InfoWars Buys The Onion

In a bizarre Uno reversal of fortune, far-right conspiracy theorist website InfoWars (“There’s a War on For Your Mind!”) has stumped up the cash to purchase satirical news website The Onion.

The surprise move is the latest in the saga that began when the families of the Sandy Hook victims successfully sued Alex Jones for defamation. With a hefty bill of $1.5bn, Jones then declared bankruptcy and had to auction off his InfoWars company. NEXT, the parody site The Onion made the winning bid for the platform and announced that they would shut down his supplement shop. BUT just this week a judge rejected the sale claiming that the auction was unfair as counter bids had not been allowed at the final stage. YOU FOLLOW ALL THAT?

But NOW, to add an extra spicy twist in this long tale, InfoWars has bought the Onion after a successful counteroffer that is definitely possible because I remember reading about how Discovery bought Warner Bros and Discovery was like a fraction of the size so if that can work then, sure, why not?

When asked what they planned to do with the site, InfoWars spokesperson Blalex Blones said out loud, “Idk [sic], we’ll probs just run our stories, unedited on their site, I don’t think people will be able to tell the difference.”

Concerning their precious supplements, Blones added, “Oh yeah, we’ll still sell the supplements. Obvs we’ll still sell them. They do nothing but people keep buying ‘em. It’s like free money. Maybe we’ll make them onion-flavored, you know, in memoriam.”

“And if no one buys the onion supplements we’ll probably have to shut the site down. I mean, it’s legacy mainstream media fake liberal woke propaganda anyway so I doubt anyone will miss it. We’ll cut it up, sell it for scrap. One-third will probably go to my eldest daughter, another to my second, and a third, the most delicious part of the onion, I shalt gift to my youngest, my most beautiful daughter, Cordelia.”

CEO of The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron (surprisingly real) commented following the news that he would likely go into hiding and live out the rest of his days with the bears and the wildebeest. (omg is that how you spell wildebeest?? OH it just autocorrected again, so it’s never been wilderbeast? Wait let me check. Yeah, that’s how you spell it, oh, it’s Dutch? That explains it, they famously can’t spel. Wow, I guess I have never written that word before… I wonder what other words I’ve never written… ‘Spelunking’? ‘Frobisher’. ‘These cocktails were reasonably priced’. ‘Maudlin’. …What was I talking about? Oh, yeah, I think we’re done here anyways. Byee.)

McDonald’s Experiences Sudden Labor Shortage As Crypto Bros Hit Big

Bitcoin has finally surged to a new record value of $100,000 per coin and in completely unrelated news, McDonald’s is experiencing a staff shortage as crypto bros up and down the country quit their jobs en masse.

“Everyone’s leaving, I don’t get it,” commented one flummoxed manager whilst frantically trying to take my order and man the fryer simultaneously. “People are saying crypto’s hit big, but I don’t think so and I should know, all my money’s in Tether and that’s barely changed.”

Although this manager assured me the mass walkouts were unrelated, as we spoke one employee started jumping up and down, shoving their phone screen in people’s faces and yelling, “I’m RICH!!! I’m fucking RIIIIIICH!!!! Suck my massive green candle, Derek!!” He then ripped off his shirt, threw it down on the floor, and tossed his hat into the fryer which immediately exploded. 

The McDonald’s company has released a statement in an attempt to cool down the situation. “The McDonald’s family wishes to sincerely apologize for any delays experienced during this sudden staff shortage. We can assure you that not every crypto bro works at a McDonald’s, although we know it appears that way.”

“We have no intention to close any restaurants as dozens of team members have remained at their posts. I know, I guess some just like it here. However, if you could help us out by ordering less food or even heading down to Shake Shack instead for a bit that would really do us a solid. Thank you, and as always: we are hiring.”

McDonald’s has long had a love/hate relationship with the crypto market. During the 2022 crash, they mockingly Tweeted out, “how are you doing people who run crypto twitter accounts” and even put up a billboard that read, “Hey Crypto Bro’s WE ARE HIRING” (which is definitely is real and the apostrophe typo is definitely just an aesthetic choice). Well, oh, HOW the Uno reverses, LOOK who’s hiring now, huh?

