• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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    1 year ago

    This gives me major late night car dealer commercial vibes. My English to Trump is terrible however I have faith that someone write Trump doing the narration for this commercial.

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    1 year ago

    This looks like an SNL sketch. People keep expressing sympathy for the onion writers, but really, how does one even parody this? Just shot for shot, word for word something a satirist would come up with.

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      1 year ago

      SNL have been getting alot it lately with all the material they are getting from trump admin.

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      1 year ago

      This looks like an SNL sketch.

      Ohh, I kept waiting for something funny to happen, but now I get it - it won’t.
      :D

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      1 year ago

      Honestly, every time I see an SNL skit recently that mimics one of the latest events I keep saying this is sad because as crazy as they get, I feel like the real event was so much crazier. The skits just make me sad because I’m just being reminded of how fucked we are.

    • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I figure The Onion just has to full on go the opposite direction.

      -Trump Returns Funds to Ukraine: Turns Back on Russia.

      -Functioning Government Returns to the United States

      -Democrats Embrace The Left

      Headlines no one could believe and stories about things basically working like they should.

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      1 year ago

      50 years ago, the president advertising a product probably would have lead to investigations

      Now it barely makes the evening news.

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      1 year ago

      This is basically what killed South Park in 2016. Trump became president and you can’t even parody that, because You can’t think of anything more absurd. Except maybe electing him for a second time.

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    1 year ago

    It’s insane that both of them think this will help…

    They truly don’t understand that the vast majority of Americans fucking hate them. And the ones that do like one of them, already like both.

    Zero people will have any change of opinion because of this.

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      Oh, it will help. Elon can afford to tank the losses from share price fall, then he’ll grab loads more with a discount and there will be an eventual rebound. And then we will have the very first trillionaire in the world.

      I guess one of the reasons for Musk to murder Twitter shares was to test how effectively he can tank the financial damage and still ride it out before going full nuclear on his companies.

      Reminds me of one British twat called Humphrey Smith, who owns all companies as unlimited and tanks all legal expenses himself so he can do whatever the fuck he wants with them and with staff. Oh, he also owns a town and does whatever the fuck he wants there too.

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        At some point, the bill is due. If the stock isn’t producing dividends, then it’s a growth stock. If the stock stops growing, or balances back to reality with their ledger sheet, then they’ll realize the growth isn’t happening because their sales are dropping like a rock, their market penetration is negative, and nobody wants to buy a vehicle associated with an actual, real life, Nazi who’s spent the better part of the last 3 months making everyone in the world’s (and especially American’s) lives a living hell.

        Tesla was massively overvalued because Elon had people convinced he was a genius billionaire inventor who was going to turn Tesla into a “Energy” play. Also, he wasn’t a Nazi manipulating world governments, forming up DOGE, firing thousands of government workers, causing planes to crash, endangering everyone’s lives, and threatening to get rid of one of the very few good things to exist in this country: social security and medicaid/care.

        Nobody has a crystal ball to the future, but I seriously doubt the Tesla stocks will make a rallying cry to get back to even close to where they’re at. At least not without a subsequent sell-off.

        There’s just too much risk and volatility without any profits. And in the April 22nd-29th (whenever they choose to have it that week) earnings report, we’re going to see a real bloodbath of a growth stock that’s been overvalued by hundreds to thousands of a percent which fails to produce dividends or payouts to their shareholders, having a sharp, sharp line down for their quarterly earnings, with another quarter doing the same, and the one after that, etc.

        It will crater.

        The market can remain irrational longer than we can remain solvent, sure. But it eventually corrects. Even if it takes a recession/depression to trigger that.

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      They truly don’t understand that the vast majority of Americans fucking hate them.

      Do we know this for sure?

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      I’m still wondering, do they have an advicing team or something like that or do they just always act on their own, on instinct ?

      Because if they do, it’s either they never listen, either the advisers are at least as delusional and that’s even more baffling.

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      The cool thing about being a trillionaire is that you can fall a long, long, long way and still be the richest man in the country.

      Doubly so if you drag everyone else down with you.

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    1 year ago

    NSFW ish

    Tap for spoiler

    It’s about fellatio tho. You should check it out if you aren’t American and know science words.

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      1 year ago
      NSFWish (select to expand)...

      Esoterical Fun Fact: Peter North was rated as one of the best partners to have sex with by female porn stars of the time, because of the size of his penis, and his love making skills.

      Edit: Its dry humor guys, related to the parent comment that this comment is replying to (he’s one of the actors in the image; his name is mentioned). Relax.

      This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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        1 year ago

        Every time I see your copyright notice the day that text gets reproduced by an LLM verbatim draws nearer.

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    It has to be bad if they resort to trying to sell EVs to climate change deniers.

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      Maybe this is secretly how they save the environment. Coal rollers switching to EVs. And Putin launching the nukes causing a nuclear winter. Global warming solved.

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    1 year ago

    It’s not like it’s a surprise. Remember how he did a photoshoot with a can of beans, because the owner of the brand said he liked him?

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    1 year ago

    Trump finally caught up with the versions of him in the parallel universes where he wasn’t born of a rich family and is now a car salesman. Just like the universe intended.

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    Tesla sales are tanking because of Elon’s embracing fascism and this is the best they could come up with to fix it

    Just lean harder into it and hope the guy who hates electric cars can sell electric cars