Onion predicted the future

[TheReckoning]

Remember when this was Satire?

I’m convinced the Onion is just a bunch of people who can predict the future and who subtly try and hint at it.

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

Also predicted the Obama-Trump voter:

[Alben Barkley]

Also predicted the Obama-Trump voter:

Worst case scenario is someone with evil intent seizes control of them. They’ve proven their minds can be taken over by empty rhetoric. So if someone were to come up with a catchphrase as simple and vague as “Yes We can,” they would have an entire army of extremely energetic, insufferably annoying, mindless pawns at their command.

My god.

[WD]

Also predicted the Obama-Trump voter:

Worst case scenario is someone with evil intent seizes control of them. They’ve proven their minds can be taken over by empty rhetoric. So if someone were to come up with a catchphrase as simple and vague as “Yes We can,” they would have an entire army of extremely energetic, insufferably annoying, mindless pawns at their command.

My god.

The people at the Onion are prophets. No one can tell me otherwise.

[MABA 2020]

Impressive

[Ferguson97]

Also predicted the Obama-Trump voter:

Worst case scenario is someone with evil intent seizes control of them. They’ve proven their minds can be taken over by empty rhetoric. So if someone were to come up with a catchphrase as simple and vague as “Yes We can,” they would have an entire army of extremely energetic, insufferably annoying, mindless pawns at their command.

My god.

The people at the Onion are prophets. No one can tell me otherwise.

The quality of The Onion has fallen so far, I don't think it'll come back to the golden age of the late 2000s/early 2010s.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Also applicable to that Simpsons clip from 2000, except that for some reason America's "first straight female president" wasn't elected last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=29&v=ZtparSnQhFc&feature=youtu.be