Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?

With the economy sliding deeper into a recession, panelists discuss whether it's time to stop throwing our money into a massive pit out in the desert.

[@sheesalooker]

"If you love America you'll throw money in its hole"

[@Synnerization]

hmmm...a stripper once said something similar to me.

[@mtarkes]

@@Synnerization A stripper named America.

[@GarethPW]

I also watched the video.

[@samueljosephs6793]

Im your 1000th like

[@bretglover2525]

Surprisingly accurate. The hole is in D.C. though.

[@Jammy1up]

"If you love America, you throw money in it's hole" God damn that's patriotism

[@zacharywald]

Amen

[@TheGosslings]

I wouldn't be surprised if this line was created first and a whole skit was written around it.

[@CanisoGaming]

Lmaoooo

[@misternotlob6769]

I love how Nancy never makes a single meaningful contribution to any discussion but she always gives the best one liners

[@zacharywald]

@@misternotlob6769 are you implying that just chiming in every once in a while with a nice one liner doesn't count as a meaningful contribution?

[@Kay_Jay_Pea]

"Let the free market decide the most efficient way of destroying money" is one of the funniest things I have ever heard

[@EeliusAstaroth]

Accentuated nicely with potential outlets such as shredding and burning 😆

[@DuskLegend]

And true to life, money is either hoarded in the form of equity or outright devalued

[@evilmonkeywithissues]

The free market would squander the chance, I say let the government maintain the money-hole!

[@vayne7556]

@@evilmonkeywithissues How dare you insult Zucc's competency?! He does a perfectly fine job of destroying money!

[@kingpin6173]

"What about the soldier hole, or the energy hole!" All these years later and the jokes still land. Incredible.

[@ghotiphoti]

15 years later and I don't think even God could dig us out of this hole

[@b.o.4469]

Nothing changes

[@hamzahussain9683]

I love how the debate they're having isn't even whether money should be dumped in a hole, it's just over whether it should be privatized or not 😆

[@thetribalist6923]

Because it's already been established that NOT dumping currency in the money hole is insanity. Geez try to keep up.

[@hamzahussain9683]

my bad, of course, of course

[@daemonace5910]

@@thetribalist6923 I have to challenge that idea though. How about we start by reducing the amount of money we throw into the hole and see what happens

[@ub3rfr3nzy94]

@@daemonace5910 that's a terrible idea, what are we supposed to do with the extra money? It will just devalue our currency and make the money hole useless. We should make the hole bigger that way we can employ more diggers to dig the hole.

[@Youtube_is_Trash]

@@ub3rfr3nzy94 oh oh, and a portion of the money they are paid could be added to the money in the money hole!!!

[@lucystarlight8887]

"Why are you pushing this pro-hole agenda? Is the money hole lobby paying you?" "I resent that accusation, I do not take money from special interests, and if I did I would throw it right in the hole because I am a patriot." lmao, this writing is absolutely gold

[@cameronspence4977]

"Pro hole agenda" dead😭☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

[@duccie]

throw that gold into hole

[@rphb5870]

yes and gold is actually the only true forms of money, everything they show is just inherently worthless fiat

[@mid-boss6461]

I was right at this part.

[@clintonleonard5187]

I feel like the whole skit was just worth it for that line.

[@panickyandy8291]

Ironic how this skit was written in response to the 2008 recession and now almost 15 years later it's still extremely relevant

[@233kosta]

Yeh, this one aged pretty well.

[@oggyreidmore]

Without proper banking regulation it will be relevant once every decade or so.

[@233kosta]

@@oggyreidmore They could have just let them fail... Not only are they failing to regulate, they're further enabling the bad behaviour.

[@oggyreidmore]

@@233kosta Letting them fail destroys the world economy. That would be fine if we had built in fail safes that kept people housed, fed, and with medical care during a crisis, but we don't. I'm not sure you remember the shut down during the pandemic a few years ago, but it showed we are clearly not prepared for a crisis. If banks are properly regulated they WON'T fail. We put in proper regulations after the great depression and had a 50 year span of no failures. Then the Reagan administration came in and gutted banking regulations and we've had a crash about every 10-15 years since. Unfortunately the US government has been captured by the same wall street banking lobbyists they are supposed to be regulating, and so they loosen the regulations little by little until the system crashes. Then public outcry forces the government to step in and re-regulate. Then the cycle starts again. Like I said, about every decade or so.

