Sat Aug 7, 2021, 09:29 AM

Soph0571 (9,685 posts)

DeSantis Threatens To Cut Hospital Funding If Surgeons Keep Wearing Masks

You have to feel sorry for all the satirists out there these days. Prediction or parody, that is the question!

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DeSantis Threatens To Cut Hospital Funding If Surgeons Keep Wearing Masks (Original post)	Soph0571	Aug 2021	OP
Behind every parody is a reality. And behind every reality there's a parody. It's the gift that	abqtommy	Aug 2021	#1
🎶 Up, Up and Away 🎵 My Beautiful 🎵 My Beautiful Disease! 🎶	TheBlackAdder	Aug 2021	#29
Get thee to the greatest page	malaise	Aug 2021	#2
Seriously...	piddyprints	Aug 2021	#3
I read stuff so ridiculous then have to ask myself is this true. The schools don't have to tell	Pepsidog	Aug 2021	#17
Had to open this one just to make sure it was satire...	Wounded Bear	Aug 2021	#4
Same.	sakabatou	Aug 2021	#18
Ditto that.	Sogo	Aug 2021	#26
Had to be sure. Too real of a headline.	Scalded Nun	Aug 2021	#5
Jeebus Onion, don't give him any ideas.	sarge43	Aug 2021	#6
The Onion probably just gave DeathSantis	KS Toronado	Aug 2021	#7
I knew it had to be Borowitz or the Onion.	SergeStorms	Aug 2021	#8
+1	crickets	Aug 2021	#32
Poor DeSantis is sure getting a lot of attention	PatSeg	Aug 2021	#9
This asshole probably did cut hospital funding	IronLionZion	Aug 2021	#10
The Onon snagged me. I believe that Idiot-Gov Who is that stupid.	NCjack	Aug 2021	#11
before I clicked I knew it was satire (and likely The Onion), BUT that prick DeathSantis IS crazy	Celerity	Aug 2021	#12
I just sent it to a bunch of people I know, just to see how many don't recognize its satire	Escurumbele	Aug 2021	#13
My god, once again satire sounds way too likely	liberal N proud	Aug 2021	#14
Hook, Line, & Sinker I bought it.	MasonDreams	Aug 2021	#15
lol, theonion manages to satarize DeSantis.	ShazamIam	Aug 2021	#16
That kind of spoof isn't funny to this Floridian.	Chainfire	Aug 2021	#19
As a family we have property in Florida	Soph0571	Aug 2021	#31
I know	seta1950	Aug 2021	#20
You scared me there for a second. I didn't think he was THAT insane.	George II	Aug 2021	#21
Effing idiot....	Upthevibe	Aug 2021	#22
At first I thought it was real.	ananda	Aug 2021	#23
Remember the days when you just KNEW it was The Onion?	AngryOldDem	Aug 2021	#24
Sunscreen is now illegal in Florida.	twodogsbarking	Aug 2021	#25
It is parody. Hard to tell with these Reich wingers.	East-A-Squared	Aug 2021	#27
Masks Are Evil. Ban Them All	dalton99a	Aug 2021	#28
I love good satire	LetMyPeopleVote	Aug 2021	#30

Response to Soph0571 (Original post)

Sat Aug 7, 2021, 09:32 AM

abqtommy (14,118 posts)

1. Behind every parody is a reality. And behind every reality there's a parody. It's the gift that

just keeps on giving.

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Sat Aug 7, 2021, 01:18 PM

TheBlackAdder (26,105 posts)

29. 🎶 Up, Up and Away 🎵 My Beautiful 🎵 My Beautiful Disease! 🎶

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Response to Soph0571 (Original post)

Sat Aug 7, 2021, 09:37 AM

malaise (254,629 posts)

2. Get thee to the greatest page

RFN!

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Sat Aug 7, 2021, 09:40 AM

piddyprints (14,308 posts)

3. Seriously...

If I don’t see that it’s from the Onion, it would be hard to tell with these dipshits.

I feel sorry for the satirists too. The most outrageous sounding satire still has the possibility of being reality.

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Response to piddyprints (Reply #3)

Sat Aug 7, 2021, 11:17 AM

Pepsidog (6,022 posts)

17. I read stuff so ridiculous then have to ask myself is this true. The schools don't have to tell

parents about positive covid tests. I read that to my wife and then said no that can’t be true but apparently it is true. The theatre of the absurd.

