Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about US Attorney Ed Martin's apparent personal intimidation campaign against Trump/Musk rivals:

Note the direct association of putting America first" with the act of adhering to a presidential executive order that can only apply to government employees. Sycophantry to authoritarianism is both ugly and stupid.

In second place, it's Stephen T. Stone with a response to a comment defending Trump's FCC because the media will have to stop distorting the news or lying outright":

You mean like how Fox News lied about Dominion voting machines and paid nearly a billion dollars to Dominion for telling that lie?

For editor's choice on the insightful side, we've got a couple of comments about the ICE prosecutor who was uncovered as the operator of a racist ExTwitter account. First, it's Bloof with thoughts on what comes next:

He'll quit, claim victimhood by the woke mob and corrupt journalists and spend a bunch of time as an immigration expert' on Fox and CNN, before being parachuted into a house seat in a heavily gerrymandered district.

Next, it's an anonymous comment about the real problem:

A reminder that it's not that this bigot shouldn't be in this post: it's that the post, and all of ICE, should not exist.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Thad with a comment about Elon Musk's letter demanding everyone list their accomplishments:

I wonder if answering Your mom" would get you fired, or promoted.

In second place, it's That Anonymous Coward with a comment on our post about John Oliver's segment on content moderation:

I'm still waiting for platforms to silence conservative voices... I keep hearing the stupid shit they are claiming.

For editor's choice on the funny side, we start out with another comment from MrWilson, in response to jokes about Devin Nunes misspelling his name:

Eh, the MAGA approach is to be confidently wrong and just keep asserting your chosen narrative. From now on, Devin Nunes has always misspelled his own name!

Finally, it's Arianity with a comment about the Heritage Foundation's plan to attack Wikipedia editors:

Well, I didn't have getting negatively polarized into becoming a Wikipedia editor on my bingo card, but here we are.

That's all for this week, folks!