That 747 is getting amazing ROI
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Seriously. What a relatively small price to pay for the stupid amount of political capital it's gotten them.
Hell, if anything it saves them on not having to maintain a 747
Especially with the 747 being officially out of manufacturing in 2023. Parts prices and specialized technician costs are just going to go up more and more every year.
Why in the world are you guys assuming that's the only bribe they've gotten?
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If a 747 gets me Idaho, what do I need to upgrade to a Dakota? What about Texas?
Try letting a tree fall on you. Make sure you sue the ever living shit out of whoever owns that tree.
Oh, and then make sure that once you have the power to do so, you pass a law that prevents anyone else from suing the way you did.
(Greg Abbot did this, he's the governor of Texas)
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A Qatari base on US soil? Wtfbbq
Turns out that plane wasn't free.
Make absolutely no fucking sense.
Even when you include the bribery it still doesn't seem to make sense.
Have a foreign military on U.S. soil to do things to the U.S. population that the U.S. military might not.
Looks like it's just to train Qatari pilots without putting the hardware too close to Yemeni drones or Saudi missiles.
Although, I wouldn't be surprised if we end up training the next crop of 9/11 hijackers by the end.
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Rural Idaho is sure to love their new neighbors. Hope they keep their I Voted for This flags high.
Wait till they start building a mosque for the soldiers, im sure Idaho republicans will love that
I mean, rural Idaho is basically Qatar already. It's just a christ-o-fascist tax haven for businesses hiding under a flag.
Are those flags real, by the way? I saw some trolling with similar sentiment, but I wonder how many would be bold enough to put those up IRL?
They definitely exist, but rare in my personal experience. There's a large house near me surrounded by high, castle-style walls. Along the wall facing the street they have multiple flag posts displaying an american flag, a trump flag, a gadsden flag, and a "Yes I voted for this!" trump-like design flag. They used to rotate the flags with POW/MIA, Blue Line and others but it's been pretty unchanged since inauguration.
I've also seen a smaller banner flying from a cybertruck, once.
Oh yeah, that tracks. Along with the cybertruck.
r/Conservative unironically thinks it’s great, so they probably do too.
Fox told them it was, after all. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
How can anyone know what that place thinks when every thread is a graveyard? I can't take 30 remaining comments of 600 deleted seriously lol
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I noticed every day there are less and less of those stupid flags up when I drive through rural areas
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Imagine if Obama had done this
They wouldve buried him in his tan suit
Oh, I'm sure that will go over well with the notoriously culturally accepting and tolerant folks of Idaho.
Religious authoritarians setting up shop in a state known for right wing militia who support theofascists.
I can’t tell of they’ll be best buddies or be at each other’s throats.
Well they are different religions so they will obviously be murdering each other, as evidenced by... basically all of human history?
I had to check that the wasn't The Onion. smh
Wow. RepubliQans you just keep getting prouder don't ya.
Are they bringing their slave labor to build it? Or are Americans to be their slave labor?
Yes
They know Qataris are Muslim, right?
Muslims with lots of money.
That makes them effectively white
I hope they keep their immigration documents updated otherwise someone's gonna call in an anonymous ICE tip.
I'm sorry what?
America FIRST! I'm GLAD we're NOT paying our Military right now so we can INSTEAD do This!
These are the people that "gifted" trump the jet, right?
Trump hates America so much that he makes a mockery of it.
Trump doesn't hate the USA. He is just using it to further himself, like anything else in his life.
The mockery is that Trump is more of an embodiment of America than most realize.
So this is the quo for the Jet the criminal made for the US
Are we "great" again yet?
Will they have to shave their beards?
I wonder when Bill Burr is gonna land in there with his helicopter to deliver them some free speech comedy! Maybe he can bring Kevin Hart and Pete Davidson and Dave Chappelle.
Will Snoop Dogg get down?
Fuck this timeline.
I had to check that the wasn't The Onion. smh
This must be what the Okinawans feel
Quid pro quo.
"America First!"
Republicans are so corrupt and pathetic.
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