{"id":4523,"date":"2020-11-06T08:33:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T13:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2020-11-06T08:40:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T13:40:52","slug":"definition-of-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/definition-of-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Definition of Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em><span style=\"font-size: large\">11\/ 6\/20 &#8212; waiting for the outcome of the election. &nbsp;This is exactly what we all need, an accurate definition of politics.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large\">&nbsp; &nbsp; A Russian Jew, was finally allowed to emigrate to Israel.&nbsp;<br \/>\nAt Moscow airport, customs found a Lenin statue in his baggage and asked, &#8220;What is this?&#8221; &nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The man replied, &#8220;What is this? Wrong question comrade. You should have asked: Who is he? &nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\">This is Comrade Lenin. &nbsp;He laid the foundations of socialism and created the future and prosperity of the Russian people. &nbsp;I am taking it with me&nbsp;as a memory of our dear hero.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large\">&nbsp; &nbsp; The Russian customs officer let him go without further inspection.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;At Tel Aviv airport, the Israeli customs officer also asked our friend, &#8220;What is this?&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;He replied, &#8220;What is this? Wrong question, Sir. You should be asking, &#8216;Who is this?&#8217; &nbsp;This is Lenin,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\">the bastard who caused me, a Jew, to leave Russia. I take this statue with me so I can curse him every day.&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The Israeli customs officer said, &#8220;I apologize, Sir, you are cleared to go&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Settling into his new house, he put the statue on a table. To celebrate his immigration, he invited his friends<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large\">and relatives to dinner.&nbsp;&nbsp;One of his friends asked, &#8220;Who is this?\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;He replied, &#8220;My dear friend, &#8216;Who is this\u2019&nbsp;is<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large\">&nbsp;a wrong question. You should have asked, What is this?<br \/>\nThis is ten kilograms of solid gold that I managed to bring with me without paying any customs duty and tax.&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nMORAL :<br \/>\nPolitics is when you can tell the same shit in different ways to fool a different audience, to allow you to look good in every way.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/e\/1f60e\" alt=\"&#x1f60e;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/e\/1f60e\" alt=\"&#x1f60e;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11\/ 6\/20 &#8212; waiting for the outcome of the election. &nbsp;This is exactly what we all need, an accurate definition of politics. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A Russian Jew, was finally allowed to emigrate to Israel.&nbsp; At Moscow airport, customs found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/definition-of-politics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36775],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-take-time-to-laugh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}