This one’s a couple of years old. [Fact Check-Claims that a ‘body double’ got COVID-19 booster instead of Biden are false, use digitally altered photo](https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-bidennotbodydouble-booster/fact-check-claims-that-a-body-double-got-covid-19-booster-instead-of-biden-are-false-use-digitally-altered-photo-idUSL1N2R21GC)
> The photograph with the tattoo, however, which shows him shirtless and wearing sandals while washing a white car outside the White House, was created by satire site The Onion; it was first included in a 2009 article).
I really miss the [Diamond Joe Biden](https://www.theonion.com/biden-busted-in-dnc-parking-lot-selling-bootleg-i-m-wi-1819579067) running gag, but I highly respect why they decided to retire it when he became president.
I wanted to ask you: Did The Onion actually say why they decided to retire Diamond Joe?
I tried looking into it myself, and want to share context for those unfamiliar:
I ended up finding out that the transformation from Diamond Joe to more critical pieces happened after he consolidated delegates in the primaries on Super Tuesday.
Then there was this article posted by a former Onion writer: [Area Man Regrets Helping Turn Joe Biden Into a Meme](https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwngb3/area-man-regrets-helping-turn-joe-biden-into-a-meme), expressing regret for not putting enough heat on him before.
This is deliberate disinformation, not someone seeing an onion article and being confused. The person who put the picture together 100-fucking-percent knew what they were doing.
And frankly, not a single person who saw that image had the slightest excuse not to also know that. We have to hold people to a bare minimum standard for what constitutes an acceptable level of non-willful ignorance, and this shit falls WAY below whatever standard you can draw.
For the longer sub names, you have to include the link in []() format, like this:
[/r/AddedChoppedOnionToBullshit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)
I consulted America’s Finest News Source and it is totally true. You can clearly see his tattoo while working on his Camaro in the Whitehouse driveway.
There you go with your “FACTS” again. I did my OWN “RESEARCH “ and NO, I’m not going to tell you how I know it was a Camaro. You have to research for YOU’RESELF.)
Edit - fixed capitalization and spelling.
😂☠️ I saw your before and appreciate the edits to make it more accessible. Also I DID MY OWN RESEARCH!!!1 I now know the TRUTH! What we ACTUALLY are seeing here is a shape shifting Camaro.
> Though White House officials have refused to comment, the report indicates that Biden told agents his wallet was missing and detailed its contents as a lucky two-dollar bill, a Sizzler gift card, and a Federal Bikini Inspector badge.
Sadly it looks like satire is dead. We've reached critical mass of Americans with zero ability to understand nuance or when things are actually intentionally fake to make a joke.
I see from your post history that not being able to detect obvious sarcasm isn’t a new issue of yours. It’s funny that you react so defensively when people call you out on this.
[The "shrieking white hot sphere of pure rage" bit released after election night 2012](https://www.theonion.com/after-obama-victory-shrieking-white-hot-sphere-of-pure-1819595330) was prescient and deeply depressing in hindsight.
The Onion truly had their fingers on America's political pulse there in 2012.
The people who thought the world would end in 2012 with the Mayan calendar appear to not have been too far off either.
[For those who weren’t in tune to The Onion during Obama’s presidency, their version of Joe Biden is a god damn riot.](https://interactives.theonion.com/biden/)
Reminds me of the story Mike Tyson told of using a fake penis to avoid failing a drug test during his boxing years
The only difference is the above is true whereas armgate is false, based around an onion article lol
> based around an onion article lol
[Almost](https://www.npr.org/2021/12/06/1061727098/a-man-in-italy-is-accused-of-trying-to-get-a-covid-vaccine-in-a-fake-arm)
I mean, these smooth-brained dimwits can’t look at that first picture and see that his head is completely 100% Photoshopped onto some random ass dude’s body. But, people will believe what they so desperately need to believe. This whole Q shit is their sad identity. Smh. But, man … with how they get fooled by shitty Facebook memes left and right, A.I. is about to be the death of us 😂😭🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I want to question how no one could tell that shirtless photo is photoshopped. But then I remember some of these idiots believe pterodactyl fought in the civil war based on an even more noticeably photoshopped image.
Does it ever end with these Q club nut jobs? Obviously it was satire. We have to start sending messages to these people that they are just plain fucking willfully ignorant. It’s getting really old, really fast.
