The less safe the better.
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2025
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The quality of the average Tesla should be the target.
Yes, please. Make it super fast, and super shitty so it crashes the first time Trump uses it.
I like where this is going.
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.
You want Vance? That's how you get Vance.
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.
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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
Finally a positive news :)
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.
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.
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Grim Reaper / Death / Azrael : are fucking trying to tempt me?
I'm sure they're good enough right now, send 'em on over.
Seems like an opportunity for Musk to create plausible deniability for taking the throne.
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.
It's not a death threat if you're supporting their death wish.
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.
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I hope we come up with a US Navy 1 submersible too, built by Elon! Trump can get in the idiot squisher too!
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Two new Air Force One
Two new
One
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
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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.
Yay
Imagine reading the news these days and telling Boeing to slack on testing with your new private jet.
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?
Can't wait to see his memoir "Half Assed, The Trump Legacy"
We need a sky god to start making our annual billionaire sacrifice too.
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Send it
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!
I have no complaints…