The Onion and other satire w/ layers

At this point he's pissing on everyone while telling them he's pissing on them.

Trump Unveils New Economic Theory: “Golden Showers” Will Trickle Down to Working Americans

MAR-A-LAGO, FL — Standing beneath a chandelier the size of a municipal water tower, former President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled what aides are calling his “boldest economic vision yet,” assuring supporters that prosperity would soon “trickle down like golden showers” from America’s wealthiest citizens.

“You’re gonna love it,” Trump told reporters during a 97-minute speech that began as a tax policy announcement and slowly drifted into what witnesses described as “a yacht-owner’s fever dream.” “The rich are doing fantastically. Tremendous people. And when they do fantastically, it pours all over everybody else. That’s economics. Very advanced. Some people are even calling it liquid wealth.”

The statement reportedly caused several Wall Street donors to exchange alarmed glances while a lone Heritage Foundation intern quietly deleted his LinkedIn account.

According to campaign insiders, Trump had originally intended to say “golden opportunities,” but “committed to the bit with absolute presidential confidence” after noticing the crowd cheering anyway.

At one point during the speech, Trump gestured toward a chart labeled WEALTH WATERFALL that appeared to have been drawn in metallic Sharpie on the back of a steakhouse placemat. The chart showed arrows descending from billionaires toward ordinary Americans, though most arrows diverted midway into boxes labeled “consulting fees,” “luxury bunkers,” and “third yacht.”

“Look, when billionaires succeed, eventually some droplets reach the middle class,” said Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore while attempting to fold the placemat before reporters could photograph it. “That’s just gravity. Isaac Newton understood this. The Democrats want to repeal gravity.”

Critics were quick to condemn the remarks. Senate Democrats described the proposal as “grotesque,” while several economists clarified that trickle-down economics had already spent forty years failing without requiring metaphorical hydration play. “This is what happens when a tax policy gets written by casino carpeting,” said one analyst from the Brookings Institution. “At some point the metaphors become sentient.”

Trump supporters, however, remained enthusiastic. “He tells it like it is,” said Florida resident Dale Krenshaw, wearing a T-shirt reading BILLIONAIRES ARE MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS. “Politicians used to hide this stuff behind words like ‘market efficiencies.’ Trump’s brave enough to say the quiet part through a megaphone dipped in gold leaf.”

By Friday morning, campaign staff had attempted to walk back the remarks, insisting the former president was referring to “an abundance mindset.” Trump himself later doubled down on Truth Social. “THE RADICAL LEFT HATES SUCCESS!!!” he posted at 2:14 a.m. “When patriots become incredibly rich, everyone benefits eventually, maybe not immediately, maybe not legally speaking, but eventually. SAD! - DJT!”

At press time, Republicans in Congress were reportedly drafting a new tax bill that would classify yacht and private jet depreciation as a humanitarian relief program.

Cur non ambo?

That's a sign of failed satire.

This could trivially have been real, and sadly unsurprising. Like he was trying to Boris Johnson the piss tape.

The onion is not supposed to be edible. That's why it's hilarious to see people respond sincerely to 'underage girl to be tried as adult black man.' Like, are you serious? It's outrageous to the point it must be a joke. We live in a ridiculous reality, but it's not that kind of ridiculous.

Incidentally I guess isGlitch finally folded. They used to post this kind of garbage all the time, with only occasional nuggets of a good idea. Pretty sure the whole thing was someone using an LLM and waiting to go 'ah-HA!' when everybody said they liked it. Did not happen.