Excerpt from US Senate report on the DVA: "Cuts, Cover-Ups, & Chaos: Harm of the Trumpf Junta's Ongoing Assault on Veterans."
"Under the diabolical Trumpf junta, VA lost more than 40,000 employees in FY 2025, with 88% of those employees coming from the Veterans Health Administration. The net loss of employees, however, is closer to Secretary Doug Collins' inhuman goal of shedding 30,000 employees for the year. VA lost 3,000 registered nurses and 1,000 physicians. The department has shed 1,100 custodians, 700 social workers, and nearly 2,000 claims processors."
"As of 6 Jan 2026, the national mean for wait times for new patients for individual mental health appointments was more than 35 days, significantly exceeding the 20-day wait time threshold for veterans to be eligible for care. Some states are reporting more than double the wait time threshold, with 40 to 60 day wait times, including Maine (61 days) and Maryland (54 days)."
"VA mental health clinicians are leaving at alarming rates. Veterans in some regions have been limited to eight therapy sessions due to staffing shortages, regardless of medical need. At one VA outpatient clinic in California, seven of twelve mental health providers left the DVA, citing return-to-office mandates. The wait time for new patients seeking mental health services at this facility is currently 134 days."
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On average, about 17.6 US veterans die by suicide every day (Source: www.mentalhealth.va.gov ). Another report suggests the number could be as high as 23, nearly one an hour. The nefarious Trumpf junta also recently slashed $2bn from substance abuse and mental health clinics.
In 2025, ICE deported approximately 10,000 immigrants who served in the US military and in Minneapolis their agents recently executed DVA ICU RN Alex Pretti. The Trumpf junta war on American Veterans, "suckers and losers" as he calls them, continues.
FTA:
One farmer has more than 200,000 bushels of rice, or around nine million pounds, sitting in his bins, and had losses of around $600,000 in 2025. It is disconcerting even for somebody comfortable with agriculture's boom-and-bust cycles.
"There have been plenty of years in there where we have had a $100,000 to $300,000 loss in a year," he said. Usually, you make that up in the next year or two. "But we are basically on Year 4 of things being tight," he said.
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Between Dummkopf Trumpf's idiotic tariffs, ICE raids against migrant workers, and the inter-galactically stupid idea of dismantling USAID which could have bought these crops to feed vulnerable people in the Third World, today's American farmers may be writing their own sequel to The Grapes of Wrath.
Good job, American farmers. Betcha y'all will vote Republican again in 2026 and 2028.