Oh my bad, meant to say Roberts. Get the fuckers confused nowadays. Defending the fact that the Judiciary is an equal branch of government and the concept of basic checks and balances.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/us/politics/supreme-court-roberts-judicial-independence.html
Idk Thomas has been saying some shit recently that makes it seem like he might be getting tired of Trump’s shit.
Would be hilarious if Trump and Co try to defang the Supreme Court and they just decide to strike down Executive Orders as broadly unconstitutional for anything beyond directing basic executive branch actions, because they are not laws.
Or die in an El Salvadorian or other similar prison complex from starvation, lack of medical care, etc.
Honestly surprised as we… they’re disappearing people without due process or notice to their families, being arrested for shooting an agent means you get due process.
Ah yes, the “just don’t talk about it and it goes away” approach.
Flipping an EV is no small feat, especially a sedan. The damned center of gravity is basically at the middle of the wheels.
Oh possibly. Not sure the government has even signed those contracts yet at this point.
The one surprising thing is that the Qatari jet is actually a 747-8 model like the two new contracted planes. So I suppose it could technically be outfitted as a new Air Force One, then only one of the new airframes finished and outfitted, and then gut this to finish the second new airframe, leaving a gutted 747-8 for Trump.
But we know that’s not what will happen.
That was a fixed price contract for the new planes. Boeing will have to eat any cost overruns. Their CEO has Already been complaining about it.
The days of cost plus contracting with companies like Boeing are essentially gone luckily. Now that the practice is decently well known by the public, it can’t just be hidden as a cost of private sector business anymore like they used to claim.
A decently large reason for that is SpaceX’s dramatically cheaper space launch costs, even with iterative design principles resulting in a lot of “waste” designs and products being destroyed or never used. Their contracts were fixed prices through NASA commercial programs so they never received contracts cost plus the way companies like Boeing did, so they actually optimized to minimize their costs. They proved in the real world that cost plus wasn’t necessary for those contracts at all, and Boeing has been one of the worst hit by that.
As expected. Would like to point out that they were the only ones from the listed carriers that notified all customers, prior to being asked by the Senator’s office.
The Air Force awarded Boeing a $3.9 billion contract in 2018 for two new Air Force One planes, updated VC-25B models based on the newer 747-8I. Delivery originally was slated for 2024 but currently they are looking at 2027.
Exactly, this will just be ignored by the media bubble they willingly live in, and they’ll never hear about it. If asked about it they’ll say that if it were actually something worth discussing then they’d see it in the news.
They can’t comprehend the idea that their bubble is preventing them from being told about big issues.
It didn’t change the trajectory, but those attacks were much more effective than even Al Qaeda thought they would be. They provided the excuse the American fascists were looking for to further their own plans without much push back.
You’re being pedantic. You know that’s not what they were referring to.
The “Air Force One” that people recognize, the VC-25A (military equivalent of the 747-200B), is actually two airframes that swap back and forth as they need maintenance. Because the maintenance intervals on those jets can take months to perform fully and the need for a dedicated plane that can fully support the President is constant. The new variant being products is the VC-25B, based on the much more modern (but still 20-year old design) 747-8I.
Yes, it is. And Boeing is already building the two new ones Trump renegotiated the deal for back during his first term. I’ve been wondering this the entire time since there are two planes that swap when in maintenance.
The plane is clearly meant for Trump alone.
Instead they’re buying F150s and the like that are just as dangerous to everyone else on or near the road.
Simple, the regulations don’t talk about any of that shit.
US road regulations are a blend of smart, fucking stupid, and just plain missing regulations.
The fact any current “standard” pickup trucks are allowed on the road despite nearly half the population being short enough that they can’t see over the hood is just one of the most obvious examples that the US road regulations are pointless to try and make sense of.
Those are only the newer versions from the last year or so. They used to have regular fucking stalks. Even after they swapped the wheel for the yolk.
That is November 1st here in AZ.
To be honest, from experience with the general public selling and supporting phones since the beginning of the smartphone revolution, anything other than the built in option is more complicated than most people can handle. They just get overwhelmed and then do nothing.
Most people are completely willing to ignore that message and will then complain that they lost everything just because they didn’t pay the $1-2 a month upgrade that would have covered their storage needs with that built-in dummy-proof option that requires zero setup.
Just keeps proving that you should never trust anyone with two first names.