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Please Hold, Your Line Will Be Answered in Four Years
Attribution: A robot takes calls for the VA by Bruce Plante, PoliticalCartoons.com
Author: patd
“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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The MAGA cult’s fealty to President Trump is rapidly approaching North Korea levels.
earlier in the week as people began disappearing just for speaking up
Jon Stewart goes old-school Daily Show on Trump and Republicans who pride themselves on “saving” free speech, all while censoring anybody who doesn’t agree with them.
“If we renew tax cuts for the rich paid for by throwing people off Medicaid, we’re gonna get f–king slaughtered,” a White House official said (AXIOS)
“Your Line Will Be Answered in Four Years”
Great headline Pat!
What viewers are saying about my cooking channel: “I LIKE THESE VIDEOS BECAUSE the internet is over saturated with professional cooking videos”…”This man’s a genius”…”I have learned in my life that grampa’s always know what they do and i trust this one too”
Craig – congratulations on your new YT career.
Craig, so how shall we address you in this new role as “grampa” — gramps? grandpappy? peepaw?
This is an actual car parked down the street from me. I made a meme for it.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s vow to “eliminate” the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is raising the alarm from experts on disaster assistance, who say it could leave vulnerable communities at risk.
President Trump has also said he would consider “getting rid of FEMA.”
Carrie Speranza, president of the USA Council of the International Association of Emergency Managers, told The Hill that if FEMA is shut down, she would be “fearful for this next hurricane season and what that means for survivors.”
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has frozen nearly $10 billion in disaster aid for nonprofits including hospitals as it seeks to identify funding that could be used to help undocumented migrants, according to agency documents obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News.
The blocked money had been approved for nongovernmental organizations to rebuild their own facilities after a disaster and to provide services such as short-term housing to survivors.
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) received an overwhelmingly negative reaction to her answer about whether she will call on Pete Hegseth to resign as secretary of defense.
*Another town hall, another Republican who doesn’t give a rat’s rear-end about their constituents.
The Airbus A319 was carrying 131 passengers, two pilots and three flight attendants, according to a Delta spokesperson. The plane was embarking on a regularly scheduled flight between Reagan and Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
A review of tracking data from FlightRadar24 showed an Air Force T-38 jet flying past the Delta plane and DCA airport going more than 350 miles per hour at 800 feet, according to a CNN report. The military jet took off before landing at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.
***
On that departure … was there an actual aircraft about 500 ft below us as we came off of DCA,” the Delta pilot asked air traffic controllers on audio captured by website LiveATC.net.
“Delta 2983, affirmative,” the Departure controller responds.
The pilot also noted they received a warning in the cockpit, called a “resolution advisory” from the plane’s Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System. The system tells a pilot what to do to avoid a collision.
*MTV Sean and Fox Noise Hegseth need to be fired IMMEDIATELY.
Craig – I hear that DC is in bloom! Go take pics before Adolf has the cherry trees cut down for being Japanese.
This is my red bud tree in bloom today. Storms tonight, so taking pics of everything with blooms.
It has been many days since I had my CT scan at the Ann Arbor VA hospital. No report, not a word at all. No news is good news…or IS it?
Dexter – do you use MyHealtheVet.gov? In the Blue Button report page you should see your results and download the scan to your computer.
Dr. Peter Marks, the top vaccine regulator at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, was forced to resign, citing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “misinformation and lies” around immunization.
“As you are aware, I was willing to work to address the Secretary’s concerns regarding vaccine safety and transparency by hearing from the public and implementing a variety of different public meetings and engagements with the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,” Marks wrote in a resignation letter obtained by media outlets, including NPR and The Wall Street Journal.
“However, it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” he wrote.
On Tuesday, Martin Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as FDA commissioner. Makary supported the controversial idea pushing for natural immunity through COVID-19 infection as preferable to vaccine-induced immunity.
“In forcing Peter Marks to resign, RFK Jr. is now the wolf guarding the hen house,” said Dr. Paul Offit told NPR, adding it “a sad day for America’s children.”
Marks had for the last decade been the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and with the agency since 2012. His work included a leading role in Operation Warp Speed, the effort to develop vaccines against COVID-19 in 2020 during the first Trump administration. His last day at the agency will be April 5.
*Also on April 5th, if you don’t live out in the sticks.
Health officials say federal cuts will hurt Texas’ measles response
The Trump administration this week announced plans to clawback $11 billion in pandemic-era grants that could harm local Texas public health departments as they battle a historic measles outbreak.
In Lubbock, where many of the 40 Texans infected with measles have been hospitalized, grant funding affected by the announcement has paid for an epidemiologist who has directly responded to the measles outbreak in West Texas that has killed a 6-year-old girl. In Dallas, the grant funding was helping to equip a biolaboratory that will support more testing for pathogens, including measles.
