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33. I am forced to admit

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Tue Oct 10, 2017, 05:13 PM

Oct 2017

When I heard that Trump had challenged Tillerson to an IQ duel, I was positive, it WAS something by the Onion or Borowitz.'t make this

Now you all know what we mean when we say, "you just can't make this stuff up." If someone HAD made that up, their future as the highest paid writer on the staff of the Colbert show would have been assured.

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Satire was officially declared dead at approximately 8:50 Eastern time this morning. [View all] Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2017 OP

Nice One, Tommy! ProfessorGAC Oct 2017 #1

I wake up and find we're still in Trumplandia leftstreet Oct 2017 #2

Is that what it is? Thought I'd gotten a hold of some bad acid and this weird trip would never end. brush Oct 2017 #16

I believe bad acid can only cause permanent, irreparable harm when it triggers Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2017 #36

This is by far the weirdest acid trip Ive ever been on. NightWatcher Oct 2017 #3

Good year. tymorial Oct 2017 #5

lol uponit7771 Oct 2017 #11

R.I.P. Satire genxlib Oct 2017 #4

K&R... spanone Oct 2017 #6

I remember an Onion headline wryter2000 Oct 2017 #7

That was actually fake news from Daily Kos csziggy Oct 2017 #12

Was it? wryter2000 Oct 2017 #14

The Onion did do this one csziggy Oct 2017 #15

Satire's corpse will be flown to France for a proper burial. Satire's parents, Derision and Parady, L. Coyote Oct 2017 #8

LOL. nt Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2017 #9

Cousin Litote njcpa1978 Oct 2017 #39

tRump is an embarasment Scarsdale Oct 2017 #10

RIP Satire Tribalceltic Oct 2017 #13

Trump challenged Tillerson to an IQ test? PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2017 #17

The "Gary Forbes" (most likely Russian bankrolled) Twitter account claimed last year that Trump's IQ Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2017 #20

And Trump actually attended the undergraduate program PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2017 #27

Money not IQ njcpa1978 Oct 2017 #40

you must be joking, he actually challenged Tillerson to an IQ test ? steve2470 Oct 2017 #18

damn....he actually did steve2470 Oct 2017 #19

Holy shit. He actually did. Dave Starsky Oct 2017 #23

He assumes Tillerson would let him win. tclambert Oct 2017 #28

Trump believes that because his uncle was a professor at MIT, Ilsa Oct 2017 #37

Satire, we hardly knew ye NastyRiffraff Oct 2017 #21

k & r LAS14 Oct 2017 #22

What fresh hell do we find ourselves in now? ButSeeYa Oct 2017 #24

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy Towlie Oct 2017 #25

and so unimaginative vlyons Oct 2017 #26

I'm sure they let their disappointment show before they shipped him off to military school. tclambert Oct 2017 #29

was it tom lehrer who gave up political satire when kissinger was given a nobel peace prize? niyad Oct 2017 #30

Yes, satire died then central scrutinizer Oct 2017 #35

I don't think orangecrush Oct 2017 #31

tRump was not taunting Bob Corker ... Martin Eden Oct 2017 #32

I am forced to admit DFW Oct 2017 #33

Bob Corker joins a fast-growing list of Trump advisers who infantilize him keithbvadu2 Oct 2017 #34

Trump challenging.... SergeStorms Oct 2017 #38

It's been over 24 hours. I'm still trying to adjust to "to serve is to kiss ass" is true. L. Coyote Oct 2017 #41