Trump's actions have caused, and will continue to cause for decades, far, far more deaths than any that resulted from Joe Biden's actions with respect to Israel. And understand, I am not making light of the tens of thousands of civilian deaths in Gaza, nor the savage deaths that killed 1200 Israelis on October 7th. I'm just going to briefly list the absolute horrors intentionally unleashed by this wicked administration. The challenge is where to start!

Endlessly lying, especially with regard to the 2020 election, and the resulting riots at the Capitol, and then the pardoning of the thugs!

Trump and Musk decimated our foreign aid, especially the USAID program. The Lancet estimates that it's possible that somewhere approaching one million desperate people in Africa and Asia have already died! By 2030, that esteemed British medical journal estimates that as many as 14 million preventable deaths will occur, and a few million are kids.

Slashing basic scientific research at our universities. How many disease treatments will be delayed by years and how many will die?

Here at home, Trump has slashed health subsidies for the Affordable Care Act and removed thousands of people from Medicaid, which is healthcare for the poor. It's estimated that there could be 50,000 resulting deaths, annually.

Trump has rolled back environmental regulations that will surely result in far greater amounts of air and water pollution, with the not at all unexpected deaths due to related exposure to toxins. 

Vaccine skepticism abounds with thousands of children not receiving the life-saving jabs. And we left the World Health Organization, reduced funding for the CDC, and the world has Ebola on the rampage. 

Here are others that come to mind: Trump abandoned the JCPOA, which was working fairly well, now we have the war with Iran. Now millions of people around the world are denied gas, and life-saving fertilizer for agriculture. Famine!Trump abandoned the Paris Accord. I would think American leadership is necessary given how consequential this issue is. We no longer have an existing arms control treaty with Russia, what might result? And Trump has destroyed trust with our NATO allies. Does that make the world safer? 

Now the lightning round of horrors: tax cuts for the rich at the expense of the poor, dehumanizing conditions for illegal immigrants, Americans murdered in the streets by ICE, weaponizing the Department of Justice and the IRS against his opponents, self-dealing and corruption to benefit him and his family to possibly $4 billion, banning transgender Americans from military service, stacking his administration with unqualified sycophants.

Honestly, Mick, I could go on and on and on. And we have two and a half more years of this nightmare! When you equate Joe Biden and the Democrats with Trump and the cowardly, despicable Republicans, you absolutely reveal your ignorance about American politics and the incalculable suffering that Trump is responsible for. I only wish there was a hell for him to reside in, but you know about my atheist tendencies!

Peter T.