This measles outbreak has further exposed Texas’ threadbare public health system.
The grants, she said, allowed her to hire eight people to help shoulder the workload the outbreak has brought.
***
Texas measles cases rise to 400, the outbreak’s biggest 3-day spike
Last month, Texas officials reported that an unvaccinated, otherwise healthy school-aged child died from measles, the first death from the virus in a decade; the family lives in the outbreak area.
This month, New Mexico officials said an unvaccinated adult in Lea County, about 50 miles away from Gaines County, died with measles, but officials have not confirmed the cause of death was the measles, according to The Associated Press.
The Centers for Disease Control and local officials have also linked measles cases in Oklahoma to the outbreak.
West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed the CDC to update its measles guidance to promote the use of vitamin A.
During a March 4 interview on Fox News, Kennedy suggested that therapies such as the use of cod liver oil — which contains vitamins A and D — were “working” in treating measles patients.
There are reports from the West Texas area that cod liver oil is in high demand and a big seller at area pharmacies.
There is no evidence that taking vitamin A will prevent measles.
The World Health Organization has administered vitamin A in Africa to reduce mortality during measles outbreaks. This is a strategy in a part of the world with widespread malnourishment, and vitamin A deficiency compromises the immune system. However, malnourishment is not a problem in West Texas or in other locations where the measles outbreak has spread in the U.S.
Things are very quiet in the FL hole, and the WH. Very quiet, only a small response to krasnov telling the French they must be white supremacists too. Vance seems to be trying the “no suit” look, but not well, and has returned from his mini vacation, 3.5 hours, to Thule AFB Greenland. Not much noise from him either. And, continuing his disappearing act, muskovite is very quiet, probably hoping that the Wisconsin police cannot find his sorry weepy butt.
Hmm = could this be the weekend at least one, hopefully more, Signal chat group find their ID card no longer works on the door? There are little posts about leaks from the WH showing up on various disinformation sites. Feelers to the public, does anyone care if they are kept on staff? Does anyone care if they are tossed to the media? The longer this keeps up someone will be sacrificed.
i’d listen to liberal podcasts, but they just confirm what i already knew
i’d listen to conservative podcasts, but they just confirm what i already knew
“Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) received an overwhelmingly negative reaction to her answer about whether she will call on Pete Hegseth to resign as secretary of defense.”
BB – Everyone on that call needs to be axed, as does RFKJ for giving damaging medical advice, and Koncentration Kamp Kristi Noem and Tom Homan for human rights violations.
Hopefully, MuskRat is in a dark room taking all of the vitamin K he can gets his hands on. All of it.
Isn’t amazing that the world would be better if Putin, Adolf, Elon, Vance, and Vought didn’t exist. The rest would quickly crumble. JD is seeming more evil by the day.
Report about alleged mistreatment of female detainees at Krome Detention Center sparks protest
“They described being run through the corridors by guards while men in their rooms looked on,” Villagran told CBS News Miami during an interview earlier this week. “They were also allegedly held in cells with up to 30 women in a tiny space with two toilets, no stalls and with cameras trained on them.”
*Also, several men have died in Krome. The police response to protesters looks excessive…and military.
Local news showed local protests! Yay! Coverage! Now, let’s see if national news will do it, too, the complicit bastards.
The house MAGAt immediately got up and left the room.
Update: Zero coverage of anti-tRUMPutin or ICE protests on CBS (state media?) Evening News.
Ever wonder why 45 was not 25’d? Or why you don’t hear 25 47? How about the cabinet knows that is the end of their life in the federal government. They are cognizant they are not capable of doing the job they are sitting in.
BB – Repugz don’t have to worry about Elon (or Thiel, at any other billionaire) primarying them. The pain being caused by Congress allowing Donny’s DOGE demons ruin their lives will ensure they are done. MAGAts won’t be able to blame Don-Old directly, at least not out loud to their family/group, so they will go after Congress…and Elon, who has lost whatever mojo he had; not a genius, heavily-leveraged, taxpayer-funded, non-trad family, drug user, crybaby when he wants to “exploit” empathy (which is why he said it was a weakness), inhumane, transactional asshat.
Dems will find the same happening to them if they don’t step up.
The MAGA cult’s fealty to President Trump is rapidly approaching North Korea levels.
https://image.caglecartoons.com/294225/600/trump-voters-feeling-the-pain.png
Attribution: Trump Voters Feeling the Pain by Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News, NY
earlier in the week as people began disappearing just for speaking up
Jon Stewart goes old-school Daily Show on Trump and Republicans who pride themselves on “saving” free speech, all while censoring anybody who doesn’t agree with them.
“If we renew tax cuts for the rich paid for by throwing people off Medicaid, we’re gonna get f–king slaughtered,” a White House official said (AXIOS)
“Your Line Will Be Answered in Four Years”
Great headline Pat!
