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demmiblue

(38,545 posts)
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 11:18 AM Jun 22

EXCLUSIVE -- The Onion has a full-page ad in today's NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional feckles

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.

My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2025-06-22T13:32:16.106Z


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EXCLUSIVE -- The Onion has a full-page ad in today's NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional feckles (Original Post) demmiblue Jun 22 OP
Kick dalton99a Jun 22 #1
When is The Onion ever wrong? Passages Jun 22 #2
The complete editorial: Buns_of_Fire Jun 22 #3
Scathing lindysalsagal Jun 22 #8
thanks . AllaN01Bear Jun 22 #4
Kick SheltieLover Jun 22 #5
Excellent! nt Exp Jun 22 #6
Should have directed it to Rethug's. Peregrine Took Jun 22 #7
The other headlines are just as powerful jayschool2013 Jun 22 #9
Outstanding! I hope somebody reads this into the Congressional Record. Pinback Jun 22 #10
Kick Hekate Jun 22 #11
I wonder how Jasmine Crockett and some others feels about mucifer Jun 22 #12

Buns_of_Fire

(18,591 posts)
3. The complete editorial:
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 11:55 AM
Jun 22
https://theonion.com/letter-to-congress/#editorial

Excerpt:
But what can I, one coward, do alone? you might ask. It’s true. As a solitary person, your fecklessness will make little impact. But if you join together with the most craven senators and representatives in the Capitol, the impact will be immense: The corruption, the disregard for the rule of law, the shipping of residents to foreign gulags, the attacks on judges, the censorship and chilling of speech, the punishment of any and all dissent—it can be made that much worse if you just find it in yourself to clutch your head in your hands, wet the bed, and cower in the hope of being spared from the White House’s wrath.

It won’t be easy, but you must search deep within yourself and muster up every ounce of gutlessness you have. Then, bend over and lick the president’s boots.

Peregrine Took

(7,577 posts)
7. Should have directed it to Rethug's.
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 01:31 PM
Jun 22

This is cowardice, too, by leaning back on the old “both sides do ir.”

jayschool2013

(2,590 posts)
9. The other headlines are just as powerful
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 01:53 PM
Jun 22
Entitled Child Expects to Eat Lunch Every Day
Girl literally wants food handed to her on a plate

Christian Faith An Important Part Of Who Senator Pretends To Be

Pinback

(13,311 posts)
10. Outstanding! I hope somebody reads this into the Congressional Record.
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 01:59 PM
Jun 22

Maybe Ted Lieu or Eric Swalwell.

I am proud to be an Onion print subscriber and I recently gave a gift subscription as a birthday present. They are well worth supporting financially for those with the means.

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