# Omnibus Evil MFers in the news thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 3, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496 "2023-05-03T11:05:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 187
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3726 "2025-12-05T15:29:41Z")
Given Trump’s recent trend of pardoning white collar criminals this time around (I saw a graphic last night that said he’s issued over 1500 pardons so far this term, counting the J6ers), this guy will be out in a week. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3727 "2025-12-05T16:15:50Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > this guy will be out in a week. Depends on how much stolen money he has left over to pay Trump. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3728 "2025-12-05T20:09:12Z")
(Never mind) ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3729 "2025-12-05T20:09:38Z")
(Redacted) ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3730 "2025-12-05T20:35:41Z")
(Confused) ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3731 "2025-12-05T22:03:26Z")
I think @Smapti didn’t realize I was being facetious in my comment about Trump pardoning someone within a week, and commented that Trump can’t pardon state crimes. I think he then _did_ catch the joke, and deleted his comment. So I deleted mine explaining that I was being facetious. If my interpretation of things is incorrect, @Smapti , kindly let me know. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3732 "2025-12-05T22:10:05Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I think @Smapti didn’t realize I was being facetious in my comment about Trump pardoning someone within a week, and commented that Trump can’t pardon state crimes. But he’s serving his sentence in federal prison after being prosecuted by a US Attorney. Aren’t these federal crimes? I am now genuinely confused, instead of jokingly confused. 😆 ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3733 "2025-12-05T22:24:05Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > But he’s serving his sentence in federal prison after being prosecuted by a US Attorney I realized that, which is why I deleted my comment. Carry on. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3734 "2025-12-05T22:24:33Z")
Group hug! Wait, this is the Pit. Fuck you guys! ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3735 "2025-12-05T22:41:30Z")
If not this white collar criminal this week, it’ll be another next week. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2025, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3736 "2025-12-06T05:03:23Z")
Coming soon to CNN - GAMBLING! > **[CNN partners with Kalshi, a gambling app that lets you wager on starvation in...](https://truthout.org/articles/cnn-partners-with-a-gambling-app-that-lets-you-wager-on-starvation-in-gaza/)** > > The network will integrate betting odds for life-and-death issues into its coverage. What could possibly go wrong? > Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. The “data” (see: betting markets) will, according to Axios, “be featured on CNN’s air through a real-time data ticker and can be referenced across CNN’s platforms when journalists discuss news predictions. The partnership will include prediction market content related to politics, news, culture and weather. The integration will be championed by CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten, who will tap into real-time insights from Kalshi in his reporting on air, both via linear TV and CNN’s new streaming subscription service.” > > What are these events that viewers will be able to bet on? Some are seemingly harmless enough: who will win an upcoming election, the weather in Chicago, the federal government’s jobs numbers, or what will be said on Kroger’s next earnings call. But many offerings are on life and death issues that will, as a matter of course, reduce these issues to just another chip on a roulette table for Western audiences increasingly isolated from the violence and suffering their governments inflict on the global south. Take, for example, one recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation. I enjoy going to the casino every now and then, but I am fucking sick and tired of greedy vultures turning EVERYTHING into gambling to line their own pockets at the expense of people who are prone to betting more than they should. Sports is gambling. Pokémon cards are gambling. Children’s toys are gambling. Elections are gambling. Now I’m not even gonna be able to watch the news without being invited to lay down cold hard cash on how many more fishermen our government is gonna murder in the Caribbean. We need to go back to when you could only gamble if you were physically on the premises of a casino, where at least they’re honest about how they take your money. You shouldn’t be able to blow your rent money on a parlay while sitting on the toilet. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3737 "2025-12-06T13:12:45Z")
> You can also bet on when Israel will [bomb Gaza](https://polymarket.com/event/will-israel-strike-gaza-on-379?tid=1764863944407) Was that example made up before or after the South Park episode it as a premise? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0w0HbRvjdQY/maxresdefault.jpg "South Park S27E05 will kyles's mom strike Gaza") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w0HbRvjdQY) Will people that are employed by CNN be banned from using the app since, ISTM, it would essentially be insider trading? If you hand a newscaster some breaking news to read, but before they come back from the commercial break, he (or anyone else in the newsroom) places a bet based on that news. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3738 "2025-12-06T15:47:44Z")
They will totally be able to front run everything they write about. And steer the betting by how they slant (or emphasize) the elements of the story. Sounds like just the thing our society needs now. 🙄 ---
