Because giving a gift to the whole country, for its help in knowing CK NG the Nazis out of theirs, is exactly the same as giving a personal gift to one person, a Nazi, with strings attached.
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France was (and I'm using past tense here because relations are strained due to......gestures generally) one of USA's first allies. They provided political, navel, and monetary assistance during the revolutionary war. They were one of the first counties to acknowledge us as an independent country once the war was over.
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The statue was commissioned as a gift to the US, not to the president. It doesn't have any listening equipment and it sits as a tourist attraction, along with information about our long standing alliance.
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It wasn't a fucking bribe!!!!!
Technically, if the Qatari plane gets instated as property of Air Force One operations then it belongs to the US and not the president. It would have been better to lean on the fact that Saudi Arabia is a direct sponsor to many groups and nations that the USA lists as adversaries.
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Something that provides a whole lot of modern context is realizing that America was France’s early “Proxy war”. They wanted to give Britain a hard time, and so they gave colonials weapons to do it. Both of us won out from that exchange.
The key part here is that France didn’t keep an iron stranglehold of us. It was enough to win us our freedom that we would want to be their buddies without being forced. Fun story for anyone who insists the US wants to control the Ukrainian government.
Pfft, I don't want to control the Ukrainian government.
I just want Russia to suffer for their crimes.
We are not the same.
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I think autocorrect got you, unless there was a secret bellybutton supply we don't know about?
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Though if a congressional vote was held on the Qatari golden airliner, it’d pass along party lines, as no Republicans want to incur the wrath of the King. A few may hem and haw and express how troubled they are by the, ahem, highly irregular nature of this deal, but would ultimately wave it through. (Bonus: a handful of Democrats may vote to approve, out of an instinctual desire to reach across the aisle and build bridges or whatever.)
TBH, from a political standpoint, if this went through all the regular channels and procedures then I would at least be supportive of dropping the tariffs on SA. It's nice to have a middle eastern nation still willing to oppose Russia after all of this.
Bonus: a handful of Democrats may vote to approve, out of an instinctual desire to ~~reach across the aisle and build bridges or whatever~~ lick boot
And that's how we ended up with a Cleveland Tower in Paris and Grove-a-Lago just outside Nice.
And also the statue is not owned by Grover and it's not in his home
I am also pretty sure Grover Cleveland didn't refer to France as "historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level" less than 10 years before accepting the gift from them.
Hahhaa I didn't even consider that.
She just needs to sit down
Come to think of it, I'm a little surprised that Musk hasn't pulled the feature yet.
He said not long ago that they were looking at it as a feature because it consistently kept correcting him and calling him out lol. It was one of his (many) dumb ass tweets where he just said "investigating" or "looking into this" or some crap. I would not be surprised at all if it's changed or removed very shortly.
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Fuck Ann coulter with a klan poster
c/uncommoninsults@...?
Ann Coulter is an odd bird. She seems to be running interference for Trump on this one. Sometimes she's not afraid to buck Trumpism. I know she's awful, but if she could pick a lane, I'd appreciate it.
She has a lane and it is called "What is in the best interest of Ann Coulter right now?"
It least there is logic consistency there
Which most of trump supporters lack...
I am happy as long daddy trump is grifting for himself 🤡
Pwning libs is another return for them
Accepting a statue is not the same at all as accepting a 747 jet.
Especially if his plan is to keep it for personal use, rather than as federal property
President Cleveland can only equally enjoy the Statue of Liberty as much as anyone else. Trump would enjoy that plane infinitely more than the rest of us.
I bet he totally got special access to go up to the crown or torch whenever he wanted.
Checkmate!
If the plane crashes and takes Trump with it, the rest of us would enjoy it infinitely more.
You optimists never cease to amaze me!
Hey, the Saudis might have put in a kill switch together with all their listening devices.
Honestly I'm hoping for Rapid Unplanned Disassembly the first time it hauls his dumb ass into the air.
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You best believe that for as long as Trump’s using the plane he better make sure that he doesn’t speak ill of his benefactors, otherwise that plane is likely to suffer an accidental de-planing.
Thats the scary thing about this. Not only is making it AF1 capable going to be a multi years long retrofitting process, costing millions upon millions of dollars alone, but it’ll still be questionable in regards to kill switches and snoopers.
There is literally zero chance that the bribe plane will be considered secure enough for the president before 2030, which makes Trump saying he would keep it after leaving office a confession that it is a personal bribe.