Trump Orders Musk to Get Air Force One Finished Quickly, Even If It Isn't Fully Safe Yet
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Some Boeing workers could be real American heroes right about now.
Quality Assurance is really over rated. DOGE should cut those fuck faces first for freedom fighters sake.
Boeing, QA.... lol
The Office
A real team effort if the air traffic controllers join the effort too
I'm reminded of that one time the entire Polish government was killed in a plane crash in Smolensk.
By royal decree, the children of maintenance workers are to travel in the rear of the aircraft. /s
The worst thing that could happen would be nothing going wrong.
They should just screw the schedule and get on the plane right now
Well, the BEST that could happen would be for it to crash into the side of a mountain while both of them are on it. Bonus points if Vance, Johnson, and Stephen Miller are on it too.
I hear duct tape is good for holding wings on, in a pinch.
You joke, but you have no idea how much speed tape gets used on the average plane...
Ah, is that how they go so fast?
Nah, that's the red paint all over their insides.
probably repurpose/ reused used spacex, tesla vehicle materials
I'm pretty handy with a roll of construction tape if they need help.
An underpaid Boeing engineer has a chance to accidentally do one of the funniest, most earth saving oopsies of all time.
I don’t think they let the VP travel in the same plane at the same time so probably not as earth saving as you’d expect. Definitely very funny though.
Well, there are two planes being rushed...
Air force one and air force two hit eachother mid air 10 hour ASMR to fall asleep to.
So we can put Musk on one plane, then Vance and Trump on the other one, perfect
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Good think Skum isn't VP. There's no law to say he and that corpse he keeps company in the oval office can't fly and die together.
Do it and take the entire republican leadership out for a joy ride. It will be the most spectacular thing ever.
I think glitch McCuntel has a pilot’s license. Let him and Jesus take the wheel.
Full Self Flying has got everything under control
Maybe one of those OceanGate guys who didn't turn into a fine pink mist can hook him up with a MadCatz controller
The AP will be the only media that survives.
The irony would be delicious
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.
Or DEI … again
Has no one made the gif from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas when Dr. Gonzo opens the salt shaker of cocaine and subtitled it "Did you see what
godDEI did to us?"I want to see Musk “flying” a rocket Dr. Strangelove style.
Is that pile of punctuation another one of elons kids?
or Mexico, or Panama, or the UK, or everyone except for the AFD in Germany.
The US is looking awfully lonely right now
Please, God, if you're listening, do something really really funny with this.
"Didn't you people learn from the Holocaust that I either don't exist or am evil if I do?"
Not evil, indifferent.
If he has the power to stop the suffering, being indifferent to it is evil. If not, sure.
Maybe, but does your indifference to the insects you kill while hiking make you evil?
Only if I'm doing so intentionally. I don't have the power to know where every insect is and keep them from harm accordingly.
Maybe, but did you just compare millions of human beings’ suffering to a handful of insects?
Besides, why are you comparing individuals’ indifference to God’s (potential) indifference? I don’t think that’s a fair comparison.
If you're a God, yes.
Holy shit so many desperate prayers in one thread
I think they can be convinced to pause their game of Jenga or Connect Four for a few minutes of structural integrity or engine failure
The Big
Man.. Big Entity has Big Priorities, you know?With the recent history in aviation, I'm going to be praying like mad. Please tell me they're still Boeing products?
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.
It would be a nice reminder that a disaster isn't the same thing as a tragedy.
I don't know, President Vance sounds like a tragedy to me...
Yeah, there's no way he'd be on the Air Force One. He's always flying couch.
Chair Force One
Better an uncharismatic couch fucker being unable to talk his way out of hot water than a geriatric orange Hitler.
hes allegedly searched up dolphin paraphelia before too.
And don't forget gutting the FAA.
The only job the FAA has with regards to Airforce One is to keep the sky free if AO is up there. Might be a problem, though.
The worst that can happen is the plane falls out of the sky and some how Trump survives while everyone else dies.
Well, he is no angel, so the chance that he would fly is neglectable.
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.
he knows his rockets are shoddy at best, why would he. has he ever driven his own teslas?
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.
"Trump dies in fatal Boeing crash, after rushing its production" is a headline id love to see
After rushing it's production and firing all the FAA safety inspectors.
That can be improved by inserting "and Musk" after the first word.
Don't forget JD Vance!
As VP, Vance would be on Air Force Two as a precaution.
Both planes crash into each other
Please, I can only get so hard
I'm willing to take that chance.
It does feel like alternative history.
Where can I donate funds to this cause?
