Irony Is Dead

Our national political theater has provided some news stories recently that have struck me as ironic.

First was the Mueller testimony before Congress. Lefties were hyping it up, of course, because they are desperate to focus on the alleged crimes committed by their bogeyman Trump, rather than the latest anti-American tirade to come out of The Squad. The ordeal backfired tremendously, as Mueller's anemic performance was a PR disaster for both Democrats and the deep state in general. Some are asking if he has dementia. Some are wondering if Mueller was just a figurehead to bestow legitimacy to the coup, but not necessarily orchestrating the operation. He seemed to lack knowledge of some items in the report that bore his own name. Of course, liberals lie, so they are saying that the event was damning against Trump, but the truth can be discerned through actions. Fox News reports that they couldn't get any Democrat Congressmen to come on to talk about the proceedings, and gave up after reaching out to seventy.

Next, the Ilhan Omar saga has provided even more irony than expected, even for those who realize that lefties always accuse others of the crimes they are guilty of. First was the revelation that Omar's family is part of the Somali ruling class and was involved in the trade of black slaves. Her father changed his name before migrating to the US to hide his reputation from authorities. Unlike the evil whites the left prattle on about endlessly, there are actually living members of her family who have owned slaves. Then, someone dug up a tweet Omar made during a spat where she told another POC that she should be deported back to whatever country she came from. So the timeline is this:

• AOC called Pelosi a racist. No Democrats in Congress defended the Speaker.
• Trump defended Pelosi, and tweeted that if The Squad hates American so much they should leave.
• Pelosi violated House rules to condemn Trump as a racist for his comments. Democrats voted to ignore the rules and pass the resolution.
• It turns out that The Squad had used nearly the same language themselves on Twitter.

That is a truly ironic timeline.

Finally, a black lawmaker from Georgia posted a video to social media sobbing about an encounter at a grocery store where an evil white bigot told her to "go back to where you came from you son of a bitch." A man came forward and said he indeed had a dispute with her after he told her she had too many items to be in the express lane, which prompted an explosive response. As it turns out, the man himself is of Cuban descent (she assumed his ethnicity!) and had complained bitterly on social media about Trump's comments. Now witnesses have corroborated not only his side of the story, but that the woman had used racist language in her tirade.

Is it worth pointing all this out? Irony is when perceived reality is very different from the actual reality, thus actions with an intended effect can cause the opposite reaction. The only reason any of the above stories are ironic is because the liberals are truly delusional and control the mainstream narrative...not perhaps the one that most people believe, but the one that is assumed in national-level discourse. The first story is not ironic if you realize that the Mueller probe was based on a purely fictional crime lacking even probable cause, and was a deep state reaction against an unauthorized electoral result. Similarly, the other two stories are not ironic from our perspective. They are only ironic from within the liberal narrative. Irony is dead, because it is now so common. It is only worth pointing out when it occurs to a degree that we wouldn't have even thought possible.