Already twice that Trump has said there are now "1.7 to 1.8m people" in Gaza, which means it's probably a number he's been briefed on. Before the war the population was 2.1-2.3m. As a reminder, almost no-one could leave Gaza during the war. Do the math.

If you ignore the imaginary change of presidencies and disregard the false idea that the US and Israel are two meaningfully separate countries, this just looks like a powerful state deliberately destroying Gaza and then telling its population to leave because it's been destroyed.

So Trump is announcing that "the US will take over the Gaza strip, we'll own it" (after ethnically cleansing all Palestinians): Notwithstanding the unreal cynicism of it, what "owning Gaza" would concretely mean is a merger of Israel and the U.S., and the U.S. permanently entangled in the Middle-East. Israel's problems would be the U.S.'s problems like never before, and the U.S. would be permanently associated with Israel in the eyes of the world. Relatively ironic right after Trump got elected to put "America first" which I'm pretty sure didn't include settling a colony in the most conflictual land on earth... And in terms of soft power, not sure Americans have fully thought through the consequences of becoming one and the same with an apartheid ethno-nationalist state that's abhorred by such a large proportion of the world's population. It's very much part and parcel of Trump's usual modus operandi, which is to own whatever accusations are thrown at him, to never make any excuse and double down. Which admittedly worked for him domestically because Americans came to interpret it as refreshing authenticity or "telling it like it is". The world will undoubtedly see an America-Israel merger as authentic in that it'd recognize de jure what was de-facto already the case, but the massive difference in this case is that there's no constituency outside America for "make America great again": the US finally being honest about being an ethno-nationalist colonial power will likely instead be seen by billions of people as the final confirmation that the U.S. is definitely not on their side.

【必見】21世紀最大のスキャンダル：研究所流出説という陰謀論 〜サックス教授とRFK(故ケネディ大統領の甥)の対談〜 ※強烈に検閲された動画なので、長いですが、早めに見てください

Senator Rand Paul: "What's so disappointing is RFK spent probably 30 years of his life cleaning up the Hudson River. It's a big deal. I mean, he should be part of his, you know, memory in his biography is for having been a great environmentalist, and not one of them complimented him on that. Not one of them gave him a break for spending a lot of his career doing that." "Instead, it was sort of, oh, we we know the science. Well, not one of them has a degree in science. You know, they've got, like, public education or public policy. Not one of them is a scientist, and yet they wanna say he's not following the science, when all he's asked for really is transparency." "He just wants the science to show the facts, but we should have it without the presupposition of the conclusion. And that's been the problem with science in recent years is they start with a conclusion, then they look for facts to match the conclusion, and it hasn't been objective."

Scientists estimate that the COVID vaccine saved 3 million lives and prevented 18 million hospitalizations. President Trump called it "one of the greatest miracles of the ages." RFK Jr. asked the FDA to revoke the emergency use of vaccines.

医療は人権問題なのかというバーニー・サンダースの質問に対して、RFKは完璧な答えを返した。 サンダースは、これほど知的な答えが返ってくるとは思ってもみなかっただろう。彼はすぐにケネディをさえぎった。 サンダース：医療は人権か？イエスかノーで？ ケネディ：言論の自由と同じでという意味でしょうか？それは違うと思います。言論の自由は誰にもコストをかけません。医療においては、例えば20年間タバコを吸って、癌になった場合、あなたは今、医療資源のプールから奪っていることになります... サンダース： - 残り数分しかないので..

RFK Jr. Exposes America’s Health Catastrophe in Powerful Opening Statement “Today, Americans’ overall health is in grievous condition. Over 70% of adults and a third of children are overweight or obese.” “Diabetes is 10 times more prevalent than it was during the 1960s. Cancer among young people is rising by 1 or 2% a year. Autoimmune diseases, neurodevelopmental disorders, Alzheimer’s, asthma, ADHD, depression, addiction, and a host of other physical and mental health conditions are all on the rise, some of them exponentially.” “The United States has worse health than any other developed nation. Yet we spend more on health care, at least double and in some cases triple, as other countries. Last year, we spent $4.8 trillion, not counting the indirect cost of missed work.” “A healthy person has a thousand dreams. A sick person has only one. Today, over half of our countrymen and women are chronically ill.”