War Zone

 Joe Biden showed up in Ukraine on Presidents Day. It seemed fitting, since the presidents of both countries met to talk about things presidents do: governance, war, and the way you can't please everyone. 

Back home in the "United States," everyone's favorite marionette Marjorie Taylor Greene chose to commemorate the day by suggesting, "We need a national divorce. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrats' traitorous America Last politics, we are done."

If this weren't clear enough, she added,  “I can not express how much Americans hate Joe Biden.”

First of all, I don't know if Marge has checked the map lately, but the state she nominally "represents" shows up blue on most strategists' maps. 

You might wonder if, sitting in the middle of a war zone, the first sitting American President to do so outside the aegis of the US military wondered if the air raid sirens and shelling in the distance was a welcome change to the constant bickering back home. 

Republicans used the opportunity to insist that the right place for the President of the United States was in one of those states. In this case, they wanted him in East Palestine, Ohio where toxic chemicals continued to make things uninhabitable for humans and other wildlife. Never mind that Biden's trip to Ukraine was in the works for months, and the appearance of government officials at disaster sites tend to be media opportunities rather than actual attention and help, the MAGAts wanted the guy they don't believe is really the president to be there choking down the poison air and making a show of passing out rolls of paper towels. 

Or something like that. Never mind that the man who currently stands behind the emblem of this country's head of state was supporting an ally, trying to stem the tide of an invasion brought by what many consider "the bad guys." Never mind that back in Ohio, Republicans continue to make it easy for big corporations like Norfolk Southern rail to make big profits while operating on the wrong side of safety. Two weeks after the derailment in East Palestine, the CEO of Norfolk Southern Alan Shaw broke his silence: "I've made it clear--I am terribly sorry for what has happened to this community--we're going to be here today, we're going to be here tomorrow, we're going to be here a year from now, and we're going to be here five years from now."

A couple things there: First of all, Mister Shaw issued his apology many miles away from the devastation his company caused, and in the divorce Marge suggested Ohio is hers to clean up.