[@233kosta]

@@oggyreidmore Governments are acting like they own us. We're responsible. Been a while since a politician had a good reason to fear the electorate. Letting the whole system collapse would indeed have hurt a lot of people in the immediate present, but it would have also formed the basis of a lasting recovery that would have secured the next 50+ years. Ever wonder why it took this long to deregulate the banking sector? Think about all the people born around 1900-1910 who lived through the great depression, and actively paid attention throughout. Do you think they formed any significant voting block by the time cuckservative extraordinaire Reagan ran for office? We could have completed the recovery by now, in a much more robust way, but instead we're going to keep getting mini-crash after mini-crash, followed by a fake inflationary "recovery" and another mini-crash, for as long as we're willing to tolerate a less-than-mediocre future in exchange for the promise of slightly less discomfort today. In the long run this will harm many more.

[@kristianwilliamson6527]

People not from the US will think this is satire

[@aroacebigenderdude7920]

In theory, it is

[@microbios8586]

Who are the writers of these sketches? They were so funny 10 years ago, but they age even better. In 30 years, these clips will be legendary.

[@jormungandrworldserpent6437]

Samuel T unless the government stops dumping money in 30 y- you know what I just realized how stupid that sounded

[@anyom-rydir3227]

In 30 years they wont be satire

[@djeieakekseki2058]

anyom rydir they will be reality. Completed your sentence.

[@jfangx]

If we're still alive in 30 years.

[@Gaeryc]

Yeah these all have points that seem even more relevant today with todays media being like it is

[@hmjs13]

"No reasonable person is advocating that we're going to stop destroying money" 😂

[@JamieAllen1977]

1/3 of humanity really really can use coal to not die - it's amazing

[@Giganfan2k1]

Instead of using coal they have much better and cheaper options if we didn't subsidize coal.

[@dright928]

@@Giganfan2k1 What about graphene tho?

[@phs125]

To be fair, If America stopped dumping money in a hole, it'd cause a lot of inflation.

[@solarsatan9000]

I mean the economics technically work out

[@kraiZor]

The team behind the Onion News understands newscasting so much better than Hollywood. The tone of voice they use really captures the energy that the news has. They all sound like 1 notch of verbal intensity below about to attack the person sitting next to them.

[@jr2904]

They did 10+ years ago, anyway

[@InnerGiggles]

You know, Hollywood has nothing to do with newscasting.

[@kraiZor]

@@InnerGiggles so in movie's some times there are fake news casts. Hollywood often does newscasts that do not feel like real news casts. Despite being silly the Onion's fake news casts capture the energy much more closely.

[@Thorn99855]

"Birds could make nests out of it..." "Like shredding it up and feeding it to hogs." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@nemo2803]

>the soldier hole That's a weird way to say middle east

[@b-chroniumproductions3177]

Money hole also describes the middle east

[@SS-pq9ci]

More like europe in the first half of the 20th century

[@ashikjaman1940]

SS19 The hole moves places every 50 or so years. Although this time it looks like the hole is moving early.

[@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer]

@@ashikjaman1940 the middle East has always been the soldier hole, since Alexander the great

[@ashikjaman1940]

Gabe Morehouse While the hole certainly seems to prefer that area it’s never static. Occasionally it goes to Europe, sometimes to Asia, even the Americas on rare occurrence.

[@corneliussnow8215]

Nancy is the best, the anger and conviction she has behind the line "My father worked two jobs to put money in the money hole and he didn't complain!" is Oscar worthy

[@thesaim1036]

Seriously what a delivery haha. The cast is already so fantastic so you have to be out of this world to stand out.

[@abl1699]

Brilliant

[@mrsantoro8306]

Animals

[@dodekaedius]

Weird. She's the only one for me, to ruin the bit

[@divypatel1002]

@@dodekaedius same

[@IraRossD]

It's the rhetoric that makes this perfection. This is exactly how news media talks about issues.

