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David Brooks Likens Musk to Pol Pot and Stalin: Being Responsible For The Deaths Of Millions Of People Will Be His Legacy
Real Clear Politics ^ | 5/31/25 | Ian Schwartz

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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Pol Pot, Mao, and Stalin were rabid communists, David.

Elon is not a communist and you have a warped view of DOGE.

1 posted on 06/02/2025 8:18:08 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

What a pantload of propaganda.


2 posted on 06/02/2025 8:20:40 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: DallasBiff

“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.


3 posted on 06/02/2025 8:20:45 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: DallasBiff

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.


4 posted on 06/02/2025 8:24:06 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: DallasBiff

“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.


5 posted on 06/02/2025 8:25:18 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: DallasBiff

Elon must be his hero then because the other three certainly are.


6 posted on 06/02/2025 8:27:21 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: DallasBiff

The guy’s nuts. As momma always said: “$65 billion is $65 billions.” That’s our money, you crazy lunatic.


7 posted on 06/02/2025 8:27:48 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: DallasBiff

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.


8 posted on 06/02/2025 8:28:53 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Giant lawsuit. But what's his FR nick?

9 posted on 06/02/2025 8:29:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The best thing about a muzzie civil war is, everyone wins.)
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To: DallasBiff

I’m no Musk fan, but this is ridiculous.

Brooks is an embarrassment.


10 posted on 06/02/2025 8:29:38 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: chajin

He only gets his face-time on leftist networks...therefore he speaks their language.


11 posted on 06/02/2025 8:31:14 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: DallasBiff

Fauci and Biden beat all of them.


12 posted on 06/02/2025 8:32:33 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: DallasBiff
only saved $65 billion out of a multitrillion-dollar budget.

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.

13 posted on 06/02/2025 8:33:46 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: DallasBiff

Brooks is an absolute J-off.


14 posted on 06/02/2025 8:34:37 AM PDT by Signalman (When your enemy is digging himself a hole, don't take away his shovel.)
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To: DallasBiff

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.


15 posted on 06/02/2025 8:35:16 AM PDT by paint_your_wagon
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To: DallasBiff

For finding fraud??


16 posted on 06/02/2025 8:35:54 AM PDT by Mr. K (no consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: DallasBiff
Translation: "If the US doesn't spend hundreds of billions of dollars it doesn't have, and go deeper into debt that the Boomer's grandchildren will never be able to pay off, then millions of people will die."

Enough, already. As if population controllers like David Brooks actually care if people die. If government policy ends up killing people, people like Brooks consider that a benefit.
17 posted on 06/02/2025 8:36:48 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: DallasBiff
Brooks is falling down on the job. He somehow forgot to mention that Austrian fellow who ruled Germany between 1933 to 1945. What real liberal fails to do a reductio ad Hitlerum?
18 posted on 06/02/2025 8:38:48 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: chajin

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!


19 posted on 06/02/2025 8:43:25 AM PDT by nhbob1
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To: DallasBiff
And, Brooks is the Republican at the NYT.

This is the kind of propaganda that was being put out under Stalin in the old Soviet Union.

20 posted on 06/02/2025 8:44:55 AM PDT by Kazan
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