Donald Trump’s Bombardier threat sparks Republican revolt in Kansas as 1,200 jobs hang in the balance
The people in Kansas voted for Trump, he got their electoral votes; and they'll fucking do it again.
https://www.thestar.com/business/trump-s-bombardier-threat-sparks-republican-revolt-in-kansas-as-1-200-jobs-hang-in-the-balance/article_afc99ce3-443d-4237-8d5c-4e71429621a2.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.ca
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Trump's complaint was that Bombardier doesn't build planes in the US; would have been nice if the article explained what the 1200 Bombardier employees in Kansas are doing if they aren't building planes.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bombardier-trump-jets-canada-tariffs-us/ - Updated on: September 8, 2026 / 5:33 PM EDT / CBS News
It looks like the company does some assembly in the USA, sells to private individuals and US government entities, and purchases components from US manufacturers. The also operate service centers in the USA, which means they are employing mechanics/machinists too. A quick google search would have brought you all of this information, but my bad for not spoon feeding it to you.
I wasn't asking you to provide the information. It just seems logical for the article to address what Bombardier actually does in the US while the problem comes from Trump's complaints about what the company doesn't do there. Mentioning all those employees without saying anything about what they do is a little odd given the context.
Seeing rich fucks like Bezos, Musk, and others be inconvenienced by this would be absolutely fucking delicious.
I bet that’s why it won’t happen
I agree with you that journalists should not assume that you are informed and at least go lightly into the background. As I understand it, they manufacture parts such as wings, which are then shipped to Canada for assembly.
But Bombardier will leave Canada and move everything to the US!!! Thank of the children! (/s)
This is another shakedown by Trump. It just so happens to threaten a red state a tiny bit this time. It will go away once Bombardier buys whatever scamcoin he is currently running or makes a deposit into his new crypto-bank.
I think I've completly detached from America's bullshit.
It's all same shit over and over. Whether it's left or right. They play good cop bad cop with politicians and political sides. The good cop offers simple shit to get good looks and the bad cop acts like a cunt, but in the end they are both tools for the same overall agenda of the same beast.
And mainstream society is getting hard to watch and participate in. It all seems soulless. Like people have too much privilege that they lost track of reality and puppet politicians can just basically show them any novelty and they will be pacified. I have a dark gut feeling that the new york mayor is being set up by fed to take over for trump after the same feds use trump for whatever they are using him for. He's being used to court the people. He's courting them like Trump courted magas. The cycle is going to repeat... People are going to act.likenthey won and then really everything will still be fake and shitty and wealthy psychopaths with still own the nation over democracy.
I have zero trust in America and most Americans. And that is so fucked up. I never thought I would ever think like this. But it seems so obvious this place is like a human farm and nobody even has the consciousness to understand. And those that do understand have the option of dying, going crazy, or going to jail, OR joining the same cause of making sure people remain cattle.
You get to a point where there's no point. And it's not just America, it's all the 1st worlds. Western culture.
"I am way far away from the mess you've made."
Didn’t matter until it affected them personally.
Look, I'll be the first to say that Republicans are all revolting, but this headline way oversells the article underneath it