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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 194 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Accepting a statue is not the same at all as accepting a 747 jet.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 163 points 2 weeks ago

Especially if his plan is to keep it for personal use, rather than as federal property

[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 109 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

President Cleveland can only equally enjoy the Statue of Liberty as much as anyone else. Trump would enjoy that plane infinitely more than the rest of us.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 120 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If the plane crashes and takes Trump with it, the rest of us would enjoy it infinitely more.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly I'm hoping for Rapid Unplanned Disassembly the first time it hauls his dumb ass into the air.

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[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You optimists never cease to amaze me!

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

Hey, the Saudis might have put in a kill switch together with all their listening devices.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I bet he totally got special access to go up to the crown or torch whenever he wanted.

Checkmate!

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 126 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)
  1. France was (and I'm using past tense here because relations are strained due to......gestures generally) one of USA's first allies. They provided political, navel, and monetary assistance during the revolutionary war. They were one of the first counties to acknowledge us as an independent country once the war was over.

  2. The statue was commissioned as a gift to the US, not to the president. It doesn't have any listening equipment and it sits as a tourist attraction, along with information about our long standing alliance.

  3. It wasn't a fucking bribe!!!!!

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 51 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Something that provides a whole lot of modern context is realizing that America was France’s early “Proxy war”. They wanted to give Britain a hard time, and so they gave colonials weapons to do it. Both of us won out from that exchange.

The key part here is that France didn’t keep an iron stranglehold of us. It was enough to win us our freedom that we would want to be their buddies without being forced. Fun story for anyone who insists the US wants to control the Ukrainian government.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pfft, I don't want to control the Ukrainian government.

I just want Russia to suffer for their crimes.

We are not the same.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The assholes are bombing the reactor containment over the incident site they created originally, I am more than happy to ship all the bombs to Kyiv so they can walk into Moscow and hang the war criminal in charge

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[–] LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I think autocorrect got you, unless there was a secret bellybutton supply we don't know about?

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Belly button lint was used as a cartridge if paper wasn't available.

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[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 83 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I don't think Grover Cleveland got a lot of personal use out of a 305 foot statue.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Its ridiculous for you to say something so dumb, you have no concept of how many miles he put on that statue during the course of his presidency.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does it have a flared base?

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Million to one shot, doc. Million to one.

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[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

Ah, that explains her expression.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

big difference in accepting a gift on behalf of your countrymen and accepting a gift in opposition of your countrymen.

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The big difference really is accepting a gift as the POTUS, and accepting a gift that they keep as a personal item.

Many presidents receive gifts from foreign nationals (with congressional approval). The big difference is they always had to leave it when they were no longer the president (they go to the National Archive). Trump already declared that after he steps down, he will keep it for himself.

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[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Come to think of it, I'm a little surprised that Musk hasn't pulled the feature yet.

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He said not long ago that they were looking at it as a feature because it consistently kept correcting him and calling him out lol. It was one of his (many) dumb ass tweets where he just said "investigating" or "looking into this" or some crap. I would not be surprised at all if it's changed or removed very shortly.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd also accept that nobody left they're knows how to remove it

[–] Batman@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

...left *there

My dumb trick for checking, in case it helps another: T(here and there), which also helps with here and hear.

English is dumb, and after writing this out and spelling it several times, needing to correct the autocorrect... it all looks wrong now, and I am questioning my spelling abilities entirely.

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[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ann Coulter is an odd bird. She seems to be running interference for Trump on this one. Sometimes she's not afraid to buck Trumpism. I know she's awful, but if she could pick a lane, I'd appreciate it.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 69 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

She has a lane and it is called "What is in the best interest of Ann Coulter right now?"

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

It least there is logic consistency there

Which most of trump supporters lack...

I am happy as long daddy trump is grifting for himself 🤡

Pwning libs is another return for them

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 39 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Though if a congressional vote was held on the Qatari golden airliner, it’d pass along party lines, as no Republicans want to incur the wrath of the King. A few may hem and haw and express how troubled they are by the, ahem, highly irregular nature of this deal, but would ultimately wave it through. (Bonus: a handful of Democrats may vote to approve, out of an instinctual desire to reach across the aisle and build bridges or whatever.)

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago

Bonus: a handful of Democrats may vote to approve, out of an instinctual desire to ~~reach across the aisle and build bridges or whatever~~ lick boot

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[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And also the statue is not owned by Grover and it's not in his home

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am also pretty sure Grover Cleveland didn't refer to France as "historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level" less than 10 years before accepting the gift from them.

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[–] gobbles_turkey@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What an unpleasant surprise. Id totally forgotten Ann Coulter existed.

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

not so fun fact: Ann Coulter wanted to sleep with my dad when he was in college, and once invited him to her house for the weekend, but he turned her down. I thank my lucky stars everyday that Ann Coulter isn't my mom.

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[–] vordalack@lemm.ee 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Imagine not having a job, just sitting all day, and still getting shit wrong. Being BTFO'd by the community notes, on X of all places, is embarrassing for a conservative, or whatever she is.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

A lot of these "grifters" or "commentators" and stuff aren't really there to interpret news and stuff. They're there to tell certain groups of people what to think.

Like pass talking points to them or assuage their doubts about what's really happening to them. Accuracy and stuff is an afterthought because they only need to worry about the next news cycle which used to be months but is now days.

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[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

And that's how we ended up with a Cleveland Tower in Paris and Grove-a-Lago just outside Nice.

[–] boughtmysoul@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Which one of you guys went down into the crypt and woke Coulter up for this?

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

Haha, I was coming here to ask who gave her a blood meal. If 80s movies taught me anything, it was some suspiciously mature looking "teens" that went to party in her tomb.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

What a disingenuous cunt.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'll be darned, apparently Ann Coulter still exists and there's still somebody who thinks she deserves attention.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fuck Ann coulter with a klan poster

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[–] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 8 points 2 weeks ago

I don't believe Grover took it with him when he left, either.

[–] swagmoney@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

that fuckin date format tho

[–] Gowron_Howard@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

She just needs to sit down

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