There would be a celebration in the streets. Doubly so if Musk was also onboard.
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
We know you can make it happen God, we've seen you do it with that skit-of-skits billionaire sub thing God. We know you just need them to all willingly line up God. Well they're lining up, God! They're willingly lining up! It's your time to shine God!
John 14:13
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Finally, a Trump order I agree with
A boy can only dream ;)
Please let them both ride it together, please please please.
And take the new FBI director, I hear he likes plane rides.
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.
I'll even help.
All those lights and dials and displays in the cockpit take the pilot's attention off of flying. Don't need 'em.
It's good they chose Boeing to build it lol
And will blame liberals. Vance would probably call for open violence on any non white christans
What are we responsible for?
Which of those things did the aforementioned non-white christians [they probably meant non-christians, but whatever] cause specifically?
Edit: Did 100% of the people in those groups cause this?
how so? all of it was caused by solely republicans, and what did we cause? DEI wokeness? those are all conservative inventions.
"Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake."
SpaceX and BOEING engineers. You know what to do, right? GET TO WORK!
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Yes. Make him hasten the process. And have both of them on all flights.
DOGE needs to get rid of those pesky safety regulations holding up the plane.
I hear getting rid of QA and QC makes the job go quicker while being cheaper.
I can confirm, it does indeed.
Quick Actions, Quite Cheap
It's the pressure differential between the top and bottom of the wings that hold up the plane
I hear Boeing is great at getting planes finished remarkably quickly...>.>
doors optional
i mean the weight of a buddy can suddenly" be cut in half midair"
OceanGate!
I was gonna say, hopefully Trump's up for some deep sea exploration next!
Next will be SkyGate. The year the GateVatar will be born.
funny thing stockton used "used defective airplane parts to make that sub"
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!
Dear Boeing,
I know i said i wanted world peace. Hear me out.
IMO, the current administration is the biggest threat to democracy in the history of this nation, and right now its PR is being lead by a clown that paints his face orange each morning.
The right wants him replaced just as much as the left -- and preferably quickly enough that Vance might get 3 terms. So be careful what you wish for, because right now Trump is actually doing a phenomenal job of fueling outrage over project 2025 agendas. Someone with more intellect will be better able to mask their radical nature.
He would at most get 2.49999 terms. You have not read the 22nd amendment. You can't get 3 terms aside from repeatedly being elected as VP and the primary president losing office 4+ times.
it’s funny and concerning you think trump cares what a piece of parchment says
This is a situation that implies he is either impeached , resigned, or dead, so I'm not sure what his interpretation has to do with this conversation
you think he will resign, or be impeached?
I envy your naivety
I do not think any of the 3 that I mentioned are likely. But that is the world view the parent comment assumes, and my comment is just continuing his assumption but showing why his extrapolations are incorrect
I said "3 terms" because his timespan in office would exceed the expected ~8 year limit of the 2 term cycle. But, before you reply, I do understand your logic, so please don't.
3 terms is 12 years. 2+4+4 is not 12
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Threat to democracy world wide.
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.
Some things are worth it.
Agreed, I just hope the flight crew has a trapdoor with a rack of chutes somewhere, they don’t deserve to be punished for being good Airmen
Yeah, they'll say that no matter how he dies. "Deep state operatives made him eat that fatal cheeseberder on the toilet!"
He'll get the pox and they'll have to cook up some kind of "ultra super duper deep state, for real this time" to blame it on
Or, "He died because the CIA has a fatal colonic catastrophe ray".
No matter how he dies, there will be a contingent insisting he isn't actually dead.
Some of those insane QAnon people think JFK is still alive. Not JFK, Jr. JFK. Who was born in 1917.
Would it be so bad if it was?
So...
Yes please
The motto of project development:
You can only choose two.
trump is choosing fast and cheap.
So, nothing new for Little t.
Some might say "low t".
Don't give me hope.
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yay sabrina!
Could Musk be useful for something after all?
Please have Boeing do this. Focus on the doors.
Man I hope Elon works expeditiously don’t wanna waste any time
Man, it's wild to me to put the guy who wants your throne in charge of making your plane, but there you are. No matter what, I just hope Musk puts the same care and thoughtfulness he puts in all his manufacturing endeavors to the task.
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???
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.
1 for him to golf, and 1 for secret meeting with putin/russians.
The less safe the better.
You want Vance? That's how you get Vance.
Vance might be smarter then Trump but there's not a chance MAGA coalesces around him if Trump dies. Without that, congressional R's won't bend the knee so readily.
