On the simplest note, imagine the sort of message he’ll leave behind on the Resolute Desk* for his successor. “You’re a fraud and a cheat and you didn’t win this fair and square!!! MAGA forever!”

What about a team that cheats but still loses the game? If they didn’t get caught (or worse still, they did get caught but the refs didn’t do anything about it because they were already losing) then they’re going to cheat again in the next match.

Even older than the Old Testament, you have to imagine Cassandra of Troy watching her father’s guards pulling that wooden horse in through the gates and muttering to herself through gritted teeth “I swear, everyone here is a fuckin’ idiot except me...”

Gotta contribute to the economy. The housing market must have been depressed due to all the available vacancies.

In totally unrelated news, the address is on the blacklist of every pizza place in the area as well.

You’re talking about a man who loves running for President a whole lot more than being the President. He’s going to campaign whether or not he thinks he’s leading. He loves the drama so much that he goes to other candidates’ campaigns just for the opportunity to take the microphone and make it into his own rally.

Manny Bothans/Dustin Echoes 2020, then...

“Be careful down here! They say the ghost of President Trump haunts these parts!”

I don’t think you do. Essentially, the Lego cars simply don’t model your driver and use an obdurate minifig model instead.

The flag is not a timeless symbol of liberty. It is a military color used to display whether or not a particular fortress or installation is under Federal control.

Don’t even get me started on the insane redundancy systems on the 747 that are absent form most newer planes. The lead engineering team refused to sign off on the plane till nearly every crucial system had 3-4 back ups, often more (also why the 747 was way over budget and almost put Boeing out of business before it…

Silly you. There’s not going to be any more DLC after this. What’s Playground Games gonna do? Listen to their fans? I laugh most heartily at thee!

I don’t know what was a more unsettling sign of the times for me: The fact I was watching all this on A&E; or the fact that two bystanders on both ends of the traffic break filmed the chase in portrait.

Still, most of the C-5s have recently received an LS swap to increase their lifting and performance capabilities, and the rear-loading ramp means Trump can simply drive his golf cart up into the plane.

“the Japanese one looks like you would think it would...”

Make the AoA vanes out of solid gold. Looks great, but the weight keeps pulling them down in the slipstream.

Back in the old days, the Army and the Marines would trade off when ferrying the President in a helicopter. Now the Marines do it exclusively.

The U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff has a VIP plane of his own, codenamed Speckled Trout, based of a C-135. Its ostensible use is as a VIP transport, but its real mission is to test-fly any new electronics system intended for Air Force One first. Want to update the navigation gear on AF1 with Apple Maps? They plug it…

The four engine requirement is definitely a combat endurance issue. It’s to ensure Air Force One can remain flyable if the situation demands the airplane stay in the the air for as long as possible, stopping just long enough to be refueled and put back into the sky if necessary.

Fun Fact: the 747 was Boeing’s entry into the same Air Force proposal that gave us the C-5 Galaxy. Both planes were designed to the same requirements. Lockheed won the Air Force contract, got mired in overruns, and ended up making a limited fleet of the planes exclusively for the U.S. Air Force...