# Freakouts of the Right **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 27
**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 15, 2023, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/521 "2023-04-15T22:48:45Z")
(The above _may_ have been posted already.) Need help! I can’t find a cite for #127, “Voting to remove protection from VA’s pro-gun control governor (2015)”. I remember this happening, but is it a false memory? Or perhaps it wasn’t 2015? Anyway, the VA GOP led a vote to remove standard police protection of the then-governor because of his gun control stance… I _think_. ---
**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 16, 2023, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/522 "2023-04-16T09:45:43Z")
Yes, 2015, and, no, your memory isn’t false: [‘I have a budget amendment that I’m looking at to take away his executive protection unit. If he’s so afraid of guns, then I’m not going to surround him with armed state policemen.’](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3377966/amp/Virginia-Republican-lawmakers-respond-anti-gun-governor-trying-away-armed-bodyguards.html) ---
**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 16, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/523 "2023-04-16T18:13:35Z")
Wow, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/524 "2023-04-17T01:49:32Z")
I found out my sister’s family has also rid their fridge of Bud Light. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/525 "2023-04-17T02:27:32Z")
I don’t think anyone’s yet mentioned the “15-minute cities” conspiracy theory, whereby idiots confuse efforts to make it _possible_ to spend your day (work, shop, dine, play, etc.) in a 15-minute walking or biking radius of home with somehow forcibly _requiring_ people to never go more than 15 minutes from home. 🙄 [Wiki cite.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city#Conspiracy_theories) [NY Times article.](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/world/europe/15-minute-city-conspiracy.html) ---
**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 17, 2023, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/526 "2023-04-17T03:19:48Z")
I had a customer at work yesterday who was buying a case of Modelo and was being smug about how it wasn’t Bud. Guess who owns Modelo? > **[Grupo Modelo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Modelo)** > > Grupo Modelo is a large brewery in Mexico that exports beer to most countries of the world. Its export brands include Corona, Modelo, and Pacífico. Grupo Modelo also brews brands that are intended solely for the domestic Mexican market and has exclusive rights in Mexico for the import and distribution of beer produced by Anheuser-Busch. Until the 1960s, Grupo Modelo used red poppy flowers in most of its advertising. > On June 12, 2008, The Wall Street Journal stated that Anheuser-Busch InBev, whic... > [@](#): > > On June 12, 2008, The Wall Street Journal stated that Anheuser-Busch InBev, which owned a non-controlling 50% stake in the company, might attempt to acquire the remaining 50%. On June 29, 2012, it was announced that Anheuser-Busch InBev would acquire the remaining 50% stake for an all-cash price of $20.1 billion. On January 31, 2013, the US Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit in an attempt to prevent the buyout. The matter was settled and the two companies merged in June 2013. 😁 ---
**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:** [April 17, 2023, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/527 "2023-04-17T03:23:10Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I had a customer at work yesterday who was buying a case of Modelo and was being smug about how it wasn’t Bud. > > Guess who owns Modelo? - Did you tell them after they paid? ---
**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 17, 2023, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/528 "2023-04-17T03:52:54Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Did you tell them after they paid? Tempting, but I make a point of not getting political with customers no matter how much they may try to bait me. The closest I’ve come is when a customer told me I looked like Ted Cruz (which I kinda did before he grew that ugly beard) and I told them I wasn’t sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2023, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/529 "2023-04-17T05:53:45Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > somehow forcibly _requiring_ people to never go more than 15 minutes from home Reminds me of the original SimCity. It kept track of traffic congestion with a tool that would detect the hotspots and complaints by citizens would pop up as a warning. The hotspots would be eliminated by building light rail routes between residential and commercial/industrial zones. Completely replacing the road network with light rail would eliminate the hotspots but not the complaints. The manual said you could ignore them, "It’s just from the Sims who want to tool around in their gas guzzlers. ---
**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 17, 2023, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/530 "2023-04-17T06:59:48Z")
Well, they can always switch from Bud to Coors, > Coors Light has been a sponsor of the Center on Colfax and the Pride Parade and Denver PrideFest for nearly two decades,” said Molson Coors Oooops! ---
**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 17, 2023, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/531 "2023-04-17T07:25:26Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > I don’t think anyone’s yet mentioned the “15-minute cities” conspiracy theory, whereby idiots confuse efforts to make it _possible_ to spend your day (work, shop, dine, play, etc.) in a 15-minute walking or biking radius of home with somehow forcibly _requiring_ people to never go more than 15 minutes from home. 🙄 [Wiki cite.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city#Conspiracy_theories) [NY Times article.](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/world/europe/15-minute-city-conspiracy.html) Yeah. An acquaintance of mine is one of those. “Those 15 minute cities are just a plan to take our cars away. Want to go outside your 15 minute city? You’ll have to use public transit, because you won’t be allowed to own a car to go anywhere other than where the government, using bus and rail routes, lets you go to.” Sometimes, I wish I still smoked, because when he gets going, it would be an excellent time to go out for a smoke. As it is, I just concentrate on sports on the bar TV. “Whaddaya think, Spoons, amiright?” “Hang on, the Red Sox have men on the corners …” ---
**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 17, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/532 "2023-04-17T12:47:55Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > a car to go anywhere other than where the government, using bus and rail routes, lets you go to. … the government builds the roads the cars use, amirite? How is that different? (Rhetorical question, btw.) ---
**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 17, 2023, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/533 "2023-04-17T12:51:59Z")
So, ‘You can’t go anywhere other than where the government, using roads, lets you go.’? 🤪 ---
**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 17, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/534 "2023-04-17T14:10:07Z")
If one uses the same logic which assumes feet do not exist, then yes, exactly. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/535 "2023-04-17T15:14:55Z")
How people associate a machine that requires registration, insurance, periodical inspections, dead dinosaurs from dictatorships, a government issued licence and a good credit score with freedom just boggles the mind. You’d think the freedom crowd would all ride bicycles. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/536 "2023-04-17T15:40:47Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > How people associate a machine that requires registration, insurance, periodical inspections, dead dinosaurs from dictatorships, a government issued licence and a good credit score with freedom just boggles the mind. > > **You’d think the freedom crowd would all ride bicycles.** - I ride my handcycle. I can’t _afford_ to be oppressed. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/537 "2023-04-17T15:44:35Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > You’d think the freedom crowd would all ride bicycles. That’s a lot of work. And your thinking is too logical. In practice, I expect that freedom crowd are more hostile to bicycle riders than the general public. They no doubt identify bicycle riding as something libs do. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2023, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/538 "2023-04-17T15:53:19Z")
I expect a freakout from some idiot over _Trans_ brand backpacks being used by kids any day now. ---
**Author:** ![gnarator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gnarator/32/8266_2.png) [@gnarator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarator)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/539 "2023-04-17T16:10:54Z")
Oh yes. Look up “rolling coal” some time. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/540 "2023-04-17T16:16:51Z")
> [@gnarator](#): > > Oh yes. Look up “rolling coal” some time I don’t have to look it up; I experience it all the time. OK, to be honest, it’s been decreasing significantly the last couple years, although it still happens. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631.md?page=28)