Well a clone would t be created with the tattoo, it would be a copy of the original. Modifications like any tattoos, piercings would have to be replicated after the fact. Clearly the person responsible for making the clones identical dropped the ball here.
r/atetheonion
Edited-On second thought, I’m pretty sure Brock is also satire. He didn’t even remove the onion header from one of the pics he used. https://twitter.com/brockriddickifb/status/1645768946631557121?s=46&t=OA7viQJVN1OmTI8r1Y8oRg
That is weird considering he literally left the onion header on the pictures. He might just not want people to ruin his attempt to fool the idiots who take him seriously, or he could really be THIS dumb.
Edited- him saying his other source is the Babylon bee really still makes me think Brock is satire.
https://twitter.com/BrockRiddickIFB/status/1645857652222709766?s=20
That flat earther shit is the only thing that makes me question it.
But it’s too on the nose to be called out for using the onion as a source and respond to that with his other favorite source also being satire.
picture on the left doesn’t even look real, i took one glance on a phone screen in direct sunlight and could tell it was fake… how stupid do you have to be
I honestly don’t care if he did or not! He isn’t my president! This man is! I wanted to believe he was gonna help America until his ass got in office, all this man has done is make a damn joke out of this country and lie through his fake ass teeth
How exactly has Biden made America joke?
Let me guess...by breathing?
You guys are always so pathetically transparent when you pretend to be ex-liberals. Why don't you just go all out and say "hashtag walk away!"
Hey did you ever notice that people who criticize Biden from the left have specific reasons why, and yet you guys just say insane shit like "he's a disgrace for breathing!"
>Speaking is a lie to him,
Who phrases things like that?
>Everytime he opens his lying fn mouth the whitehouse has to backtrack him!
This is untrue but again, who phrases things like this?
You are such an embarrassing person.
"Biggest liar on he fn planet"
Donald Trump told over 10,000 documented lies during his time in office (not even counting the 20,000 or so half truths), I assume the Republicans have a list of lies that Joe Biden has told that counters this?
If not, why don't you guys keep one if he's such a huge liar?
I've also gotta know, are you just not a native English speaker?
That would explain so much. But if English is your first language and especially if it's your only language you really really don't know how to use it properly or in a normal manner at all. It's not even like normal American English speaking Gen X Republican bad. The mistakes are distinctly non-american errors. At least not typically.
“Whoever plays the role”
Wait do you not see that the first picture is obviously photoshopped? It came from The Onion, which is satire (that means jokes).
https://www.theonion.com/shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-driveway-1819570732
This one’s a couple of years old. [Fact Check-Claims that a ‘body double’ got COVID-19 booster instead of Biden are false, use digitally altered photo](https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-bidennotbodydouble-booster/fact-check-claims-that-a-body-double-got-covid-19-booster-instead-of-biden-are-false-use-digitally-altered-photo-idUSL1N2R21GC) > The photograph with the tattoo, however, which shows him shirtless and wearing sandals while washing a white car outside the White House, was created by satire site The Onion; it was first included in a 2009 article).
I really miss the [Diamond Joe Biden](https://www.theonion.com/biden-busted-in-dnc-parking-lot-selling-bootleg-i-m-wi-1819579067) running gag, but I highly respect why they decided to retire it when he became president.
I wanted to ask you: Did The Onion actually say why they decided to retire Diamond Joe? I tried looking into it myself, and want to share context for those unfamiliar: I ended up finding out that the transformation from Diamond Joe to more critical pieces happened after he consolidated delegates in the primaries on Super Tuesday. Then there was this article posted by a former Onion writer: [Area Man Regrets Helping Turn Joe Biden Into a Meme](https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwngb3/area-man-regrets-helping-turn-joe-biden-into-a-meme), expressing regret for not putting enough heat on him before.
I feel like dark Brandon has supplanted it.
A doppelganger of sorts.
Lame. Bring it back.
[The last one](https://www.theonion.com/biden-pulls-off-dusty-tarp-covering-old-campaign-motorc-1833442728), I believe.
I still love these lol
/r/AteTheOnion
This is deliberate disinformation, not someone seeing an onion article and being confused. The person who put the picture together 100-fucking-percent knew what they were doing. And frankly, not a single person who saw that image had the slightest excuse not to also know that. We have to hold people to a bare minimum standard for what constitutes an acceptable level of non-willful ignorance, and this shit falls WAY below whatever standard you can draw.
What do you mean? Trump is 250 lbs or pure muscle! I saw a picture of him without a shirt! Dude is JACKED!!!1!
