@@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
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
"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
Nah, I am from Ukraine and one of major reasons to vote is electing a new government that actually closes some money holes tho usually the holes lobby restores themselves via courts. It's very relatable for all Eastern Europe.
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
The dialogues are more realistic than in 99% of movies nowadays. They interrupt each other, speak over others, express emptions through body language, etc.
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!
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!
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.
*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
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 "Citizens should decided how to depose of their own money", "Personal Money holes", "What if the money blows away or is improperly burnt"
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
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
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
.... 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
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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!
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
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*
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
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.
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.
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".
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
"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!"
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.
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
"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*
@@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.
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.
“My father worked TWO JOBS so he’d have money to put in the money hole, and he never complained!” LMAO I’m gonna start using that whenever someone says they don’t want to do something. “My father worked TWO JOBS...”
Honestly my favorite part is that nobody is arguing against the concept of having holes to destroy money in. They're all just arguing over whether it should be a government program or not.
It's so amazing how they build on the details of the joke with such straight faces. Shows like SNL would have comedians giggling after every hilarious addition to the joke but they just roll through it completely in character. Despite that you have u could tell they had a lot of fun with it as everyone seemed to have some aspect of the money hole they wanted to make cannon
***** You falsely assume that increasing the value of the dollar is positive. On the contrary, the United States has been struggling with low demand and stagnant consumer spending, as well as an increasingly troublesome trade deficit that damages the economy, almost entirely due to the rising currency strength of the dollar. Generally, moderate devaluation of currency can have a strongly positive impact on exports, a crucial factor in the development and sustenance of a healthy, growing economy.. If you enjoy deflation, unemployment, foreclosure, and technological and social stagnation, then by all means, pursue your aforementioned policies. On top of all this, deflating the currency increases the cost of debt. In increasing the value of the dollar, you correspondingly increase the debt in real terms. To say the least, your proposals would make terrible policies.
As someone who didn't know the Onion made videos over a decade ago, I'm glad I'm just now stumbling upon these! These news videos (Today Now and In The Know) are the best ones on the channel
I have served 17 years in the US Army, fought for Dick Cheney's right to make money in the Middle East, and I for one, am ashamed that our citizens are genuinely asking to close the money hole!
"Let the free market decide the most efficient way of destroying money" is one of the funniest things I have ever heard
Accentuated nicely with potential outlets such as shredding and burning 😆
And true to life, money is either hoarded in the form of equity or outright devalued
The free market would squander the chance, I say let the government maintain the money-hole!
@@evilmonkeywithissues How dare you insult Zucc's competency?! He does a perfectly fine job of destroying money!
@@DuskLegendhow do you hoard money with equity?
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 😆
Because it's already been established that NOT dumping currency in the money hole is insanity. Geez try to keep up.
my bad, of course, of course
@@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
@@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.
@@ub3rfr3nzy94 oh oh, and a portion of the money they are paid could be added to the money in the money hole!!!
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.
Samuel T unless the government stops dumping money in 30 y- you know what I just realized how stupid that sounded
In 30 years they wont be satire
anyom rydir they will be reality. Completed your sentence.
If we're still alive in 30 years.
Yeah these all have points that seem even more relevant today with todays media being like it is
Ironic how this skit was written in response to the 2008 recession and now almost 15 years later it's still extremely relevant
Yeh, this one aged pretty well.
Without proper banking regulation it will be relevant once every decade or so.
@@oggyreidmore They could have just let them fail...
Not only are they failing to regulate, they're further enabling the bad behaviour.
@@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.
@@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.
"If you love America you'll throw money in its hole"
hmmm...a stripper once said something similar to me.
@@Synnerization
A stripper named America.
I also watched the video.
Im your 1000th like
Surprisingly accurate. The hole is in D.C. though.
"If you love America, you throw money in it's hole"
God damn that's patriotism
Amen
I wouldn't be surprised if this line was created first and a whole skit was written around it.
Lmaoooo
I love how Nancy never makes a single meaningful contribution to any discussion but she always gives the best one liners
@@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?
"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
"Pro hole agenda" dead😭☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
throw that gold into hole
yes and gold is actually the only true forms of money, everything they show is just inherently worthless fiat
I was right at this part.
I feel like the whole skit was just worth it for that line.
People not from the US will think this is satire
In theory, it is
@@aroacebigenderdude7920in practice as well
Nah, I am from Ukraine and one of major reasons to vote is electing a new government that actually closes some money holes tho usually the holes lobby restores themselves via courts. It's very relatable for all Eastern Europe.
@@KasumiRINA you're from a US money hole! 😮
This isn't US-specific at all.