What viewers are saying about my cooking channel: “I LIKE THESE VIDEOS BECAUSE the internet is over saturated with professional cooking videos”…”This man’s a genius”…”I have learned in my life that grampa’s always know what they do and i trust this one too”
Craig – congratulations on your new YT career.
Craig, so how shall we address you in this new role as “grampa” — gramps? grandpappy? peepaw?
This is an actual car parked down the street from me. I made a meme for it.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5220996-noem-trump-fema-elimination-concerns/
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s vow to “eliminate” the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is raising the alarm from experts on disaster assistance, who say it could leave vulnerable communities at risk.
President Trump has also said he would consider “getting rid of FEMA.”
Carrie Speranza, president of the USA Council of the International Association of Emergency Managers, told The Hill that if FEMA is shut down, she would be “fearful for this next hurricane season and what that means for survivors.”
***
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/fema-blocks-disaster-aid-immigrants-00256910
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has frozen nearly $10 billion in disaster aid for nonprofits including hospitals as it seeks to identify funding that could be used to help undocumented migrants, according to agency documents obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News.
The blocked money had been approved for nongovernmental organizations to rebuild their own facilities after a disaster and to provide services such as short-term housing to survivors.
*Enjoy spring storm season!
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/politics/video/victoria-spartz-town-hall-indiana-digvid
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) received an overwhelmingly negative reaction to her answer about whether she will call on Pete Hegseth to resign as secretary of defense.
*Another town hall, another Republican who doesn’t give a rat’s rear-end about their constituents.
today’s meme…
https://patch.com/virginia/arlington-va/delta-flight-air-force-jet-avoid-possible-collision-near-dca
The Airbus A319 was carrying 131 passengers, two pilots and three flight attendants, according to a Delta spokesperson. The plane was embarking on a regularly scheduled flight between Reagan and Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
A review of tracking data from FlightRadar24 showed an Air Force T-38 jet flying past the Delta plane and DCA airport going more than 350 miles per hour at 800 feet, according to a CNN report. The military jet took off before landing at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.
***
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/us/delta-military-jet-close-call-dca/index.html
On that departure … was there an actual aircraft about 500 ft below us as we came off of DCA,” the Delta pilot asked air traffic controllers on audio captured by website LiveATC.net.
“Delta 2983, affirmative,” the Departure controller responds.
The pilot also noted they received a warning in the cockpit, called a “resolution advisory” from the plane’s Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System. The system tells a pilot what to do to avoid a collision.
*MTV Sean and Fox Noise Hegseth need to be fired IMMEDIATELY.
Craig – I hear that DC is in bloom! Go take pics before Adolf has the cherry trees cut down for being Japanese.
This is my red bud tree in bloom today. Storms tonight, so taking pics of everything with blooms.
It has been many days since I had my CT scan at the Ann Arbor VA hospital. No report, not a word at all. No news is good news…or IS it?
Dexter – do you use MyHealtheVet.gov? In the Blue Button report page you should see your results and download the scan to your computer.
meme #2…
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/03/29/USA-FDA-Peter-Marks-vaccine-regulator-resigns/7381743259347/
Dr. Peter Marks, the top vaccine regulator at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, was forced to resign, citing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “misinformation and lies” around immunization.
“As you are aware, I was willing to work to address the Secretary’s concerns regarding vaccine safety and transparency by hearing from the public and implementing a variety of different public meetings and engagements with the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,” Marks wrote in a resignation letter obtained by media outlets, including NPR and The Wall Street Journal.
“However, it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” he wrote.
On Tuesday, Martin Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as FDA commissioner. Makary supported the controversial idea pushing for natural immunity through COVID-19 infection as preferable to vaccine-induced immunity.
“In forcing Peter Marks to resign, RFK Jr. is now the wolf guarding the hen house,” said Dr. Paul Offit told NPR, adding it “a sad day for America’s children.”
Marks had for the last decade been the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and with the agency since 2012. His work included a leading role in Operation Warp Speed, the effort to develop vaccines against COVID-19 in 2020 during the first Trump administration. His last day at the agency will be April 5.
*Also on April 5th, if you don’t live out in the sticks.
Rock it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=muKkVufgkAE&pp=ygUQdGllbG1hbiBicm90aGVycw%3D%3D
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/26/texas-measles-public-health-funding-cut/
Health officials say federal cuts will hurt Texas’ measles response
The Trump administration this week announced plans to clawback $11 billion in pandemic-era grants that could harm local Texas public health departments as they battle a historic measles outbreak.
In Lubbock, where many of the 40 Texans infected with measles have been hospitalized, grant funding affected by the announcement has paid for an epidemiologist who has directly responded to the measles outbreak in West Texas that has killed a 6-year-old girl. In Dallas, the grant funding was helping to equip a biolaboratory that will support more testing for pathogens, including measles.
