April Idiot's Day
Keep Talking, Cory - You'll Never Be President...and Other Stuff
I wish it had not been on April Fool’s Day, but it was a long time coming.
New Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced the elimination of thousands of bureaucrats today.
They were, needless to say, stunned. The Washington Post reports that the CDC and NIH are experiencing ‘havoc” because of the cuts.
Note that the Post story says little, pretty much nothing, about the actual state of public health…just that fed workers are getting the axe and that’s the really bad thing. And that’s because they are a company town paper, in this case the company is the federal givernment (typo intentional.)
It is, of course, what the Post would say as it stopped being a newspaper and became a mouthpiece for the entrenched bureaucracy many many years ago.
Others put forth a whimpering that if there is no such thing as an “assistant deputy director for interagency outreach” millions of children will die.
It seems the higher-ups being let go/re-assigned/sent home with a paycheck/put on an ice floe/etc. do have a certain thing in common – they were part of the catastrophically damaging covid “effort.”
For example:
At the National Institutes of Health, a nearly $48 billion biomedical research agency, at least five top leaders were put on leave. Among those offered reassignment were the infectious-disease institute director Jeanne Marrazzo, according to emails obtained by The Washington Post and multiple people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Marrazzo had succeeded Anthony S. Fauci as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which helped lead the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and later became a target of Republicans. An internal email showed that two other leaders there, Cliff Lane and Emily Erbelding, also lost their jobs, and the agency had no advance notice of who had been targeted for layoffs through the reduction in force, or RIF.
Note that eliminating the egregious Faucists was blamed on Republicans. Maybe the disastrous response to covid may have had something to do with it, but that was never even alluded to by the Post.
But one can understand the blathering pan faced confusion occurring at the NIH, CDC, ETC. now amongst the employees.
They never ever thought they could lose their jobs and/or be held accountable. For almost all of them, today was the same as having aa child you actually birthed – you were there of course – come to you and say they are not really your kid.
Simply inconceivable.
No fooling.
As it is April Fool’s. I thought of writing something silly and odd to see if anyone would bite – but knowing my readers that seemed fruitless. You know better than to believe that spaghetti trees exist and you know better than the possibility that Barack Obama’s library project is being sued for discrimination.
Oh wait. That’s true.
Well, since truth and fiction and silliness have become an everyday occurrence, then what is the point of April Fool’s Day?
Well, how about calling it April Foolish Day and nearly ending with this from Lewis Carroll:
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Tis twilling indeed.
Funny note – I left the “n” off of “human” in the second graf and the Word editor didn’t notice because it spelled “Huma.”
Huma Services…I think that’s a Soros gig now…
And that is no foolie.
PS – Sen. Booker will still never be president, no matter how long he talks…