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- psker, on 07/17/2008, -6/+260Humor in 2001...Sad reality in 2008
- mphung, on 07/17/2008, -4/+160I thought the Onion did satire...?
- onreact, on 07/17/2008, -4/+128Wow. 2001! A true prophecy.
- Natitude, on 07/17/2008, -6/+108It truly is a sad day when you realize the joke became reality... I guess I should pay more attention to what the onion has to say
- chrisbosh123, on 07/17/2008, -2/+99Dude... the onion wrote this:
"Much work lies ahead of us: The gap between the rich and the poor may be wide, be there's much more widening left to do. We must squander our nation's hard-won budget surplus on tax breaks for the wealthiest 15 percent. And, on the foreign front, we must find an enemy and defeat it."
That is just freaky on how accurate it is in the year 2008. - zephc, on 07/17/2008, -6/+86Clearly someone at The Onion has a time machine. That is scarily prescient.
- topherbook, on 07/18/2008, -3/+73Good lord. Did the Bush administration use that article as a roadmap?
- calon9, on 07/17/2008, -2/+67The article is funny, but these comments are scary; Everyone mentioning how scary the article is for being so 'prescient'. Bush ran on the promise of tax cuts, was transparently in the pocket of big oil, ran a divisive partisan campaign, and his VP and advisers were pro-war and had the precedent for gung-ho foreign policy. These were all known before he was elected. Even though Bush got away with much more than anyone could have imagined, the direction he wanted to take the country in was clear before he won. If only people paid as much attention to the election and candidates in 00 as they are doing now...
- shtfactory, on 07/17/2008, -5/+55has the onion printed their picks for tomorrows lottery numbers yet?
- highlymodified, on 07/18/2008, -3/+52Sorry, but you don't have to be Nostra-*****-domus to have known this ***** was going to ***** up everything he touched.
- exomni, on 07/18/2008, -2/+41Thing is, the absolute worst that The Onion could make ridiculous jokes about in 2001, is the absolute least of our worries in 2008.
No jokes about the rampant torture, the felonious spying, the destruction of the 4th amendment, etc etc. - inactive, on 07/17/2008, -2/+40The joke is on all of us. Well, mostly on you. And the Iraqis.
- inactive, on 07/18/2008, -0/+34It wasn't just Bush.
It was you Americans that were scared ***** in 9/11 and wanted revenge and destruction and would do whatever Bush told you. You re-elected him even. - Murrabbit, on 07/18/2008, -2/+35The neocons have managed, in less than 8 years, to entirely destroy satire. There's nothing we can say about them anymore which is an absurd stretch!
- cslawren, on 07/17/2008, -3/+34Am I the only one that didn't notice this was an Onion article, read the title of the Digg story, and kinda went "huh?" I thought it was a Bush-ism at first because him accidentally saying something like this wouldn't surprise me.
- insomniac8400, on 07/17/2008, -0/+31No comment on the fact that a joke article written in 2001 almost exactly mirrors the situation in 2008?
- sk11, on 07/18/2008, -0/+29Bush: making satire obsolete since 2000.
- infinitus64, on 07/18/2008, -0/+29Artists use lies to tell the truth while politicians use them to cover it up. ~V
- ph1sh55, on 07/17/2008, -0/+28It's a satirical article written in 2001 when he was sworn in, not an article written in 2008 looking back and taking snipes. Unfortunately all of the ludicrous things they were using for comedic purposes basically came to fruition!
- niko8778, on 07/17/2008, -2/+30Bush: Game's over, losers! I have all the money. Compare your lives to mine and then kill yourselves.
- jellygraph, on 07/17/2008, -3/+29Yeh, read this one a while ago... its eerily prophetic. Just goes to show how unimaginable how much damage Bush would do, that back in 2001 it seemed like satire. Little did they, and we, know... Bush ended up being worse than we could imagine.
- andreusboy, on 07/18/2008, -4/+27This is not even funny. Take the most satiric worst case scenario with impossible odds to happen, blow it out of proportion even further and still you get a snapshot of the US circa 2008. How ***** in the ass is this.
- Changa, on 07/17/2008, -2/+25This was no surprise to the cynical that was paying attention and the Onion is full of cynical smart asses.
I love them but they can depresses me as they usually are close to reality. - seamurbile, on 07/18/2008, -0/+21I remember reading this when it first came out in 2001. It was funny back then because it was true! Everything in this article was part of Bush's campaign platform. The reason it's so accurate is because we all knew full well what Bush was going to do when he took office. The only sad thing here is that took people 8 years to figure out Bush's true agenda.
- omenmedia, on 07/17/2008, -1/+22Prophetic! Scary how much of this satire became truth.
