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Botany

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11. The 300,000 dead from the withdrawal of USAID support is all on Elon.
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 10:09 AM
Jun 2

But to Musk that is a bonus because most of the dead were black children in Africa.

The mathematician and professor of infectious diseases at Boston University had created a model to predict the human cost of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (Doge) USAid funding cuts.

What Nichols had not appreciated was what was killing people, and just how quickly it appeared to be killing them. A death was estimated to be happening somewhere in the world every three minutes. “It was just shocking,” she said.

As Elon Musk, the head of Doge, arrived at the White House on Friday afternoon to be congratulated by President Trump for his work slashing the federal budget, the number of deaths on Nichols’s tracker hit 300,000, more than 200,000 of them children.

The “optics” of the world’s richest man taking from its poorest and getting thanked for it were “horrifying’, said Nichols, associate professor of global health at the university’s school of public health.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/usaid-doge-deaths-children-cuts-7nb83dfkp





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What a spineless jellyfish this freak is. Blues Heron Jun 2 #1
Um... dare I say "TOO LATE"? calimary Jun 2 #2
Too bad Deminpenn Jun 2 #3
" I don't want to speak up ... but I also don't want to take responsibility " speak easy Jun 2 #4
Proof that money can't buy guts, or brains Walleye Jun 2 #5
Well, if all were going "well," you'd bet that Elon would be taking full credit for it. no_hypocrisy Jun 2 #6
🙄 fuck off, traitor! ecstatic Jun 2 #7
He's not all that bright but seems to have finally realized... NNadir Jun 2 #8
Tough shit, Musk. Your fate is sealed. Paladin Jun 2 #9
So, the 'genious' has discovered ..... 70sEraVet Jun 2 #10
The 300,000 dead from the withdrawal of USAID support is all on Elon. Botany Jun 2 #11
He doesn't want to take responsibility for his own actions thought crime Jun 2 #12
very republican of him to avoid taking responsibility for destruction caused by his policies samsingh Jun 2 #13
It doesn't matter. We still ain't buying Teslas. (n/t) thesquanderer Jun 2 #14
You'd be surprised Polybius Jun 2 #25
I doubt many DUers have bought them this year, once Musk became Trump's partner in crime (n/t) thesquanderer Jun 2 #26
Translation bmichaelh Jun 2 #15
When we take power again we'll hang identity theft of millions of citizens around your neck. nt Hotler Jun 2 #16
"don't blame me" WMDemocract Jun 2 #17
Fuck you........... you and him own the shit show right along with other supporting traitors......... turbinetree Jun 2 #18
Mr. free speech is afraid to speak up newdeal2 Jun 2 #19
He is not saying very much at all. live love laugh Jun 2 #20
You mean like being directly responsible for American deaths. BradBo Jun 2 #21
but he's totally fine with Quanto Magnus Jun 2 #22
who created doge ? who appointed musk to head doge to say thanks for electing him? taco chicken. AllaN01Bear Jun 2 #23
"Who is this crazy man and what is he doing here in my bed?" struggle4progress Jun 2 #24
typical sociopath narcissist. when "things" are going great, he wants all the credit Javaman Jun 3 #27
You Bought it, you OWN it, Bub! electric_blue68 Wednesday #28
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