1 ஜூலை, 2026

Jibia

Jibia was a 10-year-old girl, ranking third out of 58 students in her fourth-grade class in Rwamwanja, Uganda. Aid cuts meant that the local clinic ran out of $2 bed nets to protect from mosquitoes, as well as anti-malaria medicines. Jibia died of malaria last July, her mother told me outside the family home. Medical records confirmed that, and health workers told me that she would have been fine without the aid cuts: Replacing her tattered bed net with a new one could have prevented malaria, and in any case drugs would have helped her to recover promptly.

• How do you know that for sure?
• Why $2, why not $1 dollar bed nets?
• Why are Uganda not making bet nets?
• That's their own fault, they should just make bed nets if it's such a big problem
• What transparency are they showing for their public finances?
• Also, that's a local Uganda doctor, not an American doctor, at the coroner's office, you don't know that, it could be complications from anything else
• The university ranking of that school must be worse than 1,500, so you can't really trust their medical diagnosis
• It should be by law, reported as merely a prognosis if it's from one of their doctors who likely got it all wrong
• Why don't you tell Uganda to go buy their own bed nets if it's such a big problem, that's all on them

Yamah Freeman

Yamah Freeman hemorrhaged while pregnant with her third child in her village in Liberia. The United States had provided ambulances to the local hospital, but the aid cuts under Musk and President Trump

meant that the ambulances had no fuel. The strongest young men in the village placed her on their shoulders and raced down the path toward town, shouting encouragement to her as they ran, but she bled to death along the way. Her parents and sister told me about this, and I visited her grave.

• You got a 3rd child in the village in Liberia, what about the kids homeless in the US or growing up in poverty?
• The US has been nice enough to gift you an ambulance. Should it have to give you fuel too? Isn't that absurd?
• Kristoff is basically doubling down on his absurdity, blaming Trump and Elon, of 3rd, 4th degree murder, for the NY Times readers
• It's not their fault, it's their foreign fault as a country
• You have cash to visit Liberia, or NY Times sponsored your trip? Did you fly business class? You could've given them a business class in how to pay for some fuel or for the strongest young men in the village to shout about how much they hate the USA, or want free stuff from the USA.
• I saw Elon's X post about the way they had USAID logos behind a bunch of militants, it's absurd.
• Did you go to visit the graves of the people who demanded honesty from Liberia's government, did you lay a lily for them?
• This is all their fault, they can't expect the US to pay for their fuel, that's not a slave colony, that's a 'sovereign republic'

Should liberals donate more to humanitarian causes? Sure. But compassion isn’t a liberal impulse — it’s a human one. It was evangelicals and Republicans who in 2003 started the single best aid program ever, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR; it has saved more than 26 million lives so far. Some of the most heroic aid workers I’ve met in dangerous locations have been Christian missionaries, from nuns to doctors; they would dispute the idea that empathy is woke.

• Did you pay for Haiti's song with Michael Jackson, the Venezuela people had an earthquake recently, they will be better served with honest leadership
• The liberals, can join in to help, but they can't be liberals, why should any LGBT figure, help a Kenyan president, who balks at Obama, over gay rights?
• A cruel power, and an evil, is dying, so that goodness can prevail, we must not sustain them, they are impoverished on their cursed hearts--not us
• They can keep blaming us all, for their own problems

It’s reasonable to ask how much we should spend or how we should reform the system. But why would anyone begrudge $2 bed nets or $4 malaria vaccines to save children’s lives?

So let me offer a challenge to Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip to South Sudan or Somalia or Mozambique. Meet starving children whose lives can be easily saved. Hold them. Look into their eyes. Talk to their terrified moms.

You’ll understand that these kids are just like ours, except that they didn’t do as well in the lottery of birth — and that just because we can’t save every child’s life doesn’t mean we should save none of them.

• Elon changed his mind on Israel, visiting, but that's also why he hates terrorists, and we can't tolerate the lunatics of South Sudan, Somalia and Mozambique, they need an owner, to buy them out, to save them
• They can't keep pushing up, some corrupt leader, to make deals, representing them as beggars, that's never going to save them
• God doesn't and won't save lost souls who worship the enemy

Better use of USAID ideas

I am sickened by that Kristoff's ideas!

The US should only be supplying free contraceptives. Nothing more. They are, and should be, responsible for their own lives.

The ugly fact is they'll attack anyone, who says people should be, and need to be able to look after themselves.

The Christian spirit, is not in Jesus feeding some people fish and bread, it's in telling Satan he won't test God's patience jumping off a cliff.

They formed Liberia, to get out of the slavery system, it's a symbolic country with James Madison there or somewhere, and yet, if they aren't economically and financially free, they will never get out of wage slavery.

Monrovia is named after James Monroe, not Madison.

Whatever.

They shouldn't be having so many kids, if you want to play God, in testing his grace, when they clearly can't afford it.

There's research, that they get so many kids because they only want one to survive out of a few, that's what you aren't fixing with USAID.

The only way to help them, is with real leadership, with bargaining tariffs and US exports or import deals, in exchange for politics.

Because they use coercion themselves, they use blackmail in their politics, they are used to prostituting their people's freedoms for their gain.

So that only makes sense as the next real step, in restoring basic, baseline independence, self determination and dignity.

They were for too long, testing America's patience, on one hand, spitting, at us, then on the other hand, splitting the loot, with the worst that they have.

We must never bow down to them, they must bow to us, they're getting tough love, not tough hate, so they can get off their feet kneeling, and on their feet for real.

I can go to say so to the parents or friends of those USAID cuts cost lives, but the warlords, the real problems, the cruel people they chose to deify, that give that girl 4th out of 100th place in the classrooms, for memorizing textbooks of anti American hate, anti freedom, anti capitalism, they won't.