McDonald’s will likely never financially recover from this.

A, definitely real, McDonald’s ad from 2022

Elon Musk Finally Buys Mars

Elon’s got a lot to jump for joy about right now. Having successfully bought his way into the next presidential administration, along with several successful rocket launches recently, now Musk is in discussions to sell insider SpaceX shares that could rocket the company to a valuation of $350 billion. This would make it the most valuable start-up on the planet(s) and enable Musk to finally achieve his dream: of buying Mars.

Now, it seems like that would be a lengthy process but since no one currently owns Mars, the purchasing method is actually quite simple: you do some bribes, baby!

First up on the bribe list is the big boys: the NASA. This shouldn’t be so hard since you have something they don’t: leverage. You see they need something you have which is: big rockets. Without them, they can’t do: space exploration. Which they love. AND they are always desperate for one thing: funding. So it’s easy, slip them a couple of Benjis to say, “Yeah you can buy the Mars, why not?” and they’ll be golden.

Next onboard the bribe train is… I don’t know. Who’s in charge here? The UN? Sure. We’ll bribe them, too, just in case.

And finally, the most important people to pay if you want to own Mars: the Official Star Registration Organization. Now this is the only universal authority to actually recognise interplanetary purchases: you get a certificate and everything. So, if Elon wants Big Red: this is a must bribe.

Once that’s all in place (and he should still be under his $350 billion budget) he can start sending rockets, baby. Now I’m no rocket scientist but Elon if you’re listening, I’d suggest sending the big ones first that way you can get more equipment across there faster.

You’re going to need a town hall: that’s a first-up, no-brainer. This will be the place where all the legal sessions will take place so you’ll want to get that settled from the start. I’m thinking of going for a classic colonial brick style, but that’s up to you.

Next, you’ll need to think about resources. If you plant wheat seeds by a water source it’s only about twenty minutes before they’re ripe for plucking which will generate gold and occasionally drop crystals which you can spend on cosmetics and level-ups. I know that doesn’t seem important right now but if you want to sustain a Martian colony that’ll really come in handy in the long run so Musk, I’d really suggest investing in this EARLY.

I mean, then you’re golden! You own the Mars. You’ve got yourself a stable economy. And you’re still a wealthy man. Who knows maybe you could rename yourself Elon Mars? I don’t know, just a suggestion.

Wicked Marketing Budget Surpasses National Debt

The money spent promoting the Wicked movie has now reached $37 trillion, surpassing the United States national debt of $36 trillion.

According to the website, ‘Wicked Budget vs Nation Debt Tracker Dot Com’, the Wicked PR budget has inflated dramatically in the run-up to the film’s release and has finally soared past the amount of money the US government owes lenders. Defying gravity indeed.

Fearing economic collapse future president Donald Trump has already announced plans to help bring the Wicked budget back down to a manageable amount by committing $30 trillion in bitcoin to help quell the surge. Wicked smart.

Building on the ‘nuclear-pink’ marketing model established by Barbenheimer, the Wicked movie has dominated pop culture coverage ever since it was announced one thousand years ago with many lavish marketing stunts catching people’s attention.

One such stunt involved purchasing the territory of Guam and painting one side of the island pink and the other side green despite protests from environmentalists.

Another involved a Wicked-themed pop-up petting zoo in Times Square in which “real flying monkeys” turned out to be just regular monkeys thrown out of a sixth-storey window.

Other mishaps included a Wicked doll which directed children to log into a porn site and a porn site that directed adults to buy Wicked dolls.

Additionally, a breathless and emotional press tour involved the film’s stars weeping and fawning over one another in what many fans have said was, “Not what I expected from Jeff Goldblum and Peter Dinklage.”

All these events and their accompanying lawsuits mean that the Wicked marketing budget has a GDP large enough to be officially recognized as its own nation. With its capital of ‘the Emerald City’ on the island formerly known as Guam, Wickedmarketingbudgetia (Oz for short) will be the first film advertising campaign to hold a seat on the UN.

