Wednesday Morning Rant

Troll Week

I am by no means sure that the Trump Administration does "theme weeks," but weeks like this make me wonder. If there has been a theme for the past week or so, that theme may be "trolling." It hasn't all been trolling, of course. Presidenting is serious business, and Trump's fairly blunt attack on the interventionist, manipulative, ineffective and disastrous Uniparty of the past thirty years during his address in Saudi Arabia was not trolling. Nor is his deal-making in that country (though I admit generous skepticism as to how much of it actually comes to fruition).

But much this week has a tinge of trolling about it. Like all good trolling, it has a real purpose. The goal is not merely to needle your enemies and make them howl in rage, but to also achieve your own ends. Trump has done a good job on that front, too. The past week has been both hilarious and fairly effective in terms of the agenda. Here's a roundup of my favorite stories of the past week.

May 8: transgender military ban and separation

Under the new guidelines, active duty troops will have until June 6 to voluntarily identify themselves to the department, and troops in the National Guard and Reserve will have until July 7.

The timing cannot go unnoticed, nor can the dates. The final day to quit before being fired is the anniversary of D-Day and that anniversary, of course, occurs during Pride Month. Yes, Hegseth and the Trump Administration have chosen to end trannies in the military during "Pride Month" and finish the job just after Independence Day, starting on the anniversary of America's greatest foreign invasion. The timing is perfectly designed to cause maximum impotent rage among leftists.

May 11: the 747

Air Force One is a modified Boeing 747. Two exist, and the president flies on both, which are more than 30 years old. Boeing Inc. has the contract to produce updated versions, but delivery has been delayed while the company has lost billions of dollars on the project.

And that is, of course, the reason. This debacle dates back to Trump's first administration, when he told Boeing to take their ludicrous plans and shove it, and get a plane out within the remaining life of anyone currently living and do so at a reasonable price. Boeing has catastrophically failed to deliver. I dig it that Air Force One is a big, complicated piece of equipment but the timelines and pricetags involved are ludicrous to say the least. The reason for this is very clear, even if the transfer never actually happens (and it may well not). This is a shot across Boeing's bow, whatever is left of it. "Y'all have been screwing around for a decade and I'm tired of it. I'll take a used plane from the Arabs and get the USAF to bring it up to snuff, and it'll happen before you guys can get one done. You built one for them, so I'll just roll with that since you apparently can't build one for us." This isn't about a plane, it's about Boeing and that this is even being discussed is humiliating for the company. That is the point.

May 12: the Afrikaners

The U.S. refugee program was created by Congress in 1980, and groups have sued to restart it after Trump's halt.
Traditionally, to qualify as a refugee, applicants must demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution due to race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. Refugees are distinct from asylum-seekers because refugees must be outside of the U.S. to qualify.
A network of resettlement agencies generally helps refugees settle in their new homes, and they get 90 days of federal assistance for things like rent. The Episcopal Church’s migration service, however, is refusing a directive from the federal government to help resettle the white South Africans, citing the church's longstanding "commitment to racial justice and reconciliation.:

I am on the fence at best about "refugee resettlement" as such, but there is at least a viable argument to be had here. White South Africans are increasingly in danger, and it's about to get a lot worse with that country's new "land reform" act, not that the American Press is interested. Like with their treatment of everything from Hamas to Iran to Red China, they credulously believe everything South Africa's government says and therefore there are no problems in South Africa. Trump is wrong, this is racism, they don't mean it when they chant "Kill the Boer," there is no record of farm murders, etc. With one act, Trump has managed to get the entire Left to finally find a group of refugees they will go on the record of rejecting wholly and completely: a few dozen white farmers. Many are like the Episcopalians and quite clear about why: no whites welcome. CNN's Ashley Allison, Jeremy Konyndyk of "Refugees International" and countless others are on the same page. Some pretend otherwise, falling back on tired excuses involving the UN and the Government of South Africa. But Trump, as he always does, made them show their true motivations. They love refugees - so long as they're non-white and preferably non-Christian. Trump, as they demanded, is allowing some refugees in and they absolutely hate it.

Those are my top three. What did I miss?

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

Comments

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1 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

2 Kaboom

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 14, 2025 11:01 AM (Nee1+)

3 Yesss!!! I'll cull the otters.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

4 If theme week gets the ball rolling so be it

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2025 11:02 AM (ypFCm)

5 Otter status: Culled.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

6 Not so much trolling as it is the left is bonkers.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 14, 2025 11:04 AM (Q4IgG)

7 Essential? It's essential that I tithe, pay taxes, buy groceries and make vehicle notes.

Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2025 11:05 AM (LHPAg)

8 Presidenting is serious business ...

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"Damn right, fat! When is the next ice cream theme week, Jack?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 11:05 AM (St+Td)

9 With the trolling going on, I should be investing in blood pressure meds. But then I remember Trump is trying to drive prices down which is angering the left. Not sure if it'll be a good investment.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 14, 2025 11:05 AM (jjoN6)

10 I am in the process of writing a letter to the Episcopal Bishop, telling him that he and people like him are the reason I stopped giving to the larger church. My money goes exclusively to upkeep of my own church. It may not be especially churchy, but I plan to tell him he can KMA.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 11:06 AM (s8j++)

11 President Trump is excellent at trolling and making commies cry. Our trolls on this blog, are tiresome pests of limited intelligence.

Posted by: Dichotomy at May 14, 2025 11:06 AM (G5+As)

12 Oh, Boeing.

Charge millions if not billions for a single airplane.

Don't build the airplane.

Still lose money.

Well done.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:06 AM (yvnLa)

13 President Trump is excellent at trolling and making commies cry. Our trolls on this blog, are tiresome pests of limited intelligence.

Only if you let them bother you.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 11:07 AM (s8j++)

14 The heartland needs young, dedicated, South African farming families.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2025 11:07 AM (u82oZ)

15 So... is Hunter still hiding out in South Africa?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 14, 2025 11:07 AM (Q4IgG)

16 Boeing isn't even on the hook for the crazy shit that goes into an AF-1, are they? It's just another plane with maybe a few beefier components and a different fit-out inside, right? Even after they're done, it's still gotta be a decent lead time to get all the sensors and missiles and death rays and gold-plated shitters installed.

So what the hell?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:09 AM (yvnLa)

17 There is a memorial in SA to all the white farmers and their families murdered by the locals. Perhaps someone should show it to the Episcopal Bishop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witkruis_Monument

Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 11:09 AM (s8j++)

18 Maybe Boeing needs to take a look at their corporate governance during the 1940's, when they were churning hundreds of large aircraft per month, and figure out what they are doing wrong now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 11:09 AM (+MZTO)

19 Anything Trump does throws the left into spastic fits of rage.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2025 11:09 AM (g8Ew8)

20 Where's naked mad muscle monkey?
Sure, some don't like him, but he's my spirit animal.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 14, 2025 11:09 AM (FCbAQ)

21 Fuck Boeing. They deserve repeated deep-dives into their asses with sandpaper dildos. At this point, I would just get an Airbus A380 and be done with it. No, I don't like Airbus either. But how can they be any worse than Boeing?

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

22 10 I am in the process of writing a letter to the Episcopal Bishop, telling him that he and people like him are the reason I stopped giving to the larger church. My money goes exclusively to upkeep of my own church. It may not be especially churchy, but I plan to tell him he can KMA.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 11:06 AM (s8j++)

If you ever want to explore, your neighborhood Catholic Church is always open

...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 14, 2025 11:09 AM (tOcjL)

23

Good for you for writing to him ,Archimedes. He deserves the blowback.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 14, 2025 11:10 AM (42Vb+)

24 >>>May 12: the Afrikaners

certainly dropped the mask on the Left's true position we all knew:

white people bad

Posted by: brak at May 14, 2025 11:10 AM (jGJov)

25 The heartland needs young, dedicated, South African farming families.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2025 11:07 AM (u82oZ)

Canada got some South African doctors. We could use a lot more.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 11:11 AM (+MZTO)

26 Joe I don't think you missed anything

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2025 11:11 AM (ypFCm)

27 18 Maybe Boeing needs to take a look at their corporate governance during the 1940's, when they were churning hundreds of large aircraft per month, and figure out what they are doing wrong now.

Step 1: Fire the current management and start over.
Step 2: Fire anyone who has ever spoken positively about DEI.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 11:11 AM (s8j++)

28 Willowed:

Summer has come to north Texas.

101* today, biznichez!

The ~~above~~ artwork below is appropriate for today's weather as most Texas women wear-

A cowboy hat, cowboy boots and go topless with a bikini bottom when the temp rises above 100.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 14, 2025 11:11 AM (iJfKG)

29 Isn’t every month pride month?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:12 AM (GYlcL)

30 Boeing has catastrophically failed to deliver.

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Elon should build Trump a "Space Force One" vehicle before he leaves office.

Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 11:12 AM (St+Td)

31 For Trump, an airplane built by a big American company should be off the table, period.

Boeing is likely to include a mysterious, shovelfaced teenager with an AR-15 in their AF1.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 14, 2025 11:13 AM (BI5O2)

32 29 Isn’t every month pride month?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:12 AM (GYlcL)

November is Gluttony month.

