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    This looks like an SNL sketch. People keep expressing sympathy for the onion writers, but really, how does one even parody this? Just shot for shot, word for word something a satirist would come up with.

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      50 years ago, the president advertising a product probably would have lead to investigations

      Now it barely makes the evening news.

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      This is basically what killed South Park in 2016. Trump became president and you can’t even parody that, because You can’t think of anything more absurd. Except maybe electing him for a second time.

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      Honestly, every time I see an SNL skit recently that mimics one of the latest events I keep saying this is sad because as crazy as they get, I feel like the real event was so much crazier. The skits just make me sad because I’m just being reminded of how fucked we are.

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      I figure The Onion just has to full on go the opposite direction.

      -Trump Returns Funds to Ukraine: Turns Back on Russia.

      -Functioning Government Returns to the United States

      -Democrats Embrace The Left

      Headlines no one could believe and stories about things basically working like they should.

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      This looks like an SNL sketch.

      Ohh, I kept waiting for something funny to happen, but now I get it - it won’t.
      :D

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      SNL have been getting alot it lately with all the material they are getting from trump admin.

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    It’s not like it’s a surprise. Remember how he did a photoshoot with a can of beans, because the owner of the brand said he liked him?

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    They literally just notified 32% of the Department of Education last night that they were being fired.

    Fuck these assholes and anyone who voted for them can fucking drop dead.

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      i mean, who needs Education anyways? in the future, when machines take all the jobs, there’s no point in having an educated workforce. so better cut down on that money that schools are spending today. (/s)

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        I can’t wait until the ultimate karma when they try and actually replace everyone with AI and it all fucks up. Everyone who is ever tried to do that is always ended up in trouble.

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    Do these idiots not realize that it’s Tesla’s association with nazis that’s killing sales? How did they think this was going to help, Republicans are suddenly going to start buying electric vehicles?

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      It definitely won’t help. “The most unlikable person on earth being associated with our brand is tanking our stocks, what do we do? I know, well ask the second most unlikable person on earth to help.”

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    It has to be bad if they resort to trying to sell EVs to climate change deniers.

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      Maybe this is secretly how they save the environment. Coal rollers switching to EVs. And Putin launching the nukes causing a nuclear winter. Global warming solved.

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    Tesla sales are tanking because of Elon’s embracing fascism and this is the best they could come up with to fix it

    Just lean harder into it and hope the guy who hates electric cars can sell electric cars

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    I will party a whole week long when he finally dies… So hurry up Donald.

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      I really, really, really hope he dies on the toilet. It’s such a fitting place. Just, he takes a break from a meeting and doesn’t come back. And when they go to look for him, he’s slumped to the side. Unable to give anal birth to DJT the Turd. I hope pictures of it leak. I’d get it on a t-shirt.

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        On the toilet?

        In public! Grabs his heart the area where normal humans have a heart, starts staring wildly, sweating profusely, all you hear is a giant wet fart, then his pants stain brown, he stumbles, knocks his head, bites his tongue, collapses.

        The end.

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          Yeah, on the toilet. Alone with the realization and fear of death. No family or fans around to comfort his ego. Just cold, uncaring porcelain.

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            I think it would be gold rather than porcelain in his case. But I get your point.

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              Something poetic about that. Gold is one of the best thermal conductors, so it’s always cold.

              Although given his family not having them around might actually be a blessing.

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          I like this better than on the toilet because he’d realize only then that all the riches and fame in the world cannot save him from the debt all men must pay

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          im surprised he never got a diaper rash before, or an infection from sitting in his stool all day.

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        i doubt he has sat on one since the 90s, since he transitioned to only using diapers. hes known to have worn diapers for that long due to cocaine abuse causing incotinence. Elon is probably strung out as much trump is.

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      the one for Thatcher in Britain was LIT. There was a conga line in the street and “Ding dong the witch is dead” shot to the top of the music charts

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        I was a child, don’t remember much about her other than the bitch took our milk at school.

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      For me, it’s gotta be a bullet in a bunker, MAGA has to die cowardly and with a wimper so even those most faithful don’t want to talk about it any more

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        I really would love them to turn into worms like Envy and them suffer their fate.

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        I dunno, do they get to just not talk about it anymore? I feel like any one of them with a modicum of shame left would be so happy for it to go away and then never have to talk about it again.

        It may not be healthy for “healing” or whatever, but I think round 2 Trump supporters should have their foreheads branded so everyone knows for the rest of their lives what kind of people they are and what kinds of brains they have.

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          If Thomas Matthew Crooks had not decided to use a bottom of the line AR-15 with iron sights and splurged on a proper target rifle in a long-range caliber like .300 winchester magnum or 6.5mm Creedmoor and a decent scope. Along with match grade JHP boat tail ammunition, he wouldn’t even NEED to know what ranges he is shooting. At the distance he was from Trump he would not have needed to adjust much for windage or bullet drop. He could have aimed for the chest and fired, and maybe even gotten a follow-up shot to the chest again (little chance in surviving that) and there would be no more Trump. The Secret Service sniper would still have blown Crooks’s head off, but he would have died knowing he accomplished his goal.

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          Not even a couple inches, he literally just picked his head a bit to the side, maybe an inch at most. That little chicken-head-jerk thing he does when he talked saved his life by like half a second. Just a guess, but I’m almost sure that at the moment the shooter pulled the trigger, the shot was lined up.

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    This gives me major late night car dealer commercial vibes. My English to Trump is terrible however I have faith that someone write Trump doing the narration for this commercial.