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OT: American Politics

Leafyblue said:
Isn't Air Force One basically the Star Ship Enterprise as far as tech goes? How much will it cost to retrofit this plane? I mean, sending a tachyon beam through the emitter array can't be cheap. :unsure:
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Yes, and massive.

A 30 million dollars communications package, mid air refueling capability, missile lock on jamming tech.

There's a reason these things are purpose built and not retrofitted. The cost to rip this gift apart, retrofit it and put it back together is probably going to be in the ~100 million dollar range.
 
MindzEye said:
Yes, and massive.

A 30 million dollars communications package, mid air refueling capability, missile lock on jamming tech.

There's a reason these things are purpose built and not retrofitted. The cost to rip this gift apart, retrofit it and put it back together is probably going to be in the ~100 million dollar range.
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It’ll prolly be retrofitted by the same time Boeing delivers the actual AF1 they ordered way back
 
MindzEye said:
Yes, and massive.

A 30 million dollars communications package, mid air refueling capability, missile lock on jamming tech.

There's a reason these things are purpose built and not retrofitted. The cost to rip this gift apart, retrofit it and put it back together is probably going to be in the ~100 million dollar range.
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And then, if it doesn't have a serious-assed "malfunction" owing to new ops "standards," watch the SOB take it home. Gift. . . 🙄🙄🙄
 
CH1 said:
That’s the problem. The people we’re talking about are focused on the here and now, and lack the basic capacity to figure out what’s at stake for them at a future date
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Eventually the future ends up happening, and it has to be clear at that point what exactly happened.
 
MindzEye said:
Yes, and massive.

A 30 million dollars communications package, mid air refueling capability, missile lock on jamming tech.

There's a reason these things are purpose built and not retrofitted. The cost to rip this gift apart, retrofit it and put it back together is probably going to be in the ~100 million dollar range.
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Me and my handyman can do it for $70M

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Preston said:
Once my algo turned nazi and Maga and I got into the heads of where they are coming from, I quickly understood this. People can write whatever they want, trump can do whatever he wants. The bulk of his followers will simply not change their mind and you can see this in the data too. His support levels have a clear floor.

My parents went to a funeral in the states last weekend and there were people there mid fucking funeral who you wouldn't ever consider radical or alt right (in the past) that were talking about how great of a job trump is doing and that he's going to fix America. He has captured a good 40% of the country in a way that allows him to pretty much do anything he wants. It would be impressive if it wasn't so horrifying.
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In any event, he’s funny.
 
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Trump tried a coup? Like actually tried to overthrow an election.. is everyone forgetting that? Feels like I’m taking crazy pills here.

Is this one of the same Dem strategists who wouldn’t let Tim say Republicans are weird?
 
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I thought the article that ch1 posted was great journalism and dug a little deeper than "Biden old" and "muh dementia." Thought it was an interesting behind the scenes look at the downfall of a man. Was sort of heartbreaking to read, but I'm not against reporting about these things just because trump is bad.
 
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Preston said:
I thought the article that ch1 posted was great journalism and dug a little deeper than "Biden old" and "muh dementia." Thought it was an interesting behind the scenes look at the downfall of a man. Was sort of heartbreaking to read, but I'm not against reporting about these things just because trump is bad.
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I've already stated my case multiple times here - Biden at a fundraiser in Summer 2024 is not the top story on May 13, 2025 but it seems like it's being covered like one.

They are grabbing people off the street with no due process and shipping them to El Salvador prisons for life and that story is almost completely gone from CNN today amidst this news + Qatar plane.
 
hockeylover said:
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Trump tried a coup? Like actually tried to overthrow an election.. is everyone forgetting that? Feels like I’m taking crazy pills here.

Is this one of the same Dem strategists who wouldn’t let Tim say Republicans are weird?
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This is my broad concern. There's no one coming to fix this. The would be repair people are mostly morons who think this is a slight deviation from the status quo and they don't want to fix this, they just want their status quo back.

The Prizker's, AOC's, Murphy's, Bernie's, Tim Walz'....are the vast minority within the Democrats and the more I travel around the interwebs looking at left wing communities, the circular firing squad is fucking real.

Also...fucking everything about proclaiming the "original sin" in this chain of events to be Grampa Joe running again when the same people moaning about that shived Bernie in 2015 because omg socialism is icky.
 
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