| 201 |
Big Bird |
2020 |
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/big-bird-vaccine-announcement-sparks-backlash-conservatives-gop-n1283425 |
| 202 |
Cancel Culture |
2020 |
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/594423-the-cancel-culture-of-the-right/ |
| 203 |
Child smuggling in furniture (in general, actually) |
2020 |
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-53416247 |
| 204 |
COVID Vaccine |
2020 |
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00136-8/fulltext |
| 205 |
Cracker Barrel offers Impossible Sausage, makes zero other changes. |
2020 |
https://baptistnews.com/article/are-left-wing-radicals-pushing-cracker-barrel-to-the-edge-of-the-slippery-slope/ |
| 206 |
Defund the Police (no!) |
2020 |
https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_fa5dd2d9-baea-4f8c-bd53-7e9c70b1765d |
| 207 |
Disney is too woke for Ron Desantis |
2020 |
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2024/07/16/desantis-slams-disney-again-promises-more-changes-to-higher-education/74424800007/ |
| 208 |
Doctor Suess estate removing books |
2020 |
https://www.rollingstone.com/product-recommendations/books/buy-dr-seuss-books-online-1136080/ |
| 209 |
Dominion Voting Machines |
2020 |
Fox, Dominion reach $787.5M settlement over false election claims | AP News |
| 210 |
Genders (identity) |
2020 |
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| 211 |
Ivermectin |
2020 |
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/31/ivermectin-is-signature-example-politics-trumping-health/ |
| 212 |
Jill Biden is NOT a ‘Doctor’. (She is. Just not a medical doctor.) |
2020 |
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nataliewexler/2020/12/18/whats-really-behind-the-flap-over-jill-bidens-doctorate/ |
| 213 |
Mail-In ballots |
2020 |
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2020/09/16/legitimacy-of-voting-by-mail-politicized-leaving-americans-divided/ |
| 214 |
Masks |
2020 |
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/rethinking-evidence-in-the-time-of-pandemics/whose-evidence-what-rationality-the-face-mask-controversy/1C33D57597FF79B04FF6845825816A39 |
| 215 |
Nancy Pelosi at Hairdresser |
2020 |
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-san-francisco-hair-salon-owner-calls-it-slap-in-the-face |
| 216 |
Nick Sandmann - High Schooler who arranged confrontation with NA activist for conservative Grift Point$ |
2020 |
https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2022/07/27/covington-catholic-nicholas-sandmann-defamation-suit-dismissed |
| 217 |
Old People Should Die for the Economy (Dan Patrick) |
2020 |
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/dan-patrick-coronavirus-grandparents |
| 218 |
People’s Convoy |
2022 |
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/people-convoy-trucker-protest-dc-b2045813.html |
| 219 |
PePe LePew being left out of LeBrons Space Jam |
2020 |
Report: Looney Tunes' Pepé Le Pew faces backlash, won't be in Space Jam 2 |
| 220 |
Plandemic |
2020 |
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/08/852451652/seen-plandemic-we-take-a-close-look-at-the-viral-conspiracy-video-s-claims |
| 221 |
Taylor Swift endorses Democrats |
2020 |
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/taylor-swift-endorses-joe-biden-president-n1242483 |
| 222 |
The Big Lie |
2020 |
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182 |
| 223 |
Transgenders will use the same bathroom as your children! |
2020 |
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| 224 |
Walmart NOT selling guns! (Which Walmart reversed after conservative whining) |
2020 |
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/walmart-reverses-decision-remove-guns-ammo-store-shelves-n1245518 |
| 225 |
When MLB moved the All-Star game from Atlanta |
2020 |
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mlb-pulls-all-star-game-georgia-wake-restrictive-new-voting-n1262930 |
| 226 |
“Let’s Go, Brandon!” |
2021 |
https://apnews.com/article/lets-go-brandon-what-does-it-mean-republicans-joe-biden-ab13db212067928455a3dba07756a160 |
| 227 |
Nancy Pelosi Gavel |
2021 |
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/01/politics/kevin-mccarthy-nancy-pelosi-gavel/index.html |
| 228 |
“Liberal/Woke/Gay Agenda” |
2021 |
|
| 229 |
“White Replacement Theory” (Carlson) |
2021 |
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/17/buffalo-shooting-fox-news-tucker-carlson-great-replacement-theory |
| 230 |
“White Supremacy is a hoax” (Carlson) |
2021 |
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/tucker-carlsons-claim-that-white-supremacy-is-a-hoax-is-easy-to-prove-wrong-just-watch-his-show/2019/08/07/91ac782a-b90c-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html |
