from the not-so-funny dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about ICE arresting Brad Lander:
Republicans keep saying no one is above the law, but they keep referring only to other people and not themselves. They don’t need warrants. They don’t need to provide due process. They get to assault whomever they like. They don’t even have to identify themselves.
In second place, it’s Stephen T. Stone with another thought on the arrest and the idea that Lander was pulling a “stunt”:
If more Democrats pulled “stunts” like this one, maybe they wouldn’t be seen as a bunch of nutless, gutless, “we must appease the GOP at all costs” cowards—even (and especially) by the people who ostensibly make up the Democrat voting base.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with BernardoVerda and a comment about RFK Jr. predictably spreading even more disinformation:
This is why experts stopped having “debates” with RFK Jr.
RFK Jr repeatedly lies and misinforms:
- He consistently cites bad data and bad studies, and while misrepresenting good data and good studies.
- He gets corrected with detailed explanations on why the data is bad, and/or how it doesn’t mean what he claims it means.
- At the next opportunity, he repeats the very same misinformation as before, that he wasn’t able support the last time he argued against informed expert opinion, as if the previous “debate” never happened.
It’s RFK Jr’s basic modus operandi .
Next, it’s one more comment from MrWilson, this time about ICE complaining about assault on officers:
Assault to these Meal Team Six cosplayers means they brutalized a bunch of human beings and that some victims pushed back, didn’t collapse immediately, or some even did, but they want to claim something happened to make themselves out to be the victims.
They’re pretending that they are the only ones who can be subject to unjust violence. They’re also admitting, despite their toxically masculine culture, that they’re a bunch of wimps.
Over on the funny side… well, this is something I’ve never quite seen before. Perhaps due to the incredibly dire state of the world right now, we had virtually no funny votes on comments this week. No comment got more than a handful of votes, with only 7 barely scraping past the threshold to receive a badge — and several of those are not “real” funny comments but just dumb comments that people seem to have idly clicked funny on for the sake of mockery. So, for once, we’re just going to forego the full Funny side of this post, and I’ll highlight one comment from Thad that performed better on the insightful side but might as well go here, in response to Trump and ICE waffling on the mass arrests of employed migrants:
The racists who want cheap labor and the racists who want a white ethnostate are fighting again.
That’s all for this week, folks!
