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[–] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 58 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

Would be even better if they got boeing to help too. Would be just the best plane ever, such a great plane. Other people would look at it (as it explodes in a fireball in the sky) and say wow what a beautiful thing

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[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 76 points 2 days ago

trump killing himself by using Musk to skirt safety precautions so he can feel special riding around in a shiny new ego tube might be enough to get me wondering if god exists.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

Yes. Make him hasten the process. And have both of them on all flights.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Please let them both ride it together, please please please.

[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

And take the new FBI director, I hear he likes plane rides.

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 103 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Please, God, if you're listening, do something really really funny with this.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago (6 children)

"Didn't you people learn from the Holocaust that I either don't exist or am evil if I do?"

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We need a sky god to start making our annual billionaire sacrifice too.

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Beside all the jokes that we want the president and trump to ride that plane together... He's on a mission to save as much money as possible and then he wants two new airplanes for himself???

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

So technically they were commissioned during the Obama era, Trump 1 threatened to cancel the program if the budget went over 4 billion, then Boeing appeased him.

Also the reason they were commissioned to save money. Aging aircraft are a bitch to operate. That's why cheap airlines like Ryanair only run new planes.

Also there are already two of them. I suppose one is probably a backup?

Also, fun fact, technically any plane that the US president is currently flying on, is at that moment, Air Force One.

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[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Oh wow, what's the worst that could happen, they skip safety and defense features and the plane gets shot down and the president killed? Oh man, that would be horrible, just horrible!

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

It's good they chose Boeing to build it lol

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[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Ordinarily, the implied result would be sad due to the press corps flies on air Force one as well, but now that they've replaced all reputable news outlets with Fox clones... Let's do this!

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I was gonna say, hopefully Trump's up for some deep sea exploration next!

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Next will be SkyGate. The year the GateVatar will be born.

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[–] regrub@lemmy.world 304 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Really rooting for them on that corner-cutting endeavor. What's the worst that could happen?

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 235 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Some Boeing workers could be real American heroes right about now.

[–] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 109 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Quality Assurance is really over rated. DOGE should cut those fuck faces first for freedom fighters sake.

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[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 90 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!

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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 days ago

Please have Boeing do this. Focus on the doors.

[–] Noobnarski@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wouldn't be the first time for high ranking officials to die that way. It happened at least once in the soviet union.

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

It happend in Poland in 2010 too :)

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 148 points 3 days ago (7 children)

An underpaid Boeing engineer has a chance to accidentally do one of the funniest, most earth saving oopsies of all time.

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 days ago

It's not a death threat if you're supporting their death wish.

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago

sounds like a chance for the world. boing is doing so well in recent years. get all republicans on that plane. put bannon in. put all other friends of epstein on that plane and have it tour the world.

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 168 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 days ago

Dear Boeing,

I know i said i wanted world peace. Hear me out.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 23 points 2 days ago

Could Musk be useful for something after all?

[–] TechAnon@lemm.ee 41 points 2 days ago

SpaceX and BOEING engineers. You know what to do, right? GET TO WORK!

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 65 points 3 days ago (12 children)

"Trump dies in fatal Boeing crash, after rushing its production" is a headline id love to see

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

The only bad part about the obvious outcome here is that we'll have the 9/11 and JFK conspiracy theorist types jerking themselves raw about how it was absolutely a conspiracy to assassinate him.

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, they'll say that no matter how he dies. "Deep state operatives made him eat that fatal cheeseberder on the toilet!"

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[–] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Trump is completely right on this issue. Despite the fact his plane is produced by a company plagued with consistent quality control issues I believe this should be rushed into service as quickly as possible. In fact, I agree that the anyone including temp workers should be allowed in to get this thing in the air today.

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[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hurry Elon, hurry. Godspeed.

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

Take every drug you need.

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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (4 children)

DOGE needs to get rid of those pesky safety regulations holding up the plane.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 98 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Boeing, Musk, and a rushed time frame? I've rarely seen a better recipe for disaster. Maybe we are lucky and Trump and his cronies just fall from the sky even on the first flight.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

"Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake."

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 134 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Do it and take the entire republican leadership out for a joy ride. It will be the most spectacular thing ever.

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago

Finally, a Trump order I agree with

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 105 points 3 days ago (5 children)

If Musk can fly a rocket, Trump reportedly told associates, per the NYT, he can probably fly an airplane.

You guys are all such a joke.

Sucks millions or billions will die when you blame the plane crash on Canada or Denmark or Ukraine.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 89 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If Musk can fly a rocket, Trump reportedly told associates, per the NYT, he can probably fly an airplane.

He's never been on one of his rockets. He's too chickenshit. Fuck Bezos, but at least he had the balls to go up on a Blue Origin rocket. If you think Musk is ever going to Mars, you're wrong.

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[–] arc@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago

The less safe the better.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago

Oh! Wouldn't that be a nice resolution...

Put the President and Trump on an unsafe plane and sent that bitch on a nice long flight over the ocean.

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