Narrator: it was, indeed, a bribe.
Narrator: it was, indeed, a bribe.
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So we’re gonna let a foreign government gift us Air Force one.
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Where's the tarriffs?
Why not have Americans build a fancy new air force one?
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Personally, I don't care on that front. If they remotely turn it off in the air, good. Trump's taking it with him when he leaves, and no other president is likely be stupid enough to trust it even if he didn't.
Now, the fact that it's probably just one giant listening device... I guess I'd be concerned about, but they're not likely to learn much from listening to Senile Saddam ramble nonsense while he gropes the flight attendants.
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I can only see one point of Trump doing this deal.
Spite.
He is still pissed off that his new livery design won't be part of the VC-25Bs, and he will now have his own jet that will be managed outside of normal channels, just so he can get a few photo ops as the first president to fly a private 747-800, that will probably be painted in the livery that he approved.
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Of all the people who got to be president he feels like the one who wanted it the least.
He hates Camp David for fuck’s sake.
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Air Force One with spy tech and remote control 🙃
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Us?
Please leave me out of the nationalist "we", especially in the case of a gross plane that I will 1000% never ride.
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This sounds horrible for security. Yeah, let's accept a new Air Force One from a shady foreign state. Surely it's completely safe and not wired at all.
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The very same foreign government who hacked Jeff Bezos phone and assassinated a US citizen. Both of which happened during Trumps first term.
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eh, it's not from israel so it'll probably be fine
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Would you use ‘shady’ to describe all foreign states or just the Arab ones?
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I don't think Qatar, after the whole slavery scams and worker deaths that hit the news for the FIFA World Cup, is the one you want to be defending here. They are shady, regardless what region they are in.
Also, false dichotomy. Not all foreign states are shady, some non-Arab foreign states can be shady, and Qatar could still be shady.
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Just all shady foreign states. Maybe just the ones murdering journalists and sawing them into little pieces?
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Just gonna keep posting this:
"It's vile."
They want it that way."It's inhumane."
They want it that way."It's dangerous."
They want it that way."It's criminal."
They want it that way."It's illegal."
They want it that way.The current administration is doing all the evil because...they want it that way.
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They’re not showing fealty by providing money or luxury items. They’re showing how cheap he is to buy. The optics are worth far more than the gifts.
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According to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, trump doesn't qualify to be
kingpresident. Everyone grasping at The Constitution to save them, but that ship has long since sailed.-
It's frustrating. He's done more than enough to get rid of him multiple times over and nothing has happened yet, but they're all still checking the laws with every new bullshit thing he does. Fucking why? You didn't do anything the thousand other times he blatantly broke the fucking law.
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Because Biden was a coward.
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person does bad or is in progress of doing bad: gets instantly arrested and removed until a trial is held
a person does bad or is in progress of doing bad, america: gets immunity.
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He’s done more than enough to get rid of him
Nah, he's never betrayed his class, capitalism, etc. He's completely serving hegemony like his predecessors. That's the actual purpose of the enslavers' pact. This racist wacko might be the most american president since before the civil war.
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Yep
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americans: imperach president/force them to resign for getting his dick sucked or for getting twitter updates from the opposite party. americans: Shoot a president for being nice
also americans: instead of hanging an rapist felon for attempted coup they elect him into office and sit idly while he abducts and traffics those he thinks of as "subhuman", crashes the entire economy, gets rid of all the us allies and does insanely corrupt shit every day
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Really says a lot about what kind of country the US is.
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It's almost like America is the prototypical Fascist nation and always has been. It took a hundred years, but the Business Plot has taken power in the United States.
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And they can't do anything about it cause it would inconvenience them.
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I'm sure it will be filled to the brim with surveillance devices.
Qatar will earn that jet back in no time by doing insider trading and selling intel.
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I personally know the chief engineer for air force one and he's going to absolutely shit himself. There is no way that aircraft can pass a security and airworthiness audit without performing a check so invasive that it would be cheaper just to built a new one.
Trump likely won't have that so I guess they're going to fly bugged to the teeth. Hopefully they crash it into a mountain on his maiden flight with all his cronies.
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Maybe. If I've learned anything from recent history, I don't think they need to get even that devious to have this moron tell them anything he wants.
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Trump has done many things against the emoluments clause. It doesn't matter.
The people are stupid and put corrupt/stupid people in charge. It's going to take smart people a lot more time and effort to restore basic sanity in a system that's being tested non-stop.
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This emolument is the most blatant tho.
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I'm gonna cackle if this turns out to be a five-d chess move from the Qataris to make sure they can kill the US president whenever they want.
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the Qataris, just like all the other gulf monarchies, depend on the US for military equipment. These are massively unpopular regimes that are only standing due to their police repression which is armed to the teeth with US equipment. They trade oil in USD for this.
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They're qataris, not zios.
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bolsonaro did almost the exact same thing and is getting trialed for it soon
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Trump just whips out SCOTUS’ presidential immunity ruling. Proof he has no intent of leaving office alive.
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What's another crime in the pile? Start reporting the legal things he does.
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The trump LIBRARY? What now? Does he have books?
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It's just going to be millions of copies of his unsold books.
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The ones to connect the dots and collor...
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I can't rule out that it's just private jets.
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Does it lend them out? If it's a public library then those are public Jets.
I wonder what the late fees are like.
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Maybe they have a remote detonator installed in it
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Qatar? No, they're inclined to like people they can buy.
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They're qatari, not zios.
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Most corrupt administration in the history of the USA. Good job flushing our country down the drain MAGA, you complete idiots.
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Conservatism explained as "there must be out-groups to bind and in-groups to protect" is pretty good, but someone recently said it's just "what's good for me and mine right now?". Similar idea, different angle. I think this explains much.
Conservatives don't care about hypocrisy because it doesn't enter into "what's good for me and mine right now?" Pointing out that they're being a hypocrite matters as much as someone saying to you "Your sentence wasn't alphabetical". It's just not a thing they care about, just like you typically don't think about the ordering of your words.
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We've got him this time!
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Hey! He can't do that!
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Let's see ol Donny wriggle his way out of this one
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Narrator: He did.
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The autopilot is programmed to hit Pentagon if he steps out of line
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The entire American political structure functions on bribes, lol, they've just legalized most ways and barely hide it when they haven't. Haven't you heard? American politicians are "transactional" in nature.
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True, but Bob Menendez was found guilty only recently for a far smaller amount. This is several orders of magnitude more expensive
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Yay they got that one guy with no power that one time like 10+ years ago... The system works! \s
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Oh right, the clause, the foreign emoluments clause, the foreign emoluments clause written to prevent exactly this, the clause on foreign emoluments... that clause?
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I bet it’s at least 1% espionage bugs by weight.
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too bad that, in America, law enforcement sits on the executive branch
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Nobody is enforcing any worthwhile laws. They're literally disappearing people to foreign concentration camps.
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lol not even gonna let future presidents use it
[Insert joke about how there won't be future presidents here]
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Hey, can you guys actually do something about this? Kind regards, a citizen of the provinces...
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They better have that shit filled to the brim with explosives, and the ability to remote crash or at any time
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That's actually already standard for airplanes, (well, combustible jet fuel, not explosive). Hence why we have so many safety systems to ensure that they don't remotely crash or explode.
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DOJ insists
Via argumentum ad nuh uh.
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See also Trojan Horse.
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y'all know that the gulf monarchies are US protectorates right? not the other way around lmao
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And nothing will happen.
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Honestly, if there's one royal family that I wish had a little more influence over US politics, it's the Qataris. Still doesn't bode well how openly corrupt he is, as stupid as he is it does show how confident they are that no one will stop them.
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