Babylon Bee is spot on about Bernie Sanders’ gasoline alternative

Heh heh, Babylon Bee is spot on again with their satire.
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Bernie Sanders has revealed he and his team have been working on an alternative to gasoline: an innovative new idea of burning a giant pile of tax dollars instead of outdated, harmful fossil fuels.

Sanders experimented with hundreds of different blends, from a mix of coins and dollars to pallets of hundred-dollar bills. But he finally settled on a giant pyramid of cash when he made his big breakthrough.

“All you people care about is money,” Sanders said as he tossed a specialty Venezuelan cigar he had imported onto the big pile of cash. “We need to start caring about the environment, and if the best way to do that is to destroy the economy by burning all the cash, that’s what I’m going to do.”

The presidential candidate added that “it’s not about money; it’s about sending a message to climate change deniers: ‘Everything burns.’ ” …

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Tom's notes 2

  1. Tom Kirkman

    The punch line is funny because it is pretty much true.

  2. Tom Kirkman

    A ‘Fact Checker’ Declares War On Satire

    By Kyle Mann

    Aug. 21, 2019

    If your job is to make people laugh, what do you do when your brand of humor is classified as dangerous?

    I run the Babylon Bee, a satirical website, and we’ve had to face that question a lot lately. The “fact checkers” at Snopes.com—once a reliable source for distinguishing reality from urban legends—have been smearing the Bee as “fake news.” They don’t seem to have a problem when we make fun of Trump-worship, conservatives, fundamentalism and megachurches. But when we target Democrats and the left, suddenly we’re branded liars. ...

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-fact-checker-declares-war-on-satire-11566428259

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