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kairyssdal.bsky.social • 35 days ago

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TAPPER: Even if Qatar isn't asking for anything in return now for the jet, that's a bill that could come do. Nobody in the world just gives a $400m jet to be nice.

BESSENT: Well, I don't know Jake. The French gave us the Statue of Liberty.

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oldeluke.bsky.social•35 days ago

I don't remember Cleveland flying around in the statue after he left office.

trurl2020.bsky.social•35 days ago

That's the proper response by a journo if a GOP hack tries that on them. And yes, Bessent is a hack - as demonstrated by his use of the "Statue of Liberty" argument, which he must know is risible.

stephanieanne65.bsky.social•35 days ago

Omfg, this comparison to the Statue of Liberty. Have any of these imbeciles ever read ANYTHING about the gifted statue from the French to celebrate US independence and abolition of slavery? One big difference that comes to mind is that it was never intended to become the property of any one person.

mcconnell.bsky.social•35 days ago

I don’t understand how guys like this get people to fall in line. It’s all so dumb!

mwuerker.bsky.social•35 days ago

The jet is kind of monument to liberty…Trump’s many personal liberties

rexferal.bsky.social•35 days ago

there's a difference between a gesture and a gift. especially when one is given to a nation, and the other is given to a nazi.

ivbell.bsky.social•35 days ago

Aargh! A statue and a plane are not the same thing! Jeez.

nomi-be.bsky.social•35 days ago

Grover Cleveland didn’t get to put the Statue of Liberty into his library, or keep the admission fees when he left office.

chrislmoore.bsky.social•34 days ago

@kairyssdal.bsky.social its hard not to want to commentate a blow by low of the idiocy his cabinet spouts isn’t it? I was doing that of a cabinet meeting and the sheer sycophancy is maddening. Up is down as we watch a game of 1 dimensional chess.

annaconda1.bsky.social•35 days ago

Can’t fly a symbol

ana505.bsky.social•35 days ago

All these Trump Administration cronies sound like Generals in Hitlers army.

thisismiken.bsky.social•35 days ago

Do should be due

300ps.bsky.social•35 days ago

Just a matter of time before Trump proposes moving the Statue of Liberty to Mar-a-Lago.

richvegas.bsky.social•35 days ago

Cool! That means we all get to use the jet! Last week in July... dibbs.

sarafinasings.bsky.social•35 days ago

Or disgusting.

tttaac.bsky.social•35 days ago

Just mount the plane on a pedestal. Problem solved

swellellens.bsky.social•35 days ago

It doesn’t fly

we-are-toast.bsky.social•35 days ago

Congress approved the gift of the Statue of Liberty, and the President didn't get to take it home and put it in his front yard when he left office.

joelinbh.bsky.social•35 days ago

It’s amazing how they all get the same talking points so quickly. The Statue of Liberty comparison to the jet is just the latest example

laurenceineu.bsky.social•35 days ago

The Statue of Liberty, unlike the aircraft in question, isn't a fungible commodity. Also, it was given to the US republic and did not become the personal property of its leader (also, why on earth would a 'library' need a luxury airliner?)

griftergonnagrfit.bsky.social•35 days ago

Be nice. Jake has a book to sell - he's not gonna bite the hand that feeds him.

ghost-goat.bsky.social•35 days ago

Tbf they’ve been trying to dump this jet for ages.

But maybe we don’t take candy from people who bankroll every crime against humanity ever conceived?

gerribrightwell.bsky.social•35 days ago

Bill comes "due" not do . . . [language nerd]

zen1den.bsky.social•35 days ago

Bessent is as adept at MAGA speak as anyone else. They use words like Pollack used paint: in no discernible pattern, nothing to impart only to cover over the truth of the underlying truth of the white canvas.

fuzzwamper.bsky.social•35 days ago

I can visit the statue of liberty, can I visit the new plane?

bwnash.bsky.social•35 days ago

Yeah, and Congress voted to approve that gift. Also, Calvin Coolidge didn't get to carry it home with him after his term of office.

Why the fuck doesn't Tapper shred these assclowns? What happened to his balls?

infoshaman.bsky.social•35 days ago

Small arms and gonads were removed prior to the Presidential debate he co-hosted and then misplaced.

The fact that Congress debated and approved the statue of Liberty before accepting it has been making the rounds on social media for weeks. How do Tapper and his producers spend their work time?

bwnash.bsky.social•35 days ago

Cocktail parties where the primary subject of discussion is Biden's age, apparently.

dorindaroche.bsky.social•35 days ago

These people make you want to wish them bad mojo..

timmaynardguitar.bsky.social•35 days ago

Yeah, the French were repaid in the purest form of liberty. You can see a monument to it in Normandy.

niteskylight.bsky.social•35 days ago

yeah, if laughter were rat poison

this kind of framing is toxic for all of us

jake damn tapper should know better

bbmjcandy.bsky.social•35 days ago

Idiot

admnaismith.bsky.social•35 days ago

Tell him he can have the jet if he resigns.

He can live his gold-plated wishes & McDonald's dreams all he wants, but he must go.

jhaygood.bsky.social•35 days ago

I'm guessing they want it back.

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