[@matthewmitchell3457]

I sincerely can't believe they would contemplate laying off the hard-working hole diggers just cause they don't like dumping money into holes. It's despicable.

[@AdzSONLINE]

Such a click bait title. Nobody was discussing if it _should_ dump money, just _how_ the money should be dumped. SMH news these days

[@feelinit64]

Wooosh

[@AngeloLuc]

Looks like the reddit tards have arrived

[@maxieprimo2758]

@@AngeloLuc Says the guy who thinks adding "tard" to a word makes it a decent insult.

[@jormungandrworldserpent6437]

Angelo L I get that you think the first two commenters are wrong but doesn’t mean you need to insult them, if you don’t have anything nice to say you probably shouldn’t say it

[@jormungandrworldserpent6437]

Tikoblocks I’m only saying there’s no need to insult people with differing opinions or who get things wrong sometimes, it doesn’t help anyone in the end

[@Noizzed]

The dialogues are more realistic than in 99% of movies nowadays. They interrupt each other, speak over others, express emptions through body language, etc.

[@sweetgirl070707]

I really love your comment, I watched the video again and it does seem like an un-scripted conversation if it wasn't for the silly topic

[@deleted-something]

Fr

[@strobelightgaming1559]

Don’t you ever “etc.” me

[@CC-gy7el]

Movies generally don’t want to be like that because it’s easier to miss things that way

[@Killbayne]

I have some pet peeves about discussions in acted movies/shows, and this has none of those. it's so well done it almost made me believe there is no money hole in new Mexico!

[@Munchonmushies]

This is the problem with modern media, they never even asked for the holes perspective. Smh.

[@BrimmFate]

As someone who lives in a hole, thank you America. I didn't know you where looking out for me like that

[@BrimmFate]

I now realize you are also the reason my house was burned nevermind

[@MultiCamOrange]

"I do not take money from special interests. And if I did, I'd throw it in the hole."

[@creeper4960]

MultiCamOrange the best line

[@matthew8153]

Because HE IS a patriot!!

[@hemprope4326]

I did naht take money I did naht take money it's not true it's bullshit I did naht Oh hai mark

[@Theoatrix]

This aged well

[@ADrunkCrayfish]

Well hi there famous KZbin I didn’t know about until just know.

[@tingaling77]

Holy shit! I love your guides!

[@jackyarlson5782]

Yes

[@rangerguy3487]

Funny seeing you here

[@trackrunner377]

Quarantine brought you here too??

[@Calz3n]

Damn I miss this era of the onion. Best satire ever. Bring back your production team!

[@donsolos]

Pretty sure they did years ago and their stories kept going viral because people kept thinking they were real... they had to shut down because people cant tell the difference between satire and "real news" anymore

[@DaxSchaffer]

Every couple years I come back to this, and yes, it's still funny.

[@couchmaster3773]

My father worked as a hole digger for sixty years until he was tragically crushed by a truckload of money being dumped on top of him and set on fire. But do you see me saying we should shut down the money hole? NO!! I am a true, blue-blooded American patriot, and I will defend our God-given right to dump the nation's funds into a giant pit until my own death at the hands of the money hole!

[@matthew8153]

You’ve got to stop it with this hole-ier than thou attitude. We’ve all sacrificed to the great money hole and will continue to do so until digital currency takes over. At which point, we’ll start throwing in computers for good measure. The Anti-Hole Lobby is just a bunch of trolls. Those A-Holes may go on and on about it’s costs, but secretly they dump money in with glee.

[@lordfelidae4505]

Blue-blooded? ARISTOCRACY! YOU HAVE REVEALED YOURSELF, FAKER! PREPARE FOR JUDGMENT.

[@reddcat17]

*red-blooded edit: I only point it out that OP meant "red-blooded" cause "blue-blooded" almost means the opposite. Red-blooded means you're a patriot who loves his fellow countrymen, blue-blooded means you're a rich elite who (implicitly) thinks he's above everyone else

[@mirrorblue100]

Sorry for your loss - God bless.

