• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    lol … sounds a lot like the evangelical preacher with the million dollar private jet who asked his parishers to give more money to buy a second jet because it would save more people

    (I remembered this story from a few years ago and thought it was ‘a second jet’ … I was wrong … the preacher was asking for donations to buy his FOURTH JET!!!)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44305873

    Trump isn’t running a country … he’s an evangelical preacher leading a ministry called the United States

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        Ummmm…a small military? Maybe he wanted to kick it old school, and go back on 1700s era holy cruisades, but with modern firepower!

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        The church does. They need 1 so their staff can fly to other churches to spread the word. The other three are loaned out to a jet rental company that a shell company owned by the pastor’s shell company owns so he can appear to be making nothing off the church directly.

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      It does raise a question of just how many jets a single person needs. I, myself, could make do with as few as two, but I have a large family. I’m sure someone who lived a more frugal lifestyle might struggle by with only one? But I don’t see anyone needing more than three. It’s just so hard to find places to park them all…