Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Shannon Vanshoon with a comment about RFK Jr's congressional hearing:
So, yeah, I'd say on one hand that it's nice Senator Cassidy is railing against Kennedy like this for all the unmitigated and horrifically dangerous decisions he's making.
But hey, you know what would've been even better? Not being the deciding vote in the first place, jackass.
Rail all you like, Cassidy; what's happening, and the resulting blood, is still on you. So you're free to go fuck yourself, champ.
In second place, it's MrWilson with a comment about Kristi Noem claiming the National Guard deployment to blue cities isn't politically motivated:
The question being about red states and her response specifically addressing political bias indicates she's highly aware of the need to lie about it, such that her phrasing was so much more direct than she even needed to be to pretend she answering the question.
Have you been mean to anyone else?"
No, I haven't murdered an old man on Jenkins Street on a Thursday night at 2 AM. How dare you ask!?!"
For editor's choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from HotHead about federal judges getting sick of SCOTUS's shadow docket bullshit:
The conservative justices have the audacity to demand that federal courts treat unexplained emergency docket orders as nationwide binding precedent right after whining about thoroughly explained nationwide injunctions by federal courts.
Next, it's n00bdragon with a comment about the federal grand jury that refused to indict the DC sandwich thrower:
I don't think it's jury nullification in the sense of jurors conspiring against the evidence to reach a verdict based on whatever internal beliefs or prejudices they have. I think the government is just throwing astoundingly weak cases at the wall either to see what sticks, to use the process as the punishment, or (the most likely in my view) because all the competent attorneys are gone and the only people left are real Grade A Schmucks.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is MrWilson again, this time in response to another instance of the tired old complaint that a post on Techdirt isn't directly about tech:
Seriously! And when I read USA Today articles, I realize they're talking about stuff that happened yesterday! And don't get me started on the Washington Post. George Washington has been dead for over two hundred years. There's no way he's writing articles now. Did you know that the New York Times and LA Times don't only report on time related issues like daylight savings or the measure of a millisecond?!? Boston is a city, not a globe! Arizona is a state, not a republic! Did you know they charge for the Detroit Free Press? And nobody announces Miami's participation at a jousting event who works for the Miami Herald!
It's just about ethics in real journalism!
In second place, it's jvbattlewood with another comment on our post about Kristi Noem's lies:
Sympathy for the Devil?
Remember,she's under a lot of stress,she just bought a $1500 puppy and a $2000 shotgun, probably overstimulated.
For editor's choice on the funny side, we start out with an anonymous addendum filling in a gap in MrWilson's first place comment:
And every time I watch Fox News, I wonder... where are the foxes? Why aren't they talking about foxes?
Finally, it's an anonymous comment apparently passing on a joke they heard elsewhere about the failed sandwich indictment:
The other joke I saw was, throw a hot dog, and we can finally have a legal determination about whether or not a hot dog is a sandwich.
That's all for this week, folks!