DOGE says it stopped millions of dollars meant for condoms in Gaza.
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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
A future DOGE finding will show that ketchup is a luxury that American taxpayers shouldn't be funding for any group of people under any circumstances. /s
You're thinking of "condiments", which are usually used in different situations.
How will RFK season his steak?
His roadkill steaks come preseasoned
No different than the DEA putting you in prison for 10 pounds of marijuana because you have a 10 pound bag of dirt and some kind of plant matter they can't identify. Facts don't matter to the government.
Condoms are watertight expandable bags. They can be useful in many situations that aren't sexual.
Yes but sex is only for making babies in their eyes
Probably added by a republican as a poison pill.
I mean, it makes a ton of sense to include condoms in aid, you don't want people getting pregnant when there's literally no functioning hospitals. Of course conservatives will say 'just don't have sex' or whatever, but that's just not how humans work.
This makes sense. And also makes it a lot worse that they’re using that as an excuse.
It's probably also not $50m worth of condoms. It's probably like a few grand, but you have to spend millions on distribution and security because obviously there's no infrastructure there.
It probably included sexual health in the human health package so they latched onto that.
Wait I thought the racists wanted less brown people they're really sending mixed messages here...
Not exactly, they need a permanent underclass of slaves
Have you been to Israel? They go out of their way not to exploit Palestinians for labour. Most of the Israeli labor class is imported from Thailand.
Its pretty crazy and shows just how genocidal those people are. They literally want them all dead.
Well no, you add children to no resources and no shelter and you get demoralization and greater overpopulation and a noticable impact on crime and life span.
Sounds like future slaves to me. They - the billionaires - want to kill most of us worldwide and enslave the rest.
Bombs and bullets tend to be more effective than condoms.
The problem with that is they're not trying to "develop" Gaza... at least not for the people living there.
Yup.. assholes gonna asshole. It did seem like we were getting better for awhile, but the news lately shows us not much has changed.
The results of a century long proxy war in the middle east seems to beg to differ. The UN in 1994 held a meeting in Cairo about using women's education as a method of reducing rapidly growing populations across the world most notably in the middle east.
They want to be the ones making fewer brown people
They also get hard-ons when brown people suffer. It's a balance act.
Of course this is being defended by somebody wearing a cross.
Call it an ancient torture device, and it all makes sense.
I’m sorry but she looks like the platonic ideal of the headline. Betty Bowers, take some notes.
I am super confused about the whole thing.
This is literally a perfect fit for this community.
I kinda love your username btw - such a good match (to your instance)!:-P
💜Thank you.💜
I miss when doge was just a good boy
They ruin everything. Pepe, Doge, Tesla; fucking Tolkien rolling over in his grave over Anduril and Palantir.
Surely this will improve government efficiency!
I don’t believe that for a second.
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
Right wing social media comments, "Think last, shoot off mouth first"
"Think? No one has time for that!"
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)
When we said "it's a fucking genocide in Gaza", they might have misunderstood which word was meant to be emphasized.
::: spoiler 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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Good human
DOGE? Like......the 2012 dog meme/cryptocurrency? I'm so confused what is happening here.
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.
You somehow gave a complete answer that answered my question, and still left me even more confused.
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.
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.
You could say that's pretty... efficient
That's the idea
You could say they prefer it RawDoge
If these were military spec condoms then based on DOD bidding a pack could've cost a million dollars.
Seeing as they would prefer that the Palestinians disappear I'd think they'd be 110% in favor of condoms for them.
The title plus the thumbnail makes it looks like a snl sketch, only more ridiculous.
"Our team concluded that the most effective birth control is being a frustrated loner and jerking off."
They like "whats the maddah they gotta repopulate!"