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JD Vance briskly marched up to Air Force 2, Kamala Harris’ plane, planning to give political reporters a show as he confronted the vice president uninvited on Wednesday. His power-play dreams, like most of his chaotic veep run, were immediately thwarted once he realized Harris was not present. “I just wanted to check out my future plane,” Vance told campaign reporters gathered on the tarmac in Wisconsin.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Secret Service should have tazed his ass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

you can't get shot for storming the VPs plane?

they just let you on it?

for all the innocuous things you can get shot for, storming the vice President's plane seems like one you would get shot for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Presumably, he also has secret service protection, so they knew he was coming. Hilarious they decided not to just tell him she wasn't there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh, got it, thanks.

Not telling him is super funny.

Like the agents around him just giving each other knowing glances every now and then, inwardly giggling at how funny it's going to be when he rushes into an empty plane.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hell, you barely get prosecuted for storming Jan 6th

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Even if that phrase hadn’t been used ad nauseum already, this would be the right time to use it. This is truly a WTF move.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's why it's so brilliant. The weird keeps coming.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's all about projecting strength, especially towards women, bonus points if they're not white.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The entirety of conservative politics is narcissists trying to convince morons they embody strength and power...

A weaklings idea of strength.

A peasants idea of wealth.

A losers idea of a playboy.

An idiots idea of a genius.

A cowards idea of a hero.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is it with Americans and just ruining catch phrases?

It's cool and funny sometimes, not every fucking time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cut the fuckin' grass like you were told, Junior.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

weird to see a bunch of younglin's biting the onion localized entirely within this community

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He heard about the couches on the plane....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sorry Vance, mile high club requires sex with a person

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Ugh. Sun-bleached, bad-built, butch-body couch. Not nearly enough curves and contours. How's a fella supposed to get into that? It'll have to go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a CRT TV, how old is this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

They teaching CRT to TVs?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

America being the worldwide laughingstock when it comes to politics has lost it's charm. The last few years Idiocracy has become the better alternative.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The only people that think this are people obsessed with American media.

David Cameron has some association with a pig.

Modi has said some bizarre things about being a demigod.

Macron lectured a kid for saying "How's it going Manu?" instead of "How's to going, Mr. President"

Germany has a long history of very dumb policies, not unique to any specific politician. Such as banning protestors from chanting in any language other than English or German.

And many other things. Politics have dumb things and dumb people everywhere*- it's not uniquely American. American politics are just the most widely publicized internationally.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I remember the German politician who had scat fetish/toilet fetish content posted by himself all over the internet

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1189710-german-politicians-video-of-licking-public-toilets-goes-viral

Of course the party he's in is the FDP (libertarians)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're not libertarians, just neoliberals

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They are libertarian for the most part. The person who responded to you seems to be an (American) libertarian himself so perhaps he's just trying to distance his ideology from this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

according to wikipedia's sources it's more liberalism. it's just that neolib policies have quite a bit in common with libertarianism, since the latter is kinda a radical variant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This might be the first time I have ever truly been glad that Veep ended 5 years ago. Because the writers would just be paralyzed by all of this stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

He really thought he was doing something there. What a weird fool.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the 1980’s both sides would have laughed about this. But that was before everyone was slamming each other.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People were slamming each other all the time in the 80's. It's one of the reasons AIDS hit so hard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

If anything that's what's missing in American politics these days, a little across the aisle fornication. Turn the House back into the sex den it was in the 80s! Make America Fuck Again!