- c4sh, on 07/17/2008, -13/+32Man, I really hope something like this doesn't actually happen.
- lanemik, on 07/18/2008, -0/+19Here, have a digg.
And how about a hug? - inactive, on 07/17/2008, -2/+20 The Onion knows.
- splendidmike, on 07/18/2008, -1/+19Seems like they misunderestimated his potential by quite a bit. I wish it had only been that bad.
- briankoenig03, on 07/18/2008, -0/+18"taken down the axis of evil"
And up to this point I had been taking your comment so seriously! - inactive, on 07/18/2008, -1/+18"...a conflict of the same magnitude as Desert Storm..."
Someone was a little optimistic... - djhindsight, on 07/18/2008, -0/+16Yep, I remember seeing those stupid flags on people cars. People had no clue they were being played... really sad.
- SquigglyP, on 07/17/2008, -0/+16not to mention that at the time, this was one of the first articles to 'poke fun' at Bush. The onion doesn't really 'bash', as they pretty much make fun of everything and everyone.
- amoirae, on 07/17/2008, -2/+17That's what happens when you let a cheater be the banker in Monopoly.
- Unzorn, on 07/18/2008, -0/+14*waits for KFC feedbag*
- filth, on 07/18/2008, -0/+14Oh dear, you appear to have missed the joke. This is an entirely satirical piece written by The Onion in 2001. The humor, since it needs to be explained to you, is that nearly everything they mention actually happened.
- Gerz1219, on 07/18/2008, -1/+15How much were your plane tickets to Imaginationland? Hopefully they haven't risen too much due to higher fuel prices, because I'd like to buy a one-way trip.
- infinitus64, on 07/18/2008, -0/+14You have had your warnings, fundamentalist Christians "Neocons" as they are called have been this way since atleast the early 90's
- idovoodoo, on 07/18/2008, -0/+14Damn right. Liberals have been saying this since he was "elected." I remember reading this article at the time thinking, "where's the joke?"
- inactive, on 07/18/2008, -3/+17I posted this link in a comment section on a digg submission about some big Bush failure and was buried.
Go figure. - inactive, on 07/18/2008, -0/+12"They and the rest of the government as a whole have done more these past 8 years to deter corporate greed and misconduct than any administration in history (see Sarbanes Oxley)."
Oh, you mean that one bill that was hastily written in response to the outcry over the fraud at Enron? You've heard on Enron, right? That energy company that caused millions of Californians to be without electricity, and whose CEO was having twice monthly "Energy Task Force" meetings with Bush and Cheney? During the same time frame Bush and Cheney REFUSED to meet with California Gov. Gray Davis about the energy crisis? Ringing a bell?
One might be able to reasonably argue that the economics woes aren't the entirely this administration's fault. The dot com bubble was a big hit. But it was under his watch that the mortgage industry was derregulated in 2006 causing the housing bubble that has sent us even farther down the *****.
Also, the article called him out for being a warmonger. This was before 9/11. What's that, a lucky guess? Incidently, Bush GAVE $40 MILLION TO THE TALIBAN AFTER THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED.
"...last time I checked he's...taken down the axis of evil"
Iraq has more terrorists now than ever before. Iraq used to be a secular state, but is now a de facto sharia theocracy. Iran has emerged as the geopolitical winner in the conflict, as the Shiite majority, who were silenced under Saddam, are now in charge. Meanwhile, under Bush's watch, North Korea developed and detonated nuclear weapons. We had a treaty with NK, started under Clinton, to provide them with a certain amount of diesel fuel every month in exchange for access to their nuclear facilities to inspect. Bush pulled out of the treaty in early 2001. Then, *surprise* our weapons inspectors were expelled, and fast-forward to 2006, and they detonate a nuke.
So much for "taking down the axis of evil" - LLamaStar, on 07/18/2008, -0/+11i lol'd 10/10 for the troll.
- idovoodoo, on 07/18/2008, -0/+11I totally did that too.
- geoken, on 07/18/2008, -0/+11It's always the underlying truth in the joke which yields true humor. The Onion has mastered this.
- wooFmeoWoinK, on 07/18/2008, -1/+11Cynics are always happier because they are never disappointed.
- ScoobyG, on 07/18/2008, -0/+10It's pretty ***** in the ass.
- GorfTron, on 07/18/2008, -0/+10He don't need no stinking maps.
- Naruki, on 07/18/2008, -1/+11Then... impeach Bush already?
- warsongs7, on 07/18/2008, -0/+10Except of course, its not just a joke.
- ndnspongebob, on 07/17/2008, -2/+11i was happy at the beginning of the article and sad by the end
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