Lighting up his phone night and day with their cruel taunts, a group of teenage girls reportedly convinced Vice President JD Vance to kill himself Tuesday. “Everyone I know thinks you’re so gross,” 16-year-old Bailey Hayworth said in a video message she sent to Vance, causing the vice president of the United States to throw himself on his bed as he contemplated ending everything just to stop the constant stream of barbs from the high school sophomore and her mean friends on the junior varsity volleyball team—Abigail, Paige, Payton, and Sofia. [...]

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[–] 58 points 1 year ago

Sometimes it’s nice to read uplifting fiction. This is one of those.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The one time I thought it said “nottheonion” it had to be the fucking onion.

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    "Hey, you know what? You should definitely run in 2028.”

    Lmao

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    In a cruel twist of events, the girls also killed themselves after voluntarily talking to JD

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Payton is such a bitch. She's just mad that her mom is dating a 25 year old.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Sofia about to get that ICE visit

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    The Onion used to be a place of sinister satire. Nowadays, its just spreading hopeful and cheery messages

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That would probably actually work on Musk.

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    Can someone explain what this is satire of? Or is it just random?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Teen girls are notorious for bullying, mostly kids in middle school (ages 11-14 for non-americans) in general are terrible

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The onion typically bases their satire on recent political developments so I thought maybe he had shown to care about the opinion of teenage girls in a less extreme way or something similar. So in this case there is no actual deep satire and just being a bit silly?

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I'm sure this would be real if some of us got a chance, tbf

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    If only. Fuck JD Vance

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Just call him Pope Francis and it might happen

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I wish he was that sensitive. Trump and Musk, sure. Vance is the smarter, worse type of Republican imo.

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