Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

from the so-you-say dept

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Heart of Dawn with a comment about the Trump administration’s unproven announcements regarding Tylenol and autism:

As an autistic person, it infuriates me no end that some people think a life like mine is a fate worse than death.

As woman,its also clear that they going to blame us for needing pain relief, especially one of the few that can be safely taken during pregnancy.

On a side note: acetaminophen is better known as paracetamol in different parts of the world.

In second place, it’s Stephen T. Stone with a comment about MAGA’s miscalculation in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination:

Side note: Anyone else notice how the Charlie Kirk “memorial” was less an event for grieving a loss and more a weird combination of a megachurch sermon, a political rally, and a WWE event? I swear, Kirk’s widow could’ve come out to Cody Rhodes’s entrance theme and it wouldn’t have felt out of place there, given that she walked out to pyro and all.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with another comment from Stephen T. Stone, this time about Disney’s miscalculation regarding Jimmy Kimmel:

Kimmel’s suspension got a fair number of conservative/right-leaning media figures⁠—including Joe Rogan, of all people!⁠—pissed off at Trump and the FCC for censoring Kimmel, and plenty of people cancelled their subscriptions to Disney Plus and Hulu, and that’s on top of Disney Adults™ saying they would (and potentially did) cancel their trips to Disney’s theme parks.

If I was a Disney shareholder, I’d be pissed as hell that Disney bent the knee to a would-be king at the cost of both its integrity and a shitload of money. That calculus is part of the reason Kimmel is back on the air: Disney had more to lose by pissing off the general public than it did by pissing off the enemies of free speech.

Next, it’s That One Guy with a comment about masked federal agents:

‘If you misuse a toy it will be taken away’, literal children know this

Even if you accept the claim/lie that without masks federal agents are just getting beaten up left and right it’s strange how that only became the case after Trump and his regime came into office, as before that there had been decades if not centuries where cops and other federal officers could be identified on the job at a glance without issue.

I wonder what could have been responsible for the drastic shift in perception and response by the public towards cops and federal agents, it certainly can’t have been anything the regime did so I guess we’ll never know…

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Thad with another comment about MAGA moving too fast, invoking a famous Onion headline:

Bush made it look easy, but what today’s fascists have failed to understand was that he didn’t fuck the economy until after he’d pared the Bill of Rights down to a manageable six.

In second place, it’s Whoever with another comment about ICE agents in masks:

I am still waiting to hear how ICE agents can work while wearing masks when many in law enforcement said that it was impossible to breath while wearing a mask.

For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a complaint from David about our use of the term “halfwits” regarding the administration and peddlers of medical misinformation:

Please stop pulling numbers out of your hat

I have no idea how you come up with “half” here. That seems like way too high an estimate.

Finally, it’s an anonymous comment about Trump’s rambling lawsuit against the New York Times that was struck down before they even responded:

That complaint shouldn’t have been evaluated by a judge. It should have been evaluated by a psychiatrist.

That’s all for this week, folks!