[@Killbayne]

sorry for your loss. Money hole accidents are becoming more prevalent than ever. recent files released on the FBI Vault shows documents on previously unseen money hole casualties and cover ups. rumors have been going around missing persons last seen at the hole but it's quickly dismissed and "debunked" by the pro-hole lobby. they can't keep getting away with this. we need to dump more people into the hole.

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

Clearly, this is a giant analogy for the things I don’t like politically.

[@decidingodin2518]

That sounds like something from the opposite party, get him!

[@t.estable3856]

I thought it was an analogy for the Military Industrial complex. With the "Personal Money Hole" representing the right to bear arms.

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

T. Estable the right to bear arms doesn’t cost the government money.

[@t.estable3856]

@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 00:42

[@t.estable3856]

@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 "Citizens should decided how to depose of their own money", "Personal Money holes", "What if the money blows away or is improperly burnt"

[@KevinsGuides]

I watch this video every year around tax season to remind me of the importance of dumping money into the hole.

[@calisongbird]

💀

[@maskey4675]

My great grandfather didn’t shove a trench knife deep into the heart of a Nazi soldier for us to stop throwing money in the money pit.

[@TheRisky9]

"If you love America, then you throw money in its hole." That's secretly the slogan of every politician.

[@bruhhamed2076]

Yea

[@fulcrum2951]

Yea

[@shinyrayquazaaah]

Yea

[@Yellowscorpionx]

Yea

[@CoffeeSnep]

Yea

[@JXZ-JAM]

Why is satire often more accurate then news itself?

[@Wafflepudding]

"The news" uses truth to tell lies, satire uses lies to reveal truth.

[@martind349]

Because shovelers learn to judge by weight

[@uhuihiuihiuh3042]

The money hole lobby pays the major news networks to push pro-hole agendas rather than facts

[@GamersHolyArmy]

Because this world has transcended Poe's Law.

[@31redorange08]

Explain how this is more accurate.

[@lotgc]

I love how nothing has changed in almost 15 years

[@arong4906]

"If we're going to talk about closing holes what about the soldier hole?"

[@kalebbruwer]

Ironically, this would actually increase the dollar's value. As long as money never leaves the hole again.

[@SteveOnlin]

they're implying that the money i there is stolen from the people

[@popcornegg4405]

Tedious it would still increase the dollar’s buying power

[@OHYS]

Exactly I was thinking about this throughout the video, and I considered that the government could easily do this and it wouldn't actually cost them any more money than the cost of excavation, and printing new money to replace that being put into the hole, thus they could actually do this and it wouldn't be nearly as expensive as the actual cost of the money being dumped.

[@SuperSMT]

@@SteveOnlin Only if you're implying that taxation is theft

[@SteveOnlin]

@@SuperSMT If tax money doesn't go into helping the people, it is

[@livefreest]

this sketch may remain relevant in perpetuity

[@nlmaster9811]

Can confirm

[@TheGaboom]

nlmaster Seconded.

[@abm1350]

Thirded.

[@hi-nw7qy]

Whatever the correct word is for fourth

[@michaelstegall2340]

Indubitably...

[@jin6000]

“I loooove the money fires” 😂😂😂

[@credwordsful]

Time for the yearly hole watch.

[@ganeshaloney3882]

Plot twist: "The onion" is actually a news channel from a parallel universe getting broadcasted on KZbin via interdimensional cable.

[@tomsoki5738]

Rick?

[@tangdynasty4779]

@@tomsoki5738 What is a rick?

[@tangdynasty4779]

@@tomsoki5738 Oh nice

[@Laife]

no it's just a bunch of time travelers fucking with us by sending news from 2021 to 2010

[@theendersmirk5851]

@@Laife No, you have it wrong. They're from 2022. The transitionary phase between now and then takes place during that time, as 2021 can't even.

[@NavarroRefugee]

I want the onion to change by degrees into an actual 100% legit news outlet, and leave all of their satire work here to confuse the shit out of people who looks through their past stories.

[@QuantumRipple]

Chaotic evil, I like it

[@seanhammer6296]

It won't have to change. Society is fast becoming the joke portrayed by The Onion.

