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The Onion continues its decline with lame joke about Goofy murdering DeSantis

The Onion, a satire site that used to be popular before the creation of The Babylon Bee, raised eyebrows on Twitter after tweeting a joke about Disney’s Goofy murdering Florida governor, Ron DeSantis.

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We’re not going to go over-the-top here and claim that this tweet is somehow dangerous or a serious threat.

Mostly, it’s just sort of dumb. There isn’t even a writeup to try to make it funnier – just the shock value photo and a caption.

This editor is a sucker for dark humor, so we’re not even going to deny that some will find it funny, but it’s pretty weak stuff.

We’ll give them props on the character choice though. If any Disney character is naïve enough to become a DeSantis-hating liberal loon, it’s Goofy. He’s just not all that bright.

Tweet from The Onion showing blood-soaked Goofy with the text "Goofy Beats Ron DeSantis to Death with Crowbar"

What we will do is point out the enormous double standard that exists with this style of joke.

Imagine the response if The Babylon Bee ran a piece where Larry the Cucumber of VeggieTales emerged from retirement to bludgeon the President of the United States to death over his religious convictions about abortion. Do you think the left wing political class would take kindly to an image of Larry soaked in the blood of Joe Biden?

Let’s really drive this point home: What if a right wing publication made this type of joke about Zooey Zephyr? Oooh, you can hear them already spinning up the That’s Different Machine™, can’t you?

They banned The Babylon Bee from Twitter for 8 months for calling a man a man, so we’re pretty sure there would be outrage and congressional floor speeches calling for them to be shut down.

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We’re guessing you’re going to be waiting a while for an answer.

We all know the answer.

The funny truth at the heart of The Babylon Bee’s Rachel Levine joke is that he is a man. Everyone knows he’s a man. You’re just not supposed to say it. A lot of people can play along with that humor.

The funny ‘truth’ at the heart The Onion’s piece is that Ron DeSantis is worthy of death. You’re just not supposed to say it. A lot fewer people are debased enough in their politics to be willing to play along with that ‘humor’.

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That’s the real travesty here. The Onion is now where funny goes to die.

They used to be so much funnier. When you truly hate the target of your punchlines, it just doesn’t come off very well, and you end up with junk like this that has limited reach … to weirdos.

Same, girl.

Enough people that somebody should have said, ‘yeah, it’s edgy, but it’s just sort of dumb’.

Kids these days don’t know what they’re missing. (Yeah, we’re ancient too.)

‘We take a break from our regularly scheduled accusations that Republicans want to kill women, trans people, and children to fantasize about Disney characters killing Republicans.’

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Perfect summary.

You can watch SNL and it might get you to ‘heh’, but it ain’t gonna get you to ‘lol’. That’s what The Onion has become.

It was a lazy attempt though. The Onion is basically just phoning it in these days.

This seemed to be the sentiment of many: ‘It just ain’t funny, dude.’

The Jeb Bush of satire. Ouch. LOL.

LOLOLOL! This is unintentionally funnier than The Onion.

Okay, we did find this sort of funny too. So many left wing accounts were bragging about how much time they spent blocking people.

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Tell us you need a better hobby without telling us you need a better hobby.

Congratulations, Onion, you’ve become the Kathy Griffin of internet satire websites.


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