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Hekate

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3. This is brilliant! More please!
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 03:02 PM
Sep 27


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 Sep 27 #1
it must be Conjuay Sep 27 #19
Lived in Portland (Oregon) for a year. Job working. chouchou Sep 27 #2
There's a trip down memory lane.. Permanut Sep 27 #9
Ahh Thanks..brought it back to me. chouchou Sep 27 #10
We saw her open for Don Rickles Unwind Your Mind Sep 28 #26
This is brilliant! More please! Hekate Sep 27 #3
Love it!!! PatSeg Sep 27 #4
from behind the lines to the west of Portland OldSWODog Sep 27 #5
Camp Granada (Allen Sherman) without the rain stopping. rubbersole Sep 27 #6
Hello Muddah, hello Faddah... GiqueCee Sep 27 #8
Good parody of Ken Burns' The Civil War. sop Sep 27 #7
Maybe Jimmy Kimmel can read it in the manner of Ken Burns Hekate Sep 27 #13
Stephen Colbert's show does it on a regular basis. Wednesdays Sep 27 #15
Wonderful. I'd forgotten -- Kimmel's name only came up because he just got back. Hekate Sep 27 #16
These Ken Burns' Civil War letters to mother have become a meme in the NFL. sop Sep 27 #18
Yes! The Sullivan Ballou letter! FailureToCommunicate Sep 27 #17
Just sent this on to a select few friends -- thank you so much Hekate Sep 27 #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 Sep 27 #12
Exactly. Mockery and satire first -- banana slug catapults next Hekate Sep 27 #14
They can defeat tRump's goons with simple weirdness Blue Owl Sep 27 #20
Well done! liberalla Sep 27 #21
I could just hear this in the background as I read it: Tanuki Sep 27 #22
Although written in 1982, this piece so perfectly fit the Ken Burns' series. 3catwoman3 Sep 28 #25
Love this. llmart Sep 27 #23
From Andy Borowitz soldierant Sep 27 #24
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