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re: Democrat seeks probe into reports Qatar plans to gift plane to Trump

Posted by Beaver Bandit on 5/11/25 at 6:40 pm to LegendInMyMind

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Not so done that he was still willing to give them $20 Billion to design and build the F-47, though

Can't argue with that. Surely there has to be another jet builder more competent than Boeing yet they continue getting new govt contracts.

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re: Democrat seeks probe into reports Qatar plans to gift plane to Trump

Posted by Beaver Bandit on 5/11/25 at 5:44 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer

And now the true story...

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President Trump is done waiting for Boeing.

Frustrated by delays on Boeing’s work to deliver a new Air Force One, Trump has commissioned a smaller defense contractor to ready an interim presidential plane by year’s end, said people with knowledge of the situation.
Boeing will continue plugging away on a pair of Air Force One replacement jets, which have fallen so far behind that Trump might not get to fly on them while in office.

The U.S. government has commissioned L3Harris to overhaul a Boeing 747 formerly used by the Qatari government. The Melbourne, Fla.-based company is tasked with retrofitting the plane with certain specialized systems to transform the luxury aircraft into a presidential jet, some of the people said.

The U.S. Air Force has long wanted a third jet to serve as a backup when one of the current pair is undergoing maintenance, according to people familiar with the matter.

This is old and it's not a personal gift to Trump.

WSJ

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re: President Trump Talks w/Gretchen Whitmer & Others in the Oval Office....

Posted by Beaver Bandit on 4/12/25 at 1:25 pm to KCT

She tried to hide but Trump trolled her hard by pulling her into the press conference :lol:

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re: Major Severe Weather Outbreak: March 14-16, 2025

Posted by Beaver Bandit on 3/14/25 at 9:26 pm to deltaland

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I expect several PDS warnings over the next 32 hours

Set the O/U at 5

Already seen 2 or 3 in the last few hours

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re: Another airplane incident - Delta flight at Atlanta airport - frequency is dubious

Posted by Beaver Bandit on 2/24/25 at 5:14 pm to conservativewifeymom

What if I told you there were way more aviation incidents last year during the same period of time. We're just hearing about them more because it's being used to push OMB.

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According to the data, there were 62 aviation incidents in January and 25 so far in February, as of Wednesday.

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In 2024, between January 1 and February 19, there were 123 aviation accidents of various severity according to data from the NTSB. There were 18 fatal incidents, but the number of fatalities was fewer than in 2025, with 42 reported.Throughout the year, 1,415 aviation accidents were reported, including 257 fatal incidents. Of the 179 fatal incidents that Newsweek obtained records of, there were 306 reported deaths.

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re: Elon getting richer! Ohhhh…wait, $400 million Tesla DoD contract CANCELED!

Posted by Beaver Bandit on 2/15/25 at 7:03 pm to cdur86

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Wasn’t that contract agreed upon in December? Someone remind me who was “President” in December

Facts don't matter! They got him this time!

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re: Biden officially spent 39% of his presidency on vacation...

Posted by Beaver Bandit on 2/15/25 at 4:22 pm to RFK

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Did you even read your link?

This includes time spent at Camp David.

To Biden’s credit, he also left many vacations early to deal with national security issues.

I think the word you're looking for is "forced" not "left". They would trot him back to the WH for a photo-op to keep up the charade of him being in charge, then promptly return him to his vacation.

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Biden officially spent 39% of his presidency on vacation...

Posted by Beaver Bandit on 2/15/25 at 3:59 pm

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Biden, 82, took more time off than any other US president in modern history, spending 577 of his 1,463 days in office – or 39% of his presidency — on vacation, according to shocking new data compiled by the Republican National Committee.

The average American — who gets 11 paid vacation days a year — would have to work 52 years to rack up as much down time as Biden scored in his four years.

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That staggering tally includes R&R 43 of the 70 days — or 61% — after being pressured by fellow Dems in July 21 to drop his re-election bid.

For all the mouth breathing Dems that cry every time Trump plays golf for a few hours, just throw this in their face. They screech about the unelected knowing full well someone unelected was running the country the last 4yrs.

Twitchy

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re: Trump doubling down on owning Gaza

Posted by Beaver Bandit on 2/9/25 at 6:43 pm to prplngldtigr

It's a negotiation tactic, we've already seen a few ME countries say they would rather do it instead of having the U.S do it. He forces the hand of other countries every time he makes these "outrageous" statements...progs will never learn...

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re: Kamala ran a flawless campaign.

Posted by Beaver Bandit on 2/6/25 at 10:01 pm to Rebel

Wait a second...SA Smith says on the View she ran a great campaign but the last few weeks he's been yelling about how terrible the Dems messaging is and how bad of a candidate she was...the math ain't mathing here.

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re: Tax cuts incoming!! What do the Dems have left that would rally people to support them?

Posted by Beaver Bandit on 2/6/25 at 9:56 pm to jamboybarry

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BLUMPF WONT LET US CUT OUR DICKS OFF!!!

HES A NAZI

He doesn't agree that we should be able to kill our unborn up to 9 months Reeeeeeee!

Diversity rainbow crap and abortions is their entire platform now :lol:

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re: Dan Crenshaw just said on CNN that the USAID payments weren't nefarious

Posted by Beaver Bandit on 2/6/25 at 9:50 pm to Riverside

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Ole eyepatch McCain strikes again

Remember him having bloody knuckles because he was punching stuff when they were trying to remove McCarthy from being Speaker. He's always been a turncoat douche...any GOP member that mad over removing someone that always gave the Dems everything they wanted is a Dem himself.

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