After Hitler built a cult for himself, some senior nazi officials tried to assassinate him in operation Valkyrie. They didn't think they would be able to retain popularity without him unless he died a martyr, in which case whoever took over would be able to use it as a rallying cry. If trump is assassinated, that's exactly what Vance will do.
Though a poorly built Boeing aircraft with minimal QA likely will have the same results, it's hardly an assassination.
Hitler had over 20 assassination attempts. Real ones. Compared to Trump, Hitler was on the battlefield in a WW and not a draft dodger. Hitler didn't just built a cult, he built the entire ideology on actual values and not gaslighting everything and everyone. While on the surface all of this is comparable to the Nazis, MAGA is so gullible, a squirrel could do what Trump does.
So yeah - Vance will probably do exactly that. And it may actually work
I just don't believe that, sorry. Nothing special about Vance, I just think all anyone would have to do is lean into Trump as a martyr. Even a freak accident would be painted as the work of radical leftists, and Vance or whoever would capitalize.
It's really hard to see Trump like this as we all see the real piece of shit that he is, but he really does have a type of charisma that Vance doesn't. He also doesn't have the instinct that Trump has as far as "good" insults, or how vicious he is with complete disregard for when to insult people. MAGA love that. I really don't see them getting behind Vance like they did Trump.
I really believe the GOP was on the way out, they absolutely got saved by Trump though... They were quickly running out of people who could motivate the right. We just happen to live in the worst timeline where they got their conman. :/
Yeah, Trump is best thought of as fascist Bernie. Neither of these men are good orators, they aren't appealing to their enemies, but they're hypnotic to their supporters. Going to a Bernie rally in 2016 was electric. It was an old man yelling about politics, but it was an old man yelling about how I deserved better and that the people who screwed me and my fellow Americans over need to pay to fix it. I imagine Trump feels the same way, except he's not calling for payment in the form of money to provide Healthcare and a more equitable society.
It's similar to how you gotta remember that Hillary is shockingly charismatic one on one, she just really isn't when speaking to a crowd
It might not matter. Vance is not a danger the same way Trump is, he cannot rally support. Trump being gone just might be enough.
If Trump had written project 2025, I might be more inclined to think that. Trump on his own is what his first term was.
Project 2025 is a mechanism while complex it is ultimately worthless without a lever that being Trump. If Trump dies at minimum we will have some breathing room as the GOP infights, theres also the fact that without Trumps cult of personality posing a constant threat of lynching folks will be far more willing to outright oppose orders from the Whitehouse.
I respect your perspective, but I'm not convinced. Everyone I've seen say that just asserts it as fact, even though there is no shortage of demagogues in the alt-right. So many people think this ends with Trump and aren't planning for what comes next, it seems.
Its not that there arent replacement but that they arent nearly as useful. Shit would still be bad but itd be like 20 percent more manageable, not brilliant but it buys time. Also cults of personality have a tendency towards imploding without the head, meaning without Trump a lot of his supporters would most likely become inactive.
Its not that im not considering what comes after its that I am hoping historical tendencies apply and it implodes allowing some amount of retaliation towards the hanger ons.
Vance is evil, Vance is moderately competent. Vance is also unable to muster the will to coup. Vance is to trump what Biden was to Obama. Associated and acceptable.
Trump as a Putin sock puppet or Vance as a Putin sock puppet.
Still, it seems like a reasonable hope before we go out in the streets with pitchforks
Vance doesn't have the personality to effectively order the
lynch mobRepublican voters aroundIt would be at worst an opportunity for things to get better. People to get scared.
It was an act of God to save us all
Hurry Elon, hurry. Godspeed.
Take every drug you need.
Faster I said !
Oh man. Please. Please.
Not that it matters. Another bumbling moron is next in line. Then after that a religious zealot.
But for my own satisfaction....pleeeease.
I like where this is going.
Yes, please. Make it super fast, and super shitty so it crashes the first time Trump uses it.
Finally a positive news :)
This could be amazing.
You know what, go for it on this one. I’m sure it will be delivered with the same care and quality as the cybertruck
I'm sure they're good enough right now, send 'em on over.
I mean, realistically, we would probably be just fine with Air Force One having no security systems at all. Like, the likelihood that someone is going to attack Air Force One probably isn't all that high, and you can also mitigate that by choosing where to fly the thing.
And as long as Trump understands any risk that he exposes himself to...I mean, it's not as if a future President is required to use the Trump-era Air Force One. It's really just him and people during his administration.
Most national leaders don't have anything like the kind of protection that the President does.
