A Pot Pourri of Political Wisecracks from the Profound to the Picayune
By
David Gottfried
Age Regression and Politics
One can attain eternal youth if one lives one’s life in politics.
Remember what John Lennon said in “Strawberry Fields:” “Nothing is real.”
What may appear to be grown-ups with their dukes up may be nothing but little children.
The Insurrectionists of January 6th: The Q anon Shaman of Jan 6 wore no shirt, no jacket, but he did wear the furs of different animals. He was playing Davey Crockett. Years ago, little boys wore some sort of accessory on their heads or necks which supposedly resembled the furs of the huge rodents that Davey Crocket supposedly wore. (In the 1950’s all good 8-year-old boys watched the Davey Crocket TV show and wore fake animal furs to emulate the show’s hero.)
Drag queens, at gay pride parades, can’t decide whether they are Carmen Miranda or Queen Victoria and seem to be competing to be the sickest exhibit A in Sigmund Freud’s house of sexual perversions.
Straight guys like Paul Gosart compose cartoons which depict him murdering AOC.
The Pillsbury Doughboy of Middle America, Kyle Rittenhouse, realized his most ardent dreams when he showed Daddy that he’s a big tough boy who can kill people.
At political rallies frequented by leftist Democrats, the crowd has a particular way of cheering that makes them sound like a gaggle of 10-year-old girls. Their cheers are high-pitched and never sound the least bit spontaneous. They are sweet in the way artificial sweeteners are sweet. Their artificial flavor derives from the tendency of the old women, attending such rallies, to pretend to be young women and the tendency of the men to want to imitate women. Of course, such doleful cheering can give us a respite from the faux military flavor of the ubiquitous, boring butch women who bang drums and the speakers, drenched in gold bullion, who keep telling us that they love the poor.
At political rallies frequented by Republicans, grown men become as disciplined as lederhosen-wearing members of the Hitler-Jugend, obediently shouting “lock her up” whenever the Fuhrer commands.
When Democrats fight they usually seem to lose as they always seem to be playing the part of the elementary school sad sack who always got kicked in the ass. Perhaps they always want to be Charlie Brown getting ridiculed by the Lucy of the Peanuts Comics Strip.
Lucy of course is all grown up and has become Marjory Taylor Green. Of course, since she hasn’t been put in an insane asylum yet, Marjory Taylor Green has to be 7 years old as only little children and psychotics believe that there have been fires in the Southwest because big bad Jews, operating lasers from outer space, set the fires (How did we get to outer space? By using Jewish broom sticks? Why do we want to set fires ? To get the gold underneath the trees ?)
Of course, its hard to keep imagining that pols are only little children when the strawberry fields turn into strawberry jam because the blood-letting has begun.
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From “The Best and the Brightest”
Every so often, I reread one of the greatest non-fiction books of the second half of the 20th century, “The Best and the Brightest,” by David Halberstam, a comprehensive review of our involvement in Vietnam that can transform any conservative, with a brain, into a fierce and fighting leftist.
It provides so much data which proves that America was wrong and that the people whom America had decided to murder were right.
Just one amazing conversation, in February or March of 1968, which unmasked our entire project as a lie:
An assembly known as the “wise men,” consisting of the architects and managers of the post war policy of containing communism, met to try to understand the worsening situation in Vietnam, the communist advances in the recent Tet offensive, and our inability to defeat the communists despite so many predictions that victory was imminent. Arthur Goldberg questioned a leading military official. This is the sum and substance of the revelatory exchange:
Goldberg: How many communist troops were killed in the recent Tet Offensive ?
Military: 45,000
Goldberg: How many communist troops (guerilla and NVA) were in South Vietnam on January 31, at the start of the Tet Offensive ?
Military: 160,000 to 175,000
(Note: We had 500,000 troops within South Vietnam at that time)
Goldberg: What is the ratio of injured, to the point of inability to fight, to killed for the Communist forces ?
Military: 3 to 1
Goldberg: If this is true, then 45,000 (killed) and 135,000 (injured) were depleted from the Communists’ forces since January 31, 1968. If they only had 175,000 in South Vietnam when the offensive began, their entire forces have been wiped out. If their entire army has been destroyed, why are we Americans suffering 300 to 500 dead per week.
The Galling Truth and Indictment of our foreign policy: We grossly inflated the number of enemy killed to create the impression that we were winning. Most of the people, we supposedly killed, were innocent, impoverished villagers.
