Robert F. Kennedy Jr made another appearance at a Senate hearing to discuss plans to cut jobs from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and everyone saw the purge coming down the bureaucratic pike. Stacey Abrams, a former candidate for governor of the Peach State, made a comeback to the viral public eye, and a guy hardly anyone has ever heard of performed a decent break dance at a council meeting to wake up voters. If the people at the council meeting are any indication, however, waking up is not on the immediate to-do list.
Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr took the latest Senate hearing like Grant took Richmond. For those who didn’t tune in, he left Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stammering for a comeback and nearly had a purple face a few times. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was exposed for accepting contributions from Big Pharma to stock her war chest to the tune of $1 million or more, and found it difficult to stay on point while asking the same question over and over.
Kate Woods of Chicago observed: “RFK Jr definitely shakes up the political landscape, and that makes both parties uncomfortable. The strong reactions say more about the threat he poses to the status quo than anything else.”
While the Democratic senators barked and howled, Kennedy remained calm and spelled out the facts:
“These changes were absolutely necessary to restore the CDC’s role as the world’s gold standard public health with a central mission of protecting Americans from infectious disease,” he said.
Kennedy continued: “CDC failed that responsibility miserably during COVID when its disastrous and nonsensical policies destroyed small businesses, violated civil liberties, closed our schools, and caused generational damage in doing so, masked infants with no science, and heightened economic inequality.”
The secretary explained the reasoning behind his latest goal to fire numerous people at the Centers for Disease Control. “The U.S. is home to 4.2% of the world’s population, yet we had nearly 20% of the COVID deaths,” Kennedy said. “The people at CDC who oversaw that process, who put masks on our children, who closed our schools, are the people who will be leaving.”
Mike Hobbs found time to comment from his cattle ranch in New Mexico: “This crop of Democrats makes a herd of locoed prairie dogs look intelligent!”
Cranford Township in New Jersey held a town hall of sorts – and it became ground zero for an Olympic performance by a guy named Will Thilly, who was there to protest recent property tax hikes.
Thilly started his time by bustin’ a move down the aisle towards the podium. Whoever was keeping time, in a dismembered voice, warned: “Your time has started.” Jeff Porter just said, “Kind of explains New Jersey, doesn’t it?”
Thilly kept dancing – doing the Robot without music — and went to the mic. He seemed unprepared to make remarks, but he did. He talked about visiting family in Mexico, being afraid to fly, and then reversed course and performed what must have been his signature move, a backspin, before returning to the lectern and asking: “Why did my taxes go up so much?” He specifically questioned the council about expenses now suffered by schools, noting that some local government body had forgotten to inform the electorate before the vote.
Sarah Karen in Minneapolis, MN, commented: “Life is so weird.” Maybe it’s Thilly’s time. He is an independent candidate for the town council.
Jalen Carter, a defensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles, was ejected for spitting on Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott at the start of Thursday night’s game. Talk about weird. But here is why this became political: The incident and image of Carter – not quite as famous as Dak – went viral. And it created a whole new problem on top of fines and threats by the league: People started saying that Carter had an uncanny, mirror-like resemblance to defeated (yet unceded) Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams.
“The spitting image” was the deadpan response by Randy Stine in Judyville, IN, who said: “Poor guy. Bet he won’t do that again.”
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