Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the so-you-say dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Raphael with a comment about Trump demanding billions from the IRS:
This reminds me, Trump loves to rant and rave about how poorly and dysfunctionally the countries of origin of many migrant to the USA are run, and how bad things look like there.
You know why those countries are so poorly run, Donald? You know why things are so bad there?
Because countries like that are usually run by people who love to pay out large amounts of public money to themselves. Because they’re usually run by people who love to name everything after themselves. Because they’re usually run by people who love to decorate everything in sight with lots of glittering gold. Because they’re usually run by people who love to have their subordinates praise them to high Heaven all the time. Because they’re usually run by people who let their armed goons do whatever they want. #
In short, because they’re run by people like you.
In second place, it’s dfbomb with a comment about calling what’s happening by its proper name:
Minneapolis checking in.
They’re still disappearing my neighbors.
They’re still jumped up shits afraid of a city that cares for each other.
They’re still doing ethnic cleansing.
They’re still nazis.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Heart of Dawn about Tom Homan’s “look what you made us do” comments:
That’s exactly how abusers talk. “Don’t fight back. Its your own fault if I hurt you.”
Next, it’s MrWilson with a comment about right wing “comedy”:
Right wingers don’t tell jokes. Their humor is just disgust and dehumanization of out groups and implied threats, with a lol as punctuation.
Speaking of comedy, over on the funny side our first place winner is David with a theory about the Trump Phone’s failure to materialize:
Probably camera problems
Test video recordings still don’t match Kristi Noem’s scene descriptions, and the phone keeps recording when it should have an unfortunate failure.
In second place, it’s dfbomb again with another comment from Minneapolis:
Minneapolis would cordially like to invite Tom Homan outside for a game of “Hide and go fuck yourself.”
Things were a little slow on the funny side this week, so we’ll just do one editor’s choice — an anonymous comment about a brief line in one of our posts where we described a document in case “you can’t read it”:
THAT’S LIBERAL BIAS!
That’s all for this week, folks!


Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
Oh, thank you! I guess I thank the Academy, my parents, God, all the people who clicked on the light bulb icon, and so on.
However, it wasn’t entirely my insight: IIRC, either Trevor Noah or his scriptwriters made a similar point back during Trump’s first term, or perhaps even already during the 2016 campaign.
Still patrols. They deployed tear gas at Powderhorn Park today.
Fuck off, NAZIs.
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Do you recommend people resist when being arrested?
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Are you from a country where fascists have ever been an issue?
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Are they being arrested or are they being tear gassed? Tear gas is kind of notorious for not being able to discriminate between peaceful protesters, observers, journalists, bystanders, passersby and any intended targets.
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I didn’t stutter there rocky
Adrian isn’t here
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No, you didn’t stutter but you certainly shat out one big non sequitur and you didn’t even realize it. Reminds me of the current rumor about Trump..
Waiting for it
Waiting to see if Trump Patronizes the lower classes.
I cant wait to see a Raise in min wage of $1.
Re: Let's be realistic
A $1 rise in minimum wage may affect 100 million people, for a total cost of $1B. Who can afford that? Don’t forget that Donald Trump is right now suing the IRS for $50B because someone in there (who is serving jail time for it) leaked his tax returns (that every other president since Nixon published voluntarily and which Trump promised publishing himself), and the attorney for the IRS is Pam Bondi.
Who will just “settle” for any amount of taxpayer money that Trump will fancy.
Where is $1B for the working class going to come from if the treasury has to pay its obligations to the corrupt grifters running (or ruining) the government?
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That trump or the Gov. is paying that extra $1.
Its the corps to pay out.
And a $1 increase is/would be an insult to the Dollar bill. You cant even buy a Candy bar anymore.