# 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:** 162
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2024, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3221 "2024-12-19T01:40:48Z")
Who won the last election? Who saw traditional members of the party defect to the other side? You and the Dem party are Nero fiddling while Rome burns. Fingers in ears indeed. Nuff said. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2024, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3222 "2024-12-19T02:23:01Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Who won the last election? The Republicans did for the most part because the Democrats were in power. If the Republicans were in power the Democrats would have won. This year almost every incumbent government has been replaced all over the world. > [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Who saw traditional members of the party defect to the other side? Both parties did. Neither party lost anyone relevant though ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2024, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3223 "2024-12-19T02:31:51Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > What will it take for the dems to learn that doing what they have done for the last 25 years is not a winning strategy? Buying up up the media and spreading vicious rumors and spreading fake news 24/7? That _is_ how the Republicans won-would you have the Democrats adapt this winning strategy? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2024, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3224 "2024-12-19T02:35:57Z")
If that’s what it takes, sure. You can’t play by Queensbury rules when the other guy has a shotgun. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2024, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3225 "2024-12-19T02:38:20Z")
Sure, I could go head and skip what a Party is striving to achieve and just go with the one that has the best chance of winning…but I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2024, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3226 "2024-12-19T02:42:41Z")
I see no reason that this is a binary choice. Dems have lots of media strategists. I bet they can come up with a plan other than “lie.” I do think Dems need to pick fights with republicans and lean into those fights. Go 12 rounds and more. Get knocked down get back up swinging. Do not let republicans control the narrative. Never stop. Never let up. Never be shy about calling them out for being awful. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2024, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3227 "2024-12-19T02:43:53Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Never be shy about calling them out for being awful. Yes, there’d never be any blow-back for doing that, none at all. And if certain comments from H Clinton and Biden show otherwise, well that’s just fake news. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2024, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3228 "2024-12-19T02:45:38Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Never be shy about calling them out for being awful. And this would be reported by who, again? As I have said many times before, you aren’t the leader if you aren’t holding Mr. Microphone in your hot little hands…and it helps that lies spread much faster than the truth and wastes the opponent’s time trying to counter them. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2024, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3229 "2024-12-19T03:09:25Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Yes, there’d never be any blow-back for doing that, none at all. The blowback from Clinton’s “deplorables” comment was that she said it was only half of them. All of them got offended that they thought she wasn’t including them. Meanwhile, Trump insults all of them, and they love it. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2024, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3230 "2024-12-19T04:36:07Z")
Checks forum title. Looks at most recent 50+ posts. Wonders where all the stupid MFers in the news are. Sighs, wanders away. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2024, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3231 "2024-12-19T04:43:39Z")
Five of them are your posts. 10%. Just saying… ---
**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:** [December 19, 2024, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3232 "2024-12-19T04:48:58Z")
I plead guilty for one of those. The first three were responding to the non-political part of your post. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3233 "2024-12-19T13:21:07Z")
On a lighter note 🙂 the Charlotte Hornets gave a young fan a PS5 and then, when the cameras were off, took it back. Not a good look. > **[Hornets apologize after pretending to gift young fan a PS5 before taking it...](https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/hornets-apologize-after-pretending-to-gift-young-fan-a-ps5-before-taking-it-away-during-timeout-skit/)** > > The incident occurred during Monday's game against the Sixers ---
**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:** [December 19, 2024, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3234 "2024-12-19T13:35:07Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Charlotte Hornets gave a young fan a PS5 and then, when the cameras were off, took it back. In what universe is that a good idea? What would be the point? “It’s a cruel world kid, suck it up.”? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3235 "2024-12-19T14:11:52Z")
How did anyone in Charlotte Hornets management not realize that could not end well? ---
**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:** [December 19, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3236 "2024-12-19T14:16:03Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > How did anyone in Charlotte Hornets management not realize that could not end well? - Because they’re management. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3237 "2024-12-19T18:01:18Z")
In the “you can’t make this stuff up” category, the majority owner of the Hornets is Gabe Plotkin. In 2021, the hedge fund he founded & managed, Melvin Capital, lost most of its assets during the Game Stop Short Squeeze incident, and had to shut down. Reportedly, he personally lost $640 million. So I’m sure he’s really thrilled about the bad press involving his team and a PS5. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2024, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3238 "2024-12-20T01:24:48Z")
At which point i wonder what’s suggested retail on a PS5? A quick Google later it seems to be $400-$700 depending on the details. Great way to generate massive hate aimed your way. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2024, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3239 "2024-12-20T01:33:11Z")
And if they’d just given the kid the jersey they offered as a consolation prize, to begin with, the boy would have been thrilled, according to the man (uncle, I think) who took him to the game. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2024, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3240 "2024-12-20T01:45:21Z")
But the cameras were off! There’s no possible way anyone could find out about them taking it back, and that way, they could save $700! Seven. Hundred. Whole. Dollars. Why, pull a few hundred more of these stunts, and that’s over a million! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=161) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=163)