Gifting On Valentine’s Day

‘Tis Valentine’s Day, yet another holiday usurped by commercial interests.

Just the other day, two granddaughters, exhibiting all the anticipation of Christmas, pondered what gifts they might be receiving on this day.

I guess there is some sort of parallel, with Christmas celebrating a holy birth and Valentine’s Day supposedly honoring the death of one, and possibly as many as three, St. Valentines in martyr fashion at the hands of Romans.

Jesus is the reason for the season, Christians note in the face of the commercialization of Christmas. But, when it comes to Valentine’s Day, there is not a lot of pushback regarding the message that presents are required on this day.

The granddaughters’ Valentine’s Day gifts were cards with money inside, which seemed to thrill them. It will be spent during a Monday family shopping trip.

But what about all the others seeking gifts on this day? Allow me to offer some ideas, not necessarily hearts and flowers, for them.

For gin-slinger-turned-House-member AOC, a brain. Every time she opens her mouth, she comes off as the Scarecrow character from The Wizard of Oz (if I only had a brain). AOC has blasted Elon Musk as an “unintelligent billionaire” and now wonders if ICE head Tom Homan can read. Sounds like more projection from a leftist.

For the uninformed leftist protesters who interrupted a USAID hearing Thursday in Washington, D.C., some brains from the AOC gift box. Even as they were ushered from the room after decrying funding cuts for PEPFAR, a program that deals with AIDS, chairman Brian Mast told the fools the program funding has NOT BEEN CUT!!!!!!!. He also advised them to stop watching leftist propaganda and perhaps tune in Fox News.

For Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat, an honorary Mensa membership. Fetterman is the lone voice of reason in his party who won’t buy into the constitutional crisis hysteria of raging leftist idiots spouting absurd talking points. “There isn’t a constitutional crisis, and all of those things – it’s just a lot of noise,” said Fetterman.

For hyperventilating Canadians and Danes, a boatload of Preparation H, the better to heal their butt hurt over President Trump mentioning Canada as a 51^st state, or Greenland as a potential U.S. territory. As to outraged types in either country wanting to claim California, Minnesota or other states in return, yes, take them, please!. And can we throw in New York and Washington, D.C., just to sweeten the deal?

For Mitch McConnell, a course in backstabbing from Nancy Pelosi. Clueless Joe Biden can provide a rave review on Pelosi’s effectiveness. McConnell, whose doddering ways and rides to votes in a wheelchair have him reminding many of Biden, could use improved backstabbing technique. Despite Mitch acting like a petulant child in voting against prominent Trump proposed cabinet members, all of them were confirmed regardless.

For Issa Rae, who canceled a Kennedy Center appearance because of Trump taking over the operation, a note reminding her that unlike no-show bureaucrats and countless virtue signalling projects funded by USAID, she can’t expect to be paid regardless of not performing the contracted task.

For Canadians who have taken to booing Americans and our National Anthem at sporting events, more of that Preparation H should the U.S. hockey team take care of business Saturday night in Montreal during the Four Nations Faceoff.

For Democrats spouting the “unelected” Elon Musk tripe, a basic civics lesson to help them comprehend that those left-wing activist judges they shop for to subvert the will of the people in electing Trump to shrink government and send illegals packing, are appointed, not elected.

For Ukraine’s Zelenskyy, unhappy that Trump is moving to end the Russia-Ukraine hostilities, a one-way train ticket to the front so that he might do something productive to try to win the conflict. The days are gone of him being allowed to spend/lose a few hundred billion dollars of U.S. taxpayer money.

For the motley crew of trans types who took over a Worcester, Mass., city council meeting, demanding and getting trans sanctuary city designation, a lifetime supply of perspective and attention, the first of which they desperately lack, and the second of which they seem to crave incessantly.

For 80-year-old, terminally confused Democrat House member Jan Schakowsky, an ambulance ride to the nearest nursing home, where she can spend her remaining delusional time on this planet not harming others or interfering with the nation’s business. It was Schakowsky who shocked her House committee hearing by suggesting manufacturing was a sexist word since it contains “man.” And that, she continues, perhaps explains why more women don’t work in manufacturing jobs. As someone who took a couple of years of Latin, I can assure Schakowsky the “man” part refers to hands being used. Social media has a wave of responses, including one woman asking if the term “menstruate” excludes women due to having ‘men’ in the term. Another wondered about the presence of ‘rat” in Democrat.

At least Schakowsky apologists can note that she’s 80 years old and apparently losing it, just like Biden, McConnell and other ancients. But how do we explain AOC?