This week, our first place winner is danderbandit with a comment about the California ruling against a rogue sheriff who seized 650,000 ballots:
So a sheriff broke the law, was confirmed by the state’s top court on two counts. But he is still working as the county sheriff. When is he going to be held to account and what will be the consequences?
Don’t bother looking it up, I have it here. He will be allowed to ride out his current term of office and ride off into the sunset. Or he will be allowed to resign his position and retire with his pension.
Very rough consequences!
In second place, it’s Rocky with a comment about AI-generated mathematical proofs that no human understands well enough to explain:
If we don’t understand it and can’t explain it, is the proof then really complete?
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with another comment about the sheriff, this time from an anonymous commenter:
we live in a country where you can be fined millions of dollars for downloading music but stealing ballots gets you a “hey, cut that out”
Next, it’s Stephen T. Stone spelling out the difference between Trump’s and Obama’s attacks on the press:
Yes. Yes, it is. Also: Obama tried to ban Fox News from a single press pool interview of a low-level cabinet official, whereas Trump tried to ban three major news outlets from the White House entirely (including CNN, which is one of the five networks that share press pool duties). Also also: Obama voluntarily backed off the attempted ban soon after trying, whereas Trump needed a court order to tell him “lmao no stop your shit” and he’s still trying to see how far he can go without potentially involving the Supreme Court. Funny how context changes things, huh?
Over on the funny side, we’re back to the sheriff post again for our first place winner Thad, who responded the question of whether said sheriff would end up in Trump’s FBI:
I dunno, how much bestiality does he do?
In second place it’s Immortan Joe with a little quip about the overuse of the word “addiction”:
Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with one last anonymous comment about the California sheriff:
“… and therefore we find Mr. Bianco to be guilty of an aggravated felony under color of law and thus order him imprisoned for the term of one day per seized ballot, to be served consecutively, with the possibility of parole or early release no sooner than halfway through his sentence, and to pay a fine of $100 per ballot…”
“beep beep beep beep WHUMP”. Sorry, that was my alarm clock going off. Maybe I can dream a little longer…
Finally, it’s an anonymous comment about Trump’s push to rename AI:
Super Intelligence is to Trump what Super Bowl is to bowls.
That’s all for this week, folks!