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[-] jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 105 points 1 year ago

Holy shit I was almost excited there might be one thing to make the coming cycle less shitty until I saw the community

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 70 points 1 year ago

Here's one that's real: he's promised to ban high-fructose corn syrup, which is banned in most other developed countries. It should have been banned in the US decades ago.

He might be a wakadoodle, but he might still get a few things right by accident

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Yea, except somehow we'll end up with something worse replacing it.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago

High fructose fentanyl syrup

[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

No no, Trump's tariffs on China are payback for not watching entanyl exportr. Just a stream of consciousness.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I don't think your corn growers would be very happy with that.

[-] annHowe@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

Fuck 'em. They'll survive on their many subsidies.

[-] jerakor@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

Once they raise the global temperatures enough all of the Iowa corn farmers can just farm rice and sugar cane along the Iowa coastline.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I propose we lower Texas enough to flood the Great Plains and revive the Ordovician Sea.

[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Or those of the pecan pie persuasion.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Use golden syrup, sorghum or honey?

Admission: I can’t stand pecan pie because of it’s hyper-sweetness. Maybe less corn soup would help?

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[-] finderscult@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Hell try and then we'll be reading a news story about how his brain worms finally kennedy'd him the next hour after the attempt. HFCS and the multitude of corporations producing and using it aren't some pushover industry like oil and natural gas, they have actual power.

There's a reason corn is in everything processed in the US.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

How tf is the oil and natural gas industry a pushover? They're literally destroying the earth and getting away with it.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

All the pro-small-government people I know (the ones wanting less oversight on guns) are excited for this ban and don't see the irony that they're really only small-government in the topics they want, big-government in others they decided are bad (hfcs, some red dye, banning men from women's bathrooms). We all want government protections, turns out.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and to be clear, I'm not thrilled about him being in charge of health, but if that's gonna be one of his things that he gets right, I would be stupid not to take what little solace I can get.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I don't think Canada has it banned either lol

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

Just gotta elect a guy with a brain worm, I guess...?

[-] sulgoth@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Nah, we kinda just follow the US.

[-] Didros@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

America Hat is part of America I thought?

[-] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

This implies the US is a developed country.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, it is by most definitions that I'm aware of. It might be run by fascists, oligarchs, and ultracapitalists, but it's definitely developed.

I'm not sure what standard you are applying that would place it in a "developing" or other category.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 26 points 1 year ago

I think the best we can hope for is that Trump seems unlikely to fuck with state laws regarding marijuana. That’s fine with me.

That’s not to say I wouldn’t try the Coke, though.

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I’d def try coke-aine

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

He might try but Don Jr will be snorting it faster than the factory could add it.

And no one in the mainstream media will care.

[-] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

The fact that I read this headline and my first through wasn't doubt in any capacity is insane. Satire is now lamer than reality, jesus christ...

[-] drbluefall@toast.ooo 16 points 1 year ago

The reason that is that fiction has to be coherent. It has to make sense.

Reality is under no such constraint.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Given that RFK jr was a heroin addict for decades, I was once again fooled by this and I thought it was real.

Satire has been dead for years anyway.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 18 points 1 year ago

the onion actually doesn't do satire any longer.

they do prophesy now.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Official lathe handlers

[-] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One can dream...

I do wish this were prophecy

[-] steeznson@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah he was on record last week saying it improved his grades as a student lol

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

wow for a solid ten seconds did not realize this was onion. I guess this will become more and more frequent over the next four years.

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

I've wanted this for years. I hope he sees this article and decides to do it.

[-] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago
[-] Infynis@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

Damn, they almost got me lol

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Coke in a can: mid Coke in a bottle: okay Coke in a bag: LET'S FUCKING GO

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

100% serious here: I have had mate de coca, or tea made from the coca leaf. There used to be a place that would ship it to the U.S. without asking questions, but it doesn't exist anymore. It basically takes a field's worth of coca to make an ounce of cocaine, so this is a tiny fraction of the strength of cocaine. It tasted pretty awful- like damp straw smells- but with enough sweetener, it was acceptable.

It makes you much more awake and alert than coffee with no jittery feeling and it's totally gone after maybe 4 hours. You can have mate de coca when you get up, do a few hours' worth of work and then take a nap and sleep like you'd never had anything to stimulate you. It's pretty damn amazing and it's stupid that it's illegal.

I'm guessing they have ways to do things in South America about the taste.

Edit: Also, I was telling this to my wife's cousin, who is also my GP, and he was telling me that he would get it when he went down to do charity work in El Salvador all the time and agreed it should be totally legal in the U.S. He's a cool guy.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's amazing for altitude sickness. When I was in Bolivia, I basically lived off coca tea.

[-] heckypecky@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Dude coca tea tastes so good. I drank it all the time when I was in Bolivia. It has nowhere near the stimulating effect like coffee. To get that, you have to chew it with some ash, lijta, to get the chemicals.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well all I can say was that was my experience with what I used to have. Tasted awful, more powerful than coffee, no jitteriness.

[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We're really gonna let the brain worm run shit, huh?

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ngl i wish this was real lol

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It will be a rolled in approach. Whatever you can't roll in, you put it in the soda.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Going to guess the dea is gonna be defanged for that little escapade

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