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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

It’s a multi-win week for MrWilson, who takes both top spots on the insightful side with one serving as a double-winner at the top of the funny side too. In first place for both insightful and funny is a rebuke of a very argumentative commenter who defended John Roberts’s claim that the Supreme Court is apolitical and just following policy:

I’d explain it, but the comments don’t allow for a script that loads a completely different explanation every time you glance at it or respond to it, whatever serves the argument in the moment.

In second place on the insightful side, it’s another comment on that same post, with a more accurate description of the absurdity of the claim:

This feels like Robert E. Lee telling slaves that they shouldn’t criticize him for fighting the North so hard in order to preserve the “right” of slaveholders to enslave them.

It’s an inherently patronizing and blatantly bullshit take. He also seems to think unpopular just means “people don’t like it” rather than “it’s actually an unconstitutional power grab.”

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with one more comment from that post, this time from Berenerd offering another rebuke of Roberts:

Flying flags upside down in solidarity with insurrectionists, overturning decades old precedents including one that there was no real case before the court, but it was seen anyway because Pro-Choice kills babies. I think even on was overturned taking the exact opposite of the text of the law in question but I can’t find it…

Nope, nothing to suggest they are not trying to legislate from the bench.

Next, it’s Drew Wilson with a comment about the media’s approach to reporting on Trump:

It’s a clear cut example of sanewashing by the media. Yet, when you point out that it’s obvious sanewashing, the media types will whine about how they are not sanewashing and that they are just “clarifying” or “explaining” what the president meant. Then, the media will turn around and wonder why so few trust them anymore afterwards. It’s all frustrating, but it has also been going on for years now. It’s gotten to the point that this is hardly surprising.

Even the Canadian media when covering the US president does it. Live footage gets put out with Trump with his usual senile crazed rantings that make no sense at all, then when they cut back to the reporters who “break it down for all of us”, they basically do everything in their power to make Trump look as presidential as humanly possible. Sometimes, they’ll admit that he can be “unpredictable”, but that’s about it. Why the Canadian media contributes to the sanewashing of a president who is actively trying to undermine Canadian sovereignty is something I’ll never fully understand.

Over on the funny side, things are pretty quiet this week. We’ve already had the first place double-winner above, but there wasn’t much activity beyond that, so we’ll forego the editor’s choice and just highlight the second-place winner. It’s a commenter going by Magic 8 Ball in response to a comment suggesting Trump will hire, well, a magic 8 ball to replace the National Science Foundation board:

Outlook not so good

That’s all for this week, folks!