This week, our first place winner on the insightful facet is danderbandit with a remark about Trump’s assertions relating to the Rebel Act:
50%? I don’t suppose so!
“I’m allowed as you realize as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Rebel Act.”
Per that article, the Rebel Act has been invoked 31 occasions, 30 separate incidents, in our nations historical past by, 15 occasions by presidents and as soon as illegally by MacArthur. 4 occasions to forestall the state from utilizing the nationwide guard from appearing, they had been ordered to face down.
Not as soon as has it been used to cease peaceable protest.
In second place, it’s Stephen with a remark about Elon Musk discovering he doesn’t all the time get every thing he desires from Trump:
So the tech bros who funded Trump are discovering out why our societies spent a number of hundred years increasing the ideas of the rule of legislation and (the concept of at the least) justice for all to incorporate the person on the high
It’s already began with the media homeowners
I’ve obtained no sympathy for them. This was as predictable because the Solar rising within the morning
As an alternative I’m frightened for the futures of everybody
Thought I would increase a glass when it’s time for the Supreme Court docket to take their flip on the pillory
That’s higher than despair proper?
For editor’s alternative on the insightful facet, we begin out with one other touch upon that topic, this time from Alex Tolley:
Historical past classes
If the broligarchs weren’t so smug and drunk on their very own energy and wealth, they’d have identified that is what has occurred up to now, most notably in Nazi Germany. Hitler was extra delicate than Trump, however the consequence was the identical. Even the gasoline chambers had been out there for these of the flawed racial heritage.
And these SV oligarchs didn’t know this?
Subsequent, it’s a remark from AmySox about Trump’s calls for for cash and claims that he’ll give it to charity, as a result of I’m a sucker for a superb Star Trek reference:
The Orange Felon says he’s “giving [the $230M] to charity” if he will get it. After all, he firmly believes within the 144th Ferengi Rule of Acquisition: “There’s nothing flawed with charity…so long as it winds up in your pocket.”
Over on the humorous facet, our first place winner is David with a remark about Trump denying the dimensions of the No Kings protests:
So?
King Orange had all the time had type of a weak grasp regarding crowd dimension.
In second place, it’s an nameless remark about Bari Weiss’s quest to root out “bias” at CBS Information by…. making it extra biased:
Quickly you received’t be allowed to place “biased” info into your personal Oracle database.
For editor’s alternative on the humorous facet, we begin out with a remark from The Shadow about Indiana College directors ordering college students to cease printing their newspaper:
In different information
Indiana College has simply introduced that Ms Barbra Streisand shall be dealing with all of their publicity regarding this matter.
Lastly, as an Ontario resident I can’t omit this remark from Thad in regards to the Ronald Reagan anti-tariff advert debacle:
On high of every thing else that’s humiliating about this, are you able to think about what it should really feel wish to be outsmarted by Doug Ford?
That’s all for this week, of us!
