ANCHORAGE, AK - International political observers are stunned today after U.S. President Donald Trump made the controversial move of asking Russian President Vladimir Putin for a 20% gratuity, "as a suggested minimum", after selling him the country of Ukraine.

(Disclaimer: this is satire [ie, fiction, not real])

  • streetfestival@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    30·
    2 months ago

    I find The Beaverton pretty cathartic, living in this really troubled time that we do. This piece gave me several lols.

    Zooming out, as news article usually do at the end, it ends on a banger

    At press time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was planning a diplomatic mission to one of the many countries he is able to freely travel to because he’s not a fucking war criminal.

  • tehWrapper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    The fact I had to read all the way to the url to see it was thebeaverton shows how messed up this time line is…

  • YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    I’d wager Trump has never tipped 20% in his life. He seems more like the “demand special attention, bitch, and tip maybe 10%” type.