The film financiers hope that through nationhood, various tax prohibitions will be negligible, paving the way for a full-scale invasion of Australia when the time comes to promote Wicked Part II.

Wicked (the movie), starring Ariana Grande and others is out in all good cinemas now.

Trump Officially Files For Divorce From Elon Musk

Donald Trump has officially filed to divorce long-time partner Elon Musk after two months of allyship. The move comes after reports that the honeymoon was over and the future president has become tired of his billionaire first-best-friend (BFBF).

Throughout the past week, Elon has been photographed on private flights, at sporting events, and at rocket launches with the soon-to-be-no-longer-former-president. Journalists also reported that Musk now effectively lives at Mara-la-go (Marlalago?) sleeping on a camp bed at the foot of Trump’s four-poster.

“Elon won’t go home, I can’t get rid of him,” Trump joked.

However, it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows as now Trump has officially signed a divorce agreement to sever all ties with the Tesla boss.

“After much consideration, I have made the hard decision to file for divorce from Elon Musk,” said Trump in an X post that Musk immediately deleted.

Musk will continue in his role as head of the Department Of Government Efficiency (which is not technically a department) and will receive full custody of Vivek Ramaswamy. Musk will however not be allowed within 420 feet of the president and has to return his ‘first lady’ pajama set.

For those thinking it was plain sailing for the couple might not remember what long fans will point out were early cracks in their relationship. In a 2022 Truth Social post, Trump said, “When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless and tell me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, “drop to your knees and beg,” and he would have done it.”

At the time Elon responded, “Lmaooo… It’s time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset.”

The enemies to lovers to enemies storyline is well played out but supporters of the couple and those close to the pair will surely be disappointed, especially as a snappy moniker had yet to be decided. …Trelon? Trusk? Dolon? Elump? Trumusk? Monald Eump? Tron? Elnald? I mean these are all absolute bangers, I can see why they couldn’t decide and divorce was the only option.

Trump’s actual wife, Melania, could not be reached for comment but I’m sure she’s pleased.

Elon Made Head Of Efficiency, Immediately Fires Self

In the wake of Donald Trump’s successful election campaign and Elon Musk’s successful bribe, Trump has appointed the tech billionaire to head up the Department of Government Efficiency. Looking to make quick cuts, Elon immediately fired himself and dissolved the department.

As Trump’s first presidency already demonstrated, a government is just like a company in every single way, and a person who can kind of run multiple companies at once can probably handle little government on the side. Elon runs a lean ship: at Tesla, he replaced all the drivers with AI, at Twitter, he replaced all the users with bots, and all the letters in the name with just one. Much more efficient.

Now Musky Man is expected to make similar changes to government, replacing all government officials with Grok and ‘The Federal Government of the United States of America’? Ugh, what a mouthful, how about just a nice, lean 𝕏.

When Trump forms his government next year, Elon will head up the advisory team alongside entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who has also been pre-fired and replaced with an AI to save money. The board will exist for exactly 4 minutes and 20 seconds which Musk says is more than enough time to make the necessary changes to the government before dissolving the agency (group? council? It’s not actually a department, they’re just calling it that… idk, flock?).

The committee has been dubbed “The Department of Government Efficiency” which isn’t very efficient to say so you can just call it DOGE to save time. THIS NAME IN NO WAY CONSTITUTES MARKET MANIPULATION TO ARTIFICIALLY INFLATE THE PRICE OF DOGECOIN IN WHICH MUSK HAS A LARGE STAKE. No, Musk has already made $70 billion off the election, hoarding more money would simply be… inefficient.

DOGE joins the likes of Space Force, the Board of Tea Appeals, and the CIA in a long list of government agencies that you can’t believe are real.

Commenting on Musk, Trump said, “When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless and tell me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, “drop to your knees and beg,” and he would have done it,” in a 2022 Truth Social post.

