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Trump administration will accept a luxury jet from Qatar to use as Air Force One (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/usa@midwest.social
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In other news, The Onion has announced they're closing up shop, "Reality is just too much of a parody in of itself" /jk lol

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're "donating" this to Donald Trump to keep personally, not the Trump Administration. Just more flagrant corruption.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yup, this is getting donated to his presidential library after he gets out (rather, it's supposed to).

That being said, what's the listening devices per square foot on this?

[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Loaded, but none of them at asshole height, there's too much noise interference

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 11 points 2 months ago

Asshole height to me is whatever altitude this thing is cruising at

[–] cdf12345@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

But that’s all of the heights ?

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

~~asshole~~ diaper height.

FTFY.

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

Roughly 2x remote disabling devices.

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

What is this Presidential Library? I've never heard of it.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 23 points 2 months ago

I could be wrong, but this seems problematic...

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

After how many billions spent to overhaul the current AF1?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

In other, other news:

Chances they actually sweep this thing for bugs? Audio taps? Listening devices? Flight logs/data that somehow transmit to an unknown source for unknown reasons?

I'm going with 40% chance they try to do a bug sweep, 15% chance they do it competently.

EDIT: Also it would be immensely hilarious if they just included either a bomb or a fatal flight instability inducing kill switch into the thing.

Boeing has shown us you can do roughly the latter apparently unintentionally, I'm sure you could also do it intentionally.

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago

Absolutely at least a few kill switches.

“Do X in the next two minutes or find out how fast you can go from 40k to 0 ft.”

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Cool. Now wait until it's loaded with Agent Orange, and shoot it down.