# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 31, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945 "2021-01-31T21:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/242 "2021-03-16T22:44:28Z")
And he tries to blame it on his diabetes. What a dick!!! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/243 "2021-03-16T22:54:03Z")
Well Cruz would have blamed it on his daughters, so progress. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/244 "2021-03-16T23:05:36Z")
Can you imagine the carnage he could have wrought if he had asthma ? ---
**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:** [March 17, 2021, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/245 "2021-03-17T00:08:20Z")
Can’t wait to hear the outrage about how this poor announcer was “cancelled” just because he has diabetes. Fucking racist dickwad. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/246 "2021-03-17T00:11:37Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Can you imagine the carnage he could have wrought if he had asthma ? - None because he would be too focused on breathing to say anything? ---
**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:** [March 17, 2021, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/247 "2021-03-17T11:07:41Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > And he tries to blame it on his diabetes. That certainly explains why Wilford Brimley became a Grand Dragon of the KKK. [![](https://img.memegenerator.net/instances/57068382.jpg) ](https://img.memegenerator.net/instances/57068382.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/248 "2021-03-17T16:49:30Z")
I have been a Type 1 Diabetic for 33 years. I have had numerous low blood sugar incidents. Not once did it cause me to utter the word ‘nigger’. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/249 "2021-03-17T16:51:43Z")
Oooh, you said it just then! \< stones **Typo\_Negative** \> ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/250 "2021-03-17T16:53:37Z")
Blood sugar must be a bit low… ---
**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:** [March 17, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/251 "2021-03-17T20:24:51Z")
Now scientists need to figure out the connection between Ambien and Type I Diabetes, the cause of all racism. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/252 "2021-03-17T20:42:26Z")
I don’t know how anyone who says something like that can say with a straight face, “I am not a racist.” Duuude. You dropped the n-bomb on some _teenagers._ It’s time to do some soul - searching. The good news is you’re about to have a lot of free time on your hands! ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/253 "2021-03-17T20:54:35Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Apropos to the thread title, a group called [Crazymothers took to twitter with a heartfelt plea](https://twitter.com/crazymothers1/status/1201140183695056901), > > [QUOTE=@Crazymothers1] > Dear Media, > Please retire the use of the term “Anti-vaxxer.” It is derogatory, inflammatory, and marginalizes both women and their experiences. It is dismissivemy simplistic, highly offensive and largely false. We politely request that you refer to us as the Vaccine Risk Aware. [/quote] But please call us “crazy”, which is not dismissively simplistic, offensive, or largely false, and does not marginalize women and their experiences? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/254 "2021-03-17T21:17:49Z")
I think we can arrive at a compromise here: it would be perfectly reasonable to refer to the movement currently known as “anti-vaxxer” as “Vaccine Risk Exaggerators” instead. Because their defining characteristic is not that they are aware of vaccine risk (which everybody who’s ever had a vaccine has become aware of in reading that pharmaceutical info sheet they hand you), but rather that they wildly overestimate and hypothesize levels of vaccine risk for which there is zero valid evidence. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/255 "2021-03-17T23:01:22Z")
I regularly read the blog, [https://respectfulinsolence.com/](https://respectfulinsolence.com/), which frequently covers anti-vaxxers, in some depth. A point “Orac”, aka Dr. David Gorski, repeatedly makes is that while a lot of rank-and-file “anti-vaxxers” might be more accurately described as “vaccine hesitant”, or as you suggest “Vaccine Risk Exaggerators”, the leaders pretty much are straight-up anti-vaccine. The most famous example is mercury in vaccines. In the 90s, “Vaccine Risk Exaggerators” “exaggerated” the risks of mercury in vaccines. I put “exaggerated” in scare quotes because there was _no_ risk from the mercury compound, ethylmercury aka thimerosal, that was used as a preservative in many vaccines. It’s just not biologically available to human beings. It’s firmly established that it simply passes through within a couple of days with no bioactivity at all. Despite that, the "VER"s blamed mercury toxicity from vaccinations for the autism “epidemic” and numerous other ills. Still, there was a public outcry, and the FDA wound up banning thimerosal from childhood vaccines in 2001, in an effort to reassure the public and maintain confidence in the safety of childhood vaccines. Which, if thimerosal opponents were merely exaggerating the risks, should have reassured them, at least a little but. Nonesuch. You can still find claims in 2021 about supposed mercury toxicity from current childhood vaccines (even though they haven’t contained any in _20 years_). Most anti-vaxxers have pivoted away from blaming mercury. But they still blame vaccines for autism, SIDS, and basically anything that’s wrong with their children or that they _think_ is wrong with their children. Instead of mercury, now it’s the MMR combined vaccine, it’s “too many, too soon,” it’s aluminum toxicity, it’s formaldehyde, it’s aborted fetal tissue, it’s DNA fragments, it’s anything and everything, “risks” that are simply invented from whole cloth. But above all, as Orac repeatedly points out, it’s the vaccines. It’s always the vaccines. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/256 "2021-03-18T22:52:54Z")
[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/evangelical-prophet-claims-military-carrying-out-coup-to-reinstate-trump-as-president/ar-BB1eJcue?li=BBnb7Kz](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/evangelical-prophet-claims-military-carrying-out-coup-to-reinstate-trump-as-president/ar-BB1eJcue?li=BBnb7Kz) What a dick. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/257 "2021-03-19T21:20:56Z")
Perhaps the military could “take control” of Jeff Jansen & show him what that looks like. All in play of course, but it’ll be the worst week of his life. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/258 "2021-03-20T01:31:30Z")
I’m guessing alcohol was involved. > **[Arrest made after man seen in viral video running handcuffed from police...](https://wsvn.com/news/local/arrest-made-after-man-seen-in-viral-video-running-handcuffed-from-police-cruiser-on-florida-beach/)** > > CLEARWATER, Fla. (WSVN) — A young man has been arrested after a video went viral showing him fleeing from the back of a police cruiserRead More > Police said the ordeal began when officers patrolling the beach saw a large group of people, and they began addressing disorderly conduct issues and other ordinance violations. > > As additional officers arrived, police said a fight broke out, and ultimately the suspect was placed in the backseat of a cruiser. As the officer who placed the man in the cruiser walked to the front of the car to drive off, a person opened the door and the suspect escaped. > The man was identified by police as 18-year-old Dominic Glass. He is being charged with escape, disorderly conduct and resisting an officer without violence. > > Police also said they have taken the person who opened the cruiser door into custody. Fox 13 reports he was identified as 18-year-old Adam Asad of Oldsmar. Asad has been charged with aiding prisoner escape and resisting arrest without violence. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2021, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/259 "2021-03-20T21:16:28Z")
It’s a lot easier to ditch an orange jail jumpsuit than it is to get out of real handcuffs. In either case you’re real obvious and attention-attracting to passersby until you do. I wonder what Einstein’s plan was for after he started running? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/260 "2021-03-20T21:18:03Z")
Plan? I don’ need no steenkin’ plan! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/261 "2021-03-21T12:43:56Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I wonder what Einstein’s plan was for after he started running? Maybe a one man recreation of _The Defiant Ones_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=14)