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Uncle Joe

(62,916 posts)
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 06:55 PM Aug 9

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 9 OP
As for the 200 million dollar ballroom, it's not Uncle Joe Aug 9 #1
It's not, but we can eat cake vanessa_ca Aug 9 #2

Uncle Joe

(62,916 posts)
1. As for the 200 million dollar ballroom, it's not
Sat Aug 9, 2025, 07:09 PM
Aug 9

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

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

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

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