Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is danderbandit with a comment about Trump’s assertions regarding the Insurrection Act:
50%? I don’t think so!
“I’m allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act.”
Per that article, the Insurrection Act has been invoked 31 times, 30 separate incidents, in our nations history by, 15 times by presidents and once illegally by MacArthur. 4 times to prevent the state from using the national guard from acting, they were ordered to stand down.
Not once has it been used to stop peaceful protest.
In second place, it’s Stephen with a comment about Elon Musk discovering he doesn’t always get everything he wants from Trump:
So the tech bros who funded Trump are finding out why our societies spent several hundred years expanding the concepts of the rule of law and (the idea of at least) justice for all to include the man at the top
It’s already started with the media owners
I’ve got no sympathy for them. This was as predictable as the Sun rising in the morning
Instead I’m frightened for the futures of everyone
Thought I might raise a glass when it’s time for the Supreme Court to take their turn at the pillory
That’s better than despair right?
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with another comment on that subject, this time from Alex Tolley:
History lessons
If the broligarchs weren’t so arrogant and drunk on their own power and wealth, they would have known this is what has happened in the past, most notably in Nazi Germany. Hitler was more subtle than Trump, but the result was the same. Even the gas chambers were available for those of the wrong racial heritage.
And these SV oligarchs didn’t know this?
Next, it’s a comment from AmySox about Trump’s demands for money and claims that he’ll give it to charity, because I’m a sucker for a good Star Trek reference:
The Orange Felon says he’s “giving [the $230M] to charity” if he gets it. Of course, he firmly believes in the 144th Ferengi Rule of Acquisition: “There’s nothing wrong with charity…as long as it winds up in your pocket.”
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is David with a comment about Trump denying the size of the No Kings protests:
So?
King Orange had always had kind of a weak grasp concerning crowd size.
In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about Bari Weiss’s quest to root out “bias” at CBS News by…. making it more biased:
Soon you won’t be allowed to put “biased” information into your own Oracle database.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a comment from The Shadow about Indiana University administrators ordering students to stop printing their newspaper:
In other news
Indiana University has just announced that Ms Barbra Streisand will be handling all of their publicity concerning this matter.
Finally, as an Ontario resident I can’t leave out this comment from Thad about the Ronald Reagan anti-tariff ad debacle:
On top of everything else that’s humiliating about this, can you imagine what it must feel like to be outsmarted by Doug Ford?
That’s all for this week, folks!
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