Considering the quality of the people Trump usually hires…
Yeah, but presumably it took off basically empty. Trump would surely be too much weight to get off the ground.
You’re forgetting the #1 rule - Trump never puts himself in danger. I’m sure his pilots are very highly rated.
Yeah.
You eliminate all passengers/crew except for the most very essential. You strip the interior of everything practical/possible to reduce weight. You very carefully calculate the minimal fuel required to get to a longer runway.
As I said, there are techniques for doing this. I somehow doubt Trump would be willing to fly sitting on the floor of a fuselage stripped back to the bulkheads.
Pompeo IS the Goebbels equivalent. He’s thrown in with Trump. He knows damn well what he’s doing and yes, he is blatantly lying. You don’t have to explain it to him. It’s not hypocrisy, it’s not delusion, it’s not accidental, it’s deliberate and evil.
That’s pretty much how I see it too, Broomstick.
Pompeo is a fundamentalist nutjob who thinks about foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, in a framework of biblical eschatology. He literally believes that God sent Trump as part of his plan to guide the world toward Armageddon. We should remember that Pence is also a fundamentalist nutjob of this ilk, as we lean on the VP as a last resort to stop Trump engaging in some insane military action this week.
By which, of course, you mean The BestTM.
Can we duck-tape him to the leading edge of the tail fin?
No, that would mess up the aerodynamics.
Strap him to the landing gear.
Well, he could also strap himself to a rocket like Wile E. Coyote (hopefully with similar results on landing).
They could shove a JATO up his ass.
You’re FIRED!
I am simultaneously amused and appalled by that image. I imagine the Germans have a word for that. Danke, Herr, darf ich noch einen haben. (Google assures me that that means “Thank you, sir, may I have another”)
Schadenfreude comes pretty close
I am now picturing this:
A large cargo plane. Empty and stripped except for a pedestal in the middle with a metal chair on it.
Trump is strapped to the chair, Hannibal Lecter style, mask and all.
The plane is flying him away. Far away.
I’d prefer strapped to the roof, space shuttle style.
What’s the German for that whooshing sound?
Lauteswuschgeräusch?
A learned man once said:
Those Germans have a word for everything.
I think it was @Ann_Hedonia who said that we may be suffering from an inability to imagine what could possibly happen in the near future (paraphrasing; sorry if I mangled your meaning, Ann). So I sat and thought, What’s the absolute craziest, no-way-that-could-never-happen, stupidest shit I could come up with.
Trump is gonna go to Alamo, Texas and declare secession from the United States. He’s going to call on all red states to join his new nation (ignoring the fact that blue states mostly carry red states financially). He of course will be President For Life of The United States of Trump, or just TRUMP Nation.
No way that could ever happen.
Right?