Posted on 01/17/2025 12:12:36 PM PST by Navy Patriot
Dear readers,
It is with a heavy heart that I announce we have decided to close the doors here at The Babylon Bee. Satire requires targets worthy of mockery to persist. And unfortunately, with Donald Trump taking office this year, there will be nothing to make fun of.
There are so many wonderful things about Trump, but his one flaw is he is not good for comedy. A smoothly running, efficient administration that does what it says, fulfills its promises, and abides by a strict code of ethics simply provides no worthy targets for valid satire.
What are we supposed to do - make fun of Trump when he closes the border and ushers in a new age of prosperity? What about when he ends all wars his first day in office? Or when he makes good on his promise to purchase Greenland and annex Canada, reestablishing America on the global stage as the dominant empire - are we supposed to crack a joke then?
No. It would be inappropriate. And worse still, it wouldn't be funny. There is nothing funny about perfection.
We had a good run making fun of Biden, and we did our best to ensure that Kamala Harris would win the election. It was our last hope to have terribly incompetent people in government to make fun of. But alas - when we woke up on November 6 and saw that Harris had lost the election, we knew our days were numbered.
We are so grateful for the support you've given us over the years and pray that you'll remember us fondly as you enter into the paradise that is a second Trump term. You're welcome, America.
In Christ, Kyle Mann, Editor-in-Chief
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The old masters did this, Hope, Benny, Burnett, ... and Jimmy Kimmel is NEVER getting into Heaven.
Hoping this is parody? Even if there’s nothing to make fun of with Trump, we know the Dems are still around, and there is always plenty of idiocy with them.
The Bee = best headlines in the history of headlines.
Self deprecating humor is fast becoming a lost art.....thank God The Bee has it mastered.
They get *SO* much right!
I am just continually amazed at how spot on they are.
The Bee is my primary source of news !!! Don’t shut down !!!
Can they possibly believe that the democrats won’t continue to give them material to work with?
It should actually be 4 years more full of fun than ever.
Aw, man. They still have Trudeau...oh, wait, no...well, Macron...dang it, Starmer...nope, him nuther. Guess it really is all over.
Poking fun at themselves.
Love it.
However, they are wrong. The democrats/leftists have not gone away and the real fun begins when he starts signing executive orders and turns his transition team loose.
They could go back to religious parody. I want to hear more about the Calvinist dog from the first Bee article I read
In Christ, haha. Quality comedy.
Not to worry, Trump isn’t perfect, plenty of politicians to satirize, and the leftists will still be feeding the Bee.
ardern is out too. there must be some country out there that requires their services. even preemptively! can we make requests?
The world has gotten so ludicrous nowadays that pretty much anything they write could very be true.
Well, Qwap, that would be Ghanna, somewhere in Africa.
Yes, this is parody.
The Bee gets everyone.
Thank You very much, Outrage!
Someone posted a link to Bob Yuecker’s Hall of Fame induction speech yesterday...a lot of self-deprecation in that.
THE BEE CAN CONCENTRATE ON CALIF ALONE.
PLENTY OF TARGETS THERE.
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