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55 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I honestly don't know, 34 years sounds old, but given that there are two and the total mileage accumulated by the average POTUS can't be anywhere near what a commercial jumbo jet accumulates, I would think they're fine.  They're just not brand new and gifted from someone stroking Trump's ego for favors in return.

No problem flying an airframe for that long, look at the B-52s that are still in inventory and will remain for a couple decades. Good maintenance and replacing engines does a lot.  It’s a lot of the stuff inside that is now more expensive and painful to keep going, and the 747-200 has been discontinued for years so it’s harder to find standard replacement parts for the standard 747 stuff. 
 

Side note, getting a look at a B-52 is inside is an incredible look at an analog airplane. All the stuff that makes it work is just there to see and touch. 

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37 minutes ago, RollLeft said:

...and yet when compared to Joe Biden he somehow still looks like a fucking genius. 

Only to a complete idiot.

Look, Biden is four years older and therefore his decline is more advanced.  Four years ago, Biden was much smarter than Trump is right now. 

Thinking Trump is a genius compared to Biden is like saying Danny DeVito is taller than Yao Ming once Yao gets too old to stand up anymore.  It doesn't change the fact that Danny DeVito is a midget and Donald Trump is a mental midget.

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34 minutes ago, hornmpa96 said:

So his Executive Order on pharma pricing is essentially a Sternly Worded Letter to Big Pharma.

...to line his pockets. 

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12 hours ago, Slacks said:

He's not. 

He knows he is catering to people who are intentionally lazy with regard to information, and therefore dumb. 

Look at what he wrote... (paraphrasing) 

"The defense department is getting a gift airplane for free. Democrats would rather pay top dollar for it. How stupid is that?" 

Easy message. 

"They're eating the pets." = "Savages" 

Easy message. 

"We are going to pay less for drugs and Mexico is gonna pay for it."

Easy message. 

This is the thing he's done his whole life. He's pretty fn genius with word delivery. It's probably just a natural trait that manifests as talent, but that's what genius is. 

Underestimating the effects of his word salads is what got us here. 

I can't believe I just read someone call dotard "a genius with word delivery."

Being fluent in stupidity does not make one a genius. 

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4 hours ago, Underdog said:

Trump Casino went bankrupt… he’s dumb. 

I guess he was being too honest with his customers and was paying his staff a living wage.

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1 hour ago, hornmpa96 said:

So his Executive Order on pharma pricing is essentially a Sternly Worded Letter to Big Pharma.

Don't forget that his own fucking party has regularly voted against anything regulating or dropping drug prices. I can't wait for the fucking absolute shitstain Republicans continue to be hypocrites and their base to continue to be absolute fucking idiots. 

Just some examples

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3678314-senate-republican-bill-would-repeal-dem-drug-pricing-law/

https://www.protectourcare.org/every-republican-in-the-house-voted-for-higher-drug-prices-higher-insurance-premiums-and-to-deny-health-care-to-millions/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/republicans-big-pharma

 

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Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, Red Five said:

Are we really about to have a debate on whether it’s ok for a US president to accept a $400 million dollar gift from a foreign country?

The good news is there’s a nonzero chance his presidential liebarry will be in the Middle East. 

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58 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Only to a complete idiot.

Look, Biden is four years older and therefore his decline is more advanced.  Four years ago, Biden was much smarter than Trump is right now. 

Thinking Trump is a genius compared to Biden is like saying Danny DeVito is taller than Yao Ming once Yao gets too old to stand up anymore.  It doesn't change the fact that Danny DeVito is a midget and Donald Trump is a mental midget.

Watch it.

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Posted
42 minutes ago, Hookah Horns said:

I can't believe I just read someone call dotard "a genius with word delivery."

Being fluent in stupidity does not make one a genius. 

Counterpoint: as "stupid" is the lingua franca of this millennium....yeah.

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Qatar gave a plane to Erdogan too.

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/11/2025/inside-the-qatari-luxury-jet-on-offer-to-president-donald-trump

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This is the second time a leader of a NATO member nation has faced domestic criticism over a Qatari aircraft gift.

In 2018, Qatar gifted a “luxury” 747 to Turkey, Reuters reported at the time, drawing questions from opposition lawmakers. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan insisted that the gift would be “the plane of the Republic of Turkey, not my plane.” In Trump’s case, the plane will reportedly travel with him after he leaves office as a gift to his presidential library.

The gift is part of a vast investment by gas-rich Qatar, which hosts a US military base and has mediated talks with Hamas and the Taliban — playing a geopolitical role larger than its modest size. The country gives widely to governments and causes around the world, as well as financing the global television network Al Jazeera.

Qatar is offering to donate a Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet to the Defense Department, the White House official confirmed to Semafor, though the gift will not be presented or accepted during Trump’s trip this week. A Qatari official told Politico that while “the possible transfer of an aircraft for temporary use as Air Force One is currently under consideration,” the matter is still “under review.”

 

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9 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

The good news is there’s a nonzero chance his presidential liebarry will be in the Middle East. 


Columbia will pay him $500mn to build a $50mn library. 

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3 hours ago, Dnaguy said:


We need to start putting “Library Foundation” in quotes because anyone with half a brain knows that there will never be a library built. It’s a legal slush fund plai… plane and simple.

Well, there will be some sort of pimpadelic gold-plated monument thing called a library and filled with Trumpian gimcracks and bullshit.  NFTs, memecoins, trading cards, sneakers, guitars, etc.

