Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the speak-up dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Stephen T. Stone with a comment about our call for the government to accept accountability for the power it wields:
Bold of you to assume that Republicans will ever place responsibility for their actions on their own shoulders instead of on the backs of other people.
In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about the Supreme Court telling lower courts to ignore binding precedent:
Lower courts should just keep sending these back up
LOWER COURT: “This is illegal because [mountains of precedent]”
SCOTUS: “No it’s not because oh nooooo I’m going into a tunnel my call is droppinggggggg [making hissing noise] ”
LOWER COURT: “Sorry, I didn’t catch that and neither did the other 676 of us it’s still illegal call back when you have a better connection.”SCOTUS opinions should receive the amount of respect proportional to the effort they put into writing them.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from That One Guy on our post about Zohran Mamdani’s political messaging skills:
Nice to see someone learned the lesson
Every single ‘consultant’ or aide that advised the Harris/Walz team to ‘tone it down’ need to be blacklisted from the industry for life, as assuming they didn’t go in there planning to sabotage the Harris election on behalf of the republicans they are so bloody incompetent and out of touch as to be literally worse than not hiring a consultant at all.
Good on Mamdani for refusing to ‘play nice’ and act like a doormat like so many democrats seem to do in this situation, all spineless appeasement does is signal to republicans that you want to be treated as a punching bag and lose the respect of voters who now have no reason to expect that you’ll stand up for them since you’re not even willing to stand up for yourself.
That said were I in his shoes I’d probably delay any trips out of the country for at least a few more years, given who’s running the border at the moment and how much they hate him I would not put good odds on him being allowed back in the country if he goes on a trip overseas, whether he’s a mayoral candidate or even the actual mayor at the time.
Next, it’s Thad with a comment about the right’s double standards on crime:
Yeah, who was it who said that to these people crime isn’t something a person does, a criminal is something a person is?
To them, Trump is not a criminal, and everyone being held in Alligator Auschwitz is. The number of crimes they’ve been convicted of is irrelevant, in either case.
Over on the funny side, that takes us to our first place winner, who is Thad again, this time with a reply to a commenter complaining about Tim Cushing’s articles:
Thanks for your contribution, guy who hasn’t posted in three years!
(Man, that one troll who thinks it’s a conspiracy every time somebody doesn’t post for a long time but then does is going to be so excited.)
In second place, it’s Strawb with a comment about National Guard troops being unhappy with their role in Trump’s war on protesters:
I guess the Trump admin didn’t shit the bed so much as shit in the Humvee.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a comment from Zonker noting something in the Wall Street Journal’s reporting on Epstein’s birthday book:
“The album had poems, photos and greetings from businesspeople, academics, Epstein’s former girlfriends and childhood pals, according to the documents reviewed by the Journal and people familiar with them”
The real crime here is the lack of an Oxford comma.
Finally, it’s MrWilson with a comment about the latest bit of trademark nonsense:
I’m going to patent the act of filing ignorant trademark and copyright claims and become extremely wealthy!
Wait, damn, there’s too much prior art…
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
Still
Would like a Lonmg Look at that Album for Epstein 50th or any Other Bday.