**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:** [December 6, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3739 "2025-12-06T15:56:05Z")
“Greed is good” my ass. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3740 "2025-12-06T23:36:42Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Will people that are employed by CNN be banned from using the app since, ISTM, it would essentially be insider trading? Legally I’m sure the answer is “yes”. Just as people who work for a company that holds a sweepstakes (and family of those employees) are ineligible to participate. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3741 "2025-12-08T03:34:30Z")
[Beauty queen gets life sentence for murdering toddler.](https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/pageant-queen-receives-life-sentence-001158236.html) > [@](#): > > A [former pageant queen in Georgia](https://people.com/georgia-pageant-queen-arrested-in-death-of-18-month-old-boy-8547820) has been sentenced to life in prison after killing her boyfriend’s 18-month-old son. > > Trinity Poague was found guilty of five counts on Friday, Dec. 5, including two counts of felony murder, per a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eH_kxy1Ig4) of the sentencing shared by Court TV. The judge is pretty direct. > [@](#): > > “I don’t do a lot of speaking when I’m passing the sentence,” Judge W. James Sizemore Jr. of the Southwestern Circuit Court of Georgia said in the video. “The bottom line is you’re going to receive a sentence of life in prison, which is the appropriate sentence for the conduct that you have been convicted of.” > > He went on to say that Poague would also be sentenced to serve 20 additional years concurrently. And what do you think the twisted reason she had for killing the boy? > [@](#): > > According to [footage](https://www.courttv.com/news/ga-v-trinity-poague-pageant-queen-child-murder-trial/) of Poague’s trial shared by Court TV, prosecutors claimed that Poague resented the boy because she wanted a child of her own with her boyfriend. And this is probaby what upsets her the most in the aftermath of the murder. > [@](#): > > Poague was crowned Miss Donalsonville in 2024. She was stripped of the title after being charged in relation to the death of the toddler, per [_Early County News_](https://www.earlycountynews.com/articles/poague-released-on-bond-stripped-of-title/). [Blocking someone on social media shouldn’t get you killed.](https://www.aol.com/news/florida-teens-lured-14-old-072604913.html) > [@](#): > > Two baby-faced Florida teens allegedly lured a 14-year-old girl into the woods before they fatally shot her and set her remains on fire over an online dispute. > > Danika Troy was last seen by her mother Nov. 30​ and reported missing as a runaway the next day around 7 a.m., Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson told reporters [at a press conference Thursday.](https://www.facebook.com/reel/1155592283412481) > > “Unbeknownst to the mother, Danika was murdered the previous night,” Johnson said. > > ​Danika’s body was found in a wooded area ​in Pace, Fl​a. — 17 miles north of Pensacola near the southern coast of the ​state’s panhandle — around 11 a.m. Dec. 2. > > A passer​-by ​had discovered the body, and when police arrived at the grisly scene​, they found ​Danika’s ​corpse shot and badly burned, “multiple live ammunition rounds” and what investigators believe was ​her ​electric scooter. > > Kimahri Blevins, 14, and Gabriel Williams, 16, were ​quickly identified as the primary suspects and charged with first-degree premeditated murder. And here’s the reason the killers apparently gave for killing the girl. > [@](#): > > The ​killers wanted ​Danika dead because she slighted them when she blocked Blevins’ social​-media account and insulted Williams, calling him “worthless and a gang-banger​,” authorities said. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2025, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3742 "2025-12-08T07:46:31Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > The ​killers wanted ​Danika dead because she slighted them when she blocked Blevins’ social​-media account and insulted Williams, calling him “worthless and a gang-banger​,” authorities said. It seems that she was vindicated. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2025, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3743 "2025-12-08T08:19:21Z")
Apologies if this has been mentioned, but a quick glance didn’t show me anything. [Former Crawford County Librarian Charged with Kidnapping](https://talkbusiness.net/2025/12/former-crawford-county-library-board-member-charged-with-kidnapping/). > [@](#): > > Tamara “Tami” Hamby, former board member of the Crawford County Library System, was released on bond Dec. 3 from the Crawford County Jail following her arrest the same day on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit kidnapping and endangering the welfare of an incompetent person in the first degree. > > The charges stem from an alleged plot to kidnap her adopted daughter on Nov 17. What did her daughter do that was so wrong? > [@](#): > > A petition filed for emergency custody filed in Crawford County states that Hamby organized a simulated kidnapping with three accomplices in order to teach her daughter a lesson about talking to strangers online ---
**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:** [December 8, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3744 "2025-12-08T13:56:44Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > And what do you think the twisted reason she had for killing the boy? > > > [@](#): > > > > According to [footage](https://www.courttv.com/news/ga-v-trinity-poague-pageant-queen-child-murder-trial/) of Poague’s trial shared by Court TV, prosecutors claimed that Poague resented the boy because she wanted a child of her own with her boyfriend. That’s certainly a common enough occurrence, whether the murderer is the male or female of the couple. And is one of the few common reasons for women to murder. Doesn’t make it less evil. Does make it less novel. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/3745 "2025-12-08T14:13:33Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Doesn’t make it less evil. Does make it less novel. Lions do that shit all the time (though usually it’s the male lions doing it to the females after they kill the prior male and take over the pride). Normally we expect better of human beings than literal animals, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496.md?page=186) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496.md?page=188)