[@jan3211200]

.... it would be better of they kept the youtube account on and continued putting out its videos and the actually once in a while put in a real news show just to keep confusing people

[@SunkJakeIsland]

dandanthetaximan cnn may be trash corporate democrat trash but unlike Fox News, it does not have constant misinformation

[@nickcarney6736]

@@SunkJakeIsland lol that's exactly CNN and to a degree most of the media today

[@kanetombs1275]

This is still alarmingly accurate.

[@andrewjgrimm]

This is the literal opposite of printing money.

[@sforbesgocka]

"how about the soldier hole?" Is the most succinct description of U.S. foreign policy possible.

[@medexamtoolsdotcom]

I thought it was the description of the middle east.

[@ianleavitt8333]

The soldier hole gives the military industrial complex more money for the money hole

[@jasonwilkins1969]

@@SebAnders that is pretty dark yet sadly poingnant

[@markekar6021]

better than the welfare hole

[@tradtke101]

I love how American liberals think they are being kind to soldiers by calling everything they did in Iraq and Afghanistan meaningless. (I am a liberal and a veteran, though I'm sure you'll all find a way to paint me as a right wing propagandist because I disagree with the liberal zeitgeist on this point.) Last time I checked, Iraq is a functional democracy, and Afghanistan has an entire generation of teens and young adults who grew up being educated in the Western democratic tradition. The Taliban are likely to be overthrown in 10-20 years unless they continue their rather surprising path away from hard-line Islamic fundamentalism. Liberals stopped calling soldiers baby killers and instead paint us as some kind of pathetic dolts. But you didn't care about the young Afghani girls making incredible strides in their education and personal growth until we pulled out of Afghanistan- which incidentally is *exactly* what liberals crowed for for 15+ years. My friends spent years of their lives along with their physical and mental health keeping those kids safe on their way to school. And yes, those kids (now young adults) have lost much of their freedom overnight, but at least they KNOW what they've lost. They are angry and resentful of the Taliban for taking away the freedoms that are every human's birthright. Unlike their parents, who were never willing to fight the Taliban no matter how much money/weapons/training/support we gave them. The Republican party used to have pretty sound foreign policy. John McCain and Mitt Romney both were extremely vocal about the threat of Putin, and Obama and liberals mocked them for it. Cold war relics, like the doofuses in the Pentagon. Well guess what, the old fools in the Pentagon like Mattis were the only ones who held the line against Trump, not that any of you will ever thank them for it. And the evil military industrial complex is the reason Ukranians have the weaponry they need to fight off Putin. Liberals want to think we have already progressed to some Star Trek utopia where there is no need for a military and problems can all be solved with words. But if the last few years have shown anything, it's that democracy is in the fight of its life from both internal and external threats. So maybe there's more going on in the soldier hole than the liberal zeitgeist permits you to acknowledge. Maybe soldiers are pretty stupid, but that doesn't mean our sacrifices were meaningless. Maybe they were meaningless to you, but that is a product of your American privilege.

[@j-dog7767]

“And if I did I would throw it right in the hole cause I’m a patriot” lmao I love u onion

[@lukeschofield574]

Hahahahaha

[@yeezuschrist420]

I refuse to believe the onion will ever stop being relevant

[@ryanholmes7297]

I swear, every few years this comes across my feed, and every time it's more relevant and more hilarious.

[@vexivero]

"trace amounts of food in kfc snackers"...haha i wish i thought like these writers!

[@CpttCanada]

+Vexivero VXVO Well you found it funny so you do ;)

[@asperRader]

And here we see it, the duality of Man.

[@slyseal2091]

@@asperRader Theres always two kinds of people

[@phoenixpinkmyn5535]

solid gold

[@lukiea4440]

Max Otto shut yo bitch ass up

[@patrickgrengs7594]

It's nice to finally see a panelist with a "Pro-Hole Agenda."

[@selenophile410]

@Will Wilberforce no , its because of evangelic-ol and libr-ole people shitting in young and ol'

[@monke6774]

Politicans have been having a "Pro-Hole" agenda for years.

[@sumanthvasista4998]

I just realized that the Pro-hole is the "P-hole" and Anti-hole is the the "A-hole"

[@carbon5362]

@@monke6774 And you only listen to fake news. Anti-holers are a disgrace to this country.

