There's bad satire (Babylon Bee), good satire (The Onion, Borowitz), and there's Alexandra Petri....

[Tommy_Carcetti]

....who brings the form down to a truly beautiful art. I absolutely love her pieces in the Washington Post. They are inspired.

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/21/oh-good-donald-trump-is-god-now/?outputType=amp

The Amazon is burning. Darkness covers São Paulo at noon. The economy is wilting. The Federal Reserve chair dreamed of seven lean oxen, and when he awakened, all his yield curves had inverted. Sean Spicer is on “Dancing With The Stars.” Do not think that these are signs that we drift, alone, through an indifferent universe, where everything is absurd and nothing is funny. Do not mistake these omens. All has been revealed.

*stone tablets containing decades of laws crash down from on high and shatter*

Glorious news, everyone! Donald Trump is God! Everything makes sense now, and the final purpose of all things is at last clear. Donald Trump on Wednesday proudly quoted a messenger who said he was “the second coming of God,” and he described himself as “the chosen one,” looking up at the sky. As I said, wonderful, good, normal news!

*Donald Trump’s entire staff transforms into snakes*

How did we not recognize it before? He can multiply crowds at a wish. He can make the night day and the day night. He can make Melania Trump appear in a window where she is not. He can make friends enemies and enemies, friends. He can stare unblinkingly into the sun (at an eclipse, no less), for the sun shall not strike him by day. He turned Chris Christie into a pillar of salt; his arrival was heralded by a burned-out Bush. With Trump, all things are possible. Don’t give him a baby to cut in half; he’ll do it.

*water across the nation transforms into Trump-branded wine*

More at link. Very funny stuff.

[rocktivity]

1. Automatic rifles, electric guitar feeback and satire

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should never be allowed to be operated by amateurs.


rocktivity

[lunatica]

2. Funny! The line that made me laugh the best is the following:

He made the lion lie down with the lamb, and then he stood with the lion after the resulting incident.