Marco Rubio said no one has died due to U.S. aid cuts.

So move along ... nothing to see here!

Mariam Mohammed, a widow, stands outside her home in Bama, Nigeria. She's holding her younger son Babagana's favorite clothes. He died in early February from complications of sickle cell disease. She had taken him to a U.S.-funded clinic for treatment, but at that time the facility was shuttered due to a stop-work order issued by the Trump administration.

But I don't know anything about it. How could I?

It's not being "reported".

"Haven't heard of any children dying since the cuts."

Just because YOU haven't heard of any children dying since the cuts" does not mean that a lot of children are not dying.

Estimated Deaths: A November 2025 report cited modelling by Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, indicating that the dismantling of USAID had already caused the deaths of approximately 600,000 people, with two-thirds of them children (approximately 400,000).

ImpactCounter Data: Another tracker, ImpactCounter, reported by January 2026 that 757,314 people had died due to the funding cuts, with the majority being children.

Cause of Deaths: The cuts caused widespread suspension of service, resulting in increased child deaths from diarrhea, pneumonia, and malnutrition. Specific cuts to nutrition, food programs, and HIV/AIDS supplies (PEPFAR) were significant drivers of this mortality.

Long-term Projections: Research published in The Lancet in July 2025 projected that if the funding cuts continued, more than 4.5 million children under the age of 5 could die by 2030.

GFY with your hateful self imposed ignorance.

The goal of the war seems to have shifted to opening the strait of Hormuz, which was open before the war.

#8 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

The goal of the war (that is not a war) is now to just get us back to where we were before the war (that is not a war).

The UN is worthless.

#10 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Posted by a totally worthless poster.

How's that "Bored of Piece" doing?

What's Trumpy's Board of Peace Plan for:

Refugee support, food assistance, humanitarian support to children, and development coordination; the international mechanisms for managing nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, chemical weapons, biological weapons, and conventional disarmament; the major international financial institutions, multilateral development banks, and central bank coordination tools; and the bodies that set global standards for labor, intellectual property, civil aviation, maritime affairs, and telecommunications.

These are all things the UN currently is involved in.

Because the USA, Russia, China, UK, France can veto any resolution, often turning the body into a place for "talking without action" the UN is ineffective in stopping wars. But does so many other things.

The MAGA ethic celebrates dehumanization. It is lawless, crude, and combative. Its entire ecosystem"social media, podcasts, and talk radio"is committed to spreading lies and conspiracy theories, to stoking rage and resentment. The disciples of the MAGA movement define themselves by what they hate much more than by what they love. They pursue culture wars with revolutionary zeal even as they vandalize our civic culture.

Yup. That's our maga maroons.

All part of the Plan.

Traumatize workers and take away funding and the financial ability to resist.

"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected," Vought said in a video revealed by ProPublica and the research group Documented in October. "When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down ... We want to put them in trauma."

Who the hell even talks like that?

Re 33

Reminds me of the day I "discovered" Saturn.

I had just bought a Celestron and set it up on the deck to see what I could see. I looked at the bright stars but they were all just dots. Then I discovered Saturn! It made me wonder what it must have been like for the Galileo to be the first human to ever see something like that. That musta been one hell of a dopamine hit.

When I was younger I should have eaten more plastics apparently.

Whenever I got back home from extended duty abroad all I had to do was look at my wife and she'd get pregnant.

It took five kids and a nearly empty bank account before I finally figured the problem and "fixed" it.

In my previous life I have crossed airport runways hundreds of times. Sometimes with an air traffic controllers guidance and sometimes without.

There is one thing always seems to be left out of this discussion.

The driver crossing the runways always has the final say and responsibility. You must look both ways very carefully but especially the approach to see for yourself if anything is approaching the runway before it's safe to cross.

To cross the runway, the vehicle needed both the REL and Clearance from a controller.

#4 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

The Jerk of all trades. And expert at none.

Thank the Gods we got rid of all that DEI crap.

Are we sure that a black person or woman wasn't involved?

Because that would explain a lot.

To a maga maroon.

Fetterman suffered a traumatic brain injury and it turned him into a MAGA.

#35 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Makes sense actually.

That being said, I have stated this over and over again regarding California. It has the highest income inequality in the US.

#6 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

That being said?

That being your latest hateful LIE commie Spyboy. I have stayed over and over that you are a liar. Here's just more proof.

New York has the highest income equality.

California is ranked third.

States with Highest Income Inequality (Gini Index)

New York: Frequently cited as having the highest income inequality in the U.S..

Connecticut: High inequality driven by a massive gap between top earners and the rest of the population.

California: High concentration of extreme wealth, with New York and California together holding nearly one-third of households with $30 + million in assets.

Louisiana: Features significant economic disparity.
Washington,

D.C.: While not a state, it ranks among the top in income inequality

we the consumers are willingly purchasing products and services provided by those wealthy, who are also employing people to produce those, so we are who are making those individuals wealthy.

#2 | POSTED BY MSGT

That's a pretty simplistic view of the world. And not very accurate.

Many "consumers" have no choice. They have children. They have no choice but to "consume". If you cannot live independently wealthy outside of society then you will be a "consumer".

And NO one ever got rich working in an Amazon warehouse.

And when the robots arrive for duty the wage slave laborers will not even have a wage slave job.

"mass mail-in ballots [COVID 'era']as seven Blue States do as those are subject to fraud."

Yet said fraud is extremely rare. How do you explain that? You cannot.

As for "biden received millions more votes than the very popular obama, and then four years later, about 20 millions of those 'voters' seems t have evaporated"

Occam's razor They stayed home.

The 2020 election saw the highest turnout in 120 years, with roughly 66.7% of eligible citizens voting, driven by intense interest in the election and the high-stakes political environment.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many states expanded access to early and mail-in voting, which historically increases voter participation, particularly among certain demographics.

Since 2008, the U.S. population increased from roughly 304 million to over 330 million by 2020, leading to a larger pool of potential voters.

Too bad for you. Mail in voting will continue. You will just have to make sure you mail it in early this year. Maybe take a Tylenol when you try to think about it.

Soon to be named the "Lewzer Bowl".

#5 | POSTED BY REDIAL

The new John F Kennedy and Donald J Trump Memorial Suckers and Losers Bowl!

DeFund the DHS. It should be completely dismantled. It has become a Frankenstein monster. This shouldn't even be controversial.

Trump was offered an off-ramp to the DHS shutdown but he didn't take it. Maybe next time!

Chanting Death to America gives you a chubber. We get it.

#95 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Yet. It makes you think of truck stops and --------.

"We" don't really get it.

Is this a common occurrence? Like every week?

#3 | POSTED BY MADBOMBER

Meteorites hitting the earth is not rare.

Hitting something of value on earth is pretty rare.

"Believe it or not, some 17,000 meteorites fall to Earth every year. The data comes from a team of researchers at the University of Manchester and Imperial College London, who have managed to quantify the flow of space material falling onto the planet between 2019 and 2020."

It was re-obliterated!

Or rebliterated. Bigly.

Dems would have told Iran.

#91 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

It was not a very well kept secret.

"unprovoked" war.

#22 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

But but Iran was an "imminent threat".

In the "future".

Nice rocket.

Too bad many Americans can no longer afford access to good health care. And I can't afford to fill up my gas tank.

But that's one real nice looking rocket.

Good, I'm glad he's dead.

Whistling past the graveyard.

Trumpy is 79.

Writes the moron traitor that supports the Russian's invasion of Ukraine.

#88 | POSTED BY WILDMAN62

Yeah. Bad choice.