from the sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Mamba with a response to a failed “fact check” by another commenter:
Hey twinkle farts, President Roosevelt invoked the Alien Enemies Act immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor to authorize the government to detain enemy aliens. Further, the executive order didn’t need to receive the law. And the law was used to justify the detainment in Federal Court.
Dumb as a box of rocks.
In second place, it’s MrWilson with a comment about Gavin Newsom calling the Abrego Garcia case a “distraction”:
Remember this when Newsom is the next Democratic candidate for president hailed as the only hope against Trump. I’m not telling you not to vote for him because any Democrat or even a fucking doorstop will be a more moral choice than Trump’s 3rd term or whoever the GOP trots out to replace him (it won’t be Vance).
But remember this that Newsom might possibly be marginally better than Biden, but will largely be a return to the same old thing instead of a shift in a positive direction towards actual progress. We’ve lost so much ground of late on civil liberties and human rights that people will be grateful for anything less than the cruelty-backed machinations of authoritarians, but we deserve more.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Thad about Elon Musk supposedly stepping way from DOGE:
The news media credulously reporting Musk’s announcement that he’s stepping back from DOGE seem to have forgotten that sixteen months ago they credulously reported his announcement that he was stepping back from Twitter.
Next, it’s Arianity with a reminder about all the other things supposedly on his plate:
Don’t forget his “third job” (SpaceX), “fourth job” (Boring Co), “fifth job” (Twitter), or “sixth job” (xAI), or “seventh job” (Starlink), all while having time to pretend to be good at video games and shitpost/harassing women on Twitter all day.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is an anonymous comment about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth:
DEI hires? [ x ]
DUI hires? [✓]
In second place, it’s David with a comment about the federal prosecutor who started demanding explanations of editorial policy from medical journals:
The GOP is not to blame for everything
Prosecutors are not political employees but career personnel. Their job is to advance justice on behalf of the American people independent of party affiliation; so blaming a political party for a potentially rogue prosecutor’s behavior is out of line.
Wait, is it 2025 already? My, how the time flies. Forget what I just said, I was lost in the past for a moment.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with That One Guy and another comment about “balance” in medical journals:
Down with ‘Just because you have a lab coat doesn’t mean you’re doing science’ dogma!
I for one look forward to the new Golden Age of American Science, where competing viewpoints like the size and age of the earth, whether it really is possible to make gold out of lead through a complex application of exotic chemicals, and the involvement of storks in childbirth are given equal weight and time with more ‘traditional’ entrench beliefs.
Finally, it’s another anonymous comment about Pete Hegseth:
You know, it’s not really fair to blame alcohol. I’m guessing Hegseth is also mightily incompetent when sober.
That’s all for this week, folks!
