Irony.
As defined by Webster: "A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result."
Earlier this week, America's Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, descended into a basement bar and began playing the guitar where his off-key, octave abusing vocals totally tortured the song he was attempting to sing. But that's not the irony.
The bar was located in Ukraine, a place, we're told, is war-torn and in dire need of limitless amounts of American money and weapons lest the Russians overrun the country. A somber speech delivered from an undisclosed, well-fortified location is what you'd expect from the Secretary of State in a war zone supposedly under constant threats of bombardment, not a guitar riff-fest in a nightclub with a pick in one hand and a vodka tonic in the other. But that's not the irony.
Recently, Ukraine, under orders from its "rock star" president, former comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, suspended free elections. It's an effort to ensure the continuity of government and preserve democracy during a time of great unrest... it's nothing permanent, he assured. But that's not the irony.
Meanwhile, here in America, Joe Biden's administration is attempting its own brand of election suspension by indicting, arresting, and taking to trial their political opponent; attempting to remove Donald Trump from the ballot is an effort to preserve democracy, they assure. But that's not the Irony.
What's ironic is, Blinken and the band wrapped both of those democracy-destroying acts into the most exquisite, deliberately-contrary-to-expectations irony of all with their earache-inducing rendition of... "Rockin' in the Free World."
As ironies go, the result definitely isn't amusing and... for those paying the tab, it isn't free, either.
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