The place to look for these "Wichita-style" cartoons and memes is almost always on the margins of a news story... and almost never within the substance of a news story.

When something is called marginal, it's seldom (if ever) an argument for it.

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quote Originally posted by cliffw: What are you trying to say ? The Biden administration to help Puerto Rico which is still struggling, five months later, to recover from Hurricane Maria and from an inept relief effort from the Trump administration? Did the Biden Crime syndicate gyp the American taxpayers, again?

That was copy and paste from a news report that was published in 2018, in the wake of Hurricane Maria's impact on Puerto Rico during Trump's first and (so far) only term in office, and about the Trump administration and FEMA, in that context.

I set it up as a parallel to this cartoon, from Wichita:


My purpose is to document my observation that Wichita's commentaries on this forum are (largely) white noise, as defined (the second definition) in this dictionary entry from Merriam-Webster; to wit:
https://www.merriam-webster...ca%20Joseph%20Nocera

White noise

quote meaningless or distracting commotion, hubbub, or chatter

By setting up this "parallel" as I have called it, I am focusing a spotlight on the disingenuousness of this latest cartoon from Wichita.

The not so illustrious facts of the Trump administration's emergency response to Hurricane Maria could well have elicited a similar cartoon in which Trump would have been the "bad guy." That's a cartoon that I could imagine from a (hypothetical) "alt-Wichita," but it is not a cartoon that I can imagine from the actual Wichita, who is clearly separated from the objective and the rational by a distance that is metaphorically greater than the distance that separates the outermost of the solar system's planets—Neptune—from our earth.

That is a very large distance indeed, from a common human perspective.

I hope I have clarified—specially for "cliffw"—what it was I was saying, when he asked me what I was trying to say. Have I so clarified that? Comments are welcome, especially from "cliffw."

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"President Biden announces $95 million through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to harden Hawaiʻi’s power grid and position the state to better withstand future storms."

"More than 1,000 Federal personnel are [currently] on the ground on Maui to aid response efforts."


"Biden-⁠Harris Administration’s Latest Actions to Support Communities Impacted by Maui Wildfires"
White House online briefing room; August 30, 2023.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/...by-maui-wildfires-4/

This latest update on what could fairly be called the "All of Government" response to the fire disaster on the Hawaiian island of Maui has a Read-o-Meter rating of over 11 minutes.

It also underscores the inanity—the unthinking mindlessness—of this string of cartoons that have appeared on this forum, all hyping up the nonsensical idea that President Biden is oblivious to the dimensions of this fire disaster on Maui, or disinclined to do anything about it.

Does anyone think that forum member Wichita actually has a gripe or a criticism or even a single coherent thought about how President Biden and the Biden administration are reacting to the fire disaster on Maui?

Obviously, a rhetorical question.

I'm not so much pro-Biden or "pro-anything," as I am anti-inanity.

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