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Oh so they all admit it IS A FUCKING BRIBE THEN? GODDAMNIT FUCK EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE SLIMY FUCKS
I'll go one further, how about he get buried in it?
So this will be taxed as a gift right?... Right?
They show their priorities again and again.
Epstein list?
Trump sending thousands of payments to epstein?
Nope, gotta shut down government to avoid it.
Letting trump keep a plane that Saudi's tricked us into taking cause its more expensive to renovate it than to buy a replacement, but its no big deal cause we're taking away peoples healthcare to pay for it? Urgent issue. MUST VOTE.
Corruption yeah!
He's not planning to leave numbskulls.
Watching America move from being a de facto criminal enterprise into a de jure criminal empire is numbing.
That's a white elephant gift.
If he's still around, maintenance on that thing isn't gonna be affordable
Russia, if you're listening...
MA 117 47
Plot twist: he’s not leaving office. Don’t tell me about the 22nd amendment. He’s already in office in violation of the 14th. He’s not dying anytime soon either. Rotten fucks like him always live well into their 90s, fueled by hate. Just look at Rupert Murdoch.
Rupert Murdock isn't also fueled by McDonald's.
Murdoch's age is just insane. His fucking father was a stain on humanity during fucking WWI, and that dude was already in his 30s at the time.
Your maths does not check out.
Oh but they does. Keith Murdoch (Rupert's father) was born in 1885 so was 29 at the outbreak of WWI. Rupert (literally Keith Rupert Murdoch) was born in 1931 when his father was 46.
My bad. You said it was Rupert who was in his 30s during WW I and I thought that's what you meant.
I said "that dude was already in his 30s" and I meant daddy Keith. Never mind, they're both pieces of shit. The only reason Keith is less of a piece of shit is that he's long dead.
Even if the plane itself was "free", they are voting to make a $1B gift (the cost to retrofit the plane) from tax money to one guy personally?
Today's word is corruption!
I guess it's encouraging that they think he'll ever be leaving office alive.
Did anyone say alive?
Trump Pyramid where he gets buried with his jet...
He can get buried with it up his ass.
Everyone has been put under a normalization spell, the trauma was too intense too long. I tried explaining to another liberal my fears about this term's version of the January 6 insurrection, he looked at me like I was crazy. People are trained to believe the ping-pong will go on forever, save and easy.
“That’s not gunna happen!”
“None of it was ‘gunna happen’ and it just kept right happening anyway!”
They say it’s our thumbs and big brains that are our super power but I swear, our ability to pretend like everything is fine despite overwhelming evidence is something truly incredible.
We're spoiled from having peaceful transfers of power for so long. It Can't Happen Here.
Well, he's never going to leave the Oval Office at the end of this term, so the point is kind of moot.
He might have to leave bcz he doesn't know who he is. Trust me on this one, dude is barely lucid most days. If he croaks before the end of his term, it'll be a good day for USA'ians. Even if it doesn't fix the problem entirely, he's a shit stain on the human race.
Lolita Express II.
isn't any gift received by the president property of the government? or so i gathered from watching the west wing 😆
That's how it used to work.
Haha, laws, those were the days
So much of our government worked on the idea that nobody would be brazen enough to break convention, and the untested belief that voters would immediately and vehemently reject anyone trying to openly abuse their power.
We now know both of those assumptions were wrong.
I'm curious to know who is going to pay to keep it airworthy, if DT does leave office? Those things aren't cheap to maintain.
If he leaves office he won't be in a position to grant political favours to friends.
His Trumpcoin scam is one rugpull away from being converted to actual useful money.
Emoluments clause? No? Anyone? Anyone?
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Technically that right there would make it ok if the house passes the same. But my God, if we're going to use that qualifier to let the president have something from a foreign state did it have to be a fucking 747?
This vote was against an amendment to a bill that would ban him from keeping it. Not a grant to do so.
Good to know! Something like this should absolutely be impeachable (I know lots of things should be, but this is one of the most clear IMO) and with a little luck things will change after 2026
I know, I can dream...
Went out the window in 2017.
Give it to the Air Force so they can test out a few missiles on it.
Preferably with Trump still inside it.
...this evening.
No one could have seen this coming. We’re such a clown show.