# 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:** 7
**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:** [May 1, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/121 "2022-05-01T22:07:19Z")
> [@El\_Famous\_Burrito](#): > > **Mail-in ballots** This one deserves to on your list twice, @JohnT. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2022, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/122 "2022-05-01T22:09:21Z")
> [@El\_Famous\_Burrito](#): > > Loathing David Hogg and his fellow Stoneman Douglas HS classmates for having the temerity to be upset about their school being shot up (loathing the victims of pretty much any mass shooting, really) Ugh. Marjorie Taylor Greene first came to national attention by stalking Hogg and yelling at him-- and then she got elected to Congress! ---
**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:** [May 1, 2022, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/123 "2022-05-01T22:13:13Z")
Crisis actors! ---
**Author:** ![zoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/71c47a/32.png) [@zoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoo)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/124 "2022-05-01T22:21:40Z")
“You didn’t build that.” ---
**Author:** ![El\_Famous\_Burrito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_famous_burrito/32/3954_2.png) [@El\_Famous\_Burrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Famous_Burrito)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/125 "2022-05-01T22:28:01Z")
- [Google Doodles](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/google-doodle-ramadan-easter/) (similar DNA to the Starbucks cups “outrage”) - IRS targeting “[controversy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy)” - Obama’s “apology tour” - Pretty much any occasion where [Obama bowed](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/a-not-so-brief-list-of-all-the-things-president-obama-has-bowed-to/361160/) ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/126 "2022-05-01T23:28:47Z")
I’m not sure if this is a freakout or if it’s more of a “fake accusation that is being lobbed at EVERYTHING connected with Democrats,” but: _ **COMMUNISM !!!1!!!1!!!** _ As today, from next-Speaker-of-the-House hopeful Elise Stefanik: > eta: I see that JohnT _did_ include ‘communism’ in his first chart. But perhaps it deserves some additional focus as it’s clearly going to be used ALL THE TIME as a means of smearing Dems for the midterms. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/127 "2022-05-01T23:56:46Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Ted Koppel didn’t read names of Iraqi war dead on nightline (2004) You got that one backwards. Koppel did read the names of the dead and that made the right mad because how dare he imply the war wasn’t going perfectly. Sinclair stations refused to air that episode. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/128 "2022-05-02T00:32:11Z")
Another freakout: Church of Satan. Anyone who actually learns about them knows that the CoS doesn’t _literally_ worship Satan. It’s simply a group set up to protest against public schools force-feeding Christianity down people’s throats. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2022, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/129 "2022-05-02T00:43:16Z")
Latest update - 30 more! We are currently at 185! | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Operation Fast and Furious | Seccessionist movements | Common Core | The 2008 Obama fistbump | Arnold becomes a RINO because of masks | | Greta Thunberg | David Hogg | The 1619 Project | Nikole Hannah-Jones @ NC | You didn’t build that | | Cocaine Orgies | I have a wide stance! | Windmills cause cancer | Sanctuary Cities | Nick Sandmann | | Thoughts and Prayers as a response for every shooting in America | National Butterfly Center | Mail-In ballots | USPS must be profitable! | Stem Cells | | IRS targeting conservatives (they didn’t) | Obama bowed! | Movie X is inciting violence/sex/drugs | Music X is inciting violence/sex/drugs | Cardi B’s WAP | | Taylor Swift endorses Democrats | Beyonce mentions BLM, police brutality in a 2016 Super Bowl performance | Miley Cyrus is training girls to be trashy | Constant misuse of _Born in the USA_ | Michael Moore’s _Bowling for Columbine_ and F9/11 movies | ---
**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:** [May 2, 2022, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/130 "2022-05-02T01:07:04Z")
Just couldn’t leave this thread for the evening _this_ close to 200… so I culled through the thread, grabbed what I missed on the first go-around. 205, baby! | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Satanic Panics | Gay marriage | Yoga being taught to children | Leslie Stahl is being mean to Trumpie! | Elian Gonzalez | | Doctor Suess estate removing books | Elitist Obama mentioning aurugula to a bunch of Iowan farmers who planted…. Aurugula. | Obama didn’t wear a flag pen! | Wokism | Political Correctness | | Jade Helm will have US Military ‘take over’ US. | Ground Zero Mosque | Biden’s dementia (compared to man, woman, person, camera, TV) | Death Panels | Socialized medicine has incredible wait times! | | Marine holding an umbrella over Obama’s head and not the marine’s own. | Obama used a teleprompter! | Saul Alinsky | Happy Holidays! | Child smuggling in furniture (in general, actually) | ---
**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:** [May 2, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/131 "2022-05-02T02:11:24Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The Constitution needs to be amended so Arnold Schwarzenegger can run for president Shit, I remember decades ago, some editorial lamenting Kissinger’s ineligibility. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2022, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/132 "2022-05-02T02:51:44Z")
“Yeah, Laura Bush might have killed someone in a drunken stupor, but do you think Michelle Obama is a man?” Mainstream conservatism, 2008. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2022, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/133 "2022-05-02T04:35:01Z")
@JohnT , how do you plan to organize this list once you’ve got as much as you think you’re going to get? Incidents listed chronologically? Incidents categorized into some kind of groupings? Incidents grouped by which Republicans led the various freakouts? Or by which Democrats were accused of something? Or by what somebody was being accused of? Or, you could list this all in a modern database with multiple indexes to sort the list in a bunch of different ways? ---
**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:** [May 2, 2022, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/134 "2022-05-02T05:53:21Z")
[“Nevertheless, she persisted”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevertheless,_she_persisted?wprov=sfti1) ---
**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 2, 2022, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/135 "2022-05-02T10:53:15Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > @JohnT , how do you plan to organize this list once you’ve got as much as you think you’re going to get? I think you should share it with a national news source. Maybe a mainstream one, or something like Daily Kos, which readers can contribute to: > **[Daily Kos](https://www.dailykos.com/)** > > Daily Kos is a progressive news site that fights for democracy by giving our audience information and resources to win elections and impact government. Our coverage is assiduously factual, ethical, and unapologetically liberal. We amplify what we... ---
**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:** [May 2, 2022, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/136 "2022-05-02T12:06:21Z")
Wasn’t there someone with a website that listed every lie Trump told? Might be a good place to look for ideas. And reminders. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/137 "2022-05-02T12:19:48Z")
So, the way this began is this: my next article is about the Emasculation of the Conservative Male and, while ‘conceptualizing’ it, realized I wanted a list of all the useless culture war bullshit foisted on us by the 35% who are being driven to whine about all this crap. As for future plans, right now I’m just going to focus on adding to the list. I have no database skillz and, hell, indexing by date alone would be a challenge just for the time consumption aspects of it. My idea was a Wiki link (or similar) for each listing. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2022, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/138 "2022-05-02T12:45:40Z")
In honor of the satanic panic, let’s hope the total reaches 666 soon! ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/139 "2022-05-02T12:53:22Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Wasn’t there someone with a website that listed every lie Trump told? Might be a good place to look for ideas. And reminders. > **[Analysis | Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/)** > > A four-year Fact Checker project comes to an end. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/140 "2022-05-02T15:23:47Z")
The Secret plan(s) which will have Trump reinstated. Trump was sent by God. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631.md?page=8)