Should this ever actually happen, The Onion gets credit for its prescient mock-up of a hostile takeover of the American government by a militant, yet strangely familiar, enemy organization bent on … completely obliterating the ever-increasing U.S. debt.

The Onion:


U.S. Government Stages Fake Coup To Wipe Out National Debt

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