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  • jon-nycJ Online
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    #1124

    Ax - You should stop asking him until RFK’s policies have time to metastasize. Presumably LD thinks dead kids is a worse outcome than transed kids so, assuming nobody stops RFK, LD will come around in time.

    If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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      Don't forget 4.5 million kids under the age of 5 dead by 2030 due to the US AID cut. Not saying reform wasn't needed perhaps, but if wea re talking about policies and their preventions...

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      • 89th8 89th

        Don't forget 4.5 million kids under the age of 5 dead by 2030 due to the US AID cut. Not saying reform wasn't needed perhaps, but if wea re talking about policies and their preventions...

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        @89th said in Trumpenomics:

        Don't forget 4.5 million kids under the age of 5 dead by 2030 due to the US AID cut. Not saying reform wasn't needed perhaps, but if wea re talking about policies and their preventions...

        LMAO

        The Brad

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          #1127

          This is the Trumpenomics thread, not the RFK or MAHA thread.

          The Brad

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          • 89th8 89th

            Don't forget 4.5 million kids under the age of 5 dead by 2030 due to the US AID cut. Not saying reform wasn't needed perhaps, but if wea re talking about policies and their preventions...

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            @89th said in Trumpenomics:

            Don't forget 4.5 million kids under the age of 5 dead by 2030 due to the US AID cut. Not saying reform wasn't needed perhaps, but if wea re talking about policies and their preventions...

            If children in South Africa die of dehydration or diseases born by bad water, then they died because of a lack of clean water, not because of funding cuts in a nation that is being treated as an antogonist by their own government. And if you would like to prevent these children’s deaths from bad water, you can help by donating here: https://thewaterproject.org/ There are other charities working towards the same goal.

            The Brad

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              Personally I'm glad I'm unable to see videos of the people who have died and will die due to the abrupt removal of USAID support. Seeing 4K videos of them would make it much harder to me to be ok with the devastating impact of an abrupt withdrawal instead of a prudent adjustment with planning involved. The earth was overpopulated anyway!

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                You can prevent those deaths, 89th. $15K will build a well that could save hundreds of children’s lives. Even if you can’t afford an entire well, you can help contribute. Say $50 per month? That’s less than a daily coffee! If you don’t, then those kids are dead because of you.

                The Brad

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                  Actually not a bad idea. Unfortunately I just bought an iPhone so my heroism will have to wait until 2027.

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                  • jon-nycJ Online
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                    Where is Peter Singer when you need him?

                    If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                      Then they are dead and it’s your fault.

                      The Brad

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                      • 89th8 Offline
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                        Hey I posted in an online forum multiple times that I was against the abrupt shuttering of USAID, so I did my part. I don't even wear a cape!

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                          The scale of money in the Bill Gates trust, among others, beggars my belief that there's such low hanging fruit for donations that an average joe can write a check for a thousand dollars and save a bunch of lives.

                          Education is extremely important.

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                            According to Givewell (the effective altruism org founded by a couple of Bridgewater traders) the marginal cost of saving a life is about 8k. It varies over time but last time I checked buying mosquito nets was the cheapest way to save a life.

                            (It’s always some sort of non-pharmaceutical intervention to reduce infectious disease in Africa.)

                            If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                              malaria nets. Yep.

                              Education is extremely important.

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                                This might become a useful economic index as Trump sovietizes our official economic data.

                                If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                                • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                  This might become a useful economic index as Trump sovietizes our official economic data.

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                                  #1139

                                  @jon-nyc said in Trumpenomics:

                                  This might become a useful economic index as Trump sovietizes our official economic data.

                                  LMAO! MAHA has to love that…

                                  The Brad

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                                    Yeah, the article went into that. This has all the usual suspects, food dyes, chemical this and that, an entire quarry of sodium, etc.

                                    If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                                      https://fortune.com/2025/09/21/behind-closed-doors-ceos-say-trump-is-bad-for-business-and-its-time-to-make-america-into-america-again/

                                      The Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute’s CEO forum gathers top political leaders with Fortune 500 CEOs for a Chatham House rules discussion where direct quotes are off the record. In Washington DC this week at the 155th gathering, as clouds swirled around the Capitol building just steps away, senators from both parties and some top Trump administration officials joined us. They had to face down the near unanimous verdict from over 100 top business leaders, representing some of the world’s largest companies and most iconic brands: Trump’s policies aren’t working. These opinions were all about business results, by the way: the reasoning was independent of personal politics or industry sector, it always came back to the bottom line.

                                      Business leaders at our forum worry that Trump is undermining an economic system that took decades to build and has long benefited the U.S. more than any other country, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, all for short-term gains. They see what’s happening as a hollowing out of U.S. economic foundations and institutions. In this free-to-speak environment (a loaded topic these days), they said that while they approve of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. and bolstering economic and national security, they fear for America’s international standing amid the degradation of national security at the FBI, the CIA, and the Pentagon.

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                                        Trade war is Biden’s fault.

                                        If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                                          I'm guessing the one word was actually 'knobhead'.

                                          I was only joking

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