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https://buddycarter.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=15398

Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) released the following statement today after introducing a bill authorizing President Trump to acquire Greenland and renaming it Red, White, and Blueland:

“America is back and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition of Red, White, and Blueland. President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will proudly welcome its people to join the freest nation to ever exist when our Negotiator-in-Chief inks this monumental deal.”

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Look at this humpty dumpty orange motherfucker

“There’s glory for you.”

“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’,” Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t – till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’”

“But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’,” Alice objected.

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”

Alice considered a little. “But surely,” she said in a sudden flash of inspiration, “you simply have to agree with me that ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’, it means ‘glory’.”

“Not in the slightest bit,” humphed Humpty Dumpty, “I disagree with you totally.”

“Ah,” replied Alice cunningly, “so you do agree with me, for when I hear someone say ‘I disagree with you’, I think they mean ‘I agree with you totally’, don’t you? When I hear a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – nothing more nor less.”

“It is a most provoking thing,” Humpty Dumpty cried, breaking into a sudden passion, “when little girls make it impossible to disagree with them.”

“So,” said Alice, “now you do agree with me that ‘glory’ means ‘glory’.”

“Wrong!” Humpty Dumpty exclaimed triumphantly, “it would be alright for me to say that ‘I disagree with you’ meant ‘I agree with you’, because I believe in that sort of thing; but you don’t, or you wouldn’t be being so awkward about it! You can’t go using other people’s arguments against themselves, that’s plagiarism!”

(“He talks about it just as if it was a game!” thought Alice.) Trying hard to conceal her vexation with the phantasmagorical egg, Alice delivered her coup de grâce : “I’m afraid that you can’t get out of it like that Mr. Dumpty, it just won’t do at all. You think that words mean whatever you choose them to mean, but in order to say that I disagree with you, you have to agree with, or understand, my use of words; and if you agree with me, then you can’t disagree!”

“It’s very provoking,” Humpty Dumpty said after a long silence, looking away from Alice as he spoke. “I’d rather see that done on paper.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so little.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “who is to be master – that’s all.”

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 hours ago (15 children)

Every other country should unanimously vote to call the USA something stupid since apparently countries can just rename other countries

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know why they need a bill for this. Apparently the President can just sign an executive order renaming geographical features, and everyone just had to go along with it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Every American. The rest of us just watch in horror, wondering why the adults in the room don't do something.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I got bad news for you. We export our bullshit, and your leaders are probably lapping it up right now.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

The "adults" in the room are those parents who only give into the screaming toddler, creating a kid who cries every time to get what he wants.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's been less than a month since he's been in office and this is a visual representation on how I feel about the whole thing...

I feel so bad for Americans having to put up with this.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 12 hours ago

This is worse than some parodies

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Lets get some new names for russia china and brazil while we're at it. Ill start brazil is now south texas

[–] [email protected] 17 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Ok, I don't support these clowns, and I hate that this is the way the public is finding out, but isn't it nice that people are starting to truly see how incapable, incompetent, and corrupt our elected leaders have always been?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Going to be interesting hearing people tell me why it's actually great that we started another world war to steal land from one of our allies so we can give it a name even a 10 year old boy would call lame. Because you know Denmark is never going to sell it to us. The people who live there have no interest in being a US territory. Why would they? I hope these MAGA fuckers are happy sending their sons off to die for Trump's ego.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

Ever seen those movies like OG Running Man where there’s a dystopian tv show within the wreckage of society and people love it? Well, life imitates art in this case except it’s our government that is the dystopian show and the uneducated masses love it. They want the violence to happen and the sex offenders in charge. It’s their shitshow and they aren’t offended by it, they want more.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Where are these people that are starting to see this? The morons that voted for Trump are ecstatic with these distractions.

There was a discussion recently on reddit and basically almost everyone agreed that the Republicans in their circles don't see anything wrong with what the government is doing, Musk and all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I would never claim involved conservatives are capable of learning.

Do not underestimate how little the VERY VAST majority of people know about government or politics. I recently explained blue/red, left/right, lib/con, progressive/regressive are all related and blew someone's mind. Then they asked "which ones are the bad ones" and I said "that is subjective and it depends on your views". After very little explanation, they were socially liberal but fairly conservative fiscally (keep in mind, this was a disconnected completely normal person just going from day to day). It is hard to imagine, with the news and all, people not knowing the basics, but that really is the default. They often only know what they have been told growing up and nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

A few years ago I was on a group bike ride (in Maryland), and we saw a car that had a bumper sticker mocking one of the more famous members of Congress. For example, it might have been about Ted Cruz's vacation while Texas was dealing with extreme cold and widespread power outages. Or it might have been about Lindsey Graham blocking the supreme court nomination during the last year of Obama's term, but then doing it during the last year of Trump's term. I don't remember for certain. It was definitely something like that.

I chuckled, and one person riding with us was like, "What's so funny?" I explained who the person was and what they had done to prompt the reaction sticker, and her response was: "How could you possibly know who that person is?"

They don't even know the more famous members of Congress or the stupid acts they are committing. They just do not know. A few days ago, she posted a picture of her and her husband, and the husband was wearing a "Trump victory!" T-shirt. Shocking.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

This is a kind of thing that a Metal Gear villain would pull.

Where's the cyborg twink Raiden to stop this? Or Snake. Or anyone else. Even Machine Gun Kid would suffice (Kid With A Mere AR15 missed by a lot).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

The way things are going, this would probably become a legit political platform...

PRESIDENT ARMSTRONG: You still don’t get it, ITS ABOUT THOSE WHO WILL NOT, NOT THOSE WHO CANNOT, IN MY NEW AMERICA THE POOR WILL BE ENSURED OF THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, WAR WILL BE FOUGHT BY EVERY MAN, NOT BY INTEREST GROUPS, AGAINST EVERY MAN

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

God damn it, this is the prequel to Idiocracy isn't it? Is this just a simulation so an A I. can generate a movie for someone? This is my far the dumbest thing I have ever heard a politician doing as a legit political act. All we're missing is a, 'brought to you by Carl Jr's' attached to the bill.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

You know how the germans act when we talk about Hitler?! That will be americans in the future. Like WHAT THE FUCK?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

NGL, I am for a future where we survived this and calling someone trump is the modern equal or replacement for Hitler. We already are echoing Rome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I want Captain America punching Elon, and Wonder Woman doing the same to Trump. Honestly, we have a rogue's gallery of villains in Project 2025.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

I'm with you

[–] [email protected] 43 points 20 hours ago

identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority

This is no joke and he’s going to start taking land. He’s serious about Canada too.

Fuck everyone in advance who buys the security angle.

Nazi shit shined with a US flag and it’s ok with the USA.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

"is to be given" is the wrong case to use, the bill is in committee. "Would be given" would be better to say.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago

there's no way we're not living in a simulation. it fucking sucks. Please, somebody delete me right now I don't want to play anymore 😭

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago

Those colors don't even make green you morons

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago

Careful, his idiot followers are going to believe this 4200%

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

This government is stupider and more childish than any TikTok challenge to date... combined

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Thankfully, the dipshit, Buddy, is not related to former President Jimmy Carter.

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