December is Greed month.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:13 AM (yvnLa)

33 President Trump is excellent at trolling and making commies cry. Our trolls on this blog, are tiresome pests of limited intelligence.
Posted by: Dichotomy at May 14, 2025 11:06 AM (G5+As)
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The trolls that show up here are as predictable and programmable as any Leftist NPC...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2025 11:13 AM (7fElN)

34 That legal thing Alexthe Chick talked about. It's designed to prevent what they did to those ranchers. You have to knowingly violate the law.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 14, 2025 11:13 AM (AcTAo)

35 Elon should build Trump a "Space Force One" vehicle before he leaves office.
Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 11:12 AM (St+Td)

Akshually, any vehicle the President happens to go into orbit in would be Space Force One.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:14 AM (yvnLa)

36 Summer has come to north Texas.
101* today, biznichez!

A cowboy hat, cowboy boots and go topless with a bikini bottom when the temp rises above 100.

A cowboy hat, cowboy boots and go topless with a bikini bottom when the temp rises above 100.
Posted by: naturalfake

That is absolutely insane. I mean the temperature.
As for the rest: Pics.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 11:15 AM (77rzZ)

37 I think you mean the RSA’s Land Seizure Act. The RSA is in the way to being the RSZ.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 14, 2025 11:15 AM (WqK+k)

38 > Boeing isn't even on the hook for the crazy shit that goes into an AF-1, are they?
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Correct.

L3Harris, a subcontractor is. At least that's the outfit that's been mentioned. And even at that, the US military will supply a great deal of the kit that goes into the communications suite, the defensive systems and everything else that make the aircraft "safe" for the President.

IMO there hasn't been a clear reason provided by Boeing as to why they're years behind schedule and 100's of millions over budget.

And, it's not clear how this "Qatari jet" is going to get modified to suit the requirements for AF-1 anytime sooner than the ones Boeing is working on. It's going to have to be gutted too...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 14, 2025 11:16 AM (Q4IgG)

39 but I plan to tell him he can KMA.
Posted by: Archimedes

Careful - He’ll likely want to take you up on that offer.

Posted by: Kratwurst at May 14, 2025 11:16 AM (nIRE6)

40 I think you mean the RSA’s Land Seizure Act. The RSA is in the way to being the RSZ.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

What is the "RSA?"

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 11:16 AM (77rzZ)

41 Boeing used to be a great and well-respected company. I think too much time in Seattle has made them a woke-joke.

I hope they can get their shit together.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at May 14, 2025 11:17 AM (eMdm6)

42 What is the "RSA?"
Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 11:16 AM (77rzZ)

It's English for ZAR.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:17 AM (yvnLa)

43 A cowboy hat, cowboy boots and go topless with a bikini bottom when the temp rises above 100.

and that's just the overweight Hispanic single moms

Posted by: brak at May 14, 2025 11:17 AM (jGJov)

44 IMO there hasn't been a clear reason provided by Boeing as to why they're years behind schedule and 100's of millions over budget.

And, it's not clear how this "Qatari jet" is going to get modified to suit the requirements for AF-1 anytime sooner than the ones Boeing is working on. It's going to have to be gutted too...

Perhaps not, but it will surely humiliate the suits at Boeing, and they richly deserve it.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 11:17 AM (s8j++)

45 IMO there hasn't been a clear reason provided by Boeing as to why they're years behind schedule and 100's of millions over budget.

—

Yeah total mystery.
- DEI

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:17 AM (GYlcL)

46 Greenland, Canada as a state, Drug prices, ICE raids, Judges arrested, Cuba back on the terrorist enabler list, Trade agreements, DOGE, Leticia investigation and many more. Stay tuned.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 11:17 AM (VofaG)

47 IMO there hasn't been a clear reason provided by Boeing as to why they're years behind schedule and 100's of millions over budget.

And, it's not clear how this "Qatari jet" is going to get modified to suit the requirements for AF-1 anytime sooner than the ones Boeing is working on. It's going to have to be gutted too...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 14, 2025 11:16 AM (Q4IgG)

They probably aren't going to use Boeing as the contractor for the retrofit of the Qatar jet...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 14, 2025 11:17 AM (tOcjL)

48 Akshually, any vehicle the President happens to go into orbit in would be Space Force One.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

If President Trumps invites Rosie O'Idiot or Stacey Abrams he'll call it "Pigs in Space" .

Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2025 11:17 AM (cYBz/)

49 Maybe we should not zap trolls, but rather let their comments stand as object lessons in stupidity…

Posted by: tubal at May 14, 2025 11:17 AM (PCK5/)

50 It's a lot easier to gut and re-fit a plane that exists.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:18 AM (yvnLa)

51 Those are my top three. What did I miss?
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Nothing, but to be pedantic, the left, that is to say the professional left doesn't really care about racism, bigotry, or any of the 'isms' or 'phobias'. They only care about power and domination - the absolute conquest of the Republic and the West in general. They are as racist and bigoted as they claim the Right to be. It's just that they want to use the niceties and conventions of the West to murder the whole thing.

George Will is a foppish douche, but he did make a good point in that English is lacking in the sense that it 'has a word for lust for money - greed - but lacks a word for lust for power.' Time to rectify that and call it Democrat.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 14, 2025 11:18 AM (mlg/3)

52 43 A cowboy hat, cowboy boots and go topless with a bikini bottom when the temp rises above 100.

and that's just the overweight Hispanic single moms
Posted by: brak at May 14, 2025 11:17 AM (jGJov)

In Walmart… or Dollar Tree….

Posted by: tubal at May 14, 2025 11:18 AM (PCK5/)

53 If President Trumps invites Rosie O'Idiot or Stacey Abrams he'll call it "Pigs in Space" .
Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2025 11:17 AM (cYBz/)

President Trump stands accused before the ICC of attempting to alter global tidal patterns.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:18 AM (yvnLa)

54 Scary that Boeing has the contract for the next generation Fighter jet.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 11:19 AM (VofaG)

55 41 Boeing used to be a great and well-respected company. I think too much time in Seattle has made them a woke-joke.

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Aaahhhctchually Boeing HQ hasn’t been in Seattle for 20+ years.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:19 AM (GYlcL)

56 Boeing used to be a great and well-respected company. I think too much time in Seattle has made them a woke-joke.

I hope they can get their shit together.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix

Their factory there is the largest building in the world by square footage.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 11:19 AM (77rzZ)

57 And, it's not clear how this "Qatari jet" is going to get modified to suit the requirements for AF-1 anytime sooner than the ones Boeing is working on. It's going to have to be gutted too...
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Elon can probably have it fitted out inside of 6 weeks.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2025 11:19 AM (cYBz/)

58 and that's just the overweight Hispanic single moms

You just described 90% of the employees at call centers in the United States.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at May 14, 2025 11:19 AM (eMdm6)

59 The bit about the refugees reminds me of a chart someone made up.

Whites leave: White Flight.
Whites move in: Gentrification.

The left can't help themselves on this topic.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 14, 2025 11:19 AM (jjoN6)

60 The worthless and controlling GOPe is f*cking around with the hearing protection act (gun suppressors). They still want us to register them but only charge a $5 tax instead of $200 and keep them as NFA items. I wish an infected cock to each one of them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 14, 2025 11:19 AM (973ea)

61 Trump tosses out so many shiny balls of tinfoil that the Left must be getting exhausted…

Posted by: tubal at May 14, 2025 11:20 AM (PCK5/)

62 May 13: The Saudi Arabians playing YMCA after Trump's big speech. (On May 11th, as part of the new Pope's first address, a band marched thru St Peter's Square playing the same.)

Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2025 11:21 AM (WFXLZ)

63 Akshually, any vehicle the President happens to go into orbit in would be Space Force One.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

If President Trumps invites Rosie O'Idiot or Stacey Abrams he'll call it "Pigs in Space" .
Posted by: Tonypete

Take Mel Brooks & Bibi and we have Spaceballs III Jews in Space!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 14, 2025 11:21 AM (Ior/p)

64 Boeing used to be a great and well-respected company. I think too much time in Seattle has made them a woke-joke.

—

Aaahhhctchually Boeing HQ hasn’t been in Seattle for 20+ years.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:19 AM (GYlcL)

Its still where they make and test their products. Except for the 787 which is made in South Carolina.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 11:21 AM (VofaG)

65 I honestly wonder about people, I am at the library because my daughter has her book club. There is an adult book club going on as well, but they are not really discussing the book. A male voice just noted about how the country overworks workers…he works at Starbucks and they give employees access to Headspace. He says his co workers don’t understand why this makes him mad, but it makes him mad because Starbucks is admitting their environment creates a climate where counseling is needed.

I want to go walk by and see what this one looks like but I have a strong idea. Lol.

Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2025 11:21 AM (AjMTL)

66 They probably aren't going to use Boeing as the contractor for the retrofit of the Qatar jet...
Posted by: Nova Local at May 14, 2025 11:17 AM (tOcjL)

I think the Qatar 747 is a newer, larger version of the airframe, so they couldn't simply gut one of the existing AF1's and transfer the interior to the new plane, but I expect a lot of the comms, ECM's and whatnot could be transferred wholesale.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 11:21 AM (+MZTO)

67 At least the White South Africans can find comfort in the fact that it will be their fault when the Black South Africans start starving to death in a couple years.

Maybe there are some CHAZ veterans who will voluntarily travel to South Africa to teach farming. Cardboard is the key.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at May 14, 2025 11:22 AM (ybcMG)

68 54 Scary that Boeing has the contract for the next generation Fighter jet.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 11:19 AM (VofaG)

Suckers.

By the time they're done with it in seventy years, air superiority will be had by swarms of millions of dirt cheap murderbots that can turn any manned fighter into a lawn dart in seconds.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:22 AM (yvnLa)

69 Fuck Boeing. They deserve repeated deep-dives into their asses with sandpaper dildos. At this point, I would just get an Airbus A380 and be done with it. No, I don't like Airbus either. But how can they be any worse than Boeing?
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

Airbus stopped building the A380s a few years ago. Very small market for these Jumbos.

