# 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:** 36
**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:** [September 12, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/701 "2023-09-12T17:41:14Z")
[Right-wingers are freaking out](https://www.newsweek.com/liberty-safe-customers-selling-gun-safes-fbi-access-codes-1825405) because a gun-safe manufacturer dared to obey a search warrant and gave up a code to the FBI that granted access to a safe belonging to a Jan 6th rioter. Now they’ve assured people that they will only obey a subpoena and expunge all access codes. Don’t wanna get “canceled!” I thought they were the party of law and order? People are also getting huffy over political contributions: " The manufacturer’s CEO, Justin Hillenbrand, made political contributions to Obama twice when the Democrat was a first-time presidential nominee in 2008, totaling $4,600, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records. Monomoy founding partner Stephen Presser, who died in March, is listed by the FEC as making countless individual contributions to myriad Democrats, including current Senators Raphael Warnock and Mark Kelly). The company’s max donations over the last 10 election cycles have totaled almost $400,000." ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/702 "2023-09-12T18:04:32Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > I mean they’ve never been really rich and never will be, but they are dead set against policies that would only hurt people at 10X their income. There’s nothing wrong in principle with favoring policies that don’t help you directly. I favor plenty of policies that I am too well off to benefit from because I think they’re the right thing to do. What sort of twisted moral compass would lead one to believe that the “right thing to do” is to subsidize the rich by fucking over the poor, I cannot say. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/703 "2023-09-12T22:07:28Z")
Nevermind, ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/704 "2023-09-12T23:27:10Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > There’s nothing wrong in principle with favoring policies that don’t help you directly. I favor plenty of policies that I am too well off to benefit from because I think they’re the right thing to do. Not if you’re constantly mocking rich liberals for favoring policies that help the poor and working class. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2023, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/705 "2023-09-13T12:26:47Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I thought they were the party of law and order? They are. They make the laws which they use to order _other people_ to follow. It’s kind of like “other people’s money” but in this case, it’s power over people instead of money. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2024, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/706 "2024-07-21T07:33:12Z")
It’s been almost a year since this thread was active, and I’m going to spend some of my train time over the next 2 days to add to the list. Please help me by adding the FotR which have occurred in the past year. I’ll start with an easy one: Taylor Swift is destroying football! Thank you in advance, and thanks for the suggestions already made. ---
**Author:** ![SailorHG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SailorHG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SailorHG)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/707 "2024-07-21T13:31:46Z")
The attack by the Federalist last month on Dolly Parton for her defence of LGBTQ+ rights… Kind of backfired, though. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2024, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/708 "2024-07-22T10:37:09Z")
After years of saying how old and unfit Biden was the Democrats followed our advice and replaced him. How dare they! ---
**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:** [July 28, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/709 "2024-07-28T19:28:54Z")
Gonna add the ‘Olympics intro mocked the foundational text of Christianity, Da Vinci’s last supper’ to the list. ETA: Apparently I joined this place 23 years ago today. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2024, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/710 "2024-07-28T22:17:53Z")
Happy Join Day! ---
**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:** [August 6, 2024, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/711 "2024-08-06T01:32:00Z")
[Unsurprisingly, there’s already freaking out about a soon to be signed into law measure in Massachusetts.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/massachusetts-bill-redefining-parenthood-stripping-120000116.html) > A [Massachusetts bill,](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/northeast/massachusetts) which seeks to update state law to redefine who legally qualifies as a parent, passed in the state senate on Thursday and now awaits signature from Democratic Governor [Maura Healey](https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Maura%20Healey) to become law. > > [The Massachusetts Parentage Act](https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1741554) aims to ensure “legal parentage equality” for children born to parents “without regard to the marital status, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation of their parents or the circumstances of their birth, including whether they were born as a result of assisted reproduction or surrogacy,” the bill text explains. & > “And they say it’s conservatives who are ‘waging war’ against women: It would also replace the terms ‘man’ & ‘woman’ with ‘persons’ and replace ‘mother’ with ‘person who gave birth,’” author Nancy Pearcey reacted. > > “It’s always been about corrupting our language, destroying the family, then taking away our rights & freedoms,” former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines wrote. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/712 "2024-08-06T02:17:01Z")
