](https://jezebel.com/don-t-offer-to-adopt-my-forced-baby-you-creepy-fucks-1849114404); [claimed](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/06/anti-abortion-movement-dobbs-roe-overturned/661393/) to support a more robust social safety net; lied about [the real reason](https://jezebel.com/abortion-in-the-surveillance-state-1848076906) they direct people to get care at crisis pregnancy centers. This wave of bills marks a sharp reversal from most legislation, which has focused exclusively on punishing abortion providers rather than patients. Some of the bills would explicitly establish fetal personhood and even “remove provisions in the law” that explicitly protect pregnant people from criminalization, the _Guardian_ noted. Oklahoma’s bill would cross out a section in the state legal code that prohibits “charging or conviction of a woman with any criminal offense in the death of her own unborn child.” > **[5 States Are Considering Bills That Would Classify Abortion as Homicide](https://www.jezebel.com/5-states-are-considering-bills-that-would-classify-abor-1850213313)** > > Until recently, anti-abortion bills have mainly criminalized providers, and activists have said they have no intention of targeting pregnant people. Bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1889 "2023-03-14T06:06:39Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Al-gebra! A weapon of Math destruction! Now that brought a big smile to my otherwise morose face. Bravo! ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1890 "2023-03-15T21:46:28Z")
> **[Okla. lawmaker says Bible endorses corporal punishment of disabled children](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/03/15/oklahoma-corporal-punishment-disabled-students/)** > > Arguing against a bill to bar the practice in public schools, Oklahoma Rep. Jim Olsen (R) quoted a Bible verse from Proverbs: "The rod and reproof give wisdom." You know what? We’re going straight to hell, and I don’t mean the home of Satan, I mean hell on Earth. I’m feeling quite pissed off and pretty depressed. I sometimes wish there was an afterlife with justice, just so they know how vile they are. Worthless pieces of garbage. These people are just assholes destroying the planet to partly ‘own the Libs’. I don’t want to turn into what I hate… but it’s difficult not get enraged. Who taught these losers? Daddy hit them too much as a child, so they have to make it everyone else’s problem. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1891 "2023-03-15T22:07:23Z")
Groomers! Pedophiles! They get off on hitting kids! I don’t think I actually want someone to use that strategy against these idiots - the dialogue is already at too low a level. But I do wonder if it would get any traction. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1892 "2023-03-15T22:09:13Z")
Jim Olsen? I was going to guess Nehemiah Scudder. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1893 "2023-03-15T22:47:09Z")
But don’t hold your breath on FirstEnergy paying back the billion dollars their agent stole for them. ---
**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 22, 2023, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1894 "2023-03-22T01:04:21Z")
File under Wrong, ignorant, willfully evil in his ignorance. > **[Republican Congressman Proudly Admits He Doesn't Know the Difference Between...](https://jezebel.com/republican-congressman-abortion-plan-b-1850248251)** > > "There is a lot of risk that’s involved with Plan B abortifacients," Montana Rep. Matt Rosendale said. “… but it must be stated for the record: [Plan B is not an abortifacient](https://jezebel.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-emergency-contracepti-1835067845). The two abortion drugs currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration are mifepristone (the [drug at the center of pending lawsuit](https://jezebel.com/judge-in-abortion-pill-case-bans-phones-after-trying-to-1850227845) in Texas) and [misoprostol](https://jezebel.com/mifepristone-ban-misoprostol-only-abortions-in-the-us-1850083070), a drug that can be used alone to induce an abortion. Plan B is the brand name for levonorgestrel, which is designed to prevent pregnancy by delaying (or stopping) the egg from leaving the ovary, according to the [FDA’s handy timeline](https://www.fda.gov/drugs/postmarket-drug-safety-information-patients-and-providers/plan-b-one-step-15-mg-levonorgestrel-information) of the drug.” “… Rosendale’s comments also perpetuate the myth that abortion pills present a danger to the people taking them. (The rightwing group [Alliance Defending Freedom](https://jezebel.com/anti-abortion-activists-sue-the-fda-to-reverse-approval-1849802704) is also amplifying this myth in its [lawsuit](https://jezebel.com/judge-in-abortion-pill-case-bans-phones-after-trying-to-1850227845) to rescind the FDA approval for mifepristone.) This just isn’t true: Medication abortion is safer than both [penicillin and Viagra](https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/abortion-pill-mifepristone-lawsuit-hearing/index.html). Despite the safety concerns, Rosendale isn’t out here trying regulate Viagra and the [reckless abandonment of sperm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs3_hNYAVRw).” ---
**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 22, 2023, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1895 "2023-03-22T01:40:13Z")
\*\*THE ONION HAS DONE IT! A 100% honest, truthful, sarcasm and snark free, humorless story.\*\* > **[What I Got Right About The Iraq War](https://www.theonion.com/what-i-got-right-about-the-iraq-war-1850249194)** > > By Dick Cheney ---
**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:** [March 22, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1896 "2023-03-22T02:01:01Z")
That hurt to read. ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1897 "2023-03-22T12:22:15Z")
I happened to browse The Onion last night after a long hiatus and read that one. Brutal and dark. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1898 "2023-04-04T23:30:00Z")
Hey, how did this thread slip so far? The Party of Evil has a new member in North Carolina, giving the legislature a veto-proof majority. [NC Democratic Rep. Tricia Cotham expected to change parties, granting the Republican legislature unfettered power - Axios Raleigh](https://www.axios.com/local/raleigh/2023/04/04/nc-democrat-flip-republican-legislative-supermajority?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark) My state is turning into a pile of shit. (I’m sure someone will insist it’s just the smell of money, as they did when folks complained about the hog lagoons in the area where I was raised.) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1899 "2023-04-10T01:55:33Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I can imagine the next step for the American Taliban … The US Republican Party more and more really is the American Taliban. Pity that Biden can’t order an airstrike against them. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1900 "2023-04-10T02:11:00Z")
Is that a good way to silence your enemy? Ones that are your fellow citizens? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1901 "2023-04-10T03:22:28Z")
When they stop talking about genocide as a solution to things they find icky we’ll stop joking about it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=94) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187.md?page=96)