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
Seriously what a delivery haha. The cast is already so fantastic so you have to be out of this world to stand out.
Brilliant
Animals
Weird. She's the only one for me, to ruin the bit
@@dodekaedius same
The dialogues are more realistic than in 99% of movies nowadays. They interrupt each other, speak over others, express emptions through body language, etc.
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
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Don’t you ever “etc.” me
Movies generally don’t want to be like that because it’s easier to miss things that way
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!
"No reasonable person is advocating that we're going to stop destroying money" 😂
1/3 of humanity really really can use coal to not die - it's amazing
Instead of using coal they have much better and cheaper options if we didn't subsidize coal.
@@Giganfan2k1 What about graphene tho?
To be fair,
If America stopped dumping money in a hole, it'd cause a lot of inflation.
I mean the economics technically work out
Update in 2024: they did not stop throwing money in the money hole. Not even close.
Well that ladies father didn’t work 2 jobs, just to not have his money thrown into the money hole.
Good. God Bless the money hole.
Oddly still relevant all these years later
They did however change the money holes name to Israel
It was a prophecy
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!
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.
Blue-blooded?
ARISTOCRACY! YOU HAVE REVEALED YOURSELF, FAKER! PREPARE FOR JUDGMENT.
*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
Sorry for your loss - God bless.
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.
Clearly, this is a giant analogy for the things I don’t like politically.
That sounds like something from the opposite party, get him!
I thought it was an analogy for the Military Industrial complex. With the "Personal Money Hole" representing the right to bear arms.
T. Estable the right to bear arms doesn’t cost the government money.
@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 00:42
@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 "Citizens should decided how to depose of their own money", "Personal Money holes", "What if the money blows away or is improperly burnt"
"I do not take money from special interests. And if I did, I'd throw it in the hole."
MultiCamOrange the best line
Because HE IS a patriot!!
I did naht take money I did naht take money it's not true it's bullshit I did naht
Oh hai mark
"What about the soldier hole, or the energy hole!" All these years later and the jokes still land. Incredible.
15 years later and I don't think even God could dig us out of this hole
Nothing changes
you mean Ukraine hole? Afghanistan hole?
Is the soldier hole where they dump the dead soldiers?
@@anthonymeade7345no it’s a euphemism for war
Such a click bait title.
Nobody was discussing if it _should_ dump money, just _how_ the money should be dumped. SMH news these days
Wooosh
Looks like the reddit tards have arrived
@@AngeloLuc Says the guy who thinks adding "tard" to a word makes it a decent insult.
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
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
"If you love America, then you throw money in its hole." That's secretly the slogan of every politician.
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Ironically, this would actually increase the dollar's value. As long as money never leaves the hole again.
they're implying that the money i there is stolen from the people
Tedious it would still increase the dollar’s buying power
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.
@@SteveOnlin Only if you're implying that taxation is theft
@@SuperSMT If tax money doesn't go into helping the people, it is
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.
They did 10+ years ago, anyway
You know, Hollywood has nothing to do with newscasting.
@@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.
@@InnerGiggles That's the point? They didn't say newscasting is an inauthentic portrayal of newscasting
@@InnerGiggles I imagine they're referring to fictional news segments in Hollywood films
This aged well
Well hi there famous UA-cam I didn’t know about until just know.
Holy shit! I love your guides!
Yes
Funny seeing you here
Quarantine brought you here too??
“And if I did I would throw it right in the hole cause I’m a patriot” lmao I love u onion
Hahahahaha
I refuse to believe the onion will ever stop being relevant
This is the best explanation of taxes I've ever seen
Why is satire often more accurate then news itself?
"The news" uses truth to tell lies, satire uses lies to reveal truth.
Because shovelers learn to judge by weight
The money hole lobby pays the major news networks to push pro-hole agendas rather than facts
Because this world has transcended Poe's Law.
Explain how this is more accurate.
this sketch may remain relevant in perpetuity
Can confirm
nlmaster Seconded.
Thirded.
Whatever the correct word is for fourth
Indubitably...
Plot twist: "The onion" is actually a news channel from a parallel universe getting broadcasted on UA-cam via interdimensional cable.
Rick?
@@tomsoki5738 What is a rick?
@@tomsoki5738 Oh nice
no it's just a bunch of time travelers fucking with us by sending news from 2021 to 2010
@@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.
It’s insane how well made the Onions bits were. Master class in their set and just everything.
"how about the soldier hole?" Is the most succinct description of U.S. foreign policy possible.
I thought it was the description of the middle east.
The soldier hole gives the military industrial complex more money for the money hole
@@SebAnders that is pretty dark yet sadly poingnant
better than the welfare hole
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.
