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Old 05-13-2025 | 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Gooselives
A report from Tourism Economics predicts that international travel to the U.S. will fall by 15.2% by end of 2025. Jetstar and Qantas announced they are stopping flights to Hawaii. Jetstar is pulling out of USA completely. As more countries boycott the USA do you see us canceling our 787 orders? Our country that I served for becomes more unrecognizable by the day. Moreover, shelves are starting to look bare. We are losing the trade war of this self inflicted economic crisis.
Qantas isn't stopping flights to hawaii, and jetstar stopping them because they are an LCC and qantas can charge more using Qantas planes. In fact Qantas announced a new route to Hawaii two weeks ago.
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Old 05-13-2025 | 02:32 PM
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Empty shelves? Empty of what? Huh?
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Old 05-14-2025 | 02:35 AM
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Alegiant is suspending their seasonal route from Fargo to Orlando in July for 3 months! Dern U Trump! JB you’re a clown.
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Old 05-14-2025 | 06:25 AM
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Originally Posted by BlueScholar
If it's clear that Trump wants to be "gifted" a widebody to be given to him for his personal use if he or when leaves office, how many new 787 "donations" would it take to get EWR fixed in our favor? 1? 2? Maybe 1 plus a personal hangar, plus a personal E-VTOL? If we toss in an option for the first boom jet off the line do you think we can make all United passengers and cargo visa and tariff exempt? If we're losing millions due to EWR delays, a ~$200 million one time expense would be an excellent investment opportunity for the company!
Careful of how you speak. A certain former CEO, Government Affairs VP and Port Authority Chairman were shown the door for gifts much much smaller in total value.

As a reminder, "Javier was approached with an opportunity to get another gate for his airline if he could just move his traveling family to Diamond Class from Coal Class on flights for the next 3 years. Can you help Javier determine what to do?"
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Old 05-14-2025 | 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by EWRflyr
Careful of how you speak. A certain former CEO, Government Affairs VP and Port Authority Chairman were shown the door for gifts much much smaller in total value.

As a reminder, "Javier was approached with an opportunity to get another gate for his airline if he could just move his traveling family to Diamond Class from Coal Class on flights for the next 3 years. Can you help Javier determine what to do?"
now that’s funny.

Some of you need to turn off the propaganda box. If for no other reason than your own mental health. Inflation is down, prices are falling, trade deals are being struck, and every time I go to the airport it’s the busiest I’ve ever seen them.
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Old 05-14-2025 | 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Grumble
now that’s funny.

Some of you need to turn off the propaganda box. If for no other reason than your own mental health. Inflation is down, prices are falling, trade deals are being struck, and every time I go to the airport it’s the busiest I’ve ever seen them.
‘this actually reminded me of a political cartoon from a couple weeks ago… let me frame it, Donkey laying on a sofa in a therapists office…

Therapist: “what is your greatest fear?”
Donkey: “That Trump’s policies will make America great again”
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Old 05-14-2025 | 10:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Gooselives
A report from Tourism Economics predicts that international travel to the U.S. will fall by 15.2% by end of 2025. Jetstar and Qantas announced they are stopping flights to Hawaii. Jetstar is pulling out of USA completely. As more countries boycott the USA do you see us canceling our 787 orders? Our country that I served for becomes more unrecognizable by the day. Moreover, shelves are starting to look bare. We are losing the trade war of this self inflicted economic crisis.
This didn’t age well. Ordered 40 more Airbuses yesterday.
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Old 05-14-2025 | 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Grumble
now that’s funny.

Some of you need to turn off the propaganda box. If for no other reason than your own mental health. Inflation is down, prices are falling, trade deals are being struck, and every time I go to the airport it’s the busiest I’ve ever seen them.
The fact that you're saying and believing that exposes how uninformed you are, so I would recommend increasing your media diet with better sources and cross checking stories with verifiable facts.

