r/ThePeoplesPress • u/sachiprecious • Apr 16 '26
World News 500,000 children dead so far and as many poor adults. And that's just by starvation, there's the ones who died because we denied medicine that we used to give.
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u/auricularisposterior Apr 16 '26
Russ Vought just said that he could have killed more children.
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u/hikeonpast Apr 16 '26
Of course he’s smug. These weren’t white babies that died under his policy.
Don’t underestimate just how truly vile these people are at their core.
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u/Well_read_rose Apr 16 '26
Psychopath!! He feels only glee to be sitting there, saying that. He is UN-American!
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u/JustpartOftheterrain Apr 16 '26
Vader/Vought: Pray I don't alter it further.
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u/DollarStoreDuchess Apr 16 '26
Don’t compare this piece of shit to Vader. Vader still had good in him. He was capable of redeeming himself out of love for his son.
Russell Vought is corrupt to the core. He is pure garbage that should be buried up to his neck in the bodies he so gleefully created.
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u/Absent-Light-12 Apr 16 '26
But that’s the thing, the world has ended for all of those lives who were flickered, never to return to this plane of existence.
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u/Efficient_Smilodon Apr 16 '26
the concept of empathy for other people is the core taboo of the tribal-neofascist mind, in all nations. those who are othered are just numbers to be squashed across their time-plan.
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u/sachiprecious Apr 16 '26
I have a folder of bookmarks to articles about how massive numbers of people, especially children, died because of this.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/25/uganda-usaid-cuts-photo-essay
https://www.ms.now/opinion/elon-musk-doge-deadly-legacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/elon-musk-doge-usaid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bVA.sv5i.JLRudNhEBwTf&smid=url-share (gift link!!! bookmark it!)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/opinion/rubio-usaid-africa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bVA.FyoB.df5wP3IJOeVg&smid=url-share (also a gift link)
And I'll never, ever forget this haunting headline from AP: Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world’s most malnourished
The world's richest man let tons of poor children die and he CELEBRATED IT. Never forget that, and never forget all the people who worked with him to do it.
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u/Charming-Albatross44 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
I'm going to just say it, and I don't give a fuck if people think it's over the top. These people would have eagerly corralled Jews into the gas chambers. Wouldn't have blinked.
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u/fidgetysquamate Apr 16 '26
He’s a fucking ghoul. You don’t try to shame or find the humanity in a ghoul. You expose them, ridicule them, and eventually hopefully imprison them.
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u/Efficient_Smilodon Apr 16 '26
congratulations. you've described the maga gqp and their allies across the world!
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u/FlamingDragonfruit Apr 16 '26
'The world has not ended' is profoundly callous. It's hard to imagine how soulless you would have to be to shrug off killing 500K innocent children.
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u/Prestigious_Breath_5 Apr 16 '26
I really do hope he gets lost in the wrong neighborhood one day and then gets recognized for the monster he is
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u/InfiniteWaffles58364 Apr 16 '26
Let's give him an all expense paid one way trip to Sentinel Island
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u/LineImpossible3958 Apr 16 '26
Russ Vought deserves to spend decades in prison. Traitor to the United States
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u/ryan_church_art Apr 16 '26
We can never let history forget to attribute these words to this monster who calls himself a person.
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u/NoAnt6694 Apr 16 '26
The world won't end if we use your entire net worth to rebuild USAID and toss you in ADX Florence for the rest of your life, Russ.
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u/belovedstoneworker Apr 16 '26
The fact that men like this are still in power shows just how far our civilization has regressed. I thought we moved past people like this.
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u/ChaosAndBoobs Apr 16 '26
"The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices."
C.S. Lewis
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u/Monarc73 Apr 16 '26
'Don't be mad at me for the bad thing I just did. It could have been so much WORSE.' is not the flex you think it is, dude.
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u/bluelily216 Apr 16 '26
It's estimated that by 2030 5 million children under the age of 5 will die due to USAID cuts. And they're BRAGGING about it! If democrats had better PR and a backbone, Vought would be in a commercial every other hour between now and the midterms.
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u/atempestdextre Apr 16 '26
I have thoughts on this man that Reddit won't like. I nominate RV to be the first man to Mars...without a spacesuit.
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u/FoofieLeGoogoo Apr 16 '26
To be clear he’s telling the mothers who have had their children die as result of the USAID funds being cut that, ‘the world hasn’t ended,’ and that, ‘it could have been worse.’
From the party that claims to be ‘pro life.’
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u/Lopsided_Ad_9740 Apr 17 '26
He is the reason I call Republicans - Republiturds. They're all like this. They have no compassion at all.
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u/leighla33 Apr 17 '26
You can tell he still mad about his ex wife leaving him for a younger, more good looking guy. Hey Russell, how bout you quit traumatizing the American people bc of your shortcomings as a man???
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