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TriTorch's avatar

The jet fiasco brings this interaction to mind:

Antony to Caesar: there is not enough money in the world to buy the honor of a single Roman Senator.

Caesar in Reply: maybe so, but there is more than enough it seems, to buy his vote.

Corruption and president buying, blaring right in our faces, wow...

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David Maceira's avatar

Another authoritarian Tayyip Erdoğan was also gifted with a $500 million Boeing 747 from Qatar.

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Linda M. Walker's avatar

Didn't know that.

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Schmendryck's avatar

The considerable delays in bringing forth a "new" AF1 have to do with the same issues I've heard describing the problems with Air Traffic Control: struggling to update cutting-edge 1980s technology, in the case of ATC towers, mid-90s for AF1. The plane requires protected telemetry for immediate impenetrable communications by the president to anybody he needs to speak to, requires the ability to be refilled in the air so that it can stay aloft for days at a time, needs to be radiation shielded & needs to have the armor to at least moderately defend itself even if there are f-14s accompanying it. Not quite sure how much of that is going to be in place on the flying golden toilet that Qatar is going to give him, & when, if the ones that we have in place in the US NOW haven't been able to get brought up to date so far.

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Rose Cassie's avatar

I thought most countries don’t allow criminals in their borders. So why does the OLD unhinged felon terrorist leader need a plane? 🤔

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Terry's avatar

trump went for the bling. He doesn't care about anything else.

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Linda M. Walker's avatar

Oil, baby, OIL!

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Terry's avatar

trump's accepting a $400M gift from the wrong country if he's after oil.

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Bridget Light's avatar

Just as I thought he couldn't go any lower, he always managed to stoop to the lowest. We need to dig a crater for him to keep sinking. SOMEONE NEED TO ORGANIZE A MILLION-HUMAN MARCH!!!!

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Schmendryck's avatar

Does the crowd get to chase the monster to a burning windmill for the climax? Oh wait, Frankenstein's monster is actually sympathetic.

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Alex Pradier-Wolf's avatar

Yes!! Frankenstein's monster is misunderstood, Trump deliberately "misunderstands"

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Martha Cormier's avatar

Yes...and put those 1 million organized people in front of Trumps parade and shut it down......

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Nancy Bainter's avatar

There will be more than the million man march—with women—march on June 14th will be the “No Kings” march. Get your posters ready, eh?

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Zeke1967's avatar

Trump spends a lot of time pissing on the shoes of Americans while attempting to tell us it’s raining. His latest new word “equalize” which he probably discovered after channel surfing Sunday night TV and eyeing an episode of the Equalizer. It’s as if the word never existed to him. China ”pantsed” him again on tariffs so his latest attempt to distract Americans is to claim he will bring the Pharma industry to heel on drug prices so more fun ahead from the largest team of incompetents the likes that America has never seen before.

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Schmendryck's avatar

Only metaphorically, because after all the diaper takes care of the actual discharge.

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Christine Rose's avatar

Lock him up for corruption

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Stephen Guayante's avatar

So after the plane comes over from the Middle East, we’re gonna retrofit it with all the hundreds of millions of dollars of electronic doo-dads necessary to run Air Force One. And just a few years later, they’re going to decommission it from that service for his library and personal use?

The present Air Force One is already due for replacement in 2027. Boeing already has the PO for 2 more planes.

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Judy Cross's avatar

If it's a gift for him, he should foot all the bills for it out of his pocket, not ours.

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Kamm's avatar

It's sitting at the airport in San Antonio Texas right now.

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pika81chu's avatar

The US is basically going to be the modern example of “The Fall of the Roman Empire” at the rate we’re spiraling down

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Jason's avatar

It’s only a matter of time before MAGA has its own flag and all members of the Republican party start wearing it on their lapel. But they will of course brush away comparisons to Nazi Party……

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Judy Cross's avatar

I expect them to wear tRump's red hats too. Don't they know that the RED HAT CLUB belongs to women?

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JMull's avatar

He wants a plane without the security installed to hide things from the American public. That’s why they use Signal too.

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Donna Rerecich's avatar

Signal should be permanently blocked because of this abuse.

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Judy Cross's avatar

So that the rest of the world can hear all.

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christopher wilson's avatar

Thanks guys once again. Thanks for making me one of the best informed poor old men in my hillbilly hell town!

