Report: Every Potential 2040 President Already Unelectable Due To Facebook

A troubling report finds that by 2040 every presidential candidate will be unelectable to political office due to their embarrassing Facebook posts.
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[@hjhjhjhlll]

Throwback to 2012 when "unelectable" was still a concept.

[@Cyphlix]

Its still a concept for Hillary 😉

[@Hithere-ek4qt]

@@Cyphlix Get over her buddy. Your con man should never have been elected. Our National Disgrace!!!

[@LeaksHater]

@Don't Tread On Me definatly

[@doughesson]

@@Hithere-ek4qt What con?all the networks were predicting an easy win for Hillary Clinton & were left scrambling around for information about the real winner, President Donald John Trump.

[@bobobsen]

@carlos Rivas if you don't care about climate change you're too dumb to live

[@thevoidlord1796]

This is how we got JD Vance

[@mehg8407]

Tied to a couch in a basement for decades.

[@TTRPGSarvis]

Well, if everyone's unelectable, we're all technically electable!

[@HaxxorElite]

OwO

[@fuz5567]

yeah go for it furry

[@HaxxorElite]

@@fuz5567 owO??

[@passtheboxfox5374]

I love your profile picture!

[@HaxxorElite]

@@passtheboxfox5374 uwu

[@brock3805]

I’ll vote for any candidate smoking out of the Goliath

[@johnstewart2981]

Littleton *has an eazy e prof pic*

[@Hattori6486]

Littleton you can’t od from weed 😂

[@Monkeyman71103]

@Littleton ok boomer

[@itspice8737]

@Littleton shut the fuck up boomer

[@Samuel-oh3hm]

Littleton shut up n*****

[@12qzwx]

I, inadvertently, have been living my life to become a United States president.

[@NOACCEPTANCE772]

FIRST AID SPRAY

[@justderp5713]

yeeto pacito swave swave cito It's 10th of january 2019 and i wouldn't be suprised if trump won again cito

[@CaveyMoth]

@@NOACCEPTANCE772 F. Aid Spray*

[@MCorpReview]

Sd for president! u hv my vote pal. Only by being imperfect can u represent like voter base

[@emlmm88]

You know the rules; now you have to actually do it.

[@matthewskullblood9778]

onion predicting the future like the onion does

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

Uh no. This was kinda opposite

[@arcticwulf5796]

Yeah this one they got wrong. Turns out you can be the worst possible person and people still will vote for you.

[@WolfvineGaming]

I will have to disagree, you got to have a strong and forgiving fanbase for your past to not affect your future.

[@ayandamafuyeka1952]

They predicted “Cancel Culture” 😂

[@marjechevarez790]

trudeau's brown face

[@TheMIghtyElmo]

This is true in Canada right now. There's been like 30 candidates for various parties that have had to withdraw their nomination due to Facebook.

[@tsani-bn2bk]

@Norm Meunier Yes, Indeed it was.

[@cara-seyun]

Bruh

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

So Facebook is good for something?

[@chaoticsilver8442]

At least all of the 2060 candidates are still valid. After all, any posts or recordings of them from the 2020's that put them in a bad light are 100% just 'AI generated deepfakes'.

[@ironcito1101]

Facebook is just the medium. You can blame the person posting or the people judging, but not the medium.

[@diepie5144]

Has anyone thought to look into the Amish?

[@ultimateabsol1268]

A brilliant tactic! Maybe if a third party thinks of this before the republicans or democrats they’ll manage to have the only viable candidate in 2040.

[@tamie341]

Amish greg 2024! The only candidate for this fucked up country!

[@charlieross-BRM]

I know it's not the same as Amish, but Richard Nixon was a Quaker. That still baffles me. Now we've just had Mike Pence who wanted to reinstate buckles on hats and shoes as standard Washington DC attire.

