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Remember the olden days when you didn't have to ask if something was parody or not? (Original Post) Amaryllis Oct 2025 OP
Yes I do. lamp_shade Oct 2025 #1
Oh yes. Especially when it has to do with Donald, MAGA or people like Miller or Blondy Bondo. chouchou Oct 2025 #2
Forget parody GusBob Oct 2025 #3
Farce has become reality. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #4
It is hard doing satire in today's world LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2025 #5

chouchou

(3,307 posts)
2. Oh yes. Especially when it has to do with Donald, MAGA or people like Miller or Blondy Bondo.
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 10:14 AM
Oct 2025

Worse, it's like "That can't be true" "There's no such thing" "Comeon..Nobody would believe that"
If someone told me we had to learn the Moonwalk, I'd think about it seriously..

LetMyPeopleVote

(182,047 posts)
5. It is hard doing satire in today's world
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 10:41 AM
Oct 2025

For example this Borowitz report was based in part on facts
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220700937
I was amused to post this

It is really hard to do satire in today's world


I have found no other reason to suspect that Trump is dead than the fact that his social media posts are currently being written by someone else.

Trump is incapable of such sensible and civilized writing

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