# 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:** 173
**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:** [June 15, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3450 "2022-06-15T17:52:26Z")
It’s a small town in Louisiana. This is clearly a “good ol’ boys” club looking out for their own. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3451 "2022-06-15T18:35:40Z")
The rapist runs some sort of “digital branding” company, whatever that is. The local constabulary are one of his clients. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3452 "2022-06-15T19:32:15Z")
Precisely. This looks like something the DOJ needs to look at. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2022, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3453 "2022-06-15T22:16:14Z")
I think quite a few people need some prison time over this. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2022, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3454 "2022-06-15T22:53:07Z")
I’d like to nominate Ms. Kelley Watt, a grandmother from Oklahoma, who’s made it her mission in life to harass those who lost loved ones in the Sandy Hook mass shooting: > **[Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist says she's 'proud' to harass families of...](https://www.insider.com/conspiracy-theorist-proud-harass-sandy-hook-families-children-killed-shootings-2022-6)** > > "Prove to the world you've lost your son," Kelley Watt wrote to Lenny Pozner, whose 6-year-old, Noah, was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. The positive note in the story is her daughter, Madison: > [@](#): > > Watt’s daughter, Madison, said she didn’t have much hope for changing her mother’s mind. Watt’s promotion of conspiracy theories has led, at least in part, to the dissolution of Watt’s marriage and contributed to tense relationships with her children. The stakes of acknowledging that she is wrong after she has lost so much are too great, her daughter said. > > “There’s a great deal of narcissism in this idea that ‘everyone’s got it wrong and we’re in this select group of people that knows.’ It would explode her own persona to allow any doubt to come in,” Madison said of her mother’s progressively extreme theories. > > “Her whole identity has been built on this for so many years,” Madison added. “She’s invested so much.” This is exactly how I often describe the last of the true believer MAGA types. It’s what comes of only ever doubling down, never questioning your closely-held beliefs, profound tribalism, buying into cults of personality, allowing this kind of shit to _become_ your identity, and endlessly devouring information that only supports what you so deeply believe. It’s the worst case outcome for the relatively simple and intellectually insecure. Even still, fuck Kelley Watt. Gently, of course. No need to bring out the cactus just yet. Watermelon ? Okay. I’m nothing if not reasonable. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2022, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3455 "2022-06-16T03:35:39Z")
[https://www.facebook.com/528722339/videos/10157408505522340](https://www.facebook.com/528722339/videos/10157408505522340) Not really in the news, someone copied this video to me on Facebook (I guess you have to be on Facebook to see it, sorry, I don’t know the location of the original). Some trog-bro “patriot” is trying to tear up an apparent LGBTQ+ protest sign that says “NO! In the Name of Humanity, we REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America!” from refusefascism dot org. What follows is priceless. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2022, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3456 "2022-06-16T05:29:29Z")
Here is a non-FB video. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Ylfto5YnOww/hqdefault.jpg "Man Gets Schooled By Anti-Fascism Sign") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylfto5YnOww) I just Googled “man tears up LGBTQ sign” and it showed me a news article that linked to it. > **[A far-right activist tried to rip up an LGBTI sign and failed miserably -...](https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/international-news-news/far-right-activist-tries-rip-lgbti-sign-fails-miserably/168539)** > > A far-right activist has been filmed attempting to rip a pro-LGBTI rainbow placard and failing miserably. I can tell it’s Seattle, I even recognize the street. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3457 "2022-06-16T10:53:21Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Here is a non-FB video. In the article, I love his republican defense. Spin, baby, spin. But we all saw you, lame ass supposed college boy Luke James Mahler: > “At first I was angered, then I realised this guy has nothing better to do than film me destroying a sign,” he wrote. > > “Thank you people for wasting your time watching some random guy try to rip a polyester sign. > > “All of the people who are giving me shit clearly don’t know how laminated materials work.” Yeah, right, buddy, it’s our fault. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3458 "2022-06-16T11:03:37Z")
How in the hell does that make sense? The other people are the ones that don’t know how laminated material works? Man, I’m growing weary of crazy people. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3459 "2022-06-16T12:00:52Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/yYl97Sl.gif) ](https://i.imgur.com/yYl97Sl.gif) ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3460 "2022-06-16T14:34:10Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I can tell it’s Seattle, I even recognize the street. Thank for confirming. I thought I saw a Washington state license plate. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3461 "2022-06-16T18:13:42Z")
