“Trump set to accept luxury jet as gift from Qatar”

LurchAddams said:
I thought you hated, "whataboutism" - even weak stuff like yours.

The gift is to trump. The trump family doesn't need the plane to function as AF1 in private life.
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If Trump wants to pay out HIS pocket to keep the thing flying, that's his business. I'd say a 747 as a private aircraft would be expensive for even a billionaire to keep up if used a lot. I suppose one could do it, but why?
 
LurchAddams said:
And now you're gaslighting.
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That isn't "gaslighting." Here are examples:

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T. A. Gardner said:
If Trump wants to pay out HIS pocket to keep the thing flying, that's his business. I'd say a 747 as a private aircraft would be expensive for even a billionaire to keep up if used a lot. I suppose one could do it, but why?
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If Biden or any Democratic president accepted a plane from a foreign nation, as a personal gift, you'd be shitting your pants and all those trump cult media outlets would be on fire, 24/7.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
That isn't "gaslighting." Here are examples:

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Gashlighting is playing mental games with someone by trying to convince them that what they're seeing isn't what they're truly seeing. You're a gaslighter for doing it and also a hypocrite for calling out whataboutism while nakedly doing it yourself.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Whataboutism is answering some else's claims with counter examples. I simply expanded on what was stated. I didn't give a counter example but rather simply stated that the poster's statement I cited was inadequate and true, not questionable.

This simply doesn't apply at all to anything I've posted in this thread. It's a non sequitur and something of a combination insult and ad hominem.
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Ad hominem is actually not just an insult. It is a fallacious means of argument by which you point to the person's character as opposed to the content of their argument.

Again, you seem to be out beyond your area of expertise.

And, yes, your post was a "Whataboutism". If you are unable to understand that then the problem lies with you.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Clinton did rent out bedrooms in the White House.

What I don't get is why this is being done at all. What's the point of this "new" 747 as AF 1? It's going to end up needing a shit ton of mods once the US has it to function as AF 1. It might need considerable maintenance work too. There just doesn't seem to be a reason for this deal being done.
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Yes he pulled a 400 million dollar jet into the Lincoln bedroom. Clinton got no money. It went to the Democratic National Committee. Trump is taking this for himself.
 
gmark77 said:
We crossed the Rubicon long ago. At this point there is nothing "new" other than a difference in the variety of grift and corruption.
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No. If any Democrat accepted a plane from the mid-East or shilled his own brand of Crypto in the oval office, the right-wing media-sphere would be running outrage porn on every channel.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
If Trump wants to pay out HIS pocket to keep the thing flying, that's his business. I'd say a 747 as a private aircraft would be expensive for even a billionaire to keep up if used a lot. I suppose one could do it, but why?
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He cannot accept the jet if it costs more than 20 bucks. Qatar is a big financial backer of Hamas. I wonder what Trump will give them?
 
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