# What are we to do with these insects we refer to as Republicans? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 1, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076 "2019-10-01T04:34:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/161 "2019-10-02T04:40:09Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Wait until the Fed is destroyed. Wait until the economy is crushed by right wing hyperpoliticization. And it finally hits you in a place where it hurts. Uh-huh. Even then, I still won’t support treason trials for legally casting a vote. I don’t blame anyone for feeling angry, but losing your shit in a total meltdown of frothing hatred is not a sign of moral integrity. I think it might be time to break out the cookie recipes. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/162 "2019-10-02T04:45:19Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Has it ever crossed your mind that some people may support Trump on the basis that it keeps people like you, and those you would support, out of power? :rolleyes: Pssst, **Ale** : you don’t need to support Trump in order to keep **begbert2** and his ilk out of _godlike_ power, which is the kind he was talking about. I don’t think **begbert2** is in any way advocating any measures to infringe the constitutional rights of even the most hateful tighty-righties by the exercise of _human_ power. Which is all we humans really have to worry about. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/163 "2019-10-02T04:47:26Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Has it ever crossed your mind that some people may support Trump on the basis that it keeps people like you, and those you would support, out of power?. It seems to me that you are so wrapped up in your own self righteousness that you don’t understand that people really don’t like the idea of someone like you dictating what they can say or what they are allowed to see, that’s what tyrants do. Oh fuck off. People vote for Trump because they wanted a whiter America and were willing to use authoritarian means to achieve that aim. That’s pretty much it. “Some people support” = “Some people are saying” = You’re making shit up, so just shut the fuck up. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Plutonium\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Plutonium\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Plutonium_Kid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/164 "2019-10-02T04:50:38Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > What is one to do? > > These houseflies. These mosquitoes. These vermin. > > A party they are not; they exist as a cult of perversion and perverse love of inequality. Okay, I’m wondering how you plan to do away with me and most of the people I know. Perhaps you want to follow the Stalinist example and ship us off to work camps where, lacking adequate food, clothing, shelter and medical, we will be slowly die off from exhaustion, starvation, beatings and execution by the camp guards. Or perhaps you want to go full blast and send us to death camps where we will be gassed and machine gunned, everybody, all of us, from grandmothers and grandfathers down to toddler and newborn babies. Maybe you want to reduce to chattel, a social class of creatures barely considered human, the property of the ideologically correct elite who have no rights you are morally and legally required to respect and whose lives you may dispose of as you please with no regard for whatever suffering and death you may inflict on us. By the way, will such conditions be imposed only on persons of white ancestry, or will they be imposed on anyone who questions or challenges the politically correct ruling elite and their lunatic notions of equality? Will we be entitled to public trials before we suffer any of your sanctions? Or will the NKVD simply make us disappear in the middle of the night? Or will you swine only be happy when Western civilization and Christianity are wiped from the face of the earth? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/165 "2019-10-02T04:52:40Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Being an insect has its advantages. 6 limbs and more of a nervous system than the NPCs of the left. Isn’t “NPC” a specific sort of dehumanizing code word used by right-wing extremists, and which in fact has used in the manifestos of right-wing terroristic mass murderers? This seems much more troubling than calling people insects, given that the sort of people who tend to use “NPC” code words language have gone on to actually murder people. And in the above post it was used in the specific context of dehumanizing “the left”. Isn’t this hate speech? Shouldn’t we ban this poster? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Plutonium\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Plutonium\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Plutonium_Kid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/166 "2019-10-02T04:54:14Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > The OP has insulted insects. The OP is an hysterical lunatic, as are you. