Editing Satire (section)

==Satirical prophecy==
Satire is occasionally prophetic: the jokes precede actual events.<ref>{{Citation | author-link = Paul Krassner | first = Paul | last = Krassner | url = http://nypress.com/terminal-velocity-television-is-here/ | title = Terminal velocity television is here | journal = New York Press | volume = 16 | issue = 35 | date = August 26, 2003}}</ref><ref name="LuttazziProphetic">{{Citation | author-link = Daniele Luttazzi | first = Daniele | last = Luttazzi | title = Lepidezze postribolari | year = 2007 | publisher = Feltrinelli | page = 275 | language = it}}</ref> Among the eminent examples are:
* The 1784 presaging of modern [[daylight saving time]], later actually proposed in 1907. While an American envoy to France, [[Benjamin Franklin]] anonymously published a letter in 1784 suggesting that [[Paris]]ians economise on candles by arising earlier to use morning sunlight.<ref name='Franklin'>{{cite journal |author-link = Benjamin Franklin | first = Benjamin | last = Franklin |title=Aux auteurs du Journal |journal=[[Journal de Paris]]|date=April 26, 1784 |issue= 117 |language = fr }} Wrote [[anonymously]]. Its first publication was in the journal's "Économie" section. {{Citation | url = http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin3.html | edition = revised English version | access-date = May 26, 2007 | title = An Economical Project}} has a title that is not Franklin's; see {{cite journal |first = A. O. |last = Aldridge |title=Franklin's essay on daylight saving |journal=American Literature |issue=1 |pages=23–29 |year=1956 |doi = 10.2307/2922719 |volume = 28 |jstor=2922719 }}</ref>
* In the 1920s, an English [[cartoonist]] imagined a laughable thing for the time: a hotel for cars. He drew a [[multi-story car park]].<ref name="LuttazziProphetic" />
* The second episode of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', which debuted in 1969, featured a ''[[Sketch comedy|sketch]]'' entitled "[[The Mouse Problem]]" (meant to satirize contemporary media exposés on homosexuality), which depicted a cultural phenomenon similar to some aspects of the modern [[furry fandom]] (which did not become widespread until the 1980s, over a decade after the sketch was first aired).
* The comedy film ''[[Americathon]]'', released in 1979 and set in the United States of 1998, predicted a number of trends and events that would eventually unfold in the near future, including an American debt crisis, Chinese [[capitalism]], the fall of the [[Soviet Union]], a presidential sex scandal, and the popularity of [[reality shows]].
* In January 2001, a satirical news article in ''[[The Onion]]'', entitled "Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784 |title=Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over' | publisher= The Onion |access-date= June 9, 2012}}</ref> had newly elected President George Bush vowing to "develop new and expensive weapons technologies" and to "engage in at least one Gulf War-level armed conflict in the next four years". Furthermore, he would "bring back economic stagnation by implementing substantial tax cuts, which would lead to a recession". This prophesied the [[Iraq War]], the [[Bush tax cuts]], and the [[Great Recession]].
* In 1975, the first episode of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' included an ad for a triple blade razor called the Triple-Trac; in 2001, [[Gillette (brand)|Gillette]] introduced the Mach3. In 2004, ''[[The Onion]]'' satirized [[Schick (razors)|Schick]] and Gillette's marketing of ever-increasingly multi-blade razors with a mock article proclaiming Gillette will now introduce a five-blade razor.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades|date=February 18, 2004 |url=https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116162510/https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036|archive-date=November 16, 2017|access-date=October 30, 2020|publisher=The Onion}}</ref> In 2006, Gillette released the [[Gillette Fusion]], a five-blade razor.
* After the [[Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action|Iran nuclear deal]] in 2015, ''[[The Onion]]'' ran an article with the headline "U.S. Soothes Upset Netanyahu With Shipment Of Ballistic Missiles". Sure enough, reports broke the next day of the Obama administration offering military upgrades to Israel in the wake of the deal.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.666977 |title=Where Satire Meets Truth: Did The Onion Just Predict a Real Israeli Headline? |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=January 1, 2016}}</ref>
* In July 2016, ''[[The Simpsons]]'' released the most recent in a string of satirical references to a potential [[Donald Trump]] presidency (although the first was made back [[Bart to the Future|in a 2000 episode]]). Other media sources, including the popular film ''[[Back to the Future Part II]]'' have also made similar satirical references.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/10/simpsons-predicted-president-trump-back-to-the-future |title=Back to the future: how the Simpsons and others predicted President Trump |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=February 5, 2017 |first=Esther |last=Addley |date=2016-11-10}}</ref>
* ''[[Infinite Jest]]'', published in 1996, described an alternate America following the presidency of Johnny Gentle, a celebrity who had not held prior political office. Gentle's signature policy was the erection of a wall between the United States and Canada for use as a hazardous waste dump. The US territory behind the wall was "given" to Canada, and the Canadian government was forced to pay for the wall. This appeared to parody the signature campaign promise and background of Donald Trump.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/blog-post/donald-trump-wants-build-wall-border-mexico-can-he-do-it |title=Donald Trump wants to build a wall on the border with Mexico. Can he do it? |newspaper=PBS |access-date=August 3, 2020 |archive-date=August 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810124342/https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/blog-post/donald-trump-wants-build-wall-border-mexico-can-he-do-it |url-status=dead }}</ref>