I don’t know if this has gotten widespread enough, but some RWers (headed by Mr. Pillowman) have gotten their panties into a twist over the new Minnesota state flag. > **['It's an atrocity!' Mike Lindell goes into a tailspin over Minnesota's new flag](https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-2668268548/)** > > MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell expressed rage Wednesday over a recently adopted flag in Minnesota that he believes is a secret plot to implement Islamic law in the state. He called the flag "an atrocity.""What they've done with this flag is absolutely... ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/713 "2024-08-06T06:30:16Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > “It’s always been about corrupting our language, destroying the family, then taking away our rights & freedoms,” former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines wrote. Ah, the standard right-wing “Giving others more rights and freedoms is taking away ours” argument. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/714 "2024-08-06T20:41:09Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > I don’t know if this has gotten widespread enough, but some RWers (headed by Mr. Pillowman) have gotten their panties into a twist over the new Minnesota state flag. The only whiff of plausibility is that one Islamic symbol is the [Rub el Hisb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub_el_Hizb). And you can see that symbol in the flags of some Islamic countries. For example, here is the flag of Azerbaijan. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/2560px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/2560px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png) And here is the new flag of Minnesota. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Minnesota.svg/1920px-Flag_of_Minnesota.svg.png) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Minnesota.svg/1920px-Flag_of_Minnesota.svg.png) But it’s not exclusively an Islamic symbol, of course. Here is an older flag of Chile. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Ancient_mapuche_flag.svg/1920px-Ancient_mapuche_flag.svg.png) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Ancient_mapuche_flag.svg/1920px-Ancient_mapuche_flag.svg.png) Here’s the flag of a German rowing club in Cologne. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Flag_of_K%C3%B6lner_Rudergesellschaft_1891.svg/2560px-Flag_of_K%C3%B6lner_Rudergesellschaft_1891.svg.png) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Flag_of_K%C3%B6lner_Rudergesellschaft_1891.svg/2560px-Flag_of_K%C3%B6lner_Rudergesellschaft_1891.svg.png) And funny enough, this flag was one of the finalists for the new flag of Utah, that bastion of Islam in the United States. Though they ultimately went with a 5-pointed star version: [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Flag_proposed_by_the_Utah_State_Flag_Task_Force.svg/2560px-Flag_proposed_by_the_Utah_State_Flag_Task_Force.svg.png) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Flag_proposed_by_the_Utah_State_Flag_Task_Force.svg/2560px-Flag_proposed_by_the_Utah_State_Flag_Task_Force.svg.png) As usual, just another right wing conspiracy from people looking for the next thing to be outraged about. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/715 "2024-08-07T00:15:26Z")
The RW motto: > We may be angry, but we sure are ignorant!!1! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/716 "2024-08-07T00:24:33Z")
Fine, replace it with a symmetrical _six_-pointed star… 😏 ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/717 "2024-08-07T02:55:53Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > And here is the new flag of Minnesota. It is kinda disgraceful, in addition to all the other ignorant disgracefulness, that those self-identified “proud traditionalist” “American values” types who complain about this star for being “Islamic” can’t recognize a classic [Lemoyne Star](https://cottonandjoy.com/blogs/blog/lemoyne-star-quilt-block) when they see one (as opposed to the [Ohio Star](https://www.generations-quilt-patterns.com/ohio-star-quilt-block.html) of that Chile flag). I bet the designer of that Minnesota flag actually researched quilt block star patterns as part of the heritage he was celebrating in the design. > [@Atamasama](#): > > And funny enough, this flag was one of the finalists for the new flag of Utah, that bastion of Islam in the United States. Though they ultimately went with a 5-pointed star version: In that case I think I do prefer the [5-pointed star version.](https://www.kuer.org/politics-government/2023-02-28/utahs-new-state-flag-takes-another-step-but-time-is-short) For some reason the bright Lemoyne Star in front of the beehive makes me think of [the old comic-book superhero Bee-Man.](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/bee-man/4005-38572/issues-cover/) ---
**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:** [August 7, 2024, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/718 "2024-08-07T05:14:02Z")
Are those far ~~white~~ right freaks personally blaming Walz yet for the new Minnesota flag? ---
**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:** [August 7, 2024, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/719 "2024-08-07T05:22:15Z")
You bet your sweet bippy! > **[Fox News host slams Walz over tampons — and changing flag to 'look more like...](https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-host-slams-walz-over-tampons-and-changing-flag-to-look-more-like-somalia/)** > > Following Vice President Kamala Harris' selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, Fox News host Jesse Watters unleashed a tirade against him, painting him as a radical and appearing to reference a bizarre conspiracy theory from the... ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/720 "2024-08-07T05:23:56Z")
Mike Lindel could never be a fundamentalist Moslem because to remove a woman’s clitoris he’d have to be able to find it in the first place. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631.md?page=35) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631.md?page=37)