Boeing just won the contract for the new "stealth" fighter. News flash long range radars detect "stealth" aircraft.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at May 14, 2025 11:22 AM (+J/Au)

70 The other thing we've learned from the Afrikaner kerfuffle is that people who have been in South Africa for nearly 500 years continue to be "colonists" who should go back to their home countries, while Muhammad who showed up last Thursday in your country is now just as much as a "native" as you are.

The official reason why the German government put AfD under intensified surveillance (before it backed down) is that the AfD considers a Muslim immigrant who's acquired German citizenship to be less German then someone whose ancestors have been in Germany for millennia.

That is no longer an acceptable view to hold.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2025 11:22 AM (xTIDn)

71 Boeing used to be a great and well-respected company. I think too much time in Seattle has made them a woke-joke.

—

Aaahhhctchually Boeing HQ hasn’t been in Seattle for 20+ years.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

IOW, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 14, 2025 11:22 AM (Ior/p)

72 Saw a clip on TV of a Don Lemon podcast. He was interviewing a black US farmer who believed that he would receive fewer benefits if the whites from SA came here to farm.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2025 11:23 AM (63Dwl)

73 Move it to SC or Texas.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 14, 2025 11:23 AM (8uoau)

74 Fuck, let Musk build AF1. He'll have it done in a 6 months, and it'll be bigger and better.

Posted by: Charlie Choo Choo at May 14, 2025 11:23 AM (3yhuy)

75 For the Left…. dark complexioned people… good, by nature.. light complexioned people, bad, by nature… the only act of contrition for the original sin of a light complexion is to be an ALLY. Maybe that simple.

Posted by: tubal at May 14, 2025 11:24 AM (PCK5/)

76 European leaders hide cocaine upon surprise visit from reporter?

Jimmy Dore breaks down the issue, you be the judge....

https://tinyurl.com/5h8v6r7p

Posted by: They're Not Sending Their Best at May 14, 2025 11:24 AM (8hq5W)

77 I think the Qatar 747 is a newer, larger version of the airframe, so they couldn't simply gut one of the existing AF1's and transfer the interior to the new plane, but I expect a lot of the comms, ECM's and whatnot could be transferred wholesale.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Should have retrofitted a B-52.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 14, 2025 11:24 AM (Ior/p)

78 The conditions that led to Trump accepting an AF1 from a foreign country perfectly encapsulate the current state of American and its "leaders".

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 14, 2025 11:24 AM (KbCG3)

79 Its still where they make and test their products. Except for the 787 which is made in South Carolina.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 11:21 AM (VofaG

Double aaaahcthcually

1. It’s in Everett not Seattle. There is a difference. I’ve been to that plant it’s pretty cool to watch the assembly line.

2. They still have a big manufacturing presence in the Puget Sound area, but the execs aren’t there. Something colossally fucked up as this is the result of shitty exec leadership.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:24 AM (GYlcL)

80 IMO there hasn't been a clear reason provided by Boeing as to why they're years behind schedule and 100's of millions over budget.

And, it's not clear how this "Qatari jet" is going to get modified to suit the requirements for AF-1 anytime sooner than the ones Boeing is working on. It's going to have to be gutted too...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 14, 2025 11:16 AM (Q4IgG)
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As I understand it, the new Boeing AF1s -- which I don't think are literally brand new -- won't be ready until early 2030s. Which means we won't see them until 2035 at the earliest. I personally think we'll never see them.

The Qatar substitute supposedly can be ready by 2028 or 2029.

Who knows how true any of this is. But if it embarrasses Boeing, and drives liberals nuts, then I'm all for it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 11:25 AM (iFTx/)

81 I seem to remember that Boeing was one of the big boosters of Obama's Iran deal because they wanted to get
the contract for new planes for the ageing Iranian air force. If so, eff 'em.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 11:25 AM (77rzZ)

82 DEI and corrupt unions killed Boeing. Healey wife used to work with them supplying inflight entertainment systems.. She says they are hopeless now. Beyond rescue

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 14, 2025 11:25 AM (973ea)

83 Boeing just won the contract for the new "stealth" fighter. News flash long range radars detect "stealth" aircraft.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at May 14, 2025 11:22 AM (+J/Au)

Its not just stealth but the next generation which has a lot more than just stealth asa requirement. That said, It's still Boeing which I've lost all confidence in.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 11:25 AM (VofaG)

84
Those are my top three. What did I miss?

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[The Left losing their collective mind (SWIDT?) over the threat of suspending habeas corpus for illegal alien Invaders? From a couple days ago:]

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Trump White House considers SUSPENDING the writ of habeas corpus for illegals just days after @DC_Draino floated the idea in the White House briefing room.

WHOA.

STEPHEN MILLER: "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion. That's an option we're actively looking at."

"A lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not."

https://is.gd/lGBHPG

Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 11:26 AM (St+Td)

85 The official reason why the German government put AfD under intensified surveillance (before it backed down) is that the AfD considers a Muslim immigrant who's acquired German citizenship to be less German then someone whose ancestors have been in Germany for millennia.

Reminds me of how the UN considers the only "native" peoples in Europe to be the Sami, nomadic reindeer herders who live north of the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia. The key trait is they aren't considered white.

Whites aren't native to anywhere. They just sprang up from the earth somewhere, probably to punish the noble brown people.

Posted by: brak at May 14, 2025 11:26 AM (jGJov)

86 At least the White South Africans can find comfort in the fact that it will be their fault when the Black South Africans start starving to death in a couple years

SA has some r3ally gorgeous areas. This whole mess is sad for all involved.

But I am sure this time it will end differently.

Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2025 11:26 AM (jfq/f)

87 Boeing used to be a great and well-respected company. I think too much time in Seattle has made them a woke-joke.

Boeing used to be run by engineers, and manufactured the world's best commercial aircraft.

McDonnell Douglas was run by accountants, and manufactured mediocre commercial aircraft (at best).

So, the two companies merged, and somehow it was McDonnell Douglas' management who took over the merged company.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2025 11:26 AM (xTIDn)

88 72 Saw a clip on TV of a Don Lemon podcast. He was interviewing a black US farmer who believed that he would receive fewer benefits if the whites from SA came here to farm.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2025 11:23 AM (63Dwl)

Always love these interviews. Especially when you consider what it could take to potentially land a guest who might say exactly what you want to hear. What're the odds?!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 14, 2025 11:26 AM (KbCG3)

89 Maybe we can arrange a trade.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 14, 2025 11:27 AM (8uoau)

90 86 At least the White South Africans can find comfort in the fact that it will be their fault when the Black South Africans start starving to death in a couple years

SA has some r3ally gorgeous areas. This whole mess is sad for all involved.

But I am sure this time it will end differently.
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2025 11:26 AM (jfq/f)

Back to the Stone Age!!! Catchy slogan..

Posted by: tubal at May 14, 2025 11:27 AM (PCK5/)

91 Make Africa Great Again.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 14, 2025 11:28 AM (8uoau)

92 Time for MuskAir!

Except he will probably name it something dumb like Big Air Renegade Flying.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 14, 2025 11:28 AM (mlg/3)

93 DEI and corrupt unions killed Boeing. Healey wife used to work with them supplying inflight entertainment systems.. She says they are hopeless now. Beyond rescue

Boeing has a non-union plant in S. Carolina. I expect more and more of Boeing's facilities to move there.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 11:29 AM (s8j++)

94 DOGE Air.

Posted by: runner at May 14, 2025 11:29 AM (g47mK)

95 Whites aren't native to anywhere. They just sprang up from the earth somewhere, probably to punish the noble brown people.
Posted by: brak

Humans are native to East Africa, or to wherever the Garden of Eden was located, depending on your views on the origin of our species. We are all "migrants" with respect to the rest of the world.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

96 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:24 AM (GYlcL)

Both Renton and Everett are considered to be part of the Seattle metro area.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 11:30 AM (VofaG)

97 Putting aside the recent screeching over the Qatar jet, how is it possible that the current AF1s are literally from the 1980s?? At no point in the last 40 years did someone say "hey, maybe we should upgrade these?"

Yes, I know Obama did arrange for new jets, but even that was too late, and the upgrade plan for AF1s at that point seemed to be more about funneling obscene money to Boeing and its subcontractors than to get new AF1s.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

98 Airlines aren't that profitable.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 14, 2025 11:31 AM (8uoau)

99 IMO there hasn't been a clear reason provided by Boeing as to why they're years behind schedule and 100's of millions over budget.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

I know, right?

Posted by: California High Speed Rail Authority at May 14, 2025 11:31 AM (ybcMG)

100 Thanks Joe Mannix.
I did not know this history of the AF1 debacle. It makes so much more sense now. The Dems always seem to fall into his traps.
The refugee situation is another. The Dems continue to think they somehow have a constituency that wants gangs, murderers and shiftless immigrants just coming for the benefits Americans have to work for.
These refugees are not that.
They seem to forget that Elon was an emigrant from SA. I rest my case

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 14, 2025 11:31 AM (t/2Uw)

101 Old joke:

Q: What is the difference between South Africa and Zimbabwe?

A: Thirty years.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2025 11:31 AM (xTIDn)

102 Just split Boeing up back to the way it was in the 80s. McDonnell Douglas goes back to building cool shit like F15s and F/A 18s and Boeing goes back to building great airliners.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at May 14, 2025 11:31 AM (eMdm6)

103 Most of Boeing's engineers are union members. A union!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 14, 2025 11:31 AM (973ea)

104 Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2025 11:26 AM (xTIDn)

Follow the money !

