Daniel Gilmore: Like for many things, I think Trump winning was the thing that finally broke the onion. You could see them edging towards their present dynamic starting around 2014ish but 2016 is where it tips over the edge

It’s still amazing to consider how getting too online politics brain made the onion extremely unfunny

The Onion, 2019

Did the Onion ever do much with politics that was funny other than Diamond Joe? Generally their best stuff used to be the slice of life “I know that asshole/that asshole is me” stories

I do think "No Way To Prevent This, Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" was pretty good. And some of the political-ish Onion News Network stuff was fun.

The last good Onion politics was in 2003.

I would say 2003, but later in the year

I think it’s instructive that the last time (predominantly white, middle-class) satirists were good was the Bush administration.

Like for many things, I think Trump winning was the thing that finally broke the onion. You could see them edging towards their present dynamic starting around 2014ish but 2016 is where it tips over the edge

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