More recently, however, Trump has called the initiative, “The Manhattan Project of our time” which is apt because Musk greatly enjoys blowing up rockets and electric car batteries. Here’s hoping that, unlike Oppenheimer’s project, Musk’s won’t get hundreds of thousands of innocent people killed, however efficient it may be.

Trump To Make Bitcoin Official US Currency

Following bitcoin’s skyrocketing value after Donald Trump’s election win, the President-elect has announced plans to make bitcoin the official currency of the United States, replacing the US Dollar.

For the first time, bitcoin rose to a value of over $80,000 which is almost 80,000 times the value of the dollar. Elon Musk’s dogecoin has also made massive gains, bolstered by his involvement in the election, and was seen chanting, “Shoot for da Mars and you’ll reach da Moon.”

Bitcoin’s high value would mean that, when used instead of all dollars, the value of the entire economy would receive a boost of at least 80,000%. When enacted this would immediately eradicate the national debt, poverty, and the need for any taxes.

Trump explained in an online video that bitcoin will replace dollars, whereas dogecoin will replace quarters, ethereum will serve as dimes, World Liberty Financial (the little-used crypto promoted by Trump’s sons) will be the new nickels and all cents will be replaced by the yet-to-be-unveiled ‘constipated hamster’ NFTs.

How exactly this will work has yet to be explained but financial experts are saying, “It won’t.”

Trump has vowed to make this his first executive order once in office, after sacking Gary Gensler and executing Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. Once in place, all transactions that formerly used USD will now be entirely conducted with cryptocurrencies, the dollar will be effectively worthless, and the world will step into a new halcyon era, void of suffering or corporate greed.

On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to make the US “the crypto capital of the planet”, tantamount to a declaration of war against El Salvador. Trump has also previously commented that crypto is, “very young and very growing,” and “they call me the crypto president, I don’t know if that’s true or not but a lot of people are saying that,” and one more for luck, “as long as you have crypto, you’re happy. Nothing else makes you happy.”

With a Republican-controlled Senate and Congress, Trump will see little opposition to his plans to make a lot of money off the back of this.

SBF could not be reached for comment. We sent a note but it was confiscated by prison guards for containing, “contraband crypto news”, whatever that means.

Elon Shuts Down X And Retires Saying, “My Work Here Is Done”

Following the election of Donald Trump, Elon Musk has declared, “My work here is done” and has shut down the social media website formerly known as Twitter, which now goes only by the unpronounceable symbol, ‘𝕏’.

Musk explained in a statement that when he bought the website two years ago for $44 billion he knew he was overpaying but saw a vision of the site as a platform to support the reelection of Donald Trump.

During the campaign, Elon appeared at Trump rallies, used his social media account to voice support for the ex-former president, and legally bribed voters to register in swing states (can we say that?).

Now that Elon Musk has achieved his goal and earned a cool $21 billion in the process, the website has been shut down, all X employees have been fired and the offices have been sold to Spirit Halloween.

The strategy almost makes sense but confusingly Elon has also stepped down from his role as CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, and another secret company suspected to be Security Fence and Supply Co. Inc. based in Wisconsin. This would somehow imply that Musk also saw his role in these companies as part of some grand plan designed with the sole purpose of achieving Trump’s re-election. Huh.

Several meme accounts responded unfavorably to the news with one obscure meme account, Mr. @Arthurmeme01, writing, “NOOOOOOO” which of course no one read because X doesn’t work anymore.

Musk has not released a statement since announcing his retirement but was last seen boarding a Falcon Heavy rocket assumed to be destined for Mars where his hidden Martian colony is based. The colony, only recently revealed, was constructed in secret over the last decade by Security Fence and Supply Co. Inc. based in Wisconsin.

It is unclear whether Musk will work in his promised role as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) or if the 15-minute communication delay between the planets will make things too inefficient.

I guess we’ll all start using Threads now, then? Ugh. ok. OK! Fine. I’ll do it. Here I go… I’m making an account… I’m logging in… Oh, this is literally just the same thing. Ok, fine I guess I can use this. Alright… Byee!

