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 how fascism is happening live on TV:

Trump’s supporters, like Trump himself, if being honest (ha!) will reply, “I don’t care, I want this to happen.”

They’ve never cared about the Constitution except as a weapon to be used against others and as a get-out-of-responsibility free card to use when someone calls them out. Hence the hypocrisy that they defend their harassing and threatening language as “free speech” but call for the persecution and prosecution of the free speech with which they disagree.

They think of the Constitution the same way they do the bible and America itself. Their uneducated, unnuanced gut feeling about what it is and what it contains is more truthy to them than actually being aware of what’s in it and what its nature actually is.

In second place, it’s Thad with a reply to that comment:

Yep. The next time there’s a Democrat in office they’ll suddenly be Very Concerned about checks and balances and coequal branches of government again.

(That and the deficit.)

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from ThatOtherOtherGuy about the failure to prosecute James Comey:

The key difference…

If there was really a crime, veteran litigators would have been lining up to get the case, not resigning to avoid it.

Next, it’s frankcox with a comment about what’s missing when federal judges call out DHS, ICE, and CBP for their lies:

Perjury perjury everywhere…

All of these people lying in court, with proof that they lied, and not a single perjury charge in sight.

Over on the funny side, it appears we’re still in a bit of a drought when it comes to funny comments! There are slim pickings for the editor’s choice, so we’re just going to do the winners by votes (the second of which didn’t even get enough votes to earn a badge).

In first place, it’s MrWilson again with a reply to a weird comment claiming a post said stuff that it absolutely didn’t:

It’s weird that you just admitted to shitting your pants daily. At least that’s how I read it. Apparently it’s not necessary to base your perspectives on things people actually say and you can just fight strawmen all day at your own leisure.

In second place, it’s an anonymous reply pushing back on a comment about RFK Jr. being a brain-eating zombie:

Maybe. But he’s still not a zombie. A real zombie would die of starvation in Washington DC after all.

That’s all for this week, folks!