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Some of my readers know that I have often expressed a lot of affection for Robert Kennedy. However, I do not automatically kowtow to Kennedys. I enclose one poem here on Jackie Kennedy which castigates the fabricated fabulousness of the Kennedy era and one poem about Eugene Mc Carthy. Gene Mc Carthy was a fierce political adversary of Bobby and the man who, more than any other pol, prodded and provoked Bobby to climb to the summit of the mountain and become the great man that he was.
JACQUELINE BOUVIER KENNEDY AND HER ENDURING SORCERY
By
David Gottfried
From the saucery of Escoffier
Coc Au Vin and creme brullee
Hailed a girl named Bouvier
Girls, curtsy cutely and plie
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Confected candy beauty queen
Will dine and dance with Charles De Gaulle
That messy thing called Indochine
Won’t interrupt our dazzling ball
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While we toast Gallic love of Freedom
And kill some kids in Algiers slums
Bewitched wise and western kingdom
Will finance Mars with regal sums
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Fair French Queen to Roman Pope
Heir to Charlemagne’s desires
The Jewish jackals hung by rope
The Buddhist monks in Saigon fires
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We think so left and live so right
Our Frenchiest chefs will make you chic
With plummy voices and eyes so bright
We beam conceit with speech oblique
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So all the ladies and not a few men
Adore the dame presumed profound
Exalt the style of a gilded hen
With kniving thorns my head is crowned
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They deter, detain, distract the dream
With fashioned, feckless frivolities
Liberalism's shining scream
Doused with venal absurdities
HOMAGE TO SENATOR EUGENE MCCARTHY
By
David Gottfried
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“I’m twice as bright as Stuart Symington
Twice as liberal as Hubert Humphrey
And twice as Catholic as Jack Kennedy”
Remarks attributed to Eugene McCarthy
at the 1960 Democratic Convention
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When I was young, the men in the news
Became nations in my imagination
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Where I made McNamara and Jubilee
Like Jack and Jackie, stunning and free
And Jackie was France, passionately
Floral with freedom, perfumed with glee
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They whirled across a marble floor
With chandeliers and gowns galore
Their killer queens, their scarlet war
The soaring, mauling, gorgeous gore
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And Madame Ngu with dazzle and shine
Made herself a witch divine
And timid scholars quite supine
Told us that the war was fine
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It glared and stared with Napalm eyes
And wished a pagan pagoda's demise
It spun a web of sugared lies
And we all dined on alibis
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And McNamara, that mannered man
Sedate and starched like an Englishman
Counted the kills according to plan
Obeyed his Reich like Marshal Petain
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For Humphrey it was a glorious war
And Symington just an aside
For JFK a political chore
Clean for Gene, I swoon like a bride
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On Communism and Anti Semetism
I have heard people say that since there has been communism in Eastern Europe, and anti semetism in Eastern Europe, that communism causes anti semetism. People write articles saying such things, and they polish off their articles with a couple of brain-dead quotes from Thomas Jefferson, and then they consider themselves Gentlemen Intellectuals of the magnolia trees and mint julips of the stolid and stupid American South. Of course, since they have divined that communism causes antisemitism, they must have also divined that the deep south is a hot bed of Marxism since the deep south festers with antisemitism like an abscess pullulating with pus. They must have concluded that Father Coughlan was really a commie since his speeches were rabid rants against the Jews.
Of course, one of the foremost communists, Vladimir Lenin, directed his harshest and most lacerating charges against Anti Semites:
“Anti-Semitism means spreading enmity towards the Jews. When the accursed tsarist monarchy was living its last days it tried to incite ignorant workers and peasants against the Jews. The tsarist police, in alliance with the landowners and the capitalists, organized pogroms against the Jews. The landowners and capitalists tried to divert the hatred of the workers and peasants who were tortured by want against the Jews. In other countries, too, we often see the capitalists fomenting hatred against the Jews in order to blind the workers, to divert their attention from the real enemy of the working people, capital. Hatred towards the Jews persists only in those countries where slavery to the landowners and capitalists has created abysmal ignorance among the workers and peasants. Only the most ignorant and downtrodden people can believe the lies and slander that are spread about the Jews. This is a survival of ancient feudal times, when the priests burned heretics at the stake, when the peasants lived in slavery, and when the people were crushed and inarticulate. This ancient, feudal ignorance is passing away; the eyes of the people are being opened.”
This was recorded in March 1919 and translated by George Hanna, and this also appears in Lenin’s Collected works http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0ahUKEwiNoPLF_NjXAhUNkeAKHUR-B5sQFggzMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marx2mao.com%2FPDFs%2FLenin%2520CW-Vol.%25209.pdf&usg=AOvVaw3XA1lX2lqvHT58o5nO5XS5