It's nice to finally see a panelist with a "Pro-Hole Agenda."
@Will Wilberforce no , its because of evangelic-ol and libr-ole people shitting in young and ol'
Politicans have been having a "Pro-Hole" agenda for years.
I just realized that the Pro-hole is the "P-hole" and Anti-hole is the the "A-hole"
@@monke6774 And you only listen to fake news. Anti-holers are a disgrace to this country.
@@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.
"I *love* the money fire!!"
A patriotic and enthusiastic debate like that makes me wanna burn money. Sadly, I'm poor :(
Theft is always an option.
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.
The dark Knight type best
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.
Sound like a treasonous fraud
"Birds could make nests out of it..."
"Like shredding it up and feeding it to hogs."
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"trace amounts of food in kfc snackers"...haha i wish i thought like these writers!
+Vexivero VXVO Well you found it funny so you do ;)
And here we see it, the duality of Man.
@@asperRader Theres always two kinds of people
solid gold
Max Otto shut yo bitch ass up
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.
Chaotic evil, I like it
It won't have to change. Society is fast becoming the joke portrayed by The Onion.
.... 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
dandanthetaximan cnn may be trash corporate democrat trash but unlike Fox News, it does not have constant misinformation
@@SunkJakeIsland lol that's exactly CNN and to a degree most of the media today
"I love the money fire." XD
Oshyrath thank you for quoting this 2 minute long video
Memories
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me too lol
Very nice comment, i’m happy this got a 1t likes.
Always a treat to see this pop up in the recommended around election time.
Dear God, The Onion is a national treasure. This is pure gold.
Pure gold which should be sold to get more money to put in the hole! C'mon, show your patriotism and fill that hole!
UA-cam comment section has single handedly devalued the meaning of "National Treasure" Much like the Treasury has devalued the Dollar.
@@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.
@@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.
*used to be
Onion is absolute garbage nowadays
I don’t know why I keep getting 11 year old Onion vids but I’m not complaining.
I don't why these 11 year old Onion vids are still relevant but I feel like I should be complaining
it’s 1/2 my recommended page, and I will keep clicking every time i see one.
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.
Because they're a fucking riot
The old black lady is the best.
Agreed
'Oh i love the money fires'
I agree. She's my fav :)
That supposed to be Maxine Waters btw. 😏
if u love america you throw money in her hole
Yeah she is! She is a riot on the animal rights one.
Coming back to this after learning about MMT (modern monetary theory) makes me view it in a whole new light
"FDA Inspection reveals trace amounts of food in KFC Snackers" the shade lmao 💀
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!
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
I miss those snackers
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*
Best comment
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
@@browngreen4663 your mind is still on the broke level. With time you can acend to a higher level of understanding
The original gold sink was the Money Hole.
@Mohammed Khetran no it’s definitely on the military
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.
"The soldier hole" :(
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F the pay respects
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The black lady commentator is perfectly strident. I love it! Yay onion!
"I love the money fire"
"Where's the money?"
_"It's in the hole."_
That's what she said.
Nice TomSka reference.
Good
Nice to know 15 years later the tradition of throwing all our money in an hole is still going strong.
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.
Did he take you to actually see it instead of vacation?
A true patriot
the annual Big Money Burn is my favorite holiday. it’s truly beautiful
It's a shame they're bringing LGBT nonsense to the great money fire nowadays.
@Tonysopranoyafinookwhere my money hole gone!?
"Like they say, you have to put money in a hole and set on fire to make money" BAHAHAHA.
^ Exactly why Duncan Birch is my favorite commentator, lol.
This money hole sounds like Afghanistan.
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".
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
"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!"
@@donsolos no they stopped because they ran out of budget lol
Throwing money in the money hole combats inflation but no one is ready to talk about that.
I'm just discovering these videos and they are literally the best thing ever.
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.
It's the rhetoric that makes this perfection. This is exactly how news media talks about issues.
So that’s what they’re calling the Middle East today.
Fucking underrated comment.
This episode is legit
Since when is that not an accurate description?
Also known as Israel
Nah, that's the soldier hole
Damn I miss this era of the onion. Best satire ever. Bring back your production team!
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
real news are so insane that satirical writers are out of a job
My father worked two jobs to dump money in the hole and he never complained!! 💵🕳😂
Digging the hole is all I know.
"I love the money fires!" THIS WOMAN IS GOLD!!!!
"It's just like they say, 'you have to throw money in a hole and set it on fire, to make money.'"
ROFL
"You have to throw money in a hole and set it on fire, to make money" 😂❤
"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*
I just noticed after u pointed it out.
