Biden criticized for hasty and sloppy withdrawal from War on Christmas
By Zoltar the Malignant
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Army veteran Ralphie Parker clutched his War on Christmas Expeditionary Medal as he watched the last flight of soldiers leaving the Mall of America on CNN.
“So this is how it ends,” said Parker, who lost an eye in 2009 while deployed with the 82nd Airborne Division to the inflatable lawn Santa aisle of a Farm & Fleet in Boise. “Not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with ‘Little Drummer Boy.’ Whoever wrote that carol should be shot. It haunts my nightmares more than ‘elf love Thursday.’”
With combat operations in the War on Christmas now over with a humiliating withdrawal, President Biden faces a fresh round of criticism over his decision to suddenly end the generation-long conflict with no plan for a stable peace.
“The war’s been going on for 20 years — c’mon, man,” a visibly distressed Biden said at a news conference. “And hey — if any of you plan on calling Santa for comment, can you ask if he got my letter? I want a pony!” he said before his handlers lured him offstage with a candy cane.
Former President George W. Bush deployed the first ground troops to the War on Christmas in 2003 following Christmas’s invasion of Labor Day.
“Appeasement didn’t stop World War II, and it won’t stop Christmas,” Bush told a joint session of Congress in the run-up to war. “We sat on our hands as Christmas took over Thanksgiving, then Veterans Day. Then, Christmas said it would be satisfied with Columbus Day. Now here we are, the end of August, and Costco already has its Christmas trees up. No more — Christmas must be stopped.”
However, a quick initial victory bogged down into a years-long insurgency that stretched over four presidencies and 19 holiday shopping seasons.
Elsewhere on Capitol Hill, the Senate Armed Services Committee grilled Army Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, over the withdrawal. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) opened his remarks with a video of the Battle of Nakatomi Plaza.
“Our brave men and women, like Sgt. John McClane here, spent a generation spilling their precious blood preventing another Christmas attack like Nakatomi Plaza from happening again. But while we were abandoning our allies and making ourselves worldwide laughingstocks, you were busy ordering our troops to stop singing ‘White Christmas,’” Hawley yelled, waving a copy of Milley’s order.
“I want to understand ‘White Christmas’ — and I’m white,” Milley defensively answered. He then alleged that Nakatomi Plaza was not a true Christmas engagement.
Zoltar the Malignant was born about 10,000 years ago, and there ain’t nothin’ in this world that he don’t know. He taught Peter, Paul and Moses how to play “ring around the roses,” and he’ll whoop the guy who says it isn’t so.