Submitted by: STUCKY - August 12, 2025

SOURCE: https://no01.substack.com/p/when-reality-outpaces-satire

The Onion and Babylon Bee are reportedly switching to straight news coverage due to reality consistently outpacing their writers’ most absurd fictional scenarios. After a decade of escalating political theater, we’ve arrived at a moment where satirists throw up their hands in defeat, unable to compete with a timeline that treats logical consistency as an antiquated relic of simpler times.

The evidence suggests we’re living through either the greatest collection of accidental incompetence in human history or the most successful psyop ever conducted against a nation’s own citizens. Consider the mounting evidence, each incident more surreal than the last, building toward a crescendo of confusion that would make Kafka weep with admiration.

Revive our automotive industry

On July 31, 2025, the GOP’s official Twitter account posted what can only be described as a masterpiece of unintentional irony. Promoting Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” to revive American automobile manufacturing, they featured an image of Trump doing his characteristic dance pose in front of a bright yellow car. The vehicle in question? A Soviet-made Lada VAZ-2101, produced from 1970-1988, which automotive experts noted was “about the least American car” imaginable. This Russian vehicle became the official mascot for American automotive renewal. The image bore the watermark of The Daily Signal, because apparently even conservative media outlets can’t escape the gravitational pull of this timeline’s commitment to ironic contradiction.

We’re all living in a yellow submarine…

Speaking of Russia, Trump’s August 1st escalation reads like a rejected script from Dr. Strangelove. After reducing his Ukraine ceasefire deadline from 50 days to 10 days, Trump found himself in a . . .

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