Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 28, 2023

Hope Phred knows someone on the politburo.

Every song played in Vietnam has to be submitted to the Ministry of Culture beforehand.

Right, said Phred.

So Nguyen do we start?

‘We have to get your people and the people’s people’s people together as soon as possible.’

Jimmy artfully deploying down-home round-eye irony! That’s why you’re the tops, JT!!

People……people who need people (to handle their schedules for them)……are the laziest people……in the world.

Have your people call my people, and then they will call their people, who will call their people ad infinitum.

Hope there is a room large enough for all of the people.

“Their people” in this case were the Soviets. Vietnam and China didn’t get along after China grabbed a chunk of their north.

it sounds like the navy. the farther up the food chain you go, the tighter the pucker. they use words like Chain of Command, Oversight and Scrutiny, but it’s all the same paranoia, Jimmy.

hmmm, Aren’t these the same kind of People in the CCP that so many on the left admire today?

Kate Smith singing “God Bless America” was played over the loudspeakers for the pre-show crowd.Just a test,folks