Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson (who racked up a lot of wins this week) with a comment about the Twitter Files crew staying quiet when there are real attacks on free speech:

“Free speech absolutists”: “You’re absolutely free to shut up and listen to my speech. Also, your speech is a violent assault on me.”

In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about where things go from here:

Unfortunately, the only way out might be to the bottom and through.

Provoking Trump to use the Insurrection Act won’t take much but it will also be the only way that either he gets convicted on impeachment by the current Senate or a subsequent Democratic one with 60 (likely needing 65) votes.

Short of that everyone is content to just piss, moan and wait out the clock which isn’t the appropriate action here, and street protesting has its limits.

You have an entire Overton Window to revert to pre-2016, trillions of dollars to snatch and grab from billionaires and an entire political party to crush, and no one seems to be writing a Project 2026 to do that, both a public half with the policy changes and machinery to govern and the unitary executive fiat reversions of a hundred years of conservative jurisprudence, followed by the hidden half that requires convincing the remaining regional military leadership to coup the GOP out of existence plus logistics for disasters and conflict zones that you hope never to have to need.

A Democratic Presidential Candidate is going to need a menu of options and priorities to pursue hitting the ground running on or prior to 2028 because they are going to have to use the same powers written and unwritten Trump claimed to restore democracy, it’s going to be messy, and it sure as shit won’t follow rule of law or allow 77.5 million Trump voters to walk free once voter rolls are examined for the last 3 or 4 election cycles within this plan (If the GOP wants to try to seize them then the responsibility should be to follow through and use it on them first).

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Arianity about the FTC’s threat of an “investigation” into Apple’s supposed liberal news bias:

Part of fascism is weaponizing things others care about. If they know you care about free speech, they use the trappings of free speech to help push fascism.

Next, it’s Stephen T. Stone with a thought about where the claims of bias come from:

And the algorithm probably leans toward citing left-leaning sources (or sources perceived to be left-leaning) because those sources have far more credibility in re: reporting actual facts. I’m sure that pisses off the MAGA crowd.

Over on the funny side, both top comments come from MrWilson again. In first place, it’s a comment about Trump’s apparent belief that he’s an absolute ruler:

Well, I mean, he was in fact elected in the biggliest landslide victory of 600% of the electoral vote and over 1000% of the popular vote because he’s the…look, nobody understands nuclear like he does, and the Chinese are just ripping us off, so you just have to raise tariffs on the Swiss Prime Minister because she’s just nasty and prices are down everywhere like you’ve never seen and all the experts are saying he should have won the Olympic Gold medal in everything but they cheated him out of it because they’re just awful people like you’ve never seen and everybody knows and windmills cause cancer and have you seen his ratings because they’re the best ever, everyone loves him except fake people. Thank you for your attention to this.

In second place, it’s a comment about how so many high-ranking Trump loyalists are incompetent and stupid:

Apply Dunning-Kruger directly to forehead.

For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a reply from Scott_in_MI to the assertion that Brett Kavanaugh knows the law better than his critics:

Objection – assumes facts not in evidence.

Finally, it’s Thad invoking a well-known image in response to our description of how the DOGE grant review process operated:

That’s that butterfly meme, right?

That’s all for this week, folks!