This is the question buried in the extraordinary story of Trump's secret departure from Turkey. (#1545211)
U.S. officials considered the Iranian threat serious enough that Trump:
- publicly boarded Air Force One
- secretly got back off
- hid inside a catering truck
- transferred to another military aircraft
- flew home separately
Air Force One then departed as the decoy, with journalists and some White House staff aboard who reportedly did not know Trump had left the plane.
So there is an obvious question:
If the threat was serious enough that Trump couldn't safely fly on the aircraft Iran was expected to believe he was on, why was that aircraft allowed to depart carrying people who didn't even know they were aboard the decoy?
That does not prove anyone was intentionally used as a human shield.
But it is a question the White House should have to answer.
It's war. This is the price of citizenship.
Nobody likes the answer.
Taxation means that some rando is stealing your money, which means they're stealing your time, your energy, and ultimately your life.
Everyone loves forcing landlords to pay for the schools, but why stop there? The end result of a statist/collectivist economic system is that whoever wins the election gets to decide who lives and who dies.
I wish I understood what your gibberish amounts to.
Meaning Republicans are using the infrastructure that Democrats built, and will break it faster than it can be recovered.
What does that have to do with him acting like a lil bitch, leaving staff and reporters on a decoy plane under a credible Iranian threat while he secretly escaped in a catering truck to another aircraft?
Because his life is worth more than theirs. It's a tax.
So let me make sure I understand you:
Not servicemembers.
Not Secret Service.
But civilian staff and reporters should unknowingly be placed in harm’s way by a felon, insurrectionist, seditionist, fraudster and adjudicated sexual abuser because the President’s life is worth more than theirs, and that’s a “tax”?
If that is really your position, it fits neatly with the depravity this populist movement has normalized.
Sound like the textbook definition of a tax, yes.
If I do a job, and a political party redistributes x% of my income to fund their pet project, that's an attack on my livelihood. If I can't reform the system, then my only other option is to exploit it to my benefit.
That isn’t a tax. It’s a security decision involving other people’s lives without their knowledge.
That’s exactly what I thought when I read the news report.
They could have at least given journalists the option to fly or not. They could have said we believe there is a credible threat, do you want to fly?
It’s not a great look hiding out in a catering truck!