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[-] [email protected] 131 points 1 week ago

Well, he's never going to leave the Oval Office at the end of this term, so the point is kind of moot.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago

He might have to leave bcz he doesn't know who he is. Trust me on this one, dude is barely lucid most days. If he croaks before the end of his term, it'll be a good day for USA'ians. Even if it doesn't fix the problem entirely, he's a shit stain on the human race.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

Reminder that Dick Cheney is still alive. Kissinger also lived to be a 100.

Evil seems to have a way to sustain certain people far beyond what would seem natural for most others.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Maybe, but i dont think any of them had a documented family history of Alzheimers.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

To be fair ANY day he croaks should be a day of celebration throughout the world.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Or make it there at all. The pope was just a warm up. Vance wants that oval office couch.

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[-] [email protected] 104 points 1 week ago

Even if the plane itself was "free", they are voting to make a $1B gift (the cost to retrofit the plane) from tax money to one guy personally?

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago

Have to pay for this instead of healthcare or housing. Land of the free!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Today's word is corruption!

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[-] [email protected] 96 points 1 week ago

isn't any gift received by the president property of the government? or so i gathered from watching the west wing 😆

[-] [email protected] 118 points 1 week ago

That's how it used to work.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Haha, laws, those were the days

[-] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago

So much of our government worked on the idea that nobody would be brazen enough to break convention, and the untested belief that voters would immediately and vehemently reject anyone trying to openly abuse their power.

We now know both of those assumptions were wrong.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

The country was formed when there were like 2 million people in it. We should have thrown everything out and rewritten it decades if not centuries ago.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

That was actually the explicit plan, per Thomas Jefferson.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

It was gifted to his presidential library. So no. Only Trump can use it. Pretty fucked up huh?

[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago

But it's going to cost around 1 billion to renovate by our tax dollars.

Hey Doge! I think you can cut some waste right here!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

That's the part that doesn't make sense to me. It's either a gift to him, and it's his problem to take care of, or a gift to the government, and their problem.

When you get elected president your car(s) doesn't suddenly get overhauled with bullet proof glass and security features paid for by the government. You hop in a government provided vehicle, and when you leave (outside of specific instances and time frames) you hop back in your normal car and live your life. Sure the secret service is around for things, but George Bush buys a truck from dealership, it doesn't get taken to a military installation and reworked with our taxes.

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[-] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago

Emoluments clause? No? Anyone? Anyone?

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

Went out the window in 2017.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Technically that right there would make it ok if the house passes the same. But my God, if we're going to use that qualifier to let the president have something from a foreign state did it have to be a fucking 747?

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[-] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I guess it's encouraging that they think he'll ever be leaving office alive.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Everyone has been put under a normalization spell, the trauma was too intense too long. I tried explaining to another liberal my fears about this term's version of the January 6 insurrection, he looked at me like I was crazy. People are trained to believe the ping-pong will go on forever, save and easy.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

We're spoiled from having peaceful transfers of power for so long. It Can't Happen Here.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Or they know the opposite and allow it because of that

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[-] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago

Plot twist: he’s not leaving office. Don’t tell me about the 22nd amendment. He’s already in office in violation of the 14th. He’s not dying anytime soon either. Rotten fucks like him always live well into their 90s, fueled by hate. Just look at Rupert Murdoch.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

Murdoch's age is just insane. His fucking father was a stain on humanity during fucking WWI, and that dude was already in his 30s at the time.

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

I think so long as the POTUS is in it, it's the Lolita Express One.

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago

Oh so they all admit it IS A FUCKING BRIBE THEN? GODDAMNIT FUCK EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE SLIMY FUCKS

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

No one could have seen this coming. We’re such a clown show.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Banana republic

A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, where the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class. Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely stratified social classes, usually a large impoverished working class and a ruling class plutocracy, composed of the business, political, and military elites.The ruling class controls the primary sector of the economy by exploiting labor.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

"Emolument"? You sound gay and your shit's all retarded

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Don't worry scrote! My ex wife's tarded too and she's living a kickass life!

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Trump is the king of leeching off the government. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

Give it to the Air Force so they can test out a few missiles on it.

Preferably with Trump still inside it.

...this evening.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

It’s hard to believe the US has come to this. Fucking crazy.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

I'm curious to know who is going to pay to keep it airworthy, if DT does leave office? Those things aren't cheap to maintain.

If he leaves office he won't be in a position to grant political favours to friends.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

His Trumpcoin scam is one rugpull away from being converted to actual useful money.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Lmao. Hey, republican voters? Are you watching? How much longer can you hold out? He is a crook, lied to you and is now destroying the country. Wake tf up.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

That's a white elephant gift.

If he's still around, maintenance on that thing isn't gonna be affordable

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Russia, if you're listening...

MA 117 47

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

They should force him to repay the money being spent to renovate the plane.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

It's a money pit.

What he should do is SAY he spent the money on the airplane but REALLY put the money in his back pocket.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Are there not laws that determine gifts and compensation for the President that would be broken here? And if not, why not?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

The people who write the laws are saying they are OK with this. The law doesn't mean much when the corrupt have the pen and paper.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Somehow I doubt there will be much of an "after office" for Trump.

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