John Johnston

Kimmel for President!! 👍🥳😎 Hey Diaper Don, there is a song for you.... Now, don't hang on Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky It slips away And all your money won't another minute buy...

China holds 389,571 out of over 520,000 AI patent applications globally over the past decade. This moment may now be at hand. American science has been the envy of the planet since the Second World War at least, but it has recently gone into decline. After President Trump took office last year, his administration started vandalizing the country’s scientific institutions, suspending research grants in bulk and putting entire lines of cutting-edge research on ice. In August, Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services canceled $500 million in mRNA-vaccine research, less than two years after Americans won a Nobel Prize for pioneering that technology. More than 10,000 science Ph.D.s have left the federal workforce, according to one group’s estimate, and the White House has been withholding money from frontline researchers in computer science, biomedicine, and hundreds of other fields that will define the human future. As one historian of science put it to me in July, “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”

Don't give these clowns any oxygen. Their only game is to be obtuse. Shrug.

1. What is known with direct documentation: deaths tied to orders or agencies The clearest, directly documented fatality count linked to current Trump administration operations in the reporting is that ICE reported 46 people died while in ICE custody between January 2025 and March 18, 2026; reporters and researchers flag both the rising count and contested cause-of-death designations in specific cases [1]. 2. Short‑to‑medium term modeled domestic impacts: healthcare and regulatory rollbacks Peer‑reviewed and academic analyses model sizable domestic harms tied to Trump-era policies: one analysis of the administration’s proposed One Big Beautiful Bill estimated more than 16,000 additional U.S. deaths per year from Medicaid cuts and coverage losses under that bill [2], while The Lancet Commission’s comparative analysis attributes roughly 461,000 “unnecessary” U.S. deaths in 2018 to a spectrum of long‑running policy failures that were worsened during the Trump years—this is a counterfactual comparison to G7 death rates, not a headcount of individually attributed deaths [3]. 3. International and indirect effects: aid cuts and climate policy Two independent lines of modeling find very large international death tolls that would be indirectly linked to policy changes: a Center for Global Development update estimates lives lost from USAID cuts could plausibly be in the range of 500,000–1,000,000 based on outlays (and 670,000–1,600,000 based on obligations), while analysts of climate-policy rollbacks warn of cumulative millions of additional temperature‑related deaths globally tied to expanded fossil‑fuel trajectories associated with an “America First” agenda [4] [5]. Both are model outputs that depend on long chains of assumptions about budgets, global emissions pathways, and vulnerability in poorer countries. 4. How projections add up under three plausible scenarios (10‑year horizon) Using only direct, documented deaths produces a minimal 10‑year total of roughly 46 recorded ICE‑custody deaths [1]. A conservative policy‑impact scenario that counts the BMJ study’s healthcare‑bill estimate (16,000 excess U.S. deaths/year) yields about 160,000 excess U.S. deaths over ten years, plus the known ICE deaths [2] [1]. A higher‑impact domestic scenario that treats the Lancet Commission’s comparative figure (461,000 excess U.S. deaths in a single year attributable to systemic policy failures) as indicative of ongoing, annual excess mortality implies roughly 4.6 million excess U.S. deaths over ten years—this is a counterfactual estimate and controversial in method [3]. Adding international models—CGD’s 500,000–1,000,000 (or up to 1.6 million by obligations) and ProPublica/Guardian warnings of large climate‑related death tolls—produces aggregate multi‑million global death projections over a decade, but these are cumulative, model‑dependent projections rather than counted fatalities [4] [5]. 5. Caveats, competing perspectives and hidden agendas The estimates reflect different methods and implicit agendas: watchdog and humanitarian groups emphasize global lives lost (CGD, ProPublica) and may use worst‑case assumptions to motivate policy reversal [4] [5], commission reports like The Lancet use G7 counterfactuals to highlight systemic gaps but do not prove single‑cause attribution [3], and some advocacy pieces frame early‑term actions as producing “millions” of deaths to create political urgency [6]. Independent journalists and peer reviewers caution these model outputs rest on many assumptions; other sources (e.g., administration statements touting crime declines) offer a competing narrative about improving public safety but do not directly reconcile the mortality modeling [7]. 6. Bottom line for a ten‑year tally There is only one narrow, directly documented toll in these sources—46 ICE custody deaths [1]. Any larger ten‑year number depends entirely on which published models and counterfactuals one accepts: a focused policy effect (BMJ) implies ~160,000 excess U.S. deaths over ten years [2]; a broad counterfactual comparison (Lancet) implies millions over a decade if treated as ongoing [3]; international aid and climate models add hundreds of thousands to millions more globally [4] [5]. The reporting does not produce a single, authoritative 10‑year “Trump death count”; it produces competing, methodologically distinct estimates that must be read as scenarios, not precise tallies. I don't really give a shit about Trump, his family or his sycophants when they die. Just sayin.... let alone getting upset about a damn joke.

Kimmel for President!

No worries. Racoon Man and Dr. Ozempic are on the case. It's a good thing we have the USAID to help mitigate infectious diseases. Oh wait...

Corporations are people too. Another nail in America's coffin, Citizens United.

From a grade three perspective. About what I would expect.

Vance is a little smarmy weasel. I hope he is the next Presidential Candidate.

Trump and Nutanyahoo need these wars in able to stay out of jail. Meanwhile millions suffer at the hands of these War Criminals.

You idi@ts are too busy stealing gas and attacking Capitol Buildings and getting yourselves mired in endless wars. We are not worried. 😄🤣

America defeats America. Nobody has to do anything except watch America crumble. And my god they are doing a good job of it. lmao.

Diaper Don was warned by China And like the school yard bully he is, Trump relented and got zero. About what we expected.

Lmao. It's way too early for this, this morning. Damn! spilled my coffee on my keyboard reading some of these Idi@ts comments. I spose I needed a good laugh today though. 🤣🤣🤣

America is a global laughing Stock. 🤣

Wonder what dumb ass excuse the Republicans White Nationalists come up with when they lose anyway? Lol. You can't even now by cheating. Lol. Stands to reason. Trump and his cabal of white trash can't on their own volition. It's about right.

Trump kowtow's to China. What a losing clown, Lmao.

Does not matter right now. Trump made sure that China wipes the floor with America.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cross-border-travel-down-dramatically-research-9.7198652 Treat your Allies like shit. This what will happen. I am only speaking of Canada. However the entire planet had had enough of American hubris and bullshit. So go ahead America keep alienating yourselves. It's your call.

You got the Mental part right.

Take your Geritol.

Must be part of the Trump University.

Thankfully there might be some capable people dealing with this issue. America sure is not. This is good news.

Trump is only interested in Wall St. And spends zero money in Kansas.

Or alternatively... Do the Wall Street shuffle Hear the money rustle Watch the greenbacks tumble Feel the Sterling crumble Great, now I gave myself an Ear Worm. That'll teach me... 😒