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47 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Well, there will be some sort of pimpadelic gold-plated monument thing called a library and filled with Trumpian gimcracks and bullshit.  NFTs, memecoins, trading cards, sneakers, guitars, etc.

It'll be in the back corner of a My Pillow Guy office.  

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4 hours ago, Jive Turkey said:

SNL should really stop doing a Trump cold open every episode. They can’t compete with this nonsense. 

 

Rich fat guy doesn't have health insurance?

who pays $1300 for Ozempic with a health insurance plan.

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6 minutes ago, yoladu said:

Rich fat guy doesn't have health insurance?

who pays $1300 for Ozempic with a health insurance plan.

Especially when "it's not working"?

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15 hours ago, Slacks said:

He's not. 

He knows he is catering to people who are intentionally lazy with regard to information, and therefore dumb. 

Look at what he wrote... (paraphrasing) 

"The defense department is getting a gift airplane for free. Democrats would rather pay top dollar for it. How stupid is that?" 

Easy message. 

 

 

Told ya...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-defends-qatar-jumbo-jet-offer/story?id=121715591

"I think it's a great gesture from Qatar. Appreciate it very much," Trump said. "I would never be one to turn down that kind of an offer. I mean, I could be a stupid person and say, 'No, we don't want a free, very expensive airplane.' But it was, I thought it was a great gesture."

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Posted
7 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

we great yet?

Depends.  Are you one of the handful of people who have made hundreds of millions/billions from Trump memecoins and insider stock trading?  If so, fuck yeah, we're fucking AMAZING.

If you're not one of those 100 or so people....get fucked, peasant, you don't matter anyway.

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4 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

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The market’s reaction to turnip’s spasmodic tariff decisions has belied the claim the president has little effect on the stock market.

#5 is the only one that is real. The first 90 days of global covid have nothing to do with who is president... let's be intellectually honest in our laying out of blame.

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3 hours ago, Hookah Horns said:

I can't believe I just read someone call dotard "a genius with word delivery."

Being fluent in stupidity does not make one a genius. 

You and I not understanding or liking it doesn't take away from it... It's not genius in the way us intelligents think about genius, but he has shown genius level effectiveness (on the average person) that is undeniable.

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#5 is the only one that is real. The first 90 days of global covid have nothing to do with who is president... let's be intellectually honest in our laying out of blame.

Yeah I don’t feel the need to change facts so that they appear better for that shithead, who doesn’t go five seconds without making something up out of whole cloth.
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37 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

really? really?? you mean the same guy that threw out the pandemic handbook the prior admin left them to deal with exactly what they faced and we're supposed to not blame for shit like a historically bad stock market? it absolutely mattered who was in the oval office and he fucked it up colossally and literally millions of people died. I was there. so were you

Yeah. How we responded dictated how the world responded as well. Us throwing our hands up instead of coming up with solution as to how to keep the world going didn't help at all.

 

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Posted
6 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Yes. Not to mention that his Exec Order does not lower the price of any drug by one penny. Some drugs may be required to at least match what other countries' single payers are paying for those drugs. I can already think of scenarios that prevent lowering the price for Americans.

1. Raise the prices of the drugs to other countries to the same level as the US.

2. Remove the drugs to Medicare and Medicaid recipients

3. Change the formulation or dosage for Americans. Let's say Brits today pay $0.10 for a 5mg pill and Americans pay $1.00.  Change it so Brits pay $0.10 for a 4.999mg pill and Americans pay $1.00 for a 5mg version.

And to combine the two recent topics here, this pharmacy exec order is only to distract the 747 gift. Senior citizens, you may get a slight discount and Trump gets $400m+.

The other thing is that this is probably what Medicare will pay for that drug, not what you, I, or our insurance company will pay for that drug.

And Pharma is gonna sue the shit out of the Administration and this will not take effect, if at all, for years.

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2 hours ago, Slacks said:

#5 is the only one that is real. The first 90 days of global covid have nothing to do with who is president... let's be intellectually honest in our laying out of blame.

You sure about that?  Stop making excuses for him. image.thumb.png.d8bebfc01bcd92e385a62abc11ac5f79.png

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I miss the good old days when Trump was accusing Qatar of state sponsored terrorism at the highest levels.

 

Donald Trump has accused Qatar of sponsoring terrorism at the highest levels, in an extraordinary escalation of the diplomatic row with one America’s most important military partners in the Middle East.

Speaking in the White House rose garden on Friday, Trump said he had decided “the time had come to call on Qatar to end its funding … and its extremist ideology.”

His comments marked his most forthright intervention in a crisis triggered on Monday when Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies launched a co-ordinated diplomatic and economic campaign to isolate Qatar.



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/09/trump-qatar-sponsor-terrorism-middle-east
 

Posted
7 hours ago, RollLeft said:

...and yet when compared to Joe Biden he somehow still looks like a fucking genius. 

Congratulations. You’re even dumber than Trump. 

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Posted
8 hours ago, TexArcher said:

How fat must that guy be for this 285-er to call him fat with a straight face?

I also like how it was a personal phone call that alerted Trump to the fact that prescription drugs are expensive here.  That is how fucking checked out this guy is on every issue.

How much could insulin be? $10?

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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

The other thing is that this is probably what Medicare will pay for that drug, not what you, I, or our insurance company will pay for that drug.

And Pharma is gonna sue the shit out of the Administration and this will not take effect, if at all, for years.

Executive Orders that do something good get delayed for years before dying. Executive Orders that do bad stuff get enacted immediately and stay in effect for years while being appealed. 



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