One can dream. Let’s make it so.

I’ve DKos mailed Marissa as I have a PDF of the entire thing (the whole issue).  It’s clearly political (check the editorial on the last page) and it’s quite well done, and there’s even a bit a snark in there (especially considering Pence, Sander, and Trump).

I’m not sure how to upload it here or otherwise make it available unless I host it myself, which I can do.  I’d rather it come from an actual staff member, though.

Actual reality.

Here.  I’ve linked it.

drv.ms/…

It’s about 20MB, so depending on your connection, it may take a minute or two to download.  But this is the whole thing.

Thank you!

Thank you. What a great job they did. They didn’t even have typos. Super professional and perfect snark throughout. 

I also want to say thank you! This is excellent!

Other links to the story here:

www.dailykos.com/...

So that people stop searching for the full thing (as well as the action guide), I wrote a quickie blog entry with links to both full PDFs.

www.dailykos.com/...

Gotta laugh. :-) 

But if you were one of those people who were affected by the shutdown, you wouldn’t be laughing now! it would be a horrible letdown to find out it didn’t happen.

Amazing how many people in the halls seem to be supportive, happy  and laughing about trump being gone.

I know I would be one!

Yeah it would be a happy day, for US, His base? Nope, bunch of sad sacks.

If Code Pink did this, then they have a real sense of needed Humor, I wonder has trump found out He’s left Office on May 1st 2019 yet?

The s*** might hit the fan yet.

I once though it would be a good idea, too. But given how much legal jeopardy he’s in, I doubt very much that he will resign. As a private citizen, his ass is grass. As president, he is protected, more or less. And he hasn’t finished giving the US over to Vladimir Putin. Trump gets off on power. As president his power is extensive—though not unlimited, much to his dismay. As a private citizen he’s back to being a two-bit billionaire. He’ll last another two years, maybe. After that….

Except that he isn't a Billionaire.

Agreed, although (preaching to the choir here) without the slavish devotion and absolute moral and ethical void in republican members of congress, he would be mush less protected and then this travesty could be over sooner. 

We would then be working on the travesty of a Pence white house on the odd chance that he is not indicted or implicated somehow. Plus a pardon of trump’s federal crimes.

dcist.com/...

The Washington Post complained to the computer provider that hosts the website, according to Andy Bickelbaum, the co-founder of the Yes Men, the “trickster activist collective,” that took responsibility for the paper alongside organizer L.A. Kaufman and author Onnesha Roychoudhuri. As of 12:45 p.m., the website was flagged as a “suspected phishing site,” and the content had been taken down. (A version has already been cached.)

I had some trouble finding the cached version as TWM is defaulting to providing the “suspected phishing site” garbage enabled by Cloudflare after they disabled the site’s account. If you search TWM for the site (my-washingtonpost.com) though, you can go back to a time when it was actually live.

web.archive.org/…

So it appears that Cloudflare doesn’t respect constitutionally protected satire and went with “suspected phishing site” as their excuse to get out of having to stand for any actual values. I find this interesting as in 2017 Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince stated “I'd be deeply troubled if my ISP started restricting what types of content I can access. As a network, we don't think it's appropriate for Cloudflare to be making those restrictions either."

arstechnica.com/...

Seems that only applies when the complainant isn’t a large corporation.  

Note: Apparently Cloudflare also supplies services to The Daily Stormer.

Oddly enough, the satire site includes many links to the WP site, and may well be responsible for a small jump in WP subscriptions. Way to shoot yourselves in the foot WP! Rather than run a story about the satire site and create a buzz that will drive visitors to their site, they used their corporate might to underhandedly disable the site access (“phishing” my a**!).

well — that’s wonderful stuff that is! 

here’s a copy of the screen shot of the whole page — cause we all know it doesn’t have long for this world …

link i used to see this = web.archive.org/...

Thanks so much for posting that page —  and with a link. Excellent!

It’s on Twitter, it isn’t going away. 

If you go to the cached site, you’ll see a link to download a PDF version of the whole site. I was unable to download it (likely due to the cached version) but it was apparently available directly off the satire site for long enough to get downloaded a few times. My guess is it will continue to crop up until it’s no longer relevant (figure about 20,000 years?).

