Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, all our winning comments came in response to our post about Donald Trump falling for satire from a website called The Dunning-Kruger Times. In first place on the insightful side, it’s That One Guy with a comment about how this is hardly surprising:

He fell for it because he WANTS to believe it(and he’s incredibly stupid)

Of course he fell for it, and I’ve no doubt that a massive number of his cultists had/have fell for it too, they are all in a post-fact cult where reality is is determined not by what can be shown and demonstrated to be real but by what you want to be real, and he and his cultists deeply want Obama to be engaged in an illegal kickback scheme like that so they can criticize both the ACA and Obama as terrible.

In second place, it’s an anonymous comment responding to our point that, as president, Trump has access to the best and most accurate information if he wants it:

That was true. But it’s not any more, because this administration has done its best to purge the people and destroy the agencies producing accurate information.

Not that I’m excusing the mad would-be king from his own stupidity: this is who he’s always been. But I think it’s worth noting that mechanisms which took decades to carefully build, in order to ensure that decision makers in government had the highest quality information at their fingertips, have been gutted in favor of wishful thinking, fabrication, propaganda, and outright lies.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we’ll briefly move away from that post for a pair of comments on our post asking if Microsoft is really cool with the DHS using imagery from Halo to promote fascism. First, it’s Arianity focusing attention on a comment from the CEO:

“You and your policies are really helping a lot,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told the president.

Says all you really need to know, they’re happy to bend the knee as long as the money spigot stays open.

Next, it’s That One Guy again, with a comment suggesting the answer to the question is easy to deduce:

Cowardly way to signal your support for fascism but okay…

Premise 1: Companies like Nintendo and Microsoft are prone to going legally nuclear if someone uses one of their properties without permission and it garners enough attention.

Premise 2: The regime has used properties from both companies, Pokemon from Nintendo and now Master Chief from Microsoft.

Premise 3: Neither of them have filed lawsuit or even objected to the use of their properties.

Conclusion: Both Nintendo and Microsoft support the use of and association with the regime and it’s actions.

Over on the funny side, we’re back to the Trump-falling-for-satire post, with the first place winner being an anonymous comment about our call for anyone who believed the post to “have their head examined”:

Trump’s head has already been examined by many of the greatest doctors in the world.
They’ve found nothing. Nothing at all.

In second place, it’s another anonymous comment about Trump’s specific reaction:

I have to believe Trump’s “wow” is in response to the idea of somebody getting paid $40 million slowly over 15 years, rather than in a few months of lump-sum frivolous lawsuit settlement bribes.

For editor’s choice on the funny side, it’s another week where the truth is the funny comments were few and far between (those two winners were the only ones to crack more than a couple votes). So we’ll stick with just one editor’s choice comment, this time from Tavis in response to the degrees-of-connection system by which the government is justifying blowing up boats supposedly involved in drug trafficking:

In Other News

Kevin Bacon is currently seeking sanctuary in an undisclosed location over extensive records suggesting traffickers’ Bacon numbers are suspiciously low.

That’s all for this week, folks!