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  Math Has Never Been Trump’s Thing Trump’s prescription drug plan could save billions; if only numbers would cooperate, percentages stayed realistic, and the President stopped treating arithmetic like a suggestion rather than a rule. Michael Cohen and MeidasTouch Network Dec 23   Guest article by  Michael Cohen. . Remember to follow him on Substack for more by  clicking here.  Michael just hit 500,000 subscribers on YouTube! Subscribe today for free  here  and let’s keep the momentum going! I’ve spent enough time watching Donald Trump interact with a balance sheet to say this without hesitation: math has never been his thing. Numbers, to Trump, aren’t facts or constraints; they’re stage props. They’re adjectives with dollar signs, inflated for effect, untethered from meaning, existing solely to sound enormous rather than be true. Which brings us to his latest rhetorical masterpiece: prescription drug prices reduced by 1,200 percent. Or 2,000...

  The Cruelty Is the Policy The destruction of USAID, the loss of America’s soft power, and genocide Mary L Trump Nov 23 “Let’s kill poor people.” Regarding the United States Agency for International Development (U.S.A.I.D), Atul Gawande writes in  The New Yorker : On a budget of just twenty-four dollars per American—out of the fifteen thousand dollars in taxes paid per person last year—they had saved lives at an almost unimaginable scale. An independent, peer-reviewed analysis in  The Lancet  estimated that U.S.A.I.D. assistance had saved ninety-two million lives over two decades. Despite that, when Donald came into office, he almost immediately defunded the organization. There are many reasons that defunding an agency like U.S.A.I.D. was a horrific idea. Doing so hobbled America’s ability to deploy soft power which is a vital tool it has used in the past to create alliances, spread democracy, and expand its global influence. Leaving a soft power void for our advers...