Posted on 06/02/2025 8:18:08 AM PDT by DallasBiff
DAVID BROOKS, NEW YORK TIMES: Yes, I'm not sure it was wreckage. There was wreckage if you're at NIH. There are wreckage at certain agencies, but the guy only saved $65 billion out of a multitrillion-dollar budget.
So, as a budget matter, you would not say he had a big effect, but he did manage to destroy NIH and USAID. And the USAID one is the one I haven't gotten over. And so there's folks at Boston University who count, how many people have died because of what DOGE did at USAID? And USAID was a very ill-managed organization. That's true.
But according to the Boston University folks, so far, 55,000 adults have died of AIDS in the four months since Trump was elected, 6,000 children are dead because of what DOGE did. That's just PEPFAR, the HIV. You add them all up, that's 300,000 dead, and we're four months in.
Now, you add, accumulate that over four years, the number of dead grows very high. There are mass murderers in the world, Pol Pot, Mao Tse-Tung, Stalin. We don't have anybody on the list from America. And I don't think it's the same as committing the kind of genocide they did. But by taking away that agency and being at least semi-responsible for the deaths of probably by the end of this hundreds of thousands of millions of people, that's Elon Musk's legacy.
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Deaths from government, and deaths without government are two very different things, Mr. Brooks.
I like David Brooks of the NYT to Walter Duranty of the NYT.
I wonder what else is not going to happen
“There are mass murderers in the world, Pol Pot, Mao Tse-Tung, Stalin. We don’t have anybody on the list from
America.”
Hey David, Rachel Carson was an American!
Agree, but David Brooks is neither fool or idiot.
He is evil. A spokesman for evil.
Brooks is a real life Balph Eubanks.
huh... I thought Brooks was dead already...well I knew his commentary was long ago, but I seriously thought he’d passed
All the people pol pot Stalin ect were enthusiastically supported by David Brooks & people like him read mark levin’s books to find out. If musk was anything remotely like them Brooks & his friends would have been dead a long time ago. Brooks has taken one to many tokes on the hashpipe.
Bernie Sanders went around saying how Republican opposition to single payer government run health care was killing tens of thousands of people. This incited the baseball practice assassin to try to kill Republican congressmen. The FBI and media never blamed Sanders as they should have. They did try to lynch Sarah Palin for the survey marker on a handout indicating representing districs we needed to win in the election.
David Brooks is engaging in incitement to murder and knows he won’t pay any price for anything his words incite.
This kind of false witness is “blood libel”. (Some want to reserve the phrase for murder accusation and incitement to violence and terrorism against Jews, but the shoe fits.)
Brooks is a pant load of propaganda.
Whereas 92% went to the actually intended beneficiaries.
I don't know what the annual death toll is from AIDS in recent years but in 2021 it was not in the top 10 causes of death. The 10th most common cause was kidney disease which accounted for 54,358 deaths, for an entire year.
And he implies that gays who want to engage in risky sexual behavior are dependent on the government for access to a medicine that reduces their chances of infection.
Every now and then a belch from the NYT’s “conservative” pet. Gotta keep that corporate goodwill and dough flowing.
Brooks IS A CERTIFIED IDIOT.
SORY TO IDIOTS.
OR A CLOWN.
SORRY CLOWNS !!!
NYT. NOT YOUR TRUTH.
WHO WOULD PAY FOR THIS CRAP ?
AIDS is self inflicted
Me no care
Maybe Musk just needs to get a better crease in his pants.
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