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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.
This emolument is the most blatant tho.
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.
They’re qataris, not zios.
Hey, can you guys actually do something about this? Kind regards, a citizen of the provinces…
Maybe they have a remote detonator installed in it
Qatar? No, they’re inclined to like people they can buy.
They’re qatari, not zios.
I bet it’s at least 1% espionage bugs by weight.
What’s another crime in the pile? Start reporting the legal things he does.
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.
Would you use ‘shady’ to describe all foreign states or just the Arab ones?
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.
The very same foreign government who hacked Jeff Bezos phone and assassinated a US citizen. Both of which happened during Trumps first term.
But Hunter’s dick pic!
No it isn’t? That was Saudi Arabia. And Khashoggi wasn’t a citizen, just a green card holder. Qatar is mostly known for harbouring the leadership of Hamas
And exploiting Indian, Nepalese and Bangladeshi workers for ridiculous high risk construction sites.
Yeah, but every one of the Oil empires does that. They also treat women like shit and fund the bombing of Yemen.
Qatar is mostly known for harbouring the leadership of Hamas
Brave, but I think qatar has a much broader history and current reality than its minimal resistance to genocide.
It sure does have some history. Even recent history!
What’s wrong with Hamas? Don’t nearly all Western states have favorable relations with Israel despite the illegal occupation since 1967 and the genocide since 2023? Why pick on the Palestinian government in Gaza? Why would Qatar having relations with them be bad?
Also “oil empire”, get real. Unless you mean the USA.
Qatar is absolutely an oil empire. 60% of their GDP comes from oil.
Either way, regardless of what country it comes from, using a gifted plane from a foreign government as air force one is wild.
DOJ insists
Via argumentum ad nuh uh.
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.
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.
So we’re gonna let a foreign government gift us Air Force one.
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.
He live tweets every stupid “thought” he has in any case.
Diarrhea brain. It comes with senility.
How much do we see him after dark? I’ll bet he has sundowners, too.
True. Trump or one of his cronies are gonna just blab it on Signal or live on TV.
Heck, knowing what we know about them maybe having a listening device giving their innermost insanities might provide enough noise to overwhelm the signal.
Where’s the tarriffs?
Why not have Americans build a fancy new air force one?
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.
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.
Us?
Please leave me out of the nationalist “we”, especially in the case of a gross plane that I will 1000% never ride.
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.Yep
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.
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.
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.
Tell me, why?! It ain’t nothing but a heartbreak…
Ain’t nothing but a big mistake…
Tell me why! I never wanna hear you say, “I voted that way.”
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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
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.
