Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the what's-the-word dept
This week, MrWilson takes both top spots on the insightful side (and the top spot on the funny side). In first place for insightful, it’s a comment about Elon Musk’s disastrous impact on the government:
The worst part about it isn’t just that the Fox News sponges won’t get the full message, they’ll not understand when something that was cut affects them because they never understood any of it to begin with. So when something goes wrong with an agency or service that affects them, they’ve been brainwashed to assume it must be the Democrats or just “government bad” in general, rather than the specific fucked up government they specifically voted for. Conservatives are inevitably correct, government is bad and inefficient, but specifically because they make it that way. “Marriage is abusive,” says man who beats his wife.
In second place, it’s a comment about Marjorie Taylor Greene’s criticism of Republicans:
Greene is a troll who realized she had diminishing returns on attacking Democrats for everything, so she switched to attacking the party in power, even if it’s “friendly fire.” If the Democrats regain power, she’ll resume her previous schtick. I wouldn’t be surprised if she was delusional enough to think she was setting herself to become president by pretending she’s an equal opportunity critic. If she was compassionate, she wouldn’t be a Republican, so no points for accidentally saying the right thing once in a while. She’s complicit in the current power structure.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Thad about Trump as the embodiment of GOP corruption:
Trump’s the logical endpoint but he’s not the cause. This is the Party of Nixon, Reagan, and Bush.
Next, it’s Andrew Raff with a comment about the terrible state of things and the challenge of how we fix them:
I continue to believe that the vast majority of the American people are not down with what’s going on, don’t like the constant chaos, and work together make America a diverse, entrepreneurial place for creativity, inclusion, and community where we can all succeed. How we do that is a big question, but at least knowing that there are people who recognize that these things are happening
Over on the funny side, as mentioned our first place winner is MrWilson again, this time with a comment about the latest measles outbreak:
Hey now, don’t start jumping down Junior’s throat about this! He’s about to discover next week that measles are caused by an imbalance of humors in the body and we just need to start bloodletting treatments for all vulnerable children. We should also bring them flowers to ward off any foul-smelling miasma that might infect them. Oh, and don’t play rock n roll music around them because that summons demons that might also cause stomach upset!
In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about Elon Musk and the failures of DOGE:
Hard to believe a program named after a meme and headed up by a guy called Big Balls failed to deliver any positive results.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a comment from ThatsWhy about six former surgeon generals publicly warning of the danger of RFK Jr:
Now I get it
Six out of seven Surgeon Generals recommend toothpaste to help fight cavities.
7th one recommends pure cane sugar.
Next, it’s an anonymous comment about Mark Zuckerberg’s “courage” in the face of government censorship:
Zuck: Biden asked me gently, I said “no”. Trump threaten me, I said “yes”. I’m that courageous.
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
“Trump’s the logical endpoint but he’s not the cause. This is the Party of Nixon, Reagan, and Bush.”
Which Bush?
“Six out of seven Surgeon Generals recommend toothpaste to help fight cavities.
7th one recommends pure cane sugar.”
Ever notice that is NOT talked about on TV in recent times. Because I can show Wheat/Bread is More of a cause.
“Hey now, don’t start jumping down Junior’s throat about this! He’s about to discover next week that measles are caused by an imbalance of humors”
Mpox outbreak in California. 2-4 reported, Still looking to find more. Mpox= Monkey pox, as contagious and related to? Chicken pox. Very contagious.
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Bush Sr. lost his job for acknowledging mathematical reality. And just like that, no other Republican ever tried again.
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Its funny as he was last decent republican. EXCEPT.
He denied to fix up Afghanistan AFTER they had Fought Russia for 20 years, On our say so. And our weapons.
Which caused his Son to need to do something about the problem, And Failed to notice a Peace treaty was Available 6 months later.
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Nah, Bush was also terrible. Generally any post-Southern Strategy Republican has been awful. There used to be progressive Republicans and conservative Democrats. Then the parties polarized much more. The right went further right. The Democrats were still pretty centrist or center-right despite appearing “left” in contrast to the Republicans.
Eisenhower wasn’t a saint, but I’d say he was the last decent Republican president. He had a number of bad takes, like making deals with fascist Franco in Spain and his contribution to anti-LGBTQ efforts in the government. But he did have a number of decent approaches, such as desegregating the military and DC, encouraging international use of space rather than militarization, ARPA, the highway system, preserving social security and other New Deal programs, and he sent the military to Little Rock specifically to protect civilians instead of threaten them.
Eisenhower specifically opposed the conservative right wingers in the Republican Party at the time. He said he’d leave the party if they won. He later died as they were taking over.
“Should any party attempt to abolish social security and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course, that believes you can do these things […] Their number is negligible and they are stupid.”
Now you have Republicans actively championing the destruction of all social safety net programs and their dumbass followers are cheering on their own losses. They’d call Eisenhower a communist these days.