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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: wzambon 🐝 BRONZE
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Subject: Re: False Story Promoted Here Today
Date: 01/30/25 11:53 AM
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It appears that this Heather person is using unrelated condoms for Africa as an argument for continuing to provide condoms for Gaza.

There were no condoms provided to Gaza. FOX and other right wing media confused the actual story with their own fictionalized version.

Jesse Watters was even showing his butt as usual by claiming that terrorists were using them (fictional USAID condoms) as balloons to carry explosives into Israel.

This is well beyond the realm of “I made a mistake”. This is industrial level propaganda on par with North Korea.

Could it be true? When we queried Leavitt, she responded by sending a Fox News article that initially just quoted her own statement. Quoting yourself is not evidence. Moreover, the article quoted an unnamed White House official as saying that the “State Department halted several million dollars going to condoms in Gaza this past weekend.

That’s not the same as $50 million.
Last year, the State Department launched a five-year, $50 million program to improve health care in Gaza. But the contractor, Anera, said it was not supplying condoms.
“Definitely no purchase of condoms in our program, and there are no components for family planning in the GHRA [Gaza Health Recovery Activity],” spokesman Steve Fake said. “We have asked around, and no one is sure what this is referring to.”


washingtonpost.com - Gaza condoms fact checker trump

Fabricated out of whole cloth.
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