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Heh, reminds me of Robot Chicken when all the porn on the internet was wiped out.

BWAHAHA I love The Onion. I honestly beleieve this is what the GOP would do if something like Obamastiod was enacted.

Although really, the whole point of the satire was that both sides were focusing as politics as usual and not the fact that a big asteroid was going to hit the earth, hence the phrasing, 'will affect more than 300 million Americans,' 'with a loss of up to 14 trillion $ of the GDP." Y'know, everyone in the country and the entire economy.

Also, how resolutely it focuses on just the U.S, since obviously the rest of the world has no reason to care about this particular issue.

Bookwrack wrote:Although really, the whole point of the satire was that both sides were focusing as politics as usual and not the fact that a big asteroid was going to hit the earth

Yeah, definitely. For the record, you just said perfectly in one sentence what I said fair less clearly in a couple of paragraphs.

hence the phrasing, 'will affect more than 300 million Americans,' 'with a loss of up to 14 trillion $ of the GDP." Y'know, everyone in the country and the entire economy.

$14 trillion would be the whole of the economy.

Right, because it doesn't exist anymore, because the asteroid wiped out all life on Earth (that was the other funny thing, how everything was focused on the US, as if Armageddon Mrk XII was soley a national problem).

Bookwrack wrote:Right, because it doesn't exist anymore, because the asteroid wiped out all life on Earth (that was the other funny thing, how everything was focused on the US, as if Armageddon Mrk XII was soley a national problem).

Yeah, referring to the economic impact in the relatively sterile term of a $14 trillion loss, when it'd be $14 trillion - $14 trillion = $0, or the complete destruction of the US economy.

And yeah, talking about the issue in totally American terms was gold.