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seahorse [Ohio]@midwest.socialM to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 2 years ago

Republicans Urge Americans To Look Away From McConnell Or Else They Too Shall Freeze

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Republicans Urge Americans To Look Away From McConnell Or Else They Too Shall Freeze

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seahorse [Ohio]@midwest.socialM to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 2 years ago
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WASHINGTON—Following the second press conference in five weeks during which the 81-year-old was temporarily unable to speak, Republicans warned Americans Thursday to look away from Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) lest they too should freeze. “Good people! Gaze not upon the senator’s visage or you may be struck dumb…
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  • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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    That’s exactly what the Weeping Angels (or SCP-173) would want!

    • CA0311 [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      i was gonna say, someone should make an EAS scenario video with mitch as patient zero

  • DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world
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    Looking more and more like the thing from Pan’s Labyrinth every day…

    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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      I’m a marine biologist. It’s obvious he’s moulting.
      Its his radical final moult, metamorphosing from an aquatic nymph to a winged adult

      • Dharma Curious@startrek.website
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        Is that why he must consume the souls of all the children? For energy for the metamorphosis?

        • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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          No, that’s silly.
          He consumes souls to power the deep machines in the darkness.

          • Dharma Curious@startrek.website
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            Ah, I see. And who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

            • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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              I’m just a humble marine biologist.
              The sea was angry that day, my friends!

      • FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca
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        He has not yet attained his final formlessness.

    • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
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      I always thought he looked like a half filled balloon

  • 2scoops@lemmy.world
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    I like to imagine that during these freezes, he’s actually having out of body experiences wherein he visits Hell, and sees the fiery fate and torments that awaits him when finally slips this mortal coil.

    • Cabrio@lemmy.world
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      It’s just his handler touching base.

    • Compactor9679@lemm.ee
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      Comunicating with Biden :)

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    His entire team of staffers should be convicted on elder abuse.

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Plus most of the other stafers on the Hill and White House should be convicted on elder abuse too.

      The rest should probably be convicted on other charges

  • The Barto@sh.itjust.works
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    For a second I thought The Onion had become an actual news site.

    • Catradora_Stalinism [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      I feel like it is in its own way

      • The Barto@sh.itjust.works
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        It might as well be, reality is doing a better job at it lately.

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    “does anyone else hear a dial tone?”.

    the photo just does that

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    This article is written like an episode of Nightvale.

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    This is a top tier onion article. Up there with the hyperbolic chamber !

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    Removed by mod

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    He’s like an old, cold Medusa.

  • DrPop@lemmy.one
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    https://youtu.be/gsNaR6FRuO0?si=lh9X6bHQUX8ptlew

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