Reply #33: This may come as a bit of a shock...

[badgerpup]

but this is the INTERNET upon which you posted your vainglorious (if completely fabricated) firing of "an Obama-supporter employee".
If your brain is sufficiently evolved, here is an analogy for you on what the hell just happened.

Sir (read:cur), you claim to be a physician...you style yourself 'dermadoc'.

Are you aware of these little critters called "viruses"?
The human body is host to trillions of them; fortunately, not all are harmful.
Consider your arrogant claim as a 'virus'.
You placed it on 'The Internet'.

This is tantamount to putting a biological virus into a petri dish full of its most healthful growth medium, sticking it in the oven at optimum growth temperature until the medium is stuffed to the gills with the virus...and then SHATTERING the dish in a crowded cafeteria.
That virus is going to go EVERYWHERE, man. People are going to take it home, and spread it to everyone with whom they come in contact...and so it goes.

You have heard of something 'going viral' on the Internet, right?
Well buddy, you just shattered your petri dish in an enormous, busy, crowded area...and you wonder why it spread so quickly and 'nobody bothered to verify if it was real?'

Come sir, don't be so disingenuous. You KNEW that verification of your claim was not going to be the first reaction here.
You got- immediately at first- the EXACT reaction you wanted. People who voted for Obama got angry about this, and started wondering if they needed to fear for their jobs because of retaliation thinly disguised as 'economics'.
It was only later when you realized there could be serious trouble over this for YOU that you admitted it was all a lie...and THEN you began finger-pointing; "It's THEIR fault! They should have verified my blatant lie before they passed it on!"


Don't go blaming everybody who's been infected; they didn't start the ball rolling. Responsibility lies with you, dermadoc...nobody but YOU.

Just a heads-up for you, because I'm a kindly person at heart.
Things might get awfully...well, weird around you for a while. You might not be very popular for a while in some places where you do business, or hang out socially. Viruses can have some unforeseen, unwanted, and unpleasant aftereffects, and people don't like being infected with nasty things...or being lied to about being so. "April Fool!" (aka "I was just joking"/sarcasm/satire) is only good for one day in the year. Not only have you missed it by over a week, it's a pretty lame excuse any time.

Try THINKING about this before you go tossing another loaded petri dish into the crowded cafeteria, OK?
Viruses have been known to mutate, you know...famous for it, in fact.