Frivolity.
You know what would be a smart move for Biden in SOTU tonight? Calling on MLB ownership and players to figure this crap out. "America has had a rough time these past two years. America's pastime owes it to us to play ball."
What's the downside?
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Maybe the downside is contrasting the Neo Con media cries of democracy dying in the world, and endangering Americans here at home if we don't "Fight for Ukraine!" and send millions of dollars in weaponry, advisors, and troops to the Polish borders where millions of displaced refugees are streaming across the border.
This wartime presence will impact America greatly here at home, while our economy tries to pull out of a global pandemic, young men with no educations and no employment roam the streets in gangs robbing and taking what they need here at home...
But sure, if you're biggest priority today is playing a game, sure, go for it.
But don't expect people to take you seriously the next time you tell the rest of us we have to keep on "sacrificing" at the pumps, in the stores, and on our taxes to ship more deadly weapons abroard to "protect" us here at home...
Either that's the narrative, or it's not. (I suspect, give it a week or two, that the cheerleaders will soon tire of perpetual war once the Spring breaks here and Americans have other interests of our own to pursue. Jonah is just breaking from the narrative early and losing interest in the wartime fight, as many of our armchair warriors did in the past two decades in Iraq and Afghanistan.)
You can't have heartedly fight world wars, Jonah. Don't you understand that yet, man? Where you been? If you're losing interest already, what do you think the American workers think who would fail to place Ukraine on a map? Is this really "our" fight? If so, maybe act like it? Sacrifice yourself, maybe even if it's just cutting out a few cross-country trips or a few summer ballgames this year? That's not asking much, bud.
Not when you're asking some of us to sacrifice our tax dollars for another round of war, so soon after we finally "got out" in such ugly fashion of our last "helping" missioin...
Whoever thought America was ready willing and able to fight another war, much less escalate a world war with a nuclear-armed enemy, sure is reading the country wrong...
Let the Dems mop up now the best they can before we replace our commander-in-chief and take his Democratic Congressional majority away from him, in short order. Here come the Republicans... and they're not your father's neo-con warriors this time around. The Bushes and Cheneys have been sent packing, with good reason.
No More Wars. What is so hard to understand about that? Play ball only when "the threat" to us here ceases? Or... are we admitting that America is not really that endangered when Ukraine, like VietNam, eventually falls?
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