They only did it for show. Grab some video. Look tough. The cost is astronomical and the impact on military operations ridiculous. So, once again a stupid Trump idea gets quietly rolled back. www.wsj.com/politics/nat... - ThreadSky

fpwellman.bsky.social • 20 hours ago

They only did it for show. Grab some video. Look tough. The cost is astronomical and the impact on military operations ridiculous. So, once again a stupid Trump idea gets quietly rolled back. https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-deportation-flights-paused-cost-c37c577a?st=cc4JBi&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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aviangirl.bsky.social•20 hours ago

One stupid wannabe strongman stunt after another

kestrel61.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Using these planes was just a stunt, and they can’t even fill them up because AOC educated people on how to avoid ICE. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

graysidhe.bsky.social•17 hours ago

That is the pattern for everything he does. Big talk followed by failing. It is all performative. MAGA just eats it up... frighteningly, his approval rating seems to be ending up again.

pragmaticpolitic.bsky.social•12 hours ago

On the one hand this is good. On the other hand it's scary. They're not going to stop rounding up immigrants. When it comes to pricey to put them all on planes and deport them, we all know what comes next in totalitarian regimes that do these things.

justalittlenerdish.bsky.social•11 hours ago

✍️exactly. history repeating itself

wigardencatlady.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I knew it!!

saraheminnisphd.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Fred, thank you for continuing to point out the ridiculous and reminding us that it’s important to keep watching what they’re doing. After last night’s show, I’m looking for all the lights in the dark. 💡

fdrobovelt.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Listen there is a real case for Dems to hire a Hollywood level writing/directing/marketing team to produce the news and slick social media content.

mimi828.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Only if we don’t share it with everyone on the planet.
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@cnn.com @cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com

unfucktheusa.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Fred, I am really looking forward to the day we can word spin this statement to read “ once again Trump, a stupid idea, gets cheerfully rolled back.” What an absolute disgrace of a human being.

mepafford.bsky.social•13 hours ago

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clinkerbrick.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Ha ha that went well didn’t it

luzili.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I'd love to see the bill the American people are footing for this cruel nonsense.

battleax-70.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Fred-1 hr. ago-

Altru Clinic, Devils Lake, ND a nurse demmand
in a public space of a
19 yr who suffers from
cPSTD-

A $1,000 or she would not be seen.

The same doctor had
requested when a teen the 19yr be placed in care.

Enrolled Native American.

livviesjam.bsky.social•20 hours ago

And they still haven’t deported any more people than Biden or Obama in a given week. They just did it less discriminately, with greater expense and cruelty. It’s all bread and circuses for their base all the while they’re causing the real damage behind the scenes. It’s a tale as old as time.

rosiestiorraandmom.bsky.social•19 hours ago

📌

pgonz.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Nothing new! It’s all about perception!

isinqueens.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Is someone keeping tabs on the growing number of "error" in the trial and error style of "administration" we are currently being doused with?

hookcity.bsky.social•19 hours ago

It's a Cosplay Reality TV show, which nobody wants to watch

notafanoftrump.bsky.social•16 hours ago

When can we cancel it?

butterflyhg.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Advertising expense.

lmwilliamsphd.bsky.social•16 hours ago

It worked on @markwarner.bsky.social

missgiven.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Biden deported twice as many people without any fanfare.

theresistanceat.bsky.social•16 hours ago

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gillu3.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Fred the UK press and population is still absolutely furious about Vance referring to our military support as “some random countries”. It was discussed in UK Parliament today too.

qlm326.bsky.social•20 hours ago

At this point IMO the WSJ is doing a much better job of keeping the Trump administration accountable than WP or NYT.

pfcilng.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I think the WSJ has always had top notch reporting, just got a bad wrap for the unhinged editorials. I would read WSJ stories, but NYT editorials. Lately....its quite the sign that WSJ editorials have been as vocal against them as they are.

morvern.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I think the reason he lost interest in Ukranian minerals is that someone near him figured out those minerals had to be extracted and refined.

roberts44163082.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Or that he has to support a Ukrainian victory in order to claim the prize. If Putin wins, DJT gets nothing.

trulydisaffected.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Why isn’t musk paying for that? Oh, that’s right, like many billionaires he’s rich on paper but cash poor. Remember how long it took for him to get the cash to buy Twitter?

themr-z.bsky.social•20 hours ago

ohdonna26.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Elon musk flying around on the taxpayers dime?

resist77.bsky.social•20 hours ago

It’s all about ratings and trying to look good.

You can’t gold plate poop and call it something different.

miarosa7.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Patented idiots

machi5.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Because it's not about fiduciary responsibility with the country's coffers.

laurili.bsky.social•18 hours ago

He's a showman and it works on ignorant Americans. We really suck.

michaelstutesman.bsky.social•19 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/michaelstutesman.bsky.social/post/3ljlgxrvsfc2a

pfcilng.bsky.social•19 hours ago

The asset that team has is they are able to say the most outrageous things, do heinous acts and make major mistakes since they figured out that as long as they don't admit it, they have nothing to fear. They lack shame and a conscience.

eric-likes-tech.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Lol

vero1986.bsky.social•19 hours ago

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-horrifying-fascist-manifesto-endorsed-by-j.d.-vance

bobtheangryone.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I'm guessing contractors are also easier to hide and have fewer witnesses, especially the flights to the death camps in El Salvador and Guatemala.

