Monday, May 12, 2025

Quid Pro-ing The Quo

Name where and when. And who they are being built for. Tesla doesn’t count. They just told their workers not to come back until June.

Many car companies who sell in the U.S. make cars here. See if Trump can name two of them.
A) It’s not free. Estimates are it would cost at least $60 million to make it fit for use as the Presidential plane.

B) It’s not for Trump; nor can he accept it on condition it goes to his library in 2029. It must be accepted as property of the U.S. government, and that must be done by act of Congress. Which is not going to give Trump a free plane after spending millions to make it fit for use, and then stripping it out again 2 years later.

Hell, Congress doesn’t even want to give Trump the budget bill he’s after.
Eric Lipton NYT wants us all to recognize this is proof there is no corruption evident in this deal. Clearly, it’s Boeing’s fault. How can it be corrupt if Boeing is taking too long? QED. Eric Lipton NYT would like to further point out that Sam Snead was not corrupt, so, there, social media! He’s run rings  ‘round you logically! Apparently Trump didn’t win a large block of Episcopal votes, because they disagree:
In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday (May 12) that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Donald Trump’s administration.

In a letter sent to members of the church, the Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe — the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church — said that two weeks ago the government “informed Episcopal Migration Ministries that under the terms of our federal grant, we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South Africa whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees.”

The request, Rowe said, crossed a moral line for the Episcopal Church, which is part of the global Anglican Communion that boasts among its leaders the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a celebrated and vocal opponent of apartheid in South Africa.

“In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,” Rowe wrote. “Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government.”
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The stated reasons for (Trump’s actions) are claims of victimisation, violence and hateful rhetoric against white people in South Africa along with legislation providing for the expropriation of land without compensation,” read the letter from white South African religious leaders, which included among its four authors an Anglican priest. “As white South Africans in active leadership within the Christian community, representing diverse political and theological perspectives, we unanimously reject these claims.”
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Rowe noted his announcement comes as the Trump administration has otherwise all but frozen the refugee program, with Afrikaners among the few — and possibly only — people granted entry as refugees since January. Shortly after he was sworn in, Trump signed an executive order that essentially halted the refugee program and stopped payments to organizations that assist with refugee resettlement — including, according to one group, payments for work already performed.
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