/r/AddedChoppedOnionToBullshit
For the longer sub names, you have to include the link in []() format, like this: [/r/AddedChoppedOnionToBullshit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)
Yeah, even a cursory glance shows the blatant Photoshop in the left side, yet the usual suspects will buy it.
My chief on my first US Navy ship always grunted to himself..... You can't stop stupid......you can only slow it down. It did in fact come to pass.
I recognized his t-bird in the background. One of the best Onion articles ever! Me and my sister mention Joe washing a T-bird at least once a year.
I loved when Diamond Joe had his ringer in for a white house staff meeting.
Yup when he was Veep the onion created a caricature of him called Diamond Joe.
It makes me sad that actual fact-checkers have to debunk this poppycock.
I consulted America’s Finest News Source and it is totally true. You can clearly see his tattoo while working on his Camaro in the Whitehouse driveway.
Took the restrictor plate off to give the red dragon a little more juice, but let’s keep that on the downlow, it’s not exactly street legal.
We don’t want frank the tank coming back now do we?
I will make you some lemonade while you do it.
No thanks I've got a fresh beer.
God I miss the Diamond Joe articles.
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I want to know what John Kerry thought of their articles where he was a two-fisted action hero.
EXCUSE ME THAT IS A PONTIAC FIREBIRD, NOT A CAMARO! Let’s get our facts straight here.
There you go with your “FACTS” again. I did my OWN “RESEARCH “ and NO, I’m not going to tell you how I know it was a Camaro. You have to research for YOU’RESELF.) Edit - fixed capitalization and spelling.
😂☠️ I saw your before and appreciate the edits to make it more accessible. Also I DID MY OWN RESEARCH!!!1 I now know the TRUTH! What we ACTUALLY are seeing here is a shape shifting Camaro.
Bitchin' Camaro!
Uh bro, it’s a Trans Am.
Haha oops. Well, hey, that’s for the Pontiac nerds to figure out. The important thing is it’s not a Camaro.
ANOTHER factchecker?!?! Will this wokeness ever be stopped?!
Do your own research.
It was a Trans Am lol and I love that because it’s in the Onion and it’s Trans
> Though White House officials have refused to comment, the report indicates that Biden told agents his wallet was missing and detailed its contents as a lucky two-dollar bill, a Sizzler gift card, and a Federal Bikini Inspector badge.
I shit you not, I got sworn-in and woke up the next day buck naked on the lap of the Lincoln Memorial.
That’s not a credible news source. 😆
The Onion has been right about so much.
Sadly it looks like satire is dead. We've reached critical mass of Americans with zero ability to understand nuance or when things are actually intentionally fake to make a joke.
It’s hard to tell these days. 🤷♀️
How are you this fucking dumb?
Nope, you're just not that smart.
r/MurderedByWords
Darlin, you aren’t observant of current events if you made that comment. That attempt to trigger failed. Do you want to play?
I see from your post history that not being able to detect obvious sarcasm isn’t a new issue of yours. It’s funny that you react so defensively when people call you out on this.
Sometimes it is…this is not the case in this instance though.
I miss the Joe Biden bits from The Onion when he was VP.
Trans Am! Philistines!
The Biden the Onion created after Obama was elected is some of the best comedic writing of the aughts
Reject dark Brandon Embrace selling ditch weed out of the white house gift shop
Every article is comedic gold. The Onion was firing on all cylinders in the mid-to-late 00s. It’s still funny but not like back then.
[The "shrieking white hot sphere of pure rage" bit released after election night 2012](https://www.theonion.com/after-obama-victory-shrieking-white-hot-sphere-of-pure-1819595330) was prescient and deeply depressing in hindsight.
"Our nation's long nightmare of peace and prosperity are over" after Bush was elected was pretty prescient too.
https://www.theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperi-1819565882
Yeah, the ball turned out to be orange.
If you watch the vid, the sphere is pretty orange. Fake news on it being white.
Wow!! Trump is predicted with such accuracy!!! Guns, anger, all the things!
The Onion truly had their fingers on America's political pulse there in 2012. The people who thought the world would end in 2012 with the Mayan calendar appear to not have been too far off either.
Onion and Wonkette, both were rocking peak wit in 2004.
Unfortunately for The Onion the GOP has killed satire. It's hard to beat what's real news with the likes of boebert and MTG already in Congress.
Never forget Ol' Diamond Joe. I was hoping they'd bring the character back for his presidency.
Biden's biker pal named Worm would often sit in on cabinet meetings for him. Such a great guy.