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Renee's avatar

I love the show and listen to the podcast daily congrats on your award 👏👏👏

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Mariglo's avatar

Just leaving Medicaid and Health care alone is good enough.

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David Maceira's avatar

If t were impeached yesterday the damage to our economy, trillions lost in the stock market and alienating our allies will still take years to correct.

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John smith's avatar

Except trumpf is not leaving it alone. He has already significantly defunded it.

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Barbara Gierzak's avatar

"Why do we ridicule Biden as too old, then ignore Trump's decline? A media expert explains."

The Washington press corps saw Joe Biden’s aging, but it doesn’t seem to notice Donald Trump’s. Why? It’s pretty simple, really. Trump acts like a big, tough man. He spends a lot of his time demonstrating his big, tough manhood. Biden never did that. It’s not in his nature. Guess which personality type gets more positive attention from reporters?

So even if Trump lies and lies and lies, even if he inexplicably sways and bops to music for minutes on end, even if he descends into outright gibberish, and even if he demands that you and everyone you know accept as gospel truth his maniacal delusions — even if he does all these things that old men with dementia often do, he’ll never be called old.

Because he looks big and tough.

Fact is, he’s weak. He’s always been weak. And his weakness is always on display, if you’re paying attention, even as he daily demonstrates his so-called dominance. Indeed, there is no other way of putting it honestly.

When you do a thing that triggers a reaction, then pull back that thing as a consequence of that reaction, that’s textbook weakness. That’s what he’s been doing with tariffs since he took office. On again, off again, no consistency, no logic, utter chaos – because he’s weak. (Continued)

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/donald-trump-cognitive-decline/

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Terry's avatar

trump doesn't look big and tough. He's always looked small and weak. Using all caps? A sign of someone that's very insecure. Word salad. Someone that's losing their faculties. A person that brags about raping a woman, walking in on teenagers while undressed because he can? Grabbing their pussies because he thinks he's a star? That's not a man who's big & tough. On the contrary. Anyone that thinks that shows strength needs their head examined. Looking back on trump's history, not renting to black people, having black people removed from the floor of the casino as to not upset the white folk. Talking out a full page ad on the Central Park 5 calling for the death penalty on teens. Innocent kids that were coerced in confessions at first, then said they didn't have anything to do with what they were accused of. They were black. Of course trump didn't care. He's never apologized. He's never apologized for the whole birther movement he created with Obama. He's never apologized to Hillary Clinton. If anyone needs locked up, it's that weak, pathetic excuse for a man.

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Judy Cross's avatar

You are so right. Any ideas how we can accomplish the locking up bit?

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Judy Cross's avatar

I don't think he looks big and tough. To me, he looks weak and frail. He walks stooped over, much of the time and even looks like he has trouble walking. And, of course, the jibberish that comes out of his mouth, adds to his feebleness. He's a weak blood sucking poor excuse for a human being.

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Donna Rerecich's avatar

trump is to the point right now he needs a script in front of him to make any kind of sense, but he's still going on about Biden being mentally deficient. I had a cousin who stuttered far worse than Biden, she absolutely hated it when someone filled in words for her. It makes me so angry that people who don't understand stuttering can make the assumption that the person is mentally weak & inept. Get off the record groove folks & move on to something that deserves & needs the attention like this administration's lying, destruction & grifting.

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Vee's avatar

An unprotected air force one seems like a wonderful idea to me.

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Rose Cassie's avatar

Sure. Just make sure it flies in & out of Newark when controls go down.😅

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David Maceira's avatar

Meanwhile not a peep out of the legacy media and spinless conservatives as t ignores the SCROTUS, wants to suspend habeas corpus takes a dump on The Constitution. However, they seem to be fine normalizing a mad man while he and his cronies wage a War on the Poor in order to fund tax cuts for billionaires.

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Human Kind's avatar

After that Arrest Russell Vought Stephen Miller investigate shutdown ban outlaw Project 2025 and DOGE ASAP.

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Lloyd Henderson's avatar

That 747 could be bugged. Qatar backs Iran and Hamas after all.

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Kelly Trimble's avatar

Iran has vowed to get him. They hold grudges for hundreds of years. I sure wouldn’t trust an Arab plane. ✈️

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