I genuinely can't come up with something worse than the actual news. I see real news stories and think "wow, my anxiety riddled brain has been coming up with 'worst case scenarios' for months now, but this? I hadn't even thought of worrying about that."

Like I was not expecting to think "Hitler would be a better President." And for the record, as of a couple months ago I would have said that Hitler was as bad of a leader as any country could possibly have.

But not only is Trump every bit as xenophobic, power hungry, and 'above the law' as History's Worst Person (tm) but his administration is also selling off our national forests, dismantling our educational system, and literally defunding the usda and fda.

At least the nazis supported organic farming or whatever. THAT'S NOT A SENTENCE I SHOULD EVER BE ABLE TO SAY. And yet here we are.

The Republican party, ladies and gentlemen. Speedrunning "worst government ever."

We need c/notnottheonion

The Onion could start writing about good things happening and then they'd be more Onion.

"Trump signs executive order to provide subsidizing school lunches for underprivileged elementary schools"

Something laughably unrealistic like that.

Then it will make you cry, like an onion should.

It's like the world leveled up so now The Onion has to level up too.

All The Onion has to do is write headlines and articles that would have been real a decade or two ago.

Yes. We have genuine headlines that are far more bizarre than anything the onion could come out with.

Unironically I read union headlines now and have a moment of panic/confusion because I can't tell an onion article at a glance. 10 years ago the onion was just a moment of bemusement, now I have to check the source. Same with the Beaverton that I see on Lemmy occasionally.

Yes.