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'Lost absolutely all touch': Gobsmacked lawmakers react to Noem's luxury purchases

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'Lost absolutely all touch': Gobsmacked lawmakers react to Noem's luxury purchases

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'Lost absolutely all touch': Gobsmacked lawmakers react to Noem's luxury purchases

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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?
- $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.
  
  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
  
  What is that, three bananas?
- Yes, they are. To replace Air Force One.
  
  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)
I'm GLAD the Government is Shut Down right now! OTHERWISE she may NOT have Been Able to get her Luxury TAXPAYER FUNDED planes!
How much more blatant can the corruption get, carried out entirely on the people's backs?
- His second term is roughly 19% complete.
  Project 2025 is approximately 48% complete.
  ICE is still set to "Government black-bagging." I'm not looking forward to the "Government death squad" setting, personally.
  Make friends with your neighbors and watch each others backs.
  
  Make friends with your neighbors and watch each others backs.
  My neighbors fully support government sponsored death squads that get to go around indescriminate lynchings of LGBT and POC.
  Lucky for me, the closest one is about 1/4mile away.
  
  FWIW I didn't mean how complete the corruption can get, I meant how much more obvious it can get. Seems in that respect we've been at 100% for a long while now.
  That said, I'm not complaining that outlets are reporting on it. The more the merrier.
- I wouldn't be surprised if they arranged it in such a way that the plane originally is Trump's and he gracefully loans it to the government under the agreement they totally redecorate it for him.
  
  No, it's all "official". Which, imo, is just as bad.
  July:
  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy5lp4v594o
  September:
  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/whatever-happened-to-qatar-air-force-one-jet
- This is only the first year, so I expect it to get exponentially worse still.
- You had to ask.
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.
- 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.
Made by Boeing? fingers crossed
- Yeah let's hope!
- They're Gulfstream jets, subsidiary of General Dynamics.
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.
- 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?
  
  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.
The protests were great, but we should organize to have 100 people constantly following every congressman and senator 24/7.
Make them constantly defend why they arent impeaching these traitors.
Can we accept that Beastiality Barbie has expensive taste?
- She's more of a Klaus Barbie.
  
  Lol! Jesus fuck, you just made me choke in laughter on my breakfast!!
  Nicely done and thanks for the morning laugh.
  
  Call me stupid but I don't get it.
  
  Damn, wish I'd though of that. Brilliant.
One for her, one for her face.
How else is this dog and goat murderer supposed to get around to all of her bigly important cosplay events meant to "own the libs"?
Well they can always impeach
Corrupt idiot behaves corruptly. Her supporters are surprised by this.

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