Now, granted, most also haven't had four assassination attempts against them be intercepted in past months, but I'm also not sure that shooting down Air Force One is the easiest way to assassinate the President, either.
EDIT: And I think that it's also worth considering that some of our norms for modern Presidential travel were developed during the Cold War, in an era of potential nuclear conflict where launch-on-warning was part of nuclear doctrine. In that scenario, the President needs to travel around with the nuclear football, and a decapitation strike might be an important early first move in a nuclear war.
But we haven't relied on launch-on-warning for a long time. The President is a lot more expendable in the context of dealing with an opposing nuclear first strike today; it's the SLBM arsenal used to counter that now.
Today, if a hostile state kills the President, it might produce disruption for a short period...but that disruption probably isn't going to buy all that much, strategically.
Can't possibly be any more disruption than what the current president is causing... So I'd call it a win if he was taken out.
I always thought Air Force One needed security to prevent terrorists from taking the president hostage and forcing them to release more terrorists. But, our current president already lets a bunch of terrorists go like the Taliban and Jan Sixers.
Most politicians are fine riding a bicycle to work, ride a train or a normal car, just fly a normal ass airline, things like that. But americans need them to ride in a tank because they love to kiss the feet of their celebrity overloards. I mean putin obviously can't or kim jong-un can't which says a lot.
Grim Reaper / Death / Azrael : are fucking trying to tempt me?
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.
Oh... I am loving this! I hope he puts it on a rush job to be completed and in the air with Trump, and his whole cabinet on board within 1 month.
EDIT
I hope we come up with a US Navy 1 submersible too, built by Elon! Trump can get in the idiot squisher too!
SF1 get hit by de rock hoppa
Seems like an opportunity for Musk to create plausible deniability for taking the throne.
It's not a death threat if you're supporting their death wish.
Yay
REEEEEEE, THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE
Any plane the President is on board is designated Air Force One. I know you’re half joking, but
It's not just half
Send it
Imagine reading the news these days and telling Boeing to slack on testing with your new private jet.
Look do you really need to tighten every screw? Maybe skip every 8th one or use the aluminum screws instead of the steel ones - then you can carry more screws.
I have lots of ideas how they could speed this up.
the rare occasion on which I agree with him. I think they should get it done super quick and take every shortcut possible! what could go wrong anyway?
We need a sky god to start making our annual billionaire sacrifice too.
The gods of the deep need some of that, too. Titan was a worthy sacrifice.
Why not both?
Indeed.
Can't wait to see his memoir "Half Assed, The Trump Legacy"
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.
Yes, please, let Musk take control of the project and cut all the corners and ignore regulation to rush production on something that could kill the president and his entire entourage if it ever fails. Please do it!
Just throw a door plug in that sucker, Boeing
I have no complaints…
I am actually ok with this
Does musk lead Boeing or whoever is making Air Force one?
When has leadership and authority ever been a concern? His office is just a repurposed United States Digital Services office they kicked everybody out of and renamed because they didn't have the power to actually create a new office.
No, it is not a Boeing 737 in my pants. It’s just really good news.
I really hope this ages like milk
I hope it ages like jet fuel, fire, and hot metal.
Yes. Please make them as unsafe as possible.
Could we have all of them fly at the same time?
sounds like Cybair Force One X in the making.
I read that as Crybaby Force One X.
LOL, like fElon knows jack shit about any of this.
Sending thoughts and prayers … to Nidhogg.
This is starting to feel like someone's playing a joke on me and the whole world is on it.
Good.
Gonna label a cinder block with the presidential seal and paper wings, then throw it at him.
Can Musk use rebuilt engines from the plane that crashed in Toronto? Thanks
Wake up babe, Elmo Turnip and Boeing are doing a thing. I'll go make the popcorn...
Wouldn't be the first time for high ranking officials to die that way. It happened at least once in the soviet union.
It happend in Poland in 2010 too :)
Get into the plane
Stranded astronauts: nah, that's still too low!
Musk orders Trump not the other way around
Isn't that his MO anyway? I would have expected nothing less.
Oh no. Quick. Someone stop him.
Sounds great.
Nothing could go wrong with that, and i mean LITTERALLY nothing.
🙂
Yes please, can't wait to see the result of that
Isn’t musk too busy taking credit for being the ceo of Tesla? And space x and the boring company, solar city,, oh yeh and twitter. Oh and wasn’t he supposed to be going through every social security payment? How will he find the time to jerk off on twitter while fixing Air Force one and all the faa safety standards. He must really be a genius (hardest fucking sigh in the universe)