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Should be a wild four years.

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Betonhaus said:
A cursory glance at huffpost indicates that while they have TDS it's early stage, with the clickbaity pearl clutching opinion pieces somewhat marked as such and the rest of it showing some resemblance to journalistic integrity.
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back when i wasn't such a political faggot, I found huffpost pretty decent for news. It got a lot worse after arianna huffington stepped aside from having a very active role. Believe it or not, she was a republican at one point, but a more centrist one.
 
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Anyone know what source the administration used for the "$50 million for condoms for Gaza" claim?
 
I think Canada is a fake country in that as soon as it was no longer part of the British empire it started downhill. "Canadian" is too nebulous and the population so low and far flung that its not possible to have a strong national identity long term (outside of wars and crises that naturally force nationalism).

they need a empire to protect and administer them. except the frogs. fuck em.
 
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Here's something interesting related to unions and jobs that I've noticed related to Trump...well...probably more construction oriented unions. When I first got into my apprenticeship, there was a massive steel mill project in the South related to an EAF with all this bonus money tied to it. Biden gets in, there is barely a whimper in the South related to good jobs. Trump gets back in? Suddenly I'm hearing about building trades trying to obtain a movie studio project in Alabama of all places that could be massive, along with various projects all over the place. I've heard this constant narrative of how Trump is trying to "destroy" unions, but how is he exactly destroying them if under his administration these good jobs magically pop up that allow union crafts to get in there???
 
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Anyone know what source the administration used for the "$50 million for condoms for Gaza" claim?
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Internal? They're the only ones with full access to that information.
If you're asking for some external proof, it doesn't (currently, anyways), exist. Take that as you will.

Given how money gets spent, including billions a year on AIDS treatment and prevention for Africans that practice sexual habits that propagate it (see the subheading :cryblood: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_sex), it certainly wouldn't be surprising.
 
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Troonos said:
Anyone know what source the administration used for the "$50 million for condoms for Gaza" claim?
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The only thing i have found is Trump press sec saying it.
Internal numbers it seems.
But i think it is a misleading thing. I think the real scandal is the clear $50,000 hammer situation.
Meaning the labelled use is not the true use. They are not spending 50,000,000 on condoms. At most 3000. The rest is going in to pockets and "interested" partys.
 
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Troonos said:
Anyone know what source the administration used for the "$50 million for condoms for Gaza" claim?
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Link to tool that shows all grants awarded by Fedgov:

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1884116319278358742

There was some confusion on the award for Gaza. There was an 85 million award for AIDS prevention in Gaza, Mozambique. People pointed out that this wasn't Gaza Palestine. But then later a 45 million award for reproductive health was found for the Gaza Strip.

Here's the one for Gaza Strip. You have to look for a minute to figure out how to read these awards. If you go to the bottom and open up the "place of performance" tab it will show where the money goes:

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_SPRMCO24VC0339_1900/

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The only thing i have found is Trump press sec saying it.
Internal numbers it seems.
But i think it is a misleading thing. I think the real scandal is the clear $50,000 hammer situation.
Meaning the labelled use is not the true use. They are not spending 50,000,000 on condoms. At most 3000. The rest is going in to pockets and "interested" partys.
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It's not exactly for condoms, that's the shorthand people that found the money award were using. It says "SUPPORT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH".

Supposedly Israel doesn't allow condoms into the Gaza Strip because they might be weaponized LOL. Doesn't seem like a good policy on their part. But it's not totally clear if that's true.
 
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It really pisses me off that people (read: programmed Media bots) are trying to say Trump firing useless idiots in the FAA is causing the plane crashes. It's so fucking disingenuous. There's been issues with planes going for ages, it was getting weird AF (didn't some Boeing pilot/whistleblower randomly get assassinated?)

Shit's been sketchy for ages, but they just downplayed it for months and now Trump is in power the media suddenly report on every single crash and the fucking niggercattle leftoids suddenly notice because their media overlords told them to.
 
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Broadside said:
It really pisses me off that people (read: programmed Media bots) are trying to say Trump firing useless idiots in the FAA is causing the plane crashes. It's so fucking disingenuous. There's been issues with planes going for ages, it was getting weird AF (didn't some Boeing pilot/whistleblower randomly get assassinated?
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You have to realize that they'll just knee jerk blame him for literally anything negative that happens from now on. They've done it since 2015 when he first started. They aren't going to change. Oh and any good news will be contributed to biden, harris, walz, whoever. They aren't actually thinking humans. They are NPC automatons.
 
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mlanguishi said:
You have to realize that they'll just knee jerk blame him for literally anything negative that happens from now on. They've done it since 2015 when he first started. They aren't going to change. Oh and any good news will be contributed to biden, harris, walz, whoever. They aren't actually thinking humans. They are NPC automatons.
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I'm old enough to remember the fundie right blame Obama for absolutely fucking everything.

Hell, "thanks Obama" used to be an outright meme for a while lmao
 
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