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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Elon is not a communist and you have a warped view of DOGE.
What a pantload of propaganda.
“And so there’s folks at Boston University who count, how many people have died because of what DOGE did at USAID? “
the BU criminals insured their own students to make
money; no doubt a tactic learned by California mayors
before they burned their cities.
USAID was a moneypot, a means of transferring tax dollars to Leftist activists.
I have read only 8% of USAID money actually reached the people it was claimed to be funded for, those in need.
“David Brooks Likens Musk to Pol Pot and Stalin: Being Responsible For The Deaths Of Millions Of People Will Be His Legacy”
I liken David Brooks to Mo Howard, only without the comedic talent and sympathetic attitude towards his fellow man.
His legacy will be that he is wrong about everything, yet still has a voice in the polluted stream of misinformation known as the MSM.
Elon must be his hero then because the other three certainly are.
The guy’s nuts. As momma always said: “$65 billion is $65 billions.” That’s our money, you crazy lunatic.
I am sick of fools, particularly of fools who proclaim themselves as wise. IDIOT! Sometimes it is best to just SHUT UP and go away, and this Brooks needs to flow elsewhere.
Giant lawsuit. But what's his FR nick?
I’m no Musk fan, but this is ridiculous.
Brooks is an embarrassment.
He only gets his face-time on leftist networks...therefore he speaks their language.
Fauci and Biden beat all of them.
This statement sums up the small mindedness of a typical NY Times reporter and all of those like him who can't comprehend what money can buy over any budget larger than about $4 million. "Journalists" and politicians question nothing anymore.
Brooks is an absolute J-off.
Leftists have never been very eager to condemn communist dictators while they were actively committing atrocities against their own people. In fact, they have a history of ignoring, covering up, apologizing for, and/or collaborating with said regimes.
FU David Brooks.
For finding fraud??
All you need to know about David Brooks is that he thought Obama was qualified to be President because he had an immaculate crease in his trousers. Another “expert” who is ALWAYS wrong!
This is the kind of propaganda that was being put out under Stalin in the old Soviet Union.
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