Gotta scrape up cash for those legal fees.
Some was found during the hiding of classified docs under the seat cushions.
In case of a water landing, these nuclear secrets can be used as a golden parachute.
Nah, that’s what his supporters are for. He’ll just sell more limited edition NFTs for $100 a pop and milk them. They’re basically a dumb golden goose.
The plane, a 1997 Cessna jet,
This is NOT the Trump passenger liner with Trump livery on it. That is a Boeing 757 a MUCH larger plane.
Oh man, c’mon Boeing, do your thing.
The 757 isn’t part of the fuckery. The McDonnell-Douglas merger that supposedly doomed Boeing’s engineering department (and hundreds of passengers so far) happened in 1997, six years after Trump’s plane was built. It’s part of the good airplanes Boeing used to make.
This cannot be emphasized or repeated enough. Before the acquisition, Boeing was led and run by engineers. After the acquisition, MBAs and Finance people were put in charge.
This happens at all large companies, eventually, and it’s why they all inevitably shit the bed. It’s just in this case, it’s killing a lot of people in the process.
It’s the basis of Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal novel, a biting send-up of modern corporate kleptocracy.
Also a BBC miniseries.
Gods I love Going Postal. I remember reading it when I was much younger (almost two decades ago) and loving it, but had forgotten enough of it that it almost felt new during my current reread of the Discworld series. Now I’m on Making Money and it’s just as good.
May you live as long as your name scintillates in the ether. GNU, brother.
Loved that novel; it was one of the first Discworld books I read. And Pratchett had a great way of representing the fundamental truths of governments of whatever structure, except that we should be so lucky to have as brilliant (and, perhaps ironically, benevolent in that he mainly just wants things to function smoothly, despite his Machiavellian ethics) a statesman as The Patrician in charge.
People seem to hate the concept of enshittification for some reason, but it’s a perfect encapsulation of the modern economy. Things that were once good are abused to extract wealth for shareholders. That is their only purpose. As far as the board of directors at Boeing are concerned, if they narrowly miss an accident they don’t have to report and it nets them an additional $1 million, then all the better. High quality engineering, the collaboration of engineers and machinists, and especially safety are only valuable insofar as they make more money. And they’ll be damned if they leave any money on the table to avoid a plane breaking up mid-air, killing everybody.
People seem to hate the concept of enshittification for some reason
Probably because it makes everything more shitty for everyone but the shareholders. I don’t believe that CEO’s like knowing that that everybody hates what they’re doing: their customers hate them, their employees hate them, and they know it. But I’d they don’t satisfy the shareholders, they get fired - just as you say.
The infuriating thing is that it isn’t about profit; it’s about maximizing profit. Companies can be profitable without enshittification. It’s the sin of gluttony that drives profit maximization, and the best thing these people can hope for is that the atheists are right and there is no heaven, because they’re for sure going to hell for bald-faced greed.
Killing whistleblowers? They’re already working on it
Lol
The OG 757s are good shit.
It is the new stuff that you want to avoid.
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“sold”
Is that a reasonable price for it?
$10 million is the approximate value of the jet; the amount it was sold for wasn’t disclosed.
Oh, duh. Yes, I should have read the article before asking. Thank you for nicely answering!
He probably sold it for $30 million
Between this stuff and the blatantly inflated Truth Social stock, I would be shocked if there weren’t fifty different types of campaign finance violations going on. If you want to launder a donation, this seems like a textbook setup.
That was Eric’s plane. Now he has to take the bus.
A short bus?
Oh good maybe more cities will have nice bus systems
I wonder how many children this plane took to Epsteins island for Trump to fuck.
He probably just fucked them in the plane.
So, how many more jets must be sold before he can pay all of his court mandated fines?
One of the less popular lyrics from Mr. Tamborine Man
I think you meant “Blowin’ In The Wind”, but still, points.
Hahahaha broke bitch had to sell a plane. I wonder how much he owed on it…
Oh man, I can’t imagine the cost to get the smell out of the seats.
For a real bargain at only $50 million… (yes this was likely more money laundering/illegal campaign contributions/bribes)
Oh no, not Trump Force One!
Wouldntve bought it for more than a penny on the dollar
