Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 1)

My barber did the same.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/christian-prophet-johnny-enlow-claims-trump-anointed-by-god-to-take-down-billionaires-who-really-control-world/ar-BB1fWQw5?li=BBnb7Kz

What an evil idiot.

Enlow’s god certainly works in strange ways. Don’t know that I’d call them wondrous through.

Gender reveal party using 80 pounds of explosives sets off earthquake reports (msn.com)

Nobody gives a rat’s ass about your baby’s gender.

You are a fucking idiot(s)

For once nobody was killed or maimed. Pretty weak effort overall. I give it a weak 3. Eighty lbs. of dynamite would have been so much more satisfying. And deadly.

I also like the fact the photo in the article shows blue smoke but the text says the baby’s gender was unknown to MSN. In other words, they don’t have any pictures of the event, so they just tucked some random file pic in because all articles need pix. And although they attributed it to Getty Images, they didn’t explicitly call it out as a junk pic. Way to go MSN / MSM giving fodder to the doubters.

According to the news last night, though, it DID crack foundation walls. I expect some lawsuits.

They also said on the news that it was, indeed, a boy, so the blue smoke was appropriate, even if only fortuitously.

Further down, they show the same photo again, but with the caption:

© Photograph: HO/AFP/Getty Images These still images taken from a video provided by the US Forest Service show the moment a gender-reveal party sparked a wildfire in Green Valley, Arizona, in April 2017. A New Hampshire family have caused reports of earthquakes by setting off 80 pounds of explosives as part of their gender reveal display.

So it’s definitely not the explosion from the gender-reveal party story, but a completely different explosion from a completely different and totally unrelated gender-reveal party on the other side of the country four years ago. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Interesting.

That second pic and caption is not in the article I’m viewing from @Typo_Negative’s link. But that may be a matter of different ad blocking, me not being logged in, etc.

There’s just a lot of material here …

… not the least of which is:

Jones, 26, faces charges including resisting and obstructing officers — a felony — driving with a high blood-alcohol content, reckless driving and possessing a weapon while under the influence. Police said they found a loaded handgun in the cup holder of his vehicle, which had a personalized “ELECTED” license plate.

[You now have to wonder if “JAILED” is available, and if he’ll have the opportunity to hammer the new vanity plate out for himself ;-)]

“(Trump) is working with angels to take down several billionaires who he claimed “really control” the world.”

Hmmmmm. Anybody want to take a guess about the religious background of these evil billionaires who really control the world? I’ve heard this crap before.

And he doesn’t want to control the world?

The philosophers “Tears for Fears” are clear on just who wants to rule the world.

#puremichigan

Sometimes I think we give Florida a run for its money.

Is there any truth to what I’ve heard, which is that Michigan = Idaho with more people + Detroit (and a few more medium sized cities)?

So, racist or misogynist?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-nc-official-refuses-to-acknowledge-black-womans-doctoral-title/ar-BB1fX80O?li=BBnbfcL

Either way, the guy is a dick.

So why wasn’t he immediatly shot, perhaps 20 times?

Wasn’t it James Carville who famously said that Pennsylvania is “Pittsburgh on one end, Philadelphia on the other end, and Alabama in the middle” ??

Which is really true of a great many states, demographically. Certainly most of the upper Midwest. Probably quite true of Michigan, too.

[NB: born and raised in Michigan, but gone a good long time]

I’ve never been to Idaho, but there are large swaths of Michigan that are rural, conservative, fundamentalist, and racist. We have a lot of farms and the jingoistic rah-rah gun culture you might expect. Where we might deviate from Idaho is we have a lot of forest and spend a lot of time hunting. It’s a very outdoorsy culture.

I lived in a rural area growing up, and I really liked the long stretches of backroad and not being surrounded by people all the time, but I wish it didn’t have to come with so much baggage. And that’s not even getting into the militia and KKK.

Right now I have the worst of both worlds. I live in a small suburban community in Metro Detroit, so I have all of the traffic and congestion but I’m still surrounded by yokels. My neighborhood is festooned with Trump signs and Don’t Tread on Me flags. My local politicians are embarrassing. And strip malls are everywhere.

Because he knows the governor! He can get her on the phone right now!

Yeah, you’ve never been to Idaho. :slight_smile:

IDK man, I’m only familiar with the potatoes.