# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/81 "2022-04-30T13:39:55Z")
BLM is already on the list, but let’s not also forget about BLM. I assume that the one currently on the list is the one about not wanting black people murdered by government agents, but there’s also the one about not wanting people to steal public land to graze their cattle on. ---
**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 30, 2022, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/82 "2022-04-30T14:32:57Z")
Has anyone mentioned that it’s Biden and the Dems fault that Putin invaded Ukraine? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/83 "2022-04-30T16:46:38Z")
One that NRA and many Republicans are acting now as if never did take place: Right wingers and the NRA freaked out about banning lead shot for hunting season in national parks, as with many other examples from the right, the “solution” was not to look at the science of how harmful lead shot was for predators and the environment. > [@Teach Critical Thinking in Public Schools?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teach-critical-thinking-in-public-schools/926207/36): > > I see that Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness, Chronos and others are taking care of the caricatures that one can expect from Conservapedia. Just taking one apart, one point was about misuse of statistics in discussions of gun regulation, on that one one should remember the debacle from the part of gun right proponents about lead in shots contaminating the ecosystems in the USA. Groups like the NRA even did reach for classic climate change and tobacco cancer connection denial tactics like pointing at resear… ---
**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 30, 2022, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/84 "2022-04-30T17:00:52Z")
Question: is there any authentic science that does **not** sent the Right into Freakout Mode? 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/85 "2022-04-30T17:41:04Z")
I seem to remember something about them exhorting the boycotting of Target ( the department store ) over some alleged anti-patriotic policy of theirs. ---
**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 30, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/86 "2022-04-30T17:52:12Z")
Another right-wing freakout: LeBron James expressing liberal opinions. “Shut up and dribble!” they said. Never mind the fact that one of Greg Gutfeld’s regular guests and conservative commentators is Tyrus, also known as Brodus Clay, former professional wrestler, and not a very good one. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/87 "2022-04-30T17:57:42Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > He also said “Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?”, and that was excitedly used by the right to paint him as a coastal elite (e.g. not one of us “real” Americans). He said it in Iowa where, granted, there was no Whole Foods, but its not like arugula was unknown to Iowans - its probably grown there and sold in every other grocery store. IIRC, he was literally speaking to arugula farmers. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/88 "2022-04-30T18:05:11Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Question: is there any authentic science that does **not** sent the Right into Freakout Mode? 🤔 Sure there is. Any science that doesn’t threaten their self-interest or belief system is OK. Thus climate science and evolutionary biology are at the top of the list of enemy sciences. Some others are runners-up because they keep contradicting the Bible or, like quantum physics and relativity, are “obviously” wrong. Doesn’t mean they have any interest in non-threatening sciences, they just don’t need to go into hysterics over them. An alternative question and answer can be phrased thusly: Q: Is there any authentic science that the Right is actually interested in? A: No. ---
**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 30, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/89 "2022-04-30T18:05:57Z")
RINO’s ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/90 "2022-04-30T18:13:18Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > that claimed that if Stephen Hawking lived under socialized medicine, he would have been left to die years ago. And then when called out on that, they changed the claim to Steven Hawking only being given great health care because he was a renowned physicist, otherwise he would have been left to die. And even had to back off that since he was diagnosed with MND (and treated capably for it) before he was famous. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/91 "2022-04-30T18:37:26Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > And on that note, this thread teeters off the edge of just barely being a P&E thread and into the Pit for ranting. And on **that** note, the thread is now _Time-LIFE Presents the Ultimate SRIOTD Collection of Hits!_ All on fourteen DVDs delivered straight to your home for three easy payments of $29.99 plus S&H! Who can forget susceptible timeless classics as _Obama’s Tan Suit!_, _BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI!_, and **this** old favorite, _BUTTERY MALES!_ Act now, and we’ll throw in, at no extra charge, this hilarious compilation of Republican risibilities, including: Susan Collins’s “I hope the President learned his lesson”; GWB’s “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we”; and the always lovable clown Louie Gohmert’s “the attorney general will not _cast aspersions on my asparagus_"! Operators are standing by. ---
**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 30, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/92 "2022-04-30T19:25:24Z")
Those operators better not have furrin accents when I call to place my order! 😠 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/93 "2022-04-30T19:31:22Z")
Ooooh, bad luck! Our operators are Petula Clark, and Peter Noone! ---
**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 30, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/94 "2022-04-30T20:10:25Z")
Paul Wellstone’s funeral is another one. I remember Al Franken dedicated an entire chapter of a book to how silly the right-wing backlash to it was. ---
**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 30, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/95 "2022-04-30T20:13:03Z")
Release the memo! ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/96 "2022-04-30T20:50:30Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > BUTTERY MALES I don’t think I remember this one. Do I want to? ---
**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 30, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/97 "2022-04-30T20:53:09Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t think I remember this one. Do I want to? “But Her E-Mails” ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/98 "2022-04-30T20:54:19Z")
That’s a lot tamer than I feared. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/99 "2022-05-01T00:09:18Z")
Well, don’t forget, Hillary’s a lesbian. Who has had dozens of abortions. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/100 "2022-05-01T00:18:07Z")
And, of course, Michelle Obama is a man. At least that means ~~s~~ he hasn’t had any abortions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631.md?page=6)