Inflation is not down. You see, inflation is like a pool. More inflation = bigger pool. So even if the rate of inflation decreases from month to month, you're still left with the previous size pool plus whatever change happened this month. In fact, under this administration inflation has continued to accrue. Even though the monthly changes have dropped every so slightly from the last 6 months of 2024 (average of 2.7% per month) to 2025 (2.63% per month), you're still looking at inflation INCREASING by 10.5 points over that oh so awful last administration's economy. So if you were complaining about prices and inflation with the blue guy in office, why do you think things are better when your guy is in office? I realize the president is saying gas is below $2 a gallon and egg prices are down 93-94%. Do you believe that? Are you seeing that? Are you aware that nobody can come up with numbers to substantiate these claims? What are your thoughts on that?

Trade deals are being struck. Neat. Are these good trade deals or bad trade deals? Because if you look at the stock market, the investors sure don't seem impressed. By the way, those "new trade deals" also include tearing up the trade deals Trump made, called USMCA to replace NAFTA, which he described as "The USMCA is the largest, fairest, most balanced, and modern trade agreement ever achieved. There’s never been anything like it." But it turns out it was a bad deal that needed to be replaced. So do you believe that this is a good deal too? Also, are we talking about the trade deals he enacted, then suspended. Why did that happen? What did we get from the stop and go strategy?


The last thing we need is for voters to be less informed. Burying your head in the sand won't help.
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Old 05-14-2025 | 12:27 PM
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the 747-800 is being gifted to the US Government… once gifted he plans on having the DoD use it (as AF1 spare domestically) until the new AF1s are completed. No Government employee (to include him) is allowed to accept a personal gift over $20… that’s why Presidential Libraries are full of displays of expensive gifts given during their days in office…
Would probably take longer than Trump’s entire term to tear it apart looking for spyware then retrofit it to function as AF1 & would be more expensive than continuing w/ the Boeing contract (which is already price locked). This is- as you suggested- essentially a direct donation to his presidential library. It has no value whatsoever to the American taxpayer. It’s not the first time a U.S. president accepted a lavish gift that he didn’t “keep”, but I also think you could play a round of “what if Biden or Obama” for context on this one.

As to the OP, I don’t think Agent Orange has the stomach for an actual trade war. The most likely outcome is still that he finds nominal reasons to claim victory through “big, beautiful” trade deals that accomplish very little more than putting back together what he broke in the first place. It’s a clown show, but the common thread is he gets bored quickly & changes his focus frequently (a la DOGE).

As much as MAGA will never admit it, the Biden economy was on an excellent trend & most indications have shown that it wants to keep going. Every time he takes his stubby orange fingers off of the levers, it responds very positively. SP500 is almost back to where Sleepy Joe left it. Here’s hoping Fat Donny keeps himself busy with papal AI images & homoerotic jedi fantasy cartoons for a while…
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Old 05-14-2025 | 12:30 PM
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Originally Posted by ugleeual
the 747-800 is being gifted to the US Government… once gifted he plans on having the DoD use it (as AF1 spare domestically) until the new AF1s are completed. No Government employee (to include him) is allowed to accept a personal gift over $20… that’s why Presidential Libraries are full of displays of expensive gifts given during their days in office…

You're right about the $20 limit, but how does that work with foreign governments spending $13,600,000 at his properties? What happens then?
https://www.citizensforethics.org/re...is-presidency/

How does it work when a country grants trademarks to the president after denying 130 straight applications before he entered office?
https://www.americanprogress.org/art...nterest-china/

How much money did the president make off his crypto schemes? Where did that money come from? Who "donated" it? What are they getting in return?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...flict-interest

Why isn't that "gift", which surely won't have any listening devices or bugs installed on it, staying in the US inventory? Why is the American taxpayer going to spend 1 BILLION DOLLARS turning this 747 into a VC-25A and then it's going to be mothballed at a Trump's library? Is Trump going to be buried with it like a pharaoh?

It's funny because when I had a GPC we were audited over a "suspicious", but completely legit $500 purchase. But apparently the rules have changed?
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