[@varangianguard7102]

“Obama gains more support from the lazy, as he vows to make less jobs” COULD NOT STOP LAUGHING

[@aarongoodman6824]

@@Cjnw *communists

[@MrSlanderer]

@「 Deadpoppin 」 trying too hard

[@joem.4939]

@@MrSlanderer thats so me when i see words i dont know

[@fyr3st0rm35]

Wow that's a lot of racists.

[@avyghn5324]

​@@aarongoodman6824Communists work all the time so their bosses get all the money, meanwhile those same millions of people get a small pay per hour so they can barely pay living costs and have to live paycheck to paycheck.

[@hanak5479]

"in fact he's completely illiterate"

[@Kriae]

reminds me of someone hmmmmm

[@cossackhistorian7425]

@@Kriae Did Biden forget how to read & write?

[@walhallw7436]

@Spartan 506 what’s his name?

[@tylerkochman1007]

"Romney's numbers drop after he pulls $400,000 in crumpled bills while looking for notecards"

[@aceboogie8986]

Yeah you saw that 2

[@Rejoice.]

Hilarious.

[@Henry-hd3iu]

ace boogie whats the link

[@92brunod]

that's probably the time the Onion has been more wrong. His numbers would have sky-rocketed because of that. The main reason people vote for guys like Romney or Trump is because they'r rich.

[@nickbrowning3270]

@@92brunod when’s the last time someone with less than a million dollars became US president?

[@toujours4390]

I know this is meant as satire but this is eerily prophetic.

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

Uuuh not really, if Trump got elected then anyone can

[@Competitive_Antagonist]

I always said The Onion was fake news.

[@jasonhymes3382]

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j Its incredibly hilarous how many retards there are that think the onion is "deep"

[@FirstnameLastname-kn5sw]

Nah, this one they got completely opposite.

[@Sasukex1337]

No

[@Horltum]

Here after J.D. Vance's 4am tweet about a dolphin is tanking Trump's election chances.

[@chinchilla641]

The onion predicted cancel culture. Holy shit this is surreal.

[@maxmason5042]

and the youtube recommendation algorithm knows it

[@zukokurama]

Brian Brianson no trump is a sign that we have by far the most dogshit options in history.

[@frick_____you]

Cancel culture has always existed. We just have a fancy name for it now.

[@ryanswistler3371]

@@thatgoodpain youre lying to youreself. Trump is the manifestation of true voter opinion (and look how he turned out)

[@briantannenbaum8110]

Ryan Swistler lowest black, Hispanic and women unemployment rates of all time?... so bad?

[@prekatori]

The only thing wrong about his is thinking that presidential candidates would be around 40-50 years old

[@toastsandwich]

i don't think smoking weed would be a scandal by then

[@greenthizzle4]

toastsandwich America won't even exist then, the authoritarian NWO is apon us.

[@Sara3346]

That more of a right-wing theory but whatever.

[@siyacer]

lol

[@todabsolute]

Haha good joke man. I'm from 2040, and we're given lifespan labor for storing weed

[@JoseRojas-hl7sn]

I don't think so. I think that it will be something that a most people do, but its not socially accepted. (In the US)

[@recker18]

even though its the onion. I feel like they're actually making a good call for future elections. Is that bad?

[@matthewskullblood9778]

yes and they were right too

[@R3lay0]

@@matthewskullblood9778 They couldn't be more wrong...

[@-Meric-]

@@R3lay0 Eh, not for the presidency, but James gunn being fired over old tweets is kinda on the dot

[@hamishr5726]

Kavanaugh says hi

[@-Meric-]

@@hamishr5726It wasn't a facebook post lol it was him sexually assulting people

[@StuartHetzler]

"He's completely illiterate, and the republican party is already grooming him for possible candidacy," Sounds like he's already there to me.

[@driveasandwich6734]

Who were you referring to?

[@StuartHetzler]

@@driveasandwich6734 bro i wrote this 8 years ago

[@driveasandwich6734]

@@StuartHetzler That is exactly why I am confused; at the time the U.S.' president was not republican.

