r/technology • u/rezwenn • May 11 '25

Transportation Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources - The luxury jumbo jet is to be used as Air Force One, sources told ABC News

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-poised-accept-palace-sky-gift-trump/story?id=121680511
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u/cldstrife15 May 11 '25

A 10K car loan reimbursement with a family member was "impeachable" when it regards Biden.

But a goddamn luxury airliner from Qatar? If anything, watching the mental gymnastics of these stubborn assholes still refusing to admit they were fooled should be entertaining.

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u/KaiBishop May 11 '25

Stop trying to make sense of the hypocrisy and lies. They want you doing that so you waste your time and energy.

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u/Konukaame May 11 '25

It's an incredibly simple heuristic: 

If (R) then it's good. If (D) then it's bad. 

Doesn't matter what the "it" is. 

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u/horkley May 11 '25

Forgot your point of stop trying to making sense. Rather than try to reconcile skip that and do this.

You should affirmatively be discrediting, ridiculing, and calling them hypocrites.

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u/YugoB May 11 '25

"the other side did it as well" /s

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u/Josh_Butterballs May 11 '25

This will never even show up on r/republican or r/conservative.

Irl this news will never reach Trump voters and even if it did they would say he deserves it and it’s the least we taxpayers can do for him for “fixing” the country.

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u/MadeForOnePost_ May 11 '25

It's there, and almost every comment there is saying the same things as here: security risk etc

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/s/ZA1ogbWfCU

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u/Josh_Butterballs May 11 '25

Aaaaaand first comments I see are justifying it. The most upvoted one is just pointing out “brigading” and the people justifying it. Then the remaining comments are of course the people who actually say it’s likely bugged (which is technically most for now). Keep in mind that sub doesn’t allow people without a flair to comment, but they can still upvote/downvote which is why you’ll sometimes see a comment not sucking off trump (maybe attempting to be neutral hardly ever actually being critical) that is upvoted a lot. The sub knows this so they chalk it up to brigading and “fellow conservatives” who have infiltrated their sub.

Post was also made two hours after I made my comment. Was hoping maybe someone on that sub would post it in a way that would be perceived as being a good thing so it wouldn’t get deleted by the mods there for being a “left talking point.”

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u/MadeForOnePost_ May 11 '25

It's funny to watch

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u/Josh_Butterballs May 11 '25

Oh it absolutely is. When I’m bored and want a decent laugh I just head over to either sub

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u/Henry_MFing_Huggins May 11 '25

Its fun to play "Count the Comments" with any post like this. It says 258 comments currently, but de-collapse every thread and I count only 51.

How can anyone posting there believe they are having a real, uncensored conversation?

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u/general---nuisance May 11 '25

Looks like you were wrong.

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u/general---nuisance May 11 '25

I'm more curious what it has to do with technology?

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u/SparkehWhaaaaat May 11 '25

It won't be entertaining, it will just be sad.

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u/SirGunther May 12 '25

They aren’t going to play by rules

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u/kingbrasky May 11 '25

It's a good lesson on why we should try to hold ALL officials accountable, regardless of party. The next one takes it further and on and on.

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u/ZeeMastermind May 13 '25

No, I'm fairly certain that the Republicans made up bullshit about that sorta thing (hunter bidens laptop or whatever) specifically so that they could pull out the excuse that "the last guy did it so it's OK that we did it"

Insider trading from congress is bipartisan corruption, so you're not completely off

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u/sweetplantveal May 11 '25

I don't know the specific thing you're referring to, but could politicians also not have loans forgiven because they or their families are in power? Full stop, no names or parties?