• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    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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      8 hours ago

      $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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        5 hours ago

        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)