# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 43
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/841 "2025-08-29T16:49:20Z")
What’s the over/under on how soon Trump calls for armed National Guard troops to be assigned there? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/842 "2025-08-29T19:15:00Z")
Milwaukee approved a local gay rights group to paint a few crosswalks with rainbow/pride colors. > **[Milwaukee's Walker's Point gets new rainbow crosswalks to honor LGBTQ+ history](https://www.tmj4.com/news/milwaukee-county/milwaukees-walkers-point-gets-new-rainbow-crosswalks-to-honor-lgbtq-history)** > > The Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project brings colorful crosswalks to Walker's Point, a neighborhood that has welcomed the LGBTQ+ community for over 80 years. We do have at least one other intersection that I know of with a rainbow crosswalk, but I’m not sure if it’s a pride thing or just a rainbow. On google maps I can see Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Purple, Black, Brown. And, as I type that, I thinking it’s the Pride colors plus some representation for Black and Brown people, maybe? https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=%213m2%212sen%214v0%216m8%211m7%211svDT3mXjWJO6TdtwMHQPLmg%212m2%211d43.0413014%212d-87.9055169%213f192.31%214f5.933%215f0.863 And if you turn around, the cross walk behind you is also rainbow colors, but the lines are shaped like the white keys on a piano (with the asphalt being the black keys, I assume) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/843 "2025-08-29T19:22:11Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > On google maps I can see Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Purple, Black, Brown. And, as I type that, I thinking it’s the Pride colors plus some representation for Black and Brown people, maybe? Yeah, it’s based off this version of the [Pride Flag](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2018/06/lgbt-pride-flag-redesign-hero.jpg), which added a chevron with trans pride colors, and a black and brown stripes to represent queer POC. ---
**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 29, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/844 "2025-08-29T20:28:17Z")
[Maybe change a few crossing lights while you’re at it.](https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/lgbt-traffic-lights.html?sortBy=relevant) ---
**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 13, 2025, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/845 "2025-09-13T10:50:03Z")
I didn’t think this needed its own thread, but wanted to share it as a nice story and wasn’t sure where else to put it, so here’s a Republican calling out the freak outs in the Republican Party. > **[Republican legislator credits gay son and drag queens as he switches to Democrat](https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/12/republican-legislator-credits-gay-son-and-drag-queens-as-he-switches-sides-to-democrat/)** > > Oregon state representative Cyrus Javadi has announced that he’s leaving the Republican Party to run for re-election as a Democrat, with his gay son and his support for drag queens being among the reasons. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/846 "2025-09-13T11:37:36Z")
His last name and apparent ancestry also suggest he finally realized that he is in one of the groups targeted for the camps, not in the exclusive group targeted for survival. ---
**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 13, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/847 "2025-09-13T16:29:40Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Oh no, not rainbows on crosswalks! Someone get my fainting couch! It’s a good thing the police are on the job! Check back in 300 years. The “she” is referring to G’Kar’s aide-de-camp who’d been captured and still held months after a war was concluded. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kCj-Rnd5SsA/hqdefault.jpg "The Story of the Guarded Flower") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCj-Rnd5SsA) ---
**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:** [September 14, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/848 "2025-09-14T22:31:23Z")
nevermind accidentally responded to old post. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631.md?page=42)