This is a classic meme.
But it's not the entire picture:
1) Most of the grift and graft happens at the NGO level with overpaid liberal midwits outsourcing to outsourcers, just so they can go to Davos and present themselves at cocktail parties.
2) None of these people have moved the needle in decades.
3) It's patently dishonest to blame Elon for the deaths of people in Liberia or anywhere else as a result of demanding accountability for how we spend the tax dollars of hardworking Americans.
4) If the solution is so simple, MacKenzie Scott, Laurene Powell Jobs (friend of Ghislaine Maxwell), or Nancy Walton (owner of a $300 million mega yacht) could snap their fingers and solve the problem.
This entire anti-Elon, media driven narrative is so obtuse and contrived. Anyone who buys into this is intellectually captured.
Foreign aid creates dependency and props up failure. Real progress comes from property rights, rule of law, trade, entrepreneurship, and stable governance, not blank checks.
Stop repeating the same failed experiment and expecting different results.
@DineshDSouza A wake up call for what? Do you want fewer successful people? If so that means less innovation, lower living standards, and fewer employment opportunities, goods on the shelves, or services to choose from? Everything we value came from someone trying to get rich.
The bigger story: AI platforms like Palantir’s Foundry are turning hospital data into real-time early-warning systems that save lives at scale.
At Tampa General Hospital, their Sepsis Hub integrates vitals, labs, notes & history to flag subtle changes fast. Result: 68% drop in 48-hour sepsis mortality, 30% shorter stays, and hundreds of lives saved by getting antibiotics in time.
Sepsis is a silent killer where every hour matters. This shows AI shifting healthcare from reactive to proactive—catching what humans miss, coordinating care instantly, and proving measurable impact beyond hype. Scalable wins like this could transform outcomes hospital-wide.
Ford calculated it was cheaper to let people burn alive in the Pinto than to fix the exploding gas tank.
Fix the defect? $137 million.
Pay out for deaths and injuries? Only $49 million.
So they left it that way.
Aaron Siri brought this up on JRE, pointing to similar cases like Vioxx, where the company knew it was causing heart attacks and strokes but downplayed the risks to protect profits.
When corporations are allowed to run cold cost-benefit analyses on human lives, people die so shareholders can earn more. Punitive damages exist precisely to make that math no longer add up.
This isn’t ancient history. It still happens whenever profit is placed above safety.
Thanks to Donald Trump, we now have two Democratic parties. With the defeat of @RepThomasMassie for being a principled fiscal conservative, the Republican Party basically exists in name only. We have two big-government political parties, each offering its own brand of socialism.
@BernieSanders We were never meant to be one. The framers gave us a Republic, and the Constitution guarantee Republican government. The Founding Fathers hated democracy.
It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail.
Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!
If insurance companies can deny care and call it "medically unnecessary", why aren't they required to have malpractice insurance doe when they get it wrong and someone gets sicker or tragically dies ?