from the funny-lull dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is BernardoVerda passing along a quote about a specific speech issue that has (ridiculously) been put back up for discussion:
“I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.”
Texas State Senator Craig Washington (D–Houston) on 6 July 1989
- Often mis attributed to the late, great, Texas journalist Molly Ivins (which is how I came across it — an understandable error; it’s so Molly Ivins, but she was in fact quoting the Senator)
In second place, it’s MrWilson with a comment about the ousting of the CDC Director for not being “aligned with the president’s agenda”:
It makes so much more sense when every time illegal, unethical, or just insane behavior is justified by this administration using the phrase “the president’s agenda,” you substitute in “for der Führer and the glory of the Fatherland.” And no, that’s not hyperbole. Trump and his cronies are acting as if getting elected means Trump gets to do whatever he wants regardless of the legality or ethics. That is authoritarianism. That is anti-democratic. That is unconstitutional. And courts and Democrats had best stop rolling over or else they’ll find they’ve rolled themselves into a corner.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we’ve got a pair of comments from n00bdragon. First, it’s a response to the assertion that Trump’s crackdown on DC is working to reduce crime:
You really think the national guard is rounding up all those murderers cruising the capitol mall? They aren’t actually policing the bad neighborhoods. Now, if you were a Trump flunky (you are, so just put yourself in this position I guess) what would you do if Donald J Trump himself told you “there better not be any crimes in DC, ever, because it’s solved now”. Would you accurately report a murder? Keep in mind, he just finished canning someone last week for reporting accurate statistics he didn’t like.
Next, it’s a comment about using Nixon as a benchmark for presidential crime:
Pretty sure we left mere Nixon-levels of criminality in the dust way back in Jan 2021.
Over on the funny side, it’s one again a bit of a slow week, with only a couple comments just barely racking up the votes to get badges — so we’ll forego the editor’s choice and just look at the two winners. In first place, it’s BernardoVerda again, this time with a different take on DC:
Too be fair, there has in fact been an ongoing and rapidly worsening crime spree in Washington DC, for many months now.
It’s actually pretty hard to miss, seeing as how it’s openly operating out of large, highly visible establishment at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, is barely bothering to disguise even its most blatantly unlawful activities, and is quite actively extending it’s tentacles across the entire country.
Only the most willfully blind fool could miss it.
In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about the right using DEI as a reason to destroy everything:
The real issue is that we didn’t have DEI for stupid white people. Now we have DEI for stupid white people.
That’s all for this week, folks!
