DOGE Spending Cuts

[ClydeR]

This discussion by David Brooks was brutal..

Amna Nawaz:

David, how do you look at it? What's his legacy, if we know that yet?

David Brooks:

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.

And the people who work at Tesla and SpaceX may want to think about that.

More...

I believe this is the source from which Brooks is drawing his numbers.. https://www.impactcounter.com/

[Parkbandit]

Not enough cuts imo.

My hope is that Congress gets off their lazy asses and codifies everything DOGE has found and that DOGE continues to find wasteful shit we can cut even more.

[Back]

300,000 dead, and we're four months in

[Parkbandit]

300,000 dead, and we're four months in

The perfect example of someone who is unhinged and retarded.

[Methais]

300,000 dead, and we're four months in

How many boosters are you at now?

EDIT: Quoted for when this turns out to be another lie you fell for because you're stupid.

[~Rocktar~]

300,000 dead, and we're four months in

It would be bad if I said "good start."

Because after decades of education and providing condoms and so on, Africa still fucks bareback and can't be bothered to use condoms but this is Trumps fault.

[Back]

It would be bad if I said "good start."

Because after decades of education and providing condoms and so on, Africa still fucks bareback and can't be bothered to use condoms but this is Trumps fault.

Hey at least you're honest I'll give you that. A monster, but honest.

[Parkbandit]

Hey at least you're honest I'll give you that. A monster, but honest.

I'm still waiting for the math on that 300K..

What is it like to be this fucking gullible?

You will literally fall for anything... because "OMGTRUMP!"

[Methais]

I'm still waiting for the math on that 300K..

What is it like to be this fucking gullible?

You will literally fall for anything... because "OMGTRUMP!"

This will just be example #94837042 of Backlash falling for retarded democrat lies.

[~Rocktar~]

Hey at least you're honest I'll give you that. A monster, but honest.

When my political and social policies rack up a kill count over 130 million, then you can call me a monster. You on the other hand keep voting for Socialism, the most lethal ideology ever conceived.

Piss off.