# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657 "2024-01-05T16:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 133
**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:** [October 7, 2024, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2641 "2024-10-07T22:35:48Z")
> **[Trump ally questions if government is manipulating Hurricane Milton's path](https://www.newsweek.com/grant-cardone-hurricane-milton-government-manipulating-weather-1965130)** > > Hurricane Milton is now classified as a Category 5 hurricane, and its path shows direct landfall in Tampa. > “I grew up on the Gulf of Mexico. Been watching storms since I was a young boy. I have NEVER seen a storm start here and go east,” Cardone [posted](https://x.com/GrantCardone/status/1843039543647502432) with a picture of Milton’s forecast path toward Florida. “Do you think Gov’t is using technology to manipulate weather patterns & storms?” > > Cardone’s question comes as other [Republicans](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/republicans), such as Representative [Marjorie Taylor Greene](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/marjorie-taylor-greene), have appeared to say that [Democrats control the weather](https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-control-weather-1963686#:~:text=0.%20Rep.%20Marjorie%20Taylor%20Greene%20has). … > > Despite Cardone’s concerns, Milton is not the first storm to originate in the Gulf and then cut east. I don’t know, man. Who knows what those chemtrails can do…? ---
**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:** [October 7, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2642 "2024-10-07T23:16:05Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > “Foreman did not respond to a request for comment, but said he had been ‘race-baited’ in a Thursday post on Facebook.” And responded to the bait the way a black lab does towards bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2643 "2024-10-07T23:19:02Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I don’t know, man. Who knows what those chemtrails can do…? Not that his idiocy bears any serious response, but late season storms that form in the western Gulf usually do cut east rather than north. How closely he actually watched storms since childhood is left as an exercise to the reader. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2024, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2644 "2024-10-07T23:30:07Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > “I grew up on the Gulf of Mexico. Been watching storms since I was a young boy. I have NEVER seen a storm start here and go east,” Cardone [posted](https://x.com/GrantCardone/status/1843039543647502432) with a picture of Milton’s forecast path toward Florida. “Do you think Gov’t is using technology to manipulate weather patterns & storms?” > > > > Cardone’s question comes as other [Republicans](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/republicans), such as Representative [Marjorie Taylor Greene](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/marjorie-taylor-greene), have appeared to say that [Democrats control the weather](https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-control-weather-1963686#:~:text=0.%20Rep.%20Marjorie%20Taylor%20Greene%20has). … > > > > Despite Cardone’s concerns, Milton is not the first storm to originate in the Gulf and then cut east. > > I don’t know, man. Who knows what those chemtrails can do…? Chemtrails? I thought the high tech used for controlling storms is a Sharpie. > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > How closely he actually watched storms since childhood is left as an exercise to the reader. Oh, I have no doubt he’s watched them quite closely. What I doubt is he knows East from West any better than he knows his head from a hole in the ground. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2645 "2024-10-07T23:50:12Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Chemtrails? I thought the high tech used for controlling storms is a Sharpie. Nah, that just controls the funding. “The storm is here [makes different mark on map], but the relief money will go _here_”. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2646 "2024-10-08T00:00:44Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Nah, that just controls the funding. “The storm is here [makes different mark on map], but the relief money will go _here_”. And when questioned why that is the case, the liturgical response is, of course, _The Lord moves in mysterious ways_. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2647 "2024-10-08T00:36:51Z")
Man, if we could control the weather, do you seriously think we’d not have demolished mar a Lago already. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![TheTooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@TheTooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTooth)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2648 "2024-10-08T01:39:23Z")
It would always be raining on his golf courses and there would be a little storm cloud over his head at all times like the angry comic-strip character that he is. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2649 "2024-10-08T01:45:46Z")
We’ve “controlled the weather” by releasing unprecedented amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere thousands of times more quickly that it’s ever been done in the past 64 million years. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2650 "2024-10-08T04:03:28Z")
[![](https://www.shutterstock.com/shutterstock/photos/155801474/display_1500/stock-vector-cartoon-man-with-a-dark-rain-cloud-over-his-head-155801474.jpg) ](https://www.shutterstock.com/shutterstock/photos/155801474/display_1500/stock-vector-cartoon-man-with-a-dark-rain-cloud-over-his-head-155801474.jpg) (I know, the tie isn’t long enough…) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2651 "2024-10-08T05:11:18Z")
We don’t “control” the weather; we “broke” the weather. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2652 "2024-10-08T11:52:36Z")
Or we made the weather “woke.” ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2653 "2024-10-08T13:52:52Z")
The first thing that came to my mind was Bad Luck Schleprock. [![](https://i.redd.it/qwnv8ql3du9d1.png) ](https://i.redd.it/qwnv8ql3du9d1.png) ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2654 "2024-10-08T15:25:23Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Despite Cardone’s concerns, Milton is not the first storm to originate in the Gulf and then cut east. It’s the classic right-wing thing to do: “I am stupid and ill-informed, so everyone else must be as well.” ---
**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:** [October 8, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2655 "2024-10-08T21:33:45Z")
And here I was thinking of [Joe Btfsplk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Btfsplk). Guess I’m just old. ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2656 "2024-10-08T21:36:23Z")
I’m with you, m’friend - I have no ides who these Sat A M characters are. Long live Al! Dan ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2657 "2024-10-09T03:04:47Z")
In [this post](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-7-2024), mostly about abortion, Heather Cox Richardson closes with comments from meteorologist John Morales about the change that really bothers him, and it’s not climate change. > Hurricane Milton spurred meteorologist John Morales to step forward to take a stand, sharing his thoughts after Hurricane Helene hit. “Something’s shifted,” he wrote. “And it’s not just the climate.” He noted that with Helene on the way, “I did what I’ve done during my entire 40 year career—I tried to warn people. Except that the warning was not well received by everyone. A person accused me of being a ‘climate militant,’ a suggestion that I’m embellishing extreme weather threats to drive an agenda. Another simply said that my predictions were ‘an exaggeration.’ > > “But it wasn’t an exaggeration,” he wrote. > > “For decades I had felt in control. Not in control of the weather, of course. But in control of the message that, if my audience was prepared and well informed, I could confidently guide them through any weather threat, and we’d all make it through safely…. But no one can hide from the truth. Extreme weather events, including hurricanes, are becoming more extreme. I must communicate the growing threats from the climate crisis come hell or high water—pun intended.” The mayor of Tampa has flat out said that anyone who stays in an evacuation area will die. Yet apparently, many are not leaving. Maybe this will teach their next of kin that there is such a thing as reality. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2024, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2658 "2024-10-09T04:55:38Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Maybe this will teach their next of kin that there is such a thing as reality. Speaking of not accepting reality. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2659 "2024-10-09T10:03:24Z")
All right, then, at least it may result in fewer MAGA voters. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2660 "2024-10-09T16:25:15Z")
Florida officials are [asking](https://www.mediaite.com/tv/florida-officials-are-telling-residents-who-dont-evacuate-to-write-their-names-on-themselves-so-their-bodies-can-be-identified/) persons who do choose to ride it out to write their name and the phone number of a family member on themself so that their body can be easily identified and next of kin notified. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=132) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=134)