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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSatire was officially declared dead at approximately 8:50 Eastern time this morning.
The cause of death was listed as the fact that the individual who on Twitter referred to a sitting US Senator as "Liddle Bob Corker" was not actually a poorly disciplined eight year old boy on the playground somewhere, but rather someone who had purportedly been sworn in as President of the United States this past January.
Satire had been on life support since earlier in the morning, where the fact that the President of the United States had challenged his own Secretary of State to an IQ test was not something that was reported by The Onion or the New Yorker's Andy Borowitz, but rather as something that actually and honest to God really had taken place.
ProfessorGAC
(64,425 posts)Rec'd
leftstreet
(36,081 posts)ugh
brush
(53,475 posts)Last edited Tue Oct 10, 2017, 11:26 PM - Edit history (1)
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)serious underlying mental health issues.
Yeah, Trump is the bad acid and he's triggered America's serious underlying mental health issues. So, it's quite possible this bad trip will not end.
I just hope someone discovers a cure before it's truly too late.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Im so glad Ill wake up and be back in 1993 with tix for Lollapalooza this summer.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)Got my driver's license. My friend would still be here. My mother would be my teacher again though. God that sucked.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)genxlib
(5,507 posts)It was nice knowing you. I am going to miss your ability to cheer me up by showing that things could be more absurd than reality.
spanone
(135,636 posts)wryter2000
(46,016 posts)The Onion Gives Up
csziggy
(34,120 posts)By David Harris Gershon
Monday May 27, 2013 · 12:10 AM EST
For nearly 25 years, The Onion has been satirizing American politics and society with unparalleled brilliance. However, the fake news publication or "America's Finest News Source" has sadly and stunningly announced that it will cease operations in 2014.
In a press release, The Onion's Editor-In-Chief, Will Tracy, explained what led to the publication's difficult decision:
The Onion has always been recognized as a first-rate satirical publication, making fun of all that is absurd in our socio-political world. However, in today's contemporary political environment, our brand has simply gotten muddled. And I can say with clarity that today's GOP is fully to blame.
[...]
It used to be that political satire was easy. All one had to do was find the absurd buried beneath the surface of a given story and employ satire to highlight that absurdity. To shine a light on it.
<SNIP>
Author's Note:
Yes, I authored this piece, not The Onion -- though if the latter comes calling with a job offer, I have a number in mind.
More: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/5/26/1211908/-The-Onion-Calls-it-Quits
wryter2000
(46,016 posts)It was perfect, anyway.
csziggy
(34,120 posts)6.16.99 Vol 35 Issue 23
Nation's Experts Give Up
WASHINGTON, DCCiting years of frustration over their advice being misunderstood, misrepresented or simply ignored, America's foremost experts in every field collectively tendered their resignation Monday.
"Despite all our efforts to advise this nation, America still throws out its recyclables, keeps its guns in unlocked cabinets where children have easy access, eats three times as much red meat as is recommended, watches seven hours of TV per day, swims less than 10 minutes after eating, and leaves halogen lights on while unattended," said Dr. Simon Peavy, vice-president of the National Association of Experts. "Since you don't seem to care about things you don't understand, screw you. We quit."
"My final piece of expert advice," Peavy added, "is that all of you people should just go fuck yourselves."
More: http://www.theonion.com/article/nations-experts-give-up-682
Or maybe you were thinking of this:
Maybe in response the New York Times did this one on The Onion just last fall:
By SARAH LYALLNOV. 4, 2016
CHICAGO Now that its almost over and were all thoroughly miserable, is there anything funny left to say about this dreadful election? Even the writers at the satirical website The Onion were struggling the other morning to come up with fresh avenues of amusement.
Lounging around the writers room, they listened to the editor in chief, Cole Bolton, read from a list of potential headlines they had submitted for consideration. Some of them were pretty funny Trump Tells Supporters Next Stop in Movement Is Buying Luxury Condos, for instance, and Clinton Vows Complete Transparency for Remaining 6 Days of Campaign but by the end of the meeting, only three out of 48 had been selected as worthy of turning into an item for the site. A kind of comic fatigue seemed to be setting in.
We feel like weve passed every single stage of despair, hopelessness and rage, Mr. Bolton said. This last week is just us strafing to find new angles, to put into words how horrible this experience has been.
Its not that The Onion, which began as a campus humor magazine at the University of Wisconsin in 1988 and went all-digital at the end of 2013, has not faced dismaying events before. Its specialty is finding satire even in topics seemingly impossible to satirize. God Angrily Clarifies Dont Kill Rule was its headline for a post-9/11 article in which a despairing God rails at the moronic nature of his creation.
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/business/media/how-to-satirize-this-election-even-the-onion-is-having-trouble.html
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)stated they would not allow their child to be buried in the country that killed her.
