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Trump Unveils Totally New, Totally Unique Space Force Logo

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Trump Unveils Totally New, Totally Unique Space Force Logo

Trump Unveils Totally New, Totally Unique Space Force Logo

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe White House—President Donald Trump unveiled the new Space Force logo today, saying to the White House Press, “Today, I give to you, my supporters, and even you traitors here in the press, a brand new Space Force logo. I designed it myself, and it is totally new, totally my idea. Totally unique, totally new, maybe even the most new, perhaps even ever.” He held up a depiction of the…

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Entirety of China Killed by Virus for Second Time Since SARS

Entirety of China Killed by Virus for Second Time Since SARS

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Reading Time: < 1 minutePresident Donald Trump says that he plans on imposing high tariffs on the import of the coronavirus, stating that there’s no reason Americans shouldn’t be making the deadly pathogen at home.

CNN: Bernie Sanders Endorsed by Neo-Nazi Joe Rogan

CNN: Bernie Sanders Endorsed by Neo-Nazi Joe Rogan

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Reading Time: 2 minutesHost Anderson Cooper is set to deliver a fiery address tomorrow night, where he’ll point out to the 327 million morons in America—over 15 of whom watch his show—that Bernie’s gone off the rails and must be deplatformed.

“Why Do Christians Have to Believe in Fairy Tales?” Laments Atheist Who Doesn’t Believe in Free Will

“Why Do Christians Have to Believe in Fairy Tales?” Laments Atheist Who Doesn’t Believe in Free Will

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Reading Time: 2 minutes“You dummies,” he added. “You can do what you decide to do, but you cannot decide what you will decide to do!” He quickly asked an aide if he’d used a double-double single negative-positive and if his last statement made any sense whatsoever.

Hillary Clinton, World’s Most Advanced AI, Says Preferred Pronouns are This/Unit

Hillary Clinton, World’s Most Advanced AI, Says Preferred Pronouns are This/Unit

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Reading Time: 2 minutesHillary Clinton, the world’s most advanced, lifelike, and malevolent artificial intelligence, announced her choice of pronouns yesterday.

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Hillary Clinton: Bernie Sanders is Known Russian Asset

Hillary Clinton: Bernie Sanders is Known Russian Asset

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Reading Time: 2 minutesHillary Clinton, America’s most lifelike artificial intelligence, has opened old wounds with her one-time political foe, Bernie Sanders. In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, she said some remarkable things. “Listen, no one—” she managed to get out before her tuberculosis cough kicked in for a solid three minutes. “No one likes Bernie. He’s never accomplished anything, which makes him a clear and present danger in the White House. We…

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“Guns?! But Government Is Always Benevolent,” Says Man Terrified That Trump Will Become Forever-Dictator Like Putin

“Guns?! But Government Is Always Benevolent,” Says Man Terrified That Trump Will Become Forever-Dictator Like Putin

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Reading Time: 3 minutesRichmond, Virginia—A gun rights rally has concluded in Virginia, spilling only 0 buckets of blood versus the “untold millions” that CNN had predicted. In the wake of the hyper-violent protest that dressed itself up in a deceptive facade of peace, we interviewed a man in a local Starbucks, who was cowering bravely in a corner, with his Super Venti Flat White shaking in his hands too much for him to…

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Bernie Sanders Says His Ideal Society is the Borg

Bernie Sanders Says His Ideal Society is the Borg

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAs of the time of this writing, Mr. Sanders has upgraded being assimilated from “a constitutional right” to “a human right.” He also downgraded resistance from “don’t think it’ll work” to “is futile.”

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Trump Replaces US Space Command with Much, Much Better US Space Force

Trump Replaces US Space Command with Much, Much Better US Space Force

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesMos Eisley, D.C.—President Donald Trump has revolutionized space as of 2020. While space used to be under the purview of the U.S. Air Force Space Command, the Commander in Chief noted that “they were buffoons and total crybabies,” and had the lot of them disbanded. Trump, pontificating to a crowd of horrified onlookers in the White House Press Briefing Room, explained “we’re going to have a bloodbath, a yuge bloodbath,…

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“Faith is One of the World’s Great Evils,” Declares Man Who Does Not Believe in Evil

“Faith is One of the World’s Great Evils,” Declares Man Who Does Not Believe in Evil

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Reading Time: 3 minutesFinally some good news in this world! In a stunning rebuke of all faiths everywhere, but especially of the really stupid ones, like Christianity, Professor Richard Dawkins has delivered a killing blow.

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Jesus Hates This One Weird Trick

Jesus Hates This One Weird Trick

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSays Osteen, “No repentance needed or your money back!”

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Warren Completes Gender Transition in Under Two Hours After Learning That Women Can’t Win Presidential Election

Warren Completes Gender Transition in Under Two Hours After Learning That Women Can’t Win Presidential Election

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteHe requested that people not dead-name him, and is now running under the name “Aaren Whiz Elbert,” a nod to his genius plans. Out of respect for his tribal ancestry, he has indicated that he is more two-spirit (2S+) than transman, though “whatever wins the nomination works for me.”

Trump Kills Rose Garden by Watering It with Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator

Trump Kills Rose Garden by Watering It with Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator

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Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen asked why the White House didn’t water with something more conventional, such as, say, water, Ms. Grisham rolled her eyes and snorted, “Water’s for toilets.”