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 11:31 AM (VofaG)

105 Is there nothing that is not a racket??

Posted by: tubal at May 14, 2025 11:32 AM (PCK5/)

106 97 Putting aside the recent screeching over the Qatar jet, how is it possible that the current AF1s are literally from the 1980s?? At no point in the last 40 years did someone say "hey, maybe we should upgrade these?"

—-

It’s almost as if government is incompetent at everything it does.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:32 AM (GYlcL)

107 At least the White South Africans can find comfort in the fact that it will be their fault when the Black South Africans start starving to death in a couple years

SA has some r3ally gorgeous areas. This whole mess is sad for all involved.

But I am sure this time it will end differently.
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2025 11:26 AM

*shifty eyes*

Differently from what?!

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Zimbabwe at May 14, 2025 11:33 AM (FAGAJ)

108 Is there nothing that is not a racket??
Posted by: tubal

A bat?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 14, 2025 11:33 AM (mlg/3)

109 >>>We are all "migrants" with respect to the rest of the world.

yes but there's no way to guilt people with that, and all the graft that comes with it

Posted by: brak at May 14, 2025 11:33 AM (jGJov)

110 I am in the process of writing a letter to the Episcopal Bishop, telling him that he and people like him are the reason I stopped giving to the larger church. My money goes exclusively to upkeep of my own church. It may not be especially churchy, but I plan to tell him he can KMA.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 11:06 AM (s8j++)

Not to be a wet blanket, Archimedes, but I'd think that, even if the bishop sees your letter, he'll simply shrug. "So you don't give to the larger church. You're still donating money. Where else are you going to go, chump?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 14, 2025 11:34 AM (Dg2sF)

111 Old joke:

Q: What is the difference between South Africa and Zimbabwe?

A: Thirty years.

The other thing we've learned from this is even though apartheid ended thirty years ago, and blacks have been running the South African government since then, today's Afrikaners continue to be guilty of apartheid, and should be punished for centuries to come.

They certainly shouldn't be allowed into the United States.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2025 11:34 AM (xTIDn)

112 Suckers.

By the time they're done with it in seventy years, air superiority will be had by swarms of millions of dirt cheap murderbots that can turn any manned fighter into a lawn dart in seconds.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:22 AM

Meanwhile we will still be buying multi million dollar missiles and shooting them at cheap harbor freight drones.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 14, 2025 11:35 AM (e5NfL)

113 Yeah millions of Muslims who moved to Europe 5 minutes ago in aren’t colonizers. But a 10th generation American absolutely is.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:35 AM (GYlcL)

114 Bernadette Peters was talked about in the last thread. I wanted to link to a photo of her in a corset and high heels, but tinyurl isn't working for me today.

Perhaps tomorrow.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 14, 2025 11:35 AM (Dg2sF)

115 >>>Meanwhile we will still be buying multi million dollar missiles and shooting them at cheap harbor freight drones.

ain't it great?

Posted by: Raytheon at May 14, 2025 11:36 AM (jGJov)

116 113 Yeah millions of Muslims who moved to Europe 5 minutes ago in aren’t colonizers. But a 10th generation American absolutely is.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:35 AM (GYlcL)

Yeah, but the difference is that a colonizer is someone who wants to take control of the place and impose their own --- ohhhh, yeah, nevermind.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:36 AM (yvnLa)

117 My father was the President of the local IAM for union workers at the Boeing location in Lake Charles,LA where they repaired / refitted the KC-135s.

I can remember him complaining that he had clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right referring to his union members and Boeing management.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 11:36 AM (VofaG)

118 93 DEI and corrupt unions killed Boeing. Healey wife used to work with them supplying inflight entertainment systems.. She says they are hopeless now. Beyond rescue

Boeing has a non-union plant in S. Carolina. I expect more and more of Boeing's facilities to move there.
Posted by: Archimedes at

They tried and the union filed a labor charge. They were barred from moving. Would be interesting to see what would happen if they tried again.

Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2025 11:36 AM (jfq/f)

119 Funny, I thought a Christian church was supposed to be about spreading the good news, not social justice or reconciliation?

(Shrugs)
Guess the Episcopal church ain't one then.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2025 11:37 AM (Kz8X6)

120 IMO there hasn't been a clear reason provided by Boeing as to why they're years behind schedule and 100's of millions over budget.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Because the usual penalty for failing to complete a government contract is a bulldozer..... pushing several pallets of additional cash?

At least, it is when Trump isn't in office.

Posted by: mikeski at May 14, 2025 11:37 AM (DgGvY)

121 @52
In Walmart...or Dollar Tree...or TARGET

Posted by: Case at May 14, 2025 11:37 AM (Qdqx6)

122 118. The issue was the management team told the union to play nice or they would shut down and sent the work to SC. No one should have said anything like that- it became a union busting issue. There was a way to do it, but they screwed it up,

Again, would be interesting if they tried again but did it the right way. You can’t move just to break a union- but you can do it other ways.

Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2025 11:38 AM (jfq/f)

123 Saw a clip on TV of a Don Lemon podcast. He was interviewing a black US farmer who believed that he would receive fewer benefits if the whites from SA came here to farm.

Sounds like Old Ty'Quon McDonald has been huffing a little too much ethanol.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 14, 2025 11:38 AM (Dg2sF)

124 This isn't spontaneous:

@nypost 51m
Tren de Aragua gangbangers at ICE facility barricade themselves, threaten to take hostages after spelling out SOS in prison yard

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 14, 2025 11:38 AM (mlg/3)

125 Snakehead has been making a lot of noise lately.

Western Lensman@WesternLensman
James Carville: Trump hates his own voters and wants them to suffer.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, For a Limited Time Only at May 14, 2025 11:39 AM (L/fGl)

126 Again, would be interesting if they tried again but did it the right way. You can’t move just to break a union- but you can do it other ways.
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2025 11:38 AM (jfq/f)

That happens all the time.

"What? You still have a job. It's just a bit more of a commute. You wanna quit, that's your decision."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:39 AM (yvnLa)

127 In my Dana Carvey Johnie Carson voice…

Don LeMon podcast exists? I did not know that. Weird Wild wacky stuff.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:40 AM (GYlcL)

128 100
‘The Dems continue to think they somehow have a constituency that wants gangs, murderers and shiftless immigrants’

There are plenty of democrats that DO want that collection of thugs brought here. I just don’t think it’s a majority of voters.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 14, 2025 11:40 AM (jbnUc)

129 Bernadette Peters was talked about in the last thread. I wanted to link to a photo of her in a corset and high heels, but tinyurl isn't working for me today.

Perhaps tomorrow.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

It was I who brought her up. Folks were referencing The Jerk and it made me think of her great rack.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 11:40 AM (77rzZ)

130 Not to be a wet blanket, Archimedes, but I'd think that, even if the bishop sees your letter, he'll simply shrug. "So you don't give to the larger church. You're still donating money. Where else are you going to go, chump?"

Oh, I'm sure that'll be the attitude, but the fact is that I'm a Lutheran, and only attend the EC because it is my wife's family church. She is so incensed, she's considering leaving it. Now, some Lutherans are no better, but some are more conservative, so you have to be careful.

My wife was talking recently with a friend who is also a Baptist minister. She says the BC is now often leaving "Baptist" out of the name of new churches, because it carries connotations for some people. In those churches, attendance is through the roof. I foresee a lot more of this.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 11:40 AM (s8j++)

131 64 Boeing used to be a great and well-respected company. I think too much time in Seattle has made them a woke-joke.

—

Aaahhhctchually Boeing HQ hasn’t been in Seattle for 20+ years.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:19 AM (GYlcL)

Its still where they make and test their products. Except for the 787 which is made in South Carolina.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 11:21 AM (VofaG)

Boeing moved from Seattle, to Chicago, to Arlington VA. They were real engineers in SEA, then financial engineers in CHI, and now they are close to their real clients, as they are now professional lobbyists.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 14, 2025 11:40 AM (oh5Rr)

132 The fun part about the self hating white people is that the folks they care so hard about don't like them either.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 14, 2025 11:41 AM (jjoN6)

133 Who was the female lead in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?

I can't think of her name for the life of me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:41 AM (yvnLa)

134 The other thing we've learned from this is even though apartheid ended thirty years ago, and blacks have been running the South African government since then, today's Afrikaners continue to be guilty of apartheid, and should be punished for centuries to come.

And also that blacks are as bad at running South Africa as they are at running NYC, LA, Atlanta, Chicago, etc.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 14, 2025 11:41 AM (jbPJz)

135 130

My wife was talking recently with a friend who is also a Baptist minister. She says the BC is now often leaving "Baptist" out of the name of new churches, because it carries connotations for some people. In those churches, attendance is through the roof. I foresee a lot more of this.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 11:40 AM (s8j++)

Icky icky Baptists… who’d want to be one of THEM??

Posted by: tubal at May 14, 2025 11:42 AM (PCK5/)

136 ames Carville: Trump hates his own voters and wants them to suffer.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, For a Limited Time Only at May 14, 2025 11:39 AM (L/fGl)

Hey James the 1990's called and they want their Lizard back.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 11:42 AM (VofaG)

137 Living in the EverettWA area (for now) I can attest to the
Sheer stupidity and laziness of the average Boeing assembly worker. They are a stupid block of union loving sh*t stains that believe the world owes them something. Most vote Democrat.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 14, 2025 11:42 AM (973ea)

138 126 Again, would be interesting if they tried again but did it the right way. You can’t move just to break a union- but you can do it other ways.
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2025 11:38 AM (jfq/f)

That happens all the time.

