# Who's whispering in Mangosteen's ear? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 15, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-whispering-in-mangosteens-ear/851866 "2020-04-15T17:45:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-whispering-in-mangosteens-ear/851866/1 "2020-04-15T17:45:17Z")
Who’s whispering in **Mangosteen** ’s ear? Is it Sean Hannity? Or some Kremlin troll on Facebook? Or is **Mangosteen** an Alex Jones fan? Please: I don’t want to single out **Mangosteen** for special abuse. We have Trump-licking right-wing dolts here even stupider than him. It’s just that [this thread was the last straw.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=894212) I think that’s 3 or 4 threads on the same theme already, along the lines of > [@hypothetical right-wing dolt](#): > > Whine whine. A Democratic Governor is taking away my Freedom™ to hit on teenagers down at the deli. _ **It’s the President** _ (assuming he’s a Republican) _ **who has Total Power™** _, not some libtard Governor. Don’t these know-it-all leftists know nothing? > > Sure, sure, they want to save a million lives. Whippee!! Those people would be OK if they just drank hydroxychloriquinowatchamacallit like the Prez told them to. I understand that it’s mostly oldsters who die, and that Right-to-Life™ is intended to apply only to unborn fetuses. And I understand that, although the U.S.A. appears to be leading the world in Covid-19, first-place is not secure and and we may want to kill an extra million just to ensure MAGA in this category. In fact I’m less interested in complaining than in the OP question: _ **Where are the dolts getting this talking point?** _ Do they think their efforts to send Grandma and Grandpa to the death camp show how brave and manly they are? Or is somebody afraid of the November election and trying to swamp the airwaves with blather? It’s not just **Mangosteen** of course: **UltraVires** also started at least one such thread and is, of course, even stupider. (OTOH, though I’d barely noticed **Mangosteen** until now, a quick _Find_ shows that he is indeed a right-wing dolt. BTW, if any of these Trump-licking dolts want to pretend that they’re not Alex Jones fans, I’ll ask them to explain why Trump is a big _Infowars_ fan, phoning Jones for advice, and treating his clownomercials as legitimate.) Disclaimer: I assume that anything to do with GUNZ is considered “essential business” and that anyone caught out after curfew can just say “I was on my way to Uncle Billie Bob’s house to pick up some more bullets” and be off the hook. If **Mangosteen** or **UltraVires** is running out of bullets and/or unable to pick up a couple of extra AR-15’s then I apologize and withdraw the complaint. I do realize that, to a right-wing dolt, his precious GUNZ are what make American Freedom™ so important.) ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-whispering-in-mangosteens-ear/851866/2 "2020-04-16T23:42:42Z")
Mangosteen has, indeed, made an impressive showing of late. The conditions for relaxing restrictions in California are _ **Impossible** _ doncha know. Testing, schmesting. Vaccines are for wimps. Real [del]men[/del] people just get sick and get it over with. I would support that for those who wish to make that choice except that these idiots infect others and overwhelm the health system. I hear these talking points on Fox, right wing radio, passed around on social media. It’s just part of the excreta of Trumpists, and the rest of them lick it up. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-whispering-in-mangosteens-ear/851866/3 "2020-04-17T00:07:06Z")
[What Kremlin trolls are pushing is the notion that Bill Gates is in cahoots with the WHO to force everyone to vaccinate.](https://www.wired.co.uk/article/5g-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory?fbclid=IwAR3BOHVHc5CeME8Q48Lm3V28MDlpdchwXG0AZp_58HRZKJe6V4jOe_z6dHA) ('Bout halfway down that page.) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-whispering-in-mangosteens-ear/851866/4 "2020-04-17T02:36:40Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Mangosteen has, indeed, made an impressive showing of late. The conditions for relaxing restrictions in California are _ **Impossible** _ doncha know. Testing, schmesting. Vaccines are for wimps. Real [del]men[/del] people just get sick and get it over with. I would support that for those who wish to make that choice except that these idiots infect others and overwhelm the health system. > I hear these talking points on Fox, right wing radio, passed around on social media. It’s just part of the excreta of Trumpists, and the rest of them lick it up. Real men don’t get sick, don’t ya know? Viruses are just nature’s way of weeding out the undesirables. (Sarcasm, if that wasn’t apparent. ;)) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-whispering-in-mangosteens-ear/851866/5 "2020-04-17T04:03:19Z")
I was just thinking that every time a right-wing moron (like **HurricanDitka** or **LAZombie** ) gets banned, so new idiot steps up to take their place. Looks like **Mangosteen** got the call from Kontrol. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2020, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-whispering-in-mangosteens-ear/851866/6 "2020-04-17T05:23:51Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > I was just thinking that every time a right-wing moron (like **HurricanDitka** or **LAZombie** ) gets banned, so new idiot steps up to take their place. > Looks like **Mangosteen** got the call from Kontrol. LAZombie got banned? When did that happen? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-whispering-in-mangosteens-ear/851866/7 "2020-04-17T07:11:30Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > LAZombie got banned? When did that happen? Last month, although there was no announcement. He was suspended last year after a bunch of warnings. He was banned after this post: > [@LAZombie](#): > > Whatever happened to AIDS? I thought it was supposed to kill everyone. I don’t know a single person who ever got it. It’s a manufactured crisis like Covid 19. > > The Covid 19 crisis is Trump Derangement Syndrome on steroids. Every day for four years you liberal assholes were one hundred percent convinced Trump was going to destroy the world. And every day it didn’t happened. In fact, the opposite occurred and it’s driven you insane. > > So along comes a normal flu outbreak, and in order to validate yourselves because you all have such fragile egos, you’ve created mass hysteria and destroyed the economy. > > You’re like the wife who kills her children to get back at her husband whom she suspects of cheating. [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22200196&postcount=39](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22200196&postcount=39) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-whispering-in-mangosteens-ear/851866/8 "2020-04-17T08:20:17Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > LAZombie got banned? When did that happen? He and TempeJeff, IIRC, got banned for spreading nonsense about the virus, while a lockdown was happening. I’ve actually wondered if they were the same person, rather than just running off the same talking points. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2020, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-whispering-in-mangosteens-ear/851866/9 "2020-04-17T08:38:40Z")
**cochrane** , thanks. That’s some messed up nonsense from that unmissed moron. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-whispering-in-mangosteens-ear/851866/10 "2020-04-17T14:26:11Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > I was just thinking that every time a right-wing moron (like **HurricanDitka** or **LAZombie** ) gets banned, so new idiot steps up to take their place. The charge of the Cardboard Knight Brigade. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-whispering-in-mangosteens-ear/851866/11 "2020-04-18T14:23:42Z")
[In which **Mangosteen** discovers reality skews liberal, substitutes his own.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=22255116#post22255116) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-whispering-in-mangosteens-ear/851866/12 "2020-04-18T14:39:13Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [In which **Mangosteen** discovers reality skews liberal, substitutes his own.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=22255116#post22255116) The amazing part is Mangosteen believes all of the conspiracy theories he reads online while claiming that the Russian policy of putting conspiracy theories online has no effect on anyone.