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Disseminating grainy footage of the California Democrat meeting his disturbing and bloody end, Immigration and Customs Enforcement released a video Tuesday in which Gov. Gavin Newsom is seen being beheaded. “This is a message to the enemies of immigration enforcement: Gov. Newsom’s fate will be yours should you stand in the way of national purity,” an anonymous plainclothes ICE agent wearing a balaclava says as he holds a bound Newsom by his slicked-back hair and prompts him to recite a coerced statement about “paying for the sins of the American left and its insistence on universal human dignity.” [...]

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[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 76 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] doug@lemmy.today 15 points 3 weeks ago

Strange how it went down without much resistance.

[–] scuppie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

I ate it too, but because my brain automatically added "AI generated". That is horrifyingly plausible.

[–] h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] doug@lemmy.today 12 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

The Onion coming in hot today.

[–] obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly the worst part is that I had to tell myself that this isn't real. The US isn't that far gone (yet).

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago

I'm almost certain there are ai generated vids of exactly this circulating within the ranks.

The US is there.

It's time to admit it.

[–] vala@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

Ate the onion. Fuck.

[–] Nay@feddit.nl 11 points 3 weeks ago

When that's the bar for satire; only fun times ahead...

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

Gavin “Neville Chamberlain” Newsom.

Dumass has an entire name for a nickname.

[–] Spider89@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I gobbled the onion.