Healthcare slashed. Science defunded. Wars ignited. Climate disasters accelerated. In just one month, Trump has set the stage for millions of preventable deaths—and this is only the beginning.
Mersault, you’ve laid out a relentless, precise account of what is unfolding—deliberate cruelty masquerading as policy, calculated neglect disguised as governance.
There’s no room for misinterpretation. This isn’t incompetence. It’s intent.
The scale of harm isn’t theoretical; it’s happening in real time.
Millions will lose healthcare, not as a side effect but as the goal. Disaster response will crumble, not by accident but by design. The most vulnerable—those already hanging by a thread—are being targeted systematically. And when the numbers become unbearable, those in power will do what they always do: feign surprise, deny responsibility, and move on unscathed, leaving the dead in their wake.
What you’ve done here refuses to let that happen unnoticed.
You’ve mapped out the consequences with precision, showing not just the policies but their undeniable human cost. There’s no comfort in reading it, nor should there be. This is not a moment for neutrality, for softening the language, for pretending this is just another shift in political tides.
It is a massacre in slow motion. And your writing ensures that no one who reads it can claim they didn’t know.
That matters. Truth matters.
Naming things as they are matters. And as long as voices like yours continue to expose the machinery behind this destruction, there is still a record—still something left that stands against the tide of erasure and manufactured apathy.
We had had by January 2023 1,130,000 deaths from Covid 19. In a pandemic which had both treatment and vaccines available, we lost more than a million people! God or the Force help us all when a pandemic of virulent bird flu hits us. Without vaccines developed rapidly and no one prepared to do this, due to slashed budgets and personnel, it won’t happen even if Trump declares a vaccine is essential. The infrastructure and trained personnel won’t be there! I believe in such a case, when most people have no insurance or at best will be way underinsured, and health care providers are few, far between and already overworked to exhaustion, the death toll will be much much higher than you stated. No treatment, no vaccine to prevent severe infection and not even enough hospital beds to accommodate ill and dying patients… well, you said it, catastrophe!
What a stark reminder that is not just us here in the US but that many in other nations are or will be affected by President Schmusk, VP Trump and their whole contemptuous admin.
What we are witnessing is an illegal alien billionaire’s obscene version of degrowth. They want millions to die. Who they think are going to be around to buy their shitty cybertrucks is a mystery.
Yes, at least one of the methods to purge the population without using gas chambers is to practice malignant neglect and withdrawal of as many resources as possible.
Going further, what would one conjecture about all those private calls with Putin?
Today's "open letter" by Mersault should appear on every media site in the USA!
And should read to all Democratic Senators and Congressmen/Women
Mersault, you’ve laid out a relentless, precise account of what is unfolding—deliberate cruelty masquerading as policy, calculated neglect disguised as governance.
There’s no room for misinterpretation. This isn’t incompetence. It’s intent.
The scale of harm isn’t theoretical; it’s happening in real time.
Millions will lose healthcare, not as a side effect but as the goal. Disaster response will crumble, not by accident but by design. The most vulnerable—those already hanging by a thread—are being targeted systematically. And when the numbers become unbearable, those in power will do what they always do: feign surprise, deny responsibility, and move on unscathed, leaving the dead in their wake.
What you’ve done here refuses to let that happen unnoticed.
You’ve mapped out the consequences with precision, showing not just the policies but their undeniable human cost. There’s no comfort in reading it, nor should there be. This is not a moment for neutrality, for softening the language, for pretending this is just another shift in political tides.
It is a massacre in slow motion. And your writing ensures that no one who reads it can claim they didn’t know.
That matters. Truth matters.
Naming things as they are matters. And as long as voices like yours continue to expose the machinery behind this destruction, there is still a record—still something left that stands against the tide of erasure and manufactured apathy.
Thank you for being that voice.
We had had by January 2023 1,130,000 deaths from Covid 19. In a pandemic which had both treatment and vaccines available, we lost more than a million people! God or the Force help us all when a pandemic of virulent bird flu hits us. Without vaccines developed rapidly and no one prepared to do this, due to slashed budgets and personnel, it won’t happen even if Trump declares a vaccine is essential. The infrastructure and trained personnel won’t be there! I believe in such a case, when most people have no insurance or at best will be way underinsured, and health care providers are few, far between and already overworked to exhaustion, the death toll will be much much higher than you stated. No treatment, no vaccine to prevent severe infection and not even enough hospital beds to accommodate ill and dying patients… well, you said it, catastrophe!
Thats a million American deaths, not world wide.
What a stark reminder that is not just us here in the US but that many in other nations are or will be affected by President Schmusk, VP Trump and their whole contemptuous admin.
To the free world…BOYCOTT THE US … we have failed our democracy… we no longer deserve it…
Thank you for this important article Mersault!
What we are witnessing is an illegal alien billionaire’s obscene version of degrowth. They want millions to die. Who they think are going to be around to buy their shitty cybertrucks is a mystery.
Yes, at least one of the methods to purge the population without using gas chambers is to practice malignant neglect and withdrawal of as many resources as possible.
Going further, what would one conjecture about all those private calls with Putin?
This reads like true crime--and it is.
Missed one:
Trump is attempting to resume nuclear explosive testing.
Underground nuclear testing was banned by the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) that bans all nuclear explosions on Earth.
The testing is not required with today's sophisticated laboratory techniques however; an underground test is a much better show.
Consider when the US was uncontested as the most powerful nation on Earth, August 9, 1945.
Could Trump possibly be the most powerful human that ever existed?
Again the train wreck in slow motion.
7-9M deaths from only 30 days of malice; more to come. Thanks for tabulating. Please keep this tally current.
Another superb article. I just may owe you another cup of coffee…
I will do what I can but people voted for this and an appalling number of Americans have willingly chosen and relish cruelty.
Who can stop #45???
A Lee Harvey Oswald clone, I’d say.