Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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from the speak-out dept

This week, n00bdragon takes both top spots in the insightful side. In first place, it’s a comment about Trump’s latest attempt to get Jimmy Kimmel fired:

What gets me the most confused is that Kimmel gave his monologue multiple days before the WHCD. No one objected at the time. No one, not even the administration, is implying that his monologue inspired the gunman (who probably already has his hotel reservation booked). There is absolutely no nexus, real or even alleged, between Jimmy Kimmel’s joke and the attempted assassination. The demand to fire Kimmel is a complete non sequitur. What next? “The sky is blue today, so fire Jimmy Kimmel”?

In second place, it’s a comment about the details included in the DOJ’s crazy legal brief about the White House ballroom:

Uh, forget about telling the (fake?) National Trust for Historic Preservation about the details of a top secret military installation. Did… the White House just tell us about details of a top secret military installation? Pretty sure there are lots of spy networks all over the world that would LOVE to find out if all the air vents are connected and if hacking the security in the ballroom will get you into the underground bunker. I guess the Very Stable Genius (and lawyer, apparently) answered that for him. Best president ever!

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Thad about Tennessee’s Charlie Kirk Act:

I’ve said it before, but they tried to use his death like the Reichstag fire or 9/11 but the plain truth is most people didn’t know who he was.

And people like Kirk have spent the past25 years training Americans to just shrug and move on when there’s a shooting. He was literally in the middle of trivializing shootings when he was shot. Well, he got what he wanted; nobody fucking cares.

Next, it’s MrWilson with a reply to the first place winning comment:

We saw this post-9/11. The attacks (or terrorism in general) were used as an argument in favor of whatever cause a politician wanted to push. It didn’t require even the thinnest thread of a connection in their minds.

“I’m a proud American patriot and the terrorists are coming for our precious dairy industry, so the farmers in my district deserve a special tax break!”

It’s just abject and obvious opportunism.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is an anonymous comment on our post comparing Palantir employees to the characters in a famous Mitchell & Webb sketch:

They’re already in the process of switching to a rat’s anus.

In second place, it’s Pixelation with a comment about Paramount trying to blame Netflix for all the negative merger press:

Follow the orange clown

They should go one step further and blame the real culprit. Biden! All that is wrong with America, Biden did it!

For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with an anonymous comment about James Comey’s seashell post:

Amazing! I have the same combination on my luggage!

Finally, it’s That One Guy with another comment about Jimmy Kimmel:

MAGAts: Make humor legal again!

Liberal Comedian: [Exists]

MAGAts: Not that kind!

That’s all for this week, folks!