from the funny-lull dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful facet is BernardoVerda passing alongside a quote a few particular speech problem that has (ridiculously) been put again up for dialogue:
“I desire a person who will burn the flag after which wrap himself within the Structure to a person who will burn the Structure after which wrap himself within the flag.”
Texas State Senator Craig Washington (D–Houston) on 6 July 1989
- Typically mis attributed to the late, nice, Texas journalist Molly Ivins (which is how I got here throughout it — an comprehensible error; it’s so Molly Ivins, however she was in actual fact quoting the Senator)
In second place, it’s MrWilson with a remark in regards to the ousting of the CDC Director for not being “aligned with the president’s agenda”:
It makes a lot extra sense when each time unlawful, unethical, or simply insane habits is justified by this administration utilizing 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 appearing as if getting elected means Trump will get to do no matter he needs whatever the legality or ethics. That’s authoritarianism. That’s anti-democratic. That’s unconstitutional. And courts and Democrats had finest cease rolling over or else they’ll discover they’ve rolled themselves right into a nook.
For editor’s selection on the insightful facet, we’ve acquired a pair of feedback from n00bdragon. First, it’s a response to the assertion that Trump’s crackdown on DC is working to cut back crime:
You actually assume the nationwide guard is rounding up all these murderers cruising the capitol mall? They aren’t really policing the dangerous neighborhoods. Now, in the event you had been a Trump flunky (you might be, so simply put your self on this place I assume) what would you do if Donald J Trump himself informed you “there higher not be any crimes in DC, ever, as a result of it’s solved now”. Would you precisely report a homicide? Take into accout, he simply completed canning somebody final week for reporting correct statistics he didn’t like.
Subsequent, it’s a remark about utilizing Nixon as a benchmark for presidential crime:
Fairly certain we left mere Nixon-levels of criminality within the mud method again in Jan 2021.
Over on the humorous facet, it’s one once more a little bit of a sluggish week, with solely a pair feedback simply barely racking up the votes to get badges — so we’ll forego the editor’s selection and simply have a look at the 2 winners. In first place, it’s BernardoVerda once more, this time with a distinct tackle DC:
Too be honest, there has in actual fact been an ongoing and quickly worsening crime spree in Washington DC, for a lot of months now.
It’s really fairly onerous to overlook, seeing as the way it’s overtly working out of huge, extremely seen institution at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, is barely bothering to disguise even its most blatantly illegal actions, and is sort of actively extending it’s tentacles throughout your complete nation.
Solely essentially the most willfully blind idiot may miss it.
In second place, it’s an nameless remark about the proper utilizing DEI as a motive to destroy every part:
The true problem is that we didn’t have DEI for silly white folks. Now we’ve got DEI for silly white folks.
That’s all for this week, of us!
