Posted on 03/17/2022 12:53:42 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
While speaking to reporters Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she will be reading a poem about Ukraine written by U2 singer Bono at the annual Friends of Ireland St. Patrick's Day lunch at the U.S Capitol.
“This is a joke right?" tweeted former Obama administration official Tommy Vietor, but Pelosi went on to read the poem at the lunch anyway.
"I got this message this morning from Bono," Pelosi said at the lunch. "And most of us, whether we're in Ireland, or here, whatever it is, Bono has been a very Irish part of our lives."
The San Francisco Democrat then read the poem, printed in its entirety below (no, we do not know where the line breaks are, forgive us Bono):
"Oh St. Patrick, he drove out the snakes, with his prayers, but that's not all it takes. For this smoke symbolizes the evil that arises and hides in your heart as it breaks. And the evil risen from the darkness that lives in some men, but in sorrow and fear, that's when saints can appear, to drive out those old snakes once again and a struggle for us to be free from this psycho in this human family, Ireland's sorrow and pain is now the Ukraine, and St. Patrick's name is now Zelenskyy."
"How about that," Pelosi laughed to the room after reading the poem. She then immediately introduced the event's live entertainment (Riverdance), which, when juxtaposed with the situation in Ukraine, was particularly striking.
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After all her favorite word is the Word.
Bono still hasn’t found what he’s looking for.
Massive corruption in the Ukraine benefitting the special ones, like the Bidens.
One person said: "Ukraine has suffered enough... They don't deserve this."
A second wrote: "I think Nancy Pelosi and Bono both owe the people of Ukraine and Ireland an apology."
A third said: "#StPatricksDay or Halloween? This is truly frightening. #PaddyWhackery."
A fourth joked: "Throw me a funeral, I am deceased."
A fifth commented: "Help. I think my cringe buffer overflowed."
Another person said: "Gonna need Bono to come up with another ACHTUNG BABY to make up for this."
Someone else commented: "I am howling. I literally cannot stop laughing. There are tears streaming down my face. What a generous and merciful god to send us such a thing."
While one added: "'The Ukraine.' Jesus and Seamus Heaney wept."
Another said: "This sham greening in the USA for #StPatricksDay is beyond embarrassing. A total revamp is called for, and an end to the excruciating forelock tugging…"
One person joked: "When will Ireland’s suffering end? Has the rest of the world not done enough?!"
Someone else stated: "I wholeheartedly support Ukraine. This, however, is not the right gesture at all. Very cringeworthy. Make it stop!"
While another simply wrote: "Embarrassed to be Irish."
Nancy is the Queen Of Cringe
I agree. I’m still screaming in agony.
We can’t even manage to pull off an election anymore without
there being major corruption involved, and the people on our
own side (supposedly), saying it was one of the cleanest, most
well run elections in U. S. history.
Russia has a very corrupt government of it’s own.
We have corruption all across Europe, the U. N., NATO...
If the Ukraine was trying to be the most corrupt place on
earth, it sure has some very competitive entities in the
same race.
Yep, corruption abounds, sometimes we even partner across international lines, Like the Biden's working for a Ukrainian Board of directors.
To think once upon a time I was a big U2 fan. Can’t stand them now.
So dumb.
"And St. Patrick's name is now Zelensky."
I’d agree.
I guess the ones in the U. S. got tired of him?
Why does she always sound like she’s just back from a 3 double martini lunch?..........it’s really a rhetorical question
Bono is in the black eye club.
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