| 231 |
2021 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Protest |
2021 |
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/nyregion/thanksgiving-parade-nonbinary-lgbt-protest.html |
| 232 |
Baby Formula to illegal immigrants |
2021 |
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-national-border-patrol-council-release-joint-statement-on-biden-administration-providing-baby-formula-to-illegal-immigrants-amid-national-shortage |
| 233 |
Cardi B’s WAP |
2021 |
The Controversy Around the Song “WAP” and Why It’s Important - The Athenaeum . |
| 234 |
Cocaine Orgies |
2021 |
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/politics/madison-cawthorn-orgy-invite-cocaine-claim/index.html |
| 235 |
CRT |
2021 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020s_controversies_around_critical_race_theory |
| 236 |
Dark Brandon - Started as a right-wing op (in China), was co-opted by the left. But, for the purposes of this list, it was INTENDED to be a RW freakout. |
2021 |
https://www.vox.com/culture/23300286/biden-dark-brandon-meme-maga-why-confusing-explained |
| 237 |
Defund the FBI (yes!) |
2021 |
https://www.newsweek.com/no-country-law-men-gop-votes-defund-fbi-opinion-1882085 |
| 238 |
Freedom Convoy |
2021 |
https://www.tvo.org/article/its-been-two-years-since-the-freedom-convoy-so-whats-changed |
| 239 |
January 6th denial |
2021 |
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/one-year-ago-republicans-condemned-jan-6-insurrection-yesterday-their-response-was-far-more-muted |
| 240 |
Jewish Space Lasers |
2021 |
https://ithaca.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay/alma999567744404016/01ITHACACOL_INST:01ITHACACOL_V1 |
| 241 |
TN tries to make Bible “Official State Book” |
2021 |
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/16/tennessee-bible-bill-legislation-making-aitken-bible-official-book-signed/73347739007/ |
| 242 |
Trump is secretly President! He will announce himself on Inaugration, er, President’s, er the First Day of, er, some day in August, er, when the COVID thing is straightened out, that’s the ticket! |
2021 |
https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/claimstrump-will-be-reinstated-on-august-13stem-from-debunked-conspiracy-theor-idUSL1N2OV1W3/ |
| 243 |
Yoga being taught to children |
2021 |
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-schools-are-banning-yoga/570904/ |
| 244 |
“I did this!” stickers put on gas pumps |
2022 |
"I Did That!": Who Created the Joe Biden Gas-Pump Stickers, and Why? - Business Insider |
| 245 |
“Turning Red” (Pixar movie) featured characters (a 9yo Asian-Canadian immigrant) white people could not relate to |
2022 |
https://www.vox.com/culture/22981394/turning-red-reviews-controversy-reactions-parents |
| 246 |
Anti Cheneyism |
2022 |
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/20/us/politics/liz-cheney-republican-party-trump.html |
| 247 |
Biden ate an ice cream cone |
2022 |
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-host-jesse-watters-says-joe-biden-eating-ice-cream-is-too-casual |
| 248 |
Biden’s $500k beach house wall |
2022 |
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6318465702112 |
| 249 |
Birth Control |
2022 |
https://www.statnews.com/2022/06/24/supreme-court-decision-suggests-the-legal-right-to-contraception-is-also-under-threat/ |
| 250 |
Britney Griner Getting Released from a Russian Prison… |
2022 |
https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2022-12-08/brittney-griner-released-russian-prison-reaction |
| 251 |
… while Paul Whelan was not |
2022 |
https://thehill.com/policy/international/3771158-trump-says-he-turned-down-deal-to-release-paul-whelan/ |
| 252 |
Elon Musk will bring Freedumb to Twitter! |
2022 |
https://www.thefire.org/news/twitter-no-free-speech-haven-under-elon-musk |
| 253 |
Herschel Walker’s entire candidacy |
2022 |
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/07/herschel-walker-georgia-senate-campaign-flaws-00072692 |
| 254 |
Interracial Marriage under fire since Roe fell |
2022 |
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/interracial-marriage-supreme-loving/ |
| 255 |
It’s OK to steal nuclear documents |
2022 |
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65852286 |
| 256 |
Light Bulbs (incandescent bulbs being phased out) |
2022 |
https://www.energy.gov/articles/debunking-myths-about-phasing-out-incandescent-lightbulb |
| 257 |
Lizzo played a musical instrument 335,000,000 Americans didn’t know existed |
2022 |
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2022/09/29/lizzo-flute-james-madison-racist-history-huppke/8125708001/ |
| 258 |
Mermaids should only be white! |