[@8lias244]

Yo r u a time traveller?

[@baam25th31]

I guess he was trying to say you can run the country as a complete illiterate? People 8 years ago were much smarter than now.

[@lucky-mud]

See yall again when this is recommended to everyone on 2040

[@Cjnw]

Just survive cOvid 39

[@aarontheperson6867]

lol

[@heathercameron1485]

Such a piece of internet history here. Remember when Facebook was just for university students' drunken antics? The good ol' days!

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

Yeah, I remember joining Facebook in my senior year of college in 2005 when it had less than 1 Million members! I don't think I'd call those the "good old days", however.

[@charliemay3804]

I’ll see you all in 20 years for how relatable this video is.

[@composurey]

it's relatable now bro

[@Cjnw]

Survive covid 40

[@Guztav1337]

@@Cjnw On average there is like one big outbreak every ~8 years. Most of the time it is a new name playing plage inc

[@laurahamer9165]

Just ask john gruden 2021

[@paceockerman7666]

@Safwaan You were right, they did some war in Ukraine

[@BaronVonMott]

Jokes on you Onion, my Facebook account is deader than my actual face-to-face social life.

[@williamle1884]

thats great! getting off of social media to talk to people face to face is a great step to being able to hold a casual conversation in public spaces! keep going!

[@driveasandwich6734]

@@williamle1884 You started the comment in small caps, so it can be read as a continuatiob to your name lmao

[@williamle1884]

@@driveasandwich6734 i don't see how that matters when you fell for it either way

[@driveasandwich6734]

@@williamle1884 What do you mean by fell for it either way?

[@williamle1884]

@@driveasandwich6734 You Do Know That Putting Caps Doesn't Make It A Whole New Sentence, Right?

[@GeneralGoosey]

"Report: Just Misspelling You're As Your Could Nix Chances" Good.

[@anonymoussecret5948]

Can we add using "should of" instead of "should've?" That one pisses me off more than your v you're.

[@ribbonsofnight]

@@anonymoussecret5948 I don't think that's a problem. It's when people argue that "should of" is now acceptable as it's "common usage" or some other argument fueled by stupidity that it becomes clear they shouldn't be given any sort of responsibility.

[@johnmartinez7440]

People acting like The Onion predicted stuff that was already a thing back then.

[@corbingrieves4505]

The thing is it wasn't as bad as it was and through parody you don't think it'll actually happen but it did and it harder as it did in this video

[@ArDeeMee]

The people acting as if The Onion predicted things no one else thought possible were babies when this happened. =D

[@James-qn3wi]

The scariest thing is that I actually feel like the Onion has successfully predicted the future. Not lying or joking.

[@noahclark7603]

James Booth just think about James Gunn. All of his posts came back to haunt him.

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

Just think about Trump. Yeah, Indian didn't predict this one

[@calebf3655]

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j The onions wasn’t talking specifically about politics. The skit was predicting that many people in the future will have their lives ruined due to embarrassing social media photos. Having every American be ineligible for presidency do to social media is just an exaggeration of the situation. This isn’t a suppose because the point of satire is to exaggerate a situation to make a point whilst being humorous.

[@polelix1023]

Hey they have wormhole satellite afterall

[@80808O]

They predicted the Afghanistan and Iraq wars at the beginning of the bush administration in a written article. There have been a few others.

[@Dwafiz]

The lesson is that no one has ever succeeded in being the perfect moral citizen. The fact that everyone's mistakes are now preserved on the internet makes them cease to be a point of contention.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

Which is a good thing!

[@Prometheukles]

The Onions clairvoyance keeps stunning me =D

[@Random_dud31]

Nah. This shows that the onion makes mistakes sometimes

[@minecalos1870]

its crazy because now the presidents debates would literally considered the 2 candidates as unlectable in 2012

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

Anytime I tell people I don't have a Facebook, their first question is "Why?" and when I say I didn't use it, they still ask "Why?" I...I'm starting to feel nervous.