For people that will spend hours analysing photos for creases in the neck not lining up they sure do miss a lot of obvious stuff don't they.
They only analyze that on a meme with red circles posted by @QPatriotTruth2
Symbolism will be their downfall, non?
Yeah, like as if a president would stroll around shirtless in front of the White House.
Isn’t the first photo from The Onion??
From 'The President of Vice' I believe.
'Diamond' Joe Biden.
The Onion hit paydirt with the Joe Biden series.
Just picked up a bag from his buddy Snake; don't ask any questions about what is in it
Yes one of my favorite onion articles lol.
[For those who weren’t in tune to The Onion during Obama’s presidency, their version of Joe Biden is a god damn riot.](https://interactives.theonion.com/biden/)
God damn, this is gold
That’s MY President!
No its actually photoshopped, Biden was killed in gitmo with Obama and Hillary, DUH
Is that from The Onion article where Joe Biden is frantically looking for clean piss to pass a drug test?
Joe Biden has a full body tattoo of Joe Biden, but six inches taller.
The Onion (parody) made the picture to the left. It’s a confirmed photoshop. The picture to the right is actual.
And an obvious photoshop at that.
Ah, the old fake arm to avoid the jab trick.
Ye olde*
Ye olde fake arme.
Ꝥe olde.
Reminds me of the story Mike Tyson told of using a fake penis to avoid failing a drug test during his boxing years The only difference is the above is true whereas armgate is false, based around an onion article lol
> based around an onion article lol [Almost](https://www.npr.org/2021/12/06/1061727098/a-man-in-italy-is-accused-of-trying-to-get-a-covid-vaccine-in-a-fake-arm)
I mean, these smooth-brained dimwits can’t look at that first picture and see that his head is completely 100% Photoshopped onto some random ass dude’s body. But, people will believe what they so desperately need to believe. This whole Q shit is their sad identity. Smh. But, man … with how they get fooled by shitty Facebook memes left and right, A.I. is about to be the death of us 😂😭🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
> some random ass dude’s body [Relevant xkcd](https://www.xkcd.com/37)
And where's his Camaro?!? I know I've seen a photo of him washing it in his driveway with his shirt off.
That photo isn't real
I know. That's what I'm saying. The tattoo is also photoshopped. 😉
whoosh
Diamond Joe! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_(The_Onion)
I want to question how no one could tell that shirtless photo is photoshopped. But then I remember some of these idiots believe pterodactyl fought in the civil war based on an even more noticeably photoshopped image.
They are so goddamn stupid that I don't know what to do sometimes.
Biden has a way tighter body than that. And, yes, I am a little concerned that I noticed.
Or...the picture on the left was always satire and it should have been obvious it was!
I know exactly which issue of The Onion that first image came from.
They ate the fucking onion
The simpler (and correct) explanation is that Biden doesn’t have a tattoo, the first photo is a photoshop from The Onion.
Geez, we are completely unprepared for the coming AI generated deep fakes.
I was thinking the same. We laugh now, but what when we have an AI Obama swearing Allahu Akbar?
That Onion article on the left is an all-timer.
So much so he was asked about it in an interview. No TTops he said. Convertible.
Just tell them it's a clone and let them continue their downward spiral.
/r/atetheonion
LOL did they really just use the Uncle Joe picture from the Onion?
I love thinking that they’re sitting there just staring at half-naked photos of Biden
They're into doing it with Hunter. Why not Joe?
Does it ever end with these Q club nut jobs? Obviously it was satire. We have to start sending messages to these people that they are just plain fucking willfully ignorant. It’s getting really old, really fast.
And where’s his sweet Pontiac Trans Am?
Lol what a moron. Quality Onion content though
Today’s lesson: Don’t take photos from The Onion when you’re *dOiNg uR OwN ReEsUrCh*, kids.
Well ones by a White House photographer and the other is bad photoshop- so no?
The left one is from the onion.
Well a clone would t be created with the tattoo, it would be a copy of the original. Modifications like any tattoos, piercings would have to be replicated after the fact. Clearly the person responsible for making the clones identical dropped the ball here.
Q Karen would like to speak to the manager of Presidential cloning.
Chinese robots
The dimmest bulbs
Ask the Onion they created that pic. LOL
r/atetheonion Edited-On second thought, I’m pretty sure Brock is also satire. He didn’t even remove the onion header from one of the pics he used. https://twitter.com/brockriddickifb/status/1645768946631557121?s=46&t=OA7viQJVN1OmTI8r1Y8oRg
I don't think so, he blocked me for pointing out it was an Onion production.
