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[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 196 points 11 months ago

That 747 is getting amazing ROI

[-] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 11 months ago

Seriously. What a relatively small price to pay for the stupid amount of political capital it's gotten them.

[-] dalekcaan@feddit.nl 33 points 11 months ago

Hell, if anything it saves them on not having to maintain a 747

[-] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 11 months ago

Especially with the 747 being officially out of manufacturing in 2023. Parts prices and specialized technician costs are just going to go up more and more every year.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Why in the world are you guys assuming that's the only bribe they've gotten?

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

If a 747 gets me Idaho, what do I need to upgrade to a Dakota? What about Texas?

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Try letting a tree fall on you. Make sure you sue the ever living shit out of whoever owns that tree.

Oh, and then make sure that once you have the power to do so, you pass a law that prevents anyone else from suing the way you did.

(Greg Abbot did this, he's the governor of Texas)

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[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 104 points 11 months ago

A Qatari base on US soil? Wtfbbq

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

Turns out that plane wasn't free.

[-] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 95 points 11 months ago

Make absolutely no fucking sense.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 56 points 11 months ago

Even when you include the bribery it still doesn't seem to make sense.

[-] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

Have a foreign military on U.S. soil to do things to the U.S. population that the U.S. military might not.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Looks like it's just to train Qatari pilots without putting the hardware too close to Yemeni drones or Saudi missiles.

Although, I wouldn't be surprised if we end up training the next crop of 9/11 hijackers by the end.

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[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 94 points 11 months ago

Rural Idaho is sure to love their new neighbors. Hope they keep their I Voted for This flags high.

[-] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

Wait till they start building a mosque for the soldiers, im sure Idaho republicans will love that

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 21 points 11 months ago

If Fox News isn’t shitting on it, they won’t bat an eye. All sheep, no brains.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I mean, rural Idaho is basically Qatar already. It's just a christ-o-fascist tax haven for businesses hiding under a flag.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Are those flags real, by the way? I saw some trolling with similar sentiment, but I wonder how many would be bold enough to put those up IRL?

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They definitely exist, but rare in my personal experience. There's a large house near me surrounded by high, castle-style walls. Along the wall facing the street they have multiple flag posts displaying an american flag, a trump flag, a gadsden flag, and a "Yes I voted for this!" trump-like design flag. They used to rotate the flags with POW/MIA, Blue Line and others but it's been pretty unchanged since inauguration.

I've also seen a smaller banner flying from a cybertruck, once.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Oh yeah, that tracks. Along with the cybertruck.

[-] Seleni@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

r/Conservative unironically thinks it’s great, so they probably do too.

Fox told them it was, after all. We have always been at war with Eastasia.

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

How can anyone know what that place thinks when every thread is a graveyard? I can't take 30 remaining comments of 600 deleted seriously lol

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[-] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago

Imagine if Obama had done this

[-] Makhno@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

They wouldve buried him in his tan suit

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 36 points 11 months ago

My mind is this 🤏 fucking close to declaring my reality is false

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[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 11 months ago

Oh, I'm sure that will go over well with the notoriously culturally accepting and tolerant folks of Idaho.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Religious authoritarians setting up shop in a state known for right wing militia who support theofascists.

I can’t tell of they’ll be best buddies or be at each other’s throats.

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[-] Kevlar21@piefed.social 34 points 11 months ago

Wonder if they’ll deport the Qataris when the building is finished

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[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 16 points 11 months ago

I had to check that the wasn't The Onion. smh

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Wow. RepubliQans you just keep getting prouder don't ya.

[-] Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

I'm sorry what?

[-] simulacra_procession@lemmy.today 15 points 11 months ago

Are they bringing their slave labor to build it? Or are Americans to be their slave labor?

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 15 points 11 months ago

They know Qataris are Muslim, right?

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Muslims with lots of money.

[-] Makhno@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

That makes them effectively white

[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 15 points 11 months ago

I hope they keep their immigration documents updated otherwise someone's gonna call in an anonymous ICE tip.

[-] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 12 points 11 months ago

America FIRST! I'm GLAD we're NOT paying our Military right now so we can INSTEAD do This!

[-] ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

These are the people that "gifted" trump the jet, right?

Trump hates America so much that he makes a mockery of it.

[-] amorpheus@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Trump doesn't hate the USA. He is just using it to further himself, like anything else in his life.

The mockery is that Trump is more of an embodiment of America than most realize.

[-] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

What the absolute fuck???

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Are we "great" again yet?

[-] Heikki2@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

So this is the quo for the Jet the criminal made for the US

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Will they have to shave their beards?

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 7 points 11 months ago

I had to check that the wasn't The Onion. smh

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I wonder when Bill Burr is gonna land in there with his helicopter to deliver them some free speech comedy! Maybe he can bring Kevin Hart and Pete Davidson and Dave Chappelle.

Will Snoop Dogg get down?

Fuck this timeline.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 points 11 months ago

This must be what the Okinawans feel

[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

Quid pro quo.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 11 months ago

"America First!"

Republicans are so corrupt and pathetic.

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