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CHICAGO, IL — After Walmart announced plans to close 4 store locations in dangerous Chicago neighborhoods, Chicago Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson issued a dire warning that this will leave many Chicagoans with fewer places to shoplift.

"Citizens of this great city have the fundamental right to steal merchandise in their own communities without resorting to traveling to other neighborhoods," said Johnson at a local protest against the store closings. "If our youths don't have a safe place to work, shop, shoplift, loot, fight, do drugs, terrorize citizens, and smash windows, they may participate in riskier shoplifting, looting, and drug-consuming in affluent communities where cops will actually bother to arrest them until my Soros-funded DA lets them back out on the street. We can't let this happen!"

Walmart executives insist the move is nothing personal. "We're just tired of our cashiers and store greeters getting beaten up and every store losing millions of dollars," said district manager Darnell Monahan. "We'd prefer our workers not get beaten up and robbed and all that stuff. Sorry!"

At publishing time, civil rights leaders had warned that if Walmart goes through with the move, they will encourage Americans to boycott shoplifting there entirely.

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I guess the Shit-cagoans will just have to loot Target instead.

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I guess the Shit-cagoans will just have to loot Target instead.

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During my decade or so living in "Chi-Raq", the city leaders (including Mayor Daley the lesser and Rahm Emanuel) fought and decried Walmart even opening a store in the city limits. But damn them if they leave!!! :panic:
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Is it satire, or does the Bee have a machine that shows them what the proggies want to say, but know they can't?
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Is it satire, or does the Bee have a machine that shows them what the proggies want to say, but know they can't?

I read a couple days ago that Elon Musk has a prototype of an AI machine that produces exactly what you're talking about. Apparently they're in the latter stages of debugging, so before too long, the Bee can churn these things out within seconds. (They may have to get rid of a few staffers -- if so, that would be a shame.)  :whistling:

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The solution is to issue them free passes on public transport  :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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I read a couple days ago that Elon Musk has a prototype of an AI machine that produces exactly what you're talking about. Apparently they're in the latter stages of debugging, so before too long, the Bee can churn these things out within seconds. (They may have to get rid of a few staffers -- if so, that would be a shame.)  :whistling:

Might have posted this already, but here we go perhaps again:

When satire becomes reality: Nearly 100 Babylon Bee joke stories have come true

JUPITER, Fla. – The Babylon Bee has had nearly 100 joke headlines turn into prophecies after the stories eventually came true, the CEO of America’s largest right-leaning satire website told Fox News.

"The problem isn't that our satire is too close to reality," Seth Dillon told Fox News. "It’s that reality is too close to satire, so our jokes keep coming true."

The Bee maintains a running list of its satirical headlines that became real — or at least partially real — stories after publication. The fulfilled prophecies include a wide range of topics and include jokes about Democrats and Republicans alike.

"So we have a spreadsheet of nearly 100 jokes now that we've tracked," he said. "They were fulfilled like prophecies instead of punch lines."

The Bee published one article, "To Improve Public Perception, Kamala Harris Taking Likability Lessons From Hillary Clinton," in July 2021. A month later, Axios reported that a former Clinton advisor hosted a dinner with prominent Democratic women — including Clinton's former spokeswoman — to discuss how to defend Vice President Kamala Harris from bad press.

"Who would take likability lessons from Hillary Clinton?" Dillon asked. "But then a month later, there's a real story that [Harris'] staff reached out to Hillary’s staff to make her more likable."

"We even did one about how Trump had claimed to have done more for Christianity than Jesus himself and that one went crazy viral," Dillon said.

In 2021, then-President Trump said during an interview that "nobody has done more for Christianity or for evangelicals or for religion itself than I have."

Dillon said the Bee's 2019 article, "Trump: 'I Have Done More For Christianity Than Jesus,'" was fact-checked and rated false.

"And then two years later, he actually said it," Dillon told Fox News. "He said he's done more for Christianity than anyone else in history. In fact, he's done more for religion than anyone else in history."

In September 2022, the Bee joked about the economy with the headline, "9 Reasons Not To Worry About The Tanking Economy." Just two days later, the Washington Post published the headline "7 ways a recession could be good for you financially."

Dillon added that sometimes it's hard for his writers to come up with satire because the real news headlines already read like jokes.

"There are all the time stories that come across the screen that are just incredibly outrageous," he said "You know you wouldn't believe that they're true, and we have to do a double take and see, is this parody, is this a real story?"

We're living in really crazy, insane times," he added. "So, yes, there are plenty of times where we pull up a headline, and we're just baffled by it."

On Feb. 3, 2023, the Bee posted the headline "Biden Says He’ll Shoot Down Chinese Spy Balloon As Soon As He’s Done Letting It Spy." One day later, Biden announced that the balloon was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean after it finished crossing the United States, arguing that he waited so debris wouldn't fall on civilians.

"We did show a joke during the pandemic about how pants sales were plummeting because everyone was working from home," Dillon said, citing a March 2020 example. "And it was this picture of a guy sitting there in his pink boxers, but he's got a nice dress shirt on, like at his desk."

"The very next day, there was a story about how Walmart was seeing increased sales of tops, but not bottoms," he continued.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/satire-reality-nearly-100-babylon-bee-joke-stories-come-true
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