I left a full copy of it up in the comments (comment off the first comment in this post).

Thanks so much Sarkazein! Now I just have to track down a printed version. :)

For posterity… or something.

At least now I can print out the headline and frame it. Should work a bit better than my joke-a-day calendar to keep me sane.

I love what they did with the tagline:

Democracy awakens in action!

All we need to do is get Faux News to cover the fake headline, and Trump will probably believe it and leave.

That’s…. not actually a bad idea. Especially if we get them to say it was a “brilliant move on his part to bow out after his job was gracefully done.”

Constitutionally protected satire.  And a brilliant one, I might add.

No, it’s really not.  It’s fucking James O’Keefe level bullshit.  Man, I hate it when our side does this kind of shit.

It actually is not O’Keefe type stuff at all. This is a joke. That’s all it is. It is not the same as poducing a deeply edited cosplay prank intended to deceive the MSM to cover it as fact with the ultimate goal of defunding a political adversary to the Big Banks.

Ummm… no, it’s not. On one hand you have great satire and on the other you have someone using deceptive video editing in order to create a scandal. 

Both of CA Libertarian’s sentences are absolutely correct. Man, I hate it when our side does this kind of shit.

What ever happened to the whaaambulance and why is there never one around when you need one?

Who is jumping up and down insisting this is real, and that the actual Washington Post printed it, despite all evidence to the contrary? You’d still have to go even further than that to get “O’Keefe-like”

May be copyright issues if it looks too similar.

Lots of leeway for satire and parody I think, though.

I might have renamed the paper the “Washington Pest,” though...

I would be more in favor if it used a fake newspaper name or made it pretty damn clear somewhere that it was not WP. If I were the WP, I’d be pretty pissed about some outfit mimicking my product and damaging my brand as a reporter of facts and not “fake news”. I wouldn’t be surprised if they sue the responsible parties.

it takes 10 seconds to determine that it is a joke.

it’s almost certainly legally defensible as parody.

similarly, Melania can’t sue the actress who portrays her on The Late Show.  no one with any sense is going to think that woman is actually the First Lady.  along the same lines, no one is going to think those papers are actually the Washington Post.

Especially in DC where people know what the authentic Post looks like.

Maybe you have to be a Washingtonian to notice differently but it looked like the typeface that the WP uses to me in the diary pic. I obviously don’t have it in my hand but how could those in the know tell it was fake so quickly or that yes, it was a fake but not put out by the WP?

First clue — massive red flag clue — the headline and stories. Confirmation bias cranked up to maximum decibels. Then, taking time for the more subtle clues — the weather, which I think was being reported as a balmy 70+; the date of May 2019, things like that.

They made the Washington Post banner about half-size. I have never in fifty years living here seen it reduced for any reason. That should be clue enough.

Well Poop! I was looking at the website, not the print. Sorry about that! Still, other commenters have pointed out numerous clues that it’s satire. I don’t think we have much to worry about.

you are right—it does appear to be the same typeface.

but if I saw a headline like that, I would pull out my phone and in even less than 10 seconds confirm that DJT was not in fact leaving office.

the fact that the price is FREE is another tip-off.

It wouldn’t have that initial surprise factor, which it was makes us laugh. Like trueblue said, it takes just a couple seconds to figure it out to be a joke. But those couple of seconds of suspended disbelief are what some would describe as comedy gold.

But in this case the 3rd second is supreme disappointment.

Post-comedic tristesse.

Just one point that I haven’t seen mentioned here yet… the Yes Men have done this twice before. Once in 2008 with a parody version of the NYT, and again in 2009 with the NY Post.

I would think, having done this twice before, that they know full well what to expect and exactly where the legal lines between satire, copyright infringement and libel reside.

I am sure that the “...failed Amazon Washington Post, Jeff Bozo...” will not be pursuing any legal action.

Rather, Bezos is likely seeking lots of hard copies of the Parody to give to friends.

Trump even sicced his buddy of The National Enquirer to dig dirt on Bezos.  They found his girlfriend — but the joke is on Trump.  Both their spouses already knew.  Bezos wife will become the wealthiest woman in America after their very amicable divorce.  