[@monke6774]

@@carbon5362 The Hole has been a institution in America for years but its simply not economically viable anymore, these are difficult times and there are other more pressing matters then the Hole.

[@KennytheHedgehog619]

Had a genuinely shit day and the Onion was the first thing to mak me laugh tonight, thanks

[@ridergilwin1494]

I love the algorithm. This video has been available for fourteen years now, and it’s the first time I’m seeing it. Beautiful.

[@Oshyrath]

"I love the money fire." XD

[@ZapejoMC]

Oshyrath thank you for quoting this 2 minute long video

[@coopergoss350]

Memories

[@RazorM97]

🔥🔥🔥$💸💵💵🤑$🔥🔥🔥

[@RazorM97]

me too lol

[@Maltesfilm]

Very nice comment, i’m happy this got a 1t likes.

[@schattentaenzerin]

"I *love* the money fire!!" A patriotic and enthusiastic debate like that makes me wanna burn money. Sadly, I'm poor :(

[@BigMastah79]

Theft is always an option.

[@michaelmathews4103]

It sounds like you're just one step ahead. No job so you can't throw cash into the money hole? You could say it's lazy but to me its proactive. You're just cutting out the middle man.

[@trailersandteasers3421]

The dark Knight type best

[@tylerpeterson4726]

I'm going to write a check for $10,000 and burn it. That's the same thing, right? Because my bank won't let me have $10,000 in dollar bills.

[@ColonelCampbellAI2024]

Sound like a treasonous fraud

[@slaymyface1357]

You can revisit this any year and its still relevant

[@RealRedRabbit]

The Onion feels like news from a little fuckier alternate dimension that got Mandela'd here or some shit

[@bigbuba5212]

Sometimes I get convinced that it's the case

[@Keplerb-od1lr]

I don’t know why I keep getting 11 year old Onion vids but I’m not complaining.

[@deuceloosely1120]

I don't why these 11 year old Onion vids are still relevant but I feel like I should be complaining

[@imscared7631]

it’s 1/2 my recommended page, and I will keep clicking every time i see one.

[@Keplerb-od1lr]

Brazilian Goddess Same here! I made the mistake of watching a video of an alligator eating a turtle (highly disturbing, do not recommend) and now my feed is a gore fest of animal on animal brutality.

[@cameronspence4977]

Because they're a fucking riot

[@antarcticpenguin]

"FDA Inspection reveals trace amounts of food in KFC Snackers" the shade lmao 💀

[@MichaelSeethaler]

This is timeless.

[@peregrintook9227]

This aged like fine wine

[@ObscuredByTime]

The old black lady is the best.

[@bloodyhell8201]

Agreed 'Oh i love the money fires'

[@MAMP]

I agree. She's my fav :)

[@stanleysmith7551]

That supposed to be Maxine Waters btw. 😏

[@thesage1096]

if u love america you throw money in her hole

[@celieboo]

Yeah she is! She is a riot on the animal rights one.

[@estester100]

Broke: The money hole is a metaphor for the spending I don't like Woke: This parodies how people perceive spending they dislike despite its use *Ascended: A money hole is a viable and patriotic method of reducing inflation*

[@BG-wz1iu]

Best comment

[@browngreen4663]

Well the broke is right can we stop terrorizing Afghanistan or whatever country we’re burning down it gives soldiers ptsd costs us money and ruins our image and ruins kids lives

[@danilvinyukov2060]

@@browngreen4663 your mind is still on the broke level. With time you can acend to a higher level of understanding

[@ortegadiego51]

The original gold sink was the Money Hole.

[@browngreen4663]

@Mohammed Khetran no it’s definitely on the military

[@ClaytonBridges]

Im glad this debate rages on today

[@NutSaxs]

Love how that this can be taken metaphorically and it’s still on point.

[@Frostgnaw]

Dear God, The Onion is a national treasure. This is pure gold.

[@kylepangilinan9075]

Pure gold which should be sold to get more money to put in the hole! C'mon, show your patriotism and fill that hole!

[@xzysyndrome]

KZbin comment section has single handedly devalued the meaning of "National Treasure" Much like the Treasury has devalued the Dollar.