2022 |
https://thedailyq.org/12068/features/what-does-the-new-little-mermaid-say-about-racism-and-representation-in-childrens-media/ |
| 259 |
Mississippi makes it illegal to use the word “burger” in re: to animal product burgers |
2022 |
https://baptistnews.com/article/hungering-for-a-christian-response-to-mississippis-veggie-burger-ban/#.YvB0A-zMKNY |
| 260 |
Pelosi has expensive ice cream! During Coronavirus! |
2022 |
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/16/nancy_pelosis_quarantine_stash_of_very_expensive_ice_cream_in_a_very_expensive_freezer.html |
| 261 |
Sex Toys at Target/CVS (A MTG Special!) |
2022 |
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5v9m4/republican-gala-marjorie-taylor-greene-buttplugs-sex-toys-tucker-carlson |
| 262 |
Stop the (Kari Lake) Steal |
2022 |
https://www.wsj.com/articles/kari-lakes-loss-destroys-stop-the-steal-arizona-gop-donald-trump-election-blake-masters-kimberly-yee-11668538320 |
| 263 |
Student Loan Debt Forgiveness: Bad! PPP Loan Forgiveness: Good! |
2022 |
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/white-house-again-weaponizes-ppp-loans-in-defense-of-student-debt-relief-1cd5a557 |
| 264 |
Students are forced to identify as animals |
2022 |
https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/no-evidence-that-us-schoolchildren-are-self-identifying-as-animals-and-disrupt-idUSL1N2YN1O2/ |
| 265 |
Suicide Prevention Hotlines (grooming pedophiles) |
2022 |
https://www.vox.com/culture/23025505/leftist-groomers-homophobia-satanic-panic-explained |
| 266 |
Woke D&D |
2022 |
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/08/19/dungeons-and-dragons-players-face-the-scariest-monster-of-all-the-radical-left/ |
| 267 |
“15 minute cities” are a sign of Big Government Oppression |
2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city#Conspiracy_theories |
| 268 |
“Woke-fil-a” - Chick-fil-a has a DEI officer, the horror |
2023 |
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/31/23742373/chick-fil-a-boycott-controversy-conservative-backlash |
| 269 |
“The Hill We Climb,” the poem written by Amanda Gorman for President Joe Biden’s inauguration, was moved out of the elementary section of one Miami-Dade County public school because of one conservative protest |
2023 |
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/23/us/miami-school-moves-biden-inaugural-poem/index.html |
| 270 |
A 50yo recipe, the “Orange Fool”, outraged the Right who assumed it was talking about… the orange fool. |
2023 |
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-eighteenth-century-custard-recipe-that-enraged-trump-supporters |
| 271 |
A breakfast restaurant has the temerity to call itself “Woke”. |
2023 |
https://www.levelman.com/conservatives-are-butthurt-over-a-connecticut-restaurant-named-woke/ |
| 272 |
Banning Electric Cars to save the fossil fuel industry (Wyoming) |
2023 |
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/17/wyoming-ban-electric-vehicles-cars-2035/ |
| 273 |
ChatGPT can’t write a poem praising Trump, but could for Biden! |
2023 |
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chatgpt-trump-admiring-poem/ |
| 274 |
ChatGPT won’t say the n-word! |
2023 |
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnv59/conservatives-are-obsessed-with-getting-chatgpt-to-say-the-n-word |
| 275 |
CHINESE BALLOONBIDENBIOWEAPON! |
2023 |
https://news.yahoo.com/gop-rep-warns-chinese-balloon-173807033.html |
| 276 |
Demar Hamlin was injured because he was Covid vaxxed. |
2023 |
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/01/12/fact-check-no-proof-link-between-hamlins-injury-covid-19-vaccine/11025775002/ |
| 277 |
Drag shows are corrupting our kids! |
2023 |
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/commentisfree/2023/mar/10/drag-show-bans-tennessee-lgbtq-rights |
| 278 |
Fox News gets mad at mascot for near-forgotten eatery A&W for… reasons. |
2023 |
https://thetakeout.com/aw-rooty-root-beer-bear-pants-fox-news-joke-tv-mms-post-1850030754 |
| 279 |
Gas Stove Freakout |
2023 |
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/14/joe-biden-gas-stoves-00077944 |
| 280 |
Jordan Peterson gets mad at a towel dispenser |
2023 |
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1628292293173342208?s=20 |
| 281 |
Kevin McCarthy Speakership “Race” |
2023 |
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/house-speaker-race-vote-kevin-mccarthy-watch-live-stream-today-2023-01-06/ |
| 282 |
Legos are now “Woke”. (Really, “Woke” should be a classification under which a lot of RWF’s are assigned.) |
2023 |
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-is-now-mad-about-woke-one-legged-legos |
| 283 |
