Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Arianity with a comment about Bezos’s endorsement gambit backfiring:

Trump is a disgusting pile of trash, but it is really funny how he always turns on people who help him. People just lining up to get their faces eaten by leopards, after watching the previous guy get his face eaten, daily. It would be funnier if we weren’t stuck in the same boat with these idiots.

“Donald Trump won’t be satisfied until the Washington Post is full of pro-Trump propaganda and nonsense.”

And then he’ll still throw it under the bus the moment his whims feel like it.

In second place, it’s an anonymous reply to someone defending Trump’s lawsuit against CBS:

Alright. Let’s see every trump interview over his life released in full and uncensored.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with an anonymous comment on our post about the need to fight for free speech in Trump’s America:

A quick reminder to conservatives reading this.

William Westmoreland lost his defamation case.

Richard Jewell lost his defamation case.

Nick Sandmann lost his defamation case.

Stop filing dumb lawsuits. You’re only embarrassing yourself.

Next, it’s an anonymous reply to the claim that things were great during Trump’s first term:

… Los Angeles suspending air quality standards so the crematoriums could burn the COVID dead quickly enough, federal law enforcement grabbing American citizens off the streets and into unmarked vans, unauthorized and secret medical procedures on prisoners. Just so much freedom and goodness.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is a frustrated anonymous response to a troll:

Try not to suck off any fascists on your way to the parking lot.

In second place, it’s That One Guy with another comment about Bezos’s backfire:

Who could have ever seen that coming?

Bezos: But I voiced my support for the Leopards Eating Peoples’ Faces party!

While convicted felon Trump’s attack on the press is disgusting and should be enough to prevent anyone who cares the slightest about the first amendment or free speech from supporting him I have to say there is more than a little schadenfreude to be found in watching the gutless coward Bezos attempt to appease said convicted felon only to immediately have his face on the menu like this.

“The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, and all these papers. They’re not endorsing anybody. You know what they’re really saying – because they only endorse Democrats – they’re saying this Democrat’s no good. They’re no good. And they think I’m doing a great job. They just don’t want to say it,” he said.

And the cowardice of the american press comes home to roost. They sanewashed his words and actions, treated him as a reasonable person and candidate with positions that deserved to be respected, bent over backwards to give him the benefit of the doubt and it got them… ‘Unless you explicitly support my opponent that means you support me and want to see me elected.’

I’d call it a risky gambit on his part as claiming a fraudulent endorsement already blew up in his face once before but this late in the game and given who he’s talking about? It’s probably a fairly safe lie as they’re not likely to do anything in response.

For editor’s choice on the funny side, pickings are a bit slim — I guess people weren’t in the funniest mood this week (for some reason), and there aren’t many comments with much in the way of funny votes. Still, a quick nod to this anonymous clapback to a trollish request for an explanation:

I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain this to you.

And finally, Stephen T. Stone with a comment about the religious right’s opposition to adult content:

“You get to spend eternity with us!” is not the hard sell for Heaven that conservative Christian assholes think it is.

That’s all for this week, folks!