Is Joe Biden coming for our beer? No, but we Republicans will still be outraged!

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"Dear fellow graduates of the Republican School for Performative Outrage:

As I’m sure you’re aware, there have been two very serious not-real developments that require our immediate overreaction. First, President Joe Biden is coming to take our beer. Second, the liberal nanny state is about to re-impose sweeping COVID lockdowns and mask mandates that will take away all our freedoms and turn us into communist Marxist socialist Taoists.

Let’s start with the beer. Not since Bud Light tried to destroy America by giving one can of beer to a transgender person has there been an alcohol-related non-issue in more desperate need of over-dramatization.

This past week, we learned of a comment that George Koob, the director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, made to a British newspaper, suggesting the U.S. Department of Agriculture might consider adjusting its recommendations on alcoholic drinks down from two per day to two per week.

As we all learned in Leaping to Conclusions 101 at the School for Performative Outrage, a “comment” that is “suggesting” something that “might” be “considered” or “recommended” about beer is no different than the full implementation of a wholly tyrannical law that will be enforced by Federal Beer Investigators.

So a few of our star graduates reacted appropriately".