Satire is also survived by her sister Irony, niece Post-Irony, and brothers Sarcasm and Paradox. In lieu of flowers, send donations to Democrats.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,085 posts)njcpa1978
(114 posts)Cousin Litote said 'and it won't be a bad day when their gone'
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)to this country. Why does the gop ALWAYS pick the worst candidates for the WH? They like having a puppet in office, but this time Vlad is in charge. Vlad KNOWS tRump is an idiot, so he is making a laughingstock of this country. He gets loads of help from the gop, who also take Russian $$$$. Whoever said "Money is the root of all evil" must have seen the repubs. in action.
Tribalceltic
(1,000 posts)My thoughts and Prayers are with you. My best hope is that you are no longer in Pain.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,750 posts)That's hilarious.
Even if he could get someone to read him the questions, he'd be like a seven year old with serious hyperactivity, and since none of the questions would involve telling him how great he is, he'd quickly lose interest. Then of course he'd lie about his IQ, and unless part of the challenge would include the actual results, he'd sort of get away with it.
Trump is reasonably bright, but only in a street smart, manipulative way. Not in the things that IQ tests purport to measure.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,085 posts)....was in the 99.99% percentile. The scientific basis for that claim was....drumroll....Trump got into Wharton School of Business.
No. Seriously. That was it.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,750 posts)at Wharton, which isn't terribly selective in the first place. And despite Trump's boast of graduating first in his class, he didn't.
njcpa1978
(114 posts)Dad's money got him in, not answers on a test.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)IF he did, he would lose. Easily.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)IQ Test? Trump Suggests Hes Smarter Than Tillerson
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump suggested he's smarter than Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, saying in an interview published Tuesday that if Tillerson did call him a moron, as reported, the two should "compare IQ tests."
"And I can tell you who is going to win," Trump said to Forbes magazine.
Trump's tense relationship with Tillerson burst into public view last week. An NBC News story claimed Vice President Mike Pence had to talk Tillerson out of resigning this summer, and that Tillerson had called Trump a "moron."
Tillerson said he never considered resigning, though he didn't directly address the reported insult. His spokeswoman later said he never used such language.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)If we actually survive this maniac's administration, historians will be talking about it for thousands of years. Right now even Caligula's descendants are breathing a huge sigh of relief that their forebear is no longer the craziest, most incompetent motherfucker who was ever put in charge if a country.
tclambert
(11,080 posts)'Cause Tillerson is smart enough to know what happens if he wins.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)then he is smarter than everyone, too, because of genetics.
He talked about IQ a lot on the campaign trail, but I don't recall him ever mentioning a number. I bet he thinks 100 is the highest you can get on an IQ test, like a spelling test.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)A moment of silence for its passing.
LAS14
(13,749 posts)ButSeeYa
(273 posts)Towlie
(5,308 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)How boorish and unimaginative was it to belittle Corker's height? All too easy and predictable. How empty of content was it to ridicule him personally? How stupid is it for a POTUS to punch down? How insecure is Moron to engage in such petty personal insults. He is not a happy man. Happy people do not walk around with a chip on the shoulder and fists up, ready to punch at anyone and everyone. He is pathetic.
When the book is written, I want to know what his father and mother did to him to turn out such a sorry, pathetic, wounded boy. What happened (or didn't happen) to disable Moron to mature beyond the whiney toddler stage?
tclambert
(11,080 posts)I suspect Daddy Trump said, "You're a disgrace to the family name, you spoiled little brat! Maybe military school will teach you discipline and humility." (Hint: it didn't.)
niyad
(112,435 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,617 posts)But like a zombie, the undead satire rose from the grave. But it could not survive these recent attacks. Whether a new un-undead satire reincarnates remains to be seen.
orangecrush
(19,237 posts)We are going to survive the rest of this term without catastrophe.
Martin Eden
(12,803 posts)... he was proving that Corker's day care comment was correct.
DFW
(54,056 posts)When I heard that Trump had challenged Tillerson to an IQ duel, I was positive, it WAS something by the Onion or Borowitz.'t make this
Now you all know what we mean when we say, "you just can't make this stuff up." If someone HAD made that up, their future as the highest paid writer on the staff of the Colbert show would have been assured.
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)Bob Corker joins a fast-growing list of Trump advisers who infantilize him
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/09/the-people-who-know-trump-best-keep-talking-about-him-like-hes-a-child/?undefined=&utm_term=.96af7af8ab39&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
SergeStorms
(18,903 posts)In a battle of wits, Trump is completely without ammunition. With the attention span of a three-toed Sloth on Quaaludes, Trump would forget what he was doing and start a twitter war with himself.......and lose!
He does have a supremely overblown opinion of himself, without one single fact to back up any of his fantastic claims of his prowess in any department. The laughing stock of all laughing stocks, Donald Trump doesn't have the brains God gave gravel.
Only a complete fool brags about himself as much as Trumps does. He has absolutely nothing to brag about.