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It is, but it is also a thing that in the US the State Department vigorously enforces the rule that US representatives are not allowed to keep them. The Pod Saves guys have talked about how theyâve had things as trivial as bottles of wine confiscated by the State Department when they were gifted to them while on a foreign trip.
This plane things is astonishingly brazen, even before you get into contemplating how much modification a regular plane is required to go through to upgrade its security capabilities into something that meets the requirement of AF1. It is years of work, made even more laborious by this being an existing plane that would have to be stripped to its bones and rebuilt to pass security requirements. There are few people who think this has much chance of ever being useable as AF1, or at least not one an AF1 that meets the regular security requirements
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probably needs bacon.
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I believe that I should have the most impressive plane! FIFY!
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He operates on a different plane to the rest of us, thatâs for sure.
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As a point of reference to the aircraftâs complexity, Boeingâs successor to the current Air Force 1 is already 1 year behind schedule and 2 billion over budget and itâs not a new design but a conversion of its very own 747-8.
Not that something as mundane as comms security would ever stop Trump from using Qatarâs gift.
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Has anyone exhumed McCain yet to see if we can harness his corpse for perpetual energy?
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I think some of you might be blinded by the obvous grift, the corruption and the transactional nature of it all. It IS awful. But that is more a commentary of the state of US society and politics than what has been achieved here.
Because what happened yesterday and today will reveberate and it is a humiliating loss for what has been a truly awful Democrat foreign policy. I read expert commentary, most agree, Harris would not have done this, yet Trump did. That is notable.
What people in the region will care about is that, not the grift, not the corruption.
This has been monumental and for millions, Trump will be a historic saviour.
That is mostly a testament to awful Democrat foreign policy, but someone needs to points these things out, since democrats on soc-med doesnât seem to realise at all what has been achieved here, but continue to focus on the obvious grift, while sionists cry out in anger and despair.
I just want people to know how this is percieved outside the western media bubble.
Do I still hate Trump and want him found a lonely naked fat man in a septic ditch on an early monday morning ? YES ! For a million reasons, obviously (destroying US society, attacking allies, helping Ru, making UKR lose the war, million of other things, many of whom dwarf this in importance). But in this specific case, it is a major diplomatic victory that will indeed, bring a lot of good will to the US from regional states in the ME; as well as help lift up millions from abject povery. Trump, Von der Leyen and Macronâs lifting of sanctions and outstretched hand will also do far more to restrict migration than tough words of the likes of Starmer and Meloni.
Trump, because he is Trump and no one else, has managed to just zap out estabalishment hawks, AIPAC, and so much else; and done what a Democrat (or normal establishment Republican) could not have achieved. It would never have been politically possible for a normal US president to do this. The anger from the right, the anger from the centre, impossible. But because Trump runs a cult, it works and he just forces the powers on the right to submit to him. Scary for a million other reasons ? Yes.
But even so this is a very fucking major win for Trump and much of the world (apart from Israel and those that share their pov).
And that is what truly matters, in the end. It is what most will remember 10 years from now. Most reading about this in 10-20 years, studying this in college, will view the transactual nature of it, the corruption, as how the US president was persuaded to go along with this.; but the focus will be on effect and if it was positive or not. And it is positive; in this case.
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How to write a post to make sure you get 0 likes 
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Yeah I think that is right. Removing sanctions was undoubtedly the right thing, and if this, and unilateral efforts to get the remaining US hostage back from Hamas, drives a wedge between the US and Israel then even better (not meant as an anti-israel comment, but that the US needs to regain some foreign policy independence that it lost). And I think itâs right to be skeptical of Harris moving this far.
The problem with Trump is what the âitâ is weâre discussing, because he never really knows himself and doesnt arrive at âitâ through any reasoned process. That means whatever benefit learned people might project out from todayâs âitâ is likely to get shat on by his very next reflex.
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Absolutely.
But when a drunk man stumbles through the right door in a lethal Japanese Game Show because he was pushed through and it is the only door where you are not killed, he still stumbled through the right door and came out alive.
Excuse the metaphor. But itâs Trump, so maybe not too wild a metaphor.
@redalways Slightly curious as to your choice of emoji. Did you think I wrote something stupid or that what I view as likely facts, are incorrect ? Just curious, not looking for an argument and certainly not a fight with you ! 
Look at that cunt, parading in front of prisoners in the awful El Salvador prison⌠
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Which one, the see no evil one?
It was the closest emoji I found to express the complicated emotion that is agreeing that the outcome for Syria is a good thing while being absolutely disgusted that Trump gets any credit for that, I suppose.
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That alleged sexual offender ought to be in there himselfâŚ
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Donât worry, mate: @redalways often uses that emoji incorrectly.
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Like seagulls, emojis are always open to interpretation.
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They are indeed.
Anything thatâs open to interpretation hasnât been expressed clearly.
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