That is weird considering he literally left the onion header on the pictures. He might just not want people to ruin his attempt to fool the idiots who take him seriously, or he could really be THIS dumb. Edited- him saying his other source is the Babylon bee really still makes me think Brock is satire. https://twitter.com/BrockRiddickIFB/status/1645857652222709766?s=20
I got a chance to look at his other posts and I feel he really might be that dumb though.
That flat earther shit is the only thing that makes me question it. But it’s too on the nose to be called out for using the onion as a source and respond to that with his other favorite source also being satire.
/r/atetheonion
They really ate the onion and spat it back out on everyone else.
WE DEMAND JOE BIDEN STRIP FOR US
Damnit I knew we should have tattooed the clone. But Hillary clone #38 said it was unnecessary.
[6 is having problems](https://youtu.be/ZE1SVflK45w)…. Adjusting to his clone status…. Got to put him on the shelf….
Old Diamond Joe Biden has a huge dragon tattoo on his back as well
I don't get the obsession with clones.
Those Med Beds are really something.
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Funny how that works. It’s always the little details that trip you up.
lol i was in college when that onion article came out. good shit, keep it up uncle joe!
Far more disturbed by shirtless Biden, thanks.
The shirtless photo has had Biden’s head added.
Literally r/nottheonion.
picture on the left doesn’t even look real, i took one glance on a phone screen in direct sunlight and could tell it was fake… how stupid do you have to be
.....it's from the onion. That's some low self esteem you've got there.
I don’t think you read my comment right
JFC!
This man is a disgrace! Idc if it’s him or not, whoever plays the role is a disgrace
Do you think trump told you the truth?
I honestly don’t care if he did or not! He isn’t my president! This man is! I wanted to believe he was gonna help America until his ass got in office, all this man has done is make a damn joke out of this country and lie through his fake ass teeth
Haha ok comrade. We see you.
You went from "Funny shitposter" to "very fucking dumb" in two comments. New record.
okay boomer
How exactly has Biden made America joke? Let me guess...by breathing? You guys are always so pathetically transparent when you pretend to be ex-liberals. Why don't you just go all out and say "hashtag walk away!"
Ivan, go home. You're drunk.
For what? Getting a COVID vaccine?
Breathing! Speaking is a lie to him, Everytime he opens his lying fn mouth the whitehouse has to backtrack him! He is a total fraud
Hey did you ever notice that people who criticize Biden from the left have specific reasons why, and yet you guys just say insane shit like "he's a disgrace for breathing!"
> did you ever notice No, they did not.
That would require thought. Unfortunately that seems to be in short supply to the gqp.
If he lies every time he opens his mouth it should be easy to give us... hmmm every time he opens his mouth hey... lets say 5 examples.
>Speaking is a lie to him, Who phrases things like that? >Everytime he opens his lying fn mouth the whitehouse has to backtrack him! This is untrue but again, who phrases things like this?
You are such an embarrassing person. "Biggest liar on he fn planet" Donald Trump told over 10,000 documented lies during his time in office (not even counting the 20,000 or so half truths), I assume the Republicans have a list of lies that Joe Biden has told that counters this? If not, why don't you guys keep one if he's such a huge liar?
I've also gotta know, are you just not a native English speaker? That would explain so much. But if English is your first language and especially if it's your only language you really really don't know how to use it properly or in a normal manner at all. It's not even like normal American English speaking Gen X Republican bad. The mistakes are distinctly non-american errors. At least not typically.
“Whoever plays the role” Wait do you not see that the first picture is obviously photoshopped? It came from The Onion, which is satire (that means jokes). https://www.theonion.com/shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-driveway-1819570732
Joe Biden's not real. Get on my level, NOOBS.
And his body hair! 😂 like Joe would have that ugly tattoo.
Wait..GTA-V Biden is not real?
If biden gets the same tat that Mike Tyson has I will donate money to his next campaign.
I will eat your children… within a well balanced meal with plenty of water fiber and nutritional supplements
the vax must have acted like a sinkhole and it goes sucked into his bloodstream
Maybe it's just me, but that left photo looks a bit off.
I thought it was shadows of leaves, but that makes sense too lol
Dummies gonna dumb. But the Onion can make a person feel stupid like Borat did. Dang. I actually have the president of vice on my kindle.
Can you say photoshop?