Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the not-so-funny-now dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about how fascism is happening live on TV:
Trump’s supporters, like Trump himself, if being honest (ha!) will reply, “I don’t care, I want this to happen.”
They’ve never cared about the Constitution except as a weapon to be used against others and as a get-out-of-responsibility free card to use when someone calls them out. Hence the hypocrisy that they defend their harassing and threatening language as “free speech” but call for the persecution and prosecution of the free speech with which they disagree.
They think of the Constitution the same way they do the bible and America itself. Their uneducated, unnuanced gut feeling about what it is and what it contains is more truthy to them than actually being aware of what’s in it and what its nature actually is.
In second place, it’s Thad with a reply to that comment:
Yep. The next time there’s a Democrat in office they’ll suddenly be Very Concerned about checks and balances and coequal branches of government again.
(That and the deficit.)
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from ThatOtherOtherGuy about the failure to prosecute James Comey:
The key difference…
If there was really a crime, veteran litigators would have been lining up to get the case, not resigning to avoid it.
Next, it’s frankcox with a comment about what’s missing when federal judges call out DHS, ICE, and CBP for their lies:
Perjury perjury everywhere…
All of these people lying in court, with proof that they lied, and not a single perjury charge in sight.
Over on the funny side, it appears we’re still in a bit of a drought when it comes to funny comments! There are slim pickings for the editor’s choice, so we’re just going to do the winners by votes (the second of which didn’t even get enough votes to earn a badge).
In first place, it’s MrWilson again with a reply to a weird comment claiming a post said stuff that it absolutely didn’t:
It’s weird that you just admitted to shitting your pants daily. At least that’s how I read it. Apparently it’s not necessary to base your perspectives on things people actually say and you can just fight strawmen all day at your own leisure.
In second place, it’s an anonymous reply pushing back on a comment about RFK Jr. being a brain-eating zombie:
Maybe. But he’s still not a zombie. A real zombie would die of starvation in Washington DC after all.
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
So much more fun
First
But do you think they Ever READ any of those books/Documents?
Odds are they have only Been TOLD what they say, by another person They THINK is on their side, doing the best for them.
Dah SPLAT! “Where did that come from?”, Behind you. Splat again.
2nd.
AND still nothing is fixed. Much of the pricing of Food, Fuel, Wood, Other in the USA ius based on Export sales. The Corps Inflate the prices, THEN Raise prices in the USA so that the other nations CANT find a Better seller. How much control do you want to see. They get Double Paid. USA is in top 3 Export and Import, for Oil, Grain/Corn/Soy, Wood. Top 3 for selling and Buying good that are Equal? Sell high, buy the cheap stuff, and feed your people.
Ed. Choice?
Not quite. They wont touch it cause they KNow they wont get paid. Win OR loose.
Fed Judges?
Dont ya love When Others get to do things, that YOU WOULD BE sent to jail for? And there have been Hundreds of those recently.
If we added all of these up, SOME GROUP would never see the light of day, for Not following their Oath(for the 200th time)
As to the funny side.
Its not all the Bull thats being thrown around, Not the coverups, Not the idiocy that offends me.
Its the Lies. It takes Time to sort out lies. Even the News is posting lies.
My problem is, When Can WE’ the People SUE them. We cant, cause they declare it OPINION… Do we have a REAL definition of NEWS? And can Citizens Take them to Court? FOX would be the PERFECT Target, And Add to the case, that it goes up $1 million Per Month in Court. But how many years do we have to LIVE, for them to Concede.
Don't perjury charges have to be brought by the DOJ? I know that a judge can refer people for charges, but the DOJ or state AGs have to actually bring them from my understanding. If that is true, then it would make sense why no perjury charges have been brought:
Don’t
Re:
Okay, so I stupidly was typing this in the subject field… Woops?
Anyway. What I was trying to say (in the wrong box!) was that, if my understanding is right, it would make sense that perjury charges weren’t brought: ICE or whatever fed agency gets sued, it gets brought to the circuit courts, fed lies, and up to SCOTUS it goes, where the fed lies some more. SCOTUS obviously is never going to refer for prosecution a republican for perjury, so that’s out. And the DOJ is never goign to prosecute the administration for perjury as long as this administration holds power, so that’s also out. Though I have no idea why perjury charges aren’t being brought in the state courts where perjury occurs.
“They think of the Constitution the same way they do the bible and America itself. Their uneducated, unnuanced gut feeling about what it is and what it contains is more truthy to them than actually being aware of what’s in it and what its nature actually is.”
Translation:
They think that their personal neuroses are laws of the universe.
Re: try
to get them to repeat, Much of the 613 laws in the Bible. The First 10 commandments are there also.
THEY CANT.