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Like any intelligent person would trust a man who was a long term heroin addict with a worm eaten brain and no medical background to make decisions for their health. What IS this regimes goal? Ripping people off Medicaid, ending USAid so people here and around the world can starve to death and die from preventable diseases and now restricting or removing the Covid vaccine after losing over a million Americans during the pandemic? It has to equate to money. It’s ALWAYS about money for this circus with the orange ring leader.

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UVB-76's avatar

Silhouettes and shadows

Watch the revolution

No more free steps to Heaven

Just walkie-talkie, Heaven or hearth

Just big heads and drums

Full speed and pagan

And it's no game

I am barred from the event

I really don't understand the situation

So where's the moral

People have their fingers broken

To be insulted by these fascists

Is so degrading

And it's no game

Documentaries on refugees

Couples 'gainst the target

Throw a rock against the road

And it breaks into pieces

Draw the blinds on yesterday

And it's all so much scarier

Put a bullet in my brain

And it makes all the papers

And it's no game

Children round the world

Put camel shit on the walls

They're making carpets on treadmills

Or garbage sorting

And it's no game

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Marcie. I work in a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in The South Bronx, coordinating care for HIV positive adults. When I was a patient navigator (I was promoted), I led the weekly health promotion groups. No matter the topic that week, I started every group with a short demonstration of proper handwashing technique, and encouraged everyone to wear a mask that covers both nose and mouth.

I was thrilled when Black Enterprise (online) magazine published a profile of Kizzmekia Corbett, who had been working on a SARS vaccine for six years when Dr. Fauci tapped her (and the entire team she worked with) for the development of a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, better known as COVID-19. I printed the article for group attendees, some of whom were hesitant to get vaxxed. Why? She's Black, Christian, southern, and beautiful -- I knew she'd appeal to the people who came to groups. She's now teaching at Harvard and Radcliffe. Her team, and Dolly Parton's funding, gave us the Moderna mRNA vaccines.

I never stopped masking. I wear a KN-95 when on the bus or subway, and a paper mask (over a silicon frame that keeps it off my lips) everywhere in the clinic. The only time I'm unmasked is when I'm in my office alone with the door shut, and when I'm eating lunch. I'm not due for a booster until October, but I'm going to ask my PCP to give it to me as soon as it's available. Beloved husband Meccalopolis goes back to teaching K-5 right after Labor Day, and the snot puppets (as he calls them affectionately) will most certainly send him home carrying the virus. I should not have any trouble obtaining the updated shot; I'm over 65. I am well prepared for the next pandemic. I hope you are, too.

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Furiouser and Furiouser's avatar

My beloved father was a doctor. JAMA and New England Journal of Medicine, thick volumes of entirely gray pages (all words, most of them very long words) arrived in the mail every week. I can still picture him sitting in the living room going through them, reading the articles that pertained to his practice, building a stack on the floor of the ones he’d gone through.

Shortly after the last election, Dad told me how disappointed and personally affronted he felt by Dr. Oz and Ronny Jackson et al. Doctors, he thought, should be held to a higher standard. He was so offended by RFK Jr that he could only shake his head.

Of course, RFKJ isn’t a doctor and clearly has no respect for doctors. My father, who was one of three students who wore black armbands on their white coats at the University of South Carolina medical school when JFK was assassinated, could not conceive of a Kennedy with such callous disregard for the health of human beings.

Over the last few years, Dad seemed to be preparing for the end of his life, as people do in their 80s. After the election he seemed to rally and said he wanted to live long enough to see the end of Donald Trump. Although I am glad he is at peace now, I wish he could have lived long enough to see the end of this godforsaken era in American history. If there is to be an end.

William Garrison Porter 2-14-1938 - 8-3-2025.

Thanks as always for indulging me.

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

Sorry for your loss.

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Zyxomma's avatar

May his memory always be a blessing. Thank you for sharing him with us.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

I repeatedly see fotos of Rubio next to Sir -- in these "Cabinet Meetin's" -- turning away to his right, dropping his head, and covering both his nose and mouth. It's as if he had just crossed the Rubiocon to escape the exhalations of Sir's ass trumpet only to find that, once on the opposite shore, the smell is even worse.

This has given rise to the Cabinet's salutation "Inhale Caesar".

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Tango Charlie's avatar

There's no doubt that the Trump administration is advocating eugenics to "weed out" those whose bodies cannot cope with deadly communicable infections.

The unintended consequence is that the majority of deaths will probably be MAGAt voters.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

To offset concerns RFKJr. promises a free Flensing Knife* for the first 1,000,000 cases.

*Whales sold separately

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Bagels of Doom's avatar

Also, bless any researcher or other worker in the field for giving us the tools to actually keep things like screwworms in check while also being willing to put up with parasitic species.

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Dina's avatar

"...while also being willing to put up with parasitic species (including Republicans)."

FTFY

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Bagels of Doom's avatar

"Why wouldn’t one just breed sterile female flies? Maybe if any of the 15,000 newly jobless USDA scientists are reading, they can jump in the comments and let us know!"

Hard to keep a breeding line going when the result is sterile females.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

Bobby Brain Worm has already reneged on his promise to remove “toxins” from our food and scaled back on food inspections. So at this point, “MAHA” just means watching him and Shitfaced do pull-ups. Badly.

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Thorn Spike's avatar

We are so screwwormed.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

The problem with sterile females is that females mate only once and then go lay their eggs. Males can mate with multiple females before they die. So it doesn’t matter how many sterile females a horny male mates with as long it finds at least one fertile female. But a sterile male will mate with multiple females without producing any viable offspring.

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Ron Spangler's avatar

Is anyone toting up the Trump Body Count? RFK's about to take the lead in the domestic deaths competition. Let's weaponize DOJ, when we get the chance, and see to it that he pays for his crimes.

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Joe Schmoe, Troublemaker's avatar

David Geier looks like the least successful Russian oligarch ever created in USSR/CCCP fan-fic history rag!

Also, and much more importantly: Lady Marcie of Jones, yet another outstanding piece of journalism. #NobelPrize

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nigel marshall's avatar

They only got a million or so the first time.

But people voted for them again, so they are coming for the rest of you.

We have freedumb-loving loonies in Canada, too, but this picture captures the difference in their influence:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/maid-of-the-mist-niagara-falls-hornblower-covid-1.5658620

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