"What? You still have a job. It's just a bit more of a commute. You wanna quit, that's your decision."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14,

But you can’t threaten the way they did. It also undid the whole argument it makes better business sense to move it when they told the union through their threat they could stay where they are. What they need to do is announce the plant closure and pray the union asks for effects bargaining, thereby signaling they accept the closure.

I have closed more than my share of plants - there is a way to get there, but it just takes one dumb manager to make the entire thing a mess.

Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2025 11:42 AM (jfq/f)

139 Who was the female lead in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?

I can't think of her name for the life of me.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Glenn Headly. A cutie.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

140 Hey James the 1990's called and they want their Lizard back.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 11:42 AM (VofaG)

Hey it's Bat Boy's birthday and he's crying because his grandpa ain't at the party yet.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:43 AM (yvnLa)

141 Bernadette Peters was talked about in the last thread. I wanted to link to a photo of her in a corset and high heels, but tinyurl isn't working for me today.

Perhaps tomorrow.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 14, 2025 11:35 AM (Dg2sF)

----------------

You could try this, MP4:

https://is.gd/

Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 11:43 AM (/TTZ4)

142 SA took a nose dive after Mandela died. I think while he was still around there was corruption but, the country was still run somewhat reasonably well. Once he was gone the ANC went full kleptocrat.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:43 AM (GYlcL)

143 Putting aside the recent screeching over the Qatar jet, how is it possible that the current AF1s are literally from the 1980s?? At no point in the last 40 years did someone say "hey, maybe we should upgrade these?"

747s aren't even Boeing's current coolest plane, although I understand going with a very old and very reliable proven design for that application.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 14, 2025 11:44 AM (jbPJz)

144 My wife was talking recently with a friend who is also a Baptist minister. She says the BC is now often leaving "Baptist" out of the name of new churches, because it carries connotations for some people. In those churches, attendance is through the roof. I foresee a lot more of this.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 11:40 AM (s8j++)

Houston Baptist University in Houston changed their name a while back to Houston Christian.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 11:44 AM (VofaG)

145 Who was the female lead in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?

I can't think of her name for the life of me.

Glenne Headley I think was her name. I think she passed away a few years back.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at May 14, 2025 11:44 AM (eMdm6)

146 IMO there hasn't been a clear reason provided by Boeing as to why they're years behind schedule and 100's of millions over budget.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Because the usual penalty for failing to complete a government contract is a bulldozer..... pushing several pallets of additional cash?

At least, it is when Trump isn't in office.
Posted by: mikeski at May 14, 2025 11:37 AM (DgGvY)
____

Yea. I think the real reason is that the original arrangement (by Obama, IIRC) was for an obscene amount of money that bore little relation to the actual costs of the plane. Boeing was obviously fleecing American taxpayers.

After Trump renegotiated the deal to something more reasonable, Boeing's incentive to deliver the jets was greatly reduced. They're no longer making piles of money, so why bother? As I comment above, I doubt they'll ever deliver them at the current contract price.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 14, 2025 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

147 Most of Boeing's engineers are union members. A union!
Posted by: Maj. Healey

How could that be bad?
-- Teachers

Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2025 11:45 AM (cYBz/)

148 One talking head commented in the last month"

I am in awe of the continual conveyor belt of dismay and alarm that the Trump administration is proving daily, I am not so excited at participating in it

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2025 11:45 AM (D7oie)

149 ‘The Dems continue to think they somehow have a constituency that wants gangs, murderers and shiftless immigrants’

Single white female college graduates, who want to virtue signal and who now control the Democratic Party.

They think that they can insulate themselves from the consequences of their disastrous policies.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2025 11:45 AM (xTIDn)

150 So is the new AF1 going to be a 747? I thought the 747 line ended long ago.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:45 AM (GYlcL)

151 There are documentaries on Rumble about the torture, rapes, and murder of white SA farmers and their children. This is one, and it's difficult to watch:

https://tinyurl.com/2s23rf3v

The SA government has declared that they are making it 'legal' to take these people's farms without compensation.

One South African who's trying to salvage this situation is Rob Hersov: https://tinyurl.com/3t5pjwj6

Posted by: Beverly at May 14, 2025 11:45 AM (Epeb0)

152 Bernadette Peters . . . . . Folks were referencing The Jerk and it made me think of her great rack.
Posted by: Bulg

Another Italian girl does good. Yes, really.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2025 11:46 AM (cYBz/)

153 Tren de Aragua gangbangers at ICE facility barricade themselves, threaten to take hostages after spelling out SOS in prison yard
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 14, 2025 11:38 AM (mlg/3)

How do you "threaten" to take hostages if you are in detention? If you have to go among them, go in heavily-armed groups, and be ready to pump lead into any fucker that makes a threatening move.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 11:46 AM (+MZTO)

154 SA took a nose dive after Mandela died. I think while he was still around there was corruption but, the country was still run somewhat reasonably well. Once he was gone the ANC went full kleptocrat.

Mandela was Biden/Pelosi/Schumer: it's a grift, but they know they need to keep up appearances.

The current ANC is AOC/Jasmine Crockett/Ilhan Omar: they're killing the golden goose and they don't care who knows as long as the checks keep clearing.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 14, 2025 11:46 AM (jbPJz)

155 Q: What is the difference between South Africa and Zimbabwe?

A: ~~Thirty years.~~ 300 years

The other thing we've learned from this is even though apartheid ended thirty years ago, and blacks have been running the ~~South African~~ American government since then, today's ~~Afrikaners~~ Whites continue to be guilty of apartheid, and should be punished for centuries to come.

They certainly shouldn't be allowed into the United States.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 14, 2025 11:47 AM (Ior/p)

156 How do you "threaten" to take hostages if you are in detention? If you have to go among them, go in heavily-armed groups, and be ready to pump lead into any fucker that makes a threatening move.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 11:46 AM (+MZTO)

I say kill the lights, shut off the water, power down the security system, and just leave.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:47 AM (yvnLa)

157 So what the hell?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Same reason that road work is never finished on time. Basically, Boeing is building the planes where it makes more money than government contracts and so they keep the AF1 project on the back burner for when times are slow in business.

Plus, they are a poorly managed piece of crap company that have nickelf*ckers as managers. Dysfunctional and unlikely to improve unless competition exists to force them to concentrate on actual business than revenue extraction.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 11:47 AM (ctrM5)

158 Trannies invade the women's room, make music video.

https://shorturl.at/8ywUi

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, For a Limited Time Only at May 14, 2025 11:48 AM (L/fGl)

159 Single white female college graduates, who want to virtue signal and who now control the Democratic Party.

Who think that each and every person in Latin America has a valid asylum claim in the United States, but that no Afrikaners should set foot in the United States.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2025 11:48 AM (xTIDn)

160
Mandela was Biden/Pelosi/Schumer: it's a grift, but they know they need to keep up appearances.

The current ANC is AOC/Jasmine Crockett/Ilhan Omar: they're killing the golden goose and they don't care who knows as long as the checks keep clearing.
Posted by: Ian S

Very good analogy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:48 AM (GYlcL)

161 >> Putting aside the recent screeching over the Qatar jet, how is it possible that the current AF1s are literally from the 1980s?? At no point in the last 40 years did someone say "hey, maybe we should upgrade these?"

Eh, if they work, they work.

Personally, I’d like to get to the point where the President travels Amtrak.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 14, 2025 11:48 AM (l3YAf)

162 Living in the EverettWA area (for now) I can attest to the
Sheer stupidity and laziness of the average Boeing assembly worker. They are a stupid block of union loving sh*t stains that believe the world owes them something. Most vote Democrat.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 14, 2025 11:42 AM (973ea)

"social balkanization is the process by which a population is deliberately or organically fragmented into hostile insular subgroups that no longer share a common narrative, culture, or sense of national indentity

It is not just division, it is strategic division, where the fractures are deepened along lines of race, class, ideology, religion, gender, or even conspiracy belief systems until cohesion becomes impossible and conflict becomes inevitable.

A population so fractured it can't organize, can't resist, and can't agree on anything long enough to demand accountability."

The WEF and the totalitarians of the world salute the normies who carry this out for them.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2025 11:48 AM (D7oie)

163 I say kill the lights, shut off the water, power down the security system, and just leave.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
_________

Prison Squid Game

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 14, 2025 11:49 AM (UBKzV)

164 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a wonder of a little movie, especially the final scene, and Glenne Headly was a favorite in our house.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 14, 2025 11:49 AM (ZZDcC)

165 And also that blacks are as bad at running South Africa as they are at running NYC, LA, Atlanta, Chicago, etc.
Posted by: Ian S.

Considering how difficult it is for them to get a picture ID, I'm not surprised.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at May 14, 2025 11:49 AM (ybcMG)

166 You could try this, MP4:

https://is.gd/
Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 11:43 AM (/TTZ4)

Thank you! Here she is:

https://is.gd/StH6Rj

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 14, 2025 11:50 AM (Dg2sF)

167 They must have a few 12 gauges laying around.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 14, 2025 11:50 AM (8uoau)

168 Sanction South Africa.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 14, 2025 11:50 AM (wBaIH)

169 Pope Bob has started tweeting

Posted by: one hour sober at May 14, 2025 11:51 AM (Y1sOo)

170 I'd be curious to see the contract, written during Obama's reign of error, for the refurbishment and conversion of the two 747's into new AF-1's. Like... how fucked up is it and how much latitude did they give Boeing? That's something that's not discussed very much. The feds can renegotiate it, if written thusly, to financially put Boeing on notice. Not that it matters much now.... but still.