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Response to Soph0571 (Original post)

Sat Aug 7, 2021, 10:32 AM

Wounded Bear (55,423 posts)

4. Had to open this one just to make sure it was satire...

getting harder to tell these days.

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Response to Wounded Bear (Reply #4)

Sat Aug 7, 2021, 11:19 AM

sakabatou (40,283 posts)

18. Same.

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Response to Wounded Bear (Reply #4)

Sat Aug 7, 2021, 12:28 PM

Sogo (4,266 posts)

26. Ditto that.

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Response to Soph0571 (Original post)

Sat Aug 7, 2021, 10:36 AM

Scalded Nun (1,131 posts)

5. Had to be sure. Too real of a headline.

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Response to Soph0571 (Original post)

Sat Aug 7, 2021, 10:37 AM

sarge43 (28,682 posts)

6. Jeebus Onion, don't give him any ideas.

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Response to Soph0571 (Original post)

Sat Aug 7, 2021, 10:41 AM

KS Toronado (12,633 posts)

7. The Onion probably just gave DeathSantis

his next big idea to lower health care costs.
Those masks are expensive.

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Response to Soph0571 (Original post)

Sat Aug 7, 2021, 10:47 AM

SergeStorms (18,185 posts)

8. I knew it had to be Borowitz or the Onion.

And since Borowitz had one released yesterday, the Onion it is ! Its crazy that you get to recognize the originators of these merely from the titles.

As always, they're so close to the truth some people cant tell if it's fact or fiction. That's the sign of good satire. Or really stupid politicians.

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Response to SergeStorms (Reply #8)

Sat Aug 7, 2021, 08:06 PM

crickets (24,688 posts)

32. +1

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Response to Soph0571 (Original post)

Sat Aug 7, 2021, 11:00 AM

PatSeg (44,923 posts)

9. Poor DeSantis is sure getting a lot of attention

this week. Some stupidity just keeps reverberating for a long time.

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Sat Aug 7, 2021, 11:01 AM

IronLionZion (42,055 posts)

10. This asshole probably did cut hospital funding

for lots of pandemic era stuff like telemedicine and PPE/ventilators to pretend that COVID is over.

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Sat Aug 7, 2021, 11:01 AM

NCjack (10,122 posts)

11. The Onon snagged me. I believe that Idiot-Gov Who is that stupid.

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Sat Aug 7, 2021, 11:02 AM

Celerity (35,638 posts)

12. before I clicked I knew it was satire (and likely The Onion), BUT that prick DeathSantis IS crazy

enough to actually do something like this.

Down the shitter Floriduh plummets.

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Sat Aug 7, 2021, 11:05 AM

Escurumbele (2,850 posts)

13. I just sent it to a bunch of people I know, just to see how many don't recognize its satire

People believe whatever they read without checking, most of those are repubs.

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Sat Aug 7, 2021, 11:06 AM

liberal N proud (59,669 posts)

14. My god, once again satire sounds way too likely

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Sat Aug 7, 2021, 11:09 AM

MasonDreams (752 posts)

15. Hook, Line, & Sinker I bought it.

I was looking for context. Surgeons were wearing masks where? On a CDC public service announcement? Facebook? In front of their hospitals? At the "governors" office?

A beautiful illustration of redneck's celebrated ignorance. trumpesque defiance of sanity, and "just because I can". trumpian hogwash, look at me, I'm such a badass, I'll cut your funding!
The Onion makes me laugh 😂 until I cry!

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Sat Aug 7, 2021, 11:14 AM

ShazamIam (2,360 posts)

16. lol, theonion manages to satarize DeSantis.

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Sat Aug 7, 2021, 11:20 AM

Chainfire (12,783 posts)

19. That kind of spoof isn't funny to this Floridian.

As a State, our politics have fallen down the rabbit hole where nothing is ever as it seems.

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Response to Chainfire (Reply #19)

Sat Aug 7, 2021, 07:18 PM

Soph0571 (9,685 posts)

31. As a family we have property in Florida

I boycotted while trump was President and now I have to boycott cause DeSantis and the death cult. Would love to get over for a couple of weeks, but the idiots you live beside have made that impossible, so I really do feel your pain.

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Sat Aug 7, 2021, 11:42 AM

seta1950 (926 posts)