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'Irony' Can Mean The Moment When Reality
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Posted By: DW626, 8/9/2025 11:32:59 AM

Irony is a term whose meaning is elusive and which escapes precise definition. A lot of people think they know what it means when they actually don’t. About the best that can be said is that irony is the quality of a situation in which not only are prospects ruined and even reversed, but done so resoundingly – irony not only wrecks your plans, but does so while turning you into an object lesson. Irony occurs when the postman rings twice for the drifter Frank Chambers, who is arrested, tried, and executed not for the murder he unquestionably committed, but for the accidental death over which he had no responsibility.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: MickTurn 8/9/2025 12:13:55 PM (No. 1988487)
Irony is when your Karma runs over your Dogma.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: mobyclik 8/9/2025 12:20:52 PM (No. 1988492)
Irony is when you spend years attacking Donald J Trump and he keeps whipping your asses.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: earlybird 8/9/2025 12:57:15 PM (No. 1988504)
The dictionary says irony is: Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: JHHolliday 8/9/2025 1:06:50 PM (No. 1988509)
They tried it all. Every blatant trick, voter fraud, false indictments or lying smear to keep the one man they feared and hated out of the WH. They thought they could keep power and turn this country into a Neo-Marxist hellhole with them in complete charge and with authoritarian rule or worse. Complete control in what you say, or think. All the trappings of a real dictatorship with their leaders to rule. They misjudged the man and will pay the price. They made a mistake. Biden and his cabal were wrecking our country and our culture. Open borders, catching and releasing criminals to rob and kill again, trans madness, killing the economy and throwing away our tax money to force, windmills and solar and unreliable EVs that are costly and rolling firebombs. I could go on and on. It's a wonder that Trump, the most resilient man to ever hold the office, overcame it all. Shot once and dodged a second attempt on his life. The vile posters and loons on the left actually said that they regretted Crooks only grazed him and wished that he had been successful and murdered him. Maybe God is giving us one more chance. Let's not waste it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: mc squared 8/9/2025 1:10:01 PM (No. 1988511)
My vote for a Must Read
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Reply 6 - Posted by: earlybird 8/9/2025 1:10:06 PM (No. 1988512)
The law of unintended consequences.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Maggie2u 8/9/2025 1:13:49 PM (No. 1988513)
Same here Poster #5. An excellent article, thanks for posting it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: BeatleJeff 8/9/2025 4:23:00 PM (No. 1988555)
Reading this article, I kept thinking of the old saying "if you're going to take a shot at the king, you'd better not miss." Well, they threw everything they had at the king, including live ammo, and they whiffed like me trying to bat against Nolan Ryan. And the king, having learned the lessons from his first reign, is now using his powers to seek retribution against those who sought to destroy him. The Rats are nowhere near as clever, nor as competent, as they think they are, and now they're about to pay a heavy price for their poor decisions and their failure to execute those decisions. If there is real justice in this country, the lot of them will end up dangling from a tall tree and a short rope.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Deborah Grannet 8/9/2025 6:32:42 PM (No. 1988588)
#8, it is NOT retribution, it's JUSTICE.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 8/9/2025 6:51:25 PM (No. 1988591)
"When the Democrats went after Donald Trump, they thought they couldn’t lose." AND they decided that they could do whatever they wanted to accomplish their goals. They thought they ignore law, tradition, and decency. They exposed their true selves and BOY, it is ugly. THANK GOD that Trump is made of amazingly tough stuff and not only survived but triumphed. Now what they did is being exposed and it was so blatant and bad that they cannot hid it or skate by it. Further, Trump has broken them. He seriously crippled the media in his first term simply by calling them out. Still the dems/Deep State/Media worked together to push lies. The public found it hard to believe that all three of these sources would be working together to lie, but they were. Now, the dems got creamed in the election and the Deep State is being ripped out of government. The evidence against the unholy triumvirate has been discovered and all three divisions have lost credibility. When Trump speaks and acts, they have much less power against him and they are being unraveled more with each of their failures. The last piece is the shift of the courts rightward, especially the SCOTUS, in Trump's first term. Now, the Constitution and law hold the weight that they should and the Left is losing ground rapidly. Their loses expose their illegal actions and allows Trump to get rid of them, with prejudice. Even BO is facing an accounting for his actions.While he might not be held legally accountable, his reputation and clout is being shredded and his future activities will be held up to scrutiny and accountability. Why would we want to deal with such evil people as dems have turned out to be. It is impossible to have a good government run by such people.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Strike3 8/10/2025 9:40:46 AM (No. 1988738)
Hard-hitting, honest analysis. The only point with which I disagree is that anything distinguishes us from a banana republic, unless it's simply the absence of bananas. We experience the same corruption, greed, abuse, theft and murder perpetrated by people like Idi Amin.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: mifla 8/10/2025 9:54:54 AM (No. 1988746)
I don't know how many of these political crooks will stand trial and/or go to jail, but I pray that their voters will throw off their sheeple coats and realize how corrupt their party has become.
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