What Joe Said

 There was an interview yesterday, between President Biden and NBC news.  So the topic of wearing a mask came up (as if we really needed a Presidential comment over the subject), and what President Biden said was:

"It's a small precaution to take that has a profound impact. It's a patriotic responsibility, for God sake."

I sat and pondered over it.  

In the same reasoning....I use toilet paper, because it's a patriotic responsibility.

In the same reasoning....I wear underwear, because if's a patriotic responsibility. 

In the same reasoning....I don't smoke menthol cigarettes', because it's a patriotic responsibility.

In the same reasoning....I drink only premium beer (not the cheapo stuff), because it's a patriotic responsibility.

In the same reasoning....I eat mostly beef, because it's a patriotic responsibility.

In the same reasoning....I don't listen to much of anything said by Senator McConnell, because it's a patriotic responsibility (and he's a nut anyway).

In the same reasoning....well....you know.

The problem with Biden's logic is that you'd have to get up each morning, and just feel awful patriotic.  I could go and ask a hundred working-class Americans and they'd tell you that their patriotism for the mask and ban-rules just isn't there anymore.  

This was the kind of quote you could have said in the 1960s and got away with, but in this 2021 era.....it just doesn't work.