[@ShihammeDarc]

they predicted cancel culture

[@strangerthings8143]

As good as the Onion is at predicting the future, I have to say they really missed the mark here. I wish there was still such a thing as unelectable.

[@LucasCarter2]

This didn’t age well for politics, but it aged like the finest wine for social stuff. One wrong word 30 years ago and you’re condemned forever.

[@KabooM1067]

Damn Onion, prophetic once again.

[@dallyh.2960]

How so?

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

@California Boy yeah but that's the thing. He still got elected.

[@snuffeldjuret]

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j he is the exception that proves the rule.

[@Cerulium]

I love how ridiculously excessive the intro is

[@thebigboi5357]

I haven't even gotten to the rest of the video. I'm just replaying the intro over and over and laughing my ass off

[@randomcat5262]

Honestly this is not satire anymore. Media has the tendency to reveal more negative aspects about every candidate and this increases the hate and attack in American politics

[@corvettez06usa]

It's funny how this is true, just not for partying. It's tweets/facebook posts from years ago that people want to get outraged over.

[@hjf3022]

We need to introduce the concept of "Mutually Assured Humiliation"

[@Mic_Glow]

"if you post a picture of me vomiting into a bathtub and the dumb reddit posts I wrote as a 12 year old, I'll post the video of you snorting a line of Susan's butt crack"

[@derekbauer2125]

That overdramatic intro got me right away 😂

[@isaacroman9242]

Ikr

[@isair81]

Jevus for President 2036!!

[@omiorahman6283]

Mike cernovich would investigate Jevus and see he is the most virtueous candidate

[@anonymoussecret5948]

@No Bias imagine still crying about hilary 4 years later. damn

[@OscarMor5678]

@No Bias go fuck yourself crybaby waasaaaaaaaaaa

[@RobertHalvarsson]

Cancel cuture right here. Only problem is that it works on everybody EXCEPT presidents. 😂

[@nikibronson133]

THIS

[@CharliMorganMusic]

Don't say "cancel culture" like you're cool.

[@darrellbrock4788]

This could pass as actual news.

[@QuantumQuantonium]

I can see why the Onion gave up in 2016 and 2020

[@kingofthorns203]

The Onion predicted online cancel culture

[@romanpisani8157]

They straight up predicted cancel culture 😳

[@ruthydrawsalot8210]

They were mocking conservatives like u, lmao 😂

[@ruthydrawsalot8210]

Why do u think the title is what it is. Lmao

[@romanpisani8157]

@@ruthydrawsalot8210 Ruthy you need to take your meds

[@Rapscallion2009]

They sort-of have a point here. I'm in my 40s and probably about the last people who really had any privacy. I guess if I was a politician someone could pop up and claim I did something really stupid in the early 90s, but it's always going to be their word against mine - no evidence exists and it'd be hard to miss someone breaking out a VHS Camcorder at the time. But an 18 year old doing something idiotic now days is likely to exist for all time online, for anyone to find. If you have a couple of researchers you could find anything from Facebook or whatever. Back then, nothing much existed of your 20s once you got to your 30s. Which is fair enough, someone experimenting with something stupid at 20 shouldn't be considered a reflection on their character, and prevent them getting a job, at 50. If they killed someone with an axe they'd probably be out by now, so I think you can forgive them smoking a joint or using humour that doesn't age well when taken out of context.

