This is an excellent post that fully encapsulates both the history and significance of the Air Force One livery. I once had the amazing opportunity to see both VC-25A’s in person and they were glorious. My significant other works for DOD and I happily tag along on some official trips when I’m allowed.

Great article with far more detail than I expected from the headline.

Max, that's FANTASTIC work. Well done.

The new paint scheme, like the administration itself, perfectly represents modern America: tacky, stupid, greedy and tasteless.

Good, fast, cheap — pick any two, or sometimes only one. Let me give you a perspective from someone who works inside the system.

Right? Ask millennials if they think they will ever retire. 

Well good thing Trump is going to cut their benefits.  Sucks to suck, but they did mostly vote for him.

Well, many voters in that demographic also voted [for a party that] repeals ACA (many merely because it’s dubbed as “Obamacare” by the media), so there’s that. The problem is that people generally want a perfect solution from the get-go — there might be a partial solution that works as a first step, but everyone…

+1 for the use of the word “foiled” in the very first sentence. That’s when I knew this shit was gonna get good!

Slam dunk harassment lawsuit.

We’re not looking at you but the majority. When you’re in traffic and look around, every single SUV has a driver around 5 something and one driver, in a warm weather climate and nothing in the back seat.

And yet you seemed to fit very comfortably in a 2-D pane of glass with a couple other people, Zod. Get over it.

I would argue that GM absolutely takes risks but they have historically murdered their own products before they can properly develop. GM developed a viable, promising electric car years before its competitors.

It would be fine for a multicar household.

Who pulls into a burger joint, circles the parking lot and exits without buying anything? This seems like the acts of a very lonely man looking for validation.. or something darker.

Because you don’t vote for kings.

So all that’s left is for some watery bint to lob a scimitar at him, and the prophecy will be complete.

Whoever pulls this sword, by they worthy, shall possess the power of....wait, why would anyone want to be a Royal in England in these days anyway? What a shitshow. People who are born to it quit all the time.

So in just 10 years, an upstart company whose cheapest car costs as much as a new BMW is already operating at 24% the capacity of the 4th largest car manufacturer?

Almost a third is a pretty significant fraction IMO.