reddogblitz

Maybe talk to your wife on the beach instead of having your head up your cell phone?

I believe the thinking is in case of a nuclear attack or some other catastrophic event they can put the Prez and his team on it and fly it around indefinitely until it's safe to land. Obviously if the can't refuel in the air they would have to land to refuel.

https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/aviation/2025/05/15/qatar-air-force-one-747-retrofit/ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/turning-qatari-747-into-air-force-one-could-cost-1-billion-and-take-years-experts-say/ar-AA1EItok https://www.defensenews.com/air/2025/05/12/experts-qatar-gifted-air-force-one-may-be-security-upgrade-disaster/ And then add in the cost to remove all this stuff before it is put into the fantastic greatest library in the history of the world. As we used to say,nothing in life is free.

President Trump is on a roll with these tweets first with the no talent Bruce Springsteen with bad skin and now this. But you're gonna have to explain how accepting this beautiful "gift" from an amazing country is going to save us taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. We're still on the hook for the 2 Boeing 747s. We'll have to spend a billion dollars getting the gift up to spec for AF1 over a year's time. Then we'll fly it for a year or 2 and then give it away. How does that save money?

Who is "you guys"? I don't like President Trump and I didn't like President Biden either. It's not a black and white world. I can dislike both if I want to. And please quote me when I posted President Trump will start WW III. That's one of the things I like about him, he hates war like I do.

Yeah and President Trump is gonna park it in his "library" (let me know when the break ground) and never fly it LOL. need a new bridge @Doc? I got one.

Take things out of context much?

It's this week's re open Alcatraz. It's just silly. Boeing will deliver in 2 years. Even if we take the airplane it will be months before we get it. Then we'll have to have the whole thing rebuilt and gone over with a fine tooth comb to bring it up to Air force 1 spec. That will take over a year according to accounts from military types I've seen. And will no doubt cost hundreds of millions of dollars. ( thought we were trying to save money to pay down the debt.) Is Qatar gonna pay for that too? For what? So Presidents Musk and Trump can fly on fancier airplane than the taxpayers provide for 6 months? We made a great deal LOL.

TMI

It certainly is LOL

This has been going on for a long time. I remember being in Vancouver, BC on bidness about 15 years ago and had to pass 2 or 3 on location movies sets between my hotel and the office. I was told they get good tax incentives for shooting there so they do.

Cool band

please don't forget Spanish American war and Grenada victory days.

How much is it gonna cost? We're trying to save money here and pay down the debt, right?

Will win what exactly? Please be as specific as you can.

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Don't forget Flutie.

The only thing I'm panicking about is those freakin' penguins. They're now gonna be screwing us for another 90 days. They've been doing it to us for decades. Enough is enough.

I didn't see any conflicts with anyone. If someone had asked me what I was protesting it would be 2 things. 1. Keep your hands off the VA health care system. They do amazing work taking care of our disabled veterans. If I thought the plan was about doing more with a more streamlined process costing less I'd be for it. Instead, the plan seems to be do less with less as programs are already being cut. 2. The Penguins. Screw the penguins. Those penguins have been screwing us for decades and I'm darn tired of it.

It was a good day with nice weather here too. In the suburbs we had estimates of 1,000 people lining both sides of the street row a half mile or so. I brought my drum and found some percussionists. We had up to 7 people involved. We jammed non stop for about and hour and 15 minutes. Crowd was into it. It was fun. My favorite signs were the ones with penguins. ***** those penguins. They've been screwing us for decades. It's payback time.

This proves nothing. I went to a protest by a VA Health Clinic to protest cutting the VA from 1:30 to 3:30. At 3:30 everyone including myself left. I saw no money exchange hands. Do you have any proof money is changing hands or just conjecture such as this? What are they supposed to do, stay all night? People got other things to do too.

I remember punch cards. I learned how to program in COBOL and Assembly Language on a mainframe in the late 1970s. After a couple of years they removed the punch card machines and went to terminals using line editors. Full screen editors weren't a thing yet. The best graffiti in the men's room in the computer center was "COBOL programmers have bigger decks". Do you know why? A lot of people run parts of their business on older software and platforms because it's expensive to rewrite your large application to do the same thing on the latest a greatest platforms if it's working. SS has never missed a payment so evidently it is working. Not saying improvements couldn't be made and I'm sure there has been but it's not as easy as many think it is. I'm gonna call BS on the punch card thing unless evidence can be provided to the contrary.

The only reason I can see for them doing this is Trump told them they have to. Why? President Musk has big bidness dealings with China. He has very loose lips. Am thinking maybe they will do the equivalent to the fake walkthrough the Eagles did before Super Bowl LII.

Granted the keyer is a POS. But doing what you suggest would leave the Tesla owner with a keyed Tesla and charged with assault. Go to the police and have the keyer charged. Those things have cameras all over them so you got the video evidence. Take them to small claims court or file a claim with your insurance company. They'll find out who it is. This whole thing is sooooooo dumb. I guess it makes them feel good but They're not hurting President Musk in any way, shape or form. He's already got the money. If it's at a dealership, they're insured so they're not hurt. And on top of that if you're not captured on a ring camera or some security camera or some other camera, the Tesla itself has cameras on it. Stupid criminals. On a side note, it is kind of funny that auto correct corrects Tesla to Feels.

You make a good point about any system not being perfect. And I hope they do fix it. Ned had to spend 2 days on the phone and then go to a SS office and wait in a long line to fix it. And these are 2 things DOGE wants to cut (SS offices and phone support). My concern is DOGE seems to be making a lot of mistakes such as there are 150,000 people over 150 years old getting SS checks or firing nuclear scientists but not having the contact info to hire them back or saying they saved 8 billion when really it was 8 million or triple counting contract cut or trying to hide the contract #s from the wall of receipts (so much for transparency) and forgetting to take it out of the HTML code. I have a hard time believing them at this point. And now we find out DOGErs are working 120 hours a week. No one can work that much and be on the top of their game not matter how smart they are or how big their balls are. It's a recipe for mistakes which I see them making a lot of. Maybe you think you can trust them and it will work out, but I don't trust anyone in government.