So today I'm painting the living room of this gal I've worked for many times since the mid 90s...she's very liberal and got the feminist thing going on as well but we get along just fine. As I working she's in the kitchen keeping herself busy and has the TV on all day...MSNBC, of course. I learned a long time ago not to talk to her about politics of social issues and today was no exception but she asked what I think of this whole Ukraine mess. I told her "You really don't want to hear what I have to say, Agnes". And I meant that...otherwise she'd turn it into a shitty half hour debate. Been there, done that.
BTW...you know what the feminist types really need? To get laid. Not just your average, old fashioned get after it but a dominating, hands around the throat, backboard pounding grinder. It never ceases to amaze me how belligerent and nasty they can be until they get to know you and then they turn into flirty little kittens. Anyway, I digress...
So she says "If Trump were President he'd let Putin just walk right in there" After I stopped laughing I said "You mean like what's happening right now as we speak?"
She then went on a rant about how Biden is doing everything that can possibly be done and she thinks it's all the right moves...essentially parroting what's been injected into her brain by the TV.
I kept working and remembered the stand up comic from the 80s by the name of Yakov Smirnoff...a Russian guy who's schtick was to make fun of life under Soviet rule. One of his jokes was this...
"In Russia you have two TV stations, channel one and channel two. Channel one is the official KGB station and channel two tells you to go back to channel one".