If (when) Donnie Death loses the election I think it goes without saying that some newspaper somewhere will run the headline: “YOU’RE FIRED!”
What I wonder is, how many newspapers will run this same headline? How many will run a variation of it? I would have made a poll but–yep–I don’t know how.
When has a headline ever been as predictable as this one?
The very idea of this amuses me greatly. Part of my wishes that hundreds of papers would loosely plan to all run the same thing when he loses. I would love seeing the world littered with those worlds.
OTOH, it’s reeeaaaaally predictable and obvious so that’s… kinda lame? But it’s such perfect, pithy, poetic justice. Turnabout being fair play and all…
At least a few of the tattler rags will splash it, no doubt, but how 'bout the Times, the Post, Trib, LA Times and other biggies?
I don’t know how big a paper it is, but I expect the Philadelphia Daily News to do this. The cover story is always something salacious, often with a pun in the title.
Indeed. I’m trying to look at it from the editors’ point of view, too. I think many will be tempted for a second or two but ultimately go with something else only because it’s so predictable and thus, not particularly creative.
Still, what else can you say?
I thought of this as something of a poll and definitely about opinions. I put it where I thought best.
You can move it if you’d like to become a moderator just to do so. Failing that you can ask a mod to move it.
In that case I imagine the rioting, self-immolation, gnashing of garments, dogs & cats signing leases, etc. will be the lede.
The election will get pushed to page seven.
These few years have been such a disaster for this country that I think the weak joke just doesn’t cut it. If he had been kicked off the board of some corporation for incompetence or corruption the headline “you’re fired” might work. But the people saw fit to elect this loser leader of the country. It was funny in The Simpsons, it’s not funny in real life. “Fuck off and crawl down a sewer you incompetent narcissistic corrupt lying traitor” would be more the tone I’d look for in a headline.
I was slightly serious about this question just because I think it’s interesting in an odd behavioral sort of way. It would have come together better if I could have done it as a poll.
And if I had been smart enough to construct a poll it would have gone just a li’l like this:
If it’s widely known by midnight on November 3/4 that Trump has clearly lost the election, how many English-language newspapers++ will in their next paper run theheadline:
"YOU’RE FIRED!" (any combo of caps and LC)
A) none
B) One
C) 2-3
D) 3-10
E) 11-50
C) over 80% of them
It’s really silly, I know, but I’m interested in the way it shakes out. Don’t ask me why.
Personally I don’t have any idea but if I had the proverbial gun to the proverbial head I would say D) 3-10.
++ with a circulation over… ummmm… 100,000. Though who knows what that number even means anymore.
I believe only one newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, ran a YOU’RE HIRED headline after Trump won in 2016. So they might be the only one to say YOU’RE FIRED.
It’s a tabloid headline and I can only think of one mildly liberal tabloid off the top of my head - The NY Daily News.
But it’s too obvious, and I don’t know how good the chances are that it’ll be decided in time for them to print it on the Nov 4 edition unless they put out a late one.
