{"id":1248543,"date":"2022-01-27T18:08:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T23:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1248543"},"modified":"2022-01-27T18:08:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T23:08:54","slug":"pound-sand-desantis-trolls-faucis-covid-19-policies-by-selling-flip-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pound-sand-desantis-trolls-faucis-covid-19-policies-by-selling-flip-flops\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pound Sand\u2019: DeSantis Trolls Fauci\u2019s COVID-19 Policies By Selling Flip-Flops"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpound-sand-desantis-trolls-faucis-covid-19-policies-by-selling-flip-flops%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1248543&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis trolled Dr. Anthony Fauci with a pair of flip-flops in a new ad supporting DeSantis\u2019s re-election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Wall Street Journal national political reporter John McCormick tweeted a video of the ad, which first aired on One America News early Monday morning. \u201cComing to a beach near you,\u201d the ad begins. It then shows a number of black-and-white clips of Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Chief Medical Advisor to the President, making seemingly contradictory statements about the policies he recommended to deal with the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople should not be walking around with masks,\u201d Fauci says in one clip, before saying that \u201cmasks work\u201d in another. In the next pair of clips, Fauci says that fully-vaccinated individuals do not need to wear masks, but then says that people should still wear masks even if they\u2019re fully-vaccinated. The ad also shows Fauci talking on the issue of keeping children in school, arguing at one point that \u201cyou really [had] better be very careful before you bring the children back,\u201d then later arguing that \u201cthe default position should be to try as best as possible to keep the children in school\u201d; as well as on the issue of social distancing, saying in one clip early on in the pandemic that \u201cthere is no need to change anything that you\u2019re doing on a day-by-day basis,\u201d but then in another clip calling for \u201ca dramatic diminution of the personal interaction that we see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr Fauci, he flips, he flops,\u201d the ad reads as the camera pans away from a TV screen, \u201cbut he can\u2019t stop freedom in Florida.\u201d The ad then flashes to a pair of red, DeSantis-branded flip-flops. The camera then zooms out and pans away, revealing a message in the sand that reads, \u201cFAUCI CAN POUND SAND.\u201d The ad then displays the flip-flops and a link to DeSantis\u2019 campaign website where supporters can pre-order them.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dr. Fauci is the central character in this new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovRonDeSantis<\/a> 60-second campaign ad that first aired at 0649 today on OAN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9rt05E3Unx\">pic.twitter.com\/9rt05E3Unx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John McCormick (@McCormickJohn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McCormickJohn\/status\/1486040612000391170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.winred.com\/rondesantis\/storefront\/freedom-over-fauci-flip-flops\/details\">flip-flops<\/a> themselves are red with blue straps and have \u201cFREEDOM OVER FAUCI\u201d printed on the outer straps. DeSantis\u2019 campaign logo is printed on the heels, and the soles have \u201cFAUCI CAN POUND SAND\u201d cut into them, so that the message will be pressed into the sand as the wearer walks along the beach.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-desantis-rips-teachers-union-prez-weingarten-going-maskless-slams-st-fauci\">slammed Fauci<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-targets-d-c-elites-no-accountability-how-the-hell-else-does-fauci-still-have-a-job\">multiple occasions<\/a>. During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-whole-host-of-cardinal-sins-desantis-says-fauci-biden-try-to-find-scapegoats-to-mask-covid-failures\">recent interview<\/a>, DeSantis took both Fauci and the Biden administration to task for their singular focus on masks and vaccines as treatments for COVID-19. \u201cMost of these other governors and the people like Fauci and the federal leadership, they basically say, \u2018Get a shot, wear a mask,\u2019 and they never talk about treatment. And we\u2019ve really embraced treatment because that\u2019s just the reality of what we\u2019re facing,\u201d DeSantis told Fox News\u2019 Mark Levin.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis\u2019 campaign has also released merchandise slamming Democrat politicians for imposing lockdowns on their residents while taking trips to Florida themselves. The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-campaign-releases-new-gear-mocking-lockdown-libs-escaping-to-florida\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The top of the front of the shirt says, \u201cEscape to Florida,\u201d while the bottom of the shirt states, \u201cThe LOCKDOWN LIBS Tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The back of the shirt lists the following:<\/p>\n<p>Gretchen Whitmer, MI Gov \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 West Palm Beach, FLJim Kenney, Philadelphia Mayor \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 Ft. LauderdalePhil Murphy, NJ Gov \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 Orlando, FLDon Lemon, CNN Anchor \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 Palm Beach, FLAOC, U.S. Congress (NY-14) \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 Miami Beach, FLNed Lamont, CT Gov \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 South FloridaNBC\u2019s New Years Special \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 Miami, FLEric Swalwell, U.S. Congress \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 Miami Beach, FL<\/p>\n<p>The bottom of the back of the shirt states, \u201cWE DON\u2019T BLAME YOU\u2026 WE LIKE FREEDOM, TOO.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis trolled Dr. Anthony Fauci with a pair of flip-flops in a new ad supporting DeSantis\u2019s re-election campaign. Wall Street Journal national political reporter John McCormick tweeted a video of the ad, which first aired on One America News early Monday morning. \u201cComing to a beach near you,\u201d the ad begins. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}