This measles outbreak has further exposed Texas’ threadbare public health system.
The grants, she said, allowed her to hire eight people to help shoulder the workload the outbreak has brought.
***
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/18/texas-measles-outbreak-climbs/
Texas measles cases rise to 400, the outbreak’s biggest 3-day spike
Last month, Texas officials reported that an unvaccinated, otherwise healthy school-aged child died from measles, the first death from the virus in a decade; the family lives in the outbreak area.
This month, New Mexico officials said an unvaccinated adult in Lea County, about 50 miles away from Gaines County, died with measles, but officials have not confirmed the cause of death was the measles, according to The Associated Press.
The Centers for Disease Control and local officials have also linked measles cases in Oklahoma to the outbreak.
Of the cases, all but two have been unvaccinated.
https://www.tpr.org/public-health/2025-03-27/west-texas-children-treated-for-vitamin-a-toxicity-as-medical-disinformation-spreads-alongside-measles-outbreak
West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed the CDC to update its measles guidance to promote the use of vitamin A.
During a March 4 interview on Fox News, Kennedy suggested that therapies such as the use of cod liver oil — which contains vitamins A and D — were “working” in treating measles patients.
There are reports from the West Texas area that cod liver oil is in high demand and a big seller at area pharmacies.
There is no evidence that taking vitamin A will prevent measles.
The World Health Organization has administered vitamin A in Africa to reduce mortality during measles outbreaks. This is a strategy in a part of the world with widespread malnourishment, and vitamin A deficiency compromises the immune system. However, malnourishment is not a problem in West Texas or in other locations where the measles outbreak has spread in the U.S.
Things are very quiet in the FL hole, and the WH. Very quiet, only a small response to krasnov telling the French they must be white supremacists too. Vance seems to be trying the “no suit” look, but not well, and has returned from his mini vacation, 3.5 hours, to Thule AFB Greenland. Not much noise from him either. And, continuing his disappearing act, muskovite is very quiet, probably hoping that the Wisconsin police cannot find his sorry weepy butt.
Hmm = could this be the weekend at least one, hopefully more, Signal chat group find their ID card no longer works on the door? There are little posts about leaks from the WH showing up on various disinformation sites. Feelers to the public, does anyone care if they are kept on staff? Does anyone care if they are tossed to the media? The longer this keeps up someone will be sacrificed.
i’d listen to liberal podcasts, but they just confirm what i already knew
i’d listen to conservative podcasts, but they just confirm what i already knew
birdsong it is!
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/politics/video/victoria-spartz-town-hall-indiana-digvid
“Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) received an overwhelmingly negative reaction to her answer about whether she will call on Pete Hegseth to resign as secretary of defense.”
BB – Everyone on that call needs to be axed, as does RFKJ for giving damaging medical advice, and Koncentration Kamp Kristi Noem and Tom Homan for human rights violations.
Hopefully, MuskRat is in a dark room taking all of the vitamin K he can gets his hands on. All of it.
Isn’t amazing that the world would be better if Putin, Adolf, Elon, Vance, and Vought didn’t exist. The rest would quickly crumble. JD is seeming more evil by the day.
Most of FL is built on a future sinkhole, right?
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/protest-outside-of-ice-krome-detention-center-after-allegations-of-mistreatment-of-female-detainees/
Report about alleged mistreatment of female detainees at Krome Detention Center sparks protest
“They described being run through the corridors by guards while men in their rooms looked on,” Villagran told CBS News Miami during an interview earlier this week. “They were also allegedly held in cells with up to 30 women in a tiny space with two toilets, no stalls and with cameras trained on them.”
*Also, several men have died in Krome. The police response to protesters looks excessive…and military.
Local news showed local protests! Yay! Coverage! Now, let’s see if national news will do it, too, the complicit bastards.
The house MAGAt immediately got up and left the room.
Update: Zero coverage of anti-tRUMPutin or ICE protests on CBS (state media?) Evening News.
Ever wonder why 45 was not 25’d? Or why you don’t hear 25 47? How about the cabinet knows that is the end of their life in the federal government. They are cognizant they are not capable of doing the job they are sitting in.
BB – Repugz don’t have to worry about Elon (or Thiel, at any other billionaire) primarying them. The pain being caused by Congress allowing Donny’s DOGE demons ruin their lives will ensure they are done. MAGAts won’t be able to blame Don-Old directly, at least not out loud to their family/group, so they will go after Congress…and Elon, who has lost whatever mojo he had; not a genius, heavily-leveraged, taxpayer-funded, non-trad family, drug user, crybaby when he wants to “exploit” empathy (which is why he said it was a weakness), inhumane, transactional asshat.
Dems will find the same happening to them if they don’t step up.
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