DOGE needs to get rid of those pesky safety regulations holding up the plane.
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2025
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Oh man. Please. Please.
Not that it matters. Another bumbling moron is next in line. Then after that a religious zealot.
But for my own satisfaction....pleeeease.
SpaceX and BOEING engineers. You know what to do, right? GET TO WORK!
You want Vance? That's how you get Vance.
Vance might be smarter then Trump but there's not a chance MAGA coalesces around him if Trump dies. Without that, congressional R's won't bend the knee so readily.
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Trump as a Putin sock puppet or Vance as a Putin sock puppet.
Still, it seems like a reasonable hope before we go out in the streets with pitchforks
Vance doesn't have the personality to effectively order the ~~lynch mob~~ Republican voters around
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Musk orders Trump not the other way around
I like where this is going.
Trump is completely right on this issue. Despite the fact his plane is produced by a company plagued with consistent quality control issues I believe this should be rushed into service as quickly as possible. In fact, I agree that the anyone including temp workers should be allowed in to get this thing in the air today.
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I'm sure they're good enough right now, send 'em on over.
"Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake."
Isn't that his MO anyway? I would have expected nothing less.
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Can't wait to see his memoir "Half Assed, The Trump Legacy"
Can Musk use rebuilt engines from the plane that crashed in Toronto? Thanks
Yes please, can't wait to see the result of that
Nothing could go wrong with that, and i mean LITTERALLY nothing.
Good.
Yes please
Oh... I am loving this! I hope he puts it on a rush job to be completed and in the air with Trump, and his whole cabinet on board within 1 month.
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I hope we come up with a US Navy 1 submersible too, built by Elon! Trump can get in the idiot squisher too!
SF1 get hit by de rock hoppa
By all means.
"Trump dies in fatal Boeing crash, after rushing its production" is a headline id love to see
There would be a celebration in the streets. Doubly so if Musk was also onboard.
"Trump dies in fatal Boeing crash, after rushing its production" is a headline id love to see
After rushing it's production and firing all the FAA safety inspectors.
That can be improved by inserting "and Musk" after the first word.
Don't forget JD Vance!
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Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough we can will our reality back on track and make this happen. Somewhere around 2016 someone at CERN started a new experiment and ever since we've been in the wrong universe, through concerted efforts of enough of Earth's latent psychics maybe we can push this world back towards the correct timeline.
Or maybe make things worse.
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I have no complaints…
The quality of the average Tesla should be the target.
Could we have all of them fly at the same time?
Man I hope Elon works expeditiously don’t wanna waste any time
Man, it's wild to me to put the guy who wants your throne in charge of making your plane, but there you are. No matter what, I just hope Musk puts the same care and thoughtfulness he puts in all his manufacturing endeavors to the task.
Finally, a Trump order I agree with
I mean, realistically, we would probably be just fine with Air Force One having no security systems at all. Like, the likelihood that someone is going to attack Air Force One probably isn't all that high, and you can also mitigate that by choosing where to fly the thing.
And as long as Trump understands any risk that he exposes himself to...I mean, it's not as if a future President is required to use the Trump-era Air Force One. It's really just him and people during his administration.
Most national leaders don't have anything like the kind of protection that the President does.
Now, granted, most also haven't had four assassination attempts against them be intercepted in past months, but I'm also not sure that shooting down Air Force One is the easiest way to assassinate the President, either.
EDIT: And I think that it's also worth considering that some of our norms for modern Presidential travel were developed during the Cold War, in an era of potential nuclear conflict where launch-on-warning was part of nuclear doctrine. In that scenario, the President needs to travel around with the nuclear football, and a decapitation strike might be an important early first move in a nuclear war.
But we haven't relied on launch-on-warning for a long time. The President is a lot more expendable in the context of dealing with an opposing nuclear first strike today; it's the SLBM arsenal used to counter that now.
Today, if a hostile state kills the President, it might produce disruption for a short period...but that disruption probably isn't going to buy all that much, strategically.
Today, if a hostile state kills the President, it might produce disruption for a short period…but that disruption probably isn’t going to buy all that much, strategically.
Can't possibly be any more disruption than what the current president is causing... So I'd call it a win if he was taken out.
Most politicians are fine riding a bicycle to work, ride a train or a normal car, just fly a normal ass airline, things like that. But americans need them to ride in a tank because they love to kiss the feet of their celebrity overloards. I mean putin obviously can't or kim jong-un can't which says a lot.
I always thought Air Force One needed security to prevent terrorists from taking the president hostage and forcing them to release more terrorists. But, our current president already lets a bunch of terrorists go like the Taliban and Jan Sixers.