In the strictest sense, Memorial Day is a time to pause and reflect on those who have died in service to the country, although generations of school kids and young adults have been reduced to seeing it as an excuse to take a day away from their duties.
In a broader sense, Memorial Day also is a time to honor those who served and survived, and perhaps to think of metaphorical deaths such as the demise of common sense and fairness.
The last is a worldwide phenomenon as indicated by news of recent days.
Begin with the absurd scene from Paris of a man dressed as an old woman in a wheelchair, leaping from the conveyance and smearing a cake on the case which is there to protect the famed Mona Lisa painting from such idiocy.
The cross-dresser reportedly was a climate change protester, screaming incoherent messages about protecting the earth. Considering that the painting’s protective case is designed to stop bullets, the cake was a symbolic weapon, perhaps a geographical and historical attempt at referencing Marie Antoinette’s purported “let them eat cake” line.
That didn’t end so well for Marie Antoinette, as she lost her head – literally – afterward as a penalty for having lost her head figuratively in allegedly issuing the disdainful remark to the starving poor.
Another modern day Marie Antoinette, house speaker Nancy Pelosi, is a rich noble similarly out of touch with the common folk. Recall her showing off her $24,000 freezer and $13-a-pint designer ice cream during COVID lockdowns to illustrate how she was dealing with the inconvenience of it all.
It’s well to remember on this Memorial Day that Pelosi also went to a beauty salon maskless during the purported COVID crisis even as she demanded the public be compelled to wear face diapers.
This seems to be a Democratic woman thing. Recall Chicago Mayor “Lightweight” Lori Lightfoot being outed for a trip to the beauty salon even as members of the public were ordered to stay at home. Lightweight also ignored the mask and social distancing dictates, as revealed by photos posted by the hairdresser, a typical Facebook braggart.
Pelosi and her husband Paul, better known as Nancy’s Husband, also have an uncanny ability to profit in the stock market.
But Paul should have stuck to the overpriced ice cream to celebrate. He was arrested for DUI over the holiday weekend in California. Nancy’s office told the media she would not be commenting on this “private” matter.
Let them (the public) eat . . . ice cream, right, Nancy?
As far as we know Hillary Clinton didn’t make tone-deaf trips to hairdressers during COVID lockdowns, not that it would have helped her. Come to think of it, that didn’t stop Lightfoot or Pelosi, but we digress.
Hillary has been outed in court over taking to the social media megaphone for morons platform to push false information regarding Donald Trump and Russian connections.
We’re still waiting for Hillary’s lifetime ban for spreading disinformation.
Playing loose with the facts seems to run in the family. Recall Mr. Hillary’s assertion that he didn’t have sex with that woman. Which one? You pick.
Also of late, many faithful left-wing lapdog media outlets have been dragged to the reality that Russia is winning the fighting in Ukraine.
No less a source than the deified Ukrainian president Zelenskyy gave a dire assessment of the prospects for success regarding the fighting in the Donbas region.
Maybe Zelenskyy and the Pelosi couple can commiserate while eating some overpriced ice cream. The Mona Lisa guy can bring the cake.
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