Foreign diction issues, "@@dr.danburritoman1293"?
@@maazkalim No why?
It's that people recognise their homely accent more easily, "@@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.
"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."
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.
Im for personal money holes
+Mark Lance
Right I love women too
As someone who lives in a hole, thank you America. I didn't know you where looking out for me like that
I now realize you are also the reason my house was burned nevermind
"I love the money fires"
Eight years after first seeing this I still laugh until tears come with that line.
Didn't know they now refer to the U.S Military as "A giant hole"
november 13, 2008
Stupid hippie.
and food stamp...
Fucking dank ancient meme
Spotted the Russian who's mad jealous of America's military might
"What about the soldier hole, or the energy hole"? Jesus Christ onion you guys are Savage
God level
69th like, bitch!
This is the problem with modern media, they never even asked for the holes perspective. Smh.
This is 100x funnier than SNL will ever be
*"i'm filling in for Clifford banes, who messed with the wrong people and got himself in some serious shit"*
That shit was HELLA funny!! 😂😂😂
"If you love America, keep throwing money in it's hole!"
"I love the money fires!"
I adore her!
yes
This would actually be a good way to deal with the incresingly insane levels of inflation.
"I love the money fires!" LOLOL
“My father worked TWO JOBS so he’d have money to put in the money hole, and he never complained!” LMAO I’m gonna start using that whenever someone says they don’t want to do something. “My father worked TWO JOBS...”
I watch this every year or so. It's still funny.
Every couple years I come back to this, and yes, it's still funny.
Honestly my favorite part is that nobody is arguing against the concept of having holes to destroy money in. They're all just arguing over whether it should be a government program or not.
It's so amazing how they build on the details of the joke with such straight faces. Shows like SNL would have comedians giggling after every hilarious addition to the joke but they just roll through it completely in character. Despite that you have u could tell they had a lot of fun with it as everyone seemed to have some aspect of the money hole they wanted to make cannon
It is actually good idea. It will increase value of dollar.
Oh my god, I can't believe you're right.
***** Or you could just like, pay off debt. (Paying debt removes money from the money supply)
***** You falsely assume that increasing the value of the dollar is positive. On the contrary, the United States has been struggling with low demand and stagnant consumer spending, as well as an increasingly troublesome trade deficit that damages the economy, almost entirely due to the rising currency strength of the dollar. Generally, moderate devaluation of currency can have a strongly positive impact on exports, a crucial factor in the development and sustenance of a healthy, growing economy.. If you enjoy deflation, unemployment, foreclosure, and technological and social stagnation, then by all means, pursue your aforementioned policies. On top of all this, deflating the currency increases the cost of debt. In increasing the value of the dollar, you correspondingly increase the debt in real terms. To say the least, your proposals would make terrible policies.
***** Deflation is never a good idea, especially not if you have a lot of debt.
I read that in a Russian accent.
When you can't tell if it's real or a joke... That's when you need to be afraid.
"It's frankly, it's a national treasure." How did I miss this?!! Lmao
2020: Still dumping money into a giant hole
2021: Still dumping money into a giant hole
The black lady who constantly kept screaming over everyone is my icon
We know
It’s 2024 and this is still so funny 😂😂
"America needs that money hole!"
"pro-hole" haha
The hole-digger/graveyard shift joke is a treasure.
absolutely brilliant satire. imma go bury some cash in the onion's nethole right now because no hole deserves it more
odd way of saying *insert government program here*
I'm pretty fiscally conservative and this is how I see everything.
Insert US military
Rohan Singh but who would pave the way for the drills in some random third world country
It’s an Area 51 reference
Obamacare
I watch this video every year around tax season to remind me of the importance of dumping money into the hole.
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"i love the money fire" 😂😂😂
I thought The Onion was satire. I didn't know they did real stories!
It's good to see they're doing something to combat inflation
As someone who didn't know the Onion made videos over a decade ago, I'm glad I'm just now stumbling upon these! These news videos (Today Now and In The Know) are the best ones on the channel
This is what every military budget debate sounds like to me.
It's 2024. It's incredible how accurate these onions still are.
“Wut about the solider hole? Wut about the energy hole?” Lmaoooooo 💀
Man I hope Clifford Baines sorts that serious shit out, its not just the same without him on the screen.
This skit is a timeless commentary on how much money the government throws straight into the trash.
@Joe-gw9whyou typed all that just to sound stupid
I have served 17 years in the US Army, fought for Dick Cheney's right to make money in the Middle East, and I for one, am ashamed that our citizens are genuinely asking to close the money hole!
I've now watched so many of these videos that I feel I'm also sitting in for Clifford Baines. lol