[@ilikeme1234]

@@xzysyndrome cute. Somebody has an opinion people enjoying things and also doesn’t understand economics or monetary policy. Inflation is a necessity of a functioning currency that encourages spending and growth. The issue isn’t with the value of the dollar but the purchasing power of the people. When incomes do not keep up with inflation and there is a growing wealth divide is when you have a problem.

[@xzysyndrome]

​@@ilikeme1234 You sound like a person who has no idea what they are talking about...but reads just enough news to sound smart in a crowd of elbow lickers. Did you even read that comment before you hit the blue button? Maybe instead of trying to school people with your "I read The Guardian" intellect...go to school...and stop sounding like a dunce.

[@DioTheGreatOne]

*used to be Onion is absolute garbage nowadays

[@Spetsop]

I just ate a KFC snacker today! I can't believe I never knew that it has trace amounts of food! Argh, why do they NEVER label them properly?! Disgusting!

[@FrancisR420]

Spetsop actually if you read under the packaging it does say it was processed in the same factory as nuts and milk That's probably where the food came from I just hope no one got sick

[@underclas]

I miss those snackers

[@goma3]

The Onion is aging like fine wine.

[@DugdoesDigging]

We can't stop dumping it in there! How else could we fill it!!???!?!

[@BroadcastDr]

"The soldier hole" :(

[@123spill90]

:(

[@tengkualiff]

:(

[@acohyeah6572]

:(

[@brightnfab291]

F the pay respects

[@GenuflectingRotation]

F

[@ChocoCopters]

"Where's the money?" _"It's in the hole."_

[@stevenbluestone2014]

That's what she said.

[@MugenKitsune]

Nice TomSka reference.

[@itsme924]

Good

[@earthboundisawsome]

14 years later and this feels like it could be a real debate

[@VelocityBeat]

“I love the money fire” 😭

[@LD71685]

"Like they say, you have to put money in a hole and set on fire to make money" BAHAHAHA.

[@justacup8676]

^ Exactly why Duncan Birch is my favorite commentator, lol.

[@youssefkandeel3667]

This money hole sounds like Afghanistan.

[@scottbeatty9046]

The black lady commentator is perfectly strident. I love it! Yay onion!

[@grennbalze]

"I love the money fire"

[@captskuzzbruh7087]

This couldn't be more relevant 14 years later holy hell

[@jasperzanjani]

I'm 14 years late to the party but this video still hits

[@JL-vn5xx]

I love how Nancy and Duncan have David’s back on this one. Ridiculous that closing the money is even on the table. My dad didn’t have to work two jobs and he he made 7 figures annually, but you have to believe me when I say a majority of his wealth went into the money hole. A lot of our family vacations growing up were to the money fire.

[@GalinaEv]

Did he take you to actually see it instead of vacation?

[@indianasquatchunters]

A true patriot

[@imsotiredofthiscrap2341]

the annual Big Money Burn is my favorite holiday. it’s truly beautiful

[@doodoobonejones]

It's a shame they're bringing LGBT nonsense to the great money fire nowadays.

[@hastyhillfarmand4x480]

​@Tonysopranoyafinookwhere my money hole gone!?

[@Luckmann]

This is as relevant today as it was 14 years ago, and I love how many of The Onion's debates and such can be shared still and still hold up. They should redo some of these, like "The Money Hole: The Debate Continues".

[@donsolos]

They had to stop because people kept thinking their stories were real. I'm not shitting you. People stopped being able to differentiate between the real news and their parady news stories. One of their stories would trend every so often and become a thing

[@vickysterling3342]

"Why not throw the trillion dollar coin in the hole?" "PLATINUM DOESN'T BURN, LISA! You'll have everyone and their mother minting, counterfeiting more trillion dollar coins to put in the money hole and then how will we stop inflation because we can't destroy the money!"

[@22tfortnitevevo]

@@donsolos no they stopped because they ran out of budget lol

[@jaystitzie4743]

It’s bad when the onion gets less and less ridiculous by the day.

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

America needs the MONEY HOLE!!!

