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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about Trump announcing all the things he’s going to spend his tariff tax revenue on:

Behold, the Party of Fiscal Responsibility Corruptibility!

In second place, it’s Thad with a comment about what’s going on with AI:

Also, the problem isn’t that AI costs too much, it’s that people fucking don’t want it.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with one more comment from Thad, this time about the media’s reporting on Trump’s unhinged rant about Rob Reiner:

I used to say the news media were stenographers.

Now I wish they were stenographers. At least stenographers would accurately report Trump’s words.

Our news media are reputation managers: they sanewash Trump’s incoherence and cruelty to make them sound rational and respectable.

Next, it’s Kinetic Gothic with another comment on said rant:

Trump is proving my first rule of TDS.

People who accuse someone of suffering from TDS will invariably be more unhinged than the person they’re accusing.

Over on the funny side, it’s another slow week for comments (actually pretty slow on both sides, which I chock up to the holiday season!) so once again we’ll forego the editor’s choice and just highlight the two comments that barely cracked the threshold for a funny badge. In first place, it’s zerosignal with a comment about the rhetoric around ICE ramping up activity in Minneapolis:

I went downtown to a Timberwolves game recently, and was murdered TWICE! Once on my way to dinner before the game, and once after the game walking to Ramp B.

In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about the role of an ad agency that makes gambling ads in Australia’s social media ban, in response to a comment about “playing with loaded dice”:

You can still load those dice over a VPN.

That’s all for this week, folks!