doglover99.bsky.social•24 minutes ago

It was all propaganda illusion — for the delusional rabid MAGA cult

peacefulnana.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Yeah, Maddow reported this a few weeks ago. WSJ is a loser.

peacefulnana.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Not the cancellation of flights but the cost.

geralane.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Yet felon had Ketamine Jester Musk, his mother and son flown on Air Force One paid for by taxpayers.

urnevertooold.bsky.social•19 hours ago

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DG0qx8vsOWz/?igsh=a2E3MHQ1NDVsZDB5

lanterngirl.bsky.social•18 hours ago

What should we expect from a guy who bankrupted a casino?

pilot2969.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The truly demonstrates how weak they are, it was an attempt to intimidate us, an attempt to demonstrate their power and defiance of law, and ultimately it failed.

Let’s keep up the fight! If we can boot this administration through democratic means we can focus on the Russian threat.

ddrae.bsky.social•19 hours ago

250,000 a flight. Waste fraud and abuse

rltjr.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Only so many air frames. How many GCC air requirements were delayed or canceled for this stupidity? How many additional hours were put on the frames and pilots? Republicans are the party of billionaires, idiots and bigots.

toddadam.bsky.social•19 hours ago

smackmegthermo.bsky.social•12 hours ago

And morale? I would feel awful being a crew chief on one of these bullshit flights. Not what one signs up for IMHO.

putawomanincharge.bsky.social•17 hours ago

They lie. All day.

jotg83.bsky.social•20 hours ago

They are scared to death of the deficit they are creating. Obvious sign.

joanofohio.bsky.social•20 hours ago

The Nazis of the 1930's also stopped deporting peoplg.

That's when the mass murders of the Holocaust started.

It just want feasible/economical.

imprisonkeen.bsky.social•40 minutes ago

Krasnov loves faking a good performance, especially if it is paid for by taxpayers.

easch.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I'm glad someone woke up to the stupidity of this nasty, costly idea.

nimzuk.bsky.social•18 hours ago

And who is going to pay for that?! Hopefully the people who voted for it.

focused4usa.bsky.social•19 hours ago

About damn time.

sparker411.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Hey Fred - I'll have take your word for it. Until you post this as a gift article no one without a subscription to the WSJ can read it due to the paywall. But thanks! I have a subscription to the NYTimes & when I share an article from there I share it as a gift so everyone can read. Try it!

mountainmomma31.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Fucking losers!!

oldswimdad.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Hey they found some “waste”!

chibebe5.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Wasting the taxpayer money for a clown show

rhonnie-72.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I thought they were going to quit using Guantanamo??

joeanthony1.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Now this is Waste, fraud, and Abuse.

go-birds2025.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Of course it was all for show.

eddiethebulldog.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Oh look, DOGE has ‘found’ more savings.

beesmartypants.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Are they doing a cost analysis of the Ketamine King’s use of Air Force One & Marine One copter? He’s flying around with his mommy & kids at our expense. WTF!

lestatdelc.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Privatizing concentration camp transportation is a way to monetize their actions via kickbacks and graft.

tank62.bsky.social•16 hours ago

The Swamp is so damn Shallow, yet infested with Snakes & Muskrats.

maya-18.bsky.social•20 hours ago

This too.
Morons.

https://bsky.app/profile/ryanjreilly.com/post/3ljn4qmkv6k2t

sxglory.bsky.social•14 hours ago

When it comes to Donald, it's always for the show.

pres2025.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Always marketing all day

mike200x.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Saw a Nebraska rancher openly boo-hooing about losing 70 per cent of her workforce who are undocumented immigrants- why aren't these ranchers and other employers being prosecuted for illegal hiring? Easier to demonize the workers and give a pass to GOP employers- definition of double standard!

supermarina.bsky.social•20 hours ago

… billionaires want cheap labor. That’s the correct answer.
But they had to pretend.

brenjay.bsky.social•20 hours ago

This!! Facts!! Thank you!! That has been the little untold secret. The government has always known undocumented folks help this economy. Remove them and it negatively impacts the economy. Plus SSA isn’t hurt, undocumented folks pay taxes into a system they cannot collect on.

supermarina.bsky.social•20 hours ago

My personal thought is that we’d do even better if we reformed our immigration system to conform to reality. But then the billionaires would have to pay them properly and cover their benefits.

brenjay.bsky.social•19 hours ago

it all for their families. They don’t want to fix immigration because they will have to pay as u said.

brenjay.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Daughter of immigrants here. Exactly right. They don’t want to pay citizens properly so they shit on immigrants and stereotype. I am very near the border. Criminals don’t cross in droves. They are making their cash over there. Why cross and live in hiding. It’s people wanting a better life risking

supermarina.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Exactly! They WANT undocumented immigrants because they have few rights and are cheap labor. That also helps them keep wages for citizens/residents down. It hurts workers. ALL workers.

scottie51.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Do you actually believe he thought up this idea?

This was thought up by the nazis jew.

extndr46.bsky.social•15 hours ago

The border disaster will show what that is also , bullshit !

jmarty6263.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Trump, his minions truly don't know immigration complexities. They are cosplaying and bullying, and in the end nothing is going on that wasn't going on six months ago, six years ago, etc.