Hell of a Coincidence
is all I'm saying
Huh.
Hell of a coincidence.
Turns out that the country that’s sitting on the largest oil reserve on the planet just so happens to be the one country run by people so bad and so corrupt and so dangerous to American society that we should cast our laws aside, give the middle finger to the United Nations, and do something about it.
Just seems like a one in a million chance, I guess. Still crunching the numbers on this one, but it seems like a real doozy of happenstance.
Like as a democracy, the top priority is… democracy (was my assumption, at least). Not beach volleyball. Not cracking a cold one with the lads.
Yet the one time we’re willing to say, “Goddamn this baby, we’ve got some nasty bathwater in this tub!” is when said bathwater is preventing us from grubbing up 300 billion barrels of oil.
Wild timing. Really a lucky break in a way. One in a thousand at least. One in ten thousand?
Maybe… ok maybe this is it. MAYBE to be a democracy, sometimes you’ve got to… not be a democracy…?
Like you make the laws, you agree to follow them, you build entire for-profit carceral systems around those laws. But when really bad people come around, you make an exception.
And if it just so happens that you make this exception—what happens to be the backbone of your society—when they’re sitting on the one thing you need most, well… that’s a lucky break, I suppose.
I guess all I’m saying is…
Hell of a coincidence.