Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the say-it-aint-so dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment on our post about DOGE’s “efficiency theater”:
I voted for this!”
—person whose taxes and cost of living and rent are all going up
In second place, it’s a double-winning anonymous comment that also takes second place over on the funny side, in response to Trump’s posted-then-deleted AI deepfake about the MedBed conspiracy theory:
It’s crazy how universal healthcare free at the point of use is so popular, it’s even the dream policy of the stupidest supporters of the party most opposed to it.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Stephen T. Stone in response to our post about the media’s failures and the old example of what journalists need to do when two people disagree about whether it’s raining:
You already covered Journalism 101 in the article, so here’s Journalism 102: It’s also a journalist’s job to report which one of the two lied about the weather.
Next, it’s Thad passing along a famous quote in response to the first place winning comment above:
“I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
– LBJ
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Pixelation with another comment on our post about DOGE:
DOGEd
What do you mean it isn’t efficient? This is a very efficient way to waste money and lose top talent at the same time. That’s very efficient.
We’ve already had the second place double-winner above, so we’ll move on to editor’s choice, starting with another comment from Thad, this time about the ongoing failures of journalism:
Reminds me of one of my favorite headlines, “Something Went Wrong in Plane Crash, Experts Say.”
Finally, it’s an excellent anonymous joke about Pete Hegseth’s deranged assembly of military leaders:
Generals gather in their masses
Only to get called fatasses
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
The LBJ quote...
The quote by Lynden Baines Johnson is attributed by Bill Moyers, WaPo 1988.
It’s also been getting a lot of traction in the last decade serving to explain well a driving force behind MAGA… which has been active since Johnson.
Re:
See also the self-unaware: “He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
Re: Re: Showing their hand
I’m not sure if that’s self-unaware so much as giving away their motivations.
‘I voted for him to hurt people but he wasn’t supposed to be hurting me!’