[@Greendalewitch]

"Im Julianna McKannis filling in for Clifford Baines who messed with the wrong people and got himself involved into some serious shit" *She says without a hint of concern*

[@dr.danburritoman1293]

I just noticed after u pointed it out.

[@maazkalim]

Foreign diction issues, "@@dr.danburritoman1293"?

[@dr.danburritoman1293]

@@maazkalim No why?

[@maazkalim]

It's that people recognise their homely accent more easily, "@@dr.danburritoman1293".

[@dr.danburritoman1293]

@@maazkalim Ok. I simply didn't even think about the new Clifford Banes excuse. English is actually my 1st language. Why did u put my name in quotations.

[@runswithbears3517]

14 years later, this is still as relevant as ever.

[@noahsabadish3812]

it will never stop being relevant as long as capitalism lives

[@houstonr]

@@noahsabadish3812government wasting money = capitalism?

[@brennanguinn2287]

@@houstonr People talking about a system as if it has to be there "because that's how it's always has been", leading to poverty, homelessness, and people going without food = capitalism

[@houstonr]

@@brennanguinn2287 Maybe, but I believe they referring to gov spending

[@CuThUlUiSbOsS]

Every year this video gets more relevant

[@TheIrishny]

"I love the money fires"

[@TralfazConstruction]

Eight years after first seeing this I still laugh until tears come with that line.

[@stoirtap12]

"I do not take money from special interests, and if I did, I would throw it right in the hole because I am a patriot."

[@father2mother3]

This video is timeless as an American

[@coreycrossman3447]

Every forign war

[@thumper5832]

I'm just discovering these videos and they are literally the best thing ever.

[@mjxw]

The real problem is they're too accurate lol. For instance the "pundits are graded in real time for their opinions". Once you see that, it's impossible to take seriously any of the talking heads of TV ever again.

[@yeeeehaaawbuddy]

"It's just like they say, 'you have to throw money in a hole and set it on fire, to make money.'" ROFL

[@franimal86]

This is the actual news

[@GuyIncognito764]

Update in 2024: they did not stop throwing money in the money hole. Not even close.

[@TrixieTreat]

My father worked two jobs to dump money in the hole and he never complained!! 💵🕳😂

[@neuvocastezero1838]

Digging the hole is all I know.

[@brain.in.a.body.]

Clifford Banes is always getting into some serious shit, whats his deal? He clearly isn't a Pro-Hole, money dumping patriot like the rest of us. Vote yes on Prop 82, Honest Wholesome Money Wasting.

[@marklance5921]

Im for personal money holes

[@brain.in.a.body.]

+Mark Lance Right I love women too

[@thesilverduke]

The fact we are even having this conversation is insane. Are we gonna get rid of July 4th next?

[@swisschese1323]

As someone who lives in a giant hole where the government usually dump money in, this video outrages me in I want them to keep dumping money into my giant hole.

[@zinj2618]

*"i'm filling in for Clifford banes, who messed with the wrong people and got himself in some serious shit"*

[@saucecastillo460]

That shit was HELLA funny!! 😂😂😂

[@singsingsing22]

"I love the money fires!" THIS WOMAN IS GOLD!!!!

[@johnosborne1873]

More relevant in 2023 now more than ever

[@eduffy4937]

The irony of this being intended as comedy is pure genius.

[@sodomizeintroducer]

Didn't know they now refer to the U.S Military as "A giant hole"

[@JohnnyJohn12503]

november 13, 2008

[@DrunkTestPilot]

Stupid hippie.

[@ro19891012]

and food stamp...

[@Delta25M]

Fucking dank ancient meme

[@Green.n.Purple]

Spotted the Russian who's mad jealous of America's military might

[@carsoncase223]

"What about the soldier hole, or the energy hole"? Jesus Christ onion you guys are Savage

[@dinamosflams]

God level

[@zackyboi2048]

69th like, bitch!

[@NebulousNova]

0:33 "Driving truckloads of money out into the New Mexico desert and dumping into a massive pit is one of America's greatest traditions" Realer words have never been spoken......XD

[@martzall6776]

This is beyond brilliant

[@keep1t5imple5tupid]

This hits harder and harder every year.

[@arthurhova5852]

This is 100x funnier than SNL will ever be