# 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:** 132
**Author:** ![Happytree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happytree/32/3555_2.png) [@Happytree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happytree)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2630 "2022-02-26T13:42:40Z")
This doesn’t look real to me. Are we all buying this? ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2631 "2022-02-26T13:44:35Z")
No (see later discussion) > [@Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread/931945/2590): > > Yeah. My apologies for being too quick on the draw. After that “airport manager” woman, nothing seems too stupid anymore ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2632 "2022-02-26T14:07:28Z")
And yet, she accepted her election victory. Huh. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2633 "2022-02-26T16:12:28Z")
“There’s no evidence for it, but it is scientific fact!” Honest to God, who’d have thought reality would go racing past _Brass Eye_ and into the far distance of insanity? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2634 "2022-02-26T16:41:59Z")
Russia tries to get all “no u” > **[Anti-war sentiment grows in Russia despite govt crackdown](https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-business-dmitry-medvedev-global-trade-858a23b058209e5662ee59d768b615bd)** > > As Russian troops were closing in on the Ukrainian capital, more and more Russians at home were speaking out against the invasion even as the government's official rhetoric grew increasingly harsher. > [@](#): > > Washington and its allies say that even tougher sanctions are possible, including kicking Russia out of SWIFT, the dominant system for global financial transactions. > [@](#): > > “ **We are being driven out of everywhere** , punished and threatened, but we don’t feel scared,” he said, mocking the sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies as an attempt to vindicate their past “shameful decisions, like a cowardly retreat from Afghanistan.” uuuuuuh ‘say what’ to the bolded. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2635 "2022-02-26T16:44:57Z")
> [@"A dimwit](#): > > No, I don’t know how It amazes me how much these people want to change the way our country is run based on what they don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2636 "2022-02-26T18:50:53Z")
Quoting Guest-starring\_Id’s quote > [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > …like a cowardly retreat from Afghanistan.” Something Russia is intimately familiar with. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2637 "2022-02-26T19:39:44Z")
That was the Soviet Union. Modern Russia is something _completely_ different. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2638 "2022-02-26T19:42:56Z")
I see that the legacy of Baghdad Bob lives on. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2639 "2022-02-26T20:01:17Z")
Didn’t Russia retreat out of Afghanistan in their day? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2640 "2022-02-26T20:09:32Z")
I am vaguely hoping to score some points off Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf in the death pool, as Baghdad Bob himself lives on, in Bahrain or some place like that there. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2022, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2641 "2022-02-26T21:05:24Z")
This makes me very, very happy. > ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2642 "2022-02-26T23:30:22Z")
Hah, ha ha ha. “That’s like a long drive”. Ha, ha, ha. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2643 "2022-02-27T00:29:32Z")
So is this the demise of the Freedumb Convoy, or only one segment? I confess that I haven’t paid much attention to it, partly because I have more important things to address, and partly because the whole project makes a frat party look like the epitome of organization. (Anyway, how can it be considered a “convoy” if it doesn’t include eleven long-haired Friends of Jesus in a chartreuse micro-bus?) ---
**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:** [February 27, 2022, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2644 "2022-02-27T00:33:40Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > (Anyway, how can it be considered a “convoy” if it doesn’t include eleven long-haired Friends of Jesus in a chartreuse micro-bus?) Or a suicide jockey. I’m not entirely certain, but it sounds to me as if they couldn’t get enough people interested in joining it or supporting it, so they gave it up. No grit. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2022, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2645 "2022-02-27T00:35:41Z")
As I’ve posted here a few times, today’s republicans insist the ballots which voted in Biden are false and the ballots which voted them into office are legitimate. The simple fact that they’re the very same ballots does not deter them from their insistence. It’s Schrödinger’s election! ---
**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:** [February 27, 2022, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2646 "2022-02-27T00:37:47Z")
Nof if Putin has his druthers. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2022, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2647 "2022-02-27T04:08:03Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > > [@OttoDaFe](#): > > > > (Anyway, how can it be considered a “convoy” if it doesn’t include eleven long-haired Friends of Jesus in a chartreuse micro-bus?) > > Or a suicide jockey. > > I’m not entirely certain, but it sounds to me as if they couldn’t get enough people interested in joining it or supporting it, so they gave it up. No grit. I suspect the moment has passed. Covid mandates are yesterday’s news, restrictions are being lifted and everyone’s moved on to the war. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2648 "2022-02-27T12:31:37Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I’m not entirely certain, but it sounds to me as if they couldn’t get enough people interested in joining it I’m sure a lot of MAGA truckers thought “hell yeah!”. Then some reality hit: 1. They have to own their own tractor and trailer or be charged with some level of theft; 2. I imagine all/most owner/operators are running close to the bankruptcy line. They might be able to go a couple of days/weeks between jobs, but driving from Colorado to DC and back empty entirely on their own dime for fuel is a hell of hit. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2022, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2649 "2022-02-27T13:08:45Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > > [@OttoDaFe](#): > > > > (Anyway, how can it be considered a “convoy” if it doesn’t include eleven long-haired Friends of Jesus in a chartreuse micro-bus?) > > Or a suicide jockey. The mere fact that two (three) of you (us) know this song should be good for a 10% hike in SDMB ad rates. Sez me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=131) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=133)