I'm Rubber, You're Glue

If by "dust-up diplomacy" the Washington Post means "insult world leaders to their faces in public and fling around wild accusations based on the fabrications of a right-wing freak who thinks he's on a 'mission from God' against communism", then yeah, sure.

So, while the Post is going all ga-ga over these apeshit shenanigans, I just have to ask why they weren't shitting their pants they way they did when Trump was calling other countries "shitholes".  

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Independence Day

“If we do all this, if we do our part, we do this together, by July Fourth there’s a good chance you, your families and friends will be able to get together in your backyard, or in your neighborhood, and have a cookout and a barbecue and celebrate Independence Day...” —Joe Biden, 03.11.2021

So, that's the big-ass far-reaching goal here, huh? A "good chance" we'll be able to sorta kinda hang out on the Fourth of July. Not that the Fourth Of July has really meant anything at all to me in the past 15, 20 years, but still... that's the big challenge to the nation?

D'ahh, well. Granted, that speech wasn't exactly JFK's "We Choose To Go To The Moon In This Decade" challenge, but sometimes you just have to take what you can get.

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Boop Boop Bee Doop!

Ever since the 1988 Dukakis tank-driving campaign ad ushered in the modern era of media fuckery, all the way through to Nancy Pelosi's fridge, the Democrats have been the Party Of Just Not Fucking Getting It. F'crissake, the woman who sang the Anthem at CPAC wasn't as tone-deaf as the goddamn Democrats.

Senator Sinema a little too happy for poverty wages to remain pic.twitter.com/ze2T2CGtML

— RootsAction (@Roots_Action) March 5, 2021

And so it was that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) gave us her own Marie Antoinette moment, live on C-SPAN, as she cast her "no" vote on the minimum wage raise in the current toothless COVID Relief Bill. 

Have this woman's staff and media people just once taken her aside and reminded her that C-SPAN telecasts live from the floor of the Senate, where the whole goddamn planet and their cats can see her feckless hijinks? 

My guess is that people like Sen. Sinema are fully aware, but just don't care — and that this moment is not just indicative of her own attitude, but that of the entire Democratic Party.

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Listen To The Science!

Oh, sweet jeeeeeezus, where do I even start with this? What, are they taking a break from slagging on Maduro? It's almost breathtaking, the way the Post is so obviously, openly mortified that the poor are being vaccinated first in Mexico...