I've never, ever been encouraged by government contracting officers.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 14, 2025 11:51 AM (Q4IgG)

171 how is it possible that the current AF1s are literally from the 1980s?? At no point in the last 40 years did someone say "hey, maybe we should upgrade these?

How could they miss that opportunity?! I bet there were huge upgrade studies, proposals, and contracts over the years with the end result of cup holders for the pilots.

Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2025 11:51 AM (WFXLZ)

172 Boeing moved from Seattle, to Chicago, to Arlington VA. They were real engineers in SEA, then financial engineers in CHI, and now they are close to their real clients, as they are now professional lobbyists.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Yep. And relied on their duopoly status with Airbus to stay in the civilian airplane industry. That is the problem with any oligopoly in the long run, they spend more time collaborating on pricing and market division with competitors than they do on product and service.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 11:51 AM (ctrM5)

173 The Palindrome Pope…

Posted by: tubal at May 14, 2025 11:52 AM (PCK5/)

174 168 Sanction South Africa.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 14, 2025 11:50 AM (wBaIH)

It would be poetically symmetrical.

"We sanctioned you when the Boers treated the Blacks inhumanly, we'll sanction you again now that the Blacks treat the Boers inhumanly."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:52 AM (yvnLa)

175 14 The heartland needs young, dedicated, South African farming families.
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We really do need them. Many farming families sent their children to university, and the younger generation doesn't want to do the work to maintain the farm. There's reasons for that, of course, but the net result is fewer farms & farmers. We need some more people who want to run a farm & will do it, even given the expense of 21st century farming.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at May 14, 2025 11:52 AM (XjTSo)

176 Not saying potus should travel on Southwest. But does he really need a multi billion dollar plane? How about a G5? Gets you from A to B in comfort. Good enough.

Low low price of $50M.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:52 AM (GYlcL)

177 SA took a nose dive after Mandela died. I think while he was still around there was corruption but, the country was still run somewhat reasonably well. Once he was gone the ANC went full kleptocrat.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:43 AM (GYlcL)

Mandela had the whole world watching him, so he wasn’t going to immediately go Full Commie and start killing the Boers, although I’m sure he wanted to.

South Africa was already falling apart my the mid-00s.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 14, 2025 11:52 AM (l3YAf)

178 Frankly it's none of our damn business, if we went around sanctioning every nation that treated some sub-section of their populace like dirt, we'd never trade with anyone ever again.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:53 AM (yvnLa)

179 100 Thanks Joe Mannix.
I did not know this history of the AF1 debacle. It makes so much more sense now. The Dems always seem to fall into his traps.
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Their duplicity is unparalleled. They are accustomed to their constituency accepting the lie but they have lied so much they have no ideological foundation to fall back on they are a Party of lies with no valid constituency remaining.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2025 11:53 AM (FtvNE)

180 Who think that each and every person in Latin America has a valid asylum claim in the United States, but that no Afrikaners should set foot in the United States.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2025 11:48 AM (xTIDn)

These are people who think that boycotting Sun City was the most socially active thing evar and remember when Nelson Mandela was killed in police custody.

Also, Afrikaners don't have an active drug trafficking system set up to bribe local, state and federal governments and LE.

Posted by: at May 14, 2025 11:53 AM (D7oie)

181 "but I plan to tell him he can KMA."

Just make sure you are wearing your best suit of clothes when you do it. Don't want zhir/zhie/zhit to think you are some kind of homeless bum.

Posted by: Kwak! at May 14, 2025 11:53 AM (89Sog)

182 End Wokeness@EndWokenessBiden-Harris senior staffer supports taking land away from white South Africans who could "go back to Germany!!" (not USA)

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But they're not Muslim!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, For a Limited Time Only at May 14, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl)

183 nd also that blacks are as bad at running South Africa as they are at running NYC, LA, Atlanta, Chicago, etc.
Posted by: Ian S.

Of the top 100 largest cities only 8 have Republican mayors. And up until recently the top ten had all Dem which all were a minority or woke woman. ( Houston has a crappy White guy only because the alternative was Shelia Jackson Lee)

But its Republicans fault every city is a shit hole.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 11:54 AM (VofaG)

184 >> Not saying potus should travel on Southwest.

Spirit Airlines. Trump has his own plane, but there’s no reason those layabout fucks like GWB, Obama or Biden deserved multiple personal jets on the taxpayer dime.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 14, 2025 11:54 AM (l3YAf)

185 The people that forced soldiers to take a poison shot are supposedly upset that they will have to stop doing their sexual fetish in public as a member of the military.

Boo
Hoo

Posted by: 18-1 at May 14, 2025 11:54 AM (t0Rmr)

186 Not saying potus should travel on Southwest. But does he really need a multi billion dollar plane? How about a G5? Gets you from A to B in comfort. Good enough.

Communications gear, technology to defeat surface-to-air missiles...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2025 11:54 AM (xTIDn)

187 148 One talking head commented in the last month"

I am in awe of the continual conveyor belt of dismay and alarm that the Trump administration is proving daily, I am not so excited at participating in it
Posted by: Kindltot
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Its okay and far easier on the digestive system when you consider media coverage as a pack of lies with the occasional nugget of truth in it. Sort of like panning for gold, most of it is dross.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 11:54 AM (ctrM5)

188 Pope Bob has started tweeting

In Latin, interestingly. I guess "Da Bears" sounds better that way.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 14, 2025 11:55 AM (AIhUY)

189 Germany?

....

?

And these nutsacks have no idea why they lost.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:55 AM (yvnLa)

190 Not saying potus should travel on Southwest. But does he really need a multi billion dollar plane? How about a G5? Gets you from A to B in comfort. Good enough.

Low low price of $50M.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:52 AM (GYlcL)

Trump should tell Ukraine to send him a fleet of those huge Antonov transports, and convert a couple of them to AF1 spec. Yuuge, luxurious AF1's!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 11:55 AM (+MZTO)

191 Communications gear, technology to defeat surface-to-air missiles...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2025 11:54 AM (xTIDn)

That's what the squadron of fighters flanking it are for, right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:56 AM (yvnLa)

192 Not that they would have, but what if Qatar had given the plane to the US while Biden was president?

Posted by: fd at May 14, 2025 11:56 AM (vFG9F)

193 I remember when South Africa was the liberal cause du jour. You couldn't turn around without some emptyheaded celebrity telling you how invested they were in the fight.

Now? Not even crickets. Nobody takes ANY responsibility for the consequences of their attention whoring.

We know who these people are. It would be nice if someone with a microphone put them on the spot.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 11:56 AM (s8j++)

194 Its okay and far easier on the digestive system when you consider media coverage as a pack of lies with the occasional nugget of truth in it. Sort of like panning for gold, most of it is dross.
Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 11:54 AM (ctrM5)

Trump doesn't listen to me, and my time is best spent trying to figure out how the state and county are conspiring to take my money and property from me.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2025 11:57 AM (D7oie)

195 Communications gear, technology to defeat surface-to-air missiles...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2025 11:54 AM (xTIDn)

Can’t you do that with a G5? Sure retrofit it and shit. But do you really need a 747? Seems excessive.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:57 AM (GYlcL)

196 I'm curious what goes on a Protestant churches. No communion, right? So snake handling and fundraising, with a little singing on the side?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 14, 2025 11:57 AM (wBaIH)

197 I think AF1 has a couple of 4 packs like a B52.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 14, 2025 11:57 AM (8uoau)

198 193 I remember when South Africa was the liberal cause du jour. You couldn't turn around without some emptyheaded celebrity telling you how invested they were in the fight.

Now? Not even crickets. Nobody takes ANY responsibility for the consequences of their attention whoring.

We know who these people are. It would be nice if someone with a microphone put them on the spot.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 11:56 AM (s8j++)

They were invested in "The Fight", until their team won.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2025 11:57 AM (yvnLa)

199 It is the Trump negotiation weave. Not to be still while all the above mentioned are going on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has suspended its academic memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Turkiye's Inonu University. Not coincidentally the same time he's flying into that region to participate in negotiations with Putin and Zellenski.

And Baloch leasers have declared "Independence from Pakistan"
The “Republic of Balochistan” is officially on the map and Islamabad is in full panic mode.

They're turning up the heat by asking India to host a Baloch embassy in New Delhi and urging the UN to send peacekeeping forces into the region ASAP.

While at the same time 'Donald J. Trump update' has posted Lara Logan's CBS interview after being raped in Egypt. Also a 01:15 clip of the last minute before the camera stopped.

Just weaving his way from Saudi Arabia to Turkey while helping the Democrats to expose themselves at home.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2025 11:58 AM (FtvNE)

200 That's what the squadron of fighters flanking it are for, right?

AF1 doesn't always travel with a fighter squadron.

Still need the anti-missile tech on AF1.

A whole lot of people want to kill Trump, both here and abroad - I'm willing to make an investment in making that harder to do.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2025 11:58 AM (xTIDn)

201 196 I'm curious what goes on a Protestant churches. No communion, right? So snake handling and fundraising, with a little singing on the side?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 14, 2025 11:57 AM (wBaIH)

That is pretty funny, but I think that is what a lot of people have been led to believe….

Posted by: tubal at May 14, 2025 11:58 AM (PCK5/)

202 sted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 14, 2025 11:57 AM (wBaIH

Depending on the Protestant church some of them have communion weekly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 14, 2025 11:58 AM (vW5wl)

203 129 Folks were referencing The Jerk and it made me think of her great rack.

the one the oil cans were on, right?

