196I had to go find that onion post. Most of it is funny stuff about wanting prices to be higher for no particular reason, but this got me at the end:
"I figure anyone who sells oil knows better than I do what to do with my money. As my grandmother used to say, the higher the gas price, the closer to God.”
The absurdity is still there, yeah, but it's just too close to reality. I'm an old white guy born in the Trumpian Farmlands of Pennsyltucky, and it shook me a bit. That first line especially... They wouldn't say it out loud because they have to maintain the iamverybadass facade, but they live to be a cog in the machine, to serve the higher life form that will be their salvation. It's almost like their god, their cult leader, and their president can be the same person. And that's before we address the part where they chose one of the worst humans possible.
Unfortunately if there is any difference between these two takes it's that the real-life person says the quiet part out loud.
They are willing to sacrifice for stupidity. Duurr just doing my part paying high prices so our President can embezzle more money. It's the Ameridumb way!
The current US happenings have made The Onion's job impossible
The onion of prophecy they really need to start riffing on this maybe hint their parent company is the front for a cult or something idk
...five f*ckin' blades, man...
Completely different headlines and trust me I'm not defending trump.
They have slightly different words, but they mean the same thing.
The point isn't that they're word for word the same but that the onion made a joke about the trump cult that came true
Except not; saying "Iran war is worth economic pain" and "high gas prices are loved" are different arguments even if both are absurd they are not functionally similar arguments.
Boy wait until you find out why gas prices are high
The oil cartels using a highly unpopular war as an excuse to jack the prices up?
Except that the problem isn't only from the cartel right now, the problem is that now a important route was blocked due to war which made petroil transport harder making it more pricey and that reflects on prices that consumers see
And yet Saudia is in full support of the US attacking iran. Weird that.
Relevance? Second isn't saying high gas prices are good but they are worth it for "so and so goal" not the same.
Give it a couple more months to line up more literally, then they won't even need a reason to love the pedo's plans
