• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    In case you didn’t know.

    The plane isn’t some special gift the Qataris built special for Donnie.

    It’s a white elephant they’ve been trying to unload for years.

    It’s like a fat guy giving the pizza kid the old bike he hasn’t ridden since he got over the DUI restrictions.

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      Trump also asked for it. Before it was offered. So he literally asked for this bribe…

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        Trump could have just called the Saudis on Inauguration Day 2016 and told them his Swiss Bank. He’d have had more money and could have just watched TV for eight years. Greedy and not bright.

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      Additionally, the “fat guy” very likely loaded the “bike” with surveillance-ware and surveillance gadgetry before giving the “pizza kid” the “bike”…

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        Additionally, the “fat guy” very likely loaded the “bike” with surveillance-ware and surveillance gadgetry before giving the “pizza kid” the “bike”…

        Certainly loaded the bike with surveillance as did all the fat guy’s friends and some of their enemies too.

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        Nah, they don’t have to. Trump is so simple minded, and predictable, they can predict at very high certainty what he’ll do.

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      See, that’s the icing on the cake.

      Dummy Donny was raised so rich that he doesn’t know the actual value of anything, and he’s so needy from his narcissism, that any “appropriate” gift can manipulate him. Qatar knows this. The entire world knows this. But, they’ll get big favors for it, favors that actually matter. They win.

      Trump sees it as Tribute, and it is, sadly. And he’ll return a favor for Qatar. For something the couldn’t unload before. But, they’ll come out much better on the exchange.

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          That’s a bit unfair…you have not mentioned the many other failed businesses that didn’t end in bankruptcy!!

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        Sadly, the Air Force has to rebuild it so it can serve as a Presidential plane. That means the ‘gift’ will cost the taxpayers more than just building a new jet would. One of the reasons the emirs needed to get rid of it is that 747s are old tech and there aren’t a lot of mechanics who specialize in them any more.

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      It’s like that bike if it’s also causing the fat guy a ton of money to hold onto.

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        They’ll get favorable treatment when Gaza is carved up between real estate developers.

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    Burying the lede a bit here, Trump spent that whole meeting talking about Afrikaner genocide and said that that was what Elon (who was present) wanted.

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      White South Africans are about 7-8% of the population, and they own the vast majority of urban and agricultural land, and black people are more likely to report being victims of violent crimes.

      All in all, Trump is lying yet again.

      South Africa is a pretty violent place, but the odds of being better off go up substantially if you have a lot less melanin in your skin cells.

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    Please give him this one!

    It’s definitely better than anything I would ever come up with myself.

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    America First… Make America Great Again… Anything to distract from the fact than he is living up to no one of the promises he made

    • America First- incredibly misguided tariff scheme, fascism puts the country above others.

      Make America Great Again- delete all the progress we’ve made on civil rights and go back to a time when white people had even more control over everything and people could be openly racist and homophobic without consequence. Many people think that’s when America was Great.

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      First let me state that I hate that orange fuck.

      However, he has been carrying out some promises that he made I believe. He promised tariffs, and deporting people.