# 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:** 183
**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:** [July 4, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3650 "2022-07-04T19:13:28Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Radicalized right wing terrorists? Looks like a bit more is emerging about the two brothers who tried to rob a bank then shot at police before being killed. Yes, they were quote normal but shy in high school, unquote, but then dropped off the radar, ghosting their former friends and getting more into camo gear and high powered weaponry. And, they were full of the usual right-wing bullshit about hating Trudeau, antivax garbage, etc. Someone was filling their heads with this crap over the past couple of years. Ironically, they were angry about proposed new gun regulations in Canada, and will end up being the poster children for WHY we need the new gun regulations in Canada; To prevent radicalized right wing terrorists like them from getting military grade weapons. > **[Brothers in botched B.C. bank robbery had become angry and radical, obsessed...](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-brothers-in-botched-bc-bank-robbery-had-become-angry-and-radical/#comments)** > > One of the brother’s online posts specifically targeted Ottawa’s recent move to ban the sale of handguns and the implementation of vaccine mandates ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3651 "2022-07-04T19:55:38Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Ironically, they were angry about proposed new gun regulations in Canada, and will end up being the poster children for WHY we need the new gun regulations in Canada; To prevent radicalized right wing terrorists like them from getting military grade weapons. I was thinking this too. Mind you, as far as I can tell from their social media posts (I am certainly no expert) their weapons were already illegal. Or at least they were using magazines that held more bullets than legal. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3652 "2022-07-05T00:32:31Z")
The GQP loves Mayo. That fits. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3653 "2022-07-05T02:56:56Z")
The President of Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian school in Hillsdale, Michigan, said that education is like the plague. > **[Education 'is like the plague,' Hillsdale College president says at...](https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/30847/education_is_like_the_plague_hillsdale_college_president_says_at_closed-door_event)** ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3654 "2022-07-05T02:58:52Z")
Derp. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2022, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3655 "2022-07-05T03:45:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The President of Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian school in Hillsdale, Michigan, said that education is like the plague. - That’s a normal reaction to the unfamiliar. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3656 "2022-07-05T04:42:13Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > That’s a normal reaction to the unfamiliar. I think what he means is that an education that teaches children about reality and broadens their minds will turn them away from the superstition and bigotry that he wants them to inherit. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2022, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3657 "2022-07-05T06:02:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The President of Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian school in Hillsdale, Michigan… … oh, by the way, the previous President was involved in a bit of a scandal by having an affair for years _with his son’s wife_ … oh, and she was found probably-murdered-but-they-called-a-suicide-then-buried-the-evidence. CIte: > **[Hillsdale: Greek Tragedy in America's... by Rapoport, Roger](https://www.amazon.com/Hillsdale-Greek-Tragedy-Americas-Heartland/dp/1571430881)** > > Hillsdale: Greek Tragedy in America's Heartland \[Rapoport, Roger, Drews, Bob\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. Hillsdale: Greek Tragedy in America's Heartland I knew most of the players in that debacle, as neighbors and classmates. Such a wholesome school … ---
**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 5, 2022, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3658 "2022-07-05T06:03:37Z")
In context, they are pushing the idea that educators are indoctrinating children with bad political ideas, which they will then spread to others. In that sense, calling it a “plague” is understandable. You have to buy into that conspiracy first, though. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2022, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3659 "2022-07-05T11:11:26Z")
But, it’s OK when I do it! (That is, of course, using education to indoctrinate the youth with MY political ideas.) ---
**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:** [July 5, 2022, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3660 "2022-07-05T16:42:01Z")
> - “The teachers are trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges in the country." …and I speak from experience! ---
**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:** [July 5, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3661 "2022-07-05T18:34:42Z")
Anti oil protesters in the UK are gluing themselves to art masterpieces. > **[Climate activists target famous artworks – DW – 07/05/2022](https://www.dw.com/en/uk-climate-activists-glue-themselves-to-masterpieces/a-62366285)** > > Museums in the UK are on high alert as protesters from the group Just Stop Oil target famous paintings, including a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" and John Constable's "The Hay Wain." ---
**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:** [July 5, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3662 "2022-07-05T23:14:05Z")
The President of Mexico says that if the US tries to try Julian Assange, he (the President) will lead a campaign to tear down the Statue of Liberty. > **[López Obrador to campaign to ‘tear down the Statue of Liberty’ if the US...](https://english.elpais.com/usa/2022-07-05/lopez-obrador-to-campaign-to-tear-down-the-statue-of-liberty-if-the-us-convicts-julian-assange.html)** > > The president of Mexico says that he will intercede in favor of the founder of WikiLeaks when he visits his American counterpart Joe Biden on July 12 ---
**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:** [July 5, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3663 "2022-07-05T23:40:25Z")
Not sure why that makes him stupid or a MFer. He is clearly being rhetorical – he believes that under the circumstances of Assange being convicted and jailed, the US will lose it’s right to be represented by such a symbol, and he is not alone in that view. He is not proposing to tear it down himself. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3664 "2022-07-05T23:49:46Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > a campaign to tear down the Statue of Liberty. Pretty soon it will be replaced with a cross anyway. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3665 "2022-07-06T00:03:19Z")
“Huddled masses yearning to breathe Free” always sounded communistic anyway. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2022, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3666 "2022-07-06T00:30:09Z")
“Lovely statue, but then some idealistic Johnny had to carve that bit about give me your huddled masses. Well, the huddled masses leapt at the chance…” Brits trying to explain America (Beyond the Fringe), paraphrased. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2022, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3667 "2022-07-06T11:05:23Z")
I prefer a simple, “Thoughts & Prayers” slogan. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2022, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3668 "2022-07-06T12:04:10Z")
Our new statue will be an AR-15. Maybe a few dead bodies scattered around. I foresee a push for trash bins every few feet in all public spaces. The sign will read: NOT FOR TRASH. PLEASE ONLY USE THIS TO TOSS YOUR CHILDREN INTO WHEN YOU HEAR GUNFIRE. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2022, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3669 "2022-07-06T12:11:19Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > NOT FOR TRASH. PLEASE ONLY USE THIS TO TOSS YOUR CHILDREN INTO WHEN YOU HEAR GUNFIRE. - PICKUPS WEEKLY ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=182) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=184)