Someone in the FB comments mentioned Sandor’s shirt, But I could only make out the word “Patriot.” Anybody able to read the whole thing? ---
**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:** [June 16, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3462 "2022-06-16T18:22:05Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Anybody able to read the whole thing? It says Patriot Prayer. If you watch the video carefully while he’s trying to rip the sign, he sometimes lowers the sign and you can read the bottom part. This is Patriot Prayer: > **[Patriot Prayer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Prayer)** > > Patriot Prayer is a US far-right group founded by Joey Gibson in 2016 and based in Vancouver, Washington, a suburban city in the Portland metropolitan area. Since 2016, the group has organized several dozen pro-gun, pro-Trump rallies held in liberal cities in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California. Often met with large numbers of counter-protesters, attendees have repeatedly clashed with left-wing groups in the Portland area. Far-right groups, such as the Proud Boys,\[7 Patriot Prayer ha... They seem like lovely folks. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3463 "2022-06-17T02:05:33Z")
The Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts has stripped a local school of the right to call itself Catholic, not only because it displays Gay Price flags, but also Black Lives Matter flags. So the Bishop is opposed to support for the local black parishioners, > **[School flying BLM, LGBTQ flags can’t call itself Catholic, bishop says](https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2022/06/16/school-blm-lgbtq-flags-not-catholic/)** > > The bishop said the middle school, which serves boys facing economic hardship, can no longer identify itself as Catholic because the flags are “inconsistent with Catholic teaching.” ---
**Author:** ![omenran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omenran/32/3318_2.png) [@omenran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omenran)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3464 "2022-06-17T02:06:51Z")
You can also catch a glimpse of the street sign for Pine St. also the bus colors are also matching to King County Metro (Seattle area) there’s also a police SUV that pulls up and there should be the locale name on that too. And the red and grey brick is something I associate with Seattle, and the downtown, and I also feel that garbage can design is Seattle. Some of that could totally be me though. The video did give me a good laugh. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3465 "2022-06-17T04:11:04Z")
Florida Man arrested for pretending to be a cop so he can get a discount on his hamburgers. > **[Florida Man Arrested After Faking To Be Cop To Get A Discount On His Burgers...](https://www.tampafp.com/florida-man-arrested-after-faking-to-be-cop-to-get-a-discount-on-his-burgers-at-wendys/)** > > This is one way to get on the Florida man list and land behind bars. A 57-year-old Florida man has been charged with impersonating a.... ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3466 "2022-06-17T13:59:48Z")
He must love loogies. [![](https://y.yarn.co/c95da6b9-7735-4300-9ea3-ed6d1d735b0b_text.gif) ](https://y.yarn.co/c95da6b9-7735-4300-9ea3-ed6d1d735b0b_text.gif) ---
**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:** [June 17, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3467 "2022-06-17T14:15:27Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Yeah, right, buddy, it’s our fault. Once again alt-right fantasies (“I’m tough enough to rip this sign like tissue!”) runs into reality. If he’d laughed it off saying something like, “Man, that’s stronger than it looks,” I doubt there’d be 1/10 the hits. Instead, like always, he doubled down then stalked off, pretending it never happened. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3468 "2022-06-17T15:15:28Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Luke James Mahler Asking Google about the name brought up this Twitter burn: [https://twitter.com/antinaziaction/status/993613672697221121?lang=en](https://twitter.com/antinaziaction/status/993613672697221121?lang=en) [https://twitter.com/antinaziaction/status/993626329823305728](https://twitter.com/antinaziaction/status/993626329823305728) [https://twitter.com/antinaziaction/status/993626662238646272](https://twitter.com/antinaziaction/status/993626662238646272) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3469 "2022-06-17T16:21:14Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Once again alt-right fantasies (“I’m tough enough to rip this sign like tissue!”) runs into reality. If he’d laughed it off saying something like, “Man, that’s stronger than it looks,” I doubt there’d be 1/10 the hits. Instead, like always, he doubled down then stalked off, pretending it never happened. Yes, but I also wouldn’t have mocked him. All the laughing, posting, and sharing this video isn’t going to help someone change, it’s only going to make him angrier and cling tighter to his beliefs and the group he identifies with. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=172) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=174)