The Onion Journalists right now:

The Onion Journalists right now:

If I were an Onion article writer, I'd probably have a mental breakdown. Who can come up with anything more Oniony than this??? (Wait until tomorrow for the answer, I guess.)
Onion needs to rebrand and just be factual, real reporting now.
Nothing they can create is more absurd than this bizarre world we've found ourselves in.
It is real!!??? Actually real??!
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-patriot-games/
Tbh this is probably something Trump, 79, will forget he said in a week or so and no one will take any action.
Oh no, there's going to be all sorts of government contracts paid out for this. THEN nothing will be done.
"There was no indication the Patriot Games would pit competitors against each other in a fight to the death, as of this writing." Lmaoo
Funny thing is, if they decided policy this way I'd guess it'd be more representative than the House of Representatives for California.
Well he didn't say it per se, as he had an AI version of him announce it officially. Wish I was joking.
Wow, now even Snopes has the “give us your email for access” bullshit?! How disappointing.
I even turned off my adblocker for a bit to read this and there are so many pop ups after closing each one. The enshittification continues.
This is what happens when everyone uses adblock
Adblocking is a defense against malicious advertisers and scammers which makes it a security tool.
Blaming adblock is like blaming people for going to the bathroom during commercials.
If the online ad industry was just about serving ads you could say that I guess. Early Internet ads were usually placed pretty intrusively on websites, and very soon went from annoyance to security risk as ads became a disturbingly common vehicle for malware delivery. Today malware via ads is far less common but an ad isn't just an ad -- now ads are powered by, and an agent of, a surveillance network.
If an ad could just be an ad it would actually be safe to roll without an ad blocker; I would infact do so as well unless a site was really egregious with their ad placement, I want to support websites doing good work. The Internet ad industry forced us into blocking their ads. My adblock never turns off, even for sites I'd very much like to support, because ads are just a pile of malicious code. Ad blockers would have stayed niche techy things if the ad industry wasn't scummy as hell.
So anyways, I feel I got a little rant-y. My point is that the ad industry themselves fed the demand for ad blockers. Ads themselves and website placement didn't get egregious because of ad blockers, ad blockers became common because ads and ad placement got egregious.
They're giving Trump and his family busy work to do while people like Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth do more heinous things. It will be as pathetic as their military parade.
It will happen…it will just be partisan, shitty and tacky when it does.
Is it a satire? At this point I seriously can't tell
At this point if anything says Trump is doing something so ridiculously stupid that nobody would really do that then it is true because it has been 100% of the time.
Sometimes I notice such a thing posted by the Onion and figure they found a way to predict the future.
Lord Fuckwad has decreed “Some of you may die, but it is a sacrifice I’m willing to make”
Ohwow
Farquaad (from shrek) == fuckwad
How have I missed that til now?
As I understand it, the head of Dreamworks at the time used to work at Disney, but had a falling out with the animation chief there and based the entire Farquaad character, and name, on him. Professional level pettiness.
With 50% men and 50% women? Isn't that woke nowadays?
Oh, I see... Young women... Now, it makes sense.
These people shouldn't be allowed within 100 feet of any teenagers.
are they going to be forced to kill each other or something? survivors get to be his sex slaves?
So he specifically included Puerto Rico and Washington DC?
The Mara lago look definitely looks like the capital people in the hunger games
Enjoyed the book, looking forward to seeing what they do with this movie.
I'm releasing this offensive photo:

I've made it SFW

I approved it for public release
No you didn't, you left the neckussy visible.
President Vance might somehow be worse.
Vance may be worse, but I don't think he would have whatever voodoo control it is that trump has on the deplorables.
Yeah, the man has negative charisma. But like any other cult that survived long enough, that's actually how it usually goes. Original guy is batshit crazy and has control over minds of his cultists, and when he dies the new guy is ruthless, efficient, and keeps in relative obscurity, and if he's successful, the cult lives on. The second guy usually makes a cult into evil machine of hate, abuse, grift, and expansion.
It happened with mormonism, it happened with scientology. If it will happen with maga it will be the catastrophic end of the US.
How is he going to pay for it?
As a European, this is a "The Onion"-Joke, right?
Why? Just why.
Isn't there a really bad Clancy book by that name? Yeah, I just read the plot summary and it sounds as deranged as something trump would write.
Stephen King wrote it, like in the 70s or something, apparently
Nope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Games_(film)
You’re probably confusing it with Running Man, or with The Long Walk, mentioned in the comments here elsewhere.
Surely they'll forget about bread if the circus is entertaining enough, right?
Something something cautionary tale
This is not at all the worst idea he's ever had
It actually sounds kinda nice.
Where's he getting the money for it though?
That. Is the question.
if it wasn't fascist bread and circus then by itself it isn't a bad idea.
in the context, it's a shitty idea, especially when the economy is collapsing, pedo files are illegally held, and ICE is at war with American cities.
Looks like the books and movies are about to become historically accurate.
This, the oil tanker and the new trans care nonsense seems pretty obviously timed to distract from the Epstein files BS
tbh, I was expecting the purge to come first. No guns for the wrong ethnic groups, though.
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