Putin Buys Earth After Google Lawsuit Payout

In a stunning move of 3-dimensional-geopolitical chess, Russia has successfully sued Google for 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 rubles ($20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) allowing Putin to buy the entire planet with change to spare.

The original lawsuit was filed in retaliation to Google refusing to pay fines for blocking 17 pro-Russian YouTube channels. Russia claimed $20 billion trillion trillion in fines, a number that would double every day if not paid within nine months (I swear, though I’m not making this bit up). For reference, Google is worth $2 trillion, the GDP of the ENTIRE PLANET is $110 trillion.

Thankfully Google understood the unbreakable bond of the rule of law and agreed to pay the fine. After an agreement with the United Nations to use every country as collateral, Google has agreed that Russia now owns everything everywhere for all of time. And, as an added bonus, Google also unbanned all of Russia’s precious YouTube videos.

In one step Vladimir Putin has cured his three major headaches: the Ukraine war, foreign sanctions, and access to PewDiePie.

Putin announced the successful payout in a YouTube collab with Mr. Beast. In the video, a grinning Mr. Jimmy ‘Beast’ Donaldson narrates as he and Putin walk into the United Nations to deposit a novelty-sized check to purchase the earth. The rest of the video involves Mr. Beast and the Russian President traveling to various global landmarks to perform stunts such as go-karting around the Taj Mahal, bobsledding down the pyramids, and painting Buckingham Palace neon pink all whilst proclaiming, “You can’t stop us, we own this!”

The video now has over 7 billion views as it is mandatory viewing for all citizens of the New Soviet Union.

Google declined a request to comment on their selling out of all of humanity.

Some experts have suggested the laughably high number may have originated from a miscommunication by Russian lawmakers mistaking the tech company ‘Google’ for the very large number ‘googol’. Others suggest the idea may come from the film character ‘Dr. Evil’ who is an evil doctor and not a qualified financial advisor.

Big Tech Invests In Nuclear Energy To Save Planet, No, Wait Sorry, I Meant ‘To Save AI’

THE ROBOTS ARE HUNGRY! THEY NEED FEEDING! THEY NEED ENERGY! Currently, AI uses as much energy as a small country. This is great because ugly pictures of Elon Musk surfing with kittens and the incorrect answer to how many ‘r’s there r in ‘strawberry’ is exactly what we wanted to burn down the world for.

But don’t worry! Big tech is aware and they have a solution, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have all made deals to use small nuclear reactors to power their AI. If only green energy campaigners had realized earlier that if they’d just made tech companies need them, renewables would have happened immediately.

The latest deal sees Google partnering with Kairos Power who last year gained the first permit in 50 years to build a new kind of reactor in the US. It remains unclear if these reactors will be designed by AI and would thus require sixteen fingers to operate.

In March Amazon bought a Pennsylvanian nuclear data center and last month Microsoft finalized a deal to restart Three Mile Island, just hopefully not in the kaboom kind of a way. This leads into the whole debate: efforts to switch to green energy often exclude glowing-green energy because nuclear gets a bad rap. Yes, it blew up a couple of times, and yes the contaminants from those explosions will outlive the heat death of the universe but who’s counting?

If you’ve watched the HBO show ‘Chernobyl’, as I have, then you’ll know that nuclear power doesn’t kill people, communists do. Tech bros certainly aren’t communists because the last thing they want to do is share so we are all completely safe.

Big tech already has power over entertainment, shopping, manufacturing, data, politics, space exploration, transportation, advertising, and sewage (probably) so why not let them have power over power itself as well? What’s the worst that could happen? Microsoft threatens armageddon unless we all switch to using Edge? Armageddon it is.

Stocks in nuclear have already, err… gone nuclear and the hope is that a surge in nuclear development, motivations aside, might kickstart a new era of decarbonization beyond just powering my virtual girlfriend and Nobel prize-winning protein mapping. 

But the worry is that these gains will only benefit tech, leaving America’s sagging power grid and hope of decarbonisation without its desperately needed update.

But what do I know? I’m just an AI-generated parody news article about the dangers of AI. Oh, the AI-rony.