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    or if the condoms were parte of the plan

    Ding ding ding, this is the best possible thing. The other that it’s complete made up

    Knowing how the conservative club communicates, I’m oretty sure that st best there was a $250 dollar pack of condooms in there. Leaving out details like “it was 0.1% of the package, 99.9% wre different items” is just normal business practice for the Republican party

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      Not made up 99% certain. Gaza used to have a huge problem with birth control pills being sent to them by governments. Like ludicrous amounts. They’d expire and they didn’t have a way to safely utilize them (it’s basically hormones, cannot dump it in the sea or whatever)

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    The DOGE found that there were $50 million dollars of tax money going to Gaza. Some small part of that apparently has to do with condoms, so they’re using it as justification that all government grant programs should be halted immediately. This will effect people’s jobs, schools, and numerous other programs beneficial to the American public, but it’s ok because they stopped the condoms

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      They ruin everything. Pepe, Doge, Tesla; fucking Tolkien rolling over in his grave over Anduril and Palantir.

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    When we said “it’s a fucking genocide in Gaza”, they might have misunderstood which word was meant to be emphasized.

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    Full article

    DOGE says it stopped millions of dollars meant for condoms in Gaza By Casey Harper | The Center Square

    (The Center Square) – White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at the White House press briefing Tuesday that the administration had just stopped millions in taxpayer dollars from paying for condoms for those in Gaza.

    Leavitt said the finding came as a result of the pause in federal funding for a range of federal efforts, including foreign aid payments, so they can be reviewed.

    That pause has sparked pushback and criticism for the Trump administration as many federal efforts ground to a halt. Leavitt, however, pointed to the Gaza condoms as proof of the necessity of the pause.

    “DOGE and OMB also found that there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza,” Leavitt said. “That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.”

    It is unclear if the entire $50 million was for condoms, which would be an incredible sum for a population of that size, or if the condoms were just part of a $50 million spending plan. According to media reports, Hamas militants used condoms as balloons and have tied explosives to them in previous attacks.

    Leavitt said they also stopped $37 million that was about to be sent to the World Health Organization. Trump signed an executive order last week to pull the U.S. out of WHO.

    “So that is what this pause is focused on, being good stewards of tax dollars,” she added.

    Elon Musk, who now heads DOGE, wrote on X that the finding was just the "tip of [the] iceberg.”

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    I am super confused about the whole thing.

    This is literally a perfect fit for this community.

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      Department of Government Efficiency. Headed by Elon Musk, the guy responsible for sending that crypto coin to the moon with a single tweet. This is America now. One big meme.

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      DOGE as in musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

      The, uh, illegal and unconstitutional “advisory” board that was set up to give oligarchs a seat at the table.

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        The, uh, illegal and unconstitutional “advisory” board that was set up to give oligarchs a seat at the table.

        Gonna get a LOT of mileage out of that one sentence.