Posted by: anachronda at May 14, 2025 11:58 AM (sGtp+)

204 The episcopal church should be under federal investigation for civil right violations. Among many other violations.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 14, 2025 11:59 AM (17s+e)

205 I'm curious what goes on a Protestant churches. No communion, right? So snake handling and fundraising, with a little singing on the side?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 14, 2025 11:57 AM (wBaIH)

Well, no Eucharist. They drink little cups of grape juice and eat crackers.

Don’t forget the gay pride parades and drag queen story time!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 14, 2025 11:59 AM (l3YAf)

206 747 has 4 engines. I don't know how many it can fly on. G5 has two.

Posted by: fd at May 14, 2025 11:59 AM (vFG9F)

207 I'm curious what goes on a Protestant churches. No communion, right? So snake handling and fundraising, with a little singing on the side?

There was talk of taking a page from the RC and burning some heretics, but nothing came of it.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 11:59 AM (s8j++)

208 End Wokeness@EndWokenessBiden-Harris senior staffer supports taking land away from white South Africans who could "go back to Germany!!" (not USA)

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But they're not Muslim!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, For a Limited Time Only at May 14, 2025 11:53 AM

OK...who wants to tell them?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 14, 2025 11:59 AM (FAGAJ)

209 Communications gear, technology to defeat surface-to-air missiles...
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Forget responding, he is playing silly buggers.

AF1 is also an EMP hardened doomsday command and control vehicle so that even when the prezzie is out of the US, he can effectively manage nat sec from wherever he is. And thus as a key link, a spare or two makes sure that that when events dictate, that the president or the vp if necessary can communicate with US forces and retaliate if needed.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 11:59 AM (ctrM5)

210 119 Funny, I thought a Christian church was supposed to be about spreading the good news, not social justice or reconciliation?

(Shrugs)
Guess the Episcopal church ain't one then.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2025 11:37 AM (Kz8X6)

Truer words never spoken!

How are you doing, good sir?

Posted by: moki at May 14, 2025 11:59 AM (wLjpr)

211 Pope Bob has started tweeting

In Latin, interestingly. I guess "Da Bears" sounds better that way.
Posted by: Ian S

Da Ursi.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 14, 2025 12:00 PM (Ior/p)

212 Not that they would have, but what if Qatar had given the plane to the US while Biden was president?
Posted by: fd at May 14, 2025 11:56 AM (vFG9F)

I can honestly say I wouldn't have a problem with that as long as the stated purpose was it was going to be an official plane to be used by the Executive branch. Not necessarily AF 1 . I don't think the current donated plane should be used as AF1 though.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 12:00 PM (VofaG)

213 The people that forced soldiers to take a poison shot are supposedly upset that they will have to stop doing their sexual fetish in public as a member of the military.

Boo
Hoo

Posted by: 18-1 at May 14, 2025 11:54 AM (t0Rmr)

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Contractors of camouflage high heels in men's sizes hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 12:00 PM (1v/MJ)

214 Communion happens occasionally, only the crackers don't come to life and perform magic tricks.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 14, 2025 12:00 PM (8uoau)

215 And there it is.

@BreannaMorello

🚨JUST IN🚨

Qatar agrees to purchase 160 Boeing aircrafts.

This is the largest widebody aircraft order in the American company's history.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 14, 2025 12:00 PM (viF8m)

216 In the early 90s a slew of white S. Africans moved into my neighborhood. One family next door, a couple of others further down the street. It was a weird coo cadence they dint know each other they just happened to pick this one random neighborhood. And I also had a part time job in HS where my boss was S. African and recently arrived.

They knew what was coming and bugged the fuck out.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 12:00 PM (GYlcL)

217 Is it wrong that I don't trust our own American alphabet agencies to vet the plane?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 14, 2025 12:01 PM (pIfcn)

218 I'm curious what goes on a Protestant churches. No communion, right? So snake handling and fundraising, with a little singing on the side?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 14, 2025 11:57 AM (wBaIH)

Yes, the Methodists and Baptists are known for snake handling. My favorite part of the service with the 5 minutes of hate against the Scarlet Whore of the Vatican and when we rolled around on the floor in holy ecstasy. That was generally before the Homily and passing around the donation plates. It made singing the Doxology more exciting, I can assure you that.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2025 12:01 PM (D7oie)

219 193 I remember when South Africa was the liberal cause du jour.

"I ain't gonna play Sun Citayyy!"

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 14, 2025 12:01 PM (eb5mD)

220 Oookaay… religious squabble staring… be back on another post…

Posted by: tubal at May 14, 2025 12:01 PM (PCK5/)

221 iden-Harris senior staffer supports taking land away from white South Africans who could "go back to Germany!!"

Weirdly, that's the "free Palestine" crowd's solution to Israel too: send all the Jooos back to Germany. Apparently there's a woke school lesson many of us missed about how white people all come from Munich or something.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 14, 2025 12:01 PM (QZThv)

222 Spider solitaire is evil

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2025 12:02 PM (ypFCm)

223 I'll bet a goodly sum that within ten years leftists demand that western nations supply food to South Africa because they can't feed themselves.

Any takers?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 14, 2025 12:02 PM (17s+e)

224 Qatar agrees to purchase 160 Boeing aircrafts.

This is the largest widebody aircraft order in the American company's history.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 14, 2025 12:00 PM (viF8m)

Why does Qatar need so many airplanes? It's a small place, can't be more than a half-day camel ride across it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 12:02 PM (+MZTO)

225 Thx Joe. I have no problem bringing the Afrikaners here. Hard working and law abiding. The international community including the US left caused what led up to this Apartheid was wrong but wholesale slaughter is worse
Little Steven won't play Sun City but he'll play a murderous mobster

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 14, 2025 12:02 PM (2ZThz)

226 Oookaay… religious squabble staring… be back on another post…

Posted by: tubal

People are just having fun.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 12:02 PM (s8j++)

227 Qatar agrees to purchase 160 Boeing aircrafts.

This is the largest widebody aircraft order in the American company's history.
Posted by: JackStraw

Somehow, the left and the unions are gonna be pissed.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 14, 2025 12:02 PM (Ior/p)

228 AF 1 should be a refitted B1-Bomber

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 12:02 PM (VofaG)

229 196 I'm curious what goes on a Protestant churches. No communion, right? So snake handling and fundraising, with a little singing on the side?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
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I know your comments are in jest but there has been a lot of shit stirring over religion lately here and bigotry is not particularly interesting nor funny.

Far better to not poke the bears.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:03 PM (ctrM5)

230 "Qatar agrees to purchase 160 Boeing aircrafts."

Too bad they are so far behind it will be 2070 before they get them.

Something needs to happen with Boeing. They cranked out planes during WWII like nothing ever seen and it did not take long to ramp up and train people. They could do it again with the right leadership.

Posted by: fd at May 14, 2025 12:03 PM (vFG9F)

231 If we lose a couple of more engines we are going to be up here all day.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 14, 2025 12:03 PM (8uoau)

232 AF 1 should be a refitted B1-Bomber
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 12:02 PM

B-52. When Melania accompanies him, they can call it the Love Shack.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 14, 2025 12:04 PM (FAGAJ)

233 Oh, goody Its pre lunch time sniping time between some of the Protestants and the some of the Catholics. The boobs of women are in the threads above, but some of the non mammary boobs migrated here

See you on the next thread.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 14, 2025 12:04 PM (vW5wl)

234 >>Why does Qatar need so many airplanes? It's a small place, can't be more than a half-day camel ride across it.

The arabs are in a race with the asians for best long haul carriers.

They've got a lot of issue but their airlines are pretty damn nice.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 14, 2025 12:05 PM (viF8m)

235 Why does Qatar need so many airplanes? It's a small place, can't be more than a half-day camel ride across it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 12:02 PM (+MZTO)

I’m always suspicious of Hajjis who want a bunch of planes.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 14, 2025 12:05 PM (l3YAf)

236 I'm curious what goes on a Protestant churches. No communion, right? So snake handling and fundraising, with a little singing on the side?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 14, 2025 11:57 AM (wBaIH)

You wouldn't like it. The preachers have wives and don't fondle children.

Posted by: They're Not Sending Their Best at May 14, 2025 12:05 PM (8hq5W)

237 Oh, goody Its pre lunch time sniping time between some of the Protestants and the some of the Catholics.

Or perhaps some lightening up is in order.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 12:05 PM (s8j++)

238 Trump should tell Ukraine to send him a fleet of those huge Antonov transports, and convert a couple of them to AF1 spec. Yuuge, luxurious AF1's!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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With the best of Soviet era quality checking. Soviet aviation is not known for the best of safety records.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:05 PM (ctrM5)

239 End Wokeness@EndWokeness
Episcopal Church Bishop Sean Rowe: It's against what we stand for to help white refugees fleeing South Africa

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I think that's from Two Corinthians.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, For a Limited Time Only at May 14, 2025 12:05 PM (L/fGl)

240 They've got a lot of issue but their airlines are pretty damn nice.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 14, 2025 12:05 PM (viF8m)

The stewardesses in toebags are a nice touch, I guess.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 12:06 PM (+MZTO)

241 Pope Bob has started tweeting

In Latin, interestingly. I guess "Da Bears" sounds better that way.
Posted by: Ian S

Da Ursi.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 14, 2025 12:00 PM (Ior/p)

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"Da Orsi is Italian for ... Da Ursi."