“Jeff Bozo” is over the moon in love & happy.  Still mega-rich and will regain his “Wealthiest Man” title in no time.  While Trump remains loveless and unlovable.

But he will not forget it, Trump.  The old saying goes “he who owns the ink….”

Oh My!!

I had not even thought about Dump being behind the Bezos affair stories. If true, that’s rather frightening that he would go to those lengths to try and personally and financially damage someone because of non sycophantic coverage.

If that’s the case, then Bezos probably will frame the fake newspaper and send it to Dump suggesting he hang it in the Oval Office.

If the two Bezoses have an ounce of sense, they will take essentially all their money and put it into something like the Bill and Melania Gates Foundation, run it together, and each end up with a billion dollars.

There is absolutely nothing that much money is good for except making a difference in the world.

This is Code Pink, it was TSFETT — The Society for EpeditedTime Travel.  They jumped a couple of months into the future and brought back real copies of the Post.

Nope. Not Code Pink. It’s The Yes Men.

“The story this paper tells is more reasonable than our current reality,” says author Onnesha Roychoudhuri, who created the paper together with author L.A. Kauffman and trickster activist collective the Yes Men.

www.theyesmen.org/...

They also have links to a webpage of the fake WaPo, with more content, and a special insert with an “action guide”. Here’s some of the added content:

The Civil War that never was

Shortly after he disappeared from public view, Trump implored his “big beautiful base” to “vote with your trigger finger.” 1.5 million people showed up to make sure they didn't.

World leaders react

Recently-sworn-in President Pence has yet to issue an official statement on foreign policy — or, for that matter, to do anything whatsoever. In the third of three chaotic press conferences today, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders answered a reporter’s question about Pence’s plans by saying that the incoming President “intends to keep as low a profile as possible,” before realizing the strangeness of what she had just said. “That’s because our new President is a humble man, a man of God, and in no position to govern, I mean before asking God. Next question.”

By Associated Press

The most ambitious legislative package in a generationstarted as little more than series of progressive wish-lists. Platforms like the Green New Deal, the Vision for Black Lives, and the Leap Manifesto spurred discussions among groups like Indivisible, MoveOn, Black Lives Matter, the Women’s March, the Sunrise Movement, and labor unions.

By mid-February, those wish-lists had evolved into a concrete set of 64 billsaimed at winning broad support. Congressional Republicans and centrist Democrats initially scoffed at what they called the impracticality of the ambitious measures, which include Medicare for All, free college tuition, guaranteed jobs, a Universal Basic Income, and more. But after a huge grassroots campaign to support the measures, polls have shown growing favor even among Republicans.

...

“We’ve been handed a bundle of shit for so long,” Chicago-based community organizer Priya Bakaya told a Washington Post reporter in late February. “It’s about damn time for a different bundle.” The name stuck. The hashtag #BundleOfJoy went viral — often circulated with a cartoon, created by the underground art collective Trans Men United, featuring an apparently pregnant Uncle Sam.

Proponents also laud the Bundle as a safeguard against another Trumpian populist rising in the future. “A lot of Americans who recently turned to the right now have another place to go,” said Dalia Wilkins, a political analyst at Johns Hopkins School of Public Policy. “With common-sense progressive politics on offer, there’s a lot less oxygen for the politics of hate.”

Someone has gotten the links to the archived pdfs flagged as a possible phishing site. There’s nothing on it at all that asks for any personal info when you go there, so I hope that’s cleared up.

--And before I even posted this I went back and rechecked the links and the flag’s gone. Nice try someone.

just posted a screen shot of it — see my comment on this diary — maybe below?

Here’s one I like from the live site:

In an early morning press conference, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders eluded questions about Trump’s departure. “I’m not aware of his movements at every second of every day,” she told reporters. … “So, Trump has fled,” a reporter was heard shouting from the back of the press room. Sanders responded, “I’ve already covered that at length.”

Wow.  I’ve heard of college humor magazines doing parodies of the campus newspaper, but this prank is that prank on . . . well, estrogen, it looks like.

This is hilarious! So now trump says even the fake news is fake!!!! Bwahahaha! I think now the fat lady can finally sing! Surely we’ve heard everything now! Just so delicious!

