Lenny Bruce died on this day in 1966
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... at least in polite company.
Leonard Alfred Schneider was born October 13, 1925 and became a stand up comedian who espoused a counterculture comedy where he called it like he saw it. He worked under the very unasuming moniker of Lenny Bruce. His schtick included social criticism and satire and he was always on the edge of what was considered "acceptable" back in that time when we as a nation were neanderthals seeking to project a prim and proper project of all that deep state and shadow government crime institutied by the failed presidents Truman and Eisenhower.
The general consensus of the politics and society of the day appeared to be:
"We can kill you and do whatever else we like to you simply by calling it 'national security' but don't you dare swear or call us on it or we'll throw you in prison or much worse ...
Lenny Bruce suffered the indignation of a 1964 conviction for obscenity for which he was pardoned posthumously by Governor George Pataki in 2003.
It would seem that I'm not the only one to recognize that phony pretentious slant of the way politics run and the sleazy characters presenting all the 'holier than thou' bull crap toward that end.
By and large the Republic would likely never tolerate the frank talk by a Lenny Bruce or anyone else out to call them the murdering thieving self agrandizing phonies they are. Though I was too young to fully appreciate his art and his life he has always been someone to which I could relate in all the phoney baloney nothing of antifa, BLM bullshit, and the rest of the lying democrat and Marxist crap floating around anymore.
As he so aptly put it long ago: "Let the buyer beware". Lenny Bruce died on this day in 1966 from a drug overdose.