Who'll Stop the Rain

The death toll in Lebanon as of this morning is 4,321. There have been 12,207 injuries due to Israeli attacks. 

Meanwhile, they’re def not letting up on the Palestinians. Bast forbid!

Since the October “ceasefire”, at least 1,098 Palestinians have been killed and 3,535 wounded by Israeli attacks. 

Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 73,221 people and wounded 173,643 since October 2023. (source) 
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Here inside the US, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s murder by ICE is the tenth killing by federal immigration officials nationwide since the second Pedo administration began. 

In the 500 days between President Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025 and June 4, 2026, 52 people died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in the United States. The mortality rate of deaths in ICE custody is at its highest level in over a decade and has more than doubled since Trump’s second term began. (source) 

As of Monday, July 6th, 21 people, that we know of, have been passively (and not so passively) murdered while in ICE custody this year. 

Outside the US, in the year and five months since Prez Laughingstock was sworn in he’s, so far, responsible for around 4,000 deaths — probably more. There’s Venezuela, his War Crimes Secretary’s boat strikes, and Pedo's obscene, vain, and devastatingly stupid cock-up in Iran.

I only mention it but more than 1.2 million people in the US have died of COVID-19. How many of them would have survived if Pedo hadn’t completely, thoroughly botched how the whole business was handled? From masking and distancing to vaccines, he weaponized his imbecilic cult. In this second and final term, is our banjaxed brained prez trying to beat his old death record? Does he want all of us to die before he does? If we're all dead, who will bring him his two Big Mac, two Filet-O-Fish, Quarter Pounder, and fries lunches and his 12 daily Diet Cokes?

I’m reminded of the ‘60s Vietnam anti-war chant: Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?

Can someone clever revamp that for Trump?
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According to Statista the number of civilian deaths in Ukraine since Putin’s 2022 invasion is 16,126 with 46,590 injured. This is as of May 31, 2026.

From a July 2nd column in the Kyiv Post:

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused more than two million military casualties, with Moscow’s forces bearing the brunt of the losses, according to a study published Wednesday by a US think tank.

“Combined Russian and Ukrainian casualties have exceeded 2 million,” the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said.

It estimated that between 400,000 and 450,000 Russians have been killed since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, out of a total of 1.4 million casualties -- killed, wounded and missing -- among Russian troops.

Ukrainian forces have meanwhile suffered between 525,000 and 625,000 casualties and between 125,000 and 150,000 fatalities during the same period, CSIS said.

“Russian fatalities in Ukraine are more than four times greater than all US fatalities in all wars combined since World War II,” while the ratio of Russian to Ukrainian casualties has likely risen to around 8 to 1 in the first half of this year, it added. (source) 

His little war of aggression, his attempt to be this big-ass, historic, almighty, imperial, conquering warlord; to recreate the Russian empire, is failing miserably. Just as everyone’s now laughing at Putin’s little incontinent and senile lap dog, Trump, they’re now starting to smirk about Vlad.

Russia is the largest country on the planet by area — approximately 6,601,665 square miles but it comes in 9th in terms of population. If Putin wants more subjects to rule over he should maybe try making his kingdom a more appealing place to live. He could learn a few dozen things or so from Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland to name just a few successful happy countries.

So could Trump but, as we all know, he and his entire spineless, greedheaded Republican Party are incapable of intellectual enlightenment. All these dictatorial, kakistocratic, kleptocratic, plutocrats understand is money and power. They don’t care how many people have to die for them to get more.

Long as I remember the rain been comin' down
Clouds of mystery pourin' confusion on the ground
Good men through the ages tryin' to find the sun
And I wonder, still I wonder, who'll stop the rain?
~ Creedence Clearwater Revival, Who'll Stop the Rain

Jack Ohman