The way to make it happen is to turn off the water to the White House. And the electricity. I know they haven’t paid the bill for the former.

Okay — calling it the Wishington Post from now on.

Excellent!

Where can I get a print copy?

i just posted a screen shot of the page in comments on this diary — get it downloaded before someone takes it down, here :)

cruelty, thy name is satire.

Putin’s puppet leaving White House would put an end to this nightmare.

I will look for one of these on ebay. Wish I could have snagged one.

We can only hope and keep our fingers crossed.

One can only hope...

I love that story way below the fold – “Fictional Washington Post eerily predicted real events”.

If only…….

They should have made the date April 1, 2019, so that the satire would have been even more evident! :)

Wayback is still working. Grab a PDF version while it’s still available!

my-washingtonpost.com/...

Thanks!

You can click past the phishing warning to get to the 8-page pdf.

Thank you, that was the link to the .pdf I was looking for.

since he has such hate for fake news, he could easily make it real news  

Oh my! Who knew that the PDF file is all eight pages! Get your copy before they are all gone… LOL! :)

Sounds like a Yes Men prank. They did the same type of thing the day after Obama was elected with fake New York Times.

We should just pretend like it’s true.  That’s what he would do.

If someone did that to me I would bawl

They must be grads from Stanford University, who punked Cal, after the play. Somethings remain classic.

Nobody’s ever beating this.

Disclaimed: Yale sucks, too.

Taking the future into their own hands. That certainly sounds promising!

You can click through the links to actual “articles,” all dated May 1, 2019 😅

Ha ha!

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Lol he can do this thing

kinda reminiscent of carly fiorina’s firing at hp, employees dancing and singing in the aisles ding dong the witch is dead

Lord, please let this come true.

Amen to that, so be LORD!!

Pretty silly.  I doubt anyone will believe it for very long.  Sounds like young kids.  We did something like that once when I was on my HS paper, but we made it convincing, and people believed it for a while.

Given the current reality, we needed this brief escape.  Back to reality:

MAYDAY MAYDAY-Trexit in Progress

I just saw the headlines, didn’t read any further, called my husband and crowed that I had just read that Mike Pence had taken the oath.  “I don’t know what happened, but our long national nightmare is over!” 

He stopped me to say he didn’t see anything (was looking as I nattered on) but I said that it was because it was breaking news and that the email had just arrived.  Wanted to get off the phone to call other people, and to break out the champagne before starting to worry about Pence.

I went back to read more than the headline, saw that the email was from The Yes Men, that it was reporting on how well their fake headline had done, and wwaaaaahhhh!

Haven’t fallen for such before, and am now getting ribbed quite a bit from my husband.  Granted, I rather see him perp walked out of the WH after Pence is out of the picture, but I really, truly thought that it was finally over (well, not all the details, but still) and it was glorious.  It is coming one of these days.  Too bad it was not today.  Maybe May 19, maybe sooner.  We can only hope.

Naw, shucks, it’s a false flag —

the GOP Flush Handle is broken!

Well, right wing garbage has…

put fake judges all through the judiciary

put fake overseers in every cabinet post

put fake elections together in dozens of US states

put fake news on the front of toady right wing rags

put a fake museum up in Kansas

put a fake agenda before the nation, since they took Kremlin cash for TREASON

and yeah, being T-R-A-I-T-O-R is the BIGGEST FAKE of all.

RESIGN, ...TRAITOR

Do TRAITORs have to pay back all their stolen “winnings”?

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Consider what Putin owes the Russian people —

but Americans were happy to take stolen money to commit treason!

“Anyone would take that deal!” — Anyone… right wing!

Guatemala —

theconversation.com/…

you can see the effects right wing trash has round the world.

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THIS is one of the causes of immigration at the US southern border —

the corrupt fascist police states in Central America

propped up by the militaristic foreign policy of the US.

Don’t leave this moron TRAITOR alone at the top —

remember how Nixon started a SECOND WAR CRIME in Cambodia!

That led to the murder of a million innocent people.

He’s not alone, the White House, SCOTUS, and Congress are PACKED with Russian operatives.  McConnell took $3 million from Moscow in 2018 alone.