[@Sorrelhas]

This is true for the average person Celebrities and rich folks get evidence of past acts brought up against them every day, and all they do is wait a week and people either forget or start saying it was blown out of proportion You have to be truly heinous to be truly "cancelled"

[@cheydinal5401]

The "whoever becomes mayor of [DC]" idea is kind of funny because that's basically how the Papacy started out. Literally just "Oh, the local political processes made this person the local Bishop of Rome? I guess he is now basically the President of all Bishops for some reason"

[@lemonbot4906]

That's a neat fact

[@liamwatts7105]

Trump: Hold my beer

[@R3lay0]

@Joe Smith What a shame it didn't kill him

[@jimmyneutron7935]

@Evan S. that's a bit extreme

[@huzefatasira6601]

Classic trump supporter

[@TheBUGZNTA]

@Thought for Food You seem to have a pretty high standard for politicians. By your standards I wouldn't be surprised if every president ever elected is "unelectable" as atleast the past 5 presidents have stepped on countless people on the way up to the white house. Being a complete garbage human isnt unique to trump its the standard in politics.

[@WasFakestCenturyAesthetics]

@Thought for Food the funny part is, I don't even have to skew the facts or make stuff up (you guys have proven you'll believe literally any anti-Trump BS) to point out you voted for someone who helped destroy millions of lives in Iraq and Libya, and wanted another war in Syria. Did you know about the ongoing slaughter of LGBT people in Iraq and Libya since regime change? Hillary knew, and Syrian LGBT people knew, and she still wanted another war in Syria, and you wanted to enable her. You're shouting about racism and injustice from the top of a mountain of brown corpses.

[@evorty9179]

"Facebook will make everyone unelectable" Me: Well, you are close. Facebook bans president.

[@nemesis962074]

This was so ahead of its time

[@apoloxix]

Almost the end of 2021 and this is so relevant. We truely live in an Onion universe.

[@Professicchio]

What I found myself doubting over this satire is this: what if by 2040 smoking dope or calling someone a "jew whore" are not seen as drawbacks but actually cool things to do?

[@SinerAthin]

Professicchio Not entirely inconceivable The opinion on drugs is currently shifting towards a more positive side, and the massive rise in the Muslim demographic & WW2 becoming a more distant memory is likely to make antisemitism more socially acceptable.

[@phatcatrat]

SinerAthin That's a trend seen in European countries, but not in the US. Antisemitism, despite being more common, is still not socially acceptable, nor is it becoming more accepted.

[@TheGoodContent37]

I think the true message of this satire is to show americans how stupid they are by basing their votes on the past of someone instead of their current capability or ideas because they get into the media game of trowing shit on someone even when they did it in their stupid early years or by just having fun like any teenager.

[@anonamousprotaganis]

You’re already kinda right.

[@itsnotatoober]

@@Professicchio wow this is a dumb comment. Not just ignorant but arrogant. Amazing actually. Bravo on being such a fucking dummy at your age.

[@everettlogan2433]

But i don't have a facebook. I can haz president now?

[@ZhangtheGreat]

Everett Logan Not after this post. Your opponent is going to use this to prove you can't speak English.

[@brysonbirchfield4201]

You need grammar! Proper way to say it is "I don't have Facebook.Now can I run for president?

[@dianeahw]

But only robots use correct grammar and spelling.

[@jtheman4678]

Everett Logan well honestly go for it. You got my vote.

[@Zen-rw2fz]

Bryson B. There's a space missing after the point

[@ianisoverparty]

this WILL age well.

[@connor981]

This is too spot on.......

[@TheAiUniverse2023]

Vivek Ramaswamy: Uh oh

[@oneisarangj]

Isn't this basically JD Vance

[@Goldenblade14]

1:19 man this predicted cancel culture like nothing else

[@xX_swagger_Xx]

"Romney's numbers drop after he pulls $400.000 in crumpled bills from his pocket looking for notecards" Even the little details in these videos are hilarious

[@wrbrown571]

How the bar has lowered to the point where they would not only be contenders, but quite possiblity front-runners.

[@davidR9410]

Well, sounds like The Onion couldn't foresee the future removal of the word Unelectable from the American political dictionary.

[@wave5009]

Ive been watching so much of the onion that i sometimes subconciously think the real news is a joke

[@cara-seyun]

most of it is

[@meredithr9824]

We are going to have to get ALOT more consensus about what is forgivable.

