from the what-were-you-saying dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Rocky with a reply to an unhinged comment about the “debunked” Steele Dossier “funded by Hillary Clinton”:
What’s funny here is that you don’t actually know the origin of said dossier or you have conveniently excised that knowledge from your brain, just like do with a lot of other knowledge that directly conflicts with any of your arguments de jour.
It was originally commissioned by The Washington Free Beacon who didn’t want a republican presidential candidate (Trump) with a lot of skeletons showing up during a campaign. So no, it wasn’t funded by Hillary Clinton but I guess truth and facts is something you don’t care about anymore since you find it easier to lie stupidly expecting everyone to believe you.
This may shock you, but people are actually far smarter that you are so you can take your transparent lies and show them.
In second place, it’s That Anonymous Coward with a comment about Cybertruck owners asking Congress for protection against people making fun of them:
Make people stop flipping me off when I drive around in my Deplorian!
Make people stop putting mean notes on my Swasticar!
Umm we have libraries getting bomb threats & get no extra help or protection… but someone flips you the bird and you need a SWAT team dispatched?
I’ve had people claiming I molest children & I haven’t melted down this bad.
They flipped you the bird, please fuck right off.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Drew about the collapse of American checks and balances:
We had the same problem in the UK during the Johnson era. The people who came up with the controls never envisaged:
a) a premier who would simply lie, lie, and lie again.
b) a media system that would allow this to go (effectively) unchallenged.
c) a party that would abandon its morals so abjectly.
d) a court system that would go along for the ride (didn’t happen in the UK but has plainly done so in the US).
and finally
e) an electorate that would vote for that candidate anyway, despite knowing all this.
Next, it’s Narcissus with predictions about Tesla stock:
Not so sure
“And Tesla’s stock will surely rise at some point.”
Tesla stock value was always based on air. The price of the stock would make it worth more than the 5 biggest carmakers together. If you want to be nasty, you could say that quintessentially it’s a meme stock.
From an investor standpoint you would defend those prices as a bet on the future of the company. Which is a big bet but, okay. However, now, due to Musk’s antics, the brand (a huge part of a company’s goodwill) is basically toxic. Besides that, sales are dropping like a stone and not even a Trump commercial can fix that. Seeing the reason for the drop it will make it worse probably.
So, the future of the company is looking bleak. Any sane investor would look for the exit. Not sure that can be fixed.
Maybe Musk can sell it to Greenpeace or the Dalai Lama?
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is TheHangNail with a comment about Trump claiming that boycotting Tesla is illegal:
Up is Down
Wait, it was ok to boycott Bud Light because a trans person was shown drinking one for 30 seconds but boycotting a company because its CEO is systematically destroying our civic structure is not ok?
Maybe we need to get as many trans people as possible to video themselves driving Teslas. It will, at the very least, confuse the heck out of the right.
In second place, it’s Krish with another comment about those touchy Cybertruck owners:
Cyber Trucks don’t have blinkers. They have virtue signals.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, since it bothers them so much, we’ll continue with a few more Tesla-owner jokes. First, bsbllshrtstp summing up their request for protections:
DEI but for ugly trucks
And finally, Bloof to close things out:
‘I bought a grotesque status symbol to proudly show the libs exactly who I am, also please stop the libs judging me for who I am.’
No wonder they were designed to look like an industrial freezer on wheels, given how they’re filled with snowflakes.
That’s all for this week, folks!
