• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    So the party that’s supposedly against government waste and is ‘America first’ is buying lots of luxury stuff for the Secretary of Puppy Murder and pouring billions into Argentina. Got it.

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      It’s all about what you value. Healthcare and food for the poorest citizens? That’s waste. Private jets, overpriced office furniture and 5 star meals everyday? All necessary when what we value is transferring as much wealth as possible from the peasant class to the robber baron class.

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    The US Coast Guard has purchased two luxury private jets for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a total cost of more than $170 million in taxpayer money as the federal government remains shut down, imperiling food aid and other assistance for tens of millions of Americans.

    Also aren’t they spending like a billion dollars retrofitting that Qatari jet for Trump which he gets to own in his name?

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      $170M is such small change. According to my local food bank, that’s barely enough to feed the entire state of Maine for a year.

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        But that would be socialism. We can’t feed people who didn’t sell their time and bodies and energy to one of our godly job creators. It’s way better that the dog-killing immigrant-torturer who can only ride one plane at a time gets two private jets. Peasants like yourself just don’t understand, I guess.

        Sadly necessary these days: /s

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        Only as long as he’s in office, then it goes to his Presidential Library (so he wouldn’t technically own it, but you know he’ll be flying around in it)

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    I’m GLAD the Government is Shut Down right now! OTHERWISE she may NOT have Been Able to get her Luxury TAXPAYER FUNDED planes!

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    Why the fuck does someone need two jets? Is one supposed to be a decoy for angry US citizens? Fuck it, take them both down then. The pilots are just as big of a shit she is for not refusing to fly them.

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      Sigh. Actually it is worse than that.

      You’re correct in that she doesn’t need them — because all travel related to her position could use government (Air Force or coast guard) aircraft

      What the fsck does she think she’s a televangelist needing two planes?

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        I have less hate for the televangelists who pull this shit. They at least sorta kinda earned their money in that they convinced people to get swindled into their grift to get them to freely give up that money to them. I didn’t get a choice in how much money to pay in the form of taxes or where they went to. I voted for not doing this, and my money still gets yanked from me and gets spent on shit like this. If I decided to stop paying for this, I’d get kidnapped. Televangelists don’t kidnap people for not tithing. Yet. Idk, maybe that changes one day.