/obligatory Chris Farley (portraying El Niño" on SNL)

Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 12:06 PM (5nIDq)

242 Their pilots only have to checklist on takeoffs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 14, 2025 12:06 PM (8uoau)

243 End Wokeness@EndWokeness
Episcopal Church Bishop Sean Rowe: It's against what we stand for to help white refugees fleeing South Africa

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I think that's from Two Corinthians.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, For a Limited Time Only at May 14, 2025 12:05 PM

That guy? Clown.

Posted by: Two Guys from Corinth at May 14, 2025 12:07 PM (FAGAJ)

244 B-52. When Melania accompanies him, they can call it the Love Shack.

Trump doing pron: "When I unzip my pants, it's going to be bigly. They all say it's really spectacular".

Posted by: Ian S. at May 14, 2025 12:07 PM (QZThv)

245 228 AF 1 should be a refitted B1-Bomber
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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You'll have to put the reporters in the refurbed bomb bay. Makes it easy to deplane them. In midair.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:07 PM (ctrM5)

246 Not taking any bets on. pride month. My bet is a couple of days at most.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 14, 2025 12:08 PM (NVNRw)

247 Pope Bob has started tweeting

In Latin, interestingly. I guess "Da Bears" sounds better that way.
Posted by: Ian S

Ursi

Oops, I meant heresy

Posted by: Pope Bob at May 14, 2025 12:08 PM (w9Wax)

248 Moki, I'm doing ok. Been on ALH lately? Some good stuff going on.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2025 12:08 PM (Kz8X6)

249 With the best of Soviet era quality checking. Soviet aviation is not known for the best of safety records.
Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:05 PM (ctrM5)

Oh, they could be used as-is. Start with the airframes, and have a first-rate aircraft rebuild contractor bring everything else up to snuff.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 12:08 PM (+MZTO)

250 The Press Pool get ejection seats.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 14, 2025 12:08 PM (8uoau)

251 The arabs are in a race with the asians for best long haul carriers.

They've got a lot of issue but their airlines are pretty damn nice.

Yeah, post-9/11 and then post-Fauci the only airlines attempting to do actual luxury first class are the Japanese and the Arabs.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 14, 2025 12:09 PM (QZThv)

252 The Church age ended in 1988 and all churches have gone apostate. Very dangerous place to be.

Posted by: Come out of her, My people... at May 14, 2025 12:09 PM (G5+As)

253 The Press Pool get ejection seats.

In the wheel well.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 14, 2025 12:09 PM (s8j++)

254 Qatar agrees to purchase 160 Boeing aircrafts.

This is the largest widebody aircraft order in the American company's history.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 14, 2025 12:00 PM (viF8m)

Meh. Pretty sure they had a multi year back log of orders even after recent Chinese cancelations. Sales are great, but Boeing is flubbing up building the effin' planes. They could sell ten thousand of them for all it matters. All the while Elon is turning engineering cycles on Rockets in as little as a few months. The rot is so deep, I'm afraid even the best food won't help the beast survive.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 14, 2025 12:10 PM (pIfcn)

255 The Press needs to be relegated to the chase plane. Maybe only one or two reporters on AF1.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 14, 2025 12:10 PM (VofaG)

256 118 93 DEI and corrupt unions killed Boeing. Healey wife used to work with them supplying inflight entertainment systems.. She says they are hopeless now. Beyond rescue

Boeing has a non-union plant in S. Carolina. I expect more and more of Boeing's facilities to move there.
Posted by: Archimedes at

They tried and the union filed a labor charge. They were barred from moving. Would be interesting to see what would happen if they tried again.
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This would be a good time to try again. Something definitely has to be done at Boeing. the frickin' President just called them out on being inefficient wastrels. That's not good PR, and they're not too big to fail.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at May 14, 2025 12:11 PM (XjTSo)

257 Oh, they could be used as-is. Start with the airframes, and have a first-rate aircraft rebuild contractor bring everything else up to snuff.
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The weakest part of aircraft from there are the engines. Cost more to fix by replacing them with new ones than is worth it.

Kind of like a Ford Pinto or a Chevy Chevette is simply not worth the time and effort to rebuild it.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:11 PM (ctrM5)

258 >>Yeah, post-9/11 and then post-Fauci the only airlines attempting to do actual luxury first class are the Japanese and the Arabs.

I got upgraded to business class on an Emirates flight from Amsterdam to Dubai one time. I didn't want to get off the plane when we landed.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 14, 2025 12:11 PM (viF8m)

259 40 I think you mean the RSA’s Land Seizure Act. The RSA is in the way to being the RSZ.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

What is the "RSA?"

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2025 11:16 AM (77rzZ)
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Republic of South Africa. Also ZA for Zuid Afrika.

Posted by: Ciampino - May 31 1961 was Republic Day at May 14, 2025 12:12 PM (sPQoU)

260 The Press Pool needs to show proof of all vaccinations, dated no later than 90 days ago.

And they will have to quarantine for 6 months before being allowed to be picked up at the airport.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 14, 2025 12:12 PM (w9Wax)

261 The rot is so deep, I'm afraid even the best food won't help the beast survive.

Boeing's demise would be deserved at this point, but the alternative being the EU doesn't give me warm fuzzies either.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 14, 2025 12:12 PM (QZThv)

262 THE BOSS HAS A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2025 12:12 PM (ypFCm)

263 >>>Why does Qatar need so many airplanes? It's a small place, can't be more than a half-day camel ride across it.
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That's a queasy question.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2025 12:13 PM (FtvNE)

264 End Wokeness@EndWokeness
Episcopal Church Bishop Sean Rowe: It's against what we stand for to help white refugees fleeing South Africa

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I think that's from Two Corinthians.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, For a Limited Time Only at May 14, 2025 12:05 PM (L/fGl)

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I would have guessed it was from The First Principle of Kwanzaa: "Umoja (Unity)."

Posted by: ShainS -- Elon should build Trump a Space Force One vehicle at May 14, 2025 12:13 PM (5nIDq)

265 221 iden-Harris senior staffer supports taking land away from white South Africans who could "go back to Germany!!"

Weirdly, that's the "free Palestine" crowd's solution to Israel too: send all the Jooos back to Germany. Apparently there's a woke school lesson many of us missed about how white people all come from Munich or something.
Posted by: Ian S.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2025 12:13 PM (FtvNE)

266 This would be a good time to try again. Something definitely has to be done at Boeing. the frickin' President just called them out on being inefficient wastrels. That's not good PR, and they're not too big to fail.
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Boeing is an example of a company that comes to rest upon its laurels while being gutted by its management. Unfortunately, we do not have new American companies ready to stand up in building new aircraft as that is extremely high in capital costs and experienced technical staff. Plus, Boeing still serves as key military contractor for such things as Air Tankers among other aerospace requirements including the newest jet fighter.

So Boeing has to be fixed and reliance on the markets to do so won't work. Dunno how to do it though.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:16 PM (ctrM5)

267 Kind of like a Ford Pinto or a Chevy Chevette is simply not worth the time and effort to rebuild it.

A Hellcat-swapped Chevette that looked stock would be hilarious though. You could probably get away from the cops because they'd be laughing too hard.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 14, 2025 12:17 PM (QZThv)

268 Boeing: two many DEI hires. Also moving corporate away from engineering and manufacturing was a big mistake (Seattle to Chicago).

Posted by: Ciampino - too many accountants at May 14, 2025 12:17 PM (sPQoU)

269 A Hellcat-swapped Chevette that looked stock would be hilarious though. You could probably get away from the cops because they'd be laughing too hard.
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It would be all yucks until you had to turn and engage curvy roads. As Scottie used to say "The car canna handle it, Captain" when Kirk demanded "More Power Scottie".

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:19 PM (ctrM5)

270 268 Boeing: two many DEI hires. Also moving corporate away from engineering and manufacturing was a big mistake (Seattle to Chicago).
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Boeing hq is now in Arlington VA for the last several years.

Posted by: whig at May 14, 2025 12:20 PM (ctrM5)

271 Depending on the Protestant church some of them have communion weekly.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 14, 2025 11:58 AM (vW5wl)

The church I was raised in and am still a member, always had communion the first Sunday of the month. A small bread cube and a shot glass of white wine. It's a Hungarian Protestant church. Still holds a second service on Sundays in Hungarian.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 14, 2025 12:56 PM (5xuJ/)

272 From the ONT last night -

Bound States to Bands in the Continuum in Cylindrical Granular Crystals

From the Science News sort of summary I read last night I assumed, erroneously, that these Korean researchers were using clever nanotechnology to achieve their results. They are using macro scale quartz cylinders in chains: 3 cm and even 9 cm long to do it! Clever indeed! The above title is from their Phys Rev Lttrs paper dated 3 Apr 2025. Stupendous work! You can undoubtedly find the abstract at Google Scholar, but you will need a subscription or access to a university library’s resources to read the full text (that’s the way I did it - my university grants full library access to it’s retired faculty - but it’s a hassle, with dual authentication and passwords they make you change every three months! A better deal is half price access to the Recreation and Activities Center, the RAC, where they’ve got a well designed indoor competitive pool with lanes set up for laps - I’ve got to get back in the pool as soon as I recover from this surgery!).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 14, 2025 12:59 PM (0M7jv)

273 My Presbyterian Church in America church holds communion first Sunday of the month in the morning service and third Sundays in the evening service. You are devoting the whole day to God aren’t you? God bless!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 14, 2025 01:04 PM (0M7jv)

274 There is a really good parody song by some libertarian guy about Boeing based on 'It's Raining Men'. Also, Babylon Bee has a Boeing bit from a few months ago as well.

Posted by: Eric2 at May 14, 2025 01:45 PM (q7Vou)

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