this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2024
731 points (97.9% liked)

The Onion

4703 readers
997 users here now

The Onion

A place to share and discuss stories from The Onion, Clickhole, and other satire.

Great Satire Writing:

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 140 points 4 months ago (4 children)

This isn't even satire. I am willing to bet if my conservative coworkers even hear about it, they'll basically say this. Or make some comparison to Venezuela if they are slightly more aware than just parroting Fox.

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I could be dreaming, but I'm pretty sure I've seen this documented irl.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

Bruh, the orange turd himself said exactly this the day of or day after his latest "pay attention to me" press conference literally complaining about the price of groceries

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Check out Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse segments on The Daily Show. They are hilarious.

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

It's almost like they don't want to take any steps to fix the issues because a desperate and angry population is ripe for exploitation.

[–] DigitalNirvana@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

LoL Fox Parrots! Damn GMOs!

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

It's not satire. A editor probably read the Yahoo news comments when this story first broke