[@Samuel-te8cm]

''Grandma tragically outlives cat'' HOW DO YOU NOT EXPECT ME TO LAUGH MY LUNGS OUT WITH THESE KINDS OF THINGS!!!

[@FloydTaylor]

7 years later and this is still relevent

[@alexanderphilip1809]

Onion is as far as i am concenred the most and only brilliant platform that has consistently produced brutally honest and indepth analyses of our socio/cultural/political/economic/technological advancements and shortcomings in sharp and thought provoking manner. Nothing they make these days come remotely close to this level of brilliance.

[@jstnurmind]

this aged extremely well

[@viech7595]

This didn't age well. "I'm the chosen one"

[@kashkillerkem5771]

Now it’s Twitter

[@YorktownUSA]

Yep. This will literally become a thing in the future.

[@essenceofnothingness]

I clicked this thinking it was a 2019-2020 video. It is from 2012! Holy shit this is scary.

[@ohotnitza]

If only this were true. Trump has proven nothing will stop some people from electing people like him.

[@lemonbot4906]

Almost like the other option was worse

[@jackhazardous4008]

This is actually the future. There's not gonna be a single person on earth who hasn't posted shit that'll get them cancelled for one stupid reason or another

[@Nightweaver1]

This will prove to be true in 20 years, just you wait and see. The Onion is as good at predicting the future as The Simpsons.

[@sdzyde7482]

Recommended to me at this particular time? The Onion hits it out the park once again.

[@lilFougie]

I recently deleted my facebook! I guess I should make plans for a future Presidential run.

[@BL_fanboy]

In 2020, every old tweet is used against opponent. 2040, every old photos and comments will be used against. Only news source I trust these days is - The Onion

[@chaoticsilver8442]

At least all of the 2060 candidates are still valid. After all, any posts or recordings of them from the 2020's that put them in a bad light are 100% just 'AI generated deepfakes'.

[@akshatsinha4476]

We're already there, look at cancel culture

[@xddd1627]

Looking at this after Vance

[@T_Dun]

And when everyone's unelectable... no one is.

[@marwane5647]

Did they just called out cancel culture in 2012 wow

[@bobshrubb3067]

Scary this is actually gonna be very real, from 2019

[@TheStarBot]

It technically already happened with Justin

[@MajorGeneralVeers]

Not only are we all unelectable due to our Facebook activity, but it also makes us unemployable.

[@ridikipicklepeckinpuff583]

When will we learn- The Onion is prescient in everything

[@adamkendall997]

Wow how prophetic!

[@djtomoy]

I think we’ve found a way to move past this problem, I think having a heinous online presence is a requirement for seeking elected office these days.

[@builderpepc7803]

10x more accurate than those briefings they give you in school

[@SinerAthin]

"Obama gains support of the lazy" lol xD

[@janszreniawski]

This is from 8 years ago, and surprisingly accurate

[@bobislost12]

It is odd how well this video holds up

[@saltygreenbeans917]

I hate the onion predicting the future.

[@justrandomthings319]

Hands down, one of the funniest videos the Onion has ever made. This is exactly how society is now.

[@dexterwaweru8687]

truth

[@j.a.n.covers94]

Makes me remember about the video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dancing that the Republicans used to say is proof that she should not be elected because of her un leader like behavior. Onion really can sense future behaviors in almost everything.

[@angelalee4176]

Lordy these old onion videos coming back as reality.

[@MadGamer_666]

Ok I am convinced these guys are time travelers.... too prophetic is surreal.

[@LAMFi1ms]

Ha ha! I literally was mayor of the washington monument on foursquare for a while

[@PeterMasalski93]

I hate how accurate the Onion news is sometimes..

[@jacobpetitta7038]

The intro is fucking unbelievable 😂😂😂😭😭😭 so damn accurate

[@killiangreen]

"AARP applauds new voting machine that indicates candidates' race"

[@henrythman]

They thought it was bad 10 years ago take a look at today