Milk Choice - Elise Stefanik gets mad about chocolate milk not being offered in some schools |
2023 |
Stefanik Introduces Bill to Protect Milk Choices in Schools | Press Releases | Congresswoman Elise Stefanik |
| 284 |
MtG kicked out of Freedom Caucus because she voted for the budget deal |
2023 |
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/freedom-caucus-members-voted-oust-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-unclear-w-rcna92960 |
| 285 |
OAN increases annual fee for DirectTV from $0 to $13 million. DTV says “no”, drops OAN. Right freaks out. |
2023 |
https://www.forbes.com/sites/derekbaine/2022/03/16/directv-dropping-one-america-news-network-a-trump-favorite-despite-lawsuit/ |
| 286 |
Pink Floyd is too woke! (50th anniversary logo redo) |
2023 |
https://nypost.com/2023/01/22/pink-floyd-fans-slam-bands-cover-art-as-woke-despite-50-year-history/ |
| 287 |
Pizza Ovens are being destroyed by the Libs! |
2023 |
https://thetakeout.com/new-york-pizza-restaurant-air-quality-law-filter-rules-1850586727 |
| 288 |
Power Saving on Game Consoles |
2023 |
Xbox becomes first 'carbon aware' console, but not everyone is happy: 'Woke brigade is after video games' | Fox News |
| 289 |
Right is mad about Chic-Fil-A’s veggie chicken sandwich. |
2023 |
https://gizmodo.com/conservative-controversy-chick-fil-a-cauliflower-sandwi-1850100961 |
| 290 |
Ron Desantis and the Florida R’s propose bill limiting criticism of the government. |
2023 |
https://washingtonpress.com/2023/02/22/silenced-florida-bill-would-severely-limit-criticism-of-government |
| 291 |
RW tries to tank US economy over debt limit. |
2023 |
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/06/gop-protest-debt-ceiling-mccarthy/70295262007/ |
| 292 |
Tap water turns men gay |
2023 |
https://www.rawstory.com/desantis-2659498268/ |
| 293 |
Target has some Pride clothing items, Right freaks out, threatens Target employees. |
2023 |
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65692233 |
| 294 |
The Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, was sung at the 2023 Super Bowl. Guess who got upset? |
2023 |
https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/1624845737585524741?s=20&t=IfQClwDjDBLJcPXFsCR1yA |
| 295 |
The Bud Light controversy - One Instagram post and the Right loses their shit |
2023 |
https://www.newsweek.com/bud-light-faces-boycott-trans-activist-partnership-dylan-mulvaney-1792192 |
| 296 |
Tucker Carlson rants about which M&M he wants to fuck, gets so goddamned weird about it Mars Inc was like “yeah, maybe you people are such twisted snowflakes that giving fake characters, based on a candy, actual genders might get us literally shot.” |
2023 |
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2022/01/22/tucker-carlson-widely-mocked-after-criticizing-less-sexy-mms/ |
| 297 |
Water Flouridation is a Communist conspiracy |
1940s-1960s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_controversy#Communist_conspiracy_theory_(1940s%E2%80%931960s) |
| 298 |
Death Panels |
1994 AND 2010 |
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26195604/ |
| 299 |
Republicans mad about Obama’s Christmas cards |
2008-2016 |
https://www.businessinsider.com/sarah-palin-bashes-the-obama-white-house-christmas-card-2011-12 |
| 300 |
Obama Katrina 13: Fort Hood shootings |
2009 |
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/10/fort-hood-shootings-obama |
| 301 |
Obama Katrina 14: Kentucky Ice Storm |
2009 |
Is the Kentucky Ice Storm Obama's Katrina? - Digital Journal |
| 302 |
Coal Rollers |
2010-current |
https://freebeacon.com/men-of-the-year/man-of-the-year-texas-teen-who-rolled-coal-on-cyclists/ |
| 303 |
“The Debates are unfair!” |
Every 4 years |
|
| 304 |
“Thoughts and Prayers” as a response for every shooting in America |
Every Day (literally) |
|
| 305 |
*THE* MLK quote - The only MLK quote conservatives quote is the ‘content of character’ line. |
Every January |
|
| 306 |
Amend the Constitution so that Foreign Conservative of the Moment can be President! |
Every So Often |
|
| 307 |
College Speakers |
Every So Often |
|
| 308 |
Satanic Panics |
Every So Often |
|
| 309 |
People being effective is a sign that Obama/Biden is failing! (i.e., “Agents siezed a record amount of fentynal” gets translated to “Our agents are failing and it’s the Presidents fault”) |
Whenever a Dem is President. |
|
| 310 |
Trump Bears |
2024 |
Trumpy Bear, 2017-2020 - The Henry Ford |
| 311 |
Trump Golden Statue |
2021 |
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/2/26/22302887/trump-cpac-2021-republican-gold-statue |
| 312 |
Taylor Swift dates a football player |
2024 |
Conspiracy theories surround Taylor Swift. These GOP voters don't care | AP News |
| 313 |
Biden impeachment |
2023 |
|