{"id":4321,"date":"2026-09-22T14:31:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2026-09-22T14:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:31:25","slug":"mr-president-youre-no-jack-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4321","title":{"rendered":"Mr. President, You&#8217;re No Jack Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">17&#215;13.6 inch high-res <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/nojackkennedy\/nojackkennedy300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>color .jpg image, 2.2mb<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/nojackkennedy\/nojackkennedy300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/nojackkennedy\/nojackkennedy650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"515\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\"><strong>Democrats and Liberals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2026\/09\/17\/wrke-s17.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won&#8217;t stand up to fascists<\/a> and ICE thugs,<\/strong> but they&#8217;ll raise holy hell over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/poolalgae\/lincolnreflectingpoolJun2026-02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial.<\/a> They&#8217;ll gladly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/7\/13\/joe-biden-on-way-to-middle-east-in-first-trip-as-us-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abandon Palestine to the IDF<\/a> to avoid appearing antisemitic and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/pftompkins.bsky.social\/post\/3mvtufh6twk2t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won&#8217;t lift a finger for transgendered people<\/a> because it&#8217;ll help the DNC win an election, but they&#8217;ll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/nojackkennedy\/'goodcrowdkennedycenterprotest'.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">man the barricades for the goddamn Kennedy Center<\/a>. That&#8217;s right, they&#8217;ll try to appease fascists by throwing basic human rights and dignity to the wolves while they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/nojackkennedy\/wapoA1Sep1726kencenrippeddown150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protest for A GODDAMN BUILDING.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">John the Baptist, after torturing a thief,<\/span><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Looks up at his hero, the Commander-In-Chief,<\/span><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">saying, \u201cTell me, great hero, but please make it brief \u2013<\/span><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">is there a hole for me to get sick in?\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Commander-In-Chief answers him while chasing a fly,<\/span><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">saying &#8220;Death to all those who would whimper and cry!&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">And dropping a barbell, he points to the sky,<\/span><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">saying, &#8220;The sun\u2019s not yellow, it\u2019s chicken!&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u2013 Bob Dylan, 1965<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bob Dylan - Tombstone Blues (Official Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ag-Esuy44ks?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">17&#215;13.6 inch high-res <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/nojackkennedy\/nojackkennedy300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>color .jpg image, 2.2mb<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17&#215;13.6 inch high-res color .jpg image, 2.2mb Democrats and Liberals won&#8217;t stand up to fascists and ICE thugs, but they&#8217;ll raise holy hell over the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial. They&#8217;ll gladly abandon Palestine to the IDF to avoid appearing antisemitic and won&#8217;t lift a finger for transgendered people because it&#8217;ll help the DNC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1521,64,7,10,82,168,132,8,762],"tags":[1571,1538],"class_list":["post-4321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2028-election","category-dc-local","category-elections","category-media","category-middle-east","category-palestine","category-party-animals","category-right-wingnuts","category-trumpism","tag-lake-ontario","tag-kennedy-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4323,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}