# I Pit Magiver **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 13, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851 "2021-03-13T21:55:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**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:** [May 23, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/201 "2025-05-23T18:46:34Z")
I see that **Magiver** is at it again. Just to recap his previous contributions, Magiver is an expert on all things aviation, a reigning authority on all NTSB accident investigations, expert on the alleged incompetence of foreign pilots as totally the **sole** cause of 737 MAX crashes, and recent expert on automobile driving safety (noting for our benefit that his own driving is perfect and he **never** makes mistakes). He is now also apparently a medical expert over in the Biden prostate cancer thread, telling us exactly how Biden’s cancer could have been prevented. If only Magiver had been around giving advice to Biden’s doctors, all would be well! Tragically, no one ever thought to consult him. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/202 "2025-05-23T19:02:38Z")
I sort of picture Magiver looking like this as he gets frustrated, trying to tell everyone what they _should_ be doing, if only he was consulted. [![](https://media.tenor.com/mNnDpIZ_WmgAAAAM/double-chin-fat.gif) ](https://media.tenor.com/mNnDpIZ_WmgAAAAM/double-chin-fat.gif) ---
**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:** [May 23, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/203 "2025-05-23T19:12:25Z")
See also my comments here > [@What were you THINKING?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4959): > > Our frequent flying Magiver is doing his “impervious to reading” trick in the “Biden has prostate cancer” thread. Starting just below my post cited here and running off and on for the next hundred posts. His contention amounts to Of course they should have been testing his PSA all the time, and of course there’s no downside to false positives for anyone, and of course I have no idea what the actual physicians in the thread have cited as actual national guidance on PSA testing. But they shoul… and other’s responses below there. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/204 "2025-05-23T22:22:43Z")
That is…unsettling. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/205 "2025-05-24T18:51:46Z")
> [@What were you THINKING?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4959): > > Our I mostly remember his bizarre insistence, during COVID, that setting up or expanding temporary hospitals was a waste of resources and that there was no reason not to just airlift every patient that came into a full hospital to another hospital, even if it was across the country. When asked about the logistics of having to supply medical personnel, planes and pilots for 4-8 hours (or more) per patient……..crickets, IIRC. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2025, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/206 "2025-05-26T04:01:11Z")
It’s a lot quicker and easier to do that if you can just drop the patients out on the plane on motorcycles as you fly past the hospital. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/207 "2025-07-25T17:00:23Z")
So now he’s actively shitting up the “CBS is ending ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ next year” thread with logically baffling axe-grinding against the title subject. It’s not a hijack, exactly, but it’s wildly disruptive. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2025, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/208 "2025-07-25T18:10:26Z")
My social media has exploded with people claiming that CBS and The Late Show were financial zombies, and at worst Trump has pointed this out, causing the scales to fall out of the Board’s eyes. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/209 "2025-07-25T21:55:19Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > So now he’s actively shitting up the “CBS is ending ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ next year” thread with logically baffling axe-grinding against the title subject. Yeah, I noped out of that thread as soon as I saw The Magiver Show get started. When will people realize that arguing with a dessicated dog turd is both more effective and more enjoyable than arguing with Magiver? ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/210 "2025-07-25T22:01:53Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Has anyone ever seen Magiver and **[DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-a-fuckin-jackass/933971)** in the same place at the same time? Just wondering. You know you are in good standing when you get unwittingly dragged into a Magiver thread. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/211 "2025-07-25T22:21:57Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > When will people realize that arguing with a dessicated dog turd is both more effective and more enjoyable than arguing with Magiver? He’s one of the few people on my ignore list. He might be the stupidest person on this entire board. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/212 "2025-07-25T23:07:02Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > He might be the stupidest person on this entire board. That is a bold statement, but yeah, probably accurate. ---
**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 26, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/213 "2025-07-26T23:57:34Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > When will people realize that arguing with a dessicated dog turd is both more effective and more enjoyable than arguing with Magiver? I don’t know some times it’s amusing to see what epic conortions of logic and impossible scenarios he will come up with to avoid having to admit that he was wrong (e.g. military bases having parachuting motor cycles on stand by.) ---
**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:** [July 28, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/214 "2025-07-28T20:38:45Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > So now he’s actively shitting up the “CBS is ending ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ next year” thread with logically baffling axe-grinding against the title subject. It’s not a hijack, exactly, but it’s wildly disruptive. I was just skimming that thread, and while I don’t normally like to engage in pile-ons, Magiver was really being a hugely annoying ass in that thread, to the point that he got mod-noted for his aggressive arguments. Among his beliefs regarding the Colbert cancellation, “There’s no law that says CBS has to fund his political tyrades (_sic_)”. Guy can’t spell, either, but apparently any criticism of his Orange Hero is a “political tirade”! Yes, because – another direct quote – “Telecommunications companies are supposed to adhere to ethics standards”. Clearly, any criticism of Trump is “unethical”. > [@Atamasama](#): > > He might be the stupidest person on this entire board Until recently I just considered him arrogantly argumentative, but now I believe that this is true. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/215 "2025-07-28T21:00:04Z")
I seriously don’t understand why any of you continue to interact with him. In the active Epstein thread, he tried to veer the conversation away from Trump, but almost no one engaged with his bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/216 "2025-07-29T13:33:38Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Clearly, any criticism of Trump is “unethical”. Well, ~~Gru~~ Donnie & his Minions believe that. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/217 "2025-08-05T07:49:12Z")
I can think of at least one person stupider - but at least all they do is vociferously assert their parochial experiences as determinative and their homespun opinions as fact. Which personally I find easy to laugh at and ignore. Magiver is more annoying because he’s a tragic Dunning-Kruger victim. He seems honestly able to convince himself that because he’s able to come up with a [Mencken solution](https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/h_l_mencken_129796) to problems smart people find intractable, he’s the smartest guy in the room and everyone else is a dope. Well, that’s my memory of him - haven’t interacted with him in ages for obvious reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/218 "2025-09-10T13:14:30Z")
There’s a commercial running on the radio for some state-sponsored program. “People like me aren’t addicts; that’s like saying people like me don’t get sick” Yet according to our illustrious pit subject people who take drugs have “mental capacity” issues & can apparently never get over them. > [@The Great Ongoing Aviation Thread (general and other)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other/600499/8334): > > He didn’t have the mental capacity to steer clear of drug use. He lacks the capacity and will to stay away from drugs. > > Even if a Doctor certifies he saw Jesus and is a born-again teetotaler he’s shown himself to be an addict. ---
**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 10, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/219 "2025-09-10T13:37:18Z")
Yeah. That was classic peak Magiver. Although his other recent contributions in that thread fit the mold too. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2025, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851/220 "2025-09-21T03:36:25Z")
I have blissfully little experience with **Magiver,** at least until this Jimmy Kimmel thread. _“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."_ --MLK, Jr. Yeah. Wow. Impressive. “Fighting ignorance” seems like it should dedicate a bespoke wing to this guy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-magiver/937851.md?page=12)