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That’s lame, even by DU’s standards.

Du and it's members are lame!

It’s been 4 weeks or so since this silly thread got posted on DU, and it’s mockworthiness has grown.  

Before we headed to Blighty, our gas price - same station, Regular, credit price - was $5.299. That was around 6/20. Looking at oil market prices just now, I saw that the WTI price was a bit under $69 a barrel, almost $10 lower than when I last looked.

Even some DUpipo might tell gab13by13 that there is no way in Hades that countries all over the world, many of which hate the US and Trump, would lower their oil price by $50 or $70 a barrel just to help President Trump.

That DU thread deserves to be bumped with a, “What happened?!” It won’t be, of course.

As usual DU ignorance on clown-parade.

In 2018, Boeing signed a contract for two “new”, updated, Air Force Ones, with delivery due in 2024. Delays happened, President AutoPen did nothing, unsurprisingly. Delivery got pushed out to 2029, then Trump jerked Boeing’s chain, some used 747-8s were bought by the USAF for training and, eventually, for spare parts, Qatar gave the USAF a more modern used 747, which has been reworked into an updated, operational Air Force One.

The current promised delivery date is mid-2028, which means Trump might use the plane(s). I have a feeling that might slip back to 2029; look for the TDS-colored union label.

The two existing Air Force One planes, designated VC-25A’s, are based on 747-200s and started in service in 1990. Had Boeing delivered the upgraded 747-8i’s on time, the original VC-25A’s would have been just short of 35 years in service. The reworked Qatari 747-8 is designated VC-25B Bridge, and the new Air Force Ones will be designated simply VC-25B. This means that the Qatari 747 has greater capabilities than a VC-25A, but short of what the VC-25Bs will have.

DU-grade Progs believe Qatar gave the 747 to Trump, not the USAF, and are full-Sergeant-Schulz about the plane’s capabilities and taking on usage from the aging GHWB Administration Air Force Ones.

It’s interesting that it took Reagan to get the aging 707 Air Force One(s) replaced with modern planes, then Trump 1.0 to get the aging 747-200s replaced, with tail-kicking and dealing by Trump 2.0 when Boeing delayed. It’s almost as if Carter, OhBummer!, and Auto-Pen didn’t much care about Air Force Ones’ reliability and capability.

That’s lame, even by DU’s standards.

For Christian Nationalists, that is beyond frightening, so they're desperate to avoid a US non-white majority.

In what perpendicular, Laws-of-Physics-Violating, universe is this happening? The senior pastor of my bogey-Evangelical church is Korean. Among the staff pastors are another Korean, 2 Indians, an Iranian, and an Assyrian. On any given Sunday, the 8-person worship team, which varies every week, will have 3 or 4 non-whites. On any given Sunday, a significant % of attendees are Asians (east and south), Hispanics, blacks, Pacific Islanders … i.e. non-whites, who sit wherever they choose, front to back (I should not have to say that, but just in case a DU onlurker reads this …).

Varying in detail, the above is true of any medium-to-large Evangelical church here in Silicon Valley. I suppose things might be different in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, but I think it more likely that Wacky-Wocky has avoided attending and learning about Evangelical Christians and churches in order to preserve his Prog-stereotypes and Prog-narratives from encountering reality.