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[-] jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 104 points 1 month 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 69 points 1 month 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 month ago

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

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

High fructose fentanyl syrup

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Or those of the pecan pie persuasion.

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

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

I think the problem is pecan pie's entire existence depending on something terrible lol

[-] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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

Whatever, they'll still vote Republican.

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

I don't think Canada has it banned either lol

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

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

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

Nah, we kinda just follow the US.

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

America Hat is part of America I thought?

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

This implies the US is a developed country.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month 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 25 points 1 month 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 month ago

I’d def try coke-aine

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 63 points 1 month ago

I actually can't tell what's a parody any more

[-] Wisely@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago

Yeah I thought this was real news at first.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago

the onion actually doesn't do satire any longer.

they do prophesy now.

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

One can dream...

I do wish this were prophecy

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

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

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

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

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago

Damn, they almost got me lol

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month 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 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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.

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

Ngl i wish this was real lol

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

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

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

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

[-] InspiringOne@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Mexican Coca-Cola may still have it. What they needed to do was stamp cocaine out as pills in Mexico so whether it’s 50 or whatever percent purity, it stays that way and dudes selling it have to do the pill game. There was these yellow monkey stamped ecstasy tablets back in 2010. that were just coke. But it was 8 to 10 bucks for 100 mg tablet and they weren’t completely pure. Most people using coke usually did half gram or more a night. People cooking crack dissolve it in water anyways.

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

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

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[-] annHowe@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago
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