Cruel maniacally unbalanced Elon Musk has destroyed American credibility: Musk is nauseating! 🤢

Echo opinion letter published in The New York Times:

Like so many, I awoke on Monday to this post on X from Elon Musk: “We spent the entire weekend feeding USAID into the woodchipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead.”

Abominable grammar, but his evil point is clear. He is gleefully destroying the lives of millions of the world’s poorest, and denigrating the service of thousands of highly educated, loyal and dedicated workers. It is nauseating 🤢— if not maniacally unbalanced.

What kind of person gloats as he destroys an organization that has helped save millions of people from AIDS, Ebola and other infectious diseases? That responds to disasters with lifesaving assistance? That trains health care workers and election workers and government leaders? That shares our democratic values? An agency whose symbol of a handshake appeared on millions of bags of food commodities shared in times of famine, earning America gratitude and admiration?

As a U.S.A.I.D. spouse and a retired State Department Foreign Service officer, I witnessed firsthand the gratitude that U.S.A.I.D. recipients felt, in Nicaragua, Guatemala and particularly Uganda, where my husband, Paul D. Cohn, helped develop the first successful AIDS program in Africa, saving thousands of lives. 

One winter, working in Washington, he helped save the people of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, from freezing when the Russian-built central heating system ran out of coal. He was just one of many who did what had to be done.

Those dedicated people being discharged in the most belittling manner are employees who work in the most challenging circumstances, often at great risk to themselves. 

In the years that I served, I lost many whom I considered friends: Two were murdered; one was kidnapped by Al Qaeda and held captive for four years before dying in an American airstrike; one died of pneumonia; one was killed in a motorcycle accident; one child was electrocuted; one spouse died of malaria, and others, including my husband, were infected but survived. Others were killed in embassy bombings or plane crashes.

People who demonstrate the best of American values are being discharged by an unrestrained, cruel billionaire, who is a South African immigrant, a country where USAID has provided support, is  calling them criminals, at the behest of the Trumpzi president. Do they think we won’t notice?

From Irene Posner Cohn in San Francisco

P.S. From Maine Writer:  In other words Elon Musk is full of shit❗💩