It was the Left that prematurely pronounced the death of irony 20 years ago:
“In the dark days after September 11, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter famously declared: ‘I think it's the end of the age of irony.’”
They have spent the intervening two decades disproving their own thesis. Take, for example, that old skinhead, snake-faced Clinton apologist James Carville. The man with one of the most punchable faces in America…
tells his podcast audience (all 25 of them) that he’d like to punch unvaxxed people in the face.
"I wish what they’d do is pass a law to make you immune from liability if you punch some unvaccinated person right in the face, which I’d really like to do. If you ask me what’s my first reaction to you if you’re not vaccinated, you don’t have any medical reason not to be, you’re a piece of s---, OK? I just want to punch you in the god----ed face. That’s the way I look at these people," Carville said. – Fox News
That may not be technically irony, but close enough for government work. Certainly the kind of government work that James, ever the classless snake-bellied mercenary, has always done. The Clintons’ “drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park” pit-bull has always held us in contempt. He spent years trashing the Tea Party and its members simply for protesting against “the Affordable Care Act” which many still consider to be unconstitutional. He continues to get his spittle all over people who dare defy likewise unlawful government mandates. (Defying Trump however, that form of Resistance he considered noble and selfless acts of courage.)
It’s good when the Left does it
But then, ironic behavior abounds wherever Democrats congregate and impose policy. Like this recent policy created by some of the Brandon Administration’s brightest functionaries: amid their own hysterical wailing and teeth gnashing over the escalating number of deaths due to to drug overdose (aided and abetted in no small part by their own open border policies - which is ironic in itself) they have come up with an ironic solution. They plan is to spend $300 million to make it easier for drug addicts to use drugs. Yes. They will fund ‘programs that hand out syringes and crack pipes to prevent infection and promote ‘racial equity'.’
Applicants for the program get priority if they serve 'underserved communities,' such as African Americans or Native Americans, or LGBTQ people.
Don’t you love it when Democrats think “racial equity” means assuming that all of their favorite special interest groups - African Americans, Native Americans, and LGBTQ people - are prone to abusing drugs?
Can you stand one more ironic twist to this ingenious plan? While they will be making it easier for illegal drug users to use their drug of choice they continue to put the screws to doctors who write scripts for the legitimate use of opiate pain relievers to help their patients with uncontrollable pain.
So let me get this straight: we open the southern border to welcome gang banger drug dealers but slam the door in the face of people dealing with legitimate, intractable pain. And then Brandon and company will be surprised when fatal fentanyl overdoses continue to climb. (Would you like to take a guess as to the last time your doctor gave anyone a fentanyl prescription?)
If irony did not exist the Democrats would have to invent it.
Posts
