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Uncle Joe

(65,538 posts)
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 06:55 PM Aug 2025

Brooks and Capehart on Israel's plans to exert more control over Gaza



New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including Israel's plans to exert more control over Gaza have been criticized by global leaders but the Trump administration's response has been muted, the Texas redistricting battle and Trump's makeover of the White House.

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Brooks and Capehart on Israel's plans to exert more control over Gaza (Original Post) Uncle Joe Aug 2025 OP
As for the 200 million dollar ballroom, it's not Uncle Joe Aug 2025 #1
It's not, but we can eat cake vanessa_ca Aug 2025 #2

Uncle Joe

(65,538 posts)
1. As for the 200 million dollar ballroom, it's not
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 07:09 PM
Aug 2025

a good or moral idea when you're simultaneously exploding the budget, while cutting off food assistance for poor children, throwing 14 million people off their health insurance, and giving massive tax breaks to the less than 1%.

vanessa_ca

(947 posts)
2. It's not, but we can eat cake
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 08:24 PM
Aug 2025

as we watch the beautiful people dancing away in his gaudy ballroom

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