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Hekate

(99,594 posts)
3. This is brilliant! More please!
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 03:02 PM
Saturday


My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze. Our platoon has foraged for bush food, and is now forced to live on cacao nibs and gluten-free bagels, though Lieutenant Knickerbocker believes he knows where he can raid some salmon jerky. Not an Arby's is in sight, and the grumbling of my stomach is part of this ordeal. A mere child has from afar ruined our stew with her banana-slug catapult.
This is not the enemy our fearless leaders advised us to expect, in that they are all pale, even pasty, but defiant or rather not defiant but interested in longwinded discussion of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, which our officers will not engage in as long as the enemy wears t-shirts blaspheming against our Lord and our leader. Nevertheless three of our men have defected, one lured by a tarot reading and a promise of dry socks, two went off to shut down a drag show and never returned. My own faith has been shaken by the discovery that Antifa merely means anti-fascist, and is not an organized terrorist group, but my commanding officer will not address what it means to be anti-anti-fascist.
A Golden Retriever has stolen my ammo belt, undoubtedly trained to do so by these infidels.. Will it never stop raining?"

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8 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

? Portland sounds great! txwhitedove Saturday #1
it must be Conjuay Saturday #19
Lived in Portland (Oregon) for a year. Job working. chouchou Saturday #2
There's a trip down memory lane.. Permanut Saturday #9
Ahh Thanks..brought it back to me. chouchou Saturday #10
We saw her open for Don Rickles Unwind Your Mind 14 hrs ago #26
This is brilliant! More please! Hekate Saturday #3
Love it!!! PatSeg Saturday #4
from behind the lines to the west of Portland OldSWODog Saturday #5
Camp Granada (Allen Sherman) without the rain stopping. rubbersole Saturday #6
Hello Muddah, hello Faddah... GiqueCee Saturday #8
Good parody of Ken Burns' The Civil War. sop Saturday #7
Maybe Jimmy Kimmel can read it in the manner of Ken Burns Hekate Saturday #13
Stephen Colbert's show does it on a regular basis. Wednesdays Saturday #15
Wonderful. I'd forgotten -- Kimmel's name only came up because he just got back. Hekate Saturday #16
These Ken Burns' Civil War letters to mother have become a meme in the NFL. sop Saturday #18
Yes! The Sullivan Ballou letter! FailureToCommunicate Saturday #17
Just sent this on to a select few friends -- thank you so much Hekate Saturday #11
A friend from Portland wrote to me: No "war" going on here. Just a handful of peaceful protesters. he is trying to cause appleannie1 Saturday #12
Exactly. Mockery and satire first -- banana slug catapults next Hekate Saturday #14
They can defeat tRump's goons with simple weirdness Blue Owl Saturday #20
Well done! liberalla Saturday #21
I could just hear this in the background as I read it: Tanuki Saturday #22
Although written in 1982, this piece so perfectly fit the Ken Burns' series. 3catwoman3 16 hrs ago #25
Love this. llmart Saturday #23
From Andy Borowitz soldierant Saturday #24
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