Francisco 2.0

Dude, effective at noon on Jan 20, if MAL gets damaged, it will get fixed or rebuilt courtesy of Uncle Sam. Or some oligarch kicks in $100 million into a Trump crypto coin or whatever. Shit, maybe they just hand the money over to Trump on TV; it's not like anything is going to happen to either of them

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/23/trump-staff-musk-conflict-00200311

Pre-covid, I took my parents and family on a 2 week road trip to the northeast. One of the places dad wanted to see was the Air Force museum in Dayton. The Air Force One that carried Kennedy's casket back to DC is one of the exhibits. They actually had to take a saw to a partition on the inside of the plane to get the casket inside. Bottom pic is where the cut was made; the partition is wider at the bottom. The saw marks were covered up with some silver metal trim afterwards. Francisco Jr. Ms. Francisco and Dad: And the interior picture where the cut was made. Not my pic; I thought I had taken one of this, but alas. Pic courtesy of the Air Force museum website:

This might be one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever read on this fine forum, and I've been around now for [checks notes] 13 years or so.

Obligatory:

Somewhere, a MAGA senator or rep is sitting up and taking notes:

Politico has the article, but for some reason, I can't paste a URL here any longer. Aside from that, here's a heartwarming story: Your next congressperson just got pardoned

Well, sure. But the sale of Trump branded "freedom masks" will be acceptable.

Meanwhile:

Well, yeah, but you see, the silk road guy had quite a collection of bitcoin. Assuming he still has access to them, I'm guessing there will be a nice chunk of change headed to the Trump Presidential Library fund.

Or I. Or anyone I work with. And most, if not everyone here. But the rules really don't apply to him. Shit, nothing does. He's a convicted felon, and one can argue "see! he's not above the law!". Yes, yes he is. Wake me up when he suffers any consequences of, well....anything.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/21/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-doge/