# Freakouts of the Right

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 28, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631 "2022-04-28T22:36:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/21 "2022-04-29T02:00:18Z")

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Couldn’t that have been a Bingo card?

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**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:** [April 29, 2022, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/22 "2022-04-29T02:01:09Z")

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I mean, I forgot when they freaked out when Trump was fact-checked during the debate.

It’s a large Bingo card. Keep 'em coming!

To be fair, “Obamacare” doesn’t really belong as it was a legitimate policy debate.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/23 "2022-04-29T02:03:22Z")

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> [@snowthx](#):
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> Benghazi, CA Governor Newsom’s pandemic management, Nancy Pelosi assuming the gavel, BLM, George Soros, Hunter Biden and his alleged misdeeds, Kamala Harris being VP, Obama as President, ACORN, swift-boating John Kerry, gender-neutral restrooms, The Clintons (literally, anything relating to the Clintons), Antifa, January 6, 2021, People’s Convoy, pandemic restrictions…

We gotta work it a bit, but I think we got a Billy Joel song in the making here…

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**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/24 "2022-04-29T02:05:08Z")

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No more songs, please.

I’m already struggling with the Rocky Horror Picture Show song, _Creatures of the Night_, running through my head courtesy of the thread title.

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**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:** [April 29, 2022, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/25 "2022-04-29T02:30:17Z")

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| Gold Star Family fight | Plandemic | War on Christmas | The Big Lie | Teen Vogue (2016) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Immigrants will make America Poorer and dirtier (Carlson) | Losing Advertiser Support = Free Speech being Suppressed | Russia Hoax | White Supremacy is a hoax (Carlson) | Dominion Voting Machines |
| Decline of Family Values | AIDS | Gay Marriage | Anti-LGBTQ | Anti-Trans |
| Gamergate | Sad Puppies | Comicsgate | Gun fetishism | Ten Commandments in public spaces |

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**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:** [April 29, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/26 "2022-04-29T02:33:20Z")

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This list is just a lot of fucking whining with very little practical use…

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/27 "2022-04-29T02:34:56Z")

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In the same vein as Jim Acosta is [Lesley Stahl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Stahl). Trolls are still trying to edit her Wikipedia page in favor of Trump.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/28 "2022-04-29T02:35:46Z")

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What’s this about suicide prevention hotlines (grooming pedophiles)?

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/29 "2022-04-29T02:36:45Z")

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> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#):
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> Couldn’t that have been a Bingo card?

Or a drinking game.

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What about low-flow toilets that make it hard to flush lots of government documents?

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**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/30 "2022-04-29T02:44:10Z")

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Lipstick on pigs.  
Flagpingate.  
Obama putting his feet on the deskgate.  
Didn’t they melt down when Obama decided to have a computer on the Oval Office desk?

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**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:** [April 29, 2022, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/31 "2022-04-29T02:45:00Z")

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Here’s a syllable grid for We Didn’t Start the Fire, if anyone is feeling creative…

> **[We-Didnt-Start-the-Fire-Syllable-grid-for-lyrics-portrait-version.pdf](https://www.mrallsophistory.com/revision/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/We-Didnt-Start-the-Fire-Syllable-grid-for-lyrics-portrait-version.pdf)**
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**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:** [April 29, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/32 "2022-04-29T02:46:43Z")

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Literally cannot believe I have made it this far without adding “political correctness” and “wokeism”.

I must be slipping…

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**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:** [April 29, 2022, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/33 "2022-04-29T03:19:19Z")

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Shouldn’t you add this to your chart? 😉

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**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/34 "2022-04-29T03:37:02Z")

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Jade Helm. The big bad federal government military operation that was going to, I dunno install the lizard people or something?

> **[Hysteria over Jade Helm exercise in Texas was fueled by Russians, former CIA...](https://www.texastribune.org/2018/05/03/hysteria-over-jade-helm-exercise-texas-was-fueled-russians-former-cia-/)**
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> Gov. Greg Abbott's decision in 2015 to ask the Texas State Guard to monitor a federal military exercise prompted significant criticism. A former CIA director said Wednesday that the move emboldened Russians to next target elections.

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**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:** [April 29, 2022, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/35 "2022-04-29T03:53:50Z")

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> [@ekedolphin](#):
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> What’s this about suicide prevention hotlines (grooming pedophiles)?

Maybe you haven’t seen it yet? It was just in the news today (first mention of it that I’ve seen).

> [@The Republican Party is the Party of Evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1097):
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> Right wing commentators are calling suicide prevention hotlines for LGBT youth “grooming hotlines.” These people are monsters. Literal monsters.

> **[Conservatives declare war on LGBTQ suicide prevention hotline & call it...](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/conservatives-declare-war-lgbtq-suicide-prevention-hotline-call-pedophilia/)**
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> They'd rather have a dead child than a gay child...

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**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:** [April 29, 2022, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/36 "2022-04-29T04:22:30Z")

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It took us [around](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897) [56,000](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140) [posts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018) to just chronicle back to March 2009, and you want us to go all the way back to 2000? Won’t someone think of the hamsters.

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/37 "2022-04-29T04:45:58Z")

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I don’t think anyone’s mentioned the “Ground Zero Mosque” yet.

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**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:** [April 29, 2022, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/38 "2022-04-29T05:13:56Z")

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Birtherism, anyone?

For anyone who has even a drop of non-white blood, that is. Obama, Harris, etc.

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/39 "2022-04-29T05:27:15Z")

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> [@JohnT](#):
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> Literally cannot believe I have made it this far without adding “political correctness” and “wokeism”.

Don’t forget “cancel culture.”

Not sure if this would qualify as a freakout, but at the RWNJ message board I occasionally look in on, I often see, “Biden has dementia! He mispronounced a word in a speech [or press conference or other public speaking occurrence]! He’s not fit to be President!”

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/40 "2022-04-29T08:56:42Z")

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Have we done Jewish World Domination laser beams yet?

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