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Texas Politicians Used Burner Email To Request FEMA Funds (theonion.com)
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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Almost ate the Onion on this one. It sounds exactly like something they would do.

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I swallowed it whole

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago

I already had onion breath by the time I saw the comm name.

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I feel like it has to be a lot harder to write for The Onion nowadays when all of the headlines could legit be true.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

I'm still not convinced that it's The Onion.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 9 points 5 days ago

ate it

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago

lmao can you imagine if this happened and Trump got pissed about it?

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

That's giving them much more credit than they deserve

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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