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[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 162 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

Juggalo president confirmed?

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 79 points 22 hours ago

Insane Clown President

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 31 points 23 hours ago

"gUys He's obViouSly reFeReNcing tHe iCp mEme, because we all know this dude is deep into Internet country¡"-someone's serious take on this when they're confronted with it.

[–] orenj@lemmy.kde.social 24 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I'd rather have violent j & shaggy 2 dope in the white house tbh

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[–] Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

He'd be hated amongst the jugs. They don't play to that fiddle.

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[–] becausechemistry@lemy.lol 154 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Please stop writing headlines that start with “Trump, 79,” that don’t end with. Well. You know.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 50 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Those headlines you're thinking of don't start "Trump, 79". They start, "President Donald John Trump, 79."

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago

Unf, stop. It makes me feel things as I read that out in my head, then let down and blocked like the cat just jumped on the bed and threw up right near the end.

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[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago

They started doing it this year to clickbait people into thinking he died

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 83 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, in the same way that no one knows for certain what matter really is.

But that really doesn’t matter. Release the Epstein files, provide healthcare for the US, and stop imprisoning my friends and neighbors

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 76 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

What everyone glosses over and completely never see.

Is that this idiot represents the entire country.

If you have an idiot for a leader.

Logic says, your country is full of idiots.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 27 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

Logic says, your country is full of idiots.

Yeah, we went through this already, George Bush the Second made you guys look very stupid

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[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 23 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

tbf, he really is the perfect representation of a large subsection of the US population, rich, middle/working class, poor....

he's dumb as shit and acquired everything because of his name (wasting most of that fortune/legacy to boot).

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 70 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

“You know, the new thing is magnets. So instead of using hydraulic that can be hit by lightning, and it’s fine. You take a little glass of water, you drop it on magnets. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Is that even English?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 45 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

It's as English as this is

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.

[–] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I can never get over the fact that this is real. I have seen this quote so often - and I've seen the video of him actually saying the words!- but still it seems surreal to me. The "Look, having nuclear"-quote. One for the history books, for sure.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 6 hours ago

I generally get more coherent sentences out of just repeatedly tapping my keyboard on my phone and letting auto correct just make things up..

The thing about Trump is the point of the world cup method of the world cup method of the game for the purposes of the world cup method of the world cup method of the world cup method of the league of the league of the league of the year and the company is a good idea for a while and I don't think so but I don't think.

Yeah, maybe not. But honestly it's close.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 15 points 8 hours ago

Good thing we fired all those scientists.

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[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 53 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] ApeNo1@lemmy.world 52 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

From the article

The “polarizing” president was in conversation with Fox News about the economy when he veered off track…

Dad reporter confirmed. He even snuck in an “off track” before talking about trains.

[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 46 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

What is this guys obsession with magnets?
"Magnets don't work when wet" "Nobody knows what magnets are"
Does this obsession stem from the fact that he repels every decent person?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 48 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Advisors are telling him how important rare earths are and their importance in magnets. Since China has curtailed (if not halted?) exports, the rest of the world's industries are in rather deep shit.

This is where all the mumble-fucking about magnets is coming from. Trump's trying to say they're not important, they suck, we don't need them, in order to head off supply issues. Same reason he was telling our Navy that we should replace the magnetic plane and ordnance lifters and go back to steam power. No shit.

He also seems to think America can spin up our own rare earth supply, but acknowledges he basically begging and threatening Xi in the meantime.

Anyway, today's rant finally tied it all together for me.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 17 points 20 hours ago

this would all be a lot funnier if I wasnt living through the nightmare personally

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

To be fair: "A magnet works because negatively charged electrons repel each other. "

"Why do negatively charged electrons repel each other? "

"..... Well .. Ok, so hear me out. You're going to need to understand quantum mechanics and then the fermion principal. Then you'll know that the electrons aren't allowed to occupy the same space, and the easiest way to avoid being in the same space is to not touch each other. The electrons know they aren't allowed to touch because they've studied fermions."

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 34 points 23 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Maiq@piefed.social 21 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in.

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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 13 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Holy shit something just clicked for me!

"Ice is slippery, because water expands when it freezes" -->so when compressed it...

Granted it's not really something I thought of on that level being from the equator.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 31 points 22 hours ago (19 children)

I know what a magnet is. I even know how a magnet works! And it's not magic!

[–] FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 25 points 21 hours ago

Fucking magnets, how do they work? And I don't wanna talk to a scientist Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed.

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[–] tehWrapper@lemmy.world 29 points 19 hours ago
[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 29 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I read another comment that makes sense. When he says nobody knows he truly believes if he doesn't know it then no one does.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 29 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah, that's the narcissistic personality disorder talking.

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[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 23 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Next thing you know, we have the first Juggalo president.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

i think having a juggalo president would be a step up from what we have now.

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[–] Mihies@programming.dev 23 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I learned that magnets don't work when wet 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 22 points 8 hours ago

wait til he finds out about torrent magnet links

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 21 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

We can’t be starting headlines like that without considering the emotional roller coaster involved.

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[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

"Fire, Water, Earth and Dirt
Fucking Magnets, how do they work"

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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago
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