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/167 "2019-10-02T04:54:25Z")
> [@The\_Plutonium\_Kid](#): > > Okay, I’m wondering how you plan to do away with me and most of the people I know. Perhaps you want to follow the Stalinist example and ship us off to work camps where, lacking adequate food, clothing, shelter and medical, we will be slowly die off from exhaustion, starvation, beatings and execution by the camp guards. > > Or perhaps you want to go full blast and send us to death camps where we will be gassed and machine gunned, everybody, all of us, from grandmothers and grandfathers down to toddler and newborn babies. > > Maybe you want to reduce to chattel, a social class of creatures barely considered human, the property of the ideologically correct elite who have no rights you are morally and legally required to respect and whose lives you may dispose of as you please with no regard for whatever suffering and death you may inflict on us. > > By the way, will such conditions be imposed only on persons of white ancestry, or will they be imposed on anyone who questions or challenges the politically correct ruling elite and their lunatic notions of equality? Will we be entitled to public trials before we suffer any of your sanctions? Or will the NKVD simply make us disappear in the middle of the night? > > Or will you swine only be happy when Western civilization and Christianity are wiped from the face of the earth? You should step away from the internet. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Plutonium\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Plutonium\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Plutonium_Kid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/168 "2019-10-02T04:55:31Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > If the deplorable shoe fits… But it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/169 "2019-10-02T04:55:32Z")
> [@The\_Plutonium\_Kid](#): > > The OP is an hysterical lunatic, as are you. Based on your last post, you are clearly an expert on hysterical lunacy. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Plutonium\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Plutonium\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Plutonium_Kid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/170 "2019-10-02T04:56:44Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > You should step away from the internet. You belong in the hysterical lunatic category as well. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/171 "2019-10-02T04:57:56Z")
> [@The\_Plutonium\_Kid](#): > > You belong in the hysterical lunatic category as well. If you meet one asshole, you met an asshole. If everyone you meet is an asshole, maybe you’re the asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/172 "2019-10-02T04:58:10Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Nope. > > Not in sight. > > Let’s be very real before everyone demonizes me. > > The president of the United States, supported by 60 million people, is threatening civil war, encouraging civil war, because he’s being investigated for something that everyone with a shred of decency (and integrity) knows is way out of bounds. It’s not that his supporters don’t know or understand what he’s doing; they know it, they defend it. They defend the destruction of the country. They are the enemy. > > Stop fucking talking about me. Stop fucking tone policing. Get angry. Defend your mother fucking country or NEVER, EVER FUCKING COMPLAIN ABOUT ITS COLLAPSE – EVER!!! > > DEMAND HIS IMPEACHMENT AND REMOVAL AND CONVICTION!!! AND CONSIDER TREASON TRIALS FOR HIS DEFENDERS INCLUDING ORDINARY VOTERS. Oh, well now that you’ve said it in ALL CAPS, you’ve convinced me. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/173 "2019-10-02T05:00:15Z")
This thread is making me sad now. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/174 "2019-10-02T05:01:33Z")
> [@The\_Plutonium\_Kid](#): > > Okay, I’m wondering how you plan to do away with me and most of the people I know. Perhaps you want to follow the Stalinist example and ship us off to work camps where, lacking adequate food, clothing, shelter and medical, we will be slowly die off from exhaustion, starvation, beatings and execution by the camp guards. > > Or perhaps you want to go full blast and send us to death camps where we will be gassed and machine gunned, everybody, all of us, from grandmothers and grandfathers down to toddler and newborn babies. > > Maybe you want to reduce to chattel, a social class of creatures barely considered human, the property of the ideologically correct elite who have no rights you are morally and legally required to respect and whose lives you may dispose of as you please with no regard for whatever suffering and death you may inflict on us. Hush, silly, you’re only encouraging him. > [@The Plutonium Kid](#): > > By the way, will such conditions be imposed only on persons of white ancestry, or will they be imposed on anyone who questions or challenges the politically correct ruling elite and their lunatic notions of equality? […] > > Or will you swine only be happy when Western civilization and Christianity are wiped from the face of the earth? :dubious: Equality is a “lunatic notion”? “Western civilization” and “Christianity” are restricted to Republicans? Or white people? Are posters now competing for the second-place ribbon in a “Who Can Say the Stupidest Shit in This Thread” contest, or what? ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/175 "2019-10-02T05:15:08Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Oh fuck off. > > People vote for Trump because they wanted a whiter America and were willing to use authoritarian means to achieve that aim. That’s pretty much it. > > “Some people support” = “Some people are saying” = You’re making shit up, so just shut the fuck up. No, I won’t shut up, and I wager other people you demand shut up won’t; what are you going to do about it? Do you think calling other people animals shows you to have the moral chops to make demands like that? ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/176 "2019-10-02T05:16:37Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > :rolleyes: Pssst, **Ale** : you don’t need to support Trump in order to keep **begbert2** and his ilk out of _godlike_ power, which is the kind he was talking about. > > I don’t think **begbert2** is in any way advocating any measures to infringe the constitutional rights of even the most hateful tighty-righties by the exercise of _human_ power. Which is all we humans really have to worry about. I’m telling what I believe other people think. What begbert2 is doing is, in fact, encouraging Trump supporters and giving him power. But between being smart and being angry I guess one does what one can… From what I’ve seen from you have a real problem understanding what other people think (whence you attempt to remediate your shortcomings by ascribing to them whatever negative qualities fit your need to look down or demonize them), so it seems you need to be told that when you talk of other people in the way that other people in the past were talked to before being disenfranchised, persecuted and exterminated, those people don’t warm up to your side of the argument, quite the opposite in fact. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Plutonium\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Plutonium\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Plutonium_Kid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/177 "2019-10-02T05:20:15Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Are posters now competing for the second-place ribbon in a “Who Can Say the Stupidest Shit in This Thread” contest, or what? Politically, “equality” is an emotionally loaded term often invoked to claim a spurious moral superiority in argument and debate. The term, however, means many different thing to many different people, and to invoke equality as though the term’s meaning should be readily apparent to all is mendaciou to say the least. When progs squawk about equality, brotherhood and such like, they are no better than conservative who squawk about motherhood, apple pie and the flag. In both cases, the purpose is to manipulate emotions, not to communicate ideas… ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/178 "2019-10-02T05:26:53Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > What begbert2 is doing is, in fact, encouraging Trump supporters and giving him power. Well, I hope even Trump supporters are capable of distinguishing between _“what I would do if I were god”_ hypothetical rhetoric and _“what I can do as a reasonable law-abiding human”_ strategizing. Because AFAICT **begbert2** himself made that distinction quite clear. > [@Ale](#): > > From what I’ve seen from you have a real problem understanding what other people think (whence you attempt to remediate your shortcomings by ascribing to them whatever negative qualities fit your need to look down or demonize them), so it seems you need to be told that when you talk of other people in the way that other people in the past were talked to before being disenfranchised, persecuted and exterminated, those people don’t warm up to your side of the argument, quite the opposite in fact. Rrriight. You know, sometimes a “real problem understanding what other people think” has more to do with the transmitter than the receiver. Just saying. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/179 "2019-10-02T05:28:44Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Are posters now competing for the second-place ribbon in a “Who Can Say the Stupidest Shit in This Thread” contest, or what? That guy is definitely not competing for second place. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2019, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076/180 "2019-10-02T05:28:45Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Every time I say it, you all try to exemplify what it means to be good liberals. I said it 6 months ago, a year ago, 2 years ago…and Republicans keep getting worse, despite your concerns about how I’m making progressives look. One of the reasons the Republicans are getting worse is you. Not you single-handedly; I don’t give you that much credit. But when people like you get all hysterical and run around screaming, the Republicans are able to sit back and say, “See? That’s what we’re up against.” and people look at you acting like an lunatic and they nod their heads. The Republicans are bad. So they need people like you to make them look good. Meanwhile people like me will stay calm and work on convincing people that they shouldn’t vote for Trump or other Republicans in 2020. And we’re hoping those people won’t see this thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-to-do-with-these-insects-we-refer-to-as-republicans/841076.md?page=10)