Lost Tribe of Cannibals Found as Left Eats Itself

Lost Tribe of Cannibals Found as Left Eats Itself

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Reading Time: 2 minutesWashington, D.C.—Note: This is part in a series on the Democratic Debates. We’ll check back in with Tuesday’s Carnage Coverage© tonight. Anthropologists with the Smithsonian Institute made a surprising discovery Monday as they found evidence of a massive, lost tribe of cannibals, spread across the entirety of the United States, in much the same way as a stage IV cancer. “We were reviewing some old artifacts from the 2010s, mostly…

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Booker Suspends Campaign, Leaving Warren as Only Minority Candidate

Booker Suspends Campaign, Leaving Warren as Only Minority Candidate

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Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m not sure that America was ready for a radical like me, calling on our country to examine whether or not we’re eating ourselves, and urging and gentle discourse. The US just isn’t ready to abandon bloodlust. Not y—” he said, but was cut short as Howard Dean went screaming by in the background.

Bernie Sanders Promises To End Wars, Bring Home Troops To Guard Gulags Instead

Bernie Sanders Promises To End Wars, Bring Home Troops To Guard Gulags Instead

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesSanders made the proclamation to a packed crowd at UC Berkeley, resulting in the crowd, some of whom already had lists of people to oppress, erupting into deafening jazz hands.

Boeing Clarifies: 737 Max Was Designed by Monkeys, Who Were Supervised by Clowns

Boeing Clarifies: 737 Max Was Designed by Monkeys, Who Were Supervised by Clowns

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSeattle, WA—Boeing Company has been under incredible pressure in the ongoing Max debacle, from having to shut down the assembly line to flip-flopping and now requiring that all pilots be re-trained in special simulators. It’s estimated that the outlay of expenses for the Max are in the billions. A recent document dump has revealed that Boeing employees knew about the plane’s troubles before it crashed on two occasions, killing hundreds….

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100% of Australian Animals Now Dead, Protecting Australians from the 98% of Them Which Were Poisonous

100% of Australian Animals Now Dead, Protecting Australians from the 98% of Them Which Were Poisonous

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCanberra—In startling climate change news, it has been reported that literally every single, last animal in Australia has been killed by fires in as a result of Catastrophic Global Warming©, which is a step below the IPCC’s predicted Apocalyptic Global Warming ©, which would also have killed the humans. (Though some climate change deniers have pointed out that the rising ocean level would have canceled out the wildfires.) As of…

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Educating Bigots: Why Do Regressives Still Call a Female’s Fronthole a Vagina?

Educating Bigots: Why Do Regressives Still Call a Female’s Fronthole a Vagina?

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Reading Time: 3 minutesYes, vagina can be used, but it’s to be used for people who have had surgery to make it. It doesn’t exist in nature. You can’t just find a vagina out in the wild.

Evangelicals Support Invasion of Iran, as Garden of Eden Possibly Located There

Evangelicals Support Invasion of Iran, as Garden of Eden Possibly Located There

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Reading Time: 2 minutesModern day Iran. In the wake of violence in the Middle East, the Pew Research Center has polled 9,000 evangelicals across America to ascertain the group’s stance on war with Iran. Below are some of the findings: 98% of evangelicals support war with Iran, 1.5% oppose war, and .5% are undecided. Of those who support the war,▶ 87% support it because the Garden of Eden might be located there, ▶10%…

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INCOMING NEWS: Iran Launching Rocket Attacks on Iraq, Our 51st State

INCOMING NEWS: Iran Launching Rocket Attacks on Iraq, Our 51st State

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Trump Administration recently announced that one Mr. Qasem Soleimani, an austere practitioner of Sun Tzu, was deliberately “denied boarding of his flight, permanently” in order to “prevent escalation of tension with Iran.” The late, bearded General was allegedly in Iraq, the 51st state in the union, in order to de-escalate tensions in informal talks with Saudi Arabia, when he tried to interfere with American interests by illegally attacking one…

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Woman is Baptized; Does Not Receive Enough FB Likes to Be Sure of Her Salvation

Woman is Baptized; Does Not Receive Enough FB Likes to Be Sure of Her Salvation

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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe woman stated her desire to be immersed for the forgiveness of her sins, of course, the many blessings and financial fortunes that God and Joel Osteen promise his followers.

In Show Of Peace, USA Offers To Install Free Glass Factory In Iran

In Show Of Peace, USA Offers To Install Free Glass Factory In Iran

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Reading Time: 2 minutesTrumps says that the factory will be shipped quite quickly via air freight, at an expected 17,000 MPH.

Suffering Drought Of War Heroes, Nation Delighted To Find Untapped Supply In Iran

Suffering Drought Of War Heroes, Nation Delighted To Find Untapped Supply In Iran

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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe United States of America, long a leader in troop deaths in never-ending wars, has become a laughing stock among nations in the past years as it has sought to draw-down troop numbers and conflicts. This has resulted in less patriotic bloodshed, and also less dead war heroes, which the nation values. “It’s really sad,” commented Stephanie Grisham, the White House Press Secretary. “We don’t give Obama enough credit for…

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CA Law Mandating Female Boardmembers Results in Many Gender Transitions

CA Law Mandating Female Boardmembers Results in Many Gender Transitions

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Reading Time: 4 minutesA new law in California is having surprising effects. In September of 2018, the governor of California signed into effect a gender diversity bill, which mandates that any corporate board in the state have at least one female board member. Further, beginning in July 2021, the bill requires a minimum of two women directors on boards with five directors and at least three women on boards with six or more…

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