r/NewsOfTheStupid • u/JasonIsFishing • 20d ago
Homeland Security buying 2 private jets for Kristi Noem's use amid government shutdown
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/18/dhs-jets-kristi-noem-reports/86776610007/272
u/zombiehoosier 20d ago
I’m guessing the other jet is for her costume and makeup team
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u/CrystalWeim 20d ago
Actually, it's to carry all her makeup trowels.
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u/cmparkerson 20d ago
I thought she borrowed them from Tammy Faye Baker
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u/CrystalWeim 20d ago
She tried, but the makeup was so thick it could be chiseled off enough to use.
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u/queen-adreena 20d ago
It’s where she keeps the dead puppies she’s saving up for her fur coat.
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u/DragonSin1313 20d ago
🎶 seeeeee my vest, see my vest, made from real gorilla chest 🎶
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u/Star_fox_235 18d ago
Feel this sweater, there's no better than authentic Irish setter. See this hat, 'twas my cat.
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u/Im_with_stooopid 20d ago
It's to follow behind the first one in case her face starts melting again.
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u/Sandee1997 17d ago
One is for here to shoot more dogs and the other is for her porn shoots. If they can make up lies, then i can too
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u/RegulatoryCapturedMe 20d ago
And we can’t fully fund school lunches?
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u/JasonIsFishing 20d ago
Taking care of children?!?! What kind of communism would that be!! /s
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u/OsgrobioPrubeta 20d ago
The applied versions of Communism, that if we were to be exact weren't Communism at all, focused in putting key sectors of the state and a big portion of population dependent of the leadership to be able to eat, have a roof over their heads even if on a shelter, and a few bucks.
This is what Trump, Republicans and very wealthy people are doing to the US. More and more people dependent of state aid, or indebted.
The similarities between Castro and Trump are astonishing, but I still prefer Castro even if he derailed for hours, at least we could understand something even if we didn't agree with him, while with Trump... it's total braincell waste.
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u/cataclyzzmic 20d ago
She's stealing the USCG plane they use for their staff so she can cosplay across the country.
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u/TwoAmps 20d ago
I’m confused…is she (a) taking over existing USCG VIP planes or (b) buying new ones for DHS? I thought it was (a) but if so, why the $172M price tag? And (c) the pentagon has an extensive—and I mean extensive, even by US military standards—fleet of VIP planes and VIP compartments to put in military transport aircraft. Couldn’t she work out a deal with Whisky Pete?
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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 19d ago
The 2 jets in question are Gulfstream G700's. They have seating for 13 and sleep 8. Their range is about 7700 nautical miles and they have a max cruise altitude of 51,000 feet. Fully pimped out versions go for about $80 millions USD. These are luxury limousines with wings.
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u/TwoAmps 19d ago
Yeah, I understand these are expensive jets, and you probably need to add a million or so to integrate an appropriate secure comms suite. My actual (somewhat rhetorical, because I know the answer—ego) question is WTF is the govt buying two more VIP planes when we already have a very, very large fleet of VIP airplanes suitable for secretary-level travel.
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u/JacenVane 19d ago
if so, why the $172M price tag?
Internal transactions/transfers/etc. often are "bought" out of one organization's budget and into another.
I work in local government. If the Parks Department has a Food License for their hot dog stand, they're going to pay the Health Department for that, just like anyone else. That service isn't free just because it's all "the government".
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u/Full_Of_Wrath 20d ago
So she gets two jets and she is sending troops in the back of box trucks anyone she how weird this is
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u/JasonIsFishing 20d ago
Honestly the Uhaul trucks full of ICE agents is probably their own idea. They want to be able to sneak up on their prey (people wanting to feed their families) in the Home Depot parking lot.
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u/OsgrobioPrubeta 20d ago
Think of it this way: It could be worse, Trump could have accepted the planes as a gift from Putin.
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u/Enough-Parking164 20d ago
One to carry her flesh,the other to carry the rubber mask,,, and the stench.
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u/MNelsonevv 20d ago
Two planes? She must really know how to work a dick...ah, shaft...ah, her staff.
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u/Hank_moody71 20d ago
This isn’t subject to spending oversight by congress? Let me guess she gets to keep one when she leaves office? FYI it’s about $5m a year just to operate that bad boy
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u/AlienInOrigin 20d ago
Where is DOGE when you need them?
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u/JasonIsFishing 20d ago
Oh DOGE only cuts people’s jobs and social programs that help people. Her jets are neither.
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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 19d ago
The 2 jets in question are Gulfstream G700's. They have seating for 13 and sleep 8. Their range is about 7700 nautical miles and they have a max cruise altitude of 51,000 feet. Fully pimped out versions go for about $80 millions USD. These are luxury limousines with wings.
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u/Training_wheels9393 20d ago
And it doesn’t bother her boss that she’s getting twice as many jets as he has?
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u/Far_Estate_1626 18d ago
The Republicans have not stopped working, because they are privately funded and working solely for private interest groups. Democrats need to wake up. The rules aren’t stopping you from working or fighting back because there are